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The beginning of all things is one and the end of all things is one, and the end and beginning are the same.
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And all the particular details in nourishment are managed well or ill; well if as aforesaid, ill if ordered in the opposite way to these.
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Juices varied in colours and in powers, to harm or to help, or neither to harm nor to help, varied in amount, excess or defect, in combination of some but not of others.
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And to the warming of all it harms or helps, to the cooling it harms or helps, to the power it harms or helps.
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Of power varied natures.
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Humours corrupting whole, part, from without, from within, spontaneous, not spontaneous; spontaneous for us, not spontaneous for the cause. Of the cause, part is clear, part is obscure, part is within our power and part is not.
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Nature is sufficient in all for all.
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To deal with nature from without: plaster, anointing, salve, uncovering of whole or part, covering of whole or part, warming or cooling similarly, astriction, ulceration, biting,Apparently, such things as a mustard plaster. grease; from within: some of the aforesaid, and in addition an obscure cause in part or whole, in some cases but not in all.
