(This is one of my entries entirely
inspired by my wife Galina, who is an avid student of homoeopathy and who introduced
me to Fernel’s superb Latin one-liner below, as quoted by the greatest English
homoeopath John Henry Clarke, MD [1853-1931], in his magnum opus A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.)
Like father, like son... Or, as Jean Fernel puts it, “Parentibus liberi
succedunt, non minus morborum quam possessionum haeredes.”
(Jean Fernel [1497-1558] was a
great French physician who introduced the term “physiology” to describe
the study of body’s functions and was the first to describe the spinal canal.
He also suggested that taste buds are sensitive to fat, which hypothesis was
only recently proven as correct.)
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