Theoria pathologica de dolore (1590) - Page 2

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PATHOLOGICAL THEORY

OF PAIN:

Which, by the order and knowledge of the Illustrious Dean of Medicine, Dr. Caspar Bauhin, Professor of Anatomy and Botany, shall be published:

Under the chairmanship of Dr. Johann Niklaus Stupanus,

In the illustrious city of Basel, with God favoring well, for the public disputation, according to established custom, for the sake of the monthly exercise, in the usual place and at the usual hour, on the 21st of January, will submit

Paschalis Gallus

of Villefagnan.

For proofs of opposites are doubts about opposites. original: "αἱ γὰρ τῶν ἐναντίων ἀποδείξεις, ἀπορίαι περὶ τῶν ἐναντίων εἰσίν." Aristotle.

BASEL, PRINTED BY OPORINUS, 1590.

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