De praecipius visus symptomatis eorumque causis Physica & Medica contemplatio

This principle, when applied to the medical faculty, which is spread far and wide into all parts and recesses of nature, expresses a truly august and clear face, noble to others in proportion to how cumulatively the honor of glory is added from the excellent dignity of the subjects and the office. We too, having once been initiated into its mysteries original: "οὐ ὑπὲρ μόρον" — not beyond measure/fate, and having clearly perceived its breadth and difficulty again and again, fell frequently into a truly doubtful and slippery deliberation of our study, fearing lest, our powers of genius being oppressed by a huge burden, the punishment for temerity would finally have to be paid at some time. The same care of apprenticeship original: "Tyrocinij", which at first deterred [us] at the approach, now fatigues [us] more and more toward an unfinished original: "ἄκυλον" — perhaps referring to the unperfected/immature state advancement, in which the mind possesses no longer what it might fear from the present danger, but what it might lament and grieve, when, returning as it were into itself, it more attentively measures that space of the interval by which it is farther from the splendor of that perfect Idea, whose shadow the monuments of Hippocrates, Galen, and other most excellent authors seem to have placed at least before the eyes. And although some insane desire for glory might be held to covet the insignia of that art, the image of which the narrowness of genius can scarcely contain, yet in a rash attempt, the wicked encouragement of others may have more weight than the moderate and suspended hesitation of our own plan. You have, therefore, most ornate Uncle, this very thin and rather rough specimen of our studies, by which very soon