Leeches Should Be Kept A Day Before

Medicine Deals With The States Of Health And Disease In The Human Body. It Is A Truism Of Philosophy That A Complete Knowledge Of A Thing Can Only Be Obtained By Elucidating Its Causes And Antecedents, Provided, Of Course, Such Causes Exist. In Medicine It Is, Therefore, Necessary That Causes Of Both Health And Disease Should Be Determined.

Pure Earth Does Not Petrify, Because The Predominance Of Dryness Over [i.e. In] The Earth Endows It Not With Coherence But Rather With Crumbliness. In General, Stone Is Formed In Two Ways Only (a) Through The Hardening Of Clay, And (b) By The Congelation [of Waters].

Pain Is A Sensation Produced By Something Contrary To The Course Of Nature And This Sensation Is Set Up By One Of Two Circumstances: Either A Very Sudden Change Of The Temperament (or The Bad Effect Of A Contrary Temperament) Or A Solution Of Continuity.

Now It Is Established In The Sciences That No Knowledge Is Acquired Save Through The Study Of Its Causes And Beginnings, If It Has Had Causes And Beginnings; Nor Completed Except By Knowledge Of Its Accidents And Accompanying Essentials.

A Horse Is Simply A Horse.