Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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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 Cappadocia
Collection: Powerful
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A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Collection: Bipolar
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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
Collection: Light
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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
Collection: Bipolar
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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
Collection: Science
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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
Collection: Science