Speculum aegrotorum
Subtitle: The sicke-mens glasse: or, a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what things are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered 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 euery person: with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight
By: composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie
Publisher: Printed for VVilliam Lugger
Published: 1606
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Medical astrology; Prognosis; Character
Notes: Title within woodcut border; title vignette; head and tail pieces; initials.

STC, 10665

NLM 17th cent., 3871

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth Fund F. Edwards 1943 Aug. 23 35558

Bound in full limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript.