NTRODUCTION. 



cr make it thin and fluid. 5. And to evacuate it 

 for the nwft ^art by Ferfpiration. 



XXL ^ EMOLLIENTS. Thefe are 

 fuch things ns mlUfy or fojten any hard iumour 

 • ^""^c J^'-^" '"'" i'l'^'lb hot and miji ; hot 

 in the fir ji degree^ and moift in the firft or fecond 



tTZ'f N ^"" '" " ''"'' '"^""'^ '^^ ^''°^'"'' 



Parts that they may piercTtnto the'ltatter^'Tnd 

 molhiy or/often it/ lor which reafon ,t u 1/ u/e 

 in Strumous or Scirrhus Tumours, Oedema\ and 

 others of l,k» Nature ; to f often the hardnefs; and 

 reduce it to its pnftme heat : And thefe are eithe 

 Common, or Propef. 1. The Common are fuc 

 ^Me general Operation is to f often hard Swelling^ 

 cndfHch parts and places of the Body, oi are hard 

 ned by Congelation. 2. The Proper, are fuch a. 

 are applyed or appropriated to peculiar Humours 

 which being either hot or cold, the Emollient mul. 

 be oppofie to them, in thofe aUive Properties., but 



XXIi; L A TTR ACTIVES. Ihefe 



They are hot., and of thin Parts: For that which it 



joM with ha xtnl/orpaZJhLflJichZe 

 hot and dry in the fecond degree, moderately at- 

 tract; if in /Af third, more effeOually ; but mofl 



ii according to the firength or degree of heat .• Tet 

 fame things attroQ Specifically, and not by any 

 manifefi Quality, of Emeticks, Qtharticks, Cfc. 

 Thefe are contrary to Repercuffives, for their Na- 



ter,, but Artraaives draw from thf Center to the 

 Circumference. 1 hey are of ufe in Wounds, made 

 by the Bitmgs of Mad Dogs., Serpents, and other 



Peflilential Tumours) &c. Jhe"reft)s cAflhtefyle- 

 cejfary to draw the Poijon and Malignity outtmrds, 

 in order tothe faving of Ufe. 



perjett ripenefs. Ihey are moderately hot, and 

 next to Emollients., yet differing in this., that Sup. 

 puratives have an Emplaflick faculty ^ where, by ob- 

 firumng -the Pores, they produce heat, moji like 

 MikhaoflheHfi'- ""'*"'" '''9' Confumption ^z- 

 Nature, and confpire together with it, to bring 

 the fuperfluous Matter to form, and to fuch a 



andhe affiiaedPmWrehy eJftl "" "'"' 



XXIV. 8. PYROTICKS, or CORROSIVES, 



Thefe are threefold. I. Cathereticks. 2. Septicks. 

 5. Caufticks, or Efcharoticks. /. Cathereticks, or 

 Eaters. Thefe are meanly Jirong ; they by their 



away proud and dead Flefh. II. Septicks. They 



Parts, and cenfiftence, which by their vehement 



a k^'of MaturatU I ^ \^ \ ^' ^' ^^'^' 

 loell digelled Pus, or Umer, inlo^Compley 

 wuhfu^MfhePmncl TT^ ^'^'"^ "''" 



4^VZA 



and their ufe « to draw Blijiers; thefe are Vefi- 

 eateries. III. Caufticks, or Efcharoticks. Tbefe 



Thty \aufe Quits ttfon the place they are applyed 



. Of thefe we have hrgely dif'courfei 

 f Picfcnpts in exemplification there- 



clammy, Ir putrid Matter, adhering toWoundT'and 

 Ulcers, which hinders their healing. They have a 



let fome count them chiefly hot and drying, with a 

 certain thicknefs of Parts to ccmpa[i the Humours .- 

 or coldnejs, ' fmL'folrTof 'bjih "forts Veanf7 'ihfy 

 which ml ""t'^^""'^ '' ^'"'' "■ ""''"' ^"''l^'"''^ 

 a certain roughnefs, or nitrous Quality, to carry 



Thefe , 



SARCC 





NitureyUlZmit. VeyZeTolty/ M dl 

 ^'L''.^/""' Deterfive, and that without Biting or 

 on. A!fo moderately drying, viz. under the 

 iegree. And fuch as Impinguate, or breed 

 ■e Heating, Nouriflting, Impulfive, Attra- 

 etentivc, orSpecifick; as Hemp-Seed, Pau- 

 , J'''"'^ ^')"'"^' "f ''^^ ^"i'"" ^ut. They 

 into ilfh.' Their IgrZ of drynefs'muft beUorl 

 ing to the Part : If the Ulcer happens in a dry 

 pan of the Body, the Sarcotick mufi be very d^, 



>urth degree. But if the part of ihfSody is moift 

 fs drying : They ought not to exceed the firfi de- 

 gree, unlefs the Ulcer be very moifi. They breed 

 not good Blood, nor correO the intemperature of 

 the place affeHed ; they only defend the Blood from 

 ill Symptoms, and the Ulcer from Corruption in 



it her ferous or purulent Recrements, and 



''nirSth!ir'V'f%^^^^^^ 



'fl!/becai,fe by the\r%'^pl']Kature performs 



XXVIIL 12. AGGLUTI NATIVES 



Thefe are fuch as glew the Lips of Wounds, and 



' rated Parts together. They are alfo called 



iphinca, which IS the reafon that Comfry ,s cal- 



aymphitum, Oecaufe of its glewing Quality 



They are generally drying in the fecond degree-. 



ntervenes betweenlheUps lf\kund!,'that7here 



catrizers. They are not / 



