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.
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 May 26, 2024.

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Internal causes.

We may number the affections themselves among external causes; as where any one is troubled with a Tertian, this speaks the liver affected; a Quotidian, the ven∣tricle; a Quartan, the milt, because these parts are the randezvouz of their causes.

Observe, That when we in practise search for the part affected, we must not trace it by its essence and causes, but from its actions, excrements, and changed qualities, the signes are first to be deduced, and after from the essence and causes thereof.