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§. 7. (Book 7)
BUt to me the resolution of this matter see∣meth very profitable to know how these things may be bred in men, for I suppose, men from hence will take speciall care to alter the accidentall temperament of humors, if they find them excell in any high degree of heate, cold, sharpnes, or the like, such as have in them inconvenience and danger, and to deale with learned Physitians in time.
So also is the knowledge of singular use and benefit to know when men are affected with a∣ny such disease, and how they may be cured.
As for the knowledge of abstruse and se∣cret affections, where perhaps no dolor gives certitude of the place affected, as in diseases by consent, when some other parts are more afflicted, such skill is worthy of a Physitian, and at any rate to be procured: But how or where shall we have it? Who writeth of it? Who hath so much as ever dreamed of any such helpe to mankind? For mine owne part I never yet read of any Signa pathognomonica of any such disease: Neither doe I know where to find one graine of instruction in this, as also in divers other diseases (which I can nominate) more then from mine owne obser∣vation and care. Wherefore if I set downe one thing which is not common nor els where to be found. I hope you will take it as my good