Canon VI. Among the constititions of the seasons the dry is more wholesome and not so deadly as the rain for it gathereth no excrements and resists better to the putrefaction the humid in the contrar causes many superfluities from whence are the generation of diseases when the seasons are constant keeping there temperature ordinar so that all things doth naturally fall out in them the diseases are lykewayes constant and facily to be vnderstood but when the season is inconstant so are the sicknes variable and hard to be vnderstood for there crise is accompanied with dangerous symptomes where they suddenly cause death or ells leaves a matter to a new sickenesse When the sicke proves a good second to the physitian fighting againes the sicknes it is easie to obtaine the victorie Now when he beleues the physition and puts in practise his ordinances hee serves him for a second and declares himselfe enemie of the disease in the contrar if quyting the physition he takes part with the disease accomplishing that which hee desyres he hazards his life two wayes the one in leaving the physition aboue in combat the other in serving as a second to the sickenesse which was before alone for it is certaine two is stronger nor one Canon VIII The greatnes of the sickenesse followes the greatnes of the cause for as a light cause produces a light evill even so a great causeth a great Hence a vehement cause contrar nature is a most certaine indice of a great and dangerous sicknes Canon IX Byle causes still quicke diseases which are termined or ended within few dayes because it is easilie resolved by its subtilitie but melancholie is the most viscuous of all the humors and makes longest accesses because it is dry cold and thicke being the lyfe of the blood Next to melancholy is phlegme in difficulty of digestion and expulsion by reason of its viscositie Canon X. The diseases that hath some resemblance with the nature bodily constitution and age of the diseased are lesse dangerous then these that hath no conformity for all sicknesse hot cold dry moist being conforme to the complexion age and bodily constitution of the sicke and also to the season hath so much lesse danger as it is lesse removed from the naturall constitution and so may more easily returne as proceeding frō a lighter yea a slighter cause As in the contrare the disease that hath no affinity neither with the temper taillie nor age of the Patient or with the season is much more dangerous then the former being further removed from the naturall complexion and therefore worse to cure as proceeding of a greater and stronger cause So that of two burnt fevers equall in grandure that which fals out in the Summer to a young man leane of body of temper hot shall not be so dangerous as that which fals out in the Winter to an old man of a fat body and cold complexion Canon XI Meeke and gentle relenting diseases are commonly long but the sharpe fyrie and fierce are ended within fourteene dayes and the extreame hot in seven dayes There can no certain prediction be made of hot sharp diseases either for health nor death for by that they are quickly ended they become on a suddaintie great so that both for the greatnesse of the disease with the suddaine change which befals in the crise as also because the humor is often transported from one place to another the issue is vncertaine wherefore while the humor is in its motion we must suspend our judgement for it is not certain whether it will rush on a noble or ignoble part within or without by passages conveniable or not conveniable thogh the humor were staied in one place yet the Physician ought not resolutly affirme that the sick shall escape but with this provision that no new change befall and that hee follow the advise and keep the regiment prescribed When a woman with child is overtaken by any firie hot disease shee is in danger of her life for a hot fyrie fever requyres a strait dyet which shee cannot admit least the child being frustrat of his food shee be broght to bed before the time and if oft to save the child yee give the mother often to eat the fever thereby growing yee shall precipitat the mother in a manifest hazard of her life and if it be any other strong sicknesse without fever as a epilepsie apoplexy convulsion shee shall never be able to support the vehemencie of it Canon XII To foretell the event of the disease yee must consider diligently the part that is offended whether it bee noble or ignoble publick or privat for the condition dignitie and necessitie of the part that suffereth are of great importance for the pronouncing of a sentence to the profit or prejudice of the sick Canon XIII In all diseases the constancie of the reason not troubled with the bounty of the appetit still readie for taking of whatsomeever shall bee offered to it is a good signe and the contrare is an evill the satlednesse of the reason and sharpnesse of the appetit are numbred among the good markes because the former beares witnesse of the temperat disposition of the braine the menings or tayes of the harnes and of the marrow of the backe the medrife and all the nervous parts and the latter shews the integritie of the stomack and lever In the contrare the alienation and troubling of the reason and the losse of appetit are evill signes because the one betokens the animal parts to be affected the other the naturall All they that are troubled with paine or dolour in any part of the body whatsomeever and are not sensible of it hath the reason troubled because the apprehension doth not perceiue in