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- The third qualities arife from the mixture of the firft and fecond, and are, 1. The 
Ecpuetick or fuppurating, turning into matter contufed flefh and humours remain- 
ing in fwellings, as in thofe things which are moderately hot, and next unto emol- 
lients, yet differing in this, that they have alfo an emplaftick faculty, obftruéting 
the pores, increafing the fubftance of heat, and not intending the quality; and are 
alfo called pepticks or maturatives. 2. Sarcotick or generating flefh, as in thofe 
things which produce flefh in hollow ulcers, and fill the cavities, and are hot in the 
firft degree, alittle deterfive, and that without biting and aitrition. Alfo mode- 
rately drying, viz. under the fecond degree. And fuch as impinguate, or make fat, 
are heating, nourifhing, impulfive, attractive, retentive, or fpecifick ; as the feed of 
hemp, kernel of the Indian nut, and powder of charcoal. 3. Colletick or, conglu- 
tinating, as in thofe things which dry in the fecond degree, and are in a mean as to 
thofe which generate flefh, and cicatrize; they are not abfterfive, but aftringent, and 
prohibit the. flux of humours to the lips of wounds, ulcers, and fiftulas, they are 
alfo called fymphyticks, traumaticks, and enaima; and are. temperate, and of a 
thick fubflance, ftronger or weaker according to the perfon or part. 4. Epulotick 
or cicatrizing, as in thofe which greatly dry and bind without biting, drinking 
the humidity of the flefh, and contracting the fame, and. ‘covering with a thin callus 
like unto the fkin ; therefore do more dry than incarnatives or glutinatives, for they 
bind, contraét, conftipate, and indurate ; and are of thick fubftance, and cold : there 
is alfo a fharp and biting epulotick that confumes dead flehh, called cathairetick, 
and athird drying without aftri€tion. 5. Porotick or generating callus, by which 
broken bones are ferruminated and knit, and is neither bone nor fiefh, but betwixt. 
both, being a hard, dry, white body ; to the generation of which} are required a 
convenient diet, and medicines applied which are emplaftick ; and ipodeeately, ikea , 
drying, thickening, hardening, and binding. 6. Diuretick oF provoking urine, as 
1. In thofe things that are moift and —_ and of a thin a fiftence, al 
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