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lures of other medicines, whose operation j cold and flegm, chilliness of the spirits, 

 is the same, for they are very seldom given j &c. 



alone : If you delight most in liquid medi- i But that my countrymen may not be 

 cines, having regard to the disease, and part j mistaken in this, I shall give them some 

 of the body afflicted by it, these will fur- j symptoms of each complexion how a man 

 nish you with where withal to make them | may know when it exceeds its due limits, 

 so as will please your pallate best. Signs of choler abounding. 



\ Leanness of body, costiveness, hollow 

 \ eyes, anger without a cause, a testy dispo- 



COMPOUNDS. SPIRIT AND COM- j s [ tion ' y ellowne ( ss of the skin > ! bitterness in 



POUND DISTILLED WATERS \ the throat ' P nckin g P ains m the head > the 



| pulse swifter and stronger than ordinary, 



Culpeper.~\ Before I begin these, Ij theurinehighercoloured, thinner and bright- 

 thought good to premise a few words : Theyjer, troublesome sleeps, much dreaming of 

 are all hot in operation, and therefore not \ fire, lightning, anger, and fighting. 

 to be meddled with by people of hot con- j Signs of blood abounding. 



stitutions when they are in health, for fear j The veins are bigger (or at least they 

 of fevers and adustion of blood, but for i seem so) and fuller then ordinary ; the skin 

 people of cold constitutions, as melancholy % is red, and as it were swollen ; pricking 

 and flegnrutic people. If they drink of \ pains in the sides, and about the temples, 

 them moderately now and then for recrea- j shortness of bieath, head -ache, the pulse 

 tion, due consideration being had to the s great and full, urine high coloured and 

 part of the body which is weakest, they j thick, dreams of blood, &c. 

 may do them good : yet in diseases of j Signs of melancholy abounding. 



melancholy, neither strong watersnor sack j Tearfulness without a cause, fearful and 

 is to be drank, for they make the humour | foolish imaginations, the skin rough and 

 thin, and then up to the head it flies, where : swarthy, leanness, want of sleep, frightful 

 it fills the brain with foolish and fearful | dreams, sourness in the throat, the pulse 

 imaginations. j very weak, solitariness, thin clear urine, 



2. Let all young people forbear them j often sighing, &c. 



whilst they are in health, for their blood is J Signs of flegm abounding. 



usually hot enough without them. Sleepiness, dulness, slowness, heaviness, 



3. Have regard to the season of the year, | cowardliness, forgetfulness, much spitting 

 so shall you find them more beneficial in j much superfluities at the nose, little appe- 

 Summer than in Winter, because in sum-jtite to meat and as bad digestion, the skin 

 mer the body is always coldest within, and ! whiter, colder and smoother than it was 

 digestion weakest, and that is the reason 1 want to be ; the pulse slow and deep : the 

 why men and women eat less in Summer j urine thick and low coloured : dreams of 

 than in Winter. j rain, floods, and water, &c. 



Thus much for people in health, which j These things thus premised, I come to 

 drink strong waters for recreation. ? the matter. 



As for the medicinal use of them, it shall \ The first the College presents you with, 

 be shewed at the latter end of every receipt, 1 is 



only in general they are (due respect had ; Spiritus et Aqua Absinthis minus Composita. 

 to the humours afflicting, and part of thej Or, Spirit and water of Wormwood, the 

 body afflicted) medicinal for diseases of? lesser composition. 



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