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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01847	A short discourse of the three kindes of peppers in common vse and certaine special medicines made of the same, tending to the preseruation of health.	Baley, Walter, 1529-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 1199; ESTC S100520	16,124	46

not haue this medicine often vsed after meate In the medicine called Diaspoliticō al the simples must be pounded in grosse maner for so the medicine will more loose the belly and by staieng longer in the stomack further concoction if the things be finely powdered into dust as the medicine will little or not at all make the belly laxatiue so it will prouoke vrine and sweate to the intention of this medicine The like manner is to be obserued in confecting of Diatrion pipereon that if an intent be to haue the medicine stay in the stomacke and guts to warme those parts to digest crude humours in them or to loose the belly the simples must be pounded grossely but if we haue a purpose to open obstructions to warme the inner veines to prouoke vrine or sweate althings must be beaten into fine powder By which discourse that question is easily answered which some latter writers do moue about the beating of the kindes of pepper whether the same ought to be beaten finely or grosly For some do affirme that pepper is alwaies to be beaten grosly for so it will remaine longer time in the stomacke and will the lesse heate the liuer and the blood Some other doo maintaine a contrary opinion and that by Galen himselfe who in the 5. booke De sanit tuend cap. 8. After meats which do bread stoppages in the body take saith he the medicine called Diacalaminthe and if you haue not it ready take Diatrion pipereon and if that be not at hand take white pepper beaten into fine powder diligently sersed mingle the same with the meate and sprinkle it to your drinke And in the same booke the 10. cap. Galen prescribeth a ptisane in which the dust or fine powder of white pepper is mingled And in the 6. booke De sanit tuend cap. 14. Galen giueth pepper alone as finely powdered as may be By these counsels of Galen these men do conclude that pepper ought alway to be beaten into fine powder by Galens doctrine Neuerthelesse these men in mine opinion do not with diligent care cōsider Galens intention in these and the like places neither well haue marked the scope and cause why Galen in these places doth aduise to pound pepper into fine powder for if they had well considered that Galen writeth they might haue vnderstood that he giueth pepper so finely beaten to remoue the obstructions and stoppages for so before he did admonish that things beaten into thin powder passe into the body better and sooner do remoue obstructions and contrariwise that which is grosly beaten doth stay in the belly longer and better warme those parts better digest crude and rawe humors gathered in them and do more effectually discusse wind to these latter intents pepper is to be beaten grosly especially in this our country in which men commonly do seed vpon grosse and slimy meats and so do heape in the parts of the belly and first veines manie crude and grosse humors that pepper ought in this region to be beaten most grosly that it may therby be occasioned to stay the longer in the belly so to warme the same the better and the better to concoct and extenuate such grosse and crude humors for the heat of this medicine as Galen writeth is founded in so subtil a substāce that the same is extinguished before it can come to the liuer then if you shall beate the medicine finely the heate wil so soone be exhausted and spent that it will neither sufficiently warme the belly neither in good sort concoct those crude and rawe humors Wherefore I do thinke it verie needfull for our apothecaries to pownd pepper alway grosly in the medicine Diatrion pipereon For if we shall need withall to open obstructions we may prescribe the medicine called Diacalaminthe and so we may mingle it to Diatrion pipereon or as occasion serueth giue it alone wherefore I hold it best to follow Galen his precept which is that alway things be powdered finely and in subtill manner when our purpose is to remoue obstructions or to digest cut and absterge crude rawe slimy and grosse humors which are in the inner veines and habite of the body or meane to prouoke sweat or vrine but if our meaning be to increase heate in the parts of the belly to concoct humors there and in the first veines or to make the bellie loose then things are to be beaten in grosse powder The priuate properties of the medicine called Diaspoliticon THis medicine doth make the bellie loose and bringeth out meate which corrupteth in the stomacke and is speciall good for them which haue a cold bellie or declining to cold For it maketh thinne grosse phlegme and expelleth flatulent winde See Galen in the fourth booke De sanitate tuenda The particular faculties and properties of Diatrion Pipereon DIatrion pipereon is of great efficacie and doth much good in all colde diseases of the stomacke in sower belkes in quartaine feauers in palsies in euill affected liuers in them which haue their bellies blowen vp with winde Diatrion pipereon confected after the description of Mesues is chiefly commended in fluxes from the head to the breast good generally to the coldnes of the cheste and to coughes which do proceed of a colde cause That the excellent and rare vertues of this medicine called Diatrion pipereon might the better be known I thought good in this place to remember the reader what is written in the booke intituled Secretorum which booke is ascribed to Galen in which booke we reade in this maner A certaine friend of mine being about the age of 70. yeeres complained of a coldnes in all the parts of the bodie insomuch that his memorie failed him and he had paine in his ioints and then I made for him this medicine called Diatrion pipereon and it was a wonder to see how he recouered in the space of a fortnight And I made triall in many which were sicke of diseases of the bladder of the heade and of the iointes occasioned by colde and crude humors and it is found speciall good in a cough of cold phlegme in weakenes of the stomacke For it breaketh grosse winde digesteth meat prouoketh appetite resolueth crude humours strengtheneth the stomacke euerie way restoreth memory cleareth the voice putteth backe grey heares remedieth the goute which commeth of a colde cause And in generall whosoeuer aged doth vse much this medicine he shall not need any other helpe to preserue his health The priuate properties of the medicine called Diacalaminthe IT cutteth grosse and slimy humors and occasioneth the same to be clensed by the skin by sweate prouoketh vrine and the monthly courses in women as Galen witnesseth in the 4. booke De sanit tuend it is good for them which do abhor meat for the vse of it prouoketh appetite it remedieth the shortnes of breath and helpeth them which finde a coldnes in their stomacks and which haue their sides and bellies blowen vp with winde as