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And to the warming of all it harms or helps, to the cooling it harms or helps, to the power it harms or helps.
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Of power varied natures.
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Humours corrupting whole, part, from without, from within, spontaneous, not spontaneous; spontaneous for us, not spontaneous for the cause. Of the cause, part is clear, part is obscure, part is within our power and part is not.
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Nature is sufficient in all for all.
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To deal with nature from without: plaster, anointing, salve, uncovering of whole or part, covering of whole or part, warming or cooling similarly, astriction, ulceration, biting,Apparently, such things as a mustard plaster. grease; from within: some of the aforesaid, and in addition an obscure cause in part or whole, in some cases but not in all.
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Secretions in accordance with nature, by the bowels, urine, sweat, sputum, mucus, womb, through hemorrhoid, wart, leprosy, tumour, carcinoma, from nostrils, lungs, bowels, seat, penis, in accordance with nature or contrary to nature. The peculiar differences in these things depend on differences in the individual, on times and on methods. All these things are one nature and not one. All these things are many natures and one nature.
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Purging upward or downward, neither upward nor downward.
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In nutriment purging excellent, in nutriment purging bad; bad or excellent according to circumstances.
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Ulceration, burn-scab, blood, pus, lymph, leprosy, scurf, dandruff, scurvy, white leprosy, freckles, sometimes harm and sometimes help, and sometimes neither harm nor help.
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Nutriment not nutriment if it have not its power. Not nutriment nutriment if it can nourish. Nutriment in name, not in deed; nutriment in deed, not in name.
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It travels from within to hair, nails, and to the extreme surface; from without nutriment travels from the extreme surface to the innermost parts.
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Conflux one, conspiration one, all things in sympathy; all the parts as forming a whole, and severally the parts in each part, with reference to the work.