any measure the evill Canon XIV It is good to sleep in the night to make reparation of the spirits animals and digestion of the humors by the meanes of the heat that enters within the center of the body and to watch in the day for the clearing of the same spirits to give motion to the humors and to make expulsion of the excremēts but it is a verie pernicious signe not to sleepe night nor day for continuall watching commeth either of the dolour paine and torment that they suffer or of the drynesse of the braine which in end will cause an alienation of the mind Sleepe likewise surpassing the borders of mediocrite is in like maner evill because it is a marke of extreame coldnesse of the braine which causeth a lethargie if it bee mixed with humidity or catalepsie if with drynesse When in a sicknesse sleepe is noysome and hurteth there is danger of death for if the sleep hurts that time that hath bene accustomed to helpe much as in the decline of any sicknesse it is not without cause that it foretelleth death and that because the heat reteared within the body the time of the sleep and by this meanes increase Notable neverthelesse
within is pierced then the wind doth blow forth at the hole Moreover the forme of issuing foorth is remarked for the better vnderstanding of the part that is troubled so the blood that proceedes of the arteries because of the abundance of the spirits doth issue with force in a leaping manner but if flowing and deadly from the veine also if any peece of the part troubled doe come forth alone it signifieth the place or seat to be neere by but if it bee mixed with the excrements it declares to bee higher and further removed The accidents points also at the place so the pearle declares the eye to bee molested the swelling of the right lisk the lever and that of the left the melt The symptomes manifests the place for ravery designes the braine to bee distempered the cheeks verie red the lights to be inflammed the losse of appetit the indisposition of the stomack the excrements like to the washing of raw flesh the debility of the lever Canon V. Thus having found out the part that is troubled next yee must search whether it is by Idiopathie or by Sympathie because it is requisit first to help the part that is troubled by the owne proper desert so Idiopathie is a proper indisposition of the part as is the pearle of the eye Sympathie is an indisposition which befalls any part by the fault of another And that either because of the defluxion of an humour falling from one part to another or by reason of the defect of the naturall facultie requyred for the action of the part sometimes it fals out that a part of a long trouble by a sympathie in end turnes to bee troubled by an Idiopathie Idiopathie is either privatiue or consecutiue so it is expedient to remark whether the disease bee privatiue that is bee first or consecutive that is doth flow from another An Idiopathie is by this discerned from a Sympathie when the sore is alone continuall and without intermission and receaves neither increase nor diminution by the augmentation or declination of any disease that is in any other part but remaines still in one state and condition the remeds applyed serving for the good of the same it is a signe that the indisposition is Idiopathetick But when it followeth another disease growes according to the growth of the same and also is mitigat by the same remeades and when the remeades applyed to it selfe doth not help it is then by Sympathie so the paine of the head arising from the stomack is distinguished from the dolour that comes of the proper fault of the braine in that it succeeds to a desire to vomite a heavie rifting evill smell or taste in the mouth with a falling away or lypothomie and when it growes with the indisposition of the stomack not receiving help from the topicks applyed to the head Canon VI. Having found out the part of the body offended next yee must make inquisition of the indisposition The indisposition that hindreth action is called morbus or sicknesse that which followeth it is termed Symptome and that which ingenders is named cause so that all indisposition against natur is either morbus symptoma or causa The Symptome is knowne of the selfe without other signes because it is objected still to some of our senses but the disease and the cause for the most part are removed from our senses but they are known by the Symptomes which are the signes to wit by the actions hurt by the excrements and by the accidents of the bodie Canon VII Maladie or sicknesse is an indisposition against nature that hurts immediatly the action of the part affected whensoever then thou perceives the action to be hindred or hurt then is it a disease Sicknesse or maladie is triple similare instrumentall and common the first hurts the action of the part similare the second troubles the vse of the organick the third hinders both wherefore if the action of the part in so farre as it is similare be hurt the disease shall bee similare if in so farre as an instrument it shall bee instrumentall and if they both befall together it shall bee common The action of the part similary is hindred by a simple intemperature as heat cold moistnesse and drouth or by one composed as hot and dry hot and humid cold and dry cold and humid that either with or without mater The vse of the organe is preverted by the fault of the greatnesse nombre situation oftest by conformation and obstruction both the one and the other is troubled by the breach or solution of continuitie in the parts as by