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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Title: 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. ...
Author: Galen.
Publication: London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,; 1652.
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Chap. 81. Of the difference of those things that are cast out.

OF such things as are expelled or cast out, some of them are like the parts of the Body that are affli∣cted, others are excrements, or at least like excrements, for by what is cast out from any part of the Body is Na∣turally Indications given of the constitution of that part: But of this we have spoken more fully in our Treatise of the Members of the Bodie which none be∣fore

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us ever brought into a regular form; and indeed though the Ancients made many beginnings, yet none drew Physick up into an intire Body before us, to that then we refer you.

Culpeper.

Galen wrote many great Volumns in Physick 'tis confessed, but lest I should either put you upon Impos∣sibilities in this particular, for want either of Books or learning to use them when you have them, or else set you to pick out a grain of Gold from out of a Cart-load of dung, I shall explain his meaning in this place.

1. He tells you some of the things expelled are like the parts of the Body afflicted, as when such as are trou∣bled with the Consumption of the Lungs, spit out such filth as resembles the flesh of their Lungues, or as it was in the last Epidemical Disease in London, when people with their excrements voided things like the skins of their Guts.
2. Others he saith are like Excrements, as when men from their Lungues spit laudable Flegm, or from their Bowels avoid laudable Excrements.