853

Some notes on medicine.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology.
. . .
833
On the conditions of sight.
834,
835
The seat of the common sense.
836
On the origin of the soul.
837
On the relations of the soul to the organs of sense.
838
On involuntary muscular action.
839
Miscellaneous physiological observations.
840,
841,
842
The laws of nutrition and the support of life.
843,
844,
845,
846,
847
On the circulation of the blood.
848,
849,
850
Some notes on medicine.
851,
852,
853,
854,
855,
856
The earth’s place in the universe.
857,
858
The fundamental laws of the solar system.
859,
860,
861,
862,
863,
864
How to prove that the earth is a planet.
865,
866,
867
The principles of astronomical perspective.
868,
869,
870,
871,
872,
873
. . .