hot and moist Also to provoke one to the sports of Venus we use such things as stir up the veneral faculty These are hotter than those that encrease Seed yet not so dry that they should consume the Seed Take notice of this 〈◊〉 that some things dull Venus by cold and some over power her by 〈◊〉 The one of those 〈◊〉 the Seed the other makes it torped and sluggish staies the Itching For the Seed of Man is subject to as many contingents as the Man himself is It is not my 〈◊〉 here to treat of them for such things as make Seed either thinner or thicker are not properly said to breed Seed For the time when Seed should be encreased I need say nothing unless I should say when a Man hath got a prety 〈◊〉 If the Body be vicious let it first be purged let Seed be entreased before it be provoked Biting things lessen the Seed stir up the Venerial parts to expulsion cause Itching or tickling of the 〈◊〉 therefore they are good to be used a little before the act otherwise the constant use of them consumes and 〈◊〉 the Seed Observe thus much that one and the same Medicine doth not suit with every complexion for example If the person be 〈◊〉 let the Medicine be the hotter The use of these Medicines is the propagation of Mankind for the desire of Children inches many to Copulation but the pleasure that is in the 〈◊〉 ten times more Chap. 18. Of Medicines casing Pain THere is no dispute of the story but that which causeth the disease causeth the pain as also what 〈◊〉 the disease caseth the pain Yet are those properly called 〈◊〉 which is the Physical term for such Medicines which barely regard the pain both cause and disease remaining These are temperate for heat and thin for essence For seeing they are to be applied both to hot and cold effects they ought not to vary much from temperature They something excel in heat and so they ease pain because they open the pores and loosen the skin But they also cool because they let out those hot fuliginous vapors which cause the pain Such things as case pain by 〈◊〉 are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They do not take away the pain at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause sleep or so dul the sences that they cannot 〈◊〉 it They are administred at such times when the Symptoms are so grievous that they threaten a 〈◊〉 danger than the disease is If in giving them you fear a greater fluxion will come to the part afflicted mix some things with them which are medicinal for the disease If the pain lie in the skin let the anodines beliquid the deeper it lies the more solid let them be lest their vertue be discussed before they come at the part afflicted CHAP. 19. Of Medicines breeding Flesh. THere are many things diligently to be observed in the cures of Wounds and Ulcers which incur and hinder that the cure cannot be speedily done nor the separated parts reduced to their natural state Viz. Fluxes of Bloud 〈◊〉 Hardness Pain and other things besides our present scope Our present scope is To shew how the cavity of Ulcers may be filled with Flesh Such Medicines are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sarcoticks This though it be the work of Nature yet it is helped forward with Medicines that the Bloud may be prepared that it may the easier be turned into Flesh. These are not Medicines which breed good Bloud nor which correct the intemperature of the place afflicted but which defend the Bloud and the Ulcer it self from corruption in breeding Flesh. For Nature in breeding Flesh produceth two sorts of excrements viz. serosus humors and purulentus dross Those Medicines then which clense and consume these by drying are said to breed Flesh because by their helps Nature performs that Office Also take notice that these Medicines are not so drying that they should consume the blood also as well as the Sanies nor so clensing that they should consume the Flesh with the dross Let them not then exceed the first Degree unless the Ulcer be very moist Their difference are various according to the part wounded which ought to be restored with the same Flesh. The softer then and tenderer the place is the gentler let the Medicines be Chap. 20. Of Glutinative Medicines THat is the true cure of an Ulcer which joyns the mouth of it together That is a glutinative Medicine which couples together by drying and binding the sides of an Ulcer before brought together These require a greater drying faculty than the former not only to consume what flows out but what remains liquid in the flesh for liquid flesh is more subject to flow abroad than to stick together The time of using them any body may know without teaching viz. when the Ulcer is clensed and filled with Flesh and such symptoms as hinder are taken away For many times Ulcers must be kept open that the Sanies or sords that lie in them may be purged out whereas of themselves they would heal before Only beware left by too much binding you cause pain in tender parts Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying Medicines THe last part of the cure of an Ulcer is to cover it with Skin and restore the place to its prestin beauty Such Medicines the Greeks call Epulotica This also is done by things drying and binding They differ from the former thus in that they meddle with the Flesh no further than only to convert it into Skin Before you administer Epuloticks let not only the Ulcer but the places adjacent be 〈◊〉 viewed lest ill Symptoms follows Chap. 22. Of Medicines resisting Poyson SUch Medicines ' are called Alexiteria and Alexipharmaca which resist Poyson Some of these resist Poyson by Astral influence and some Physitians though but few can give a reason of it These they have sorted into three Ranks 1. Such as strengthen Nature that so it may 〈◊〉 the Poyson the easier 2. Such as oppose the Poyson by a contrary quality 3. Such as violently thrust it out of doors Such as strengthen Nature against Poyson either do it to the whol Body universally or else strengthen some particular part thereof For many times one particular part of the Body is most afflicted by the Poyson suppose the Stomach Liver Brain or any other part such as cherish and strengthen those parts being weakned may be said to resist Poyson Such as strengthen the Spirits strengthen all the Body Sometimes Poysons kill by their quality and then are they to be corrected by their contraries They which kill by cooling are to be remedied by heating and the contrary they which kill by corrhoding are to be cured by lenitives such as temper their acrimony Those which kill by Induration or Coagulation require cutting Medicines Also because all Poysons are in motion neither stay they in one till they have seised
each one drachm old Wine and decoction of the five opening Roots so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion the Illiack passion Hectick feavers and dropsies in the beginning and cause a good colour Use them like the former Trochisci Diacorrallion Galen The Colledg Take of Bole Armenick red Corral of each an ounce Balaustins terra Lemnia white Starch of each half an ounce Hypocystis the seeds of Henbane Opium of each two drachms juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also stop blood help the bloody-flux stop the terms and are a great help to such whose stomachs loath their victuals I fancy them not Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni The Colledg Take of the seeds of Small age and Bishops weed of each an ounce Annis and Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Opium Cassia Lignea of each two drachms with rain Water make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also bind case pain help the pleuresie 〈◊〉 Pastilli Galen The Colledg Take of white Starch Balaustins earth of Samos juyce of Hypocistis Gum Saffron Opium of each two drachms with juyce of Plantane make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. The Operation of this is like the former Troches of Agrick The Colledg Take of choice Agrick three ounces Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they clense the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humois The dose is one drachm at a time Of the Use of Oyls c. BEfore I begin with their Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters give me leave to swerve a little from the Colledges mode they swerve ten times more from the truth I would but give a few Rules for the Use of them and I had as good do it here as any where and to write but the truth many City Chyrurgians that I have talked with are scarce able to give reason for what they do 't is to be feared that those that live in the country far remote are far less able to do all these a curtesy do I candidly deliver these Rules and let me never be acconnted so basely bred as to forget those kind Ladies and Gentlewomen that for Gods sake help their poor wounded neighbors the great God reward them with a plentiful increase of estate in this world and eternal Beatitude in that to come The cheifest of all these Chyrurgicall Antidotaries I shall divide into these twelve Chapters which shall be treated of in this order Of Medicines Anodine 1 Repelling 2 Attracting 3 Resolving 4 Emollient 5 Suppuring 6 Clensing 7 Incarnative 8 Scarrifying 9 Glutinative 10 Cathereticks 11 Stanching blood 12 Chap. 1. Of ANODINES SUch Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters as ease pain are called by Physitians because you should not know what they mean Anodines All pain is caused by heat or driness or both for moisture seldom unless heat be joyned with it causeth pain Anodines also some divide into proper and improper improper Anodines if a man may call them Anodines they call Narcoticks for I assure you if crabbed words would cure 〈◊〉 our Physitians would come behind none in the world the truth is these words were borrowed from Galen and are Greek words and Galen writing in his mother