xii INTRODUCTION. 
mote the expurgation of the Menfes ; and if they 
are bitter as Aloes, and fetid as Alfa fcetida, 
Itinking Arach, & c. they are fo much the more 
effettual • ftinking things dcpr effing the Womb , and 
bitter things purging it. There are alfo accidental 
Emmenagogicks, which refrigerate and humett the 
Body , dried by too much heat ; And thrfe things , 
which by their potency expel the Secundine and 
dead Child, as alfo a Mola, or falfe Conception, 
which are f inking , bitter , with Acrimony , and 
thine fs of parts , and arc to be given often , and in 
pretty large quantities. 
VIII. 6 . DIURETICKS. Thefe are Me- 
dicaments provoking Urine. They may be either 
hot or cold , but moijf, liquid , thin conffence, and 
eafy penetration , that they may encreafe the quan- 
tity of Urine , as it were by Accident. 2. But in 
things cleanfingj attenuating , and aperient , they 
open the PaJJages and thefe may be cold , <?/?(/ 0/ 
thin parts , * r Sal Prunella;, which fometimes expels 
what flicks in the Pafages -, or operate after a 
middle-way , allaying the extream Heat , caufing 
the Serum and Humours, be more eafily attratted 
by the Reins , jW defeend to the Bladder. 3. j 5 y 
things which cleanfe the Pafages , and open the 
fame , having a Quality of extenuating grofs Hu- 
mours , attenuating or thining the Blood , 
rating what is extenuated from the grumous Parts, 
by which the protrufion of the Serum into the 
Reins , a?/// fo «W<r fd/y, jr alfo its paffage 
thro ’ the urinary Parts which kind of Diureticks 
rf/r hot and dry in the third degree , fharp, of very 
thin parts , coattive and feparating. Diureticks 
/fo;? are of two forts. 1 . Such as conduce to the re- 
paration of the Serum from the Blood * and they 
are very hot , Sharp, biting and cutting, whence 
t hey penetrate to the Reins, and cut the grofs Hu- 
mours there. 2. Such as open the Urinal Paffages. 
And thefe are generally cold things , which provoke 
Urine, but bite not , yet have a nitrous Quality, by 
which they open and cleanfc , as Nitre, Sal Pru* 
nellrc, Winter Cherries. 
IX. 7. L I TH ON TRIP TICKS. Thefe 
are fuch as break and expel the Stone , Gravel, 
Sand , or tartarous Mucilage ■, and they have a 
power of difