belonging to children is increased and multiplied with nourishmentes vntill adolescencie be perfected and afterward shorteneth decayeth and falleth away as the somme◠dayes vpon the approchment of winter And therefore he sayth that generation is colde and moyst As a kernell throwne into cold earth is by the naturall operation of the earth nourished by one degree to another vntill it become a plant and so forth vnto a perfect tree so is bloud and heate directed to increase and arise from generation to conception vntill a perfect birth be performed to infancie and then forwardes to childhoode vntill adolescencie be consummat This reason standeth verie proper to manie dispositions As touching adolescencie it is most largely set downe in the second of the Aphorisines touching wormes in yoong men proceeding of an intentiue heat and by the same reason adolescency more easily falleth into sharpe feauers than children First not onely because heat is in them more intentiue but also sharpe and dry all which is manifested by touching and feeling the complexion whether in the course of blood it be soft or hard for those kindes of feauers are of diuers natures which eyther by an extreame deuoydance or defect of blood doo aswell offend the arteries as other principall members the heart the lyuer the lunges the stomach and the raines which in their vegetatiue nature are wasted and consumed so that by the highest degree of daunger the spirites vitall naturall and animall are excessiuely infoizned or in an other respect the naturall humoures boyles and seethes about the stomach or the braines oftimes are vanquished by strong vapoures so that both giddinesse distempereth the head and disapetteth the stomach and the rather if naturall heat be interdicted from all rightfull and due passage in the vaines for which respect these rotten feauers doo growe vpon adolescencie in the contagion aforesaid or els by reason of grosse blood salt fleame or prassiue choller or melancholious sorrowe or by distemperance of mordinate heat in the sunne or putrified ayres or inordinate surfets or for lacke of exercises There are diuers sortes of these feauers hauing diuers natural inconuemences attending vpon them Some of them are called humerall some are called Ephimerae some are called Hecticae some are called Capillares These feauers haue diuers secreet perils depending vpon them and oftentimes when their constitution is inwardly drie doo denunciate great outward moystnesse For as wax is moyst and drie or colde and drie in one nature so these feauers may be more noysome◠aduersible and impedimental for that nature molested by cold drinesse is like soft clay congealed to drie hardnes of a frozen compact substance which reason declareth that colde drinesse taketh his first substance from colde moystnesse In which dangerous degree immedicable corruptions depend hereupon nature being transpersed in the first maner of comparison as the elements reserue in thēselues a perfect substance and yet dispose and alter the qualitie an other way For where the substance falleth away there putrifaction beginneth a common calamity nature vtterly desisteth and leaueth of her common and operatiue course thereby These differences of moystnesse and drinesse by alteration of nature are knowen in sustance of all liuing things For wher liquid propertie of fluxing hath power there the course of corruption poysoneth and putrifieth all thinges for fluxible things are moist ouerflowe and run foorth abroad to euery detrimental mischiefe and those thinges which easilie concreat are speedilie drie and will not afterwardes vnderbend to the qualitie of moistnesse So after this manner the contrarieties of drinesse and moystnesse are in their natures esteemed and accounted off We are then to consider not onelie the humours which euery man is best disposed vnto but all the partes of a man vnder what constitution eyther of drinesse or moystnesse he doo wholly depend As first wee are to pleade vpon the highnesse and excellencie of fatnesse which is so much aduanced in the bodie of man As that thorow that mediocritie all voluptuous delightes are prospered and by the exesse thereof the vitall blood is much corrupted And as pure fatnesse is contayned vnder health and wholsomnesse so fat which commeth of gluttonous ingurgitation is verie deceitfull to the body And therfore fatnesse is contayned vnder diuers kindes and after diuers complexons so the propertie thereof is also diuers For as faines inlarded vpon the flesh is most purely congested into substance so is it moistly nourishable in digestion And yet the parchment skin called the membrans as the calle This moistnes is like a running gutter which if the fountaine be stopped aboue the gutter forthwith drieth beneath and fylme wherin the guters or bowels are lapped are most drie after the opinion of Theophrastus both because their moistnesse swiftly is transported into the liuer vaines and oftentimes deuoided away by the vrine or ordour and also for that all the inward partes continuallie as also hotly and