PART 7
What other object, then, had he in view who is called a physician,
and is admitted to be a practitioner of the art, who found out the
regimen and diet befitting the sick, than he who originally found
out and prepared for all mankind that kind of food which we all now
use, in place of the former savage and brutish mode of living? To
me it appears that the mode is the same, and the discovery of a similar
nature. The one sought to abstract those things which the constitution
of man cannot digest, because of their wildness and intemperature,
and the other those things which are beyond the powers of the affection
in which any one may happen to be laid up. Now, how does the one differ
from the other, except that the latter admits of greater variety,
and requires more application, whereas the former was the commencement
of the process?