tongue they were understood well enough there ours retain the same words only to blind peoples eyes that so they may not prie into the Mystery of their Monopoly for then all the fat were in the fire But to proceed Proper Anodines are either temperately hot or temperately cold Hot Anodines are Oyl of sweet Almonds Linseed Oyl Oyl of Eggs Oyl of Saint Johns-wort Hen-grease Ducks grease Goose grease Chamomel Melilot Fenugreek seeds Dill Bay leaves and berries Juniper berries Rosemary Oyles and Ointments made of them Oyle of Earth-worms Oyle of Elder Wax Turpentine Oyntment of Marshmallows Martiatum Arregon Resumptivum Oxycroceum If any external part of your body be pained these or any of these made into fomentations to both the part pained or into pultifses or Oyls or Oyntments by adding Hogs grease or Plaisters by adding Wax or Rozin or both to the Oyntment and applyiug it to the place ease pain But if together with the pain there be an inflamation then Anodines of a cooler nature are more convenient such be Oyl Omphacine viz. Oyl of Olives pressed from them before they be ripe Poppies Roses Violets Pellitory of the wall Fleawort these or any of these made into Pultisses Oyls Oyntments or Plaisters Oyntment of Roses Unguantnm Album Populeon Refrigerans Galeni c. Improper Anodines or Narcoticks which you please are Medicines of another nature and you may thank the Colledge of Physitians for training you up in such ignorance scarce fit for a vulgar use till they have learn'd more skill in Physick than yet they have yet be pleased to consider that in taking away pains three things are to be considered The cause the pain the part pained To these are medicines apropriated for some take away the cause but these belong not to my present scope others take away the pain and meddle not with the cause as those proper Anodines I mentioned before and some take away neither cause nor pain but only stupifie the sences that so it cannot be felt these are to be used with abundance of skill and discretion and never but in cases of necessity when the pain is so vehement that Nature is not able to bear it or a Feaver thereby threatned Of this Nature and for this use are Narcoticks Of these some are Simple As Mandrakes Henbane Poppies Opium Lettice Sengreen Nightshade Camphire Hemlock c. Compound are Oyls and Oyntments of these Philonium Persicum Philonium Romanum Pilulae è Cynoglosso or Pills of Houndstongue Pilulae è Styrace and most Opiates you meet withal in the Dispensatory Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines BY Repelling or Repulsive Medicines I mean either 1. Such as by a cold quality put back the humor Or 2. Such as by binding strengthen the part afflicted They are in quality 1. Hot and binding 2. Cold and binding They are devided into Simple and Compound Simple Repercussives which is another term they have are Mild binding Strong Hot and Mild Repulsives are Roses Endive Lettice Sorrel Navel-wort Purslain Violets Water-Lillies cold water Whey Coriander Cinkfoyl Trefoyl Pellitory of the Wall Apples Pears Whites of Eggs Horstail Woodbine Strong are Teazles Shepheards purse Plantane Nightshade Sengreen or Housleeks Melones Guords Citruls Duckmeat Fleawort Mirtles Quinces Pomegranat rinds and flowers Sanguis Draconis Poppy Opium Bole Armenick Ceruss Terra Sigillata Lead burnt and not burnt Cypress Nuts Hot and
take them in this disconrse under that notion Take notice that such Medicines as provoke the Terms or stop them when they flow immoderately 〈◊〉 properly Hystericals but shall be spoken to by and by in a Chapter by themselves As for the Nature of the Womb it seems to be much like the nature of the Brain and Stomach for experience teacheth that it is delighted with sweet and Aromatical Medicines and flies from their contraries For example A Woman being troubled with the Fits of the Mother which is a drawing of the Womb upwards apply sweet things as Civit or the like to the place of Conception it draws it down again but apply stinking things to the Nose as Assafoetida 〈◊〉 the like it expels it from it and sends it down to its proper place Again Sometimes the Womb of a Woman falls out in such cases sweet scents applied to the Nose and stinking things to the privy passage reduces it to its proper place again and this made some Physitians of Opinion that the Womb of a Woman was capable of the sence of smelling For my part I beleeve nothing less only it doth it by apropriation to that part of the Body for the Stomach is also offended with stinking things not because it smels them but because they are obnoxious to that part of the Body judg the like by the Womb it is offended by stinking things and strengthened by sweet for smell is one of the Touch-stones by which Nature trieth what is convenient for its self yet that the Womb hath much affinity with the Head is most certain and undeniable by this argument Because most Cephalick Medicines conduce to the cure of Diseases in the Womb neither is the Womb often afflicted but the Head principally suffers with it Chap. Of Medicenes apropriated to the Joynts The Joynts are usually troubled with Cephalick Diseases and then are to be cured by Cephalick Medicines Medicines apropriated to the Joynts are called by the name of Arthritical Medicines The Joynts seeing they are very Nervous require Medicines which are of a heating and drying Nature with a gentle binding and withal such as by a peculiar vertue are apropriated to them and ad strength to them It is true most Cephalicks do so yet because the Joynts are more remote from the Centre they require stronger Medicines For removing pains in the Joynts this is the Method of proceeding Pains is either taken away or eased for the true cure is to take away the cause of the pain sometimes the vehemency of the pain is so great that you must be forced to use Anodines for so Physitians call such Medicines as ease pain before you can meddle with the cause and this is usually when the part pained is inflamed for those Medicines which take away the cause of pain being very hot if there be any Inflamation in the part pained you must abstain from them till the Inflamation be taken away Also the manner of easing the pain is two-fold for if you regard only the pain use Anodines but if you regard the Inflamation use cooling Medicines because by them not only the heat is asswaged but also the Flux of Blood to that part is stopped especially if you mix some repelling Medicine with it We shall speak of all these in the next Section Only here take notice That such Medicines as take away the cause of pain from the Joynts are of very thin substance and forcible in cutting and drawing and when you see the cause is taken quite away then use such as bind and strengthen the Joynts that so 〈◊〉 may prevent defluxions for the time to come And thus much for the Second Section Sect. 3. Of the Properties or Operations of Medicines THat I may be as plain as can be in this for I desire to be understood of all I shall devide this SECTION into these Chapters Viz. Of MEDICINES Chap. 〈◊〉 1 Hardning 2 Loosning 3 Making thin and thick 4 Opening the Vessels 5 Attinuating 6 Drawing 7 Discussing 8 Repelling 9 Burning 10 Clensing 11 Emplasticks 12 Suppuring 13 Provoking Urin. 14 Provoking the Terms 15 Breeding Milk 16 Regarding the Seed 17 Easing Pain 18 Breeding Flesh. 19 Glutinative 20 Scarrifying 21 Resisting Poyson 22 Adorning the Body 23 Purging 24 Of all these in order and in the same order they are set down Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines THe various mixtures of Heat Cold Driness and Moisture in Simples must of necessity produce variety of Faculties and Operations in them which now we come to treat of beginning first at Emollients What is hard and what is soft most men know but few are able to express Phylosophers define that to be hard which yields not to touching and soft to be the contrary An Emollient or softning Medicine which is all one is such a Medicine as reduceth a hard substance to its proper temperature But to leave Phylosophy and keep to Physick Physitians describe hardness to be two-fold 1. A distention or stretching of a part by too much fulness 2. Thick humors which are destitute of heat growing hard in that part of the Body into which they flow So many properties then ought Emollient Medicines to have viz. to moisten what is dry to discuss what is stretched to warm what is congealed by cold yet properly that only is said to mollifie which reduceth a hard substance to its proper temper Driness and thickness of humors being the cause of hardness Emollient Medicines must of necessity be hot and moist and although you may peradventure find some of them dry in the Second or Third Degrees yet must this driness be tempered and qualified with heat and moisture for Reason will tell you that dry Medicines make hard parts harder Besides In Scirrhous humors in which Emollients are most in use various Symptoms appear so that the hardness being not Simple the Emollients are not nor ought not to be alwaies one and the same as for example Sometimes the Swelling abounds with moisture and then the Medicine must be dryer not to mollifie the swelling but to consume the moisture Sometimes the humor is so tough that temperate Medicines will not stir it then must the Medicine be the hotter these things are accedental according as the humor offending is it follows not for all this that Emollient Medicines should not be temperately hot and moist in their own Nature for general Rules are not to be accounted false because a man must sometimes swerve from them for this is the true use of all Rules viz. To vary them according to the various Symptoms of the Disease and herein is the judgment of the Physitians tried Lastly Molifying Medicines are known 1. By their tast 2. By their feeling 1. In tast they are neer unto sweet but Fat and Oyly they are neither sharp nor austere nor sowr nor salt neither do they manifest either binding or vehement heat or cold to be in them 2. In feeling you can perceive no roughness neither do
