INTRODUCTION. 



Fart which one would think had fome Scnje in it 

 becaufe it is pleafed and delighted with fome things, 

 plefd^fiJ'to^ 



,n.fce„tedthngs,asTurds, Affafcedda, and other 

 ftinkmg things of like nature. Therefore fin^e 

 Vapours, HyfterickFits, and HyftenckConvJfions 

 proceed from the Womb, thofe things which allevute 

 place] eafe its Pains, and profigate it. CcnvJflzr 

 Motions are properly called Hyfl cricks, fo Musk, 

 Amhergrife, Aromaticks, applied to the A'of; in- 

 plied to the place of Conception, fupprcfs them all. 

 But Afla foetida, and other J] inking things applied 

 below, bring thofe Difeafes ., whereas held to the 



fhall treat in the fourth Qualities. 



.IV. 12. ARTHRITICKS. 

 licines appropriated to the Joints. 

 they confifl chiefly of tendinous a 



Jeqifire thfiro^gTkedTamms. ' 

 hyAnodyn Arthriticks, mixed 



S^Si 





ther by Epifpafticks, or Burning ; or by the appli- 

 cation of Atxhntkk Repercuffivel, m,:<ed with Cam- 

 phir, or Opium, or. both. 



CHAP. VI. 



Of the Fourth QuaHties. 



I. T-tHE fourth aualities of Medicaments are 



1 fuch as are Abftraaive, to wit, fuch as by 



their Power or Operations, take away fonie thing 



4. Ptarmicks. 5. Emmenagogicks. 6. Diureticks. 

 7. Lithontripticks. 8. Sudorificks. 9. Veneficks. 



III. I. E M E T I C K S, .r Vomitories. Thefe 



itmdch, "clu/iZ^r \ehL"t™and 'stmAition, 

 whereby afterwards as the relu&ancy grows more 

 and more, and the naufeoufnefs encreafes, thofe 

 n^rvom Fibres Jef ore relaxed, fuffer a kind of 



ing Matter upwards, or by the -Mouth, whereby 

 that Vifcus, by fuch a difcharge, comes to be rejh- 



otberwife to be cleanfei, for ten Cathaiticks, or 



ICKS, or Purging 



Thefe p 





for M^purp'^e%hr4n\Z"ctZM ZfZ'-n 

 teriour Duau's of the Bowels, as in 'thofe things 

 aftriftion."''!!)?) "l /^/AhfteriTive''"^ degree -"U 



bitter, andfo have a power of abfterging and' pur- 

 ging the greater Pajjages ; but fome purge by lubri- 

 tying, as Fat things. Some by wattling and abfter- 

 (lon, as Whey impregnated with Sena and Beets. 

 And fome by KM\'mi„ penetrating, and pricking, 



V. 3. SALIVATICKS. Thefe are fa- 

 hvating orfpitting Medicines, which refohing all 

 the Lympha of the Body, into a pituitous or ferous 

 Subjiance, it is conduced from all parts of the Body 

 to the Head, and paffing thro' the falivatick Glands, 

 isfpit forth. This is only or chiefly performU by 

 Mercury, andfomeofitsYtc^xmons, which melt- 

 it, caufes this Operation] The order of it, and 



I have faid at large upon this Subjeff, m the Third 



are of mighty ufe in curing Apoplexies, Lethargies, 

 Megrims, Vertigo's, Epilepfies, and other Cephalick 

 Difeafes of like nature, proceeding from Cold and 



fuTailTprJpe'r 



