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.

Man is ill because he is never still.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.