BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

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Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over‐much sitting: … If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquainas' works; and tell me whether those men took pains.— BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2.