210 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



is to use pills, because they are longer in > 1. With the disease, regard the cause, 

 digestion, and therefore the better able to j and the part of the body afflicted ; for 

 call the offending humour to them. ; example, suppose a woman be subject to 



4. If I should tell you here a long tale of! miscarry, through wind, thus do ; 

 medicine working by sympathy and anti-; (1.) Look Abortion in the table of dis- 

 pathy, you would not understand a word of leases, 'and you shall be directed by that, 

 it : They that are set to make physicians j how many herbs prevent miscarriage, 

 may find it in the treatise. All modern j (2.) Look Wind in the same table, and 

 physicians know not what belongs to a j you shall see how many of these herbs ex- 

 sympathetical cure, no more than a cuckow - pel wind. 



what belongs to flats and sharps in music, ; These are the herbs medicinal for your 

 but follow the vulgar road, and call it a (grief, 

 hidden quality, because 'tis hidden from the \ 2. In all diseases strengthen the part of 



eyes of dunces, and indeed none but astro- 

 logers can give a reason for il ; and physic 

 without reason is like a pudding without 



lal. 



6. The way to make pills is very easy, 



the body afflicted. 



3. In mix'd diseases there lies some dif- 

 ficulty, for sometimes two parts of the body 

 are afflicted with contrary humours, as 

 sometimes the liver is afflicted with choler 



for with the help of a pestle and mortar, j and water, as when a man hath both the 

 and a little diligence, you may make any | dropsy and the yellow-jaundice ; and this 

 powder into pills, either with syrup, or the > is usually mortal. 



jelly I told you before. In the former, Suppose the brain be too 



\ cool and moist, and the liver be too hot and 



CxlArlXjlvAV* I _ . 



r . TI r j- \ dry > ^us do ; 



The way of mixing Medicines according to\ L K r head outwardly warm. 



the Cause of the Disease, and Parts of the j 2 Accustom yourself to the smell of hot 



Body afflicted 



THIS being indeed the key of the work, ; 



herbs. 



3. Take a pill that heats the head at night 



I shall be somewhat the more diligent in \ going to bed. 



it. I shall deliver myself thus ; 4. In the morning take a decoction that 



1. To the Vulgar. ; cools the liver, for that quickly passes the 



2. To such as study Astrology; or such \ stomach, and is at the liver immediately, 

 as study physic astrologically. You must not think, courteous people, 



1st, To the Vulgar. Kind souls, I am jthat I can spend time to give you examples 

 sorry it hath been your hard mishap to have of all diseases ; These are enough to let you 

 been so long trained in such Egyptian dark- \ see so much light as you without art are 

 ness which to your sorrow may be felt ; I able to receive; If I should set you to look 

 The vulgar road of physic is not my prac- 1 at the sun, I should dazzle your eyes, and 

 tice, and I am therefore the more unfit to | make you blind. 



give you advice. I have now published 1 2dly, To such as study Astrology, (who 

 a little book, (Galen's Art of Physic,) which} are the only men I know that are fit to 

 will fully instruct you, not only in the \ study physic, ph} r sic without astrology being 

 knowledge of your own bodies, but also in {like a lamp without oil : you are the men 

 fit medicines to remedy each part of its I exceedingly respect, and such documents 

 when afflicted; in the -mean season take \ as my brain can give you at present (being 

 these few rules to stay your stomachs. > absent from my study) I shall give you. 



