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

You teach how that Spiritus spirit/vital essence, powerful in its own right, is often
Armed by the stars and, mixed with the ether,
Drinks in the solar rays carried by the stars
And plunges its powers into the recesses of bodies,
How it paints phantoms for the mind:
How the true Cupid, fashioning true wounds,
Binds hearts with the tight fascination of love,
The bringer forth of all affections,
The regulator of morals and senses:
How it is the fertile parent of diseases,
When citizens A metaphorical reference to the bodily humors or spirits as "citizens" within the state of the body. are provoked from here and there
Into mutual battles, little by little,
And the veins are scorched by gentle fires:
By what contagion the putrid Spirit breathes upon
Those nearby; by what motions it is carried
Into remote things, and what arts the wondrous
Vertumnus A Roman god of change and seasons, here representing the transformative or elusive nature of medical symptoms. often applies to it.