and lib.

De Rerum Affectibus (if it be Galen's).

Yet 'twas not for any such veneration of holy writ that he took care of his own health.

No, it was for fear of being twitted with the saying so well known among physicians: Iatros allon autos elkesi bruon.
He boasts of healing poor and rich, Yet is himself all over itch.
This made him boldly say, that he did not desire to be esteemed a physician, if from his twenty-eighth year to his old age he had not lived in perfect health, except some ephemerous fevers, of which he soon rid himself; yet he was not naturally of the soundest temper, his stomach being evidently bad.

Indeed, as he saith, lib.