Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
Author
Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.
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London. :: Printed by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard,
1655.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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III.
Eat not greedily, and drink not
immoderately.
NAture in Vegetables, doth not
swallow down her nutriment,
nor take it in ravenously, and all at
a time. She doth all things leasurely,
and by degrees, that her motion may
be covenient and useful, or assisting
to her Preservation. It is thy con∣cernment
to imitate Nature, and to
do as she doth, when thou dost eat,
and when thou dost drink. It is a
most foul blemish upon the memory
of Alexander, that after most of his
Victories, he used to riot it with his
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Officers, inviting them to delicious
and sumptuous feasts, in which he
used alwaies to drink Prizes, and he
that could tun in more then all the
rest, was rewarded with a Talent:
But this intemperate eating and
drinking, did cast him into such a
violent, suddaine disease, that with∣in
three dayes he dyed of it.
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