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Quotation from Metaphysics by Aristotle
“health is the substance of disease (for disease is the absence of health); and health is the formula in the soul or the knowledge of it”
Metaphysics, Book VII (Zeta), Part 7, trans. W. D. Ross (1908)
In explaining production by art, Aristotle locates the form of health in the physician's knowledge before it is realized in the patient.
Citation: "health is the substance of disease (for disease is the absence of health); and health is the formula in the soul or the knowledge of it" — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VII (Zeta), Part 7, trans. W. D. Ross (1908). (id aristotle-metaphysics-q7)
