How am I stretching the point here (I didn’t bring up his discussion of charms, for example)? The thing is, as I pointed out in the post, what he is suggesting is exactly what we do, though we don’t really think about it. We are used to our blood banks and organ donations and don’t think about how we got to where we are today. What Ficino offers was some of the best medical lore of his time; was his suggestions always right? Of course not. But it went along medieval understanding of medicine. It’s easy to read it and be appalled, but one can be — as some are — appalled at modern use of blood and organ donations as well. I am not arguing his medical knowledge is great compared to ours, obviously he was wrong — but the general disposition and idea we find here is exactly what is being used today in our medical care. We have blood/plasma/organ donation, but now with a better understanding of how to use such donations. It wouldn’t have come about if we didn’t have people like Ficino and other doctors before him leading us in this direction.