AND COMPLETE HERBAL. ra 
bread made of good wheat and well baked, and old wine, 3. Eafily defcending, 
acid, falt, infipid, or excrementitious; as things full of humidity, participating of 
a certain acrimony or faltnefs without acerbity ; or are infipid, as mallows, orach, 
inercury, marigolds, &c. and things full of excrements, as brown bread, and what- 
foever is full of bran and broths. 4. Slowly, as things dry and binding, having 
little humidity ;- as dry meats, fine bread, things having a little aftri@ion 3; aS pears, 
fervices, black wines, or red, but fooner the auftere. Thus of the definition of phy- 
tology and its parts. 1. Therapeutic, or Curatory. 2. Threptic, or alimentary; in. 
both which vegetables are confidered ; 1. according to their fubftance, as of thick 
or thin fubftance or confiftence, loofe or clofe, glutinous or crumbling heavy or 
light. 2. According to their accidents; and 1. as medicamentary, 1. according to - 
the more immediate accidents, 1. The qualities ; as the firft, hear, coldnefs, moif- 
ture, and drynefs, with their degrees, fenfible; manifeft, vehement, or moft violent, 
The fecond, molifying, hardening, rarefying, condenfing, opening, binding, draw- 
ing, repelling, cleanfing purging, attenuating, clamming, obftructing, eafing pain, 
ftupifying, redening, putrifying and burning. The third, {uppurating, incarning, 
conglutinating, cicatrizing, generating callus, provoking urine, breaking the ftone, 
provoking the terms, expectorating and generating milk and fperm, caufing fweat, 
ineezing, beauty, killing worms and phiegmatizing. The fourth, occult, refifting 
poifon, ipecific, and purging. 2. The way of finding out thefe qualities: 1. The 
manifeft, 1. by reafon, as by the fmell, colour; as white, black, green, and yel- 
low, &c. Taftes; as bitter, fharp, acid, nitrous, falt, {weet, acerb, auftere, | 
oleous, aquinfipid or waterifh, earthy, woodifh, and corn-like. Touch; as thick, 
thin, clofe, hollow, hard, foft, heavy, light, clamming, dry, rough, {mooth ; muta- 
bility, age, places, and operation of the four firft gualities. 2. By experience, con- 
fidering quid, in quo, quemedo. 2. Theoccult. 1. By fignature. 1, External, in co- 
Jour, form, property. 2. Internal, as appropriated, 1. To the planets, as to the 
Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury. 2. To the figns, as to Aries, 
Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, 
Aquaries,. and Pifces. 2. By experience, according to the more remote accidents, 
as the place of gathering them, the time and manner, the way of preparing them — 
for keeping, and place thereof ; their duration, difcrimination, place in receipts, 
with their compofitions and way of making them; their dofes, as ingredients and 
_ compounded ; their ufe, and feafon and manner of ufing them, &c. II. Asalimen- 
tary, and fo as of good or bad juice, of thick or thin juice, of eafy or hard concoc- | 2 : 
. tion, windy, or without wind, eafily or flowly defcending, &c, ae 
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