Physiologia Medica

You seem to be seen and to affect this same thing in the gown the toga, representing civilian and scholarly life which your noble and illustrious brother, Lord Marquard, seeks in the military cloak the sago, representing military service, with whom you are traveling in Geneva at this time. May God, the Best and Greatest, from whom every good gift and every perfect donation comes—as I speak most freely and frequently with that most pious man, the Apostle James, as if from the Father of Lights—prosper your efforts of virtue and vigor. May you fix your eyes on the magnanimity and solid learning of the most noble Baron Lord Karel of Zerotin Karel the Older of Zierotin, a prominent Moravian statesman, who is a great light of your Moravia. He shines before the peace of the Church and the State with his most prudent government of that Margraviate. Propose him to yourselves as one to be admired and imitated. May you turn out to be the strongest pillars and stelas monumental columns of your homeland and your ancient family, which Euripides was accustomed to name the "offspring of the good." Having performed this sincere vow, most noble Veznici, I now make an end. I bid you and your noble brother Lord Marquard to be well from my heart.
At Basel, August 6,
1610.

Of the Chapters of the First Book.
Chap. 1. The establishment of the Medical Stages original: "Prosceniorum Medicorum".
Chap. 2. On the name of Medicine, which has many meanings original: "polysemo", adapted to the present purpose.
Chap. 3. The series of introductions original: "Prolegomenon" to the medical art.
Chap. 4. Whether Medicine exists.
Chap. 5. What Medicine is.
Chap. 6. On the causes of Medicine.
Chap. 7. On the Genus of Medicine.
Chap. 8. On the Species of Medicine.
Chap. 9. On the parts of Medicine.
Chap. 10. On the Accidents of Medicine.
Chap. 11. On the Medical Teacher.
Chap. 12. On the Medical Student.
Chap. 13. On our purpose in teaching Medicine.

Chapters of the Second Book.
Chap. 1. The argument of the Second Book is set forth.
Chap. 2. On the Hot and the Moist, the general principles of human life.
Chap. 3. On the solid substance of the Body.
Chap. 4. On the whole Solid Body.
Chap. 5. Logical explanation of the Solid Parts.
Chap. 6. The first class of similar parts, containing Bones, Cartilages, under which are also Nails and Hair.
Chap. 7. The second class of similar parts, comprising the neura sinews, that is, Ligaments, Tendons, and Nerves.
Chap. 8. The third class of similar parts, subdivided into Membranes, Membranous Vessels, and Membranous Organs.
Chap. 9. The fourth class of similar parts, comprising white and red Flesh with Fat.
Chap. 10. On the Dissimilar and Organic Parts.
Chap. 11. Historical knowledge of the Solid Parts.