plain nor an Epistle stuffed as full of Flattery as an Egg is full of meat which I hate to give and you to receive and God hates it in whomsoever he finds it it is sufficient to you and infinite joy to me that your Works declare to the World what you are even in these times when rich Pluto is accounted a better Phylosopher than learned Plato when Godliness is not accounted great Gain as it was in better times than now are but Gain is accounted great Godliness I had Reasons enough to make me bold to dedicate it to you as namely That Ingenuity of your Spirit your excellent Endeavors for the publick Good that admirable Constancy which Honor it self could not choak so that your Splendor like other Justices in Office with you has not gone out like a Candle and left a stinking snuff behind though it hath pleased God to place you in Authority in such an Age that calleth Vertue Vice and Vice Vertue that calleth Good Evil and Evil Good that strike at the Devil and hit Christ in his Saints To whom rather these things considered should I dedicate these my weak Labors than to your self to whom God hath given the Knowledg to discern Vertue from Vice to love the one and hate the other according to that excellent Speech of Plato Oh Knowledg how would men love thee if they did but know thee for as Health is the Conservation of the Body so is Knowledg the Conservation of the Mind which is too too much absconded the more is the pity from the eyes of this languishing Nation and calls aloud for a Cure for as Plato saith in another place If Vertue could take upon her a bodily shape she would be so beautiful as men would be in love with her also if Vice could take upon her a Bodily shape she would be such an ugly beast all men would loath and disdain her for if Drunkards have so many Apish and beastly postures what would Drunkenness it self have which is the Author of them all if that could appear in a visible form This I know you are well versed in the love of a Real Common-wealth may be read in you even through a pair of Spectacles glassed with an inch board this was another argument moving me to dedicate this Book to you which tends towards the furtherance of a Common-wealth and the pulling down a Monopoly extreamly prejudicial yet scarce discernable I must be brief because it is brevity you delight in therefore to use many words I account it needless your kind acceptance of this Book I shall account such a favor as is never to be forgotten The God of Heaven and Earth which hath hitherto preserved your Body in so many dangers and difficulties which you have passed and your Spirit pure in these back-sliding Times still be your Guide and preserve your Spirit Soul and Body untill the time of your Change shall come and present you blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in whom God hath loved you and washed you from your sins in his Blood So praies Sir Your Worships most humble Servant NICH. CULPEPER A Premonitory Epistle TO THE READER Courteous READER THose things which God did make first in the Beginning without means He now preserveth by Means and therefore He hath placed Nature in the World which by Motion acts in all things according to the quality of the thing acted upon as Fire acts upon Wood to make a fire to warm one by or the like therefore as the Cause of Diseases is to be understood to be Natural so is their Cures also to be effected in a Natural way and if you do but consider the whol Universe as one united Body and Man an Epitomy of this Body it will seem strange to none but Mad-men and Fools that the Stars should have influence upon the Body of Man considering he being an Epitomy of the Creation must needs have a Celestial World within himself for to wind the strings a little higher If there be a Trinity in the Deity which is denied but by none but Ranters then must there be a Trinity also in all his Works if there be a Unity in the God-head there must needs be a Unity in all his Works and a dependancy between them and not that God made the Creation to hang together like Ropes of Sand so God made but one world and yet in this one World a Trinity first Elementary which is lowest Secondly Celestial which is next above that Thirdly Intellectual which is highest in degree and happy yea thrice happy is he that attains to it if then Man be capable of the Intellectual World as having an Epitomy of that in himself whereby he knows that there is a God and that God made this World and Governeth it now he hath made it that there are Angels and that he bath an immortal Spirit in himself which causeth him to hope and expect immortality If he have an Epitomy of the Elementary World in himself whereby he searcheth and seeks after the Vertues of Elementary Bodies and the various mixtures of Natural things their Causes Effects Times Fashions Events and how they are produced by the Elements must he not also by the same rule have an Epitomy of the Celestial World within himself by which he searcheth out the Motion and Course of the Celestial Bodies and what their influence is upon the Elements and Elementary Bodies he that denies this let him also deny that the whol world was made for man that so the world may see what he is it is palpable to those that fear God and are conversant either in his Word or in his Works that every inferior world is Governed by its superior and receives influence from it God Himself the only First-being the Maker and Disposer of all things Governs the Celestial World by the Intellectual namely the Angels He governs the Elementary World and all Elementary Bodies by the Celestial World namely the Stars and that 's the reason the influence ' of the Stars reacheth not to the Mind or Rational part of Man because it is an Epitomy of the Intellectual world which is a superior to them but because there is now some Dispute about it I should have said Cavelling by such as would fain have their own Knaveries hidden and therfore they would fain have the Stars made to stop Bottles or else for the Angels to play at bowls with when they had nothing else to do but not rule the Elementary world no by no means We shall prove they rule over the Elementary world first by Scripture secondly by Reason First by Scripture I beseech you read in the first place Genesis 1. 14 15 16 17 18. verses And God said let there be lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to divide the Day from the Night and let them be for SIGNS and for SEASONS and for DAIES and YEARS And let them be for Lights in the Firmament of the
do the like to them and to them that follow this Rule Peace shall be upon them as upon the Israel of God Ita dixit Nich. Culpeper The Names of several Books printed by Peter Cole at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil by the Exchange London Five several Books by Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology 1 A Translation of the New Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London Whereunto is added The Key to Galen ' s Method of Physick 2 A DIRECTORY for Midwives or a Guide for Women 3 GALEN ' s Art of PHYSICK with a large Comment 4 The ENGLISH PHYSITIAN being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation wherein is shewed how to cure a mans self of most Diseases incident to mans Body with such things as grown in England and for three-pence charge Also in the same Book is shewed 1. The time of gathering all Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically 2. The way of drying and keeping them and their Juyces 3. 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The Essence 2. The Causes 3. The Signs 4. The Remedies of the Disease Published in Latin by Dr. Glisson Dr. Bate and Dr. Regemorter now translated into English Mr. Symsons Sermon at Westminster Mr. Feaks Sermon before the Lord Major Mr. Phillips Treatise of Hell of Christs Geneology Seven Books of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs lately published As also the Texts of Scripture upon which they are grounded 1 The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment on Phil. 4. 11. Wherin is shewed 1. What Contentment is 2. It is an holy Art and Mystery 3. The Excellencies of it 4. The Evil of the contrary sin of Murmuring and the Aggravations of it 2 Gospel-Worship on Levit. 10. 3. Wherin is shewed 1. The right manner of the Worship of God in general and particularly In Hearing the Word Receiving the Lords Supper and Prayer 3 Gospel-Conversation on Phil. 1. 17. Wherin is shewed 1. That the Conversations of Beleevers must be above what could be by the Light of Nature 2. Beyond those that lived under the Law 3. And sutable to what Truths the Gospel holds forth To which is added The Misery of those Men that have their Portion in this Life only on Psal. 17. 14. 4 A Treatise of Earthly-mindedness Wherein is shewed 1 What Earthly-mindedness is 2 The great Evil therof on Phil. 3. part of the 19. Vers. Also to the same Book is joyned A Treatise of Heavenly-mindedness and walking with God on Gen. 5. 24. and on Phil. 3. 20. 