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.

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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.
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Hippocrates.
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1665.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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CHAP. XXIX. Of the affects of the Breasts.

Sect. 5. Aph. 37.

IF the Breasts of a woman with Child, grow slender on a suddain▪ she is in danger of abort∣ing, or miscarrying.

Sect. 5. Aph. 38.

If one of the Breasts of a woman with Child with Twins, grow slender, she will abort with one of her Children; and if the right Breast grow slender, she will miscarry a Male, if the left, a Female.

Sect. 5. Aph. 39.

If a woman which neither is with Child, nor never had Child, have milk in her Breasts, her monthly purgations have failed.

Sect. 5. Aph. 40.

When blood is gathered together into a tu∣mour of swelling about the Breasts, raging or

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madnesse, is thereby signified to those women.

Sect. 5. Aph. 50.

If you would stop the flowing of womens courses, apply very large Cupping-glasses to their breasts.

Sect. 5. Aph. 52.

Plenty of milk runing forth of the Breasts of women with Child, argue a weak Child; but if the breasts are solid, they argue a more strong Child,

Sect. 5. Aph. 53.

They which are like to miscarry, will have slender breasts, but if their breasts grow hard, they will have a pain in the breasts, or in the hips, in their eyes, or in their knees, and will not miscarry.

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