excessiuely breathing thereupon made thereby of necessitie drie although hot moistnes reeketh thereupon yet can it neuer growe into perfect substance therewith There is an other fatnesse impertinent from the temperature of man called tallow onely belonging to Oxen and other such like vnreasonable creatures partible in the hooffe the which is both drie and yearthly Likewise there is an other fatnesse called grease which nothing appertaineth to man except that which moystlie is gathered in the gall And as that grease which is so gathered is moyst so is it moistlie digested and drawen into moist substance especiallie vpon claw footed beastes and foules of the ayre Auycen assureth that nothing is more preseruing to mans life then naturall grease gathered vpon pure and perfect sustenance yet many make no choise of their meates but in their feeding doo groslie satisfie appetite greedilie furnish their stomaches and in pursuing their owne delightes doo thereby vtterlie disfauour complexion corrupt blood and nourish diseases And the fatnesse so gathered vppon such slymie and loathsome sustenance is moyste in the highest degree thorowe which the bodie is ingrossed the guttes puffed the braines inuapoured and the stomach ingurged Besides which it dooth congeale into a variable viscous and matery substance of waterie blood inundating between the skinne and the flesh so that swelling tympanies oftentimes breake foorth in the fulsome generation thereof Auycen sayth that whosoeuer desireth health and long dayes let him make his choyse of drye meates to feede vppon and thereby to increase and gather perfect substaunce of fatte so that the fleshe and the fatte may bee equallye inlarded-agreeable one together with an other as that nothing may exceede therein one from another vnder Natures temperaunce And that the vitall bloud taking perfect liking and pleasure therewith may fruitfully flowe into all the partes of man without opilation There is moreouer a fatte deeply couched in the bones which Auycen calleth the pyth and kernell of the bones it is hot and drie and beeing melted presently yeeldeth and spreadeth to
and stately diseases happening in the constitution of strong bobies 〈◊〉 dyet shal minister best remedie for their mittigation so when long and langushing sicknesses distemper and vexe the bodie thinne dyet is verie daungerous For consider that fulnesse of bodie in sharpe and sodaine sicknesses is moste difficult putting this difference in either of them that as continuall fulnesse pestreth and inageth the disease in a fleshie bodie to become more stronger so on the contrarie if a patient bee incombred and infeebled with the feuer Ephimcras or anie such like sicknesse surely thinne dyet is not then meete for such a thinne body seeing strength thereby is decayed and thorowe variable tormentes all the members venomed the vitall bloud corrupted and benu 〈…〉 ed as the spirituall partes of man distructioned the remedie heereof aswell to the first as to the last is to obserue the constitution of the body that like as hote fires are sonest quenched with cleere and pure water before it exceede so these fleshly rages are subdued if the extreame thirstinesse of the body thorow colde remedies bee quieted and mittigated before it 〈…〉 tch to the farthest boundes and becommeth contumatious and without remedie Also a bodie almost deuoured with emptinesse and where both nature vigour and bloud are quite ouerthrowne cannot easily be recouered except by artificiall remedie and thorow due oportunitie be nursed vp therefore it is a most singular skill commended by the learned writers of all ages in sicknesse to preserue and continue nature in her full power and strength And to comfort nourishe and increase strength and 〈…〉 re in a body fallen away For oftentimes a strong bodie in sickenesse fauoureth himselfe is both similiar and defensible against sicknesse resisting the assaults of many diseases interchancing in mans life Wheras a thinne and leaue bodie easily is vanquished when both sicknesse and penurye dangerously attempt the ruin and decay therof As the desperate estate of man in sicknesse is eyther furthered or hindered by fulnesse or emptinesse so will not I confirme those bodies who haue ingrossed their garbages with excesse fatnesse and stuffed all their members with superfluous humors as hauing fed vpon sundrie inordinate varieties of meates or infected with varietie of diseases As they liue without order so I purpose not to prescribe an order where fatal confusion hath ouerrun them Furthermore set not the blind ignorance of many vnskilfull practitioners be herein pertermitted who should with moderate cherishing help nature doe with immoderate chasing hinder and inflame those hote bodies which were before infected by the most hot seasons of the yeare In steade of thin nutriment doe ingurge their stomackes with thicke spices or drudges of hygh hot and subtill operation whereas in those sicknesses regard and view must be taken vppon sundrie and seuerall casualties which strangely fall out in sicknesse