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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Chap. 73. Of the Liver.

I Have seen some, and indeed very many, whose Veins were very narrow and small, and their whol Body of a naughty colour, if they had taken in a pretty quantity of meat especially such as is windy, thick, and tenacious, some of them felt a kind of weight as it were on the right side of their Belly, others felt a stretching pain there in these, now it is probable that the Liver was smal, and the passages thereof very narrow.

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