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Van Helmont JB (1648). Ortus medicinæ: Id est Initia physicæ inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. [The dawn of medicine: That is, the beginning of a new Physic. A new advance in medicine, a victory over disease, to [promote] a long life.] Amsterodami: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, pp 526-527.

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As published in: Helmont JB van (1662) Oriatrike or, Physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed & rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine ... now ... rendered into English ... by J. C. sometime of M. H. Oxon. [i.e. John Chandler.] [With the preface of the original editor F. M. van Helmont, and that "To the English reader" by H. Blunden.]. London: printed for Lodowick Loyd.