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Of Medicines cold in the first degree. j in the second or third degree, always let 

 Those medicines which are least cold of j the remedy correspond to the just propor- 

 all, obtain the first degree of coldness ; and i tion of the affliction. 



I beseech you take notice of this, that see- { Use 3. Thirdly, Sometimes the spirits 

 incj our bodies are nourished by heat, and | are moved inordinately through heal, thence 

 we live by heat, therefore no cold medi- j follows immoderate watchings, if not de- 

 cines are friendly to the body, but what ! privation of the senses, this also must be 

 good they do our bodies, they do it by re- ! remedied with cold medicines, for cold 

 moving an unnatural heat, or the body \ stops the pores of the skin, makes the 

 heated above it natural temper. ; humours thick, represses sweat, and keeps 



The giving then of cold medicines to a j up the spirits from fainting, 

 man in his natural temper, the season of j Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree. 

 the year also being but moderately hot, ex- j Lastly, The use of medicines cold in the 

 tinguishes natural heat in the body or man. | fourth f j egree? is ^ TO mitigate desperate and 

 Yet have these a necessary use in them j vehement painSj stup jfyin g the senses, when 

 too, though not so frequent as hot medi- j no Qther courge can be taken to gaye life . 

 cines have; and that may be the reason ()f the use of which more hereafter 



why an all wi^e God hath furnished us with | ~ ,. . . , ,. . 



, o Of moistening Medicines. 



far more hot herbs and plants, &c. than J 



1 1 Ihere can be no such difference found 



'Use 1. Their use is first, in nourishment, I amongst moistening medicines, that they 

 that so the heat of food may be qualified, \ should , surpass the second degree. For see- 

 and made for a weak stomach to digest. j in g a11 medicines are either hot or cold, 



Use 2. Secondly, To restrain and assuage 

 the heat of the bowels, and to cool the 

 blood in fevers. 



Therefore if the distemper of heat be but 

 gentle, medicines cold in ' the first degree i 

 will suffice ; also children, and such people i 



neither heat nor cold, seeing they are ex- 

 tremes, can consist with moisture, for the 

 one dries it up, the other condensates it. 



Use. Philosophers therefore call mois- 

 ture and dryness, passive qualities, yet have 

 they their operation likewise; for moist 



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whose stomachs are weak, are easily hurt? medicines lenifies and make slippery, ease 

 bv cold medicines. the cou gk and Ild P the roughness of the 



Of Medicines cold ir second and third 



throat. These operations are proper to 

 ae^ree medicines moist in the first degree. 



Use 1. Such whose stomachs are strong j Tho ?, e which arc moister, take away 

 and livers hot, may easily bear such medi- j naturally strength, help the sharpness of 

 cities as are cold in the second degree, and | humours, make both blood and spirits 

 in cases of extremity find much help by j thicker, looses the belly, and fits it for pur- 

 them : as also by such as are cold in the j g a *l on> . 



third degree, the extremity of the disease.! 1 he immoderate or indiscreet use of them 

 considered, for by both these the unbridled I dulls the Wy, and makes it unfit for action, 

 heat of choler is assuaged. Qf drying Medicines. 



Use 2. Also they are outwardly applied 

 Jo hot swellings, due consideration being 



Drying medicines have contrary faculties 

 to these, viz. To consume moisture, stop 



dad, that if the inflammation be not great, i fluxes, and make such parts dry as are 

 use those that are less ; if the inflammation 1 slippery, they make the body and members 

 be vehement, make use of medicines cold { firm, when they are weakened by too much 



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