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moft like unto that of the body, without any confumption or addition of uvtnidiegl 
The emollient afcends heat a little beyond the proportion of nature, and contracts 2 
little humidity, wherefore that rather operates by quantity than by the quality of 
heat, but the emollient rather by quality. Therefore that which is exactly fuppura- 
tory isemplaftick ; yet fometimes emollition 1 is the confequence of humidity, if joined 
with moderate calidity or heat, and is ufeful in fcirrhuffes and tumors ; and though 
emollition may be by humeétation and evacuation, yet it is properly by healing, 
loofening, and callignation. Emollients being moderately dry and hot, 20 or 3 
in {cirrhuffes, and proportionable in other tumors. Hereto belongs chalaftick or 
loofening ; yet this is lefs hot and more moiftening than the emollient, and of 
a thin fubftance. 2. Scleryntick or hardening, which properly is that which doth exic- 
cate wtihout any excels of heat or cold; for cold alfo may make obdurate, as alfo 
too much heat, yet after another manner than only by exiccation, for though that 
which is dry is hard, yet all that is hard is not dry. But ficcity doth dry and indurate 
two ways; i.e. by altering and making more dry the effence of the parts, which is moft 
properly ; or by confuming the humours in the pores; yet fometimes obduration 
ay alfo be caufed by repletion or fulnefs; and fome fay, by cold and drynefs. 
. Araiotick and rarefying, or diaphoretick and refolving, which are moderate- 
dy hot, with tenuity of parts, » } sand very little reficeant or drying, for exceffive 
¢ heat doth not rarefy but burn, and by aduftion doth condenfate and dry. But mo- 
_ derate heat openeth the paffages, and deeply penetrateth by the tenuity of its fub-- 
. flance, and eafeth pain; alfo it openeth the pores and attenuates the fubftance. The 
proper diapharticks are hot, dry, and of thin parts, attenuant, mollifying and dif- 
cuffing wind; and the farefacient moderately hot, like our own heat, moiftening, 
and of thin parts. 4. Pycknotick or condenfating, contrary to the rarefacient, con-~ 
tratting the pores, and tea wilt is rarified and humid, and specs it more 
ind, 1.¢. by reafon of their foftnef. 5: Abaiboasoaee or aperient, opening 
the mouths. of the veffels, and is in thofe things that are of grofs parts, hot be- 
| yond the firft cegree, harp, and biting. 6. Stegnotick or binding, contracting, 
occlus ing, and. , ng; fhutting the mouths of the veffels, and reftraining 
ss excretion, and is in thofe things which are frigid, of grofs parts, and without 
acrimony, as many terrene bodies are: for thofe things which ought ftrongly to 
conitipate and bind, muft alfo have a more ftrong and renitent faculty ; yet fome 
binders are hot and dry, and of thick fubftance ; and others glutinous. 7. Hele- 
tick, epifpaftick or drawing » attracting the humours from the ¢ cemer, and is in thofe 
things which are hot, and of thin parts: for that which is hot atiracteth, and that 
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