Blood Troches of Maudlin and Wormwood or either of them you may find the way to make them in my Translation of the London Dispensatory are very good for such a one to carry about him and now and then to eat a little also to drink a Decoction of Guajacum with the like weight of Raisons of the Sun especially if a Dropsie be feared as often is upon such a distemper For Simples you may use Cinnamon Galanga Agrimony Harts-tongue Maudlin Wormwood A draught of Wormwood Beer is a good Mornings Draught for such people Water-crestes Hysâ—p Spicknard Fennel Origanum Centaury Betony Chamomel c. Chap. 44. Signs of a cold and dry Liver IF the Liver be too cold and dry so is the Body also because it is nourished by the Liver the Veins are smal the Blood little and the Body lean Culpeper Galen hence for a while gives you Signs of the general Constitution of the Body and I shall piece in with my might with him there I added nothing here to his briefness for that cause If the Liver be colder and drier than it ought to be the Body is Melancholly and consuming you may take this Pro confesso in such a case you must proceed thus â— Eye the Spleen for there must needs be a fault either there or a stopping in that Branch of the Vena Porta which carries the Melancholly Juyce to it you may strengthen and amend that with Calamint Capers and Caper Bark Tamaris and Tamaris Bark Bettony Wall-flowers Wormwood Dodder Hartstongue â—pithimum If you think the Spleen be too hot use Endive Succory Lettice and Liverwort 2. Eye the Heart for all Melancholly vapors afflict that especially the way how to do it you have in the 36. Chapter 3. Restore the consumed Flesh and Snails are the best things that I know for it for Man being made of the slime of the Earth all slimy things restore his Nature when it languisheth and therefore they play the wise men indeed if a man may speak by contraries that first purge away the slime of the Snails before they use them Chap. 45. Signs of a hot cold moist and dry Temperature of the Testicles THe hotter the Testicles are the proner is the Man to Venery the more Boys he gets his Privities are soon Hairy judg the clean contrary by a cold temperature of those Parts moisture of the Testicles makes much and watry Seed but driness of those Parts gives but little Seed and that little is dry Chap. 46. Signs of a hot and dry temperature of the Testicles THe Seed Procreative of such people is hot dry and thick yet most fruitful and engenders usually the strongest Children such people be they Men or Women it matters not much are very prone to Venery they have soon Hair about their Privities and the Parts about them even to their Navil upwards and the midst of their Thighs downward but as they are prone to Venery so are they soon satisfied and are offended with compulsion to that sport Culpeper If you perceive too much heat in those Parts for omne nimium vertitur in vicium use cooling Herbs as Endive Succory Housleek Lettice Plantane Purslane these clarified in Whey are very good and wholsom as also Roses Water Lillies Cucumers the Seeds of Cucumers and Melones of Poppies both white and black c. Chap. 47. Signs of a hot and moist temperature of the Testicles IF moisture be joyned to heat of the Testicles as it is in many People of a Sanguine Complexion they â—re not so full of hair about their Privities as the former are they abound more in Seed yet is not their Appetite to Copulation so great they suffer less detriment by the often use of the Act than the former do for in deed and in truth they receive more detriment by abstinence from the Act than by operating in it Culpeper I take this to be the Temperature the Testicles should be of and therefore it is needless to prescribe Remedies only I care not greatly if here I be a little critical against the Colledg of Physitians it comes so pat in my way I know not well how to avoid it and therefore harken to me that God may hearken to you Is not Seed of Man take Man for both Sexes as the Latins take Homo and the Greeks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Is not I say the Seed of Man hot and moist which is the Causa Formans of the Child is not the Mothers Blood whereof the Child is formed naturally hot and moist also is not the Cell of the Womb in which the Child is formed hot and moist were your wits then a wool-gathering or did you dream waking when you wrote in your Book of the Rickets that a Child newborn before its Complexion be altered by any Medium is cold and moist of Constitution I pray if ever your Book deserve another Impression let that be amended or else defaced with a Deleatur for an Error of the first Magnitude Chap. 48. Signs of a cold and moist