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?
ParacelsusIt should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
ParacelsusEvery physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
Paracelsus