A KEY 



TO 



GALEN'S METHOD OF PHYSIC. 



The general use of physic. \ the whole ground and foundation of physic) 



I SHALL desire thee, whoever thou art, | are totally led astray by Tradition. 

 that intendest the noble (though too much! It is the manifest qualities of medicines 

 abused) study of physic, to mind needfully \ that here I am to speak to, and you may be 

 ihese folio wing rules ; which being well un-i pleased to behold it in this order, 

 derstood, shew thee the Key of Galen and I 

 Hippocrates their method of physic : he | 

 that useth their method, and is not heedful 



of these rules, may soon cure one disease, 

 and cause another more desperate. 



SECTION. 1. Of the Temperature of 

 Medicines. 



SECTION I. 



That thou mayest understand what I{ SECTION. 2. Of the appropriation of 

 intend, it is to discover in a general way of \ Medicines. 



the manifest virtues of medicines. {SECTION. 3. Of the Properties of Medicines 



I say of the manifest virtues, and qualities, j 

 viz. Such as are obvious to the senses, \ 

 especially to the taste and smell : for it I 

 hath been the practice of most Physicians, 

 in these latter ages as well as ours, to say, 

 when they cannot give, nor are minded to Of the Temperature of Medicines. 



*tudy a reason, why an herb, plant, &c. I Herbs, plants, and other medicines mani- 

 hath such an operation, or produces such an ! festly operate, either by heat, coldness, dry- 

 effect in the body of man : It doth it by an j ness, or moisture, for the world being corn- 

 hidden quality, for they not minding the i posed of so many qualities, they and only 

 whole creation, as one united body, not know- i they can be found in the world, and the 

 ingwhatbelongstoastro/w/?//fHce,notregard- j mixtures of them one with another, 

 ing that excellent harmony the only wise $ But that they may appear as clear as the 

 God hath made in a eomposition of con- ; sun when he is upon the meridian, I shall 

 traries fin the knowledge of which consists i treat of them severally, and in this order 



