The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight

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Title
The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight
Author
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Publication
At London :: Printed by the Widdow Orwin, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes,
[1595]
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Subject terms
Health -- Early works to 1800.
Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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"The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21308.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Of Humours.

IN the bodie of man be foure principal humours, which continuing in the proportion, that nature hath li〈…〉〈…〉∣ted, the bodie is free from all sicknes. Contrariwise, by the increase or diminutiō of any of them in quantitie or qualitie, ouer or vnder their naturall assignement, vne∣quall temperature commeth into the bodie, which sick∣nesse followeth more or lesse according to the lapse or decay of the temperatures of the sayd humours, which be these following.

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