Theses has subsequentes de artis medicae definitione & divisione Praeside Viro Clariss. D.D. Thoma Erasto, syn Theō defendere conabitur M. Theophilus Maderus, A. D. VI. Kal. Sextil. hora & loco consuetis

Prudence consists in things to be done πρακτοῖς things done by action, Medicine in things to be made ποιητοῖς things produced by creation.

VI.
Nor can it be referred to Science, unless you take Science improperly for any kind of knowledge, in which way it is defined in the medical art as Science. For it differs from Science properly so-called, both in other ways and in its end and object. In its end, because science rests in contemplation θεωρίᾳ contemplation or cognition (just as Intelligence and Wisdom do); the physician, on the contrary, undertakes all contemplation for the sake of operation. In its object, because Science is occupied with necessary things or objects of knowledge ἐπιστητὰς knowable things (6 Ethics 3) or things about which περὶ ὧν about which (2 Post. Analytic. last chapter), but Medicine is occupied with generation περὶ γένεσιν about generation and contingent things.

VII.
We believe it is placed beyond controversy among all learned men that it is much less to be included under Intelligence, which is the habit of first principles, or definitions τῶν ὄρων of the definitions (6 Ethics 6 & 8).

VIII.
Finally, since Wisdom joins Science with Intellect, and is said to be, as it were, Science gifted with a head (6 Ethics 7), it is clear that such a sublime name and genus by no means befits Medicine, which we have shown to be alien to the nature and conditions of Science and the mind.

IX.
We conclude, therefore, that Medicine cannot be reduced to any other habit of the Intellect than Art.