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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Title: 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.
Author: Bruele, Gualtherus.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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The Causes.

It is caused for the most part by choller, whereof great store is gathered together in all the body, or in the galls blad∣der, or in the liuer, mesentary, or bowels, or in some part of the whole body, which in time is stayned with some maligne and venemous humour, which, if it bee cast vpon the sto∣macke by the surcharged part, by reason of the abundance thereof, is very offensiue vnto nature, and againe, the maligne quality, and the fretting of the mouth of the stomacke is troublesome vnto nature, wherefore it is driuen to and fro in the body, and at the length is voyded as was before specified. This disease is likewise caused by naughty and corrupt nutriments, or other humours putrified with choller in the body.