The Different Sorts Of Madness Are Innumerable.

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.

The Theory Of Medicine, Therefore, Presents What Is Useful In Thought, But Does Not Indicate How It Is To Be Applied In Practice-the Mode Of Operation Of These Principles. The Theory, When Mastered, Gives Us A Certain Kind Of Knowledge. Thus We Say, For Example, There Are Three Forms Of Fevers And Nine Constitutions. The Practice Of Medicine Is Not The Work Which The Physician Carries Out, But Is That Branch Of Medical Knowledge Which, When Acquired, Enables One To Form An Opinion Upon Which To Base The Proper Plan Of Treatment.

But The Fact Is That When Wine Is Taken In Moderation, It Gives Rise To A Large Amount Of Breath, Whose Character Is Balanced, And Whose Luminosity Is Strong And Brilliant. Hence Wine Disposes Greatly To Gladness, And The Person Is Subject To Quite Trivial Exciting Agents. The Breath Now Takes Up The Impression Of Agents Belonging To The Present Time More Easily Than It Does Those Which Relate To The Future; It Responds To Agents Conducive To Delight Rather Than Those Conducive To A Sense Of Beauty.

There Are No Incurable Diseases — Only The Lack Of Will. There Are No Worthless Herbs — Only The Lack Of Knowledge.

Leeches Should Be Kept A Day Before Applying Them. They Should Be Squeezed To Make Them Eject The Contents Of Their Stomachs.