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1. The temperature of the roots, herbs, 
flowers, &c. viz. Hot, cold, dry, moist, to- 
gether with the degree of each quality. 
2. What part of the body each root, herb, 
flower, is appropriated to, viz. head, throat, 
breast, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, bowels, 
reins, bladder, womb, joints, and in those 
which heat those places, and which cool 
them. 
3. The property of each simple, as they 
bind, open, mollify, harden, extenuate, dis- 
cuss, draw out, suppure, cleanse, glutinate, 
break wind, breed seed, provoke or stop the 
menses, resist poison, abate swellings, ease 
pain. 
This I intend shall be my general method 
throughout the simples, which, having fin- 
ished I shall give you a paraphrase explain- 
ing these terms, which rightly considered, 
will be the key of Galen’s way of adminis- 
tering physic. 
Temperature of the Roots. 
Roots hot in the first degree. Marsh-mal- 
lows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling, Poppy, 
Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, Calamus Aro- 
maticus, Avens, Pilewort, China, Self-heal, 
Liquorice, Dog-grass, white Lilies, Peony, 
male and female, wild Parsnips, Parsley, 
Valerian, great and small, Knee-holly, 
Satyrion, Scorzonera, Skirrets. 
Hot in the second degree. Water-flag, 
Reeds, Swallow-wort, Asphodel, male, Car- 
line Thistle, Cypress, long and round, Fen- 
nel, Lovage, Spignel, Mercury, Devil’s bit, 
Butter Bur, Hog’s Fennel, Sarsaparilla, 
Squils, Zedoary. 
Hot in the third degree. Angelica, Aron, 
Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, Asa- 
rabacca, Briony, white and black, Sallen- 
dine, Virginian snakeroot, Hemeric, White 
Dittany, Doronicum, Hellebore, white and 
black, Elicampane, Fillipendula, Galanga 
greater and lesser, Masterwort, Orris Eng- 
lish and Florentine, Restharrow, stinking 
Gladen, Turbith, Ginger. 
Hot in the fourth degree. Garlick, On- 
ions, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. 
Roots temperate in respect of heat, are 
Bear’s breech, Sparagus, our Lady’s This- 
tle, Eringo, Jallap, Mallows, Mechoacan, 
garden Parsnips, Cinquefoil, Tormentil. 
Roots cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 
Beets, white and red, Comfrey the greater, 
Plantain, Rose Root, Madder. 
Cold in the second degree. Alcanet, 
Daisies, Succory, Hound’s tongue, i 
Jacinth. 
Cold in the third degree. Bistort and 
Mandrakes are cold in the third degree, and 
Henbane in the fourth. 
Roots dry in the first degree. Bears- 
breech, Burdocks, Redbeets, Calamus 
Aromaticus, Pilewort, Self-heal, Endive, 
Eringo, Jacinth, Madder, Kneeholly. 
Dry in the second degree. Waterflag, 
Marsh-mallows, Alkanet, Smallage, Reeds, » 
Sorrel, Swallow-wort, Asphodel male, Ba- 
zil, Valerian and Spatling Poppy, accord- 
ing to the opinion of the Greeks. Our Lady’s 
Thistles, Avens, Succory, Hound’s tongue, 
Cypress long and round, Fennel, Lovage, 
Spignel, Mercury, Devil’s bit, Butter-bur, 
Parsley, Plantain, Zedoary. 
Dry in the third degree. Angelica, Aron, 
Birthwort, long and round, Sowbread, Bis- 
tort, Asarabacca, Briony white and black, 
Carline Thistle, China, Sallendine, Virgin- 
ian, Snake-root, white Dittany, Doronicum, 
Hellebore white and black, Elicampane, 
Fillipendula, Galanga greater and lesser, 
Masterwort, Orris, English and Florentine, 
Restharrow, Peony male and female, Cin- 
quefoil, Hog’s Fennel, Sarsaparilla, stink- 
ing Gladen, Tormentil, Ginger. 
Dry in the fourth degree. Garlick, On- 
ions, Costus, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. . 
Roots moist are, Bazil, Valerian, and — 
Spatling-poppy, according to the Arabian 
Physicians, Daisies, white Beets, Borrage, re 
Bugloss, Liquorice, Dog grass, Mallows, os 
casos Scorzonera, Pereeys Skirrets. 
