853.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
854.
Those who are annoyed by sickness at sea should drink extract of wormwood.
855.
To keep in health, this rule is wise: Eat only when you want and relish food. Chew thoroughly that it may do you good. Have it well cooked, unspiced and undisguised. He who takes medicine is ill advised.
[Footnote: This appears to be a sketch for a poem.]
856.
I teach you to preserve your health; and in this you will succed better in proportion as you shun physicians, because their medicines are the work of alchemists.
[Footnote: This passage is written on the back of the drawing Pl.
CVIII. Compare also No. 1184.]