Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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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?

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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

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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.

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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

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