temperature of the Testicles THe Indications of a cold and moist temperature of the Testicles are smoothness and moisture about those parts averseness to the Sports of Venus they care not whether ever they come to that School or not the Seed is thin watry and unfruitful and either produceth no Conception at all or else but a weakly sickly puny Girl at the best Culpeper This hath need enough of Remedy in whomsoever is afflicted by it let such eat the quantity of a Nutmeg of Diasutyrion every morning you may have it at the Apothecaries or if you please to make use of my Translation of the London Dispensatory you have there the way how to make it your selves As for Simples Rocket Nettle Seeds Barnet Mugwort Penyroyal Lovage the Roots of Satyrion Maddir and Eringo the Berries of Bay and Juniper Nutmegs for Herbs Peony Sinkfoyl and Mother or Time Calaminth Featherfew and Rue Chap. 49. Signs of a cold and dry temperature of the Testicles THe Seed is thick and very little Culpeper Such People usually love their Study better than the Sheets you may remedy it with such Food as are Natuâ—ally hot and windy and by eating such Creatures as are lustful and fruitful as Crabs Lobsters Shrimps Sparrows Quails Partriches Eggs the Stones of Cocks and Lambs you have plenty enough of them in my Directory for Midwives As for Simples we advised before Pease and Beans are good for such as also Parsnips and Skirrets Figs Pinenuts Galanga c. Chap. 50. Of the Habit of the whol Body WEE told you before that the Habit of the whol Body usually followed the Nature or agreed with the Constitution of the Heart and the Liver but of the two it is most assimilated to that which hath the strongest first quality in it which for that cause it is called effective Take then notice That we call that the Habit of the Body which is presented to the
Galen's Art Of PHYSICK Proemium CHAP. I. ALL the order and Method of Physick so far as concerns Order may be reduced to these three Heads 1. The first consists in Notion which is done by Resolution 2. The Second consists in Composition of those things which are found out by this Resolution And 3. The Third of the Dissolution of Definition This Third contains not only the Dissolution of Definition or defining Diseases but also an explication Resolution Division Explanation or Exposition upon them this is the Basis of our Work at this time and indeed this laies down the Way and Order to the whol Practice of Physick and truly excels the other two as much as the Light of the Sun doth the Light of the Moon and we have drawn it into a very short Compendium that so we may benefit your Judgment and not burden your Memory we have devided it into an hundred Chapters whereof this is the first each of the rest contain easie Rules of Definition yea so easie that a Child of seven yeeâ—s old may understand them and so short that they will not be burdensom to the weakest Memory and although some of the Chapters be very short yet they contain very necessary Rules distinct fâ—om the rest and he knows nothing that knows not this That Order and Method help the Memory much But put all the Chapters together and they compleatly contain the Definition and Explanation of the whol Art for from these do all Diseases arise and in these doth the very Essence of Physick consist As for the Contemplative part of Physick that hath been largely peâ—formed by us in many Treatises which any that pleaseth may make use of We come now to the matter it self only we desire you to take notice that these Heads are more largely discoursed of here and there in other of our Treatises only we drew them up here in this form to satisfie the desires and inform the Judgments of such as intend to study Physick CHAP. 2. What Medicine is MEdicine is the Knowledg of things Healthful not Healthful and Neutral This Definition is nothing else than if you should say Medicine is the Knowledg of things belonging to the Sick 't is not one whit more nor less The Name of the Science which is Medicine is common and can in no wise be taken in a proper sence but things healthful unhealthful and neutral carry each of them a threefold signification viz. As a Body as a Cause and as a Sign For 1. A Body which naturally is apt to live in health and a Cause which is able to effect this and to preserve it being effected and a Sign which is able to sâ—ew and indicate which way this is to be done all these the Grecians customarily call things healthful 2. The Body surprized and seized by a Disease the Cause which causeth and continueth this Disease and the Indications or Signs which give testimony what this Disease is they also term things unhealthfull 3. In things Neutral