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The introduction and quotes for this story were taken from Discourses on the Sober Life, by Luigi Cornaro.
Louis Cornaro’s 16th century book, Discourses on the Sober Life, has also been alternatively titled, “How to Live 100 Years.” It is one of the greatest books ever written on hygiene.
Cornaro was a Venetian nobleman who was born in 1464 and lived to the ripe age of 102, dying in 1566. Like the majority of young gallants of his day, he lived a reckless and dissipated life; the result was that he completely broke down at the age of forty, and was given up by his physicians to die.
Taking matters into his own hands, Read the rest »
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The following information is an excerpt from a lecture presented in England in 1987 by Hubert M. Schweizer. The transcripts of this lecture, containing diagrams and charts, as well as some exercises to develop an awareness of the Calligaris technique, is available from the World Research Foundation.
Guiseppe Joseph Calligaris was born on October 29, 1876, in Forni di Sotto in Northern Italy, where his father was the official community doctor.
It seems that he had a calling to become a natural scientist and therapist. Calligaris studied medicine, received the highest grades and obtained his medical degree in 1901 summa cum laude at the medical facility in Bologna for his pioneering dissertation titled, Thoughts Do Heal. Read the rest »
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Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland in November 1493 and died in Salzburg on September 24, 1541. He was a medical doctor, alchemist and philosopher who provoked controversy during his lifetime and still invokes controversy today when his name is mentioned.
The question his reputation invites is whether he was a man of the Middle Ages or of modern times. If you examine his writings in the context of the Renaissance period, you will find an individual who was well ahead of the thinking of his day. Read the rest »
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The following excerpts are taken from Blueprint For Immortality, by Dr. Harold Saxton Burr.
“The Universe in which we find ourselves and from which we can not be separated is a place of Law and Order. It is not an accident, nor chaos. It is organized and maintained by an Electro-dynamic field capable of determining the position and movement of all charged particles. For nearly half a century, the logical consequences of this theory have been subjected to rigorously controlled conditions and met with no contradictions.”
These were the statements of Dr. Harold Saxton Burr, Ph.D., who was E. K. Hunt Professor Emeritus, Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Burr was a member of the faculty of medicine for over forty-three years. From 1916 to the late 1950’s, he published, either alone or with others, more than ninety-three scientific papers. Read the rest »
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(Gerolamo Cardano; Jerome Cardan)
The information and quotes contained in this story were taken from the book, Doctor Cardano; Physician Extraordinaire by Alan Wykes, published by Frederick Muller Ltd. in 1969.
Gerolamo Cardano was born in the year 1501. He was an inventor, an astrologer, a philosopher and was the first to propound the mathematical theory of probability. He has been referred to as the ‘Gambling Scholar.’
He was skilled in divination by palmistry and geomancy, and he was the first to recognize that much could be told about human character by the study of physiognomy and handwriting. “His own character combined intellectual brilliance, emotional instability … and moral courage.”
He was born illegitimate and unwanted, he survived early setbacks and rose by his own efforts to an almost idolatrous fame, only to fall into misfortune and disrepute over which he seemed to have no control. Read the rest »
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The majority of this article and all of the quotes are taken from The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations (1925), by Walter Addison Jayne, M.D.
The various superstitious practices of the ancients may seem strange to us, but some of the drugs and therapies that were used then have been rediscovered over the last several hundred years, and have proved to be of great value.
Today, the modern doctor has the snake symbol of Aesculapius. In those ancient times (as well as today), medical practitioners faced the problem of how to stimulate the recuperative powers of the afflicted patient into action. Old temple disciplines included purification, temple-sleep, and various hypnotic rest states. Bodily processes were aroused and focused through intensities of suggestion, through touching the patient, along with lifting the faith of one who was ill.
Perusing the deeper concept of the ancient healing gods, we find it focuses upon the idea of a body-mind relationship. Read the rest »
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