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coactive and feparating. 7. Lithontriptick or breaking the fone, diffolving and ex- 
pelling the gravel, as in thofe things which are diureptick, hot, dry, and of thin 
parts; fharp, but more remifsly, and fomewhat bitter. Aifo fome do it by in- 
cifion and deterfion, without much heat; fome by afper ity ; and others by oc- 
cult property. 8. Emmenonagogick or drawing out the terms, as in ‘thofe things 
which are hot and of thin parts, that they may concoct and digeft crude humours, 
extenuate and incide. the grofs and rough, and remove obftructions by cleanfing 
the paffages: fuch as are all proper diureticks : 2 which alfo promote the ex- 
purgation of the menfes ; and if they. are alfo ftinking or bitter, they are moje 
effectual: ftinking things depreffing the womb, and the. bitter being ‘purging. 
There are alfo‘accidental byftericks ; as thofe which are analeptick, or ftrength- 
ening after extenuation ; or which refrigerate and humeét the’ body dried by too 
much heat : to thefe alfo have affinity, thofe things which expel ‘the fecandine 
and dead-birth 5 efpecially thofe which are more ftrong, i.e. hot and of thin parts, 
ftinking and bitter with acrimony, efpecially if taken ina great quantity and 
often. Fhe proper are hot 2° -or 9°, and dry 1° or 2°> of meanly grofs fub- 
ftance, and bitter with: acrimony: the contrary are the aftringents. 9. Bechick, 
or helping the covgh, as in thofe things which. caufe or ftop the fame: for 
thofe things which conduce to the ‘expectoration of grofs humours, do alfo 
caufe coughing ;_ but, ‘on the contrary, thofé things which incraffate thin ‘hu- 
mours, ftop and ‘eafe it it: but thole things” are hot and of thin parts, and extenu- 
‘ating, which “expeftorate tough humours 5 3 yet there are alfo others which in fomie 
meafure purge the breaft, not ‘much hot, nor very dry,” but 4 little’ moiftening, 
or at leaft lenifying what is exafperated ; yet diureticks of the’ middle kind alfo 
are. agreeable to the ‘breaft and lungs; which, if they are’cold, incraffate thin 
humours and ftop coughing, a and efpecially thofe that are narcotick, or ftupifying. 
10. Galattogenetick or generating milk, as partly in. meats, partly i in medicines ; 
: it sel fuch as is ferrin _ a pees ick, or of good juice and of 
oa otter and dryer if the blood’ be éold and fpi- 
Sait and lef’ aie if troubled with. choler, _-Medicaments 
Of thin parts and hot, and of affinity to thofe’ ‘things which pro- 
t moft gentle ; but thofe things which 3 me "more trong 
er ia generation” sheseat* hw 
alet quai vy of bled “Alo it is Simotinea by pea dee are 
gern and hindered By hings very cold and difcutient, 12, Hiydrorick or pro- 
yvoking 
