Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

To the Lovers of the Study of Physick, especially those who desires to attain to the true knowledge thereof.

OF all the Arts and Sciences that the Sons of Men so much covet after, there is none so pleasant and profit∣able as Physick; Physick doth not onely teach thee to preserve thy selfe from the assaults of those manifold Enemies which Nature is li∣able unto, but it teaches thee to restore Health when lost, and to heal thy selfe though wounded by thy greatest adversary; besides in the Anatomical part it enter∣tains thy fancy with the wonderfull work of Nature

where the unsearchable wis∣dom of the Creator is as le∣gible, as in those things we count more sublime and Ce∣lestial; which if consider∣ed, Physicians cannot be so Atheistical as the world re∣ports them to be. I under∣took not this work out of design to prejudice the Col∣ledge, by making that En∣glish, which they would have remain in Latine; nor to advantage my self by any private gain, but to benefit those who are unskilled in the Latine, but lovers of the Study. I say for the benefit of such, have I put this into En∣glish. Although by my Pro∣fession

I am otherwise obli∣ged: its something unsuitable to my spirit to have that Mo∣nopolized into the hands of a few, which should be in com∣mon to all: such is the practise of Physick, yet would I not have those to Administer, who are ignorant of the In∣stitutions of Physick, as too many have done of late, to their own and others detri∣ment: He that can but well digest this Book, his under∣standing will sufficiently be inriched in the very inside of the whole body of Physick, and will need no other foun∣dation to go upon, being the best that ever the Doctors

met with for their own in∣formations. I shall not need to acquaint thee with the Authors Method, that thou wilt find by the Contents of Chapters before the Book, nor of the Authors worth, for that thou wilt sufficient∣ly understand by his works, which speaks aloud in their Masters praise, whose fame and worth is well known to the Common-wealth of Learning throughout the world.

If thou meetst with any Errata's in thy reading, thou art desired to correct them, the Translators absence some∣times from the Press occasi∣oned them.