INTRODUCTION. 



C H A- p. XI. 

 Of the Virtues of Medicines. 



I. '-r^HAT fame Tlants Heat, fome CooL anA 

 1 fom D/j, and fame Moificn, U maaifeji ; 



feuni olt''firfi% iwtr Hfte. "^Ifc^dhjy theil 

 Smell. Thirdly, by their Operations, or fcW/r, 

 lourthly, by Experience. 



II. THA T fome 'Plants open OhftruBions, and 

 fome Rop, as in Catarrhs and fluxes of Blood; 



fome Repercufs -, fome Maturate , and fom'e Ab- 

 fierge, &c. Thefe Virtues, which are their Se- 

 cond Qualities, they draw from their Firlt Qua- 



cttt by Experience, and. a continued Series ofOb- 



III. THAT the Appropriation of Medicaments to 

 the feveral principal Parts of the Body, has been 

 found out partly by their Signatures, and partly 



by Experience, and fometime by both of them to- 

 gether : And fo this Appropriation of them to the 



la, Heart, Liver, Spleen, Mefentery, ' Reins, 

 Womb, and Joints, is called ttieir Third aualities. 



IV. NOW IF a Plant is hot and dry, it natu- 

 rally folio-cos, that . it mu& refill and be helpful 



Turf- Tfo'ira'StiZldlLZir'n 

 mlfi 'rcfijl "and 'be "helpful againji Dfeafes pro- 



"aidlf Phnts 'hot "andZlf, 'or colHnlZry, 



Bifeafes proceeding from the oppofite Qualities. 



V. THIS being f aid, if we confider what Dif- 

 eafes aKH thofe principal' Parts of the Body, and 

 from Lat Caufel they proceed ; it follou>s that 

 thofe Plants, which are endowed with thofe Firft 



the Thi^' QualiTi'es,'' m^'uft genirllly''reJ?J}'"and be 

 auxiliaries in the Curing thofe Diftempers, affliUing 



you the Virtues of the Medicament, tho>- there are 

 in almoji every Plant, and in the Variety of their 

 Preparations, a great number of Dif cafes enume- 

 rated, againji which they be Good or Helpful, yet 

 we do not intend thereby, that they are Specificks, 

 and abfolute Cures for all the Difeafes there na- 

 med, but chiefly helpful againji the fame ; and in 

 Compofaions framed againfl fuch Maladies, may 

 as a Vis dupiicata, add to their iorce and EffeBs. 



VI. AS FOR Example, take Angelica, Lavender, 

 or any other Plants, which are hot and dry in the 

 feccmU third, or fourth degrees, as to their Firft 





huns Tt^'^ervls'^TmZc ^fpedallyf ill 

 Habit of the Body be cold and moiji too! Thefe 



lik" PlantsZeJr'oper'pr, Zld felpfunr" the'r 

 Cure, the? we do not Joy they will ahfolutely^ do 



[' the Medicine^, and t. 



could not be either expelled or hoped for. 

 VII. AGAlN,thnfe Plants which are in t 



Sudorificks, and thefe are faid to be Curative at 

 Icaji helpful in Curing all Difeafes nf Repletion. 



VIII. THE KIND of the Abftraaive is to be cbo- 

 fen, according to the fite of the Part, or Parts af- 

 fliaed -, and nature of the Difeafes affliaing. 

 miji Humours, p'amicks '!vr To"he"chofcn : ""if 

 the Stomach, by Surfeits, Fulnrfs, Obftn,aions 

 Jharp Humours, &c. then Emeticks. // the En- 

 trails, with Jharp Humours, Colicks, Worms, 8cc. 

 then Catharticks. If all the Juices of the 



fes Jiopt, then Emmenagogicks. If there be a 



Reins, and Urinary Vefiels, then Diureticks. // 



thontripticks. '// Univerfal Obftruaions over the 

 whole Body, with a repletion of Watery Humours, 



IX. AND SO the D'lfeares proceeding from Re- 

 plm\Saed; and accordingly the "proper mZ- 



ways contributing to thofe Dijeafes ; thofe particu- 



or clre of thofe Difeafes. ' ^ ^^"""^" ' 



X. THOSE HERBS, or Plants, which add fome- 





Adduaives, and faid to cure, or be helpful in cu- 

 ring, all Difeafes 0/ Ablation, viz. fuch Diflem- 



Spermatogeneticks, and Alexipharmicks ; that is 



Body anr'i'ts Principal! ^'^ ^"^"''''"'" '^ '^' 

 XI. AND THEREFORE thcKind of the Adduaive 



