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body tons natural heat, as the frredoth the j appropriated to, or by not heeding well the 

 external parts in cold weather, unless the ! complexion of the patient, or the natura 

 affliction of cold be so great that such mild \ temper of the part of the body afflicted, for 

 medicines will not serve the turn. \ the heart is hot, but the brain temperate 



Effect 2. The second effect is, the miti- 1 Effect 4. Lastly, Medicines hot in the 

 gation of pain arising from such adistemper, I first degree, cherish heat in the internal 

 and indeed this effect hath other medicines, i parts, help concoction, breed good blood, 

 some that are cold, and some that are hotter ? and keep it good in temper, being bred. 



than the first degree, they being rationally 

 applied to the distemper. These medicines 



Of Medicines hot in the second degree 

 These are something hotter than the 



the Greeks call Anodyna, and shall be spo- j natu ral temper of a man. 

 ken of in their proper places. In this ^ Their use for such whose stomachs 

 place let it suffice that medicines hot in the \ are fi jj ed with moisture, because their 

 first degree, make the offending humours \ f acu ] ty j s too hot and dry ; they take away 

 thin, and expel them by sweat, or insensible j obstructions or stoppings, open the pores 

 transpiration, and these of all others are: of the skiD) but not in t h e same manner 

 most congruous or agreeable to the body of 5 that such do as are ho t in the first degree, 

 man, for there is no such equal temperature j for the y do lt without force, l)y a gentle heat, 

 of heat and cold in a sound man, but heat | concoct j ng) an( j expelling the humours, by 

 exceeds, for we live by heat and moisture, | strc ngthening and helping nature in thb 

 and not by cold. | wor ^ . but these cut tough humours, and 



Medicines then which are hot in the first , scatter t h em by their own force and power 

 degree, are such as just correspond to the when nature can not. 

 natural heat of our bodies ; such as are j Q , Medicines hot in the Mrd degree . 

 hotter or colder are more subject to do rnis- j T ^ ose which &Uain lhe thjrd Q 

 chief, being administered by an unskilful , h haye the same facultieg with those 

 hand, than these are, because j of their con- , ^^ mentioned but as tl are hotter> 

 tranety to nature ; whereas these are grate- , , are th ore pow erful in their opera- 

 ful to the body by their moderate heat. \ { f ^ are ' so ful in heati 



EfcctS. Thirdly, These take away j and ^ ^ Jf unadvised] y given the | 

 weariness, and help fevers, being outwardly j oause fev ^ ^ Their use is to cut 

 applied, because they open the pores of the j fa and com acted humours, to provoke 

 sk.n, and by their gentle heat prepare the ^ ahundan ;i y; hence it comes to pas 

 humours and take away those fuliginous . ^ n of them regjs t ison . 



vapours that are caused by fevers. -L _, . . , . ,, f ., , 



n;.^ m ,^;*;-. n Yet mav discommo-' f Medicines hot in the fourth degree. 



Those medicines obtain the highest degree 

 of heat, which are so hot that they burn the 

 body of a man, being outwardly applied to 

 it, and cause inflammations, or raise blisters, 

 as Crowfoot, Mustard-seed, Onions, &c. 



dities arise by heedless giving even of these, 

 which I would have young students in phy- 

 sic to be very careful in, lest they do more 

 mischief than they are aware of, viz. It is 

 possible by too much use of them, to con- Y rowtut)l ' 

 lume not only what is inimical in the body, , Of these more ^ ereafter - 



but also the substance itself, and the strength ; 



Of cooling Medicines. 



of the spirits, whence comes faintings, and | Physicians have also observed four de 

 sometimes death : besides, by applying j grees of coldness in medicines, which 1 sha 

 them to the parts of the body they aru ij ;) t briefly treat of in order. 



