210 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



is to use pills, because they are longer in j 1. With the disease, regard the cause, 

 digestion, and therefore the better able to land the part of the body afflicted; for 

 call the offending humour to them. ; example, suppose a woman be subject to 



4 If 1 should tell you here a long tale of! miscarry, through wind, thus do ; 

 medicine working by sympathy and anti-j (1.) Look Abortion in the table of dis- 

 pathy, you would not understand a word of leases, and you shall DC directed by that, 

 it : They that are set to make physicians | how many herbs prevent miscarriage, 

 may find it in the treatise. All modern j (2.) Look Wind in the same table, and 

 physicians know not what belongs to a I you shall see how many of these herbs ey 

 sympalhetical cure, no more than a cuckow pel wind. 



what belongs to flats and sharps in music, These are the herbs medicinal for youi 

 but follow the vulgar road, and call it a j grief, 

 hidden quality, because 'tis hidden from the | 2. In all diseases strengthen the part of 



eyes of dunces, and indeed none but astro- 

 logers can give a reason for it ; and physic 

 without reason is like a pudding without 



lat. 



6. The way to make pills is very easy, 

 for with the help of a pestle and mortar, 



the body afflicted. 



3. In mix'd diseases there lies some dif- 

 ficulty, for sometimes two parts of the body 

 are afflicted with contrary humours, as 

 sometimes the liver is afflicted with choler 

 and water, as when a man hath both the 



and a little diligence, you may make any > dropsy and the yellow-jaundice ; and this 



powder into piils, either with syrup, or thesis usually mortal. 



jelly I told you before. \ In the former, Suppose the brain be too 



* cool and moist, and the liver be too hot and 



C-IIArlJ^ivAV. \ 



.. Ulry ; thus do ; 



The way of mumg Medicines according to\ L K head outward i y W arm. 



the Came of the Disease, and Parts of the j 2 Accustom yourself to the smell of hot 

 Body afflicted | herbs> 



THIS being indeed the key of the work, j 3. Take a pill that heats the head at night 

 I shall be somewhat the more diligent in {going to bed. 

 it. I shall deliver myself thus ; \ 4. In the morning take a decoction that 



1. To the Vulgar. I cools the liver, for that quickly passes the 



2. To such as study Astrology; or such j stomach, and is at the liver immediately, 

 as study physic astrologically. \ You must not think, courteous people, 



1st, To the Vulgar. Kind souls, I am I that I can spend time to give you examples 

 sorry it hath been your hard mishap to have j of all diseases ; These are enough to let you 

 been so long trained in such Egyptian dark- {see so much light as you without art are 

 ness which to your sorrow may be fell ;\ able to receive; If I should set you to look 

 The vulgar road of physic is not my prac-latthe sun, I should dazzle your eyes, and 

 tice, and I am therefore the more unfit to 5 make you blind. 



give you advice. I have now published j 2dly, To such as study Astrology, (who 

 a little book, (GakrisArt of Physic,) which tare the only men I know that are fit to 

 will fully instruct you, not only in the I study physic, physic without astrology being 

 knowledge of your own bodies, but also in hike a lamp without oil : you are the men 

 Ot medicines to remedy each part of it i I exceedingly respect, and such documents 

 when afflicted ; in the mean season take | as my brain can give you at present (being 



* absent from my study) I shall give you. 



