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.
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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.
Author
Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.
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London :: printed by J.M. for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Corn-hill,
1658.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. VIII. Of the faculties of the Soul, and of the differences of actions i•• mans body.
AFter that we have shewed wherein health consists,
* 1.1 and what i•• requisite for the performing of actions, now we are to explain•• what are the differences of the faculties of the mind, and of actions in a body.
Physitians (whom we here follow) divide Actions (for thei•• purpose) into Natural, Vital, and Animal, according to the three principal members, the Liver, Heart, and Brain, by which all Actions in the body are governed. For Physitians purposes are not the same with Philosophers, to inquire or search the kind••
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or differences of Souls of living creatures, which appears by the di∣••••inct manners of life, which is in Plants, in brute beastes, living ••treatures, and man, but onely ought to find out in man the dif∣••erences of actions, whose actions it is their businesse to preserve, and if offended to restore; and moreover a Physitian doth not so much consider the faculties themselves, which hurt not, as the Or∣gans and instruments, and then distinguish actions according to the differences of them.
Notes
* 1.1
The actions and differ∣ences of the faculties of the mind.