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Schickfus, Jacob · 1614

bulbs, herbs, and other plants, of which he had many thousands in his garden, could not lengthen or extend his days of life. This man was the Noble, Honorable, Highly Learned, and Well-Named Mr. Friedrich Säbisch, Doctor of Medicine and former Princely Court Physician of Brieg. He has sufficiently demonstrated and proven through his own example how much trust may be placed in art, in experience, and in medicine itself during this life.
Some might wish to attribute this death to the autumn season, when the elderly often fall away just as the tree leaves fall. Others might refer it to the annum Climactericum decimum the tenth climacteric year Historical medical belief held that years in cycles of seven or nine were dangerous turning points. At age seventy, a person reached the tenth cycle of seven. where seventy years exactly coincide. However, we look solely and alone to God the Almighty. He has not only counted the hairs of every person but also accurately counted their years. He has precisely set for everyone their terminum vitæ the boundary or end of life.
Therefore, our late Physician, just as he perceived nothing but tenebras darkness in all the arts of human wisdom, and perceived enough humanas miserias human miseries within medicine,