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65. 
| Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Preparations 
before Purg- 
ing > and [et- 
ling of the 
Body aficr- 
t ard. 
66. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Stanching of 
Bloods 
67- 
'# Experiment 
t Solitary, 
f touching 
| change of 4-|or Working. And we fee that Affuetude of things hurtful, doth mak ai 
liments and 
Medicines. 
,new.. 
Neawural Hiftory 3 . 
Hyfitians do wifely prefcribe, thattherebe Preparatives ufed before! fut 
P Purgations ; for certainitis, that Purgers do many times great burt e 
the Body be not accommodated, both before and after the Purging. ihe 
hurt thatthey do, foc want of Preparation before Purging, is by the ftick: | 
ing of the Humors, and their notcoming fairaway; which cauleth im the 
Body great perturbations, and ill accidents, during the Purging » and alfo | 
the diminifhing and dulling of the working of the Medicine it {elf that it | 
purgeth not {ufficiently: Therefore the work of Preparationis double, «to } 
make the Humors fluide and mature, andtomake the patlages more open; | | 
For thofe both help tomake the Humors pafs readily : And for the former | _ 
of thefe, Syrups are moftprofitable ; and for the latter, Apocums or Preparing | 
Broths ; Ciyftersalfo help left the Medicine ftop in the Guts, and work criping- | _ 
ly. But itis true, that Bodies abounding with Humors, and fat Bodies, | 
and open Weather, are Preparatives inthemfelves; becaufethey make the | ~ 
Humors more fluid: But let a phyfician beware how he purge after hard |” 
Frofty Weather, and in a lean Body, without Preparation. For the hurt 
that they may do after Purging, it is caufed by the lodging of fome Humots 
in ill places ;_ for it is certain, that there be Humors. which fomewhere, 
placed in the Body, are quiet, anddo little hurt; in other places (efpecially | 
Paflages) do much mifchief. Therefore it is good after Purging, toufe | 
A pozums and Broths, not fo much opening as thofe ufed before Purging, | _ 
but Abfturfive and Mundifying Clyfters alfo are good to conclude with, to} 
draw away therelicks of the Humors thatmay have defcendedtothelower | _ 
region of the Body. | 
Leod is ftanched divers ways: Firft, by Aftringents and Repercuffive | 
CMedicines. Secondly, by drawing of the Spirits and Blood inwards, | 
which is doneby cold; as lron or a Stone laid tothe Neck doth ftanch the} 
Bleeding of the Nofe ; alfo it hath been tried, that the Tefficlcs being put} 
into fharp Vinegar; hath made a fudden recefs of the Spirits, and ftanched | ~ 
Blood. ‘Thirdly, by the Recefs of the Blood by Sympathy; {foit hath been | 
tried, that the part that bleedeth, being thrult into the body of a Capon, | — 
Sheep, new riptand bleeding, hath ftanched Blood ; the Blood, as it feem-| ~ 
| cth, fucking and drawing up; by fimilitude of fubftance, the Blood it meet} © 
eth with, andfoitfelf goingback. Fourthly, by Cuftomand Time; fothe| — 
Prince of Aurange, in his firfthurt by the SpanifhBoy, could finde no means | 
to ftanch the Blood, cither by eU%edicine or Ligament, but was faintohave} ~ 
the Orifice of the Wound ftopped by Mens Thumbs, fucceeding one an-| ~ 
other for the fpace at the leaft ies days; and atthelaft the Blood by} — 
cuftomonely retired. There isa fifth way alfo in ufe, to let Blood inan ad- a 
verfe part fora Revulfion. | "oe 
li helpeth, both in A¢edicine and Aliment, to change and not to continne. i 
the fame ssedicine and Aliment fill. The caufe is, for that Nature by con- i 
tinualufe of anything, growethto a fatiety and dulnefs, either of Appetite | 
them leefeticir force to hurt; As Poyfon, whichwith ufefome have broug 
themfelves to brook. And therefore it isno marvel, though things help- | 
ful by cuftom, Icefe their force to help, I count intermiflion almoft the } 
fame thing with change; for that, that hathbeenintermitted, isafter afort} 
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