3\[afurall Hijlory: 



Experiment 

 Solitary, tou 

 ching Prepara- 

 tions before 

 Purging,and 

 fetlingofthe 

 Body after- 

 ward. 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, tou- 

 ching Stanch 

 ing of Blood 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, tou- 

 ching Change 

 of Aliments 

 and Medicines. 



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\Hyfitians do wifely prefcribe, that there be Preparatives ufed before 

 ^uft Purgations For certain it is, that Purgers do many times great 

 Hurt, if the Body be not accommodated, both before, and after the Purg- 

 ing. The Hurt that they do, for want of Preparation before Purging, is 

 by the Sticking of the Humours, and their not coming fair away • Which 

 caufethin the Body great Perturbations,and ill Accidents, during the Purg- 

 ing ^ And alfo, the dimini(bing,,and dulling of the Working of the Medi- 

 cine it felf, that it purgeth not fufficiently Therefore the work of Prepa- 

 ration is double -,to make the Humours fluide,znd mature And to make the 

 Paffages more open ; For thole both help to make the Humours pafs readi- 

 ly. And for the former of thefe, Syrups are moil profitable h And for the 

 Lmer,Apozumes, or Preparing Broths 5 Clyfters alio help left the Medicine 

 ftop in the Guts, and work gnpingly. But it is true, that Bodies abounding 

 with Humours 5 And fat Bodies - And 'Open Weather-, are Preparatives in 

 themfelves becaufe they make the Humours more fiuide. But let a Phyfi- 

 tian beware, how he purge after hard Prof) Weather, and in a Leant Body, 

 without Preparation. For the Hurt, that they may do after Purging \ It'is 

 caufed by the Lodging of fome Humours in ill Places .; For it is certain, that 

 there be Humours, which fomewhere placed in the Body, are quiet, and do 

 little hurt - ? In other Places , ( efpecially Parages ) do much mifchief, 

 Therefore it is good, after Purging, to ufe Apozumes, and Broths , not fo 

 much Opening as thofe ufed before Purging, but Abfterfive and Mundifywg 

 Clyflers alfo are good to conclude with, to draw away the Reliquesof the 

 Humours,that may have defcended to the Lower Region of the Body. 



BZ<W is ftanched divers wayes : Firft by Afringents, and Rep ercufiive 

 Medicines. Secondly, by Drawing oV the Spirits and Blood inwards 

 which is done by cold As Iron or a Stone laid to the Neck doth ftanch the 

 Bleeding at the Nofe alfo it hath been tried, that, the T efiicles being put 

 into (harp Vineger, hath made a fudden Receis of the Spirits, and ftanched 

 Blood. Thirdly ,by the Rccefofthe blood by Sympathy. So it hath been 

 tried, that the part that bleedeth, being thruft into the Body of a Capon, 

 Sheep,new ripe and bleeding, hath ftanched Bloody The Bloody it feemeth, 

 fucking and drawing up, by limilitude of fubftance, the Blood it meeterh 

 with,and fo it felf going back. Fourthly, by Cuftome and Time So the 

 Prince of Aurange, in his firft hurt,by the Spanijh Bcy^ could find no means, 

 to ftanch the Blood, either by Medicine or Ligament •, but was fain to have 

 the Orifice of the Wound flopped by Mens Thumbs^ fucceeding one ano- 

 ther, lor the fpace at the leaft of two Daye* h And at the laft the blood by 

 Cufiome onely retired. There is a fifth Way alfo in ufe, to let Blood in an 

 Adverfe Partjov a Revulfion. 



1 T helpeth,both in Medicine, and Aliment , to Change and not to continue 

 I the fame Medicine and Aliment ftill. TheCaufeis, for that Nature by 

 continuall Ufe of any Thing, groweth to a Sauety, and Dulnef, either of 

 Appetite, or Working. And we fee that Ajjuetude of Things Hurtfull doth 

 make them leefe their force to Hurt As Poyfon, which with ufe fome have 

 brought themfelves to brook. And therefore it it no marvell, though 

 Things helpfuU by Cufiome , leefe their force to Help-, I count Intermifiton 

 almoft the fame thing with Change ; For that, that hath been intermitted,is 

 after a fort new. 



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