The eight sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes review'd and rendred into English, according to the translation of Anutius Foesius ; digested into an exact and methodical form and divided into several convenient distinctions, and every distinction into several chapters, wherein every aphorisme is reduced to its proper subject, whereby the reader may find out any desired aphorisme without the tedious revolution of the whole work ; wherein also many aphorismes are significantly interpreted which were neglected in the former translation.

Sect. 1. Aph. 3.

THe healthful state of strong bodies arrived at its perfection, when it hath attained its extremity of fullnesse, in regard it cannot abide nor rest in that same state and condition, is unsta∣ble. Now seeing it cannot rest, nor make a pro∣gresse to a better condition, it remains that it

must lapse to a worse. For these very causes therefore it is expedient to release that more full habit of body without delay, whereby the body may assume a beginning of another kind of nou∣rishing. Neither must we proceed so far that the vessels may fail (for that is dangerous) but we must regulate our course according to the na∣ture and ability of him upon whom this change is to be wrought. By the same reason extreme evacuations, and too hasty refections or nourish∣ings are equally dangerous.