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Teaching and apprenticeship

Aphorisms set to meter, advice to students, and gratitude to the dead who taught the art.

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  1. Source-attestedCHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    What innumerable crowd intoning its Canticles, Floods the porticoes of the Temple of Lucina? Enter the forecourt, young women, enter; I am going to reveal to you the sacred myst...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  2. Source-attestedCHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    We have admired the structure of the pelvis, And in her very temple adored Nature. Let us follow her step by step, catch her in the act, Seek to snatch from her some new benefac...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  3. Source-attestedCHANT HUITIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    The God who unites the destiny of lovers, Has two famous Temples for the bonds of Hymen, One close to Amathus, is in those gentle climes, That winter never sullied with its fros...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  4. Source-attestedCHANT NEUVIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    In that age close to the infancy of the world Where innocence reigned, a fertile woman, Always after nine months, with impunity, Paid the happy tribute of maternity. Upon a bed...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  5. Source-attestedCHANT PREMIER.French · 19th century · English available

    Sublime art, faithful to the will of nature, Before self-interest, envy, and imposture Had subjected your laws to their caprice, A child of Apollo today avenges your rights. Apo...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  6. Source-attestedCHANT QUATRIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    MUSE, before sowing in the fields of Lucina, Deign to permit at least that my hand uproot The numerous prejudices, the fatal abuses, With which Routine and art are both imbued....

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  7. Source-attestedCHANT SECOND.French · 19th century · English available

    O night both delicious and fleeting! How insipid the God of waking seemed to me, When he came suddenly, with indiscreet zeal, To tear me regretfully from the sweetest dreams. I...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  8. Source-attestedCHANT SIXIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    I have sung of Nature and her Temple, or womb, And her inherent force and her expulsive force. Muse, tell us how, without support, without aid, Fanni alone brought forth the fru...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  9. Source-attestedبسم الله الرحمن الرحيمArabic · 17th century · English available

    Praise be to God, the Physician, the Healer, / the One, the Light, the Knowing, the Sufficient, The Illuminator of sights with light, / and the Creator of the earths and heaven....

    Three Arabic rajaz medical poems in MS Arabic 129 part 2
  10. Source-attestedAUREA ANTIDOTUM.Latin · 19th century · English available

    *Aurea* is helpful for rheumatic causes, Sufficient to soothe the cold complaints of the head; Which, because it is proven to flourish with manifold virtue: It constricts fluxes...

    Aegidii Corboliensis carmina medica
  11. Source-attestedBRASSAVOLVS. 35.Latin · 16th century · English available

    He has won every point, he inspects the ointment-boxes, and has amply explained the brief aphorisms of Hippocrates. The Index indicates that he was diligently versed in the bett...

    Icones veterum aliquot, ac recentium medicorum, philosophorumque elegiolis suis editae
  12. Source-attestedC O R.Latin · 17th century · English available

    We proceed by a direct path to the fount of Life, Without which no mortal can live. For here the blood establishes its first beginnings, And here again, dying, it undergoes its...

    Mikrokosmographia Metrica, sive Humani Corporis Historia