Aretaeus of Cappadocia quotes

“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 Cappadocia

Source : 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.”
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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“A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.”
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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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.”
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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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 Cappadocia

Source : 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 Cappadocia

Source : On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)

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“There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one”

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

“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”

“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”

“I filmed myself drunk, just to see what I'm like. I watched so many funny videos of people drunk on YouTube.”

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“Never argue with a drunk or a fool.”

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.”

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.”