Two Medico-Philosophical Discourses: On Fermentation (1659) - Page 16

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He instills wisdom, and rescues the fires of learning from the darkness. No day shall ever snatch away the man who endowed the light of Phoebus original: Phoebi; a name for the sun god, symbolizing enlightenment with new rays and drove away the shadows from the light. The Plague would not dare to violate him with its poisoned breath, nor would the Fever dare to scorch him with its silent embers, for he has restored life to the diseased and granted immortality to those facing death the poet suggests that Willis’s medical discoveries provide a metaphorical victory over mortality.

Philip Fell,

Medical Student of Oxford.

original: Elenchus

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