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1. The temperature of the roots, herbs, \ 

 flowers, &c. viz. Hot, cold, dry, moist, \ 

 together with the degree of each quality. 



2. What part of the body each root, \ 

 herb, flower, is appropriated to, viz. head, ! 

 throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, \ 

 bowels, reins, bladder, womb, joints, and > 

 in those which heat those places, and | 

 which cool them. 



3. The proper!}- of each simple, as they 

 bind, open, mollify, harden, extenuate, \ 

 discuss, draw out, suppure, cleanse, gluti-i 

 nate, break wind, breed seed, provoke or \ 

 stop the menses, resist poison, abate swell- 1 

 ings, ease pain. 



This I intend shall be my general method j 

 throughout the simples, which, having! 

 finished I shall give you a paraphrase ex-i 

 plaining these terms, which rightly con- \ 

 sidered, will be the key of Galen's way ofj 

 administering physic. 



Temperature of the Roots. 



Roots hot m the first degree. Marsh-mal- 

 lows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling, Poppy, 

 Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, Calamus 

 Aromaticus, Avens, Pilewort, China, Self- 

 heal, Liquorice, Dog-grass, white Lilies, 

 Peony, male arid female, wild Parsnips, 

 Parsley, Valerian, great and small, Knee- 

 holly, Satyrion, Scorzonera, Skirrets. 



Hot in the second degree. Water-fl ag,Reed s, 

 Swallow-wort, Asphodel, male, Carline 

 Thistle, Cypress, long and round, Fennel, 

 Lovage, Spignel, Mercury, Devil's oil, But- 

 ter Bur, Hog's Fennel, Sarsaparilla, Squils, 

 Zedoary. 



Hot in the third degree. -Angelica, Aron, 

 Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, 

 Asarabacca, Briony, white and black, Sal- 

 lendine, Virgianian snakeroot, Hemeric, 

 White Dittany, Doronicum, Hellebore, 

 white and black, Elicampane, Fillipendula, 

 Galanga greater and lesser, Masterwort, 

 Orris English and Florentine, Restharrow, 

 stinking Gladen, Turbith, Ginger. 



Hot in the fourth degree. Garlick, Onions, 

 Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. 



Roots temperate in respect of heat, arc 

 Bear's breech, Sparagus, our Lady's Thistle, 

 Eringo, Jallap, Mallows, Mechoacan, gar- 

 den Parsnips, Cinq uefoil, Tormentil. 



Roots cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 

 Beets, white and red, Comfrey the greater, 

 Plantain, Rose Root, Madder. 



Cold inthe second degree. Alcanet, Daisies, 

 Succory, Hound's tongue, Endive, Jacinth. 



Cold in the third degree. Bistort and 

 Mandrakes are cold in the third degree, 

 and Henbane in the fourth. 



Roots dry in the first degree. Bears-breech, 

 Burdocks, Redbeets, Calamus Aromaticus, 

 Pilewort, Self-heal, Endive, Eringo, Jacinth, 

 Madder, Kneeholly. 



Dry in the second degree. Waterflag, 

 Marshmallows, Alkanet, Smallage, Reeds, 

 Sorrel, Swallow-wort, Asphodel male, Bazil, 

 Valerian and Spatling Poppy, according to 

 the opinion of the Greeks. Our Lady's 

 Thistles, Avens, Succory, Hound's tongue 

 Cypress long and round, Fennel, Lovage, 

 Spignel, Mercury, Devil's bit, Butter-bur, 

 Parsley, Plantain, Zedoary. 



Dry in the third degree. Angelica, Aron, 

 Birthwort, long and round, Sowbread, Bis- 

 tort, Asarabacca, Briony white and black, 

 Carline Thistle, China, Sallendine, Virginian 

 Snake-root, white Dittany, Doronicum, 

 Hellebore white and black, Elicampane, 

 Fillipendula, Galanga greater and lesser, 

 Masterwort, Orris, English and Florentine, 

 Restharrow, Peony male and female, Cin- 

 quefoil, Hog's Fennel, Sarsaparilla, stink- 

 ing Gladen, Tormentil, Ginger. 



Dry in the fourth degree. Garlick, Onions, 

 Costus, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. 



Roots moist are, Bazil, Valerian, and 

 Spatling-poppy, according to the Arabian 

 Phj'sicians, Daisies, white Beets, Borrage, 

 Bugloss, Liquorice, Dog grass, Mallows, 

 Satyrion, Scorzonera, Parsnips, Skirrets. 