that neyther appetite be cloyed or clunged with ouermuche or ouer little resection nor yet that nature be ouerdried eyther by great sweates or ouermuch resisting or wrastlinges with the force of sicknesse These strong diseases moste commonlie happen vnder a swift chrysis whose mightie predomination ouerruleth difframeth and disseperateth those bodies from due temperance which shoulde be thereto subiect and framed These diseases The strength of nature furthereth all medicines by a right constitution in sicknesse most violently and swiftly settle in the roote of the heart except preuented and aleuiated by present medicine aswell that nature may weaken the force as displace and expell the poyson of the disease And for as much then as it doth ingender vppon the liuer from which place the bloud is soonest corrupted and therewithall draweth and staineth all the inward partes of man In the end becommeth pestilentiall and therewithall the sences thorow the same so farre ouercharged as that manie times colâ—quation or destruction inuaâ—eth the mind in the losse of life Therfore whosoeueâ— desireth to cure these or such like infectious diseases must chiefly prepare and season the body with waters of cold and naturall hearbes in the first and second degree before The pestilâ—ncâ— ought to be preuented before â—oâ— the taken at the heart and thâ— medicine must be stronger thâ—n the disease the disease be possessed then foorthwith flux the body by some gentle and potatiue electuarie in equall and artificialâ— degree fauourably casting out the infected humours Forthwith after these painefull defatigations let naturall sweate and quiet sleepe consolidat and refresh the body to become more vâ—gent and the stomacke more sharpe Then next thereunto it were not good that emptinesse or abstinence were vsed but to haue sustinance in continuall practise not of the grosest but of the chosen sortes of meates for if the poores thorow emptinesse be left open and vnshut for want of nourishment to increse naturall bloud and strength are not onely in danger againe to be corrupted but doe stain foyzen and infect others Then howe grieuous a thing is it in beholding some busie medlers repayring vnto sicke pacientes doe not in anie perfect skill distinguish vpon the disease whether there be any crud and rawe matter or concockt setled in some part of the body or whether the disease consist and stand at a stay or increase or whether nature be of any forcible power in the body or no but without searching the cause or vnderstanding the matter of the sicknesse doe preferre their owne hazard and exasperating the disease eyther with fulsome medicine or grosse nourishment stuffing their sicke bodies eyther by entisement or force And whereas before they had some abilitie appetite forthwith waxeth wearie and lothesome in them Galen affirmeth that the perfectest rule to The patient might bee nourished and measured vnder appetite health is to represse a cold sicknesse by nourishing foode so that nourishment and appetite agree He giueth no such large libertie to the hote diseases notwithstanding manie haue aduentured in the greatest heate and trauell of diseases not onely to purge the bodie to cut vaines and let bloud but also haue stifeled their bodyes rather with inchaunted meates then wholsome medicines and for that nature canot disgest such grosse imperfections stand in so hard a stay of recouerie as commonly in the end become immedicable and mortall Cornelius Celsus a most excellent writer affirmeth that a satictie and fulnesse of meate in sicknesse is neuer profitable aâ—â— therefore to auoyd eyther mischiefe doth appertaine to singular skill The safest and directest passage for the vnskilfull phisition herein is that the patient rather be continued with a thinne diet then vnordered fulnesse so that he be not ouermuch extenuated Galen and Hypocrates both consenting together affirme that fasting and thinne diet doe surely and secretly mortifie such diseases which happen vnder surfet or anie other vnordered and glottonous meates and a staying of manie sharpe diseases that followe thereupon And some high clarkes holde opinion that abstinence ought in time of sicknesse to be guided with discretion and
furious diseases yet all nourishment plainely is denied before some thing in so dangerous a case be perfected There is a farther counsell to be here in extended that if the patient be desirous of sustenance or some supping and will not there from be refrayned then shall be ministred vnto him some slender foode in verie small quantitie as is neyther operatiue nor nourishable both because of the drinesse and distemperature of the body Many very good writers agree and consent that fountaine water sharpe vineger not sophisticall but seasoned from the naturall grape aromatized with honny is of sâ—owring propertie if it be well boyled together and dronke next the heart morning and euening also it is a most wholesome oxinâ—ell to mundifie fleame in the stomacke gently penetrateth congested An oximell is pure to mundifie the stomocke