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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 237

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culi offensionibus, et iis, quae accidunt ex anhelitu vehementiore aut ex foetore. Mars adfert exitium per febres continuas vel compositas, ictus subitos, renum obstructiones, cruorem sputi, sanguinis effluxus per intestina, abortus, infelicitatem in partu, carbunculos, neces violentas denique per omnia, quae faciunt inflammationes et excessum caloris. Venus necat per stomachi et epatis morbos, mentagras, dysenterias, per cancros, fistulas, venena denique per humoris redundantiam aut corruptionem. Mercurius necat per furores, animi consternationes, melancholica deliria, morbum comitialem, tusses, angustias pectoris et morbos, qui ex immodica siccitate aut corruptione sicca oriuntur. Moriuntur ergo naturali morte, qui discedunt ex vita cum stellae, quae dominantur morti, retinent suas aut familiares qualitates non impeditae a maleficis levatis super eas, quae gravius laedere et insigniorem exitum facere possunt. Erunt autem mortes violentae et in