5 An Exposition on the fourth fifth sixth and seventh Chapters of the Prophesie of Hosea 6 An Exposition on the eighth ninth and tenth Chapters of Hosea 7 An Exposition on the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Chapters of Hosea being now Compleat Twelve several Books of Mr. William Bridg Collected into one Volumn Viz. 1 The great Gospel-Mystery of the Saints Comfort and Holiness opened and applied from Christs Priestly Office 2 Satans Power to Tempt and Christs Love to and Care of His People under Temptation 3 Thankfulness required in every Condition 4 Grace for Grace or the Overflowings of Christs Fulness received by all Saints 5 The Spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural Impossibilities 6 Evangelical Repentance 7 The Spiritual-Life and In-Being of Christ in all Beleevers 8 The Woman of Canaan 9 The Saints Hiding-Place in time of Gods Anger 10 Christs Coming is at our Midnight 11 A Vindication of Gospel Ordinances 12 Grace and Love beyond Gifts A Congregational Church is a Catholike Visible Church By Samuel Stone in New England A Treatise of Politick Power wherein 7 Questions are Answered 1. Whereof Power is made and for what ordained 2. Whether Kings and Governors have an absolute Power over the People 3. Whether Kings and Governors be subject to the Laws of God or the Laws of their Countries 4. How far the People are to obey their Governors 5. Whether all the People have be their Governors 6. Whether it be Lawful to depose an evil Governor 7. What Confidence is to be given to Princes The Compassionate Samaritan Dr. Sibbs on the Philippians The Best and Worst Magistrate by Obadiah Sedgwick The craft and cruelty of the churches Adversaries by Matthew Newcomin A sacred Panygrick by Steph. Martial Barriffs Military Discipline The Immortality of Mans Soul The Anatomist Anatomized King Charls his Case or an Appeal to all rational men concerning his Tryal Mr. Owens stedfastness of the Promises Mr. Owen against Mr. Baxter A Vindication of Free-Grace Indeavoring to prove 1 That we are not elected as holy but that we should be holy and that Election is not of kinds but persons 2. That Christ did not by his death intend to save all men and 〈◊〉 those whom he intended to save that he did not die for them only if they would beleeve but that they might beleeve 3. That we are not justified properly by our beleeving in Christ but by our Christ beleeved in 4. That that which differences one man from another is not the improvement of a common ability restored through Christ to all men in general but a principle of Grace wrought by the Spirit of God in the Elect. By John Pawson Six Sermons Preached by Dr. Hill viz. 1. The Beauty and Sweetness of an Olive Branch of Peace and Brotherly Accommodation budding 2. Truth and Love happily married in the Saints and in the Churches of Christ. 3. The Spring of Strengthning Grace in the Rock of Ages Christ Jesus 4. The strength of the Saints to make Jesus Christ their strength 5. The Best and Worst of Paul 6. Gods eternal Preparations for his dying Saints The Bishop of Canterbury's Speech on the Scaffold The King's Speech on the Scaffold The Magistrates Support and Burden By Mr. John Cardel Eaton on the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant shewing that they oblige not Weights and Measures in the New DISPENSATORY Twenty Grains make a Scruple Three Scruples make a Drachm Eight Drachms make an Ounce Twelve
Bur Clot-bur or Burdock temperately hot and dry Helps such as spit blood and matter bruised and mixed with salt and applied to the place helps the bitings of mad-dogs It expels wind easeth pains of the teeth strengthens the back helps the running of the reins and the whites in women being taken inwardly Behen alb rub Of Valerian white and red Mesue Serapio and other Arabians say they are hot and moist in the latter end of the first or beginning of the second degree and comfort the heart stir up lust The Graecians held them to be dry in the second degree that they stop fluxes and provoke urine Bellidjs Of Dacies See the Leaves Betae nigrae albae rubrae Of Beets black white and red as for black Beets I have nothing to say I doubt they are as rare as black Swans The red Beet root boyled and preserved in Vinegar makes a fine cool pleasing clensing digesting sawce See the Leaves Bistortae c. Of Bistort or Snakeweed cold and dry in the third degree binding the quantity of half a dram at a time taken inwardly resist pestilence and poyson helps ruptures and bruises staies fluxes vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women helps inflamations and soreness of the mouth and fastens loose teeth being bruised and boyled in white Wine and the mouth washed with it Borraginis Of Borrage hot and moist in the first degree cheers the heart helps drooping spirits Brionae c. Of Briony both white and black they are both hot and dry some say in the third degree and some say but in the first they purge flegm and watry humors but they trouble the stomach much they are very good for dropsies the white is most in use and is admirable good for the fits of the Mother both of them externally used take away Freckles Sun-burning and Morphew from the face and clense filthy Ulcers It is but a churlish purge but being let alone can do no harm Buglossi Of Bugloss Its vertues are the same with Borrage and the Roots of either seldom used Bulbus Vomitorius A vomiting Root I never read of it elsewhere by this general name Calami Aromatici Of Aromatical Reed or sweet garden flag It provokes Urine strengthens the lungues helps bruises resists poyson c. being taken inwardly in pouder the quantity of half a drachm at a time In beating of it be very speedy for the strength will quickly fly out You may mix it with Syrup of Violets if your body be feaverish Capparum Of Cappar Roots Are hot and dry in the second degree cutting and clensing they provoke the Terms help malignant Ulcers case the Toothach asswage Swellings and help the Rickets See Oyl of Cappers Cariophillatae c. Of Avens or Herb Bennet The Roots are dry and somthing hot of a cleansing quality they keep garments from being moth-eaten See the Leaves Caulium Of Coleworts I know nothing the Roots are good for but only to bear the the herbs and flowers Centaurij Majoris Of Centaury the greater The Roots help such as are bursten such as spit blood shrinking of sinews shortness of wind Coughs Convulsions Cramps half a drachm in pouder being taken inwardly either in Muschadel or in a Decoction of the same Roots They are either not at all or very scarce in England our Centaury is the smal Centaury Cepae Of Onions Are hot and dry according to Galen in the fourth degree they cause driness and are extreamly 〈◊〉 for cholerick people they breed but little nourishment and that little is naught they are bad meat yet good Physick for flegmatick people they are opening and provoke Urine and the terms if cold be the cause obstructing bruised and outwardly applied they cure the bitings of mad dods rosted and applied they help Boils and Aposthumes raw they take the fire out of burnings but ordinarily eaten they cause head-ach spoil the sight dull the sences and fill the body full of wind Chameleontis albi nigri c. Of Chameleon white and black Tragus calleth the Carline Thistle by the name of white Chameleon the root whereof is hot in the second degree and dry in the third it provokes sweat kils worms resists pestilence and poyson it is given with success in pestilential feavers helps the tooth-ach by being chewed in the mouth opens the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen it provokes urine and brings down the terms give but little of it at a time by reason of its heat As for the black Chemeleon All Physicians hold it to have a kind of venemous quality and unfit to be used inwardly both Galen Clusius Nicander Dioscorides and Aegineta Outwardly in Oyntments it is profitable for Scabs Morphew Tetters c. and all things that need clensing Chelidonij majoris minoris Of Celondine the greater and lesser The greater is that which we usually call Celondine The Root is manifestly hot and dry clensing and scouring proper for such as have the yellow Jaundice it opens obstructions of the Liver being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk and if chewed in the mouth it helps the tooth-ach 〈◊〉 the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewort which though Galen and Dioscorides teach to be hot in the fourth degree and might happily be so in those Countries where they lived yet with us it scarce exceeds the first degree the Juyce of the root mixed with Honey and snuffed up into the nose purgeth the Head helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles being bathed with it as also doth the root only carried about one being made into an Oyntment helps the disease in the neck commonly called the Kings Evil. China wonderfully extenuateth and drieth provoketh sweat resisteth putrefaction it strengthens the Liver helps the Dropsie and malignant Ulcers Leprosie Itch and French-pocks and is profitable in Diseases coming of fasting It is commonly used in diet drinks for the premises Cichoris Of Succory cools and dries in the second degree strengthens the Liver and Veins it opens obstructions stoppings of the Liver and Spleen being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk Colchici Of Meadow-Saffron The Roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach therefore I let them alone Consolidae majoris minoris Consolida major is that which we ordinarily call Comfry it is of a cold quality yet pretty temperate of such a gluttenous quality that according to Dioscorides they will joyn meat together that is cut in sunder if they be boyled with it it is excellent for all wounds both internal and external for spitting of blood Ruptures or Burstness pains in the back it strengthens the Reins it stops the Terms and helpeth Hemorrholds The way to use them is to boyl them in water and drink the Decoction Consolida minor is that we call Self-heal and the Latins Prunella See the Herb. Costi utriusque Of Costus both sorts being Roots coming from beyond Sea hot and dry break wind being boyld in Oyl it is
