Physiologia Medica

of nature"—so the effects of Man, who is the deputy of God, are ta onomata Names. These are the concepts of the intellect, which are like homoiōmata likenesses of the things that exist. The same Old Man referring to Hippocrates called these Nomothemata Institutions or Legislated things. And just as the Things themselves hold a middle place between God, by whom they were founded, and Man, for whom they were founded, so concepts are intermediaries between the Things (of which they are images founded by God) and the Words (through which they are communicated to Man, by man, for whom they were founded). Since these are the universal bases of all human thoughts and actions alike, let us adapt them to our purpose. First, let us explain the name of Medicine—which ought to express the nature of the Thing as much as possible—in CHAPTER II. We shall determine whether it denotes one Art or many, and we will deal with the Thing itself (that is, the disposition or habit denoted by that name) in the remaining chapters.

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CHAPTER II.

On the multi-meaning name of Medicine, adapted to the present purpose.

Experience teaches that the modes of Medicine are various, and therefore the meaning of the word will not be just one. Let us show this by the following analysis, beginning from the etymology itself.
It is iatreia medical treatment and iatros physician to the Greeks, from iaomai I heal. This is the case unless fables are more pleasing, such as the name being derived from Iaso, one of the daughters of Aesculapius, who had three sisters: Aegle, Panacea, and Hygeia. To the Latins, it is

MEDICINE and PHYSICIAN original: "MEDICINA & MEDICVS", from HEALING original: "MEDENDO". This is named from the Action itself which falls most under the Senses. The "habit" or skill itself is that with which the craftsman is equipped and acts. Clearly, just as Actions are prior to us than the Habits themselves (the multiple observation of which produced a system original: "ousēma" reduced to the rule of Reason), so also the Names signifying actions and passions seem to be prior to the Names of habits. Scribonius Largus a Roman physician, in his book "On the Composition of Medicines," writes that Medicine is named not from Healing, but from the power and wonderful effect of Medicines original: "Medicamentorum". But if a Medicine is called such in respect to the healer, whose Instrument it is, and it cannot testify to its own efficacy unless it is applied by a healer, then the naming should more rightly be made from the efficient craftsman himself rather than from the craftsman's instrument. Thus, we derive the Smith's art from the smith original: "fabro", not from the iron. Unless, perhaps, he hints that the name was given to the whole art from the celebrated miracles of Medea of Colchis throughout all Greece and Italy. Antonio Urceo Codro of Bologna original: "ANTONIVS Codrus Bononiensis", a critic of great name, whether from a desire for novelty or persuaded by the authority of Timaeus (who says the duty of Medicine is to lead powers into medical harmony), derives "Physician" original: "Medicum" from "Middle" original: "Medio". He argues that the physician persuades one toward the middle, that is, toward Temperance, by which Health is preserved. He strives to reduce extremes—which wander from the middle through excess or defect—back to the middle, that is, to Health. This is an ingenious derivation, but sought from too far away.

Now, what is "to heal" original: "Mederi" itself? Just as Medicine came from the Greeks to the Latins, did the word "Mederi" also come from the Greek words meisthai and melidai to take care of?