they are guided by the same Rules of which we shall speak more in the Third and Sixt Chapters And here we must also make a difference between Science and Action or if you will between the Theorical and Practical part of Medicine For 1. The Theory regards first the Cause of things Healthful then of things Unhealthful Lastly oâ— things Neutral After this of Bodies first Healthful then Unhealthful and in the last place Neutrals and it walks by the same Rules in Signs or Indications But 2. In Actions or Practice The knowledg of the Body is the first thing which is minded and this is found out by the Signs and the last search in respect of time is after the Cause CHAP. 3. How many several waies A Cause may be said to effect a Sign to give Indication and a Body to receive BUt sâ—eing that a Cause may be said to effect a Sign to give Indication and a Body receive two waies 1. Simply 2. According to time We must know that the Art of Medicine comprehends them both Simply they do it two waies viz. Alwaies and for the most part both these the Art of Medicine handles But as for things Neutral they are to be considered both in respect of Body Cause and Sign and in those both Simply and according to time under a threefold Consideration and the Reason is because things Neutral partake of Contraries somtimes of one somtimes of the other and somtimes of both together and this last is twofold for somtimes it participates of contraries equally somtimes of one more than another There is in all this Definition if we dilligently heed the words a certain doubtfulness or ambiguity which knot ought to be unloosed that so all things may be made cleer and we may not seem instead of teaching people to lead them into ignorance as the Colledg of Physitians doth and that we may so do we will devide the business and speak of them all particularly We told you Medicine was the exact Knowledg of things Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral and each of these to be considered as a Body as a Sign as a Cause we shall now address our selves to handle 1. Such Bodies as are Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral 2. Such Signs as are Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral 3. Such Causes as are Healthfulâ— Unhealthful and Neutral In all these we shall be both as brief and withal as plain as we can CHAP. 4. Of Healthful Bodies 1. A Body is Simply said to be healthful when it is in good natural temper when the seven Natural things viz. Spirits Elements Complexions Humors Members Vertues Operations keep a good decorum then is a Body Simply said to be in Health 2. A Body in Health according to time is taken not according to the Natural inclination of the Body as the former was but when it is in such a Natural temper as we shewed before only for the time being the former is proper to the Body this but accidental Thus Galen Culpepers Comment I shall here explain a little Galens meaning in those words of his Seven Natural Things 1. Spirit Taken in a Physical sence is an airy substance very subtil and quick dispersed throughout the Body from the Brain Heart and Liver by the Nerves Arteries and Veins by which the powers of the Body are stirred up to perform their Office and Operation 2. An Element is a Body pure simple unmixed from which all Natural things have their Original they are held to be in number four Fire Air Water Earth their Operations are Active as heat and cold Passive as driness and moisture 3. Complexions are the Operations of these Elements upon Mans Body as when the Fire prevails the body is Chollerick when the Air he is Sanguine when the Waâ—er he is Flegmatick when the Earth he is Melanchollâ— 4. Humors are 1. â—holler whose Receptacle is the Gall 2. Blood whose Seat is the Liver 3. Flegm placed in the Lungs 4. Melancholly
which keeps his Court in the Spleen Thus you see how Elements Complexions and Humors are subservient the one to other even as the Spirit Soul and Body are if we may reason a minore ad maâ—uâ— in the Microcosm 5. Meâ—bâ—â—s or Limbs are Simple or Compound Principal or Subservient First Simple Members are 1. Bones 2. Cartilages 3. Ligaments 4. Veins 5. Arteries 6. Nerves 7. Tendons 8. Panides 9. Fat 10. Flesh 11. Skin Secondly Compound Members are 1. Head 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Lungs 5. Legs 6. Arms 7. Hands Thirdly Principal Members are 1. Brain 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Testicles Fourthly Members Subservient are 1. Nerves to carry the Animal Spirit 2. Arteries to carry the Vital Spirit 3. Veins to carry the Natural Spirit 4. Spermatick Vessels to carry the Procreative Spirit 6. Vertues are that whereby these act the Body and they are Vital Natural and Animal I forbear writing of them there being a Treatise of them Astrologo Physically handled by me already at the latter end of my Ephemeris for 1651. 