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tyme be vniuersall (and) somtime particuler : Fro the rote aboue it fortuneth the causes of the bodyes aboue in the ayer by whome the spyryte of lyfe ys corrupte in a man or in a beste In like wyse as Auycenne sayeth in his fourthe boke, by the forme of thayer above the bodyes benethe lightly be infecte. For thynp̒syons above corrupteth the ayer, and soo the spirytes of a man ben corrupte. This infirmite cometh also from the rote above (and) bynethe, whanne of thynp̒ssions above the ayer is corrupt and of the putrefaccion or rotyn careyn of the vyle places bynethe an infirmite is caused in a man And suche an infirmite sometime is an axes, sometime a postume or a swellyng and that ys in many thinges. Also the ayer inspired sometime is venemous and corrupt, hurtyng the herte that nature many wayes ys greued, so that he perceyueth not hys harme. for the vryne appereth fayer and sheweth gode dygestion, yet neuerthelesse the pacyent ys lyke to dye, wherfore many Phisycions seyng the vryn of their pacyents they speke su(pr)ficially and be desceyued ther