Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.

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Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.
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Bruele, Gualtherus.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Sheares, and are to be sold at his shop, at the great south doore of St. Pauls: and in Chancery-lane, neere Serieants-Inne,
1632.
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"Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17055.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Prognostiques.

A Palsey which is caused by the cutting of a sinew ouer∣thwart, is incurable. A Palsey is oftner caused in the win∣ter; and in old men is neuer, or hardly cured; because na∣tiue

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heate is deficient in them, whereby, cold, and grosse humours are generated in them: the Palsey which is onely in some part, is neuer sharpe, but of a long continuance. A Palsey is occasioned by a weake Apoplexy and is to bee feared, lest it should returne to that againe. There is better hopes for the cure of it in the spring, and summer seasons, then in the Autumnall and winter; if an ague, and a shaking come vpon the party affected, it doth presage health.

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