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But because such medicines as conduce j will easily grant me, that it is the property 

 to the cure of the phthisics (which is an! of cordials to administer to the heart in these 

 ulceration of the lungs, and the disease \ particulars. 



usually called, the consumption of the | Of Cordials, some cheer the mind, some 

 lungs,) are also reckoned in amongst pec- j strengthen the heart, and refresh the spirits 

 toral,s it is not amiss to speak a word or { thereof, being decayed, 

 two of them. Those which cheer the mind, are not one 



In the cure of this disease are three | and the same ; for as the heart is variously 



things to be regarded. 



1. To cut and bring away the concreted 

 blood. 



2. To cherish and strengthen the lungs. 



disturbed, either by anger, love, fear, hatred, 

 sadness, &c. So such things as flatter 

 lovers or appease the angry, or comfort the 

 fearful, or please the hateful, may well be 



3. To conglutmate the ulcer. { called cordials ; for the heart, seeing it is 



And indeed some particular simples will } placed in the middle between the brain 

 perform all these, and physicians confess I and the liver, is wrought upon by reason, as 

 it ; which shews the wonderful mystery the 5 well as by digestion, yet these, because 

 all-wise God hath made in the creation, 5 they are not medicines, are beside my pre- 

 that one and the same simple should per- $ sent scope. 



form two contrary operations on the same | And although it is true, that mirth, love, 

 part of the body ; for the more a medicine j &c. are actions, or motions of the mind, 

 cleanses, the more it conglutinates. i not of the body ; yet many have been 



To conclude then, Pectoral Medicines j induced to think such affections may be 



are such as either cut and cleanse out the i 

 compacted humours from the arteries of the i 



wrought in the body by medicines. 



The heart is chiefly afflicted by too much 



lungs, or make thin defluxions thick, or i heat, by poison, and by stinking vapours, 

 temper those that are sharp, help the rough- j and these are remedied by the second sort 

 ness of the wind-pipe, or are generally j of cordials, and indeed chiefly belong to 

 lenitive and softening, being outwardly ap-our present scope, 

 plied to the breast. According to these three afflictions, inz, 



1. Excessive heat. 



2. Poison. 



CHAPTER III. 3. Melancholy vapours 



Are three kinds of remedies which sue . 



cour the afflicted heart. 

 Such as 



Of Medicines appropriated to the heart. 



These are they which are generally given 

 under the notion of Cordials ; take them \ I. By their cooling nature mitigate the heat 

 under that name here. \ of fevers. 



The heart is the seal of the vital spirit, the j 2. Resist poison. 



fountain of life, the original of infused heat, j 3. Cherish the vital spirits when they Ian 

 and of the natural affections of man. \ guish. 



So then these two things are proper to the \ All these are called Cordials, 

 heart. 1. Such as cool the heart in fevers, \e 



1. By its heat to cherish life throughout j i? not every thing that cooleth cordial, foi 

 the body. : lead is colder than gold, yet is not lead 



2. To add vigour to the affections. j cordial as gold is, some hold it cordial by 

 And if these be proper to the heart, you a hidden quality, others by reason. 



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