AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 
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But because such medicines as conduce 
to the cure of the phthisics (which is an 
ulceration of the lungs, and the disease usu- 
ally called, the consumption of the lungs,) 
are also reckoned in amongst pectorals, 
it is not amiss to speak a word or two of 
them. 
In the cure of this disease are three 
_ things to be regarded. 
1. To cut and bring away the concreted 
blood. 
2. To cherish and strengthen the lungs. 
3. To conglutinate the ulcer. 
And indeed some particular simples will 
perform all these, and physicians confess 
it; which shews the wonderful mystery the 
all-wise God hath made in the creation, 
that one and the same simple should per- 
form two contrary operations on the same 
part of the body; for the more a medicine 
cleanses, the more it conglutinates. 
To conclude then, Pectoral Medicines 
are such as either cut and cleanse out the 
compacted humours from the arteries of the 
lungs, or make thin defluxions thick, or 
temper those that are sharp, help the rough- 
ness of the wind-pipe, or are generally 
lenitive and softening, being outwardly ap- 
_ plied to the breast. 
CHAPTER III. 
Of Medicines appropriated to the heart. 
These are they which are generally given 
under the notion of Cordials; take them 
under that name here. 
The heart is the seat of the vital spirit, 
the fountain of life, the original of infused 
heat, and of the natural affections of man. 
So then these two things are proper to 
the heart. 
1. By its heat to cherish life ee 
_ the body. 
2. To add vigour to the affections. 
oe if these be. Peat to the heart, 
2 
will easily grant me, that it is the property 
of cordials to administer to the heart in 
these particulars. ' 
Of Cordials, some cheer the mind, some 
strengthen the heart, and refresh the ope 
thereof, being decayed. 
Those which cheer the mind, are not one 
and the same; for as the heart is variously 
disturbed, either by anger, love, fear, 
hatred, sadness, &c. So such things as flat- 
ter lovers or appease the angry, or comfort 
the fearful, or please the hateful, may well 
be called cordials; for the heart, seeing it is 
placed in the middle between the brain 
and the liver, is wrought upon by reason, 
as well as by digestion, yet these, because 
they are not medicines, are beside my pre- 
sent scope. 
And although it is true, that mirth, love, 
&c, are actions, or motions of the mind, 
not of the body; yet many have been in- 
duced .to think such affections may be 
wrought in the body by medicines. 
The heart is chiefly afflicted by too much 
heat, by poison, and by stinking vapours, 
and these are remedied by the second sort 
of cordials, and indeed chiefly belong to 
our present scope. 
According to these three afflictions, viz 
1. Excessive heat. 
2. Poison. 
3. Melancholy vapours. 
Are three kinds of remedies which suc- 
cour the afflicted heart. 
Such as te 
1. By their cooling nature eee the 
heat of fevers. ; 
2. Resist poison. 
3. Cherish the vital spirits when they . 
languish. ss 
All these are called Cordials. Se 
1. Such as cool the heart in fevers, yet : 
is not every thing that cooleth cordial, for 
lead is colder than gold, yet is not le 
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