rEsrPEii'AirENTs of the HER^?» X* 



XII, Such as are dry in the first degree strengthen ; in 

 the second degree bind ; in the third, stop fluxes, but 

 S'jaoil the nourishment, and bring consumptions; in the 

 fourth, dry up the radical moisture, which being . ex- 

 hausted, the body must needs perish. 



XIII. iNIoist medicines are opposed to drying j they 

 arc lenitive, and make slippery. 



These cannot exceed the third degree; for all things- 

 are either hot or cold. Now heat dries, up, and cold' 

 congeals ; both which destroy moisture. 



Xiy. Such as are moist in the first degree, ease coughs 

 and help the roughness of the windpipe ; in the second, - 

 loosen the belly ; in the third, make the whole habit of 

 body watery and phlegmatic ; filling it with dropsies, 

 lethargies, and such like diseases. 



XV. Thus medicines alter according to their tempera- 

 ture, whose active qualities are heat and cold, and whose 

 passive arc dryness and moisture. 



XVI. The active qualities eradicate diseases, the pas- 

 sive are subservient to nature. 



So hot medicines may cure the dropsy, by opening ob- 

 structions; and the same may also cure the yellow jaun- 

 dice, by its attractive quality in sympathising with tho 

 humour abounding ; and contrarywise cold medicines 

 may compress or abate a fever, by condensing the hot 

 vapours, and the same may stop any deduxion or loose- - 

 ncss. ■ 



OF THE PRINCIPAL VIRTUES, ■ 



The virtue procreative is seated in the instruments of 

 generation, and is under ^ ; fortified by her herbs and 

 plants, but diminished and cleansed by thoso of (J, and 

 extinguished by those of Tj . 



The virtue con-servative is either natural, vital op 

 animal. 



The natural virtue resides in the liver, and is dispcBJcd 



