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1. Qf Medicines temperate. j and vigour, and may be used without dan- 



2. Of Medicines hot. Iger, or fear of clanger, by considering whch 



3. Of Medicines cold. ! part of the body is weak, and using such 



4. Of Medicines moist. \ temperate medicines as are appropriated to 



5. Of Medicines dry. j that part. 



Of Medicines hot. 

 Of Medicines Temperate. The care of the ancient Physicians was 



If the world be composed of extremes, ; such that they did not labour to hide from, 

 then it acts by extremes, for as the man is, ' but impart to posterity, not only the tem- 

 so is his work: therefore it is impossible: perature of medicines in general, but also 

 that anv medicine can be temperate, but -their degrees in temperature, that so the 

 may he reduced to heat, cold, dry ness, or | distempered part may be brought to its 

 moisture, and must operate, (I mean such as ; temperature, and no further ; for all things 

 operate by manifest quality) by one of these, j which are of a contrary temperature, con- 

 because there is no other to operate by, and j duce not to cure, but the strength of the 

 that there should be such a temperate mix- i contrariety must be observed, that so the 

 ture, so exquisitely of these qualities in any | medicine may be neither weaker nor strong- 

 medicine, that one of them should not | er, than just to take away the distemper ; 

 manifestly excel the other, I doubt it is a 'for if the distemper be but meanly hot, and 

 system too rare to find. !j u a pp'j a medicine cold in the fourth 



Thus then I conclude the matter to be, j degree, it is true, you may soon remove that 



those Medicines are called temperate (not 

 because they have excess of temperature 



distemper of heat, and bring another ot 

 old twice as bad. Galen, de simp. med.facuL 



at all in them;which can neither be said, \lib. 3. cap. 12. 

 to heat nor cool so much as will amount to ; Then, secondly, Not only the distemper 

 the first degree of excess, for daily expe- j itself, but also the part of the body dis- 

 ru-nce witnesses that they being added to } tempered must be heeded; for if the head 

 medicines, change not their qualities, they : be distempered by heat, and you give such 

 make them neither hotter nor colder. i medicines as cool the heart or liver, you will 



Their u st. They are used in such dis-j bring another disease, and not cure the 

 eases where there is no manifest distemper j former. 



of the fir-st qualities, viz. heat and cold, J The degrees then of temperature are to 

 fr>r example; In obstruction of the bowels, be diligently heeded, which antient physi- 

 where cold medicines might make the ob- i cians have concluded to be four in the quali- 

 atruction greater, and hot medicines cause a ! tiesi viz. heat and cold, of each we shall 

 fever. ; speak a word or two severally. 



In fevers of flegm, where the cause is | Of Medicines hot in the Jirst degree. 

 cold and moist, and the effect hot and dry; j Those are said to be hot in the first de- 

 in such, use temperate medicines whichmay \ gree, which induce a moderate and natural 

 neither encrease the fever by their heat, I heat to the body, and to the parls thereof; 

 nor condensate the flegm by their coldness. j either cold by nature, or cooled by accident, 



Besides, because contraries are taken by which natural heat is cherished when 

 away by their contraries, and every like weak, or restored when wanting, 

 maintained by its like, they are of great ? Effect \. The first effect then of mcdi- 

 use, to preserve !,he constitution of the body % , cines hot in the first degree, is, by their 1 

 temperate, and the body itself iu strength > sweat and temperate heat to reduce tue 1 



