The aphorismes of Hippocrates, prince of physitians with a short comment on them taken out of those larger notes of Galen, Heurnius, Fuchsius, &c. : with an exact table shewing the substance of every aphorisme.
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The aphorismes of Hippocrates, prince of physitians with a short comment on them taken out of those larger notes of Galen, Heurnius, Fuchsius, &c. : with an exact table shewing the substance of every aphorisme.
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Hippocrates.
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London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...,
1655.
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Hippocrates.
Medicine -- Aphorisms.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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"The aphorismes of Hippocrates, prince of physitians with a short comment on them taken out of those larger notes of Galen, Heurnius, Fuchsius, &c. : with an exact table shewing the substance of every aphorisme." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43859.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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APH. 3.
The full habit and state of the bodies of wrestlers, if it comes to the highest degree of fulness is dangerous; for it cannot conti∣nue and remain in the same state, and when it cannot so remain nor grow into a better habit, it re∣mains, that it must needs decline into a worse. Wherefore that over full plight of body must speedily be dissolved, to the end it may take a beginning of new nourishment: Neither must we proceed so far that the vessels be quite empty, and void (for that is dangerous) but we must pro∣ceed so far as Nature will bear and tolerate. So extreme evacuations are perilous, and extreme repleti∣tions are likewise dangerous.
The former Aphorism was of the quality of humors to be evacuated
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now this and those which follow, treat of the quantity.
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