Physician and judgment

Meaning

The anonymous author explicitly says that he is no physician and therefore declines to pursue the stone's medical praise in Part III: benefits and their rank · unit 8. Judgment is left to someone who possesses it, knows its use and enjoys its benefit. The profession's faculty is treated as a domain he does not wish to encroach upon, not as an enemy he has defeated through alchemy. The English preserves this act of restraint after a remarkable catalogue of reported cures. Consequently, his ensuing appeal to some personal experience in other applications should not be expanded into personal verification of every medical assertion just recited.