X. 2.] THE SECOND BOOK. Itf 



Et quoniam variant morbi, variabimus artcs; 

 Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt. 



Which that they should do, the nobleness of their art 

 doth deserve ; well shadowed by the poets, in that they 

 made ^Esculapius 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 Caesar), 

 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 Narrationes 



. . . , medicinales. 



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 reed 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 



