Aretaeus Of Cappadocia Quotes

#1. Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

#5. 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

#6. 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