Paracelsus Physicians Quotations

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

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?

Every 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.

It 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.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.