12 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
craffates humours, ard condenfates the fuperficies, it fhuts, corrugates, and in- 
‘durateth, fo the auftere. It refiits poifon, and is cold and dry in the fecond de- 
‘gree. 8. Auftere, ftyptick, aftringent, or vitriolate. It moderately bindeth the 
tongue and mouth, coarétates the fame with a certain afperity, and doth in 
_ fome meafure refrigerate and dry. It confifts in a mean matter, participating of 
that which is terrene and watery, in which frigidity is predominant, as medlars 
‘and wild pears, &c. It manifeftly refrigerateth, extinguifheth, bindeth, and con- 
| aracteth, moderately ftops fluxions, and repelicth. It is fubacerb, leis cold and 
dry, and exafperating, flopping, roborating, and indurating, terra /piritu com- 
‘mota, as vitriol. The aftringent is weaker, as quinces. Mat. Med. fice. craff, 
11. Meaw. 1. Oleous; it is fat, unétuous, and temperate ; generated of 
‘that which is moift, zrious, and moderately hot, by elaxation of the watery part, 
| ‘whereby it becomes more @rial, asoil. It is flow and weak in operation, ftop- 
“ping the guftick or tafting organs. It doth humeét, lenify, and foften, loofen, 
‘obftruct and caufe flatulencies and naufeoufnefs, having a certain obfcure and 
|  “remifs {weetnefs, and mean fub{tance. “2. Humilent : the matter thereof is grofs, 
‘tough, aqueous, in which the earth being’ well mixed, caufeth corpulency, and 
at is humid, little affeéting the tafte, more grofs and crude than the fweet. It is 
smplaftick, ftopping the paffages, conghitinates what is disjoined, lenifies what 
erated > aoe doth ee; as mucilages, &c. Mat. ee frig. obfcure. 
mess: ale 
ea* 
oe ‘tiolttened: with a certain *haraidiey which alio is nor sees mixed e 
‘the attivity of heat, as water. It is emplaftick, flopping and obltruéting, Jenify- 
“ing what is exafperated, and conglutinating that which is ‘disjoined : and al- 
at i fome affinity to fweet, yet it differeth in this, that it confifteth in a 
more grofs and crude: it refrigerateth and doth more moiften, i 1. €. 
a 3 ok the third degree, 
— grofs. al pedi terrene, and 
. fe eis {pirit, and humi midity, but exceeding, little, as © 
ry Bodies without juice. Mat. craff. serra abjque [pirit deo 
moft agreeing to our nature, it recedes from 
iC fivecetiefs in this, becaiife’ its sane being unattive, is hardly perceived, and it is 
ro aor & grofs ; yet well tempered to a ——— mixed ficcity; whic eafily be- 
comes 
