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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.

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.

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.

The Knowledge Of Anything, Since All Things Have Causes, Is Not Acquired Or Complete Unless It Is Known By Its Causes.

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.