dropsies it is very hurtful to the stomach and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon Ginger or Annis-seeds c. Yet the German Physitians affirm that it cures the dropsie being only bruised and applied to the navil and somthing lower and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all Sonchus levis Asper Sowthistles smooth and rough they are of a cold watry yet binding quality good for frenzies they encrease milk in Nurses and cause the children which they nurse to have a good color help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause outwardly they help inflamations and hot swellings cool the heat of the fundament and privities 〈◊〉 Chirurgorum Flixweed drying without any manifest heat or coldness it is usually found about old ruinous buildings it is so called because of its vertue in stopping fluxes 〈◊〉 highly commends it nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulaes which though our modern Chyrurgians despise yet if it were in the hands of a wise man such as Paracelsus was it may do the wonders he saith it will Spinachia Spinage I never read any physical vertues of it Spina alba See the Root Spica See Nardus Staebe Silver Knapweed The vertues be the same with Scabious and some think the Herbs too though I am of another opinion Staechas French Lavender Cassidony is a great counterpoyson open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen clenseth the matrix and bladder brings out corrupt humors provokes urine There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name of Amaranthus in English Golden flower or Flower-gentle the flowers of which expel worms being boyled the water kils Lice and Nits Succisa Monsus Dioboli Devils-bit Hot and dry in the second degree inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother and breaks wind takes away swellings in the mouth and slimy flegm that sticks to the jaws neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck which the vulgar call the Almonds of the ears than this Herb bruised and applied to them Suchaha And Egyptian Thorn Very hard if not impossible to come by here And here the Colledg make another racket about the several sorts of Comfryes which I pass by with silence having spoken to them before Tanacetum Tansie hot in the second degree and dry in the third the very smel of it staies abortion or miscarriages in women so it doth being bruised and applied to their navils provokes urine and easeth pains in making water and is a special help against the Gout Taraxacon Dandelyon or to write better French Dent-de-lyon for in plain English it is called Lyons-tooth it is a kind of Succory and thither I refer you Tamariscus Tamaris It hath a dry clensing quality and hath a notable vertue against the Rickets and infirmities of the Spleen provokes the terms Telephium A kind of Orpine Thlaspi See Nasturtium Thymbra A wild Savory Thymum Tyme Hot and dry in the third degree helps coughs and shortness of breath provokes the terms brings away dead children and the after-birth purgeth flegm clenseth the breast and lungues reins and matrix helps the Sciatica pains in the breast expels wind in any part of the body resisteth fearfulness and melancholly continual pains in the head and is profitable for such as have the Falling-sickness to smell to Thymaelea The Greek name for Spurge-Olive Mezereon being the Arabick name Tithymalus Esula c. Spurge Hot and dry in the fourth degree a dogged purge better let alone than taken inwardly hair anointed with the juyce of it will fall off it kills Fish being mixed with any thing that they will eat outwardly it clenseth ulcers takes away freckles sunburning and morphew from the face Tormentilla See the Root Trinitatis herba Pansies or Hearts-ease They are cold and moist both Herbs and Flowers excellent against inflamatious of the breast or lungs Convulsions and Falling sickness also they are held to be good for the French Pocks Trifolium Trefoil dry in the third degree and cold The ordinary Medow Trefoil for their word comprehends all sorts clenseth the guts of slimy humors that stick to them being used either in Drinks or Clysters outwardly they take away inflamations Pliny saith the Leaves stand upright before a storm which I have observed to be true oftener than once or twice and that in a cleer day 14. hours before the storm came Tussilago Colts-foot something cold and dry and therefore good for inflamations they are admirable good for Coughs and Consumptions of the lungues shortness of breath c. It is often used and with good success taken in a Tobacco-pipe being cut and mixed with a little oyl of Annis seeds See the Syrup of Colts-foot Valeriana Valerian or Setwal See the Roots Verbascum Thapsus Barbatus Mullin or Higtaper It is something dry and of a digesting clensing quality stops fluxes and the hemorroids it cures hoarcness the cough and such as are broken winded the Leaves worn in the shooes provokes the terms especially in such Virgins as never had them but they must be worn next their feet also they say that the Herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo and the Moon in Aries in their mutual Antiscions helps such of the falling-sickness as do but carry it about them worn under the feet it helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother Verbena Vervain hot and dry a great opener clenser and healer it helps the yellow jaundice defects in the reins and bladder pains in the head if it be but bruised and hung about the neck all diseases in the secret parts of men and women made into an ointment it is a sovereign remedy for old head-aches called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as also frenzies it cleers the skin and causeth a lovely colour Veronica See Betonica Pauli Violarla Violet Leaves They are cool ease pains in the head proceeding of heat and frenzies either inwardly taken or outwardly applied heat of the stomach or inflamation of the lungues Vitis Vinifera The Manuted Vine The Leaves are binding and cool withal the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine scour the teeth and make them as white as snow the Leaves stop bleeding fluxes heart-burnings vomitings as also the longing of women with child Vincitoxicum Swallow-wort A pultis made with the Leaves helps sore breasts and also soreness of the matrix Virga Pastoris A third name for Teazles Thus you see the Colledg will be surer than the Miller who took his toll but twice See Dipsacus Virga Auria See Consolida Ulmaria See the Root Meadsweet Umbilious Veneris Navel-wort Cold dry and binding therefore helps all inflamations they are very good for kib'd heels being bathed with it and a leaf laid over the sore Urtica Nettles an herb so well known that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night they are something
A. 7. If they can make a shift to make it which is a task almost if not altogether as hard as to piss down Pauls how or which way the vertues of it wil countervail the one half of the charge and cost to leave the pains and trouble out 〈◊〉 Dr. Ignoramus followed Matthias and never considered he lived in a different Climate Spiritus Castorii Page 32. in the Latin Book Or Spirit of Castorium The Colledg Take of fresh Castorium four ounces Lavender flower an ounce the tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drams Mace Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pound digest them in a Phial filled only to the third part close stopped with cork and bladder in warm ashes for two daies then distilled in Balneo Mariae and the distilled water kept close stopped Culpeper A. By reason of its heat it is no waies fit to be taken alone but mixed with other convenient medicines apropriated to the diseases you would give it for It resists poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy deliver y to women in travail and casteth out the after birth it helps the fits of the mother Lethargies and Convulsions being mixed with white Wine and dropped into the ears it helps deafness if stopping be the cause of it the dose to be given inwardly is between one drachm and half a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Aqua Petasitidis composita Page 32. in Latin Book Or Compound water of 〈◊〉 Burrs The Colledg Take of the fresh roots of Butter Burr bruised one pound and an half the roots of Angelica and Master-wort of each half a pound steep them in ten pints of strong Ale then distil them till the change of the tast gives testimony that the strength is drawn out Culpeper A. This water is very effectual being mixed with other convenient cordials for such as have pestilential feavers also a spoonful taken in the morning may prove a good preservative in pestilential times it helps the fits of the mother and such as are short winded and being taken inwardly dries up the moisture of such sores as are hard to be cured Aqua Raphani Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Compound water of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of the leaves of hoth sorts of Scurvy-grass of each six pound having bruised them press the 〈◊〉 out of them with which mix of the Juyce of Brooklime and Water-cesses of each one pound and an half of the best white wine eight pound twelve whole Lemmons pills and all fresh 〈◊〉 roots four pound the roots of wild Raddishes two pound Capt. winters Cinnamon half a pound Nutmegs four ounces steep them altogether and then distil them Culpeper A. In their former Dispensatory when they had that Ingenuity left to confess where they had their medicines I gave them a modest term and said they borrowed them from such or such an Author but now all ingenuity hath left them and nothing but Self remains in them and they abscond their Authors I know not what to say unless I should say they stole them whether this be their own or not I know not 't is something like them a churlish medicine to a churlish Colledg I fancy it not and so I leave it I suppose they intended it for purgation of women in childbed and 't is as fit for it as a Sow is for a Saddle Aqua Peoniae Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Or Compound water of Peony The Colledg