To the Most Honorable and

Highly Learned Master / MARTI-

NO RULANDO, Doctor of Medicine /

Palatine Physician, and

Natural Scientist in Lauingen on the Danube /

my especially highly favored

Master and

Patron.

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Most honorable and highly learned Doctor Rulando, the praiseworthy Art of Medicine is named by many excellent people, very finely and artfully, Soror Sapientiae Sister of Wisdom. For just as wisdom keeps the human spirit in check, so that one does not live like an unreasonable wild beast or a pig: so is it accustomed