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the tunicle of the stomach, else is a vomit 

 given in vain. 



Vomits are more dangerous for women 

 than men, especially such as are either with 

 child, or subject to the fits of the mother. 



What medicine is appropriated to the 

 purging of such a humour, for seeing the 

 offending matter is not alike in all, the 

 purging medicine ought not to be the same 

 to all. I shall speak more of this anon. 

 As also of the divers ways whereby medi- 

 cines draw out or cast out humours, viz. 

 by lenifying, cleansing, provoking nature 

 to expulsion, and (which is stranger than 

 the doctor's hidden quality) some purge by 

 binding, but indeed, and in truth, such as 

 are properly called purging medicines, 

 which, besides these faculties, have gotten 

 another, by which they draw or call out 

 the humours from the most remote parts of 

 the body, whether these do it by heat or by 

 an hidden quality, physicians are scarce 



: able to determine, it being very well known 



| to modern physicians, though the ancients 



denied it, that many cold medicines purge. 



There is this faculty in all the purges of 



Galen's model, (because he gives the whole 



simple which must needs consist of divers 



| qualities, because the creation is made up ot 



| and consists by an harmony of contraries) 



there is (I say) this faculty in all purges of 



that nature, that they contain in them a 



substance which is inimical both to th 



stomach and bowels, and some are of 



opinion this doth good, namely, provokes 



nature the more to expulsion ; the reason 



might be good if the foundation of it were 



so, for by this reason nature herself should 



purge, not the medicine, and a physician 



should help nature in her business and not 



hinder her. But to forbear being critical, 



this substance which I told you was inimi- 



*cal to the stomach, must be corrected in 



* every purge. 



CULPEPERS LAST LEGACIES. 



Select Medicinal Aphorisms and Receipts, for many diseases our frail 



natures are incident to. 



1. A general Caution. 



LET such as love their heads or brains, I 

 either forbear such things as are obnoxious 

 to the brain, as Garlick, Leeks, Onions, 

 beware of surfeiting and drunkenness. 

 2. To purge the Head. 



The head is purged by Gargarisms, of 

 which Mustard, in my opinion, is excel- 

 lent, and therefore a spoonful of Mustard 

 put into the mouth, is excellent for one that 

 is troubled with the lethargy : also the head 

 is purged by sneezing ; but be sure if you 



would keep your brain clear, keep your 



stomach clean. 



3. For a rheum in the Head, and the Palsy. 



Take a red Onion, and bruise it well, 

 and boil it in a little Verjuice, and put 

 thereto a little clarified honey, and a great 

 spoonful of good Mustard, when it is well 

 boiled, raise the sick Upright, and let him 

 receive the smell up his nose twice a day, 

 whilst it is very hot. 



4. For a rheum in the Head. 



Boil Pimpernel well in Wine, and drink 



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