The universal body of physick in five books; comprehending the several treatises of nature, of diseases and their causes, of symptomes, of the preservation of health, and of cures. Written in Latine by that famous and learned doctor Laz. Riverius, counsellour and physician to the present King of France, and professor in the Vniversity of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by VVilliam Carr practitioner in physick.

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Title: The universal body of physick in five books; comprehending the several treatises of nature, of diseases and their causes, of symptomes, of the preservation of health, and of cures. Written in Latine by that famous and learned doctor Laz. Riverius, counsellour and physician to the present King of France, and professor in the Vniversity of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by VVilliam Carr practitioner in physick.
Author: Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.
Publication: London :: printed for Philip Briggs at the Dolphin in Pauls Church-yard,; MDCLVII. [1657]
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Subject terms: Physiology -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "The universal body of physick in five books; comprehending the several treatises of nature, of diseases and their causes, of symptomes, of the preservation of health, and of cures. Written in Latine by that famous and learned doctor Laz. Riverius, counsellour and physician to the present King of France, and professor in the Vniversity of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by VVilliam Carr practitioner in physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91851.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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External Causes also discover something; for instance, if any one hath taken Cantharides, and conjecture that his bladder is affected, because they have a pecu∣liar vertue to alter the bladder, if any one be affected after converse in the Sun, we judge that his head akes, because the sun doth usually affect that part rather than any of the rest; if the affection be produced by the immoderate use of venery, we say the spiritous substance, and nervous parts are ill, because venery is an enemy to these parts.