Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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Galen.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,
1652.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69834.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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Culpeper.
Here you have the Description of a Flegmatick Com∣plexion wherein if you perceive Flegm exceed the due limits of reason, you may thus correct the cold and moist temper of the Liver that so it may breed better Blood.
Troches of Maudlin and Wormwood, or either of them (you may find the way to make them in my Translation of the London Dispensatory) are very good for such a one to carry about him, and now and then to eat a little; also to drink a Decoction of Guajacum, with the like weight of Raisons of the Sun, especially if a Dropsie be feared, as often is upon such a distem∣per.
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For Simples you may use Cinnamon, Galanga, Agrimony, Harts-tongue, Maudlin, Wormwood: A draught of Wormwood Beer is a good Mornings Draught for such people; Water-crestes Hys••p, Spick∣nard, Fennel, Origanum, Centaury, Betony, Cha∣momel &c.
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