7. Operations of these upon the Body of man are First The Animal Vertue causeth 1. Imagination Apprehension Fancy Opinion Consent c. in the two former Ventricles of the Brain 2. Judgment Esteem Reason Resolution Disposing Discerning in the middle Ventricle of the Brain 3. Calling to mind what is to come Remembrance of what is past in the hinder Ventricle of the Brain Secondly The Vital Vertue moveth 1. Joy Hope Mirth Singing by dilating the Heart 2. Sadness Sorrow Fear Sighing c. by compressing the Heart Thirdly The Natural Vertue 1. Altereth Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood and Humors Blood into Flesh 2. Joyneth formeth ingendreth encreaseth and nourisheth the Body of Man And now you see what Galen intends by a Healthful Body namely such a one where all these keep a good and orderly decorum CHAP. 5. Of a Body Vnhealtbful 1. A Body is simply unhealthful which is born mutilated by Nature as wanting some Members or some Operations or sences that is not perfect in respect of those Seven Natural things before mentioned as that cannot See Hear or Smel or is a Fool c. 2. According to time a Body is unhealthful that is at present sick in Body or distemper'd in mind or his Body broken or bruised in any part of it whether internal or external that hath an accidental distemper in any of the seven Natural things This is so cleer it needs no Comment CHAP. 6. Of a Body Neutral THis as we told you before carries a threefold signification 1. As things partake of either extremety swerving from the Rules of Healthfulness 2. As they partake of both of them together equally 3. As somtimes the one exceeds somtimes the other in respâ—ect of time 1. Taken in the first Sence it is an exquisite medium between healthful and unhealthful Bodies And that First Naturally or Simply as many people are born of unhealthful or sickly Constitutions so that the Nativity as a cause produceth such an effect in every age Secondly According to time when the Body is neither perfectly in Health nor yet sick such a one as the proverb saith Is neither sick enough to lie in Bed nor well enough to follow his Imployment 2. Taken in the Second Sence A Neutral Body is such a Body as partakes of diverse contrary qualities either in one part of the Body or in diverse when there is an opposition between them and this concerns either the Formation of the Body or the Endowments of the mind or temperature of the parts when one contrary appears healthful the other unhealthful and this also 1. As it appears generally in al the ages of the Life 2. As it appears but particularly at some certain times 3. Taken in the third Sence it is when the ages of a mans Life Differ in respect of Health and Sickness as a man may be healthful in his Childhood and unhealthful in his youth and the contrary viz. sickly in his infancy and healthful in Youth c. Culpepers Comment The First of these needs no explanation the other two are somthing Obscure as in the second Galen saith a man may partake of contrary qualities in the formation of the Body Viz. A man may have a Hâ—ad too big and feet as much too little a man may have a Nose exceeding the common bigness and Eyes as much less than the common proportion and the like 2. In the Endowments of mind as thus A man may have a very good Apprehension yet a bad Memory a man may have very good Judgment in ordering a Battel and yet be a Coward 3. In the temperature of the parts the Liver may be â—oo hot and yet the Brain too cold you may understand the rest by these examples which are sufficient to explain Galens meaning To the third When the Ages of a mans Life differ in respect of health and sickness saith Galen which is no more than thus to give you one example A Childs Body or any part thereof may be too hot by reason of sucking a Chollerick Woman in youth either the whol Body or the same part of it may be too cold imagine the Liver Brain or the like it may be too hot in Manhood too cold in Age or the contrary to these Thus much for Bodies we come now to unfold the Signs CHAP. 7. Of SIGNS OF these some indicate present health others proclaim health to come a third sort put us in mind of health past In the same manner likewise some unhealthful Signs shew present Sickness others give fair warning that sickness is coming other indications call to our remembrance the sickness past Imagine the like by Neutrals some shew a present Neutral condition foreshew it coming call it to mind being past and shew a disposition as well healthful