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true gold ; the latter is merely an imitation which if put 

 into the fire will leave nothing but sulphur and ashes." 



" He who wants to know man must look upon him 

 as a whole and not as a patched-up piece of work. If 

 he finds a part of the human body diseased, he must look 

 for the causes which produce the disease, and not merely 

 treat the external effects. Philosophy — i.e., the true 

 perception and understanding of cause and effect — is 

 the mother of the physician, and explains the origin of 

 all his diseases. In this understanding rests the indica- 

 tion of the true remedy, and he who is not able to 

 understand will accomplish nothing; he will go on in 

 the future laming, crippling, and killing his patients in 

 Nomine Domini as he did in the past." 



" A physician who knows nothing more about his 

 patient than what the latter will tell him knows very 

 little indeed. He must be able to judge from the exter- 

 nal appearance of the patient about his internal condition. 

 He must be able to see the internal in the external man ; 

 for if he wanted to experiment merely according to his 

 own fancy, the world could not furnish him enough 

 patients to arrive at the end of his experiments. He 

 must have the normal constitution of man present before 

 his mind and know its abnormal conditions ; he must 

 know the relations existing between the microcosm of 

 man and the macrocosm of Nature, and know the little 

 by the power of his knowledge of the great. We should 

 rise up to a true realisation of the nature of man and 

 his position in the universe, and then apply our know- 

 ledge according to the teaching of wisdom, and this 

 kind of study will injure no man ; but those who 

 experiment with their patients, without knowing the 

 real constitution of man, are murderers, and may God 

 protect the sick from them ! " 



" Nature — not man — is the physician. Man has 

 lost the true light of reason, and the animal intellect 

 with its speculations and theories has usurped the 



