[p. 369]stand and distinguish the season of each,
so that at one time he may attend to the nourishment and increase,
and at another to abstraction and diminution. And in this disease
as in all others, he must strive not to feed the disease, but endeavor
to wear it out by administering whatever is most opposed to each disease,
and not that which favors and is allied to it. For by that which is
allied to it, it gains vigor and increase, but it wears out and disappears
under the use of that which is opposed to it. But whoever is acquainted
with such a change in men, and can render a man humid and dry, hot
and cold by regimen, could also cure this disease, if he recognizes
the proper season for administering his remedies, without minding
purifications, spells, and all other illiberal practices of a like
kind.
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