The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke.
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The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke.
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Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607.
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London :: Printed by Anne Griffin, for Roger Ball, and are to be sold at his, [sic] shop without Temple-barre, at the Golden Anchor next the Nags-head Taverne,
1636.
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Health -- Early works to 1800.
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"The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19070.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.
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CHAP. 79. Of Galingale.
GAlingale, or rather Cipresse roots, though it bee rare, yet is it found in some Gardens, and is hot and drie in the third degree. Beside that, the roots are good in Medicines; if they be laid among cloths, they make them to savour well.* 1.1Matth. setteth downe an easie Medicine to bee made of this root for the Dropsie,* 1.2 in this manner; Ciperi radicum farina, addita ••accharum lauri eadem mensura, urina impubis pueri excepta & illita, hydropicos mirifice juvat.