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The text quotes Aristotle's Prior Analytics: "it exists, to examine each case, and to provide as many of these as possible."
that is: "Wherefore this way is the same in all things: in philosophy: in any art and discipline whatever. For one must consider the things that are contributed: and to obtain the greatest possible abundance of such things. And a little later:"
original Greek: "εἰ μηδ ὲν κατὰ τὼ ἰσορίαν ὠραλειφθείη..."
"If nothing be omitted from those things which have been observed certainly and truly to exist in things, it will be possible to find and proffer its demonstration, of which there can be a demonstration: but that, of which there cannot be a demonstration, it will be possible to make manifest by another reason." These are the words of Aristotle. Likewise, if no sign be omitted from those which have been observed to exist in the Man of the disease, and also in the Woman or the external remedy, it will be possible to construct a Physiognomic Syllogism, from which we may understand that this disease belongs to this remedy, and this remedy belongs to this disease: For example