Records

Petrarca F (1364). Rerum Senilium Libri. Liber XIV, Epistola 1. Letter to Boccaccio ( V.3).

Translation

"I solemnly affirm and believe, if a hundred or a thousand men of the same age, same temperament and habits, together with the same surroundings, were attacked at the same time by the same disease, that if one half followed the prescriptions of the doctors of the variety of those practicing at the present day, and that the other half took no medicine but relied on Nature's instincts, I have no doubt as to which half would escape."