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; stomach is never cold till a man be dead ; 



Jin such a case, it is better to carry troches 



Of Poultices. Jof wormwood, or galangal, in a paper in 



f . . I his pocket, than to lay a gallipot along with 

 1. POULTICES are those kind of tnin gs'hj m 



which the Latins .call Cataplasmata and our! 4 ' Th are made thus . At ni ht wheu 

 learned fellows, thatif they can reaclEnghsh, j t( / bed take two drams of b fiw 



tliats all call them Cataplasms because J * anth . flt it into a gallipot, and put 

 ' - a t of a t * f 



] 



watef mg for the purpose wou]d 



'tis a crabbed word lew understand; it is in- 

 deed a very fine kind of medicine to ripen 



| make your troches for to cover it, and the 

 2 They are made of herbs anc I roots, < ^ ^ ]} find k - n guch 



fitted for the disease and members affl.cted, j je]] &g the f J icians ca]1 mucilage . With 

 being chopped small, and boiled m water ^ / (with a little pai ? s taken) 



almost to a jelly ; hen by adding a htt e I mak / a v / er \ nto a paste a d that ^ 

 barley meai or meal of lupins , and a lit tlej into cak s ca] , ed troch ^ s> 

 oil, or rough sweet suet, which I hold to be| 5 Hayin made them d them in t))e 

 better, spread upon a cloth and apply toj shad and \ eep them in a po t for your 

 the grieved places. I 



3. Their use is to ease pain, to break I 



sores, to cool inflammations, to dissolve | en AFTER xiv. 



hardness, to ease the spleen, to concoct j QL- p;// s 



humours, and dissipate swellings. 



4. I beseech you take this caution along j 1- THEY are called Pilul<e, because they 

 with you; Use no poultices (if you can j resemble little balls ; the Greeks call them 

 help it) that are of an healing nature, before j Caf&pOtUt? 



you have first cleansed the body, because j 2 - Tt is the opinion of modern physicians, 

 they are subject to draw the humours tol that lhls wa J of making medicines, was 

 them from every part of the body. invented only to deceive the palate, that 



{ so by swallowing them down whole, the 



CHAPTER xni. \ bitterness of the medicine might not be 



Of Troches i perceived, or at least it might not be unsuf- 



jferable: and indeed most of their pills, 



1. THE Latins call them Placentula, or | though not all, are very bitter. 



little cakes, and the Greeks Prochikois,\ 3. I am of a clean contrary opinion to 

 Kukliscoi, and Artiscoi ; they are usually j this. I rather think they were done up in 

 little round flat cakes, or you may make j this hard form, that so they might be the 

 them square if you will. j longer in digesting; and my opinion is 



2. Their first invention was, that powders j grounded upon reason too, not upon fancy, 

 being so kept might resist the intermission : or hearsay. The first invention of pills was 

 of air, and so endure pure the longer. to purge the head, now, as I told you 



3. Besides, they are easier carried in the; before, such infirmities as lie near the pas- 



Sockets of such as travel ; as many a man j sages were best removed by decoctions, 

 or example) is forced to travel whose i because they pass to the grieved part 

 stomach is too cold, or at least not so hot as j soonest ; so here, if the infirmity lies in the 

 it should be, which is most proper, for the { head, or any other remote part, the best way 



