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1. The temperature of the roots, herbs,; Hot in the fourth degree. Garlick, Onions, 

 flowers, &c. viz. Hot, cold, dry, moist, j Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. 



together with the degree of each quality. Roots temperate in respect of heat, are 



2. What part of the body each root, i Bear's breech, Sparagus, our Lady's Thistle, 

 herb, flower, is appropriated to, viz. head, $ Eringo, Jallap, Mallows, Mechoacan, gar- 

 throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, (den Parsnips, Cinquefoil, Tonnentil. 

 bowels, reins, bladder, womb, joints, and ; Roots cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 

 in those which heat those places, and \ Beets, white and red, Comfrey the greater 

 which rool them. \ Plantai-n, Rose Root, Madder. 



3. The property of each simple, as they | Cold inthe second degree. Alcanct, Daisies, 

 bind, open, mollify, harden, extenuate, {Succory, Hound's tongue, Endive, Jacinlh. 

 discuss, draw out, suppure, cleanse, gluti-j Cold in the third degree. Bistort and 

 nate, break wind, breed seed, provoke or \ Mandrakes are cold in the third degree, 

 stop the menses, resist poison, abate swell- j and Henbane in the fourth. 



ings, ease pain. Roots dry in the first degree. Bears-breech, 



This I intend shall be my general method ; Burdocks, Redbeets, Calamus Aromaticus. 

 throughout the simples, which, having \ Pilewort, Self-heal, Endive, Eringo, Jacinth, 

 finished I shall give you a paraphrase ex- Madder, Kneeholly. 



plaining these terms, which rightly con- \ Dry in the second degree. Waterflag, 

 sidered, will be the key of Galen's way of j Marshmallows, Alkanet, Smallage, Reeds, 

 administering physic. $ Sorrel, Swallow-wort, Asphodel male, Bazil, 



rp / ,, T> t Valerian and Spatling Poppy, accord in & to 



1 emperature of the Roots. . i K . w V A T ^ > 



| the opinion or the Greeks. Our Lady s 



Roots hot in the first degree. Marsh-mal- ; Thistles, Avens, Succory, Hound's tongue 

 lows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling, Poppy, \ Cypress long and round, Fennel, Lovage, 

 Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, Calamus j Spignel, Mercury, Devil's bit, Butter-bur, 



Aromaticus, Avens, Pilewort, China, Self- ; 

 heal, Liquorice, Dog-grass, white Lilies, 

 Peony, male and female, wild Parsnips 



Parsley, Plantain, Zecloary. 



Dry in the third degree. Angelica, Aron, 

 Birthwort, long and round, Sowbread, 



Parsley, Valerian, great and small, Knee- j tort, Asarabacca, Briony white and black, 



holly, Satyrion, Scorzonera, Skirrets. 



Carline Thistle, China, Sallendine, Virginian 



Hot inthe seconddegree. Water-tiag,Reeds, Snake-root, white Dittany, Doronicuin, 

 Swallow-wort, Asphodel, male, Carline | Hellebore white and black, Elicampane t 

 Thistle, Cypress, long and round, Fennel, j FiUipendula, Galanga greater and lesser, 

 Lovage, Spignel, Mercury, Devil's bit, But-! Masterwort, Orris, English and Florentine, 



te'r Bur, Hog's Fennel, Sarsaparilla, Squils, 

 Zedoary. 



Hot in the third degree. Angelica, Aron, 

 Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, 

 Asarabacca, Briony, white and black, Sal- 

 lendine, Virgianian snakeroot, Hemeric, 

 White Dittany, Doronicum, Hellebore, 



Restharrow, Peony male and female, Cin- 

 quefoil, Hog's Fennel, Sarsaparilla, stink- 

 ing G laden, Tormentil, Ginger. 



Dry in the fourth degree. Garlick, Onions. 

 Costus, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain. 



Roots moist are, Bazil, Valerian, and 

 Spatling-poppy, according to the Arabian 



white and black, Elicampane, FiUipendula, ;: Physicians, Daisies, white Beets, Borrage, 



Galanga greater and lesser, Masterwort, 

 Orris English and Florentine, Restharrow, 

 stinking Gladen,Turbith, Ginger. 



Bugloss, Liquorice, Dog grass, Mallows, 

 Satvrion, Scorzonera, Parsnips, Skirrets. 



