Directions for making of Syrups, Sfc. 36 j 



ioT.!«'''^r^'"° ^"^ "'y °P'"'°" '' grounded upon reason too. 

 ^on„^r".KT^'.°'"^^^''^>'- ^^''^ ^''' invention of pills wai 

 to J urge the head ; now. as I told you before, such infirmitie. 

 c M f ^u" Passages, were best removed by decoctu.ns, be- 



«-aUbe they pass to the grieved part soonest ; so here, if the infir- 

 mity lies in the head, or any other remote part, the besi 

 way is to use pills, because they are longer in di<^estion 

 and^therefore better able to cau\he offending huuTow To 



hv\Jl ^f ""'"l '^'^ you here a long tale of medicines working 

 Dy sympathy and antipathy, you would not understand a word 

 tlllL lu I'^ ''^y''- "^^'ke physicians, may find it in the 

 treatise. All modern pliysicians know not what belongs to flats 

 and sharps m musick, but follow the vulgar road, and call it a 



and in^d^H ''' t''"'' ;' '' ^■'^'^^^ '■^°"' ^''^ ^ves of dunces, 

 and mdeed none but astrologers can give a reasen f6r it ; and phv- 

 sick without reason, is like a puddi.fg without fat. ^^ 



5. 1 he way to make pilis is very .^asv, for with the help of a 

 En'/ • /"''•'r' '■?' ' ''"'-^ diligence, you may make any 



CHAP. XV. The wmj of mlvhig Medicines, according to [he 

 Cause of the Dnease, and Part of the Body afflicted. 



*\J^^^ rr"^ '"''^^'* ^''^ ^^y "f *^ "'«'-k» I shall be somewhat 

 the more dihgent in it. I shall deliver myself thxis • 

 1. lo the vulgar. 



loglcaHv. '"''^ ^' '''''^^' '^'''■°'°S'' ^ «'■ ^"^h as study physick astro- 



^..lT'J^'' '^! 'l'''^'"'', •^"''' ,'''^''' ^ «■" ««^^y " hath been your 

 hard mishap to have been so long trained in such Egyptian cL^rk- 

 ness, even darkness which to your sorrow may be feft : The vul- 

 gar road of physick is not my practice, and l' am therefore the 

 moreunfittog|ve youadnce. I have now published a book 

 called " The Ho v Temple of Wisdom." wl!ich will fully in- 

 sructyou, not only ,n the knowledge of your own bodies, but 

 also in fit medicines to remedy each part of it when afflicted • 

 m the mean season take these k^w rules to stay your sto- 

 machs. ■' -^ 



1. With the disease, regard the canse, and the part of the body 

 afflicted; for example suppose a woman be subject to miscarry ' 

 through wind ; thus do : J ' =^<'"y^ 



(1.) Look abortion in the table of diseases, and you shall be 

 directed by that, how many herbs prevent miscarriage 



f %L h^ V ''''"'' '," '^'i''"' ^'^''' ""'^ y'^'^ shall s^'how manv 

 of these herbs expel wind. ' 



These are the herbs medicinal for your^nef 



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