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! stomach is never cold till a man be dead ; 

 in such a case, it is better to carry troches 



Of Poultices. 

 1. POULTICES are those kind of things 



of wormwood, or galangal, in a paper in 

 his pocket, than to lay a gallipot along with 



him. 

 which the Latin; .call Cataplasmata :, and our \ 4 Th are madethus; At ni ht when 



learned fellows, thatif they can read English, | ^ M take two dramg rf ^ 



thats all call them Cataplasms because ( * anth . t it int o a gallipot, and put 

 tis a crabbed word few understand; it is in- , f . j; ot :/L. 



deed a very fine kind of medicine to ripen 



sores. 



2, They are made of herbs and roots, 

 fitted for the disease, and members afflicted, 



half a quarter of a pint of any distilled 

 water fitting for the purpose you would 

 make your troches for to cover it, and the 

 next morning you shall find it in such a 



jelly as the physicians call mucilage ; With 

 being chopped small, and boiled m water j [^ m P a / (with a little pa 8 taken) 



almost to a jelly ; then by adding a htt e I mak / a ow / er \ nto a t ^ that ' 

 barley meai or meal of lupins and a httle| into ^ ca]]ed troch ^ s 

 oil, or rough sweet suet, which I hold to be| 5 Havi made th d them in the 

 better, spread upon a cloth and apply to | shad and \ them in for your 

 the grieved places. \ 



3. Their use is to ease pain, to break 5 



sores, to cool inflammations, to dissolve j CHAPTJBRXIV. 



hardness, to ease the spleen, to concoct > r\f p:ji s 



fiumours, and dissipate swellings. 



4. I beseech you take this caution along \ 1- THEY are called Pilula, because they 

 with you; Use no poultices (if you can | resemble little balls ; the Greeks call them 

 help it) that are of an healing nature, before j Catapotia. 



vou have first cleansed the body, because \ 2. It is the opinion of modern physicians, 

 ihey are subject to draw the humours to that this way of making medicines, was 



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them from every part of the body. 



invented only to deceive the palate, that 



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so by swallowing them down whole, the 

 \ bitterness of the medicine might not be 



Of Troches \ P erce i ve( ^ or at ^ east ' l might not be unsuf- 



| ferable : and indeed most of their pills, 



1. THE Latins call them Placentula, or {though not all, are very bitter. 



little cakes, and the Greeks Prochikois,\ 3. I am of a clean contrary opinion to 

 Kukliscoi) and Arliscoi ; they are usually j this. I rather think they were done up in 

 little round flat cakes, or you may make] this hard form, that so they might be the 

 them square if you will. j longer in digesting; and my opinion is 



2. Their first invention was, that powders j grounded upon reason too, not upon fancy 

 being so kept might resist the intermission : or hearsay. The first invention of pills was 

 of air, and so endure pure the longer. -to purge the head, now, as I told you 



3. Besides, they are easier carried in the \ before, such infirmities as lie near the pas- 

 pockets of such as travel ; as many a man sages were best removed by decoctions, 

 (for example) is forced to travel whose j because they pass to the grieved par* 

 8ionmch is too cold, or at least not so hot as | soonest ; so here, if the infirmity lies in the 

 ii should be, which is most proper, for the i head, or any other remote part, the best w&y 



