Christopher Langton, The Principal Parts of Physic (1547)
Date
1547
Author
Book title
A uery brefe treatise, ordrely declaring the principal partes of phisick, that is to saye: Thynges natural. Thynges not naturall. Thynges agaynst nature
Publication place
London
Printer
Edward Whitchurch
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
medicine
Summary
Occasional definitions and expositions of medical words
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Hyppocrates in his boke de flatibus, whiche is as muche to saye, as in his boke of Spirites, or blastes, affirmeth that Medicine or Physicke, is nothyng, but the adiection of that that lacketh, or the subtraction, or takynge awaye, of that whyche is superfluous, & redoundeth: the whych declaration or definition, Gallen alloweth in manye places, & trulie not without a cause: For ther is no parte of phisike but it is comprehended in thys finition. Auerroes in the .vi. boke, and the .i. Chapiter, of his gatheringes dothe define phisicke verye fetely, in these wordes folowinge. Medicina est ars factiuarum vna, ratione, et experimento inuenta, que tum sanitatem tuetur, tum morbum depellit. whiche is as muche to say in englysh, as Phisike is one of those artes whyche dothe make thinges inuented, or found out by reason and experience, and the whyche partly defendeth health, and partly beteth away disease, and siknes. (a1v)
sample: Hyppocrates in his boke de flatibus, whiche is as muche to saye, as in his boke of Spirites, or blastes, affirmeth that Medicine or Physicke, is nothyng, but the adiection of that that lacketh, or the subtraction, or takynge awaye, of that whyche is superfluous, & redoundeth: the whych declaration or definition, Gallen alloweth in manye places, & trulie not without a cause: For ther is no parte of phisike but it is comprehended in thys finition. Auerroes in the .vi. boke, and the .i. Chapiter, of his gatheringes dothe define phisicke verye fetely, in these wordes folowinge. Medicina est ars factiuarum vna, ratione, et experimento inuenta, que tum sanitatem tuetur, tum morbum depellit. whiche is as muche to say in englysh, as Phisike is one of those artes whyche dothe make thinges inuented, or found out by reason and experience, and the whyche partly defendeth health, and partly beteth away disease, and siknes. (a1v)
STC
15205
Criticisms
McConchie, R. W. Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-century English Medical Terminology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
31-32.
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