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praecipùe_fw-la abundaet_fw-la vigetque_fw-la &_o à _fw-la quo_fw-la relic_n omnes_fw-la totius_fw-la corporis_fw-la part_n calore_fw-la influente_fw-la foventur_fw-la &_o vitam_fw-la obtinent_fw-la quip_n calor_fw-la sanguinem_fw-la comitatus_fw-la totum_fw-la corpus_fw-la irrigat_fw-la fovet_fw-la &_o conservat_fw-la ideoque_fw-la concentrato_fw-la fixoque_fw-la leviter_fw-la sanguine_fw-la hypocrates_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d nominavit_fw-la veluti_fw-la in_fw-la lipothymia_fw-la timore_fw-la frigore_fw-la externo_fw-la &_o febrium_fw-la insultu_fw-la contingit_fw-la videas_fw-la illicò_fw-la totum_fw-la corpus_fw-la frigescere_fw-la torpere_fw-la &_o pallore_fw-la livoreque_fw-la perfusum_fw-la languescere_fw-la evocato_fw-la autem_fw-la rursum_fw-la sanguine_fw-la hui_fw-fr quam_fw-la subitò_fw-la omne_fw-la calent_fw-la denùo_fw-la florent_fw-la vigent_fw-la splendentque_fw-la nec_fw-la jecur_fw-la munus_fw-la suum_fw-la publicum_fw-la exsequitur_fw-la sine_fw-la influentia_fw-la sanguinis_fw-la &_o caloris_fw-la per_fw-la arteriam_fw-la caeliacam_fw-la imò_fw-la vero_fw-la cor_fw-la ipsum_fw-la per_fw-la arterias_fw-la coronarias_fw-la influentem_fw-la unà _fw-la cum_fw-la sanguine_fw-la caliditatem_fw-la vitamque_fw-la accipit_fw-la quip_n nullibi_fw-la est_fw-la caloris_fw-la affluentia_fw-la citra_fw-la sanguinis_fw-la influxum_fw-la per_fw-la arterias_fw-la sanguis_fw-la denique_fw-la totum_fw-la corpus_fw-la adeo_fw-la circumflùit_fw-la &_o penetrate_v omnibusque_fw-la ejus_fw-la partibus_fw-la calorem_fw-la &_o vitam_fw-la jugiter_fw-la impertit_fw-la ut_fw-la anima_fw-la primò_fw-la &_o principaliter_fw-la in_o ipso_fw-la residens_fw-la illiûs_fw-la gratiâ_fw-la tota_fw-la in_o toto_fw-la &_o tota_fw-la in_o qualibet_fw-la parte_fw-la ut_fw-la vulgò_fw-la dicitur_fw-la inesse_fw-la meritò_fw-la censeatur_fw-la in_o another_o place_n exercit._n 51._o vindicate_v the_o supremacy_n of_o it_o over_o all_o part_n of_o the_o body_n he_o 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refute_v the_o vulgar_a error_n de_fw-fr calido_fw-la innato_fw-la he_o put_v a_o end_n to_o all_o false_a notion_n and_o all_o dispute_v concern_v that_o subject_a and_o then_o conclude_v in_o these_o word_n solus_fw-la sanguis_fw-la est_fw-la calidum_fw-la innatum_fw-la seu_fw-la primò_fw-la natus_fw-la calor_fw-la animalis_fw-la habet_fw-la profectò_fw-la in_o se_fw-la animam_fw-la primò_fw-la ac_fw-la principaliter_fw-la non_fw-la vegetativam_fw-la modò_fw-la sed_fw-la sensitivam_fw-la etiam_fw-la &_o motivam_fw-la permeat_fw-la quoquoversum_fw-la &_o ubique_fw-la praesens_fw-la est_fw-la eodemque_fw-la ablato_fw-la anima_fw-la quoque_fw-la ipsa_fw-la statim_fw-la tollitur_fw-la adeo_fw-la ut_fw-la sanguis_fw-la ab_fw-la anima_fw-la nihil_fw-la discrepare_fw-la videatur_fw-la vel_fw-la saltem_fw-la substantiae_fw-la cujus_fw-la actus_fw-la sit_fw-la anima_fw-la
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