Dissertation on Loathing and Hatred

...by no secret [arcanum], I say, by no mastery [magistery], by no spirit; neither by the essences of Vegetables, nor Animals, nor Minerals, no extract, no salt, no water of life [aqua vitae] or elixir, no decoction [apozem], much less by that recently devised and miraculously celebrated MILK or BUTTER of SULFUR Milk of Sulfur (precipitated sulfur) and Butter of Sulfur were chemical preparations popular in 17th-century pharmacy for treating skin and lung issues. can it be changed, overturned, or cured:

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always come running back. original Latin: Naturam expellas furcâ tamen usque recurret. A famous line from the Roman poet Horace (Epistles 1.10.24) expressing that innate character cannot be suppressed by force.

This can be seen in several hereditary conditions—among which consumption [phthisis], gout [podagra], and epilepsy hold the chief place—which the consensus of the learned and experience has proven to be incurable. So too, for this evil—this native loathing, congenital hatred, natural abstinence, and manifest antipathy original: antipatheias. A deep-seated, natural aversion that occurs without a conscious reason.—no constant and true remedy can be given, found, or prepared. (Indeed, simulated cases are not long-lasting, and thus not to be greatly cared for or weighed.)

While other forms of loathing, other hatreds, and other symptoms which are not natural—but rather arise from the remnants of a disease or some other cause—may be radically removed or at least improved in the course of time by suitable medicines once the strength of nature itself is recovered. Such is told of the greatest philosopher of our century, Petrus Ramus of Vermandois original: Petrô Ramô Veromanduô. Pierre de la Ramée (1515–1572), a famous French humanist and logician who sought to reform university education., to mention one example among many. It is said that while still an infant, he crawled into a wine cellar without his parents' knowledge and drank pure wine so copiously that he collapsed next to the jar as if dead. Because of this, this excellent man, who deserved so well for his philosophical studies, thereafter abhorred wine so much that for twenty years and more he abstained from it; until at last, for the sake of recovering his health and by the advice and prescription of physicians, he learned to drink wine again.

This same thing happens to many others weakened by the virulence of diseases, whom loathing having turned away for a while...