Take of the flowers of Lillies of the vally one pound infuse them in four gallons of Spanish Wine so long til the following flowers may be had fresh Take of the fore named flowers half a pound Peony flowers four ounces steep them together fourteen daies then distil them in Balneo Mariae til they be dry in the distilled liquor infuse again male Peony roots gathered in due time two ounces and an half white Dittany long Birthwort of each half an ounce the leaves of Misleto of the Oak and Rue of each two handfuls Peony seeds husked ten drachms Rue seeds three drachms and an half Castorium two scruples Cubebs Mace of each two drachms 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Squils prepared three drachms Rosemary flowers six pugils Arabian 〈◊〉 Lavender of each four pugils the flowers of Betony Clove-gilli-flowers and Cowslips of each eight pugils then adding four pound of the Juyce of black cherries Distil it in a glass stil til it be dry Culpeper A. It seems the Colledg was shrewdly put to it to alter the name of this Receipt from Langius his Antepileptical water to Compound water of Peony a new trick to cheat the world and they have also altered some few things not worth the noting A. If the Authority of Erastus or daily experience wil serve the turn then was this Receipt chiefly compiled against the Convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sickness also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies Falling sickness and indeed Erastus and experience pleads for this also It is true the Composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best at this time for their minds are mutable A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the Water a word or two of the Use will not be amiss Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the falling sickness only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwill ing to be tedious Then saith he if the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weakly then let it be taken only at the new and ful Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Bezoartica 34. in the Latin Book Or Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of the leaves of Sullendine roots and al three handfuls and an half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfuls Dittany of creet Carduus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angellica roots of each three drachms Citrons and Lemmon pills of each six drachms Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an half red Roses Centaury the less of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each three drachms Venis Treacle three ounces Mithridate one ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of vipers two ounces Mace two drachms wood of Aloes half an ounce yellow Sanders one drachm and an half Cardus seeds one ounce Citron seeds six drachms let
the Body of Man It doth it by an hidden quality For they not minding the whol Creation as one United Body not knowing what belongs to 〈◊〉 Influence nor regarding that excellent Harmony the only wise God hath made in a composition of Contraries in the knowledg of which consists the whol ground and foundation of Physick no more than a Horse that goes along the street regards when the Clock strikes are totally led by the Nose by that Monster TRADITION who seldom begets any Children but they prove either Fools or Knaves and this makes them so brutish that they can give a Reason for the operation of no Medicine but what is an Object to Sence this their Worships call Manifest and the other Hidden because it is hidden from them and alwaies will if they search no further after it than hitherto they have done A Common-wealth is well holp up with such Physitians that are not only so ignorant but also so careles of knowing the foundation upon which the whol Fabrick of Physick ought to be built and not upon Tradition They profess themselves Galenists I would civilly encreat them but seriously to peruse and labor to be well skilled in the Astronomy of Galen and Hippocrates I confess and am glad to think of it That all Ages have afforded some wise Physitians well skilled in the Principles of what they profess of which this our Age is not wanting and they begin to encrease daily As for others my comfort is That their whol Model will not stand long because it is 〈◊〉 upon the Sand. And if I be not mistaken in my Calculation there are searching times coming and with speed too in which every building that is not built upon the Rock shall fall The Lord will make a quick search upon the face of the Earth But to return to my purpose It is the Manifest Qualities of Medicines that here I am to speak to and you may be pleased to behold it in this order Sect. 1. Of the Temperature of Medicines Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation  Sect. 3. Of the Properties  Sect. 1. Of the Temperáture of Medicines HErbs Plants and other Medicines manifestly operate either by Heat Coldness Driness or Moisture for the world being composed of so many qualities they and only they can be found in the world and the mixtures of them one with another But that these may appear as cleer as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian I shall treat of them severally and in this order 1. Of Medicines Temperate 2. Of Medicines Hot. 3. Of Medicines Cold. 4. Of Medicines Moist 5. Of Medicines Dry. Of Medicines Temperate IF the world be composed of Extreams then it acts by Extreams for as the man is so is his work therefore it is impossible that any Medicine can be temperate but may be reduced to Heat Cold Driness or Moisture and must operate I mean such as operate by manifest quality by one of these because there is no other to operate by and that there should be such a temperate mixture so exquisitely of these qualities in any Medicine that one of them should not manifestly excel the other I doubt it is a Systeme too rare to find Thus then I conclude the matter to be Those Medicines are called Temperate not because they have no excess of Temperature at all in them which can neither be said to heat nor cool so much as wil amount to the first degree of excess for daily experience witnesseth that they being added to Medicines change not their qualities they make them neither hotter nor colder They are used in such Diseases where there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold for example In obstructions of the Bowels where cold Medicines might make the Obstruction greater and hot Medicines cause a Feaver In Feavers of Flegm where the cause is cold and moist and the effect hot and dry in such use temperate Medicines which may neither encrease the Feaver by their heat nor condensate the Flegm by their coldness Besides Because Contraries are taken away by their Contraries and every Like maintained by its Like They are of great use to preserve the constituion of the Body temperate and the Body it self in strength and vigor and may be used without danger or fear of danger by considering what part of the Body is weak and vsing such temperate Medicines as are apropriated to that part Of Medicines Hot THe care of the Ancient Physitians was such that they did not labor to hide from but impart to posterity not only the temperature of Medicines in general but also their degrees in temperature that so the distempered part may be brought to its temperature and no further for all things which are of a contrary temperature conduce not to cure but the strength of the contrariety must be observed that so the Medicine may be neither weaker nor stronger than just to take away the distemper for if the distemper be but meanly hot and you apply a Medicine cold in the Fourth Degree 't is true you may soon remove that distemper of Heat and bring another of Cold twice as bad Then Secondly Not only the distemper it self but also the part of the body distempered must be heeded for if the Head be distempered by Heat and you give such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you will bring another Disease and not cure the former The Degrees then of Temperature are to be diligently heeded which ancient Physitians have concluded to be Four in the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold of each of which we shall speak a word or two severally Of Medicines Hot in the first Degree THose are said to be hot in the first Degree which induce a Moderate and Natural heat to the Body and to the Parts thereof either cold by Nature or cooled by accedent by which Natural heat is cherished when weak or restored when wanting The first Effect then of Medicines hot in the first Degree is by their sweat and temperate heat to reduce the Body to its natural heat as the fire doth the external parts in cold weather unless the affliction of cold be so great that such mild Medicines will not serve the turn The Second Effect is The Mitigation of pain arising from such a distemper and indeed this effect hath other Medicines some that are cold and some that are hotter than the first degree they being rationally applyed to the distemper these Medicines the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shall be spoken of in their proper places In this place let it suffice that Medicines hot in the first degree make the offending humors thin expel them by sweat or insensible transpiration and these of all other are most congruous or agreeable to the Body of Man for there is no such equal temperature of heat and cold in a sound Man but heat exceeds for we live by heat and moisture and not
