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require medicines which are of a heating I 1. A distcnticn or stretching of a part by 



and drying nature, with a gentle binding, i too much fulness. 



and withal, such as by peculiar virtue are* 2. Thick humours which are destitute of 



appropriated to them, and add strength to j heat, growing hard in that part of the body 



them. It is true, most cephalics do so, yet \ into which they flow. 



because the joints are more remote from the! So many properties then ought emolient 



centre, they require stronger medicines. j medicines to have, viz. To moisten what is 



For removing pains in the joints this is { dry, to discuss what is stretched, to Avarm 

 the method of proceeding. J what is congealed by cold ; yet properly, 



Pains is either taken away or eased, for; that only is said to mollify which reduceth 

 the true cure is to take away the cause of ja hard substance to its proper temperature, 

 the pain, sometimes the veherneocy of the; Dryness and thickness of humours being 

 pain is so great that you must be forced to j the cause of hardness, emolient medicines 

 use ^/iodines (for so physicians call such j must of necessity be hot and moist; and 

 medicines as ease pain) before you can; although you may peradventure find some 

 meddle with the cause, and this is usually |of them dry in the second or third degrees, 

 when the part pained is inflamed, for those j yet must this dryness be tempered and 

 medicines which take away the cause of : qualified with heat and moisture, for reason 

 pain being very hot, if there be any in- ! will tell you that dry medicines make hard 

 flammation in the part pained, you must j parts harder. 



abstain from them till the inflammation be 5 Mollifying medicines are know, 1. by 

 taken away. \ their taste, 2. by their feeling. 



^____ 1. In taste, they are near unto sweat, but 



1 fat and oily ; they are neither sharp, nor 

 SECTION II I. j austere, nor sour, nor salt, neither do they 



Of the propriety or operation of Medicines. mani fe st e j ther Coding, or vehement heat, 



5 or cold to be in them. 



2. In feeling you can perceive no rough- 



T jness, neither do they stick to your fingers 



1. ' T3 . ,,. c .r i . r 



{ like Birdlime, tor they ought to penetrate 



Of Emolient Medicines. j t h e parts to be mollified, and therefore many 



The various mixtures of heat, cold, dry- 1 times if occasion be, are cutting mediants 



ness, and moisture in simples, must of} mixed with them. 



necessity produce variety of faculties, and j 



operations in them, which now we come to \ 



treat of, beginning first at emolients. nu A TJTPTJ n 



What is hard, and what is soft, most men j 



know, but few are able to express. Phy- ' Of hardening Medicine*. 



losophers define that to be hard which j Galen in Lib. 5. de Simple, Med. Facult. 



yields not to touching, and soft to be the j Cap. 10. determines hardening medicines to 



contrary. An emolient, or softening medi- j be cold and moist, and he brings some argu- 



cine is one which reduceth a hard substance j ments to prove it, against which other phy- 



10 its proper temperature. J sicians contest. 



But to leave phylosophy, and keep to j I shall not here stand to quote the clis- 



physic : physicians describe hardness to be ! pute, only take notice, that if softening 



two-fold. i medicines be hot and moist (as we shewed 



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