Speculum ægrotorum. The sick-mens glasse : or, A plaine introduction whereby one may give a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke body, the originall cause of the griefe, how hee is tormented and afflicted, what things are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which hee shall recover, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humours, and how they are ingendred and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in every person: with certaine speciall preservatives for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.

  • Fage, John, student in phisicke
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1638
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Speculum aegrotorum. English
Sick-mens glasse.
Speculum aegrotorum.

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by B. Alsop and T. F[awcet] for William Lugger, and are to be sold at his shop on Tower-Hill neere the Posterne-gate, 1638.

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages, 66, 97-134, that is, 104 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 10666.

Notes

Printer's name from STC.
With tables of the moon's and the sun's influence--STC.
Pages 67-104 misnumbered 97-134.
With final imprimatur leaf signed: Sam : Baker. Decemb: 8⁰. 1637.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 789:18) s1999 miun s

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