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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Culpeper.

I take this to be the Temperature the Testicles should be of, and therefore it is needless to prescribe Remedies, only I care not greatly if here I be a little critical against the Colledg of Physitians, it comes so pat in my way I know not well how to avoid it, and

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therefore harken to me that God may hearken to you.

Is not Seed of Man (take Man for both Sexes as the Latins take Homo, and the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) Is not I say the Seed of Man hot and moist, which is the Causa Formans of the Child? is not the Mothers Blood whereof the Child is formed, naturally hot and moist also? is not the Cell of the Womb in which the Child is formed, hot and moist? were your wits then a wool-gathering, or did you dream waking, when you wrote in your Book of the Rickets that a Child newborn be∣fore its Complexion be altered by any Medium is cold and moist of Constitution: I pray if ever your Book deserve another Impression let that be amended, or else defaced with a Deleatur for an Error of the first Mag∣nitude.

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