Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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.
ParacelsusConsider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.
Paracelsus