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The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes review’d and rendred into English: according to the Translation of Anutius Fœsius. Digested into an exact and methodical Form … Wherein also many Aphorismes are significantly interpreted which were neglected in the former Translation …

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First edition of this translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, a succinct summary of medical advice directed at the practitioner. The first English translation was published in 1610, and a second version, derived from it in 1655. Here the aphorisms are entirely re-arranged by topic under seven ‘Distinctions’, though keyed to their original place in the text. The succinct rendition of the famous opening aphorism (‘Life is short, art long’) is the version now mostly commonly known.

A near-contemporary owner, Nathaniel Thomas, has written in at the rear a well-known quatrain on woman’s love beginning ‘Crede ratem ventis, animam ne crede puellis’, which has been attributed variously to Cicero, Pentadius, Petronius, Ausonius, &c.

ESTC R21546; Wing H 2072; Wellcome III, 273 (imperfect).

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