in sicknesse bloud in the sides doth quench and appease the furie of flammatiue feuers and sharpeneth the stomacke therein shall be found most present helpes in so hard dangers Next it is good to vnderstand how the patient profiteth or disprofiteth by these significatiue markes as followe That is when the increase of the sickenesse prospereth towardes health the concoction therewith prospereth also to a full estate as appeareth by the mouth waxing moyst or else reaching vp from the loonges some concoct matter of ripe qualitie to be easily deliuered foorth in full quantitie For the more aboundant those excrements be purged out so much the rather the stomacke is framed and sharpened â—it for foode and sustenance Then it behoueth to yeeld the body some slender reliefe so that continually it be limitted within iudication For as euery disease is rather qualified vnder a barraine dyet in the beginning so a small and thinne dyet is commended in the increase of euery sicknesse Surely a thinne dyet is best approoued in the opinion of Auycen that is when the disease consisteth and stayeth in one course towardes health But if the disease in forceable assault runneth forward without stay then all dyets are substracted vntill the nature of the disease appeare more open and perfect For the bodie hauing escaped these and such like perils of sickenesse is like a wayfaring man hauing passed a tedious and hard iourney through long fasting and much labour desireth foode So these bodies ouerpassing and preuenting variable hazardes by fatigable wrestling and painefull induring both the beginning increase with the estate and perfection of the disease are like a strong captaine after conquest and victorie desireth quietnesse rest meate and sustinance And yet many of these diseases recouered both by good ordinance of medicine and wholesome foode haue returned backe to their olde dangers and not staied their course before deathe All which falleth out both because there was some disordered surfet before health setled in perfection and the disease not quite rooted out Auycen saith that if the bodye fall into present misgouernance after that it hath bene recouered from sharpe sicknesses especially inflammatiue diseases and before nature be restored to her prestinat and potentiall estate and dignitie death without commisseration insulteth ouer life And therefore he aduiseth all men vniuersally to settle nature to sharpen the stomacke to shut the poores and to entertaine sleepe and quiet rest after sicknesse before they expoose their body to any hard practise Now these perfect canons holden by generall consent haue confounded and ouerthrowne the controuersies of new writers and retired vnto their antient and former separation of diseases and secretly therewithall holde backe and inwardly contayne their knowledge and counsell touching simple diseases As though no such thing appertaine vnto them But largely comprehend the estate of these inflammatiue feuers in eyther of their natures vnder one generall method for remedie to eyther of them so that these diseases haue diuers natures and operations aswel in their accidentes as in their concoction And many times it so falleth out that medicine altereth and setleth them not onely to concoction but also to be of an nature whereas before they were in their accidentes variable and diuers in their course and propertie Touching the difference of these simple and coÌ„pounded feuers I cannot finde no direct agreement betweene Hypocrates in his book de ratione victus other writers but Hypocrates and Leonard Fuchsins doe consent and with a true report sound out that all diseases happening in the spring ought to be vnder a moderate dyet in their beginning because nature is then most occupyed in digesting raw flegmatike humours congested the winter before and by the naturall ascending of bloud painefully diuerteth from common course And also the bodye which is replenished with humoures is in the spring season more troubled then anie other time But touching those diseases which fall out in sommer thinne dyet is then most meetest for that both naturall and vnnaturall heate exceede moystnesse and those diseases which then happen are most aptest to inflame But all those diseases which happen in Autume meate is measured according to the disease for no perfect dyet sayth Fuchsins can be prescribed for that diseases are then of diuers properties and contagions And therefore to be measured according to the phisitians skill knowledge and discretion So also suche diseases which fall out in winter are furthered or hindered according to the seasonablenesse or vnseasonablenesse of the time For moyst foggy winters ingender corrupt diseases in the body to the vttermost And naturall whether of frosts and snowe approoue and search the body eyther to great welfare of much health or els to speedie death therefore Fuchsins Frost cold purifieth the vaynes and sinewes for the bloud ascending in the spring season sayth diseases in thinne bodyes are then guided with restoratiue dyets for oftentimes