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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

section 15

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Item the dropsy that comes after a hardness in the spleen, is more a sign of health, than that which comes after a hardness in the liver;658 for the cure is possible in the first case, but not so in the latter, unless he who performs it, be skilful and attentive, and the patient submissive to him.