There Are No Incurable Diseases

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.

I [prefer] A Short Life With Width To A Narrow One With Length.

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

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].

Is It The Fault Of Wine If A Fool Drinks It And Goes Stumbling Into Darkness?