Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
As you talk, so is your heart.
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.