as sickly The use of the First and Second of these is admirable the last is not so absolutely useful And thus have we shewed you what Signs are we come to treat of them particularly CHAP. 8. Signs of a very good Constitution OF these some are deduced from the Reason or Essential Cause thereof or from necessary consequen which follow such operations and cases of which the first are called Essential the otheâ— Accidental Such as are Essentially of good Constitution are such in whose Bodies heat coldness driness and moisture are equally tempered the Instruments of the Bodie are composed in every part of due bigness number place and Formation Culpeper I shall here for the benefit of yong Students intermix my Comment with the Text Whereas Galen saith a good Constitution consists of heat cold driness and moisture equally tempered you must not imagine they are so all over the Body but according to place for the Heart is and should be hotter than the Brain c. but each part exceeds not its due proportion in these the Brain is not hotter colder drier nor moister than it should be judg so by the Heart
not commendable Chap. 25. Of Smalness of the Eyes SMalness of the Eyes if they be neatly composed and their Vertue operative shews 't is true little substance or scantiness thereof but that substance is well tempered whereof the Eyes are formed But if together with smalness they have an ill composure and withal fail in their Operations their substance is but little and that little is stark naught Chap. 26. Of the Colour of the Eyes AS concerning what belongs to the colour of the Eyes they are devided into gray and Black Gray Eyes which are cleer and abound not much with moisture are an argument of a strong Sight Judg of black Eyes also by their cleerness Culpeper The black Spot in the midst of the Eye is the Christalline humor in which the Visive Vertue resides that round about it being of many colours is called the Iris or in plain English the Rain-bow this indeed contains in it all colours for if we had not all colours within our Eye we could not discern them without and that 's the Reason shutting our Eyes a little makes us see the better because it reflects the Beams back to the Iris where they are recruited there the cleerer you perceive the Iris to be the stronger the Sight is you shall never find this fail I was once to satifie my mind where a Chirurgion dissected the Eye of a Sheep and the Eye of a Cat because we were willing to see what reason might be given why the one could see better in the night than the other The Reasons we found were these 1. The Christalline Humor of the Cats Eye was far cleerer 2. The Iris was much cleerer 3. The Optick Nerve also in the Cat the difference between the bigness of the Beasts considered was much bigger 4. The Optick Nerve of the Cat had two Originals at a great distance the one from the other the one from the Cerebrum or Brain the other from the Cerebellum or hinder part of the Brain Chap. 27. Of Grayness and Blackness of the Eyes THe Eye is Gray by reason of the greatness or splendor of the Christalline Humor or else because it sticks out or else because of the paucity and pureness of the Aqueal Humor all these hapning together make a very gray Eye and as more or fewer of them happen so the Eye is more or less gray A Black Eye is caused either by the smalness of the Christalline Humor or because it is deeply seated or of the abundance or thickness of the Aqueal Humor by all these or some of these it is more or less black The Aqueal Humor the more it is in quantity and the thinner in quality the moister is the Eyes the thicker it is in quality and the less in quantity the dryer are the Eyes As for the Christalline Humor the harder it is the dryer is the Eye but the softer it is the moister Culpeper I am far enough from Galens Opinion in this I cannot beleeve the Sight is stronger in Gray Eyes than in Black but rather the contrary neither am I of his Judgment of the causes of the differences in colour If you look upon the Microcosm or Body of Man I hold the cause to be in the Iris if you look upon the Macrocosm or Book of the Creatures we find fiery Signs arising at the Nativity to give Hazel Eyes which are those he here calls black and so doth either Luminary when they are in the Horoscope and I hope none is so Fool-ridden to say the Luminaries strong in the Ascendent can or do ever give weak Sights Again I do not conceive the Aqueal Humor to be the cause of the moistness of the Eye the Aqueal Humor is an Excrement produced by the Vitrial or Glassy Humor as it nourisheth the Christalline and never stirs from its placâ— to moisten the other parts of the Eye but rather