Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

Preface:

to keep the human body with proper diet and remedies, so that he does not lie sick and ill in bed, and finally bite into the bitter apple of death with great pain before he reaches his appointed goal. And when this happens, no one can be of service to the human race. For how can one be of good cheer, how can one study, how can one think of the common good, in the spiritual and worldly station, when one does not have a single good hour, because of sickness:

Therefore, the true dogmatici medici dogmatic physicians have always been held in great esteem by princes and other potentates. For in order to be able to rule land and people wisely, they had to be healthy: