William Bullein, The Government of Health (1558)
Date
1558
Author
William
Bullein
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A newe booke Entituled the Gouernement of Healthe, wherein is vttered manye notable Rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a Dialogue, for the better vnderstanding of thunlearned. Wherunto is added a sufferain Regiment against the pestilence
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Day
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
Occasional logical definitions or explanations in this dialogue (e.g., "A diffinition of physicke"; fol. 5v, margin)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: HIppocrates in his booke of windes or blastes, saith that phisick or medecine, is but a putting the body whiche it lacketh, or taking from the bodie thinges superfluous. And althoughe our life be shorte, yet the arte of phisicke is long, because great nombres of thinges be in it, and requireth muche study, labour and practise, and first of all, it requireth much contemplacion or knowledge, in studying good bookes, which is called Theoricha. Secondly the very effect of contemplacion or study, is pratica or actiua, whiche is doing of the thinges, that learninge haue taughte as repairing, amending, or preserving, the bodies of men, women and children. &c. (fol. 5v-6r)
sample: HIppocrates in his booke of windes or blastes, saith that phisick or medecine, is but a putting the body whiche it lacketh, or taking from the bodie thinges superfluous. And althoughe our life be shorte, yet the arte of phisicke is long, because great nombres of thinges be in it, and requireth muche study, labour and practise, and first of all, it requireth much contemplacion or knowledge, in studying good bookes, which is called Theoricha. Secondly the very effect of contemplacion or study, is pratica or actiua, whiche is doing of the thinges, that learninge haue taughte as repairing, amending, or preserving, the bodies of men, women and children. &c. (fol. 5v-6r)
Alston
XVII.I.39
STC
4039
Other editions
1558: STC 4040 (Alston XVII.I.41);
1559: STC 4041 (Alston XVII.I.42);
1595: STC 4042 (Alston XVII.I.43)
1559: STC 4041 (Alston XVII.I.42);
1595: STC 4042 (Alston XVII.I.43)
