AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 3U1 



Of Medicines appropriated to the brain. \ Some Cephalics purge the brain, sonic 



Before we treat of medicines appropriated j heat it, some cool it, some strengthen it; 



to the brain, it is requisite that we describe j but how they perform this office peculiarly 



what the nature and affection of the brain j to the brain, most physicians confess thev 

 is. I could neither comprehend by reason, nor 



The brain which is the seat of appre- 1 describe by precepts, only thus, they do it 

 hension, judgment, and memory, the origi- > by an hidden quality, either by strengthen- 

 nal of sense and motion, is by nature tern- j ing the brain, thereby descending it from 

 perate, and if so, then you will grant me | diseases, or by a certain antipathy between 

 that it may easily be afflicted both by heat' them and the diseases incident to the brain, 

 and cold, and it is indeed more subject to > Lastly, For the use of Cephalics, ob- 

 affliction by either of them, than any other j serve, if the brain be much afflicted, you 

 part of the body, for if it be afflicted by I cannot well strengthen it before you have 

 heat, sense and reason, it is immoderately j purged it, neither can you well purge the 

 moved, if by cold, they languish, and are | brain before you have cleansed the rest of 

 dulled, to pass by other symptoms which : the body, it is so subject to receive the 

 invade the head, if the brain be altered I vapours up to it ; give cooling Cephalics 

 from its proper temper. | when the brain is too hot, and hot Cephalics 



Also this is peculiar to the brain, that it I when it is too cold. 



is delighted or offended by smells, sights, | Beware of using cooling medicines to 

 and sounds, but I shall meddle no further " 



with these here, because they are not medi- 



the brain when the crisis of a disease is 

 near : how that time may be known, I shall 



cines. (God assisting me) instruct you hereafter, 



Cephalical Medicines may be found out f let it suffice now, that according as thedis- 

 from the affections of the brain itself. The I ease afflicting your head is, so let your 

 brain is usually oppressed with moisture in 1 remedy be. 



such afflictions ; therefore give such medi-j Of Medicines appropriated to the eyes. 

 cincs as very gently warm, cleanse, cut, and j Take such medicines as are appropriated 

 dry: but witha-1, let them be such as are I to the eyes under the name of (Ocular 

 appropriated to the head, such as physi- j Medicines) I do it partly to avoid multipli- 

 cians say (by an hidden quality) strengthen : city of words, and partly to instruct my 

 the brain. 1 countrymen in the terms of art belonging 



Again, if you consider the situation ofjto physic, (I would have called them 

 the brain, you shall find it placed in the \ [Ophthalmics] had not the word been trou- 

 highest part of the body, therefore it is | blesome to the reading, much more to the 

 easily afflicted with hot vapours: this* understanding of a countryman) as I even 



easily afflicted with hot vapours 

 punishes a man with watching and head- 

 ache, as the former did with sottishness and 

 sleepiness, in such cases use such Cephalecs 



now called such medicines [Cephalics] a$ 

 were appropriated lo the brain. 



Ocular medicines are two-fold, viz. such 



as gently cool the brain. : as are referred to the visive virtues, and such 



To make Cephalecs of Narcoticks, or j as are referred to the eyes themselves, 

 stupifying medicines, is not my intent, for* Such as strengthen the visive virtue or 

 I am confident they are inimical both to ! the optick nerves which convey it to the 

 brain and senses. Of these, and such j eyes (say Doctors) do it by an hidden 

 medicines as also purge the brain, I shall i virtue, into the reason which no man can 

 speak by and by. To return to my purpose. dive, unless they should fetch it from the 



