Leeches Should Be Kept A Day Before

Medicine Is The Science By Which We Learn The Various States Of The Human Body In Health And When Not In Health, And The Means By Which Health Is Likely To Be Lost And, When Lost, Is Likely To Be Restored Back To Health. In Other Words, It Is The Art Whereby Health Is Conserved And The Art Whereby It Is Restored After Being Lost. While Some Divide Medicine Into A Theoretical And A Practical [applied] Science, Others May Assume That It Is Only Theoretical Because They See It As A Pure Science. But, In Truth, Every Science Has Both A Theoretical And A Practical Side.

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].

It Is In The Nature Of Water ... To Become Transformed Into Earth Through A Predominating Earthy Virtue; ... It Is In The Nature Of Earth To Become Transformed Into Water Through A Predominating Aqueous Virtue.

That Whose Existence Is Necessary Must Necessarily Be One Essence.

Disease Is An Abnormal State Of The Body Which Primarily And Independently Produces A Disturbance In The Normal Functions Of The Body. It May Be An Abnormality Of Temperament Or Form (structure). Symptom Is A Manifestation Of Some Abnormal State In The Body. It May Be Harmful As A Colic Pain Or Harmless As The Flushing Of Cheeks In Peripneumonia.