A light hand and a sharp edge for the cut
For the cutting of one who has been struck. Since many are cowardly toward the necessary treatments from iron, fearing the pain from the healing more than the coming harm from not being treated, come, let us somehow comfort the hesitation of the pain, making the sufferers more confident to endure the healing.
Let the healer have a light hand, so that he may run the cut easily, and let him bring a sharp edge; for bluntness is painful. The helper, being ready for all things, must also sprinkle with the brick which lies in the pentagon, in which, according to the pyramid-shape, are laid signs of speech and of striking of the high enharmonic: an inverted alpha and a turned-back gamma having a line behind.
Greek
1.4 Πρὸς τομὴν πληγέντοσ Ἐπεὶ πολλοὶ πρὸς τὰς ἀναγκαίας ἀπὸ σιδήρου θεραπείας εἰσὶ δειλοί, φοβούμενοι μᾶλλον τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἰάσεως ἀλγηδόνα τοῦ μέλλοντος ἐκ τοῦ μὴ θεραπευθῆναι βλάβους, φέρε πως παραμυθησώμεθα τὸν τῆς ὀδύνης ὄκνον, εὐθαρσεστέρους τοὺς κάμνοντας εἰς τὸ ὑποστῆναι τὴν ἴασιν καθιστάντες. Κούφην ἐχέτω ὁ ἰώμενος χεῖρα, ἵνα εὐκόλως τὴν τομὴν ἐπιδράμῃ, ὀξεῖαν δὲ φερέτω τὴν ἀκμήν· ὀδυνηρὸν γὰρ ἡ ἀμβλύτης. Εὐτρεπὴς δὲ ἐς πάντα ὢν ὁ βοηθῶν, καὶ ἐπιπασάτω τῇ πλίνθῳ ἥπερ ἐν πεντα γώνῳ δʹ κεῖται, ᾧ κατὰ τὸ πυραμοειδὲς ἔγκειται σημεῖα λέξεώς τε καὶ κρούσεως ὑπάτων ἐναρμονίου, ἄλφα ὕπτιον καὶ γάμμα ἀπεστραμμένον ὄπισθεν γραμμὴν ἔχον.