OF PHYSICIANS.

are approved by us in a wonderful manner, in which they have pursued the natures of animals. But that knowledge is, in a way, lame and imperfect unless it is referred to the anatomy of man as to its perfection: unless also the knowledge of the sympatheias sympathy/affinity of plants and external remedies is added. And conversely, the knowledge of plants and other external things is lame and imperfect unless you draw that knowledge of remedies from the anatomy of animals. Therefore, anatomy limps unless it is twin or double: the one being the anatomy of animals, whose anatomy is indeed recalled to the anatomy of the most perfect animal, namely man; the other being the anatomy of plants and external remedies. From the former we know the Human disease—for so that otherwise unpolished writer Paracelsus calls it, having followed a Hebrew or Arabic phrase—that is, each individual disease; but from the latter, we know the Female, that is, the remedy. No affection