Sebastiani Wirdig ... Nova medicina spirituum : curiosa scientia et doctrina, unanimiter hucusque neglecta, et a nemine merito exculta, medicis tamen et physicis utilissima ...

us, with joined forces to see if we might be able to draw out truth, which is immersed in a well, for the sake of our neighbor? Let us draw Nature out from Nature itself. Nature exhibits herself to us naked; she explains herself in simplicity. Better informed by Nature herself, I shall substitute better and truer things. YOUR voice, oh FRIEND, will be for me the voice of GOD. I will venerate YOUR advice with the obedience and devotion that is due, and I will correct what needs to be corrected. I am a HUMAN being; nothing human is alien to me. Convicted by an experienced Physician through demonstrations, I will not persist in error. Science and the art that is obvious to the senses are not refined in one go, let alone exhausted; it is no wonder that, in the most abstract MEDICINE OF SPIRITS, I...