Latin — 1533, repaired
[I]nsuper considerare debes, virtutes rerum inesse quibusdam rebus secundum speciem: ut audacia et animositas in leone et gallo, timiditas in lepore et agno, rapacitas seu voracitas in lupo, insidiatio et fraudulentia in vulpe, adulatio in cane, avaritia in corvo et cornice, superbia in equo, ira in tigride et apro, tristitia et melancholia in cato, libido in passere, et sic de similibus. Maxima enim pars naturalium virtutum speciem comitatur.
Quaedam vero insunt rebus secundum individuum, quemadmodum sunt quidam homines, qui vehementer abhorrent aspectum cati, ita ut sine horrore gravissimo aspicere non possint, qui quidem horror non inest ipsis secundum speciem humanam, quod manifestum est. Et narrat Avicenna, tempestate sua vixisse hominem, quem fugerent venenata omnia, morientibus omnibus, quae forte morsu illum apprehendissent, ipso omnino illaeso: et refert Albertus se in Agrippina Colonia vidisse puellam, quae araneas in escam venabatur, eoque cibi genere oblectata insigniter aleretur.
Sic sunt audacia in meretrice, timiditas in fure. Et hoc modo dicunt philosophi, quod individuum aliquod, quod nunquam passum fuerit aegritudinem, confert omni aegritudini: idcirco dicunt, quod os hominis mortui, qui nunquam habuerit febres, suspensum supra patientem, liberat a quartana. Insunt etiam individuis singulares multae virtutes, a corporibus caelestibus infusae, quod superius monstravimus.
Quod virtutes naturales quibusdam insunt per totam suam substantiam, quibusdam vero in certis suis particulis aut membris.
Close translation
Furthermore, you ought to consider that the powers of things are present in some things according to species: as boldness and spiritedness in the lion and the cock, timidity in the hare and the lamb, rapacity or ravenousness in the wolf, treachery and deceitfulness in the fox, flattery in the dog, avarice in the raven and the crow, pride in the horse, wrath in the tiger and the boar, sadness and melancholy in the cat, lust in the sparrow, and so of similar things. For the greatest part of natural powers accompanies the species.
But certain powers are present in things according to the individual — as there are certain men who dread the sight of a cat so violently that they cannot look at it without the gravest horror, which horror, plainly, is not present in them according to the human species. And Avicenna relates that in his time there lived a man whom all venomous things fled, so that all such creatures died that happened to seize him with a bite, while he himself remained wholly unharmed: and Albert reports that he himself saw, in Cologne, a girl who hunted spiders for food, and was remarkably nourished, delighting in that kind of food.
So too there is boldness in the prostitute, timidity in the thief. And in this way the philosophers say that some individual, one that has never suffered sickness, confers benefit against every sickness: for this reason they say that the mouth-bone of a dead man, who never had fevers, hung above the sufferer, frees him from quartan fever. Many singular powers, too, are present in individuals, infused by the celestial bodies, as we have shown above.
That natural powers are present in some things throughout their whole substance, but in others only in certain particular parts or members.
Modern rendering
You should also consider that some powers belong to things at the level of species: boldness and spirit in the lion and the rooster, timidity in the hare and the lamb, greed or ravenousness in the wolf, cunning and deceit in the fox, flattery in the dog, avarice in the raven and the crow, pride in the horse, wrath in the tiger and the boar, gloom and melancholy in the cat, lust in the sparrow, and so on for similar cases. Most natural powers, in fact, track the species as a whole.
But some powers belong only to particular individuals. Take certain people who are so violently repelled by the sight of a cat that they can't look at one without deep horror — a reaction that clearly doesn't belong to them as members of the human species generally. Avicenna records that in his own time there lived a man that every venomous creature fled from — anything that happened to bite him died, while he himself came away completely unharmed. And Albert reports seeing, himself, in Cologne, a girl who hunted spiders for food and thrived remarkably well on that diet, enjoying it.
The same logic explains boldness in a prostitute, or timidity in a thief. Philosophers say, along these lines, that an individual who has never once been sick confers protection against every sickness — which is why they say that the jawbone of a dead man who never had a fever, hung over a sufferer, cures quartan fever. Individuals also carry many singular powers infused into them by the celestial bodies, as we showed earlier.
That natural powers exist in some things throughout their whole substance, but in others only in certain specific parts or organs.