phlegmon scirrh or any other tumour contrare nature as also by vlcere wound fracture or luxation so in temperature is a sicknesse similare obstruction a disease organick and solution of the continuitie sicknesse common The diversitie of especes are known by the varietie of the actions hindered so the continuall desyre of sleepe signifieth an indisposition cold and moist of the braine a continuall waking shewes a hote and dry pulse frequent quick and vnaequall a fever suchlike the kind of the paine points foorth the disease as a dolour inflammative a hot distemper a stupefactive a cold The excrements serveth also to find out the espece of the sicknesse as sand in the water shews a gravell the meat sent foorth below without change declares a lienterie suchlike the accidents of the bodie so the colour greene shewes an oppilation in the liver browne colour an obstruction in the melt a blak tougne a burning or fever the nailes crooked a consumption ptisie the cheekes red a peripneumonie Among those accidents they that are proper and inseparable are holden for most certaine because they haue a great demonstrative facultie Canon VIII The nature and situation of the place serves much to the knowledge of the kind of the sickenesse for everie part hath the owne prope sicknesse so the eyes onely are subject to a pearle the neires and bladder to the stone the puddings to wormes and not the stomacke the heart can never suffer a vlcer profound nor the lights any dolour Canon IX The better taking of the disease you must diligently consider the things antecedent such are the nature the habitude the age the countrie the season the disposition of the aire the forme of lyfe of him who is diseased and the sickenesse wherewith hee vses to be molested for one is soonest overtaken with the disease with the which there nature hath greatest familiaritie So hote diseases are most frequentlie incident to hot bilious persons as cold sickenes to cold lumpish nature and that alswell to those who are such by nature habitude and age as to those who are so by reason of the region the season and the constitution of the aire And albeit that all sort of sickenesse may befall to all sort of persons all ages in all place time yet they fal on most frequētly the temperament age place time with the
which they have some affinitie An Epidemik sicknesse is knowne incontinent by the running of it among the people seazing on many at one tyme al hereditar disease as the epilepsie the gravell the gowt is suspect to be incident to those who are procreat of parents sicke of such infirmities Moreover often men finds the kind of the disease by the usage of the things which hurts or helps for the hote intemperature doth increase by the vse of hote things but is mitigate by the vse of cooling things the cold intemperature of the contraire Canon X. After the acquyred knowledg of the disease make search thereafter for the cause of it the which is either extern or intern the intern is two fold antecedent or conjoyned First then seeke out the cause conjoyned because it produceth immediatly the disease It is therefore needefull to search whither it be winde or any other superabundant humor as blood bile melancholie or phlegme or any other thing contrare natur as stone lump of blood worms or any other sort of excrement The colour natur of the place the kind of the dolour and the sort of the excrement with the praedominant humor in the bodie will serve for markes Canon XI For when the part in flāmed is red it is full of blood when yellow full of byle but that which is cold and whyt is replenished with phlegme when blackish with melancholy for the colour of the skin doth commonly point forth the humor is within Divers parts are appointed for the ingendring of diverse humors excrementitious as the lever for breeding of yellow byle the melt of black byle the stomack the tryps and the braine of phlegme the neers and the bladder of the gravell and stone the tryps of wormes The paine pricks sore when it is caused of choler it is moderat when it proceeds of blood blunt when of melancholy phlegme or wind except it bee when they mak great distention through their aboundance If that which issueth forth by the excrements of the part affected bee a portion of that which is continued within it it shews either by the colour or substance what it is wee shall speak heereafter of the predominant humour Canon XII After the knowledg of the cause conjoynt it follows know whether it bee alone or if it bee fostered or furnished by any other cause antecedent That which gathered is by way of congestion through the fault of the part offended is reput to bee alone but when all the bodie or any part of it doth exoner the selfe on the member affected of any superabundant humor the which overburthened there is then a cause antecedent which doth accompany the conjoynt so there be two sort of causes interne to the which remead must be vsed Canon XIII The cause antecedent of the sicknesse is double the one is named Plethor or plenitud the other is called Cacochymi Plethor is a repletion of all the humours aequallie augmented or of blood only Cacochymie is a repletion of Choler melancholy or phlegme the signes both of the one and the other are taken both from the causes antecedent which doth gather the humor as from the temperature of the whole body and of the principall parts from the age season constitution of the aire region maner of living and of the evacuation ordinar suppressed as also from the accidents that befall all the qualities of the body such