Aphorismi Urbigerani

Name: Aphorismi Urbigerani
Author: Baro Urbigerus

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniLXXX–CI: Nourishment, Perfection and Fermentation · Modern English

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LXXX–CI: Nourishment, Perfection and Fermentation · Modern English

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Original English

LXXXIV. If in the space of two or three days, or four, at the farthest, the Infant does not shew it self to be extreme hungry by becoming very dry and frangible again, it will be an evident sign, that you have overcome it by your excessive feeding of it.

Modern English

LXXXIV. If, within two or three days, or four at the furthest, the infant does not show itself extremely hungry by becoming very dry and brittle again, it will be clear evidence that you have overwhelmed it by excessive feeding.

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The complete 1690 Aphorismi Urbigerani: historical frontispiece and Latin inscriptions, title and licence, dedication, all 101 grand-elixir aphorisms, the complete Circulatum Minus with its title, address and 31 vegetable aphorisms, and the full explanatory postscript with both printed endings. Original and modern English readings, fresh Latin translations, 115 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Baro Urbigerus, Aphorismi Urbigerani, London: Henry Faithorne, 1690; with Circulatum Minus Urbigeranum and the concluding postscript. The Getty Research Institute copy supplies the governing images; EEBO-TCP A25684 supplies the structured transcription witness, corrected against those images. The frontispiece signed W. F. is attributed in library catalogues to William Faithorne.

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