On Medicine in Eight Books

from elsewhere, he pursued only that part of medicine in which the art properly and principally consists. I would say more about this, were I not to prefer that you learn it from the author himself. I, certainly, because of what I have mentioned, have always held him to be a familiar friend, and worthy of much effort and labor, not only in studying him by reading, but also in correcting him. Therefore, having procured the necessary materials for that purpose, I have acted in the present instance to present the text as emended as possible. I did this with the aid of those resources, a catalog of which I shall present shortly. You will not be able to recognize how much I have accomplished more correctly from any other source than by wishing to compare this edition with all those that have appeared thus far. Beyond what I have said, I often had to consult Hippocrates. You will learn how highly our author valued him not so much from his own mouth as from his work, which, because it contains on every page many things transposed from there, earned the author the name of the "Latin Hippocrates." This was the cause for me to more carefully compare both, and