BOOK ir. and Expert Ferrkr. i^^ 



SECT. 8. C 



Hippoph. T Would gladly l^ov; (Hippoferus) fomething of Cly- 

 J. fters and their true natures. 

 Hippoferus. As touching Clyflers^ there be fundry kinds of 

 furgatiom^ and therefore to the end you may the better under- 

 ftand them and their proper vertues, I will firft anatomize un- 

 to you the feveral degrees of Turgations \ and by reafon I have -^ 

 been much, and that for a long time verled in this fubjedl, I of ciy^ - 

 am not afhamed to difcover unto you from whence I had my ^^'■^• 

 firft grounds and principles \ for every man (as the Proverb 

 is) raufl have a beginning \ to wit, he muft be a Scholar^ be- 

 fore he can be a Mafier\ for as Senecn faith very well, It ii great 

 temerity in any man to take upon him to be a Mafier^ who did never 

 know what it was to have been a Scholar. My firft rudiments there- 

 fore I received from Mr. Blmdevile-, and after fomewhat I at- 

 tained unto by the help of Mr. Marhjoam., both very well tra-: 

 veiled in this Art ^ the reft I atchieved partly in my Travels^ 

 and partly from my particular praUice and experience. Now 

 Mr. Markham followeth Mr. Blmdevile in many things verbatim^ 

 in thcTeft in fubftanceiwherein Mr. Markham doth more large- 

 ly dilate and deliver himfelf, making thereby oft-times many 

 thingsmore clear and apparent, yet they both aflent in what 

 they fay ^ v^z. that Fnrgationh defin^'dby the learned Phyfici- ^^^^^^ 

 ans to be the emptying and voiding offuperfluous httmonrs'^vihich ned.^ "' 

 do cumber, pefter, and difturb the bendy with their peccant 

 eondition : affirming that fuch ill humours do breed much bad 

 nutriment, which the Learned do call Cacochymia, which when r 

 it will not be corrected or amended, either by fair means, or 

 by the help of nature, then muft- it be compelled, forced, and 

 driven away by Paygation^ Vomit ^ Clyjier^ ox Suppbfkery. And 

 whereas Mr. Blmdevile faith, that Horfes are not u led to be . 

 purged by Fomit as men be ; 1 in conference with him once ask- 

 ed him the reafon thereof 3 he anfwered me, for that the neck 

 of the Horfe was of that length, as not to be able to purge by 

 Vomit.y which for the prelent I took for-fatisfadion , I then 

 imagining the thing not to be known, until fuch time as I tra- 

 velling into remote parts, where I had frequent commerce 



with . I 



