AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Of Medicines cold in the first degree. j in the second or third degree, always let 

 Those medicines which are least cold of | the remedy correspond to the just propor- 

 all, obtain the first degree of coldness ; and | tion of the affliction. 



I beseech you take notice of this, that see- \ Use 3. Thirdly, Sometimes the spirits 

 ing our bodies are nourished by heat, and j are moved inordinately through heat, thence 

 we live by heat, therefore no cold medi- \ follows immoderate watchings, if not de- 

 cines are friendly to the body, but what | privation of the senses, this also must be 

 good they do our bodies, they doit by re- I remedied with cold medicines, for cold 

 moving an unnatural heat, or the body I stops the pores of the skin, makes the 

 heated above it natural temper. 1 humours thick, represses sweat, and keeps 



The giving then of cold medicines to a j up the spirits from fainting, 

 man in his natural temper, the season of j Qf Medicines cold in the fourth degree. 

 the year also being but moderately hot, ex- ]j j^j^ The uge of medicines co|d jn the 

 linguistics natural heat in the body of man. fourth degree? j Sj TO mitigate desperate and 

 Yet have these a necessary use in them re hement pains, stupifying the senses, when 

 too, though not so frequent as hot medi- j no other course can De ta k en to gave ] ife . 

 cines have; and that may be_the reason O f tne use of which more hereafter 



why an all wise God hath furnished us with 

 far more hot herbs and plants, &c. than 

 co]d. 



Use 1. Their use is first, in nourishment, 

 that so the heat of food may be qualified, 

 and made for a weak stomach to digest. 



Use 2. Secondly, To restrain and assuage 

 the heat of the bowels, and to cool the 

 blood in fevers. 



Therefore if the distemper of heat be but 

 gentle, medicines cold in the first degree 

 will suffice ; also children, and such people 



Of moistening Medicines. 



There can be no such difference found 

 amongst moistening medicines, that they 

 should surpass the second degree. For see- 

 ing all medicines are either hot or cold, 

 neither heat nor cold, seeing they are ex- 

 tremes, can consist with moisture, for the 

 one dries it up, the other condensates it. 



Use. Phylosophers therefore call mois- 

 ture and dryness, passive qualities, yet have 

 they their operation likewise ; for moist 



whose stomachs are weak, are easily hurt | medicines lenifies and make slippery ease 



the cough, and help the roughness of the 

 throat. These operations are proper to 

 medicines moist in the first degree. 



Those which are moister, take away 



strength help the sharpnes: 



by cold medicines. 

 Of Medicines cold in tht second and third 



degree. 



v Use 1. Such whose stomachs are strong, \ 

 and livers hot, may easily bear such medi- j 

 cines as are cold in the second degree, and j humours make 

 in cases of extremity find much help by } thlcker ' looses the 

 them: as also by such as are cold in the j \ mmoderdie or indiscree t use of them 

 thud degree, the ^f^^'gJ^jJ^JJJJ i dulls the body, and makes it unfit for action. 



heat S of e choier is assuaged. & Of *3W* Medicines. 



Use 2. Also they are outwardly applied \ Drying medicines have contrary tacult 

 to hot swellings, due consideration being {to these, viz. To consume moisture, stop 

 had, that if the inflammation be not great, j fluxes, and make such parts dry as are 

 use those that are less ; if the inflammation { slippery, they make the body and members 

 be vehement, make use of medicines cold | firm, when they are weakened by too much 



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