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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man’s body and to reduce it to harmony”
The Advancement of Learning, Book II, X.2 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
Why the poets joined music and medicine in Apollo: the human body, being the most compounded of substances, is easily put out of tune.
Citation: "the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man’s body and to reduce it to harmony" — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, X.2 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q6)
