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 …

- Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

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 …

- Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

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 …

- Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

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

- Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

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

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

- Aretaeus Of Cappadocia