The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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That the blood which returns when the heart opens again is not the  
same as that which closes the valves of the heart.  
Some notes on medicine (851-855).  
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51.  
Make them give you the definition and remedies for the case ... and  
you will see that men are selected to be doctors for diseases they  
do not know.  
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52.  
A remedy for scratches taught me by the Herald to the King of  
France. 4 ounces of virgin wax, 4 ounces of colophony, 2 ounces of  
incense. Keep each thing separate; and melt the wax, and then put in  
the incense and then the colophony, make a mixture of it and put it  
on the sore place.  
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53.  
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the  
discord of the elements infused into the living body.  
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