as bee the colour the habitud the fashions the functions animall vitall and naturall as from the sleep dreams pulse concoction excrements of the diseases ensuing and of the things that hurts and profites Canon XIV There bee two sorts of plenitud the one called plenitudo ad vires in the which the blood although it be not excessive neither in quantity nor qualitie overcharges never the lesse the weake forces of nature the other is plenitudo ad vasa the which in quantity surpasses the naturall limits or bounds and this either light or gentle when it fills only the cavity of the veines not farre exceeding mediocritie or it is excessive when it extends so that it almost rives the veines through the fulnesse of it by too great aboundance and althogh it bee verie excessive it may bee so that nature bee not chooked by it for commonlie the force growes with the blood but if it fall out that the forces bee abaited then it is plenitudo supra vires When then in a plethor the bodie is on no wayes by a too great weight lasie or heavie and the force remaines stil in a state it is onely a plentitud ad vasa But when the bodie becomes heavie lasie doyled the fleepe troubled and profond seeming to carie as it were some thing while hee sleepes it is then plenitudo supra vires Canan XV. The causes that ingenders blood in aboundance are signes antecedents of a plenitud as the complection temperat of all the whole bodie but chiefly of the lever and the heart or else moderatly hot and humid The age growing for the bairnes and young men hath much blood because they are not farre from there principes of naturall generation The spring also for in it the blood abounds for then the cold ceaseth and there falls out waters Also good fare a plesant past lyfe without care moderat excersise and sleepe The naturall evacuation of blood suppressed or the artificiall of long intermitted The accidents which showes the domination of blood in the bodie are the signes consequent of blood such bee The colour of the face and all the bodie red by the ordinare custome or mixed of red and whyt The swelling of the veines aequalie appearing through all A manifest bending of the vessels being full of blood by measure A lazines or wearying comming of it self without any labour vnder the which the joynters by reason of their weight with great difficultie doe move the selfe for it is when the great veines over full of blood doe exoner themselves in the litle and they againe in the muscels so that they are filled and bended The habitude of the bodie fleshie because it doeth proceed of an aboundance of blood yea the mediocer fleshy acompanied of a heat benigne and vaporous for that is a signe of nature temperat which ingenders aboundance of blood The fashions and cariag merrie joviall peaceable gentle because they are marks of a body well disposed The heavinesse of the head proceeding from the aboundance of vapours ascending vpwards The sleepe profound and pleasant with dreames of things pleasant The pulse strong great and full for in it the veines are so full that they doe infuse a part in the neighbors arters by an anastomosie the which being filled causes such a pulse and that not onelie in the shakle bones but also in the temples the fingers and over all the body The respiration more difficill and frequēt chiefly after exercise because the muscells of the breast are made lazie throgh the aboundance of blood hence it is that the
are markes of force but the small and extenuat are evill both as signes and as causes forasmuch as they are signes of the debilitie of the parts extenuat and causes that the digestion is not well elaborat in the stomack nor the sanguification in the lever for the grossenesse or fatnesse of the epigastre or low parts of the belly augments the natural heat by the which the parts within being warmed they digest better the meat and so makes better blood Canon XXIV As to the consideration of these things that fals out in the body if yee remarke any good signe yee must not thinke for that that assuredly the sick shall escape neither although there do appeare any evill signes that hee shall die for a good signe may bee over weighted by an evill being great And on the contrare an evill may be overcome a good being stronger Canon XXV The disease quyts the sick either wholly at once by way of crise or by litle and litle by way of resolution Crise is a suddaine change of the disease into health or else into death which is then when nature separats the vitious humours from the good and that for to expell them Of it there bee two sorts the one is by excretion and the other by absesse that comes by a flux of blood or sweat or a flux of the bellie or vomit or flux of the vrine Canon XXVI The good crise arives on the 7.14 or 20 day wherefore these dayes are called Criticks The future crise was foreseene by the signes of digestion appearing the 4.11 and 17. day hence these dayes are called of of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is in dicatives contemplatives for according to the doctrine of Hip. the 4. day is the indicative of the 7. the 8. is the beginning of the next moneth the 11. is also remarkable because the fourth of the second weik the 17. is also to bee observed because the 4. after the 14. and the 7. from the 11. Canon XXVII When the crise is to bee on the 7. day there is perceived on the fourth day preceding a red cloud in the water and other signes correspondent for because the 4. day is the pointer out of the 7. if there appeare any signe of concoction that day it forwarnes