Kiar THE SECOND BOOK. Dn . -Aagy 
LU : 
Et quoniam_ variant morbi, variabimus “artes ; 
Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt. 
Which that they should do, the nobleness of their art 
doth deserve; well shadowed by he poets, in that they 
made Alsculapius to be the son of [the] sun, the one being 
the fountain of life, the other as the second stream: but 
infinitely more honoured by the example of our Saviour, 
who made the body of man the object of his miracles, as 
the soul was the object of his doctrine. For we read not 
that ever he vouchsafed to do any miracle about honour 
or money (except that one for giving tribute to Cesar), 
but only about the preserving, sustaining, and healing 
the body ‘of man. 
3. Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have 
said) more professed than laboured, and yet more la- 
boured than advanced; the labour having been, in my 
judgement, rather in circle than in progression. For I 
find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth 
causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions ; the 
diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, 
with the preservations. The deficiences which I think 
good to note, being a few of many, and those such as 
are of a more open and manifest nature, I will enumerate 
and not place. 
4. The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and 
serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used 
to set down a narrative of the special cases 
of his patients, and how they proceeded, and 
how they were judged by recovery or death. ‘Therefore 
having an example proper in the father of the art, I shall 
not need to allege an example foreign, of the wisdom 
of the lawyers, who are careful to report new cases and 
decisions, for the direction of future judgements. This 
Narrationes 
medicinales, 
