Long Life, Short Art

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—if he applies his mind to this, which was vigorously explained in the school by the most celebrated Professor Cranz, soon the living, healthy human is understood to be ready for the exercises of all functions.

§. II.

Oh, how easy and pleasant is the transition into the pathological arena! How promptly one understands actions that are either increased, diminished, or depraved; all of which, when they are clearly explained by the tireless and magnificent de Haen, soon forms the most solid foundation of pathological knowledge. That this might be made more solid, by the clemency of the August one, a clinical school, or bedside practice, was erected, where the Jatrophili are daily ocular auditors, admirers, and imitators of the examination of diseases, the complaints of the sick, the Professor’s explanation of signs, causes, pulse, the judgment of blood and urine, and finally, the method of healing.

§. III.

Truly, since the actions of the human body cannot be understood without an anatomical knowledge of the human machine, the Anatomical Theater is ready. From the time of its restoration by the extremely industrious Professor Gasser—whose premature death all good men lament—most exact demonstrations of parts, their composition, connection, and function, made over many years, have refreshed the minds of all the auditors. Following in his footsteps, the current tireless cultivator of this art, Colin, never wished his industry to be lacking, so that the auditors might be imbued with firm principles. Thus, the structure of the human body having been examined.

§. IV.

We easily elicit what the Ancients understood by their innate heat: namely, the circulatory motion, which Hippocrates himself seems to have suspected in the fifth section, aphorism 23, where he says:

"In these, however, one ought to use cold where blood erupts, or is about to erupt: not upon the spots themselves, but around these where it flows in. And whatever..."