PART 12
Wherefore, I say, that such constitutions as suffer quickly and strongly
from errors in diet, are weaker than others that do not; and that
a weak person is in a state very nearly approaching to one in disease;
but a person in disease is the weaker, and it is, therefore, more
likely that he should suffer if he encounters anything that is unseasonable.
It is difficult, seeing that there is no such accuracy in the Art,
to hit always upon what is most expedient, and yet many cases occur
in medicine which would require this accuracy, as we shall explain.
But on that account, I say, we ought not to reject the ancient Art,
as if it were not, and had not been properly founded, because it did
not attain accuracy in all things, but rather, since it is capable
of reaching to the greatest exactitude by reasoning, to receive it
and admire its discoveries, made from a state of great ignorance,
and as having been well and properly made, and not from chance.