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-voking fweat, as in things of thin parts, and hot; yet fome are aftringent and 
cold, working occultly. Alfo the cofmetick, for the fkin, is extenuating, lax- 
ative, emollient, cleanfing, and difcuffing ; for the teeth, cleanfing and binding, 
for the hair, healing, drying, and binding; for fcurf, cleanfing and difcuffing. 
Note, as for the pharmick or ftermutatory quality, it is in thofe things that are 
acrimonious, caufing an irrituition of the expulfive faculty; as errhines, that are 
hot, nitrous, exterfive, and fharp; as white pepper, hellebore, ginger, pellitory 
of Spain, caftor, cloves, fneefe-wort, and euphorbium finely powdered. Allo the 
apophlegmatick is in things hot, and acrimonious ; yet fometimes do it occultly, 
as in maftick, raifons, hyfop, organy, marjoram, pellitory of Spain, ginger, white 
and black pepper, and. muftard-feed. The fcolerobrotick is in things bitter and 
fharp, é&c. as wormwood, coraline, &c. 
The fourth qualities are fuch which follow the fubftance, or ‘property of the 
effence, and are found out only by experience; and are therefore called occult, 
latent, and fpecifick; as in poifons, theriack and alexipharmick ' remedies, ro- ro- 
borating the expulfive faculty, and being contrary, emplaftick, aftringent, eme- 
_ tuck, cathartick, and fuderifick, with phlebotomy if need; amulets and cathar- 
ticks, things antipathetick and {ympathetick, as alfo appropriate to any part, or 
. adverfe unto the fame; the greateft fign of which, according to fome of the moft 
learned authors, is fignature. The poiotichnology or way of finding out thefe 
qualities, is by manifeft reafon. 1. By ofmellogy, or odouror fmell, which is 
either {weet, familiar unto the fpirits of the brain, and a fign of heat, or ftinking ~ 
and offenfive, cold and moift ; the firft is in hot bodies, of thin parts, among which ~ 
there is difference according to the degrees thereof; but thofe things, which are 
without odour, are of a erofs effence and humid, as thofe things which are falt 
and auftere ; alfo fuch things. which are of a mordicant and bitter fmell are hor, 
but thefe, that fmell like vinegar and acerb, are cold, for i in fome things the fenfe 
of odours is like that of fapors, yet not of fo fafe conjecture, by reafon of the 
inequality of fubftance; for moft bodies are of an. unlike confiftence, of each of 
which parts odour fheweth not the temper, but where there are tenuous effus 
‘viums or vapours, whereof the fweet ftrer ngthen the heart, the rank excite the 
animal fpirits, the ftinking help the fuffocation of the matrix. 2. By chromatology, 
or colour, which is either, 1. Lucid, exciting the animal fpirits, and drawing them — 
— as: the white. ae Or te nel rofe, calling them inwards, and caufing eep, | 
. 3. Yellow, , sIping the jaundice. 4. Green, ufeful ee oe yes 
