Claudii Alberii Triuncuriani De concordia medicorum disputatio exoterica

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ON THE CONCORD
OF PHYSICIANS: TO WEN-
CESLAUS LAVINIUS OF
OTTENFELD.

A decorative drop cap "T" features human figures and foliage.There are three things, if I remember correctly, Wenceslaus Lavinius, most distinguished man, about which you seek our judgment. First, you ask me how one might exercise oneself in the Physiognomic Anatomy, which we proved to exist in our Organon original: "Organo". Next, how those Paracelsian principles, Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury, can be adapted to the method of healing prescribed by Galen. Finally, that I might briefly disclose to you what I think about that philosophical stone so much celebrated by many, especially the Arabs and more recent authors. Truly, if I write to you briefly about these three things, I shall appear to have touched upon the three primary heads of Paracelsian philosophy. Although I am not unaware that the treatment of these three things can neither be undertaken without prepared leisure, nor completed in a few words, nevertheless, such is the force of my love for you that in this letter I shall follow the highest summits of the matters.