Chemical Lexicon

completing my undertaking (the path having been opened up somewhat by me), so that others more skilled and suitable might be encouraged. The learner ought to believe the teacher; original: "Oportet discentem docenti credere." A traditional scholastic maxim suggesting that a student must first trust their instructor's authority to begin the process of learning. you have the Doctors Doctors: Here referring to the authoritative "Teachers" or masters of the medical and philosophical tradition. themselves instructing you, while I am merely showing the way to the threshold. May God grant that what I have undertaken for your benefit may not be turned into a fault against me, but rather into a grace, in the hope of which