Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
The dose makes the poison.
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)