llrilSroiRE NATUREILEDES ANTMJUX 
P L A2i t E S MT M rK ^ R 'AU X , qtti entrent dans 
la Cdmfofitionde Ut H BKl A ^ E D* ANDROMA- 
C MUSy far M. C haras In iz, A Paris. 
AS there are- above 60 forts of different druggs , which are ingredi- 
ents of ctfts Kio If fs difficult than famous and ufefull Medicine,which 
was invented by /^»ir(?»^^^/^//-hyfitian to iV^ro^and asthofe drugs are 
fubjed to be fopbiftici^ted,and require different preparations,fo there are 
few men, thgt ar^ fufficiently skill'd to chufe aright all thofe ingredient?, 
or dextrous anjl/patisnt enough to prepare them well. The Author of 
this Book treats* of thts celebrated medicament, and not only teacheth 
the way of compofing it, but interfperfeth many notin confiderable re- 
markes touching the nature and vertues of all thcDruggs, which com- 
pofe it. 
He is of opinion , that commonly there are committed many faults in 
preparing the Ingredients , of which the Theriack is made up. E. g. 
When the Vipers are prepared , thecuftomis to whip them ^ thereby 
to make all the venom go to the head, which is cut off when they are 
fufficiently enraged. They alfoboile the fie(h,thereby to draw forth what 
venemoufncfs may yet reft therein,and their bones are cafl away asufe- 
lefs. Whereas he faith,that it being by Experience evident , that all tl 
venom of the Viper is in his Teeth and Jaws, thatwhippmi^ isnotor 
to no purpofe, but alfo dangerous^ in regard that the Spirits being cba- 
fed and irritated may beget venom in the body, where was none. He af- 
ferts alfo , that the water, in which the viper- flefh is boyled , carryes a- 
way all the vertue ; and that the bones that are thrown away are no lefs 
ufeful, than the fllefh itfelf. 
He takes ftn ther notice, that Opium hath not thofe ill qualities, which many af- 
cribe to it , who teach, that Jc (uffocateth the natural heat,andthat there need no more 
than 3. grainesto difpatch the luflieft man; whereas he afTures.that himfc If hath taken 
6 graincs of i; without ftaving been more ftuppfycd by it , ihanhcuCcdto bcj and thst 
Inftead of being debilitated , he hath found himfelf ftr^ngthned by it. He adc^j that he 
icnowsaman of aeon iUturion delicate enough, who harh taken of it to 50. grains , and 
yet not found any troublcfomc accident upon it $ on the contrary that the Patient hath 
found himfelf fo well after it, that he continued to take the fame dofe twice or thrice a 
week. 
He obfcrvcs alfo , that whereas it hath been difputed , what might caufe the difference 
«f Colour inn ?e Whice and Black Peppery (^ome believingjthat Pepper gathered before ic 
was : ipej looked white, but became black in ripeningj others pretending , that as the fame 
Vine-ftucks . which produce v/hite grapes , do not bear black ones , fo ihey are diiferent 
planrsjthat bear Pepper of different colourjour Author affirms,rhat this divcrfity of Colours 
pioceeds thcrxejthai the black Pepper is covered by its skin,which the white is bared of &Ce 
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