216 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



in a funnel, and the funnel and the paper! so medicines might be more delightful, or at 

 in it in an empty glass, pour in the liquor; least less burdensome. You may make the 

 you would filter, and let it run through at its ; mixtures of them in what form you please, 

 leisure. I only for your better instruction at present, 



5. Coagulation, is curdling or hardening : i accept of these few lines. 



it is used in physic for reducing a liquid j 1. Consider, that all diseases are cured by 

 body to hardness by the heat of the fire. \ their contraries, but all parts of the body 



6. Whereas you find vital, natural, and j maintained by their likes: then if heat be 

 animal spirits often mentioned in the virtues \ the cause of the disease, give the cold medi- 

 or receipts, I shall explain what they be, j cine appropriated to it; if wind, see how 

 and what their operation is in the body of! many medicines appropriated to that disease 

 man. j ex pel wind, and use them. 



The actions or operations of the animal 2. Have a care you use not such medi- 

 virtues, are, 1. sensitive, 2. motive. seines to one part of your body which are 



The sensitive is, 1. external) 2. internal, {appropriated to another, for if your brain 

 The external senses are, 1, seeing, 2. hear-] be over heated, and you use such medicines 

 ing, 3. tasting, 4. smelling, 5. feeling. )as cool the heart or liver, you may make 



The internal senses are, I. the Imagination, 

 to apprehend a thing. 2. Judgment, to judge 



bad work. 



3. The distilled water of any herb you 



of it. 3. Memory, to remember it. * would take for a disease, is a fit mixture 



The seat of all these is in the brain. 5 for the syrup of the same herb, or to make 



The vital spirits proceed from the heart, ? any electuary into a drink, if you affect 

 and cause in man mirth, joy, hope, trust, j such liquid medicines best ; if you have not 

 humanity, mildness, courage, fyc. and their j the distilled water, make use of the decoc- 

 opposite : viz. sadness, fear, care, sorrow, \ tion. 



despair, envy, hatred, stubbornness, revenge, fyc. \ 4. Diseases that lie in the parts of the 

 by heat natural or not natural. j body remote from the stomach and bowels, 



The natural spirit nourishes the body \ it is in vain to think to carry away the cause 

 throughout (as the vital quickens it, and the j at once, and therefore you had best do it by 

 animal gives it sense and motion) its office \ degrees; pills,and such like medicines which 

 is to alter or concoct food into chile, chile are hard in the body, are fittest for such a 

 into blood, blood into flesh, to form, engen- 1 business, because they are longest before 

 der, nourish, and increase the body. j they digest. 



7- Infusion, is to steep a gross body into! 5. Use no strong medicines, if weak will 

 one more liquid. I serve the turn, you had better take one too 



8. Decoction, is the liquor in which any ; weak by half, than too strong in the least, 

 thing is boiled. 6. Consider the natural temper of the part 



As for the manner of using or ordering; of the body afflicted, and maintain it in that, 

 the body after any sweating, or purging else you extinguish nature, as the heart is 

 medicines, or pills, or the like, they will be j hot, the brain cold, or at least the coldest 

 found in different parts of the work, as also j part of the body. 

 in the next page. 7- Observe this general rule; That such 



The different forms of making up medi-j medicines as arc hot in the first degree are 

 cines, as some into syrups, others into elec- j most habitual to our bodies, because they 

 luaries, pills, troches, &c. was partly to j are just of the heat of our blood, 

 please the diiferent palates of people, that ! 8. All opening medicines, and such as 