the crise to bee on the 7. day Where then there appeares a clowd in the water not only red but whyt and yet rather a whyt hypostasies or ground vnited and equall if so bee the motion of the sicknesse bee suddaine it is a presage of the future crise When the crise draws neare the night preceeding is verie troublesome but that which follows is ordinarly more easie to indure For while nature is making a separation betwixt the good and evill humors that fals out that in this exercise of nature the disease is much troubled But so it is that this great worke appeares the night before the crise because the sleepe is interrupted but the night that follows the crise perfyte they are much more at their owne ease because nature is disburdened of superfluous humors Canon XXVIII The vniversall signes by the which one discernes the espece of the crise to come are taken from the kind of the disease from the part that is diseased and from the nature of the Patient For hot and quicke diseases are ordinarly judged by excretion but the cold and long by abscesse If there bee an inflammation in the gibbous part of the lever yee must expect a crise by a flux of blood at the right nostrile or by a flux of the vrine if the inflammation bee in the hollow part of it then yee must expect it by a flux of the belly or vomishment or sweat The inflammations of the braine and of all the head are commonly judged by an haemorragie at the nose but that of the stomack and mesenterie by vomishment or a flux downeward Moreover a flux of blood fals oftenest to young men cholericks overtaken with a hot fever and a flux of the bellie to old men phlegmaticks There the common and now heere the proper prognosticks of everie crise Rednes of the face extreame dolour of the head and the necke a beating of the arters in the temples the distention of hypochondres with dificultie of breathing a dimnes tnd watering of the eys singing of the eares and itching of the nostrell◠prognosticks the crise to be a flux of blood by the nose A heat and heavines of the loynes with a paine and extention of the hypograster foreshowes a crise to be by a flux menstruall A suppression of the water with a pricking shivering through the whole bodie with the pulse soft and waterie and the exteriour parts of the bodie hote and vaporous betokens that it will be by sweat Rifts ventosites or winds a bending of the belly and paine of the neires by a flux of the belly losse of appetit or lothing of meat with a thrawing of the heart and sorenes of the head with a dissinesse great spitting bitternesse in the mouth and a trembling of the vnder lip prognosticks a future crise by vomit When the signes of concoction hath gone before and when the motions of a crise hath beene perceived then it may be exspected by a flux of the vrine if there doeth not appeare any marke of a crise by a flux of blood not by sweat flux of the belly vomit and specialy when the patient feels an heavines in the hypograster and an heat about the end of the privie member having also made much water thicke and grosse during his disease or if he be aged and sick in the Winter it foretells it the rather A heavines and paine of the head with a profoundity of sleepe and deafnesse succeeding immediatly to a difficultie of breathing suddenly ariving without any manifest cause to one sick with a long disease points foorth an absesse to be behind the eare But if there be no signe of a paritude and that the sicke hath had his vrine of a long tyme cleare and vndigested and when he finds a heavinesse a paine a bending or tension a heat in the hypochondres ye must exspect an absesse in the lower pairts If any part of the bodie hath beene hurt before there shall the aposteme or absesse be An absesse falls out most frequently in winter and after on imperfyt crise Canon XXIX Moreover a good crise ought to be signified before in the day of indication and should fall out in a critike day with a manifest excretion or notable absesse without dangerous accidents It ought also to be perfyt I call a perfyt crise that which evacuats all the vitious mater And on imperfyt that which evacuats but one part for the former is sure but you must not beleeve the latter for the evill humors remaining after a crise are wont to make one recidiwe Moreover a crise is iudged to be good by reason of the convenable qualitie and reasonable quantity with the forme agreable
and the time opportune A crise is knowne to be perfyt and assured by the restablishing of the functions naturalls vitals and animalls by the coction of the excrements or by qualitie or forme of the body reduced and made conforme to the naturall Canon XXX Yee must not trust to any ease or aleagment which falls without cause nor feare evill symptomes ariving against reason for the most part of those are inconstant and doth not last a long time for when any vehement diseases ceaseth of the selfe without any evacuation either by sweat vomit flux downward or hemorrage vpward or without any signe of concoction one must not take that ease to be assured neither must one beleeve to it seing it doth threaten with something of greater evill which follow thereon As also one must not be affraighted of the evills that befalls without or rather contrare reason as difficultie of breathing raverie shiviring reduplication of the fever seing they are not constant nor of long last and so farre from signifying any thing evill that on the contrar they presage often a good crise which shall arive to the great ease of the patient The right methode of curing the