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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

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
Powerful, Drunk, Suffering
Therapeutics of chronic diseases II, Ch. II, 485-6

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

Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Bipolar, Delirium, Type

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

Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Light, Rays, Disease
Aretaeus (of Cappadocia.), Francis Adams (1972). “Aretaiou Kappadokou Ta Sōzomena: The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian”

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
Bipolar, Development, Disease

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
Science, Men, Physicians

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
Science, Despair, Tuberculosis
On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)

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