such bodyes are in those seasons apt to be consumpted and vtterly wasted both because the naturall bloud is departed in the deepest vaynes and strong bodyes inwinter seasons subiect to sickenesse are best pleased and approoued with meane stipticall and sauorie dyets If in these bodies both medicine and dyet by present remedie haue not a positiue operation to conserue a strong estate in nature Forthwith nature perisheth For as they are not able to indure the pinching cold outward so their fleshie foggines cannot inwardly suffer for want of perfect and pure bloud so that no outward shelter nor inward nourishment counteruaileth to recouer health in theÌ„ Let vs returne to the substance of our purpose for the searching out the best diet in al diseases either simple or coÌ„pound Galen in the first of the Aphorisms the seuenteeth Comment wisheth a thin and sharpe diet to be established in all sharpe diseases both because the body is infected with most greatest fleames and because inflamations doo therein most abound One Hugh Senensis a learned man disputeth that thin diets are meetest in the beginning of sharpe sicknesses both because strength is in full propertie vndecaied and the materiall substance of the disease ouer
the heate of the hearte hath free and plentifull passageâ— the increase both of the haires and nayles are The heart hath a drie heat much prospered therewith especially if the heat of the heart bee both pure excellent and nourishable Whereas if slendernesse and straightnesse bee in the bulke dooth shew the naturall drinesse of the heart and chest from the byrth day thorow which there is greate obstruction from the naturall course of good blood offending the vegetation both of the nailes haires and all other partes Therefore the straightnesse of the bulke is perrilous to the wholsome ordinance of health for those bodies are commonly preserued with naturall feuers all the daies of their life doo not onely absume in the tenuity of their flesh but many of them perish and decay in the substance of the heart Some certaine aswell by the strength of nature as by yeare and time ouergrowe the eager humour and so escape the dangers hereof And yet many of them after any such recouery are greatlie incumbred with a tisich vpon the lunges Although it is possible by medicinable art to represse and reprooue the drinesse of these partes yet not so perfectlie but that a smache thereof will followe vpon them vnto their last end There is an other sort of men which are both of hotte stomaches and ranke liuers as their red coloured countenances declare the same they are also purple-nosed and hayrie about the breast Auycen reporteth them to be men of forcefull stomaches apt to warfare and yet their courage very much subdued from inflamation and desire to lecherie Dyoscorides saith that a true martiall man is altogether without lustfull pleasure or desire towards women and yet ful of mercie and loue towardes them And furthermore alechemus man is not alwaies bolde for both by qualitie as quantitie his thighes and loines and other lineamentes shewe the constitutione of a faint liuer So also the broadnes of the breast and length of the necke are the outward signes of an inwarde troublesome minde Theophrastus Paracelsus saith that a short necked man is apt to conceiue pregmaticall and verie of dangerous disposition and yet his body verie subiectiuelie is vanquished vnder euery straunge accideniall disease A wrie necked person hath verie high conceites to accomplish and their mindes are easilie infected vnder many dangerous practises Galen saith that reason cannot instruct vs in these outward signes of nature but an inward and direct constitution maketh a perfect experience hereof Auycen saith that if the outward complexion be cold the inward constitution is hot If euill maners bee outwardly discouered the inward thoughtes are more easilie coniectured which is more suffientlie prooued by the estate of seasons and countries for that all men generallie are procliue and apt to shew the maners of their countrie in their conuersation whether it be in pouertie or pride either in rudenesse or ciuilitie We are therefore the rather to suspect the wonderful and high constitutions of nature inwardlie by these outward euill properties and dispositions For in the south regions all outward things are hot and all inward thinges colde So on the other behafe all outward thinges vpon the north partes are cold and freesing when the inward estate is warme and the temperance therewithall yeeldeth hot whereby it commeth to passe that the people borne in those partes of the world are of most fierce courage and although verie bolde yet in all their enterprises headlong Auycen saith those which be borne vpon the Meridian point are vnmeete for warres So Iustin reporteth that men of the north partes of the world are in the beginning stout and fierce to battel but their heartes in the end are soluble and melting with the snowe For all outwarde temperaunces doo retire and flie backe to the inwarde partes of man by reason of