It is a Venetian text, mid 1700s, about the "protomedico", the office physician of the ministry of health.
It has the two lines of Latin in the middle.
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@seindal I got
"A physician is bound to remind the sick person of his own existence Death foreseen often brings healing to the soul"
Seems to be a reminder of mortality
The medic must remind the sick person to be themselves.
Expected death often brings the same to the soul.
I think it says that the medic has to remind the sick person to behave, since when a person expects to die they may not think about their wellbeing after death.
@seindal
context may help of course.
@seindal some context would be helpful.
It is a Venetian text, mid 1700s, about the "protomedico", the office physician of the ministry of health.
It has the two lines of Latin in the middle.
@seindal the second one: "Presentiment of one's death often serves as a remedy for the soul." I am not a native English speaker, so take this with a grain of salt. The first is trickier. 1/
Thanks a million. Native or not, yours is better than the automatic translations.
@seindal "The doctor has the obligation to remind the patient (literally: the sick person)" - but of what? "esse suum" could be read as "that they are the doctor's property" and may mean that the patient is under the authority of the doctor. But "esse" in late Latin may also stand in for "edere", "to eat". Then it could be dietary advice: "to eat as necessary". I am a bit lost there. 2/2
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