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their taste) very hot ana culling, whence 

 they penetrate to the reins, and cut the 

 gross humours there. 



Bitter things, although they be very hot, 

 and cut gross humours, yet are they of a 

 more dry and terrene substance than is 

 convenient to provoke urine. 



Hence then we may safely gather, that 

 bitter things are not so moist nor penetrat- 

 s bite like Pepper. 



Let them not then exceed the first degree 

 unless the ulcer be very moist. 



Their difference are various, according 

 to the part wounded, which ought to be 

 restored with the same flesh. 



The softer then, and tenderer ihe place 

 is, the gentler let the medicines be. 



ng, as 





CHAPTER XL 



Of Medicines breeding flesh. 



There are many things diligently to be 

 observed in the cures of wounds and ulcers, 

 which incur and hinder that the cure cannot 

 be speedily done, nor the separated parts 

 reduced to their natural state. 



Viz. Fluxes of blood, inflammation, 

 hardness, pain, and other things besides our 

 present scope. 



Our present scope is, to shew how the 

 cavity of ulcers may be filled with flesh. 



Such medicines are called Sarcoticks. 



This, though it be the work of nature, 

 yet it is helped forward with medicines, 

 that the blood may be prepared, that it may 

 the easier be turned into flesh. . 



These are not medicines which breed 

 good blood, nor which correct the intexn- 

 perature of the place afflicted, but which 

 defend the blood and the ulcer itself from 

 corruption in breeding flesh. 



For nature in breeding flesh produceth 

 two sorts of excrements, viz. scrosus 

 humours, and purulent dross. 



Those medicines then which cleanse and 

 consume, these by drying are said to breed 

 flesh, because by their helps nature per- 

 forms that office. 



Also take notice that these medicines are 

 not so drying that they should consume the 

 blood also as well as the sanies, nor so cleans- 

 ing that thsy should consume the flesh with 

 the dross, 



CHAPTER XII. 



Of glutinatrce Medicines. 



That is the true cure of an ulcer which 

 joins the mouth of it together. 



That is a glutinative medicine, which 

 couples together by drying and binding, 

 the sides of an ulcer before brought together. 



These require a greater drying faculty 

 than the former, not only to consume what 

 flows out, but what remains liquid in the 

 flesh, for liquid flesh is more subject to flow 

 abroad than stick to together. 



The time of using them, any body may 

 know without teaching, viz. when the ulcer 

 is cleansed and filled with flesh, and such 

 symptoms as hinder are taken away. 



For many times ulcers must be kept open 

 that the sanies, or fords that lie in them 

 may be purged out, whereas of themselves 

 they would heal before. 



Only beware, lest by too much binding 

 you cause pain in tender parts. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Of Medicines resisting poison. 



Such medicines are called Alexiteria, and 

 Alexipharmaca, which resist poison. 



Some of these resist poison by astral in- 

 fluence, and some physicians (though but 

 few) can give a reason for it. 



These they have sorted into three ranks : 



1. Such as strengthen nature, that so it 

 i may tame the poison the easier. 



2. Such as oppose the poison by a con- 

 | trary quality. 