outwarde colde wherefore they haue not a stronge digestion but all inward thinges are in them thereby of great valour Some may think that Hypocrates reasoning with Galen hath made a very vnlikely argument or proofte herein as the Europians are more fiercer then the Asians for that they indure greater inequalities of seasons and whereas summer is verie hot in the one and winter verie colde in the other so an inward heat is contemperated vnder the condition or estate of either temperance Cornelius Celsus verily thinketh that Hypocrates respecteth the experience which those countries approoue by by war or by such great inequalities of seasons are the better prepared to abide and suffer all interchangeable calamities of the bodie which ought to be borne and suffered in warres and therefore these sortes of pleople are more fitter for wars then other countries It is most certainlie to be credited that those which inhabite the Meridian point are more hotter in the liuer and hart then other countries yet their heat is strange not naturall they haue plentie of good blood and breath they are wise but not valiant And those which inhabite those cold regions are therefore flerce stout and apt for warfare and haue a conioined substance of breath and blood aboundantlie in their bodies And therefore Auycen reporteth that those which inhabite vnder the Bear doo in fiercenes courage and valour giue place to no man And Hypocrates doth call their temperance flerce and sharpe because their heate is vnited and ouermatched with colde Also in those temperate regions which inhabite the Meridian point heat draweth and inforceth heat as may be well perceiued and vnderstood in those extreame and hot seasons of the year wheras strong and flerce corruptions doo infect and draw vpon the bodie of man by hotte and malicious contagions So in these Europian countries the times and seasons of the sommer excessiuely inforceth heate vppon the extreame partes of man and also their winters are ouer much colde and very bitter to the outwarde paries so that their digestion in winter time is more stronge and their naturall heate more aboundaunt There is a sufficient discourse in in the firste booke of these Chollerike men haue great tranquility in winter Temperamentes of chollericke men inhabyting these Europian countries whose outrage hath the greatest domination in sommer and doo liue at most pleasure quietnesse and rest in winter So flegmatike men haue their ioy in sommer greatest distemperature in winter Yet Theophrastus Paracelsus sayth that seeing nature hath differenced the chollerike man from the fiegmatike by vnequalnesse of seasons so the inwarde heat in the time of winter is more shorter in the one naturall heat in the time of winter is more stronger in the other which if it be so then all liuing creatures without exception are to haue a more pleasant and happie estate of life in winter then sommer because naturall heat is the artificer and instrument of all liuing thinges Cornelius Celsus saith that like as the sunne is lodged vnder the darke vaines of the clouds in the night season so heat is hidde and shrowded in the secrete vaines
affinitie and nearnesse with mans flesh yet by the good operation of wine it is passed ouer into a perfect substance and the digestion thereof is slowe sower and heauie for because the vnion hereof is of a more thicke and growne substance it is operatiue and ouerburthensome then familiar vsuall and accustomed Therefore the power of hotte thinges haue a double difference for which cause ther are medicines of on operation and nourishmentes of an other the which nourishmentes ought to haue an easie gracious nature eyther to helpe nature decaied or to pacifie the troubles of any disease offending wholsom constitution doo iustifie and continue the health and safegard of the bodie are preferred before all medicines and nature the more graciously and easily dooth accept them to bee placed in some due ordinance with the body For such like nutritiue medicines as they haue an inward mollifieng operation so haue they an outward application And yet some according to the demonstration of Galen doo thinke that nutritiue medicines inwardly taken hauing possessed and matched their heat vnder the fourme of a hot complexion are of moore greater force and strength and such medicines are easily reduced and manifested in their owne nature and propertie more quicklie Theophrastus Paracelsus saith that medicines outwardly ministred more speedily doo shew their nature then those which be inwardly intertained especially if in their action they be hotte and firme and although vnder the skinne are more inwardlye tender then is outwardly shewed yet haue they a more ready dutie hereby to search the deepnesse of the wound and griâ—ued place and the deepnesse of the sore more speedily doeth yeeld and open if the inward humor be corrected by some purgatiue drieng drtnke the diseased and grieued sore presently altereth his yssue yeeldeth to a sound vnion and is presently comprehanded vnder one fafe substance of the body Aristotle in his Probleames speaking of viniger and such like sharpe sauces dooth say that the aswell inward as outward applications very sensibly doo freate and if heat bee bewrayed of a more stronger power in the pacient dooth growe to an inward excesse and outwardlie offendeth yet a strong and hot body will easily and verie much blunt and dull the power hereof As first by extenuation and comminution Secondly by concoction and thirdly by motion for that they are rouing neuer continuing themselues in one estate but dispose them selues into al other partes As fourthly by seperation especially of those partes which are more sharpe as prepared purged and sifted either by fluring either by vrine or vomite and breathing vapours from the stomach rather then of those parts of the body which are more calme sound bening and bountifull In which it is to be marked whether nature be impaired in the exclusion of one part more then an other or remaineth wholly sound and perfect Also whether the blood bee made cleare and kindly by a fresh and newe coiunction Also whether the rind and barke of the vaines be wrinkled dimished and broken in peces and whether medicine haue a naturall power to vnite and conioine in the nature of the body for if the medicine be blunted and dulled by the strength of the body then the body is vtterlie vnable to defend it selfe from corruption but presentlie infected with all kind of vlceration And these kind of vlcers are comprehended either from ranke aboundaunce of melancholious corruption arising betweene the flesh and the skinne into some outward preposterous sore or els most commonly by reason of some hotte fluxing humour vnnaturally setling in some part of the body wherein some vnkindly worme breedeth and ouereateth except some present stay and remedy be had And Galen saith there are diuers sortes breeding in their kind according to the nature and disposition of the body And although the Chirurgians do giue them seueral names yet they ought not so to doo because they are wormes gathered and mishapen according to the monstrousnesse of the humour and neuer continue in one kind And yet some olde writers deuide these sortes of sores into foure names Herpes Phagedina Chironia and Telephia The first is of verie affinitie with a plague sore The second is some filthy blacke worme or Fystula fretting betweene the flesh and the bones The third is a foule sore hard to be cured and being poisoned with the melancholiousnesse of the humour is called Noli me tangere The fourth complecteth it selfe vnder the name of all Boyles or Carbunckles and surly al sharp sower swift styffe and cruell medicines whether they be hotte or colde haue in themselues a naturall poyson to doe hurt hereunto And they are more harmefull beeing eaten then when they be outwardly applyed for in their nature they do not only intoxicate the primary partes of man but deepely pearce the power of the heart We haue a manifest and rare example of Socrates who liued in strong power of health except by drinking that daungerous and murthersome hear be Cicuta who sensiblie feeling the coldnes and power thereof to insinuate and wind it selfe did vanquish the highnesse and mightines of his heart confessed that Cicuta was the sting of death and the venym of destruction Dyoscorides discribeth this hearbe Cycuta to be both in nature and growth like to our english Henilocke Surely these medicines do litle hurt being outwardly applied but they are poisonsome and deadly being inwardly taken except the small quantitie thereof be such as that the body bee of stronger power to vanquish and shake off the mortalitie thereof There is also a certain ioyce nowe in vse strained squeased out of the leaues of Lascrpitium Antonius Musa saith it is the gum of the tree it selfe called Rosen or Belswyn and Bewguyn There is no difference whether it proceed of the ioyce or weeping teares and licour of the tree But certainly that Rosen which groweth into a gum by meanes of teares and weeping of the trees sheweth thorow an vnnaturall heat in the elementes a generall infection and disease vpon the trees either by vnnaturall heat in the elements or by a distemperate and furious course in the stars and the substance therewithall is thickened hardened and congealed As it is not our purpose to ioine together these differences so neither are we to search out their particular power striÌ„gth neither their forme likenesse nor shape â—or their good vse or euill abuse therof How much could I here vtter in disgrace of the Pandect for false exposition of these and such like ioyces or congealed gums which of the common people are one for an other falsly put in place as the first misordering of Asa fetida which the Arabians do rather seeme to put in place of Mumy and many very â—sophistically doo frame the filth of men long dead to serue herein But there are two principall sortes of Mumy the best sort proceedeth of the rich Baâ—samum Catabalsamum frankensence Oppobalsamum Myrre Alloes Beniamyn and many other sweete odours imbalmed within the dead