A uery brefe treatise, ordrely declaring the pri[n]cipal partes of phisick that is to saye: thynges natural. Thynges not naturall. Thynges agaynst nature. Gathered, and sette forth by Christopher Langton.
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- A uery brefe treatise, ordrely declaring the pri[n]cipal partes of phisick that is to saye: thynges natural. Thynges not naturall. Thynges agaynst nature. Gathered, and sette forth by Christopher Langton.
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- Langton, Christopher, 1521-1578.
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- [Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete at the signe of the Sunne, ouer agaynst the condyte, by Edvvard VVhitchurche,
- the .x. day of April] Anno dni. M. D. XLVII [1547]
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"A uery brefe treatise, ordrely declaring the pri[n]cipal partes of phisick that is to saye: thynges natural. Thynges not naturall. Thynges agaynst nature. Gathered, and sette forth by Christopher Langton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05064.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
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THe cause of ye disease, is an affectiō against nature, going before the disease, and stir∣ring it vp: which of it selfe, & firste, hurteth no action: but accidentally, that is to say, by other. And secōdarily, as by healp of the disease cummynge betwixt, as shall be shewed more playnly hereafter. There be .ii. manner of causes of diseases: one is externall so called, because it is outwardly receiued, and was not before with in the body: as colde, and such o∣ther. The tother, is called inter∣nall, which is within the body, as humors putrified within the bo∣dy, & growen out of temper. Gallē speaketh of no mo causes of dis∣eases then these .ii. Yet Auicen wt
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other of the same layer, affirme that ther is an other cause, which ioyneth euer with the disease: and the takyng away of it, is as they say the curynge of the sicknes: as yf rotten, or putrifyed humors, kindell a feuer, thē by theyr saying so soone as the putrified matter is takē away, ye feuer must cease of necessitie: howbeit it is for ye most part sene that ye feuer remayneth after the putrifactiō is clene gone. wherfore it is euident, that Aui∣cen, and all that be of hys opinion is foule deceyued therin: howbeit I thinke this to be ye thing, which deceyueth them. They define sycknesse as it were the actiō hurt alredye, and not that that hurteth
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the actiō first, so that they call that the sicknesse, which Gallen calleth but the accidente of the sicknesse: & I coulde take Auicennes parte in this matter, sauinge that he agre∣eth with Gallen in the defining of sicknesse, forgettyng hym selfe to be in contrary tales: wherfore I wolde counsel all yonge studentes in phisicke, to lerne the causes of sickenesse of Gallē, or elles of such as folowe hym, as Aetius, & Pau∣lus Aegineta. Howebeit there is none to be compared with Gallen because he hath wrytten of them in suche a good ordar, as neuer a∣ny other hath wryt the lyke, and this I dare affirme that euerye wel lerned man, can do no lesse thē confesse the same.