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Habes supra tuam etatem feruorem ingenii, frigiditatem memorie, ex utrinque contrariis temperantiam rationis.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 140: Janus, 1915, pp. 451 — 52: "In primis quaecumque sit passio puerilis, nutrici diaetae cautela pro modo aegritudinis est iniungenda et adeo tenuis observanda, ac si nutrix aegritudinem infantuli pateretur, quia lac nutricum ex cibis contrariis generatur aegritudinem infantulis prius non existentem et inventam prius augmentat."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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_, VII prooem: "(Deus) qui ad fabricationem omnium elementorum diversitate composita ex contrariis et repugnantibus cuncta perfecit."
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Non obstantibus præmissis, cæterisque contrariis quibuscumque.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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'Non enim invenitur corruptio, nisi ubi invenitur contrarietas; generationes enim et corruptiones ex contrariis et in contraria sunt' (Aquinas).
Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921
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* Unde et simpliciores quique domino Christo credentium existimant, quod omnia peccata, quaecumque commiserint homines, ex istis contrariis virtutibus mentem delinquentium perurgentibus fiant: [1771] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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In such a case, the Alchemist would resort to the well-known law of opposites, and base his treatment upon the dogma of ` ` Contraria contrariis curantur, '' so long the pet theory of the Allopathic school.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900
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Physician should be educated, the leading principle is: "Contraries are cured by contraries," "_Contraria contrariis curantur_."
Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Charles Coppens 1877
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This was truly the principle of contraries contrariis, which ill-informed persons have attempted to make out to be the general doctrine of medicine, whereas there is no general dogma other than this: disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to cure it.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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This was truly the principle of contraries contrariis, which ill-informed persons have attempted to make out to be the general doctrine of medicine, whereas there is no general dogma other than this: disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to cure it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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