Miracles and Mysteries of Chemistry and Medicine

than another tree equipped with fewer branches, it resists: In the same way Fame, Virtue, and Learning original: "Fama, Virtus, Eruditio." In this context, "Virtus" refers to moral excellence or skill, and "Eruditio" to scholarly knowledge. increase and multiply the further they expand; yet for that very reason, they are more heavily pressed, disturbed, and tossed about by the storm of the envious and the whirlwind of the malevolent. However, they are not crushed, not driven out, and not swept away.

For that reason, you should rather desire even a commotion of heaven and earth against you, as an infallible sign of more substantial virtue and more widespread Fame. Meanwhile, seek Fame as if you were going to despise it; and despise it as if you were going to seek it. Just as by traveling through the world we learn to despise the world, so by anxiously seeking the flattering breeze of Fame, we learn to regard it as nothing more than a breeze, a shadow, a void. In the meantime, through this contempt for Fame and Glory, we run—whether we like it or not—into the reward of these very things, even if it was not sought after.

Do you wish to know about me, and on what hinge original: "quo versentur in cardine," a Latin idiom meaning the "turning point" or the current state of affairs. your friend's affairs are turning? Here is the news in brief. My Medical works original: "Medica," referring to Bartholin's prolific output in anatomy and medicine. are currently boiling under my hands This is an idiom meaning he is working intensely and rapidly on his manuscripts....