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 May 24, 2024.

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A Man or Woman in whose Body heat and moi∣sture abounds, is said to be Sanguine of Com∣plexion, such are usually of a middle Stature, strong composed Bodies, Fleshy but not Fat, great Veins, smooth Skins, hot and moist in feeling, their Body is Hairy, if they be Men they have soon Beards, if they be Women it were rediculous to expect it; there is a redness intermingled with white in their Cheeks, their Hair is usually of a blackish brown, yet somtimes flax∣ed, their Appetite is good, their Digestion quick, their Urine yellowish and thick, the Excrements of their Bo∣wels reddish and firm, their Pulse great and full, they dream usually of red things and merry conceits.

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