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body tons natural heat, as the fire doth the! appropriated to, or by not heeding well the 

 external parts in cold weather, unless the \ complexion of the patient, or the natural 

 affliction of cold be so great that such mild ; temper of the part of the body afflicted, for 

 medicines will not serve the turn. 1 the heart is hot, but the brain temperate. 



Effect 2. The second effect is, the miti- 1 Effect 4. Lastly, Medicines hot in the 

 gation of pain arising from such a distemper, I first degree, cherish heat in the internal 

 and indeed this effect hath other medicines, j parts, help concoction, breed good blood, 

 some that are cold, and some that are hotter { and keep it good in temper, being bred, 

 than the first degree, they being rationally j Of Medicines hot in the second degree 

 applied to the distemper. These medicines | These are something hotter than the 

 the Greeks call Anodyna, and shall be spo- natural te mper of a man. 

 ken of in their proper places. In thisj Us> Their use for such whose stomachs 

 place let it suffice that medicines hot in the j are filled with mo i sture , because their 

 first degree, make the offending humours faculty is too hot and dry . tne y take away 

 thin, and expel them by sweat, or insensible j obstructions or stoppings, open the pores 

 transpiration, and these of all others arej of the skjn> but not in lhe same manner 

 most congruous or agreeable to the body of | that uch do as are hot in the first degree . 

 man, for there is no such equal temperature for they do it without f orce , by a gentle heat 

 of heat and cold in a sound man, but heat concoct i ng? an d expelling the humours, by 

 exceeds, for we live by heat and moisture, | strengt h e ning and helping nature in the 

 and not by cold. j work . but these cut tough humours, and 



Medicines then which are hot in the first 5 scatter t } iem by their own force and power 

 degree, are such as just correspond to the j when nature cannot . 

 natural heat of our bodies ; such as are i 

 hotter or colder, are more subject to do mis- 

 chief, being administered by an unskilful 



Of Medicines hot in the third 

 Those which attain the third degree ot 

 heat, have the same faculties with those 



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hand, than these are, because of their con- before mentioned but as th e hott 

 trariety to nature ; whereas these are grate- * go are th re erful in J thcir opera . 



ful to the body by their moderae heat. \ { f ^ M in heatj 



Effects. Thirdly, These take away and > ^ . f unadvised] iven the | 



weariness, and help fevers, being outwardly fe ^ ^ Their u ^ fc is to ^ 



applied, because they open the pores of the j R and compacted humours, to provoke 

 sk,n, and by their gentle heat prepare &c ^ abundan {| . hence it comes to pass 

 humours and take away those fuliginous i ^ n of them / esi t ison> 

 vapours that are caused by fevers. <.** ,? / 



Discommodities.-] Yet may discommo- Of Medicines hot tn the fourth degree. 



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dities arise by heedless giving even of these, 

 which I would have young students in phy- 

 sic to be very careful in, lest they do more 



Those medicines obtain the highest degree 

 of heat, which are so hot that they burn the 

 body of a man, being outwardly applied to 



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mischief than they are aware of, viz. It is it, ajid cause inflammations or raise blisters, 

 possible by too much use of them, to con- i". Crowfoot, Mustard-seed, Onions, &c, 

 same not only what is inimical in the body, : these more hereafter. 



but also the substance itself, and the strength 



Of cooling Medicines. 



of the spirits, whence comes faintings, and | Physicians have also observed four de 

 sometimes death : besides, by applying j grees of coldness in medicines, which I shall 

 them to the parts of the body they are not briefly treat of in order. 



