Disputationes chymico-medicae

he has determined: Physicians prescribe human dung original: "oletum humanum" for a human bite: Therefore, apply a four-cornered plaster of that same substance to my slanderer; otherwise, unless a return from davenhuxlo a reference to a specific property or source of income is provided for him in the future, he will have nothing to perpetually gnaw upon.

But you, my sweetest students and friends, fare very well and happily, and continue to love me as you do.

Given from my Study, on the first of September, in the year 1613.

An ornate, rectangular cartouche featuring a central grotesque mask, a lion-like face, surrounded by intricate acanthus leaves and scrollwork.

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Doctor of Medicine, designated Professor of

in the University of MARBURG;

or

A PUBLIC ORATION PRESENTED BY HIMSELF,
on the fourth day before the Kalends of April, in the year 1609.

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CONVINCED as I am that, through no reputation for eloquence, I ought to be rightfully distant from this province of speaking, Most Illustrious and Generous Princes, Most Magnificent Rector, Venerable Academic Fathers, and you, most flourishing crown of Generous, Noble, and Well-born Youths: yet I know not how it happens that I demand the power of any most eloquent Orator, the voice of any most skilled Rhetorician, be granted to my tongue for the space of one short hour.

Do I demand it? Indeed, if it were possible, I would uniquely strive to have all the strengths of all Orators, filled with a flood of the most weighty and best words, granted to these jaws of mine to express those things which I am about to say. For regarding the will of THE GREAT MAURICE Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the Phoenix of this age, our most merciful Provider and Maecenas patron: to me, who was not long ago chosen into the number and rank of the Professors of Medicine, that path