Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“New diseases like syphilis seemed to call for new and ‘stronger’ medicines; and this became one of the stock arguments for resorting to the Paracelsian chemical pharmacopeia and mystical medical philosophy… The swift development of European medical practice to levels of skill exceeding all other civilized traditions resulted.”

William Hardy McNeill 1917 – 2016 CE
Historian
from Plagues and Peoples, 1976

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