Hekim ve Doğadaki Bütün Düzen

[The Medical Art] diligently investigates the bases and foundations of human Nature. The rising and setting of the stars, the periods of the Planets, defined by certain intervals of time, their conjunctions, oppositions, impressions, and the effects which they print upon the inferior Elements: the origins of comets, of winds, thunder, lightning, rain, dew, frost, and so on; the tides of the Ocean and their ebb and flow, the diversities of Lands; the distinctions of Plants, the origins, progressions, and separations of Metals and Minerals, the natures of Animals, and their modes of reproduction—these are investigated by the sleepless labors of many Philosophers. While each individual takes for himself a small portion from this vastness of things to be examined separately, believing that the lifespan and talent of one man is by no means sufficient to comprehend the arrangement of such a vast Province, the Physician, with untiring study, alone scrutinizes the universal Economy of all Nature. He examines the decrees of Astronomers and Astrologers; he collects the reasonings of Meteorologists, Physicists, and Herbalists. He consults the masters of Agriculture and those skilled in Metallic matters, learning their experiences and observations. He diligently investigates the natures of Animals; and he encompasses all these things within Principles, Elements, and certain laws of Generations. Having perceived these things, he descends to the human Commonwealth, and by a certain divine Analogy, [he relates] the arrangement of the greater World.