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Of Medicines appropriated to the brain. \ Some Cephalics purge the brain, some 



Before we treat of medicines appropriated I heat it, some cool it, some strengthen it; 

 to the brain, it is requisite that we describe j but how they perform this office peculiarly 

 what the nature and affection of the brain > to the brain, most physicians confess they 

 js. {could neither comprehend by reason, noi 



The brain which is the seat of appre- j describe by precepts, only thus, they do it 

 nension, judgment, and memory, the origi- \ by an hidden quality, either by strengthen- 

 nal of sense and motion, is by nature tern- 1 ing the brain, thereby descending it from 

 perate, and if so, then you will grant me j diseases, or by a certain antipathy between 

 that it may easily be afflicted both by heat' them and the diseases incident to the brain, 

 und cold, and it is indeed more subject to j Lastly, For the use of Cephalics, ob- 

 affliction by either of them, than any other | serve, if the brain be much afflicted, you 

 part of the body, for if it be afflicted by j cannot well strengthen it before you have 

 heat, sense and reason, it is immoderately purged it, neither can you well purge the 

 moved, if by cold, they languish, and are; brain before you have cleansed the rest of 

 dulled, to pass by other symptoms which] the body, it is so subject to receive the 

 invade the head, if the brain be altered } vapours up to it; give cooling Cephalics 

 from its proper temper. j when the brain is too hot, and hot Cephalics 



Also this is peculiar to the brain, that it j when it is too cold. 



is' delighted or offended by smells, sights, j Beware of using cooling medicines to 

 and sounds, but I shall meddle no further the brain when the crisis of a disease is 

 with these here, because they are not medi- near : how that time may be known, I shall 

 cines. (God assisting me) instruct you hereafter, 



Cephalical Medicines may be found out \ let it suffice now, that according as the dis- 

 from the affections of the brain itself. The lease afflicting your head is, so let your 

 brain is usually oppressed with moisture in ; remedy be. 



such afflictions ; therefore give such medi- ; Of Medicines appropriated 1o the eyes. 

 cincs as very gently warm, cleanse, cut, and ? Take such medicines as are appropriated 

 dry: but witluvl, let them be such as are I to the eyes under the name of (Ocular 

 appropriated to the head, such as physi- | Medicines) I do it partly to avoid multipli- 

 cians say (by an hidden quality) strengthen j city of words, and partly to instruct my 

 the brain. I countrymen in the terms of art belonging 



Again, if you consider the situation ofjto physic, (I would have called them 

 the brain, you shall find it placed in the | [Ophthalmics] had not the word been trou- 

 highest part of the body, therefore it is j blesome to the reading, much more to the 



easily afflicted with hot vapours : this 

 punishes a man with watching and head- 

 ache, as the former did with sottishness and 

 sleepiness, in such cases use such Cephalecs 

 as gently cool the brain. 



understanding of a countryman) as I even 

 now called such medicines [Cephalics'] as 

 were appropriated 10 the brain. 



Ocular medicines are two-fold, viz. such 

 as are referred to the visive virtues, and such 



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To make Cephalecs of Narcoticks, or [ as are referred to the eyes themselves, 

 stupifying medicines, is not my intent, forj Such as strengthen the visive virtue or 

 I am confident they are inimical both to 1 the optick nerves which convey it to the 

 brain and senses. Of these, and such j eyes (say Doctors) do it by an hidden 

 medicines as also purge the brain, I shall virtue, into the reason which no man can 

 speak by and by. To return I o my purpose. 'dive, unless they should fetch it from the - 



