Cum haec tanta varietas sit disparibus rebus natura distributa quod humanum corpus est ex aliqua parte terrenum, in eo autem multa genera sunt umorum, uti sanguinis, lactis, sudoris, urinae, lacrimarum: ergo si in parva particula terreni tanta discrepantia invenitur saporum, non est mirandum, si tam in magnitudine terrae innumerabilis sucorum reperientur varietates, per quarum venas aquae vis percurrens tincta pervenit ad fontium egressus, et ita ex eo dispares variique perficiuntur in propriis generibus fontes propter locorum discrepantiam et regionum qualitates terrarumque dissimiles proprietates.
Since, therefore, such variety is produced by nature among diverse things, in that the human body is in part earthy, and at the same time contains humours of many kinds, blood, milk, sweat, urine, tears; if, therefore, in a small particle of the earthy there is found such a discrepancy of flavours, we need not wonder if in the expanse of earth there shall be found such innumerable varieties of juices. The watery energy passing along their channels is tinctured with them when it reaches the outflow of the springs. Thus for this reason springs are rendered disparate and various in their several kinds, because of the divergence of localities and the qualities of regions and the unlike qualities of soils.
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