the Glandulae or Kernel seated in that corner of the Eye next the Nose which hold the tears I suppose moistens the eye Chap. 28. Of the Temperature of the Heart VVEE come now to speak of the Temperature of the Heart but before we begin take notice of this That in every part when we say it is Hotter or Colder or Dryer or Moister than it ought to be we speak it as proper to the Part we treat about not comparatively with other Parts for the coldest Temperature of the Heart which can be in a living Man is hotter than the hottest Temperature the Brain is capable of suffering Chap. 29. Signs of the Heart overheated VVHen the Heart is hotter than is fit or convenient for it to be some Indications are inceperable and proper as deep breathing swiftness of Pulse the man is bold and active hot furious angry and rash the Breast and upper part of the Belly is rough usually the heat of the Heart heats the whol Body unless the Liver be very cold and withstand it It dilates the Breast much which alwaies answers to its heat unless the coldness of the Brain which is deduced along the Back-bone withstand it but if the Breast be very broad and the Head very little then you may be sure the Heart is too hot but if the Head be great and the Breast narrow you may be certain the Breast is too cold but if both be proportionable 't is a sign neither of heat nor coldness of the Heart you must look to other Signs Chap. 30. Signs of the Heart too cold IF the Heart be too cold the Pulses are less than Nâ—turally they ought to be and yet it doth not necessarily follow that they should be slower or more taâ—e the Breast is little and the colder the Heart is the less is the Breast and the weaker the Pulse the Man moves about his actions as though he dragged a Mill-stone after him he is timorous and fearful afraid of his own shadow and hath no haiâ—s upon his Breast the difference in degree of coldness may be known by the greatness and smalness of these Symtoms and this Rule will serve throughout the Body Chap. 31. Signs of a dry Heart A Dry Heart makes a hard Pulse the Man is not very prone to anger but when you have anger'd him you will have much ado to please him again finally if the Heart be dry so is all the Body unless the Liver be very moist Chap. 32. Signs of a moist Heart THe Indications of moistness of the Heart are softness of the Pulse they are soon angry and as soon pleased again the whol Body is very moist unless the Liver be very dry Thus much for the temperature of the Heart according to the first qualities simply taken Chap. 33. Signs of a hot and dry Heart IF the Heart be oppressed with heat and driness the Pulses are great hard and swift they fetch their Breath swiftly and the swifter if the breadth of the Breast answer not equally by proportion to the heat of the Heart their Breast is very rugged
you would disperse any humor from the lower parts of the Body let the Medicine be strong lest it lose its strength before it come at the afflicted part neither need you fear the superior parts will be afflicted by such Medicines seeing the cause of the affliction lies not in them neither are the Medicines to be apropriated to them Then consider That the parts afflicted by such deâ—luxions some are rare loose and soft by Nature others thick and hard by Nature the former are easily emptied you must use sharper Remedies to the latter The Indications then must be taken both from the substance of the afflicted part and also from the Formation and Scituation of it for example if it happen so that the Liver be afflicted by Humors in the small Vessels thereof which Humors are thin viscuous thick or superaboundant Is it not the readiest way first to separate these by extenuating meats and drinks and change them into another substance Then in the second place to empty those by passages which are large and not by those that are narrow whereas you cannot bring them thither without extenuating for there are large passages Meatus in the Liver as well as narrow which pass to the Vena Cava as the narrow doth to the Vena Porta It is no such difficult matter then when Humors are thick and tough in the Liver to evacuate them by drawing them to the Vena Cava by such Medicines as have a drawing quality that so they may be cast out by Urine But besides these here is another Indication to be taken from the Liver it self Suppose it be so weakned by moistning Medicines or Cataplasms that it is unabled not only to perform its own Office but weakens the Veins also in such a case you must mix some binding things with your Medicines but seeing the Liver lies so low 't is some Question whether the binding Medicines be not weakned before they come at it