Castigationes seu Emendationes

Campegian tradition. Folio X.

...and practice in treatments, just as in all other arts, becomes the most effective teacher. And such Empiricists Those who believe medical knowledge comes only from experience rather than theory are disapproved of by Galen, who says that Herophilus and Philippus were among the first followers of experience. Some are called Empiricists because of their experiments, such as Serapion, Apollonius, and Heraclides. From here also flowed innumerable sects and manifold opinions; from here arose those wretched disputes around the sickbeds, with no one agreeing on the same thing, lest they seem to support another's claim. From here comes that unhappy inscription on a monument: "He perished because of a crowd of doctors." Even the Emperor Hadrian, as the author Dio Cassius Dio, a Roman historian records, said as he was dying: "A crowd of physicians has destroyed the prince." To this harmonizes that little Greek verse: "The arrival of many doctors has ruined me." original: "multorum Medicorum introitus me perdidit"

On the excellence of rational and dogmatic medicine, and on the variety and inconsistency of Empiricism. Sixth Division.

Decorative woodcut initial 'L' featuring floral and classical architectural elements within a square frame.Logic or rational medicine's Latin professors, as Celsus Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a 1st-century Roman encyclopedist known for his work 'De Medicina' says, propose that these things are necessary: Knowledge of the hidden causes that contain the diseases; then the evident causes; after these, also the natural actions; and lastly, the knowledge of the internal parts...