38 INTRODUCTION. 
in 1625, dedicated to cardinal Richlieu. He te- 
duced the text of the poem, which is mostly that of 
Curio and Crellius, into a new method, 
many verses from manuscripts, illustrated it by the 
commentary of Villa Nova as reformed by Curio, 
Crellius, and Constanson ®, and his own copious ane 
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madversions. It was his object to render it a pe 
fect treatise of medicine, and he divides it into three 
parts, the prophylactic, the therapeutic, and the 
semiotic. The first includes the six non-naturals: 
the second, medicine in general, and the cure of 
particular diseases: the third, the signs of health. . 
For this purpose, what is wanting in the text, or the 
preceding commentaries, is spplied by his own all 
madversions, which, under some heads, are extremely 
long. But he has published only a part of his 
plan, comprehending only the two first heads of the 
prophylactic division ; air and food. 
The last and most usual edition is that of Zacha- 
_~. Sylvius, a physician of Rotterdam, of which the 
dedication is dated in 1648. The text is nearly is | 
the same order in which it was originally published, 
5° I have never seen any edition by Constanson, bu from 
t it 
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—_— appears of it in Moreau, I believe he made but little alte™ 
tion either in the text or comments. 
es sas: animadversion on air, for instance, occupies above sixt] 
printed pages, 
