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their taste) very hot and cutting, whence 
they penetrate to the reins, and cut the 
gross humours there. 
Bitter things, although they be very hot, 
and cut gross humours, yet are they of a 
more dry and terrene substance than is 
convenient to provoke urine. 
Hence then we may safely gather, that 
bitter things are not so moist nor penetrat- 
ing, as such as bite like Pepper. 
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CHAPTER XI. 
Of Medicines breeding flesh. 
There are many things diligently to be 
observed in the cures of wounds and ulcers, 
which incur and hinder that the cure cannot 
be speedily done, nor the separated parts 
reduced to their natural state. 
Viz. Fluxes of blood, inflammation, 
hardness, pain, and other things besides our 
present scope. 
Our present scope is, to shew how the 
cavity of ulcers may be filled with flesh. 
Such medicines are called Sarcoticks. 
This, though it be the work of nature, 
yet it is helped forward with medicines, 
that the blood may be prepared, that it may 
the easier be turned into flesh. 
These are not medicines which breed 
good blood, nor which correct the intem- 
perature of the place afflicted, but which 
defend the blood and the ulcer itself from 
corruption in breeding flesh. 
For nature in breeding flesh produceth 
two sorts of excrements , viz. scrosus 
-humours, and purulent dross. 
Those medicines then which cleanse and 
consume, these by drying are said to breed 
flesh, because by their helps nature per- 
forms that office. 
Also take notice that these medicines are 
not so drying that they should consume the 
blood also as well as the sanies, nor So 
Let them not then exceed the first degree 
unless the ulcer be very moist. 
Their difference are various, according 
to the part wounded, which ought to be 
restored with the same flesh. 
The softer then, and tenderer the place 
is, the gentler let the medicines be. 
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CHAPTER XII. 
Of glutinative Medicines. 
That is the true cure of an ulcer which 
joins the mouth of it together. 
That is a glutinative medicine, which 
couples together by drying and binding, the 
sides of an ulcer before brought together. 
These require a greater drying faculty 
than the former, not only to consume what 
flows out, but what remains liquid in the 
flesh, for liquid flesh is more subject to flow 
abroad than to stick together. 
The time of using them, any body may 
know without teaching, viz. when the ulcer 
is cleansed and filled with flesh, and such 
symptoms as hinder are taken away. 
For many times ulcers must be kept open 
that the sanies, or fords that lie in them 
may be purged out, whereas of themselves 
they would heal before. 
Only beware, lest by too much binding 
you cause pain in tender parts. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Of Medicines resisting poison. 
Such medicines are called Aleziteria, and 
Alezipharmaca, which resist poison. 
Some of these resist poison by astral in- 
fluence, and some physicians (though 
few) can give a reason for it. he 
These they have sorted into three ranks: — 
1. Such as strengthen nature, that so it — 
2. Such as oppose the poison by a con- 
