850.
That the blood which returns when the heart opens again is not the same as that which closes the valves of the heart.
Some notes on medicine (851-855).
851.
Make them give you the definition and remedies for the case … and you will see that men are selected to be doctors for diseases they do not know.
852.
A remedy for scratches taught me by the Herald to the King of France. 4 ounces of virgin wax, 4 ounces of colophony, 2 ounces of incense. Keep each thing separate; and melt the wax, and then put in the incense and then the colophony, make a mixture of it and put it on the sore place.
853.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
854.