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

as a human being hallucinate, occasionally stumble, and sometimes doze off. There remains much for my successors in this SAME MEDICINE to experience, advise, and refine. I beseech your candor, therefore, CANDID READER, by the most glorious Creator of Natures! Deal candidly with me, who uses reason and experience, and do not act injuriously or calumniously toward NATURE, our common Mother and the Mother of all things. Hippocrates says in his Precepts original: "Hippocrates l. Præcept." that a physician who uses reason will never enviously malign another, for in this way he betrays his own weakness of mind. I do not pay heed to the sciolists meaning: those with superficial knowledge or those preoccupied by opinions and presumptuous people, much less do I admit their censures and ad-