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airs, able suddenly to cure a man in sickness. But the 

 inquisition of this part is of great use, though it needeth, 

 as Socrates said, a Delian diver, being difficult and pro 

 found. But unto all this knowledge de communi vinculo, 

 of the concordances between the mind and the body, 

 that part of inquiry is most necessary, which considereth 

 of the seats and domiciles which the several faculties of 

 the mind do take and occupate in the organs of the body; 

 which knowledge hath been attempted, and is contro 

 verted, and deserveth to be much better inquired. For 

 the opinion of Plato, who placed the understanding in 

 the brain, animosity (which he did unfitly call anger, 

 having a greater mixture with pride) in the heart, and 

 concupiscence or sensuality in the liver, deserveth not to 

 be despised ; but much less to be allowed. So then we 

 have constituted (as in our own wish and advice) the 

 inquiry touching human nature entire, as a just portion 

 of knowledge to be handled apart. 



X. i. The knowledge that concerneth man s body is 

 divided as the good of man s body is divided, unto which 

 it referreth. The good of man s body is of four kinds, \ 

 health, beauty, strength and pleasure : so the knowledges 

 are medicine, or art of cure : art of decoration, which is 

 called cosmetic ; art of activity, which is called athletic ; 

 and art voluptuary, which Tacitus truly calleth eruditus 

 luxus. This subject of man s body is of all other things 

 in nature most susceptible of remedy; but then that 

 remedy is most susceptible of error. For the same sub- 

 tility of the subject doth cause large possibility and easy 

 failing ; and therefore the inquiry ought to be the more 

 exact. 



2. To speak therefore of medicine, and to resume 

 that we have said, ascending a little higher : the ancient 