unless they be mixed with some things else of more subtil parts as Spices are If you make up your Medicines of such Spices as bind Nature when she hath gotten two Qualities to serve her turn in one Medicine will operate the stouter Culpeper I know at present none better for such a purpose than Cinnamon and Cassia Lignea and if you mix a little Spodium amongst them it will not do amiss Galen Also take another Animadversion Have a care the Natural temper of the part afflicted be not distempered by the Humor flowing to it if it be Flegm that flow to it it may be it is too cold if Choller too hot you must cure this distemper before ever you can restore the Member to its pristine health and strength and this is to be cured by its contraries namely cold by heat and heat by cold and herein also you must be well versed namely how hot and cold every Member by Nature ought to be for how can you tell else when it exceeds its due proportion in cold or heat or when you have cooled or heated it enough Chap. 96. Of Diseases according to Number HAving spoken enough of these things we come now to such whose Number is not according to Nature and seing their difference is twofold one in which some part is deficient the Cure of which is by subministring to Nature the other which is superaboundant which ought to be cut off either by Iron or Fire or Medicines which have a burning quality all these may be cured 't is true but nâ—w ones cannot be gotten in their rooms that are wanâ—â—ng some there are that though they cannot be generaâ—â—â— again yet somthing may be made in lieu of them â—s â— Bone being taken away you â—ay put in some substaâ—ce different from both Bone and Flesh â—â—â—â—eâ—d of it for there is a certain Callus Flesh 〈◊〉 in the room of it which though it seem like Flesh at first yet in process of time it grows to the hardness of a Bone so also any Member being cut off seeing we cannot make its like in substance we may make the like of it in shew that so the Body may the better retain its beauty Culpeper A right Worshipful Business and teacheeh a man thus much knowledg That he may make a wooden Leg. Chap. 97. Of Diseases according to Magnitude AS for Diseases according to Magnitude when the bigness of the parts of the Body are according to nature they are as they should be if any parts be bigger or smaller than they should be you should take away from those that are too big or if that cannot be withdraw the matter to another place cherrish those that are deficient in bigness and take away those that superabound this was spoken to more at large before Chap. 98. Of Diseases according to Scituation VVE come to that other kind of Healthful causes which amends such parts as are out of place as Luxations Ruptures c. this is done by some violent stretching or stroke or else by some dilation or breaking of the Continent Twofold then also is the way of Cure the one is by reducing it to its proper place the other by strengthning the part after it is reduced Chap. 99. Of Preservative Causes THis Chapter seems to contain in it the Sum of all what hath hitherto been spoken of Preservatives there are three Kinds 1. Such as have respect to men in perfect Health 2. Such as regard men not in perfect Health 3. Such as belong to men that are Sick The first maintains Health the other two attain it The whol Basis of this is chiefly busied about Humors which ought neither to be too thick nor too thin neither too watry nor too many nor too hot nor to cold nor too biting neither subject to Putrefaction nor yet of a Venemous Nature for when any of these are encreased they engender Diseases The Intention of Cure of this is Alteration and Evacuation They are altered when they are either concocted by the Body it self or by some other Faculties which have a Medicinal Force or Operation as by such things as expel poyson they are evacuated by Purges Clvsters Sweatings and Vomitings these are common Evacuations proper are such as are apropriated to certain parts and places of the Body the Bowels are purged by Stool the Liver by Urine the whol Body by Sweat the Head by Sneezing the Lungues by Coughing c. Besides there are some sorts of Purges which draw the Humors from all parts of the Body as Pills Chap. 100. Of that part of the Art which refresheth Old Age SUch Food Diet and Medicines as refresh and restore are most fit for Ancient People The Disposition of Ancient people is the best Disposition but yet Blood in them is but little neither is their Vital 〈◊〉 Animal Spirit much their sollid parts are dry therefore is their strength weak and their whol Body cold The Healthful Causes which amend this Disposition that I may comprehend them all in one