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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The maxim says the work should praise the craftsman, not the craftsman the work. Its reversed subjects and objects are the point: practical results, rather than eloquent promotion at the sickbed, establish the practitioner’s worth in the polemic. The line supports the text’s labouring medical ideal without proving every cure claimed for the praised practitioners.
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- Book 8 · Separation · Passage 33Latin“ipsum opus artificem non artificem opus laudare”