disease Canon I. WHosever will exactly keepe the method of right proceeding in the cure ought to begin at the first indications then come to those that followes them Afterward to the next and never leave off till they haue come to the end pretended Wee take heere indication for that which serves to teach vs the way in the cure of the disease to attaine to health Canon II. The forces before all things ought to be keeped in those who are diseased after the indication of the forces followes the consideration of the indisposition which is proposed to be cured The forces wills allways their conservation and the indisposition its ablation Now as the forces are keeped or conserved by their like so the indisposition is taken away by the contrary Canon III. In all diseases where the efficient cause is yet present you must begin your cure at the same for it is impossible to cure perfytly any disease whileas the cause that doth ingender it is present so the maladies ceaseth never till the evill humors ingendring them bee banished which doth lurke within the body Canon IV. After the taking away of the cause you must next turne you to the disease ingendred of the cause keeping for a generall rule first the ablation of the cause efficient and next of the maladie Canon V. The cure of the symptome is never first intended but alwayes that of the maladie which causeth the symptome Yet when the symptome minaceth with death or greater and suddainer danger then the disease it selfe the cure of it may bee first attempted Canon VI. While as the disease is growing wee must hinder the growth of it and take away that part that is already ingēdred The generation of that which is to come is hindred by taking away the cause antecedent and the maladie alreadie ingendred is banished by taking away the cause conjoynt Canon VII In all diseases caused of fluxion yee must first stoppe that which floweth yet next draw foorth that which already is flowed Therefore the cure of a phlegmon catarrhe and of all other diseases that are caused by a fluxion lookes all to two buts the first is that the humour which runneth yet bee stayed the other that that part of it which is already in the part bee evacuat Canon VIII In all diseases complicate the one whereof cannot be cured without the other there must respect bee holden to order now method or order requyres still the cure of that first which hindreth the cure of the other as if a phlegmon were accompanied with a vlcer yee must first take away that then cicatrize this Canon IX When two indications are directly opposit one to another yee must not regard so the one that yee misregard the other but rather having as good mind of this as of that make a mixture as equall as ye can As for example if one be troubled by two so contrarie diseases that the one desires a hot the other a cold remead yee must then make vse of one temperat to that end it do harme neither to the one nor to the other but rather help both So when the stomack is cold and the lever over hot things temperat are convenable and all that is mixtioned of hot and cold things or the alternative vse of the one and the other Hence is it that when a phlegmon is in its grouth there is mixed repercussives with digestives Canon X. When there is remarked a repugnance among the indications after you haue well considred that which is taken from the forces and also the indication of the cause the disease thou shall follow the most important of all not neglecting howsoever the other Canon XI It is a maxime most necessarie that commands to cure first the most importunat danger For the indisposition that is the first principall cause of precipitating the diseased in any danger ought first to bee helped Wherefore excessive watching cruell paine all evacuation out of measure chiefly of blood the suppression of superfluities and other like symptomes which weakens the forces and augments the disease in such sort that there may arrive quickly some danger constraines often the Physitian to quyt the cure of the sicknesse to occur to these symptomes Canon XII The generall method of curing diseases is accomplished by the convenable quantity and quality of the remedies with the maner and time of vsing of them Canon XIII It is requyred that all the remedies bee contrare in quality to the disease for contraria contrariis curantur For if all that which is immoderat be contrare to nature and that which is moderat agreeable to nature of necessitie it will follow that that which is out of measure must bee brought to measure by its contrare in like degree out of measure Hence is it that all diseases ingendred of repletion are cured by evacuation and these that proceed of evacuation by repletion and such like of the rest Canon XIV The temper of the body diseased with the disease it selfe shews the measure of the contrarietie forasmuch as it is not enough to apply cold remedies to a hot disease if that be not done with a measure reasonable otherwise not equall in measure it is to bee feared that there remaine some portion of the disease or being excessive that one disease contrar to the other bee moved For to occur to this wee must know the nature of the body that is to be handled to that end that vnderstanding how farre the disease exceeds mediocritie one may exactly measure the proportion of the refrigeratiue remedie Therefore the quantity of everie remead ought to be measured according to the complexion of the sick and the greatnesse of the sicknesse Canon XV. The contrare remedies must be put in vse litle by litle and now and