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Inaugural and Medical Theses on the Gouty Affection
Which, with the favor of God the Best and Greatest, by the decree of the most Amplified and gracious Order of Asclepius, in the most celebrated Academy of Basel, for the purpose of obtaining the Apollonian Laurel, [the candidate] will submit to public Disputation (on the 24th of May, at the usual time and place)
J O H A N N E S B E R N D E S
Hamburgensis Saxo.
From Hamburg, Saxony
Gregory of Nazianzus:
Θεῷ διδόντι οὐδὲν ἰσχύει φθόνος, Where God gives, envy has no power,
καὶ μὴ διδόντι οὐδὲν ἰσχύει πόνος. and where He does not give, effort has no power.
BASILEAE, TYPIS OPOR.
Basel, printed by Oporinus
M. D. LXXXIII.
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