sharp help the Roughness of the Wind-pipe or are gently lenitive and softning being outwardly applied to the Breast CHAP. 3. Of Medicines apropriated to the Heart THese are they that are generally given under the notion of Cordials take them under that name here The Heart is the seat of the vital Spirit the fountain of life the original of infused heat and of the natural affections of man So then these Two Things are proper to the Heart 1. By its heat to cherish life thorow out the Body 2. To add vigor to the Affections And if these be proper to the Heart you will easily grant me that it is the property of Cordials to administer to the Heart in these Particulars Of Cordials some cheare the Mind some strengthen the Heart and refresh the Spirits thereof being decayed Those which checr the Mind are not one and the same for as the Heart is variously disturbed either by Anger Love Fear Hatred Sadness c. So such things as flatter Lovers or appease the Angry or comfort the Fearful or please the Hateful may well be called Cordials for the Heart seeing it is placed in the middle between the Brain and the Liver is wrought upon by Reason aswell as by Digestion yet these because they are not Medicines are beside my present scope And altough it is true That Mirth Love c. are actions or motions of the Mind not of the Body yet many have bin induced to think such Affections may be wrought in the Body by Medicines which some hold is done by an hidden property the old Bush ignorant Physitians have run into Others that denied any hidden quality in Medicines held it to be done by Enchantment and that is the only way of a thousand to lead people in ignorance viz. To tell them when they cannot give nor will not study a reason of a thing It is Diabolical and done by Sorcery I could give a Reason of the former if it were my present scope to speak of hidden properties a very short time will discover the latter to be the greatest of Falshoods But to return to my purpose The Heart is chiefly afflicted by too much heat by Poyson and by stinking Vapors and these are remedied by the second sort of Cordials and indeed chicfly belong to our present scope According to these Three Afflictions viz. 1. Excessive heat 2. Poyson 3. Melancholly vapors Are Three kinds of Remedies which succor the afflicted Heart Such as 1. By their cooling Nature mitigate the heat of Feavers 2. Resist Poyson 3. Cherish the vital Spirits when they 〈◊〉 All these are called Cordials 1. Such as cool the Heart in Feavers yet is not every thing that cooleth Cordial for Lead is colder than Gold yet is not Lead Cordial as Gold is some hold it Cordial by hidden Quality others by Reason Because it cheers a mans heart to see he hath gotten Money an Apish Reason unbeseeming a Scholer for Pearls taken inwardly cool the heart and cheer it exceedingly and such a frigid Reason will no waies hold in that what Medicines do by hidden Quality is not my task at present it may be hereafter only here let it suffice that cool Cordials are such Medicines as are apropriated to the Heart and let the Heart be afflicted with heat else take them not for fear of Cordials they prove ruptures for the Heart is maintained by heat and not by cold 2. Such as resist Poyson There is a two-fold resisting of Poyson 1. By an Antipathy between the Medicine and the Poyson 2. By a Sympathy between the Medicine and the Heart Of the First we shall speak anon in a Chapter by it self The latter belongs to this Chapter and they are such Medicines whose nature is to strengthen the Heart and fortifie it against the Poyson as Rue Angelica c. For as the operation of the former is upon the Poyson which afflicteth the Heart so the operation of the latter is upon the Heart afflicted by the Poyson To this Classis may be referred all such Medicines as strengthen the Heart either by Astral influence or by likeness of substance if there be such a likeness in Medicines for a Bullocks heart is of like substanceto a Mans yet I question whether it be Cordial or not 3. And lastly Such as refresh the Spirits and make them lively and active both because they are apropriated to that Office and also because they drive stinking and Melancholly vapors from the Heart for as the Animal spirits be refreshed by fragant smels and the Natural Spirits by Spices so are the vital Spirits refreshed by al such Medicins as keep back Melancholly vapors from the Heart as Borrage Bugloss Rosemary Citron Pills the Compositions of them and many others which this Treatise will amply furnish you with CHAP. 4. Of Medicines apropriated to the Stomach BY Stomach I mean that Ventricle which contains the Food till it be concocted into Chyle Medicines apropriated to the Stomach are usually called Stomachicals The infirmities usually incident co the Stomach are Three 1. Appetite lost 2. Digestion weakened 3. The retentive Faculty corrupted When Appetite is lost the man feels no hunger when his Body needs Nourishment When Digestion is weakened it is not able to concoct the meat received into the Stomach but it putrifies there When the retentive Faculty is spoiled the Stomach is not able to retain the Food till it be digested but either vomits it up again or causeth Fluxes Such Medicines then as remedy all these are called Stomachicals And of them in order 1. Such as provoke Appetite are usually of a sharp or sourish tast and yet withal of a grateful tast to the Pallat for although loss of appetite may proceed from divers causes as from Choller in the Stomach or putrified humors or the like yet such things as purge this Choller or humors are properly called Orecticks not Stomachicals the former strengthen Appetite after these are expelled 2. Such Medicines help Digestion as strengthen the Stomach either by convenient heat or Aromatical viz. spicy faculty by hidden property or congruity of Nature by which last the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard dried and beaten to Pouder and taken in Wine in the morning fasting is an exceeding strengthener of Digestion because those Creatures have such strong Digestions themselves 3. The retentive Faculty of the Stomach is corrected by binding Medicines yet not by all binding Medicines neither for some of them are adverse to the Stomach but by such binding Medicines as are apropriated to the Stomach For the Use of these 1. Use not such Medicines as provoke Appetite before you have clensed the Stomach of what hinders it 2. Such Medicines as help Digestion which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 give them a good time before meat that so they may pass to the bottom of the Stomach for the digestive Faculty lies there before the food come into it 3. Such as strengthen the
Emolients like to them in temperature only Emollients are mething hotter Yet is there a difference as apparent as the Sun is when he is upon the Meridian and the use is manifest For Emollients are to make hard things soft but what Suppures rather makes a generation than an alteration of the humor Natural heat is the efficient cause of Suppuration neither can it be done by any external means Therefore such things are said to suppure which by a gentle heat cherish the inbred heat of man This is done by such Medicines which are not only temperate in heat but also by a gentle viscosity fill up or stop the Pores that so the heat of the part affected be not scattered For although such things as bind hinder the dissipation of the Spirits and internal heat yet they retain not the moisture as Suppuring Medicines properly and especially do The heat then of Suppuring Medicines is like the internal heat of our Bodies As things then very hot are ingrateful either by biting as Pepper or bitterness in Suppuring Medicines no biting no binding no nitrous quality is perceived by the tast I shall give you better satisfaction both in this and others by and by For Reason will tell a man that such things hinder rather than help the work of Nature in Maturation Yet it follows not from hence That all Suppuring Medicines are grateful to the tast for many things grateful to the tast provoke Vomiting therefore why may not the contrary be The most frequent use of Suppuration is to ripen Phlegmonae a general term Physitians give to all swellings proceeding of Blood because Nature is very apt to help such cures and Physick is an art to help not to hinder Nature The time of Use is usually in the height of the disease when the flux is staied as also to ripen matter that it may be the easier purged away Chap. 14. Of Medicines provoking Urin. THe causes by which Urine is suppressed are many 1. By too much drying or sweating it may be consumed 2. By heat or inflamation of the Reins or passages whereby it passes from the Reins it may be stopped by compression Urin is the thinnest part of Blood separated from the thickest part in the Reins If then the Blood be more thick and viscous than ordinary it cannot easily be separated without cutting and clensing Medicines This is for certain That Bloud can neither be separated nor distributed without heat Yet amongst Diureticks are some cold things as the four greater cold Seeds Winter-Cherries and the like Although this seem a wonder yet may it be and both stand with truth For cool Diureticks though they further not the separation of the Bloud one jet yet they clense and purge the passages of the Urin. Diureticks then are of two sorts 1. Such as conduce to the separation of the Bloud 2. Such as open the Urinal passages The former are biting and are known by that tast very hot and cutting whence they penetrate to the Reins and cut the gross humors there Bitter things although they be very hot and cut gross humors yet are they of a 〈◊〉 and terrene substance than is convenient to provoke Urin. Hence then we may safely gather That bitter things are not so moist nor penetrating as such as bite like Pepper Those cold things which provoke Urin though they bite not yet have they a nitrous quality whereby they open and clense For the Use of these the Title will instruct you only lest they carry the humors they find in the Veins to the Reins and so make the stopping the greater purge those places they must pass through before you administer them CHAP. 15. Of Medicines provoking the Terms THose Medicines have a great affinity with those before going For such as provoke the Terms provoke also Urine their Nature is almost the same viz. Hot and of thin essence Only thus much to provoke the Terms not only the Blood is to be attenuated but the mouths of the Vessels also to be opened Such as open those Vessels carry a certain terrene quality with them whereby they not only penetrate but also penetrating dilate the Vessels and carry away the filth with them Things provoking the Terms ought to be hot in the third Degree and yet not very dry That there is an appointed time for the Terms to come down every Woman that is but sixteen years old can tell you Be sure you administer the Medicine at the time they should come down else you will do no other good than weaken Nature Neither must those things be neglected which may bring the Body into a fit temper for such a business If the Body be full of ill humors purge them out first before you administer hot things lest you 〈◊〉 the crude humors into the Veins By avoyding the Menstruis the Body is made lighter and nature disburthened health 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 procured The retaining of them breeds Dropsies Falling-sickness and other cruel Diseases yea sometimes Madness Hippocrates denies any Women have the Gout so long as they have the Terms Chap. 16. Medicines breeding or taking away Milk SEing Milk is bred of Blood there is no question to be made but the way to encrease Milk is to encrease the Blood Yet though Blood be very copious it doth not alwaies follow that Milk must of necessity be so too for the Bloud may be naught or not fit to be turned into Milk or impedited that it cannot Those things are properly said to breed Milk which breed much Bloud and it good and have a moderate cutting faculty also Such things then as breed Milk are hot and of thin parts yet differ much from those that provoke Urine or the Terms The other Being vehemently hot these which breed Milk temperately hot And if driness be adverse to the provoking of the Terms certainly it is most adverse to breeding 〈◊〉 Medicines which breed Milk are in 〈◊〉 either 〈◊〉 or sweet For seeing both Blood and Milk are temperate or at least very moderately hot they must be bred of such things as are not unlike to them in Nature Such things as lessen Milk must needs be contrary to such things as encrease it This is done by drying or thickning the Blood They are known by tast bitter sharp tart 〈◊〉 c. and whatsoever is excessive either in heat or cold If the Body be full of evil juyce purge it before you go about to breed Milk for the more you nourish impure Bodies the more you offend them Chap. 17. Of Medicines regarding the Seed AS Milk so also Seed takes his Original from Blood Therfore of necessity nourishing meats 〈◊〉 much Seed because they beget much Blood This is the difference between such things as breed Milk and such as breed Seed Seed requires a more windy 〈◊〉 than the other doth For this faculty ought to be in Seed that being heat with spirits it may cause the Yard to stand Such Medicines are temperately
and oppressed the Fountain of Life therefore have they invented another faculty to stay their motion viz. Terrene and Emplastick For they judg if the Poyson light upon these Medicines they embrace them round with a viscous quality Also they say the waies and passages are stopped by such means to hinder their proceeding take Terra Lemnia for one Truly if these Reasons be good which I leave to future time to determin it may be done for a little cost Some are of opinion that the safest way is to expel the Poyson out of the Body so soon as may be and that is done by Vomit or Purge or Sweat You need not question the time but do it assoon as may be for there is no Parlying with Poyson Let Vomiting be the first Purging the next and Sweating the last This is general But If thou doest but observe the nature and motion of he Venem that will be thy best Instructer In the Stomach it requires Vomiting in the Bloud and Spirits Sweating if the Body be Plethorick Bleeding if full of evil humors Purging Lastly The Cure being ended strengthen the parts afflicted Thus our common Physitians But out of question Medecines whose operation is by Astral influence are both safest and speediest not only in this but in all other Diseases but this is beside my present scope and Physitians confess is hid from their eyes that belongs to my own Model which I trust in God I shall live to perfect This is that that curés diseases per se the other per accidens this Moderns quite neglected some Ancients were groping at it though left it not to posterity Chap. 23. Of Medicines Adorning the Body SUch Medicines as adorn the Body adding Comliness and Beauty to it are called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beauty is a blessing of God and every one ought to preserve it they offend as much that neglect it as they do that paint their Faces They are apropriated to the Skin Hair and Teeth The Skin is pestered with Spots Pimples Freckles Wrinkles and Sunburning The Hair either fals off or hangs not as it should do The Teeth are either loose or fal out or stink or are black Spots and Sun-burning as also blackness of the Teeth are to be taken away by clensing Medicines of which before Redness of the Face proceedeth from diverse causes therefore are the remedies as diverse If of heat cool the Blood if it be impacted to the Skin use extenuating Medicines if of both use both If the failing be extrinsecal use extrinsecal Medicines if intrinsecal let the remedy be so also Wrinkles are taken away by Laxative Lenient and Emollient Medicines For falling off of Hair correct the pravity of the humor that causeth it Gentle heat breeds hair and preserves it clensing and corrhoding Medicines take it away Drying and binding Medicines cause Hair to curl Clensing things make the Teeth clean binding things strengthen them but have a care they have not a blackish quality with them which is incident to many binding Medicines Clensing and discussing Medicines take Scurf or Dandrif from the Head In all these see the Bowels be clean else local Medicines are applied in vain In preserving Hair only two things are considerable 1. To contract the pores 2. To see that the Hair have nourishment Chap. 24. Of Purging Medicines MUch jarring hath been amongst Physitians about Purging Medicines namely whether they draw the humors to them by a hidden quality which in plain English is they know not how or whether they perform their office by a manifest quality viz. By heat driness coldness or moisture It is not my present scope to enter the lists of a Dispute about the business neither seems it such a hidden thing to me that every like should draw its like only to make the matter as plain as I can I subdivide this Chapter into these following Parts 1. Cautions concerning Purging 2. Of the choice purging Medicines 3. Of the time of taking them 4. Of the correcting of them 5. Of the manner of Purging Cautions concerning Purging IN this first consider diligently and be exceeding cautious in it too what the matter offending is what part of the Body is afflicted by it and which is the best way to bring it out Only here by the way first have a care of giving Vomits for they usually work more violently and afflict the Body more than Purges do therefore are not fit for weak Bodies be sure the matter offending lie in the tunicle of the Stomach else is a Vomit given in vain Secondly Vomits are more dangerous for Women than Men especially such as are either with Child or subject to the Fits of the Mother This is the first Caution Secondly What Medicine is apropriated to the purging of such a humor for seeing the offending matter is not alike in all the purging Medicine ought not to be the same to all I shall speak more of this anon As also of the divers waies whereby Medicines draw out or cast out humors viz. By lenifying clensing provoking Nature to expulsion and which is stranger than the Doctors hidden Quality some purge by binding but indeed and in truth such as are properly called purging Medicines which besides these faculties have gotten another by which they draw or call out the humors from the most remote parts of the Body whether these do it by heat or by an hidden quality Physitians are scarce able to determin it being very well known to modern Physitians though the Ancient denied it that many cold Medicines purge For my part I shall forbear the Dispute here not because I am not able to answer it but because I would train up my Country men first a little better in the Grounds of Physick it being my Opinion that yong Physitians as well as yong Christians ought not to be led into doubtful Disputations This is the Second Caution Thirdly There is this Faculty in all the Purges of Galen's Model because he gives the whol Simple which must needs consist of divers qualities because the Creation is made up of and consists by a harmony of contraries there is I say this Faculty in all Purges of that Nature that they contain in them a substance which is inimical both to the Stomach and Bowels and some are of opinion this doth good namely Provokes Nature the more to expulsion the reason might be good if the Foundation of it were so for by this reason Nature her self should purge not the Medicine and a Physitian who takes his name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Nature should help Nature in her business and not hinder her But to forbear being critical this substance which I told you was inimical to the Stomach must be corrected in every Purge And this is my Third Caution Fourthly The choice of Purging Medicines is very difficult they are not Physick for every Ignoramus to prescribe for some purge gently some violently some are apropriated to