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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: printed by J.M. for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Corn-hill,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. I. What things appertaine to the Doctrine of the pre∣servation of Health, and how many kinds there are of necessary causes for the preservation and defence thereof.

HItherto we have explained three parts of Physick, which, as it were, prepare the way to those things which are proper to Medicine: Now the next is, that we explaine those principall parts of Physick, the Hygeeinall and Therapeuticall, or the preser∣vative and restorative; yet first of all we will place before hand certaine common Axioms and Maximes to be observed in the method of them both.

1. Nature doth nothing rashly.

2. Too much of any thing is an enemy to Nature, * 1.1 2. A∣pho. 51.

3. Nature is the Physitian of Diseases, but the Physitian the Servant of Nature, and ought to imitate her, she acting aright:

4. Custome is a second Nature, and those things which

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are accustomed along time, although they are worse, they are wont to be lesse troublesome, then those things which are not accustomed, or which men are not used unto.

Now concerning the Doctrineof the preservation of Health, * 1.2 it may conveniently be comprehended in two parts; the first is the knowledge of those things which are, as it were, the materialls of health, or the knowledge which is re∣quired of wholsome causes, and of things called Non-natu∣rall. Secondly, a method necessary for preservation of health, which teacheth how, or in what manner those non-naturall things are to be used to preserve health.

First, for the causes which are necessary for the maintain∣ing of health, they are comprehended under the notion of things called non-naturall, and are conveniently reduced in∣to foure ranks, into those things which are taken, those things which are carried, those which befall the body with∣out, and those things which are emitted and retained: First therefore we are to speak here of Aire, Meat and Drink, Pas∣sions of the Mind, motion, and exercise of body, and rest, sleep, and watchings, Venery, Bathes, Excretions, and reten∣tions.

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* 1.1

Common Maximes.

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* 1.2

The Do∣ctrine of the desence of health.

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