Aretaeus of Cappadocia quotes
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“In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.”
-- Aretaeus of CappadociaSource : Therapeutics of chronic diseases II, Ch. II, 485-6
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“Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.”
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“A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.”
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“When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.”
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“Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.”
-- Aretaeus of CappadociaSource : Aretaeus (of Cappadocia.), Francis Adams (1972). “Aretaiou Kappadokou Ta Sōzomena: The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian”
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“This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.”
-- Aretaeus of CappadociaSource : On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
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Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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