TO APOLLONIUS

MASSA, THE FIRST EPISTLE,

ALTHOUGH I know that you have now for a year been a student of original: "audientem," literally "hearing," commonly used to describe a student attending a master's lectures Auerbach Heinrich Auerbach (1482–1542) was a prominent physician and professor at the University of Leipzig, famously associated with Auerbach's Cellar., a most learned man and one who provides outstanding healing to the sick in Leipzig: who, since he is a man of learning and most fond of me, will instruct you at all times in civil manners and the precepts of medicine, so that you can desire nothing beyond your own diligence and study: especially since there you are able to learn appropriately, along with philosophical and medical instructions, also those things which relate to the elegance of the Latin language: especially because you have the most learned Philipp Melanchthon Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was a leading German reformer and scholar, known for his vast influence on the educational systems of the time., who is fond of you: nevertheless, so that you may emerge even more learned through my own studies and labors, I shall write to you—in order to comply with your request—those things concerning the method of healing which you sought in your letters regarding this particular work.

Method of proceeding

Furthermore, these things you must learn will be like a sort of artificial memory artificial memory: a system of mnemonic techniques or structured frameworks used by Renaissance scholars to organize and recall vast amounts of information: since they contain a concise method, first for recognizing illnesses, causes, and symptoms original: "accidentia," refers to clinical signs or "accidents" of a disease that happen to the patient, and soon after for predicting the outcome of the disease: and for correctly providing help to the sick through contraries The Galenic principle of "contraries," where a "hot" disease is treated with "cold" remedies, and vice versa., and for teaching how to care for the removal of the cause. Indeed, true cure is the removal of the cause, according to the opinion of Galen in the 22nd commentary on the second section of the Aphorisms This refers to Galen’s influential commentary on the "Aphorisms" of Hippocrates, which served as a primary medical textbook for centuries.. Truly, these things will not only serve for illnesses, causes, symptoms, prediction, and the method of correct healing, but they will also be of the greatest help in organizing intentions In Renaissance medicine, "intentions" are the specific clinical goals a physician sets to restore a patient's health.—both speculative and those pertaining to treatment—within the colleges or discussions which [take place] between Me- The text breaks off here at the catchword "Me-", likely continuing with "Medicos" (physicians) on the following page.