Two Physical Treatises: On the Imposture of Healing Wounds by the Weapon Salve and On the Bleeding of Corpses

delving into the minds of the delirious, and extirpating inept and insane paradoxes from their roots. For the foundation and bond of human society is τὸ ὀρθὸν καὶ ἀληθές the straight and the true. It is necessary that this collapses and is broken apart when the deceptions of perversity prevail. Once that happens, what can be sufficiently solid and fortified to ward off confusion and ruin? Your Republic, most laudably established, testifies that you, noble, grave, and prudent men, are wakeful and spirited in that very duty of establishing the truth. For, to say nothing of others, what great battering rams have you not opposed to the false science of the Paracelsians? With what diligence have you labored to amplify and adorn ancient and true medicine? Its profession flourishes in your Republic; the same, augmented by the addition of true and healthy Chymia Chemistry, still defends its own glory, having ordered the false χεροτεχνία handicraft/trickery of the Paracelsians into exile. You have bound together a college of most skillful and experienced physicians with that tie, you have fortified it with that authority,