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The haven of health,... chiefely gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6, labor, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sickness at Oxford / By Thomas Coghan.

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1636
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Credit: The haven of health,... chiefely gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6, labor, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sickness at Oxford / By Thomas Coghan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    harme than that whereunto he is not ufed. And this is % Agbi^0t i it greedily dcliretnranu Having received ir5 ciuitiy iu- clofethit about untiil it bee duly conco&ed. Which tfiing is the caufe that meate and drinke wherein wee have ti- mnrh wnrfe than ci¬ ther. i A^ho-i l. cheth yFdffbpdw fidjk&vioT cihBs 4cp&tutqwdztfc at ingrato prefercpdas. Which is not fo to bee taken as many Phificians doe thinke, as if it were law full for them to fuffer their patients to have whatlbever they defire, although it bee contrary to their dileafe : But it is meant conditionally as Hipp. teacheth, EpuUstc^ parum noceut, & ttoxa quxifstwtw rtparari jdctle petejt* Agb6 7# And of what force cuftome is in labour teacheth, Quotidianis Ubmbuf ajptet^ etiamfiim'didijint amJettet, t^.4o. wfuetis quamvis robvUu & iuvemufyfaiiUusconjmafe- in rLt exercith. And this is the cauferhat Craftsmen and Husbandmen, although they bee old andweake,can doe that which ftronger andyoonger men, being not fo inured, may not doe. Asa feeble old roilner to lift a great weighty fick, an old faith to wie ,d and la¬ bour with a great hammer, than a younger mm not thereto accnftomed. Wherefore whofoever willbe 'ftrongand endure labour, muftaccuftome himfclfe to labour. Cuftome likewife is of great force, in flee- prngand waking,and other things called not natural], which I fhall iiitreate of hereafter. Good therefore is that counfaile in Sch.SAl MjW. ft mnf.
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