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more ftrong. And diffolvers of grumous matter, and coagulated; as alfo extenu- 
ants of fat, hot and dry, 3d, and of thin parts: and the chataftick or laxants, mo- 
derately hot, moift, and thin. 12. Emplaftick, vifcid, or clammy, contrary to the 
abfterfive ; for being applied, it doth tenacioufly inhere in the pores of the fkin, fill 
and obftruét the fame, as in thofe things that are fat and glutinous, as alfo terrene, 
wanting acrimony and afperity, or roughnefs. Hereto may be referred the epice- 
raftick or levigating, helping afperity by being emplaltick or moderately moift. | 
And the emplatticks are temperate, without evident heat, cold, or acrimony : fome 
aifo have a'thick terrene effence or confiftence, drying without biting; and others 
aqueous, or aereal, fo are tenacious. 13. Emphractick or obftruéting, pachyntick, 
or thickening, ‘which are the fame: for as thofe things which are detergent and 
purging, do free the pores and paffages from obftruction, fo thefe obftruct and fill 
the fame, and make the humours of the body tough and thick; and are cold, or 
temperate, without any acrimony, and of a thick terrene fubftance. 14. Anodyne, © 
paregorick or eafing pain, as in thofe things which have thin parts, and are mode- 
rately hot, not much exceeding the temperate, i, e, being hot in the firft degree, and 
Parefacient’s fo evacuating, digefting, rarefying, extenuating, concocting, and equa- — 
lizing whatfoever humour either fharp, tough, or grofs, is inhering in the fmaller 
pores, or grieved parts : and all vaporous crafs, grofs or cold fpirits,‘ not finding 
Medic of evacuation 5 — are One. aqueous or zreal, of thin fubftance, and 
‘Rot altri - 45. Nare ick or ftupifying the parts by its coldnefs, and not pro- 
pay - mitigating the pain, nor Qf taking: away the caufes of the grief, yet ftupor is 
= hat lefs than infenfibility, or the privation of fenfe: the fame alfo is hypno- 
, or fomnifick, and -caufeth fleep being taken, i. €. its fubje€t, ‘which doth ve- 
. hemently refrigerate, ive. in the ‘4th degree ; fo that it doth not only flupify the 
" ogg but being liberally taken, caufeth death, as opium, ‘and that not only by i its 
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it quality, but alfo by ac seh propriety < of fubftance and i its + concurring 
‘CO ick vehemency 
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