Prognosticacion, drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Avicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyvers syckenesses, that is to saye, whether in peryl of death be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghty God reseruyd..

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Prognosticacion, drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Avicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyvers syckenesses, that is to saye, whether in peryl of death be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghty God reseruyd..
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Hippocrates.
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[London] :: Jmprynted by me Robert Wyer. Cum priuilegio, ad imprimendum solum.,
[ca. 1545].
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Prognosis -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Prognosticacion, drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Avicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyvers syckenesses, that is to saye, whether in peryl of death be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghty God reseruyd.." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B00176.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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¶ Pronosticacion of the squance.

THese ar yll sygnes in the squance and they are daungerous & ded∣ly. But whan the squance cōmeth in the continual feuers in a perlous day called in laten. Dies ceticus. Then

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chaunceth to the pacyent a vehement entraunce, difficulte to swalowe mete so that he casteth drinke out agayn at his nose thrylles, and hath a shyll voy¦ce so, that he sowneth to speake with his nose thrylles, he shall haue Fome in his mouth, and put out his tonge, and wyll moue it ofte in puttyng out. As apereth in a horse that he is wery his mouth beyng full of fome he shal haue a wan blacke colour, he shall ha¦ue the toppe of his tonge, lyppes, and eyes colde. He wyll drawe into hȳ his necke, and shall be in suche case with payne that he cannot lye on his backe and especially yf the squance be in the wayes of the breth, for whan it is in wayes of the mete, great payne is to swalowe the mete. Howbeit somtyme the both chaunseth. These are sygnes of the squance whiche is hyd within, that cannot be sene. Restraynynge of the breth, and whan the pacient dryn¦keth water, he auoydeth towarde the

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nose thrylles, and the eyes are red, the tonge roughe, the necke roughe, and voyce shyll. The Squance commeth commenly in the sprynge tyme. And that is most perlous that commeth with an Ague, but yf the liuely sygnes are well, that is to say rest, slepe, lytel payne, good breth, good swalowynge of meate. And if none of the yll sygnes apere whiche are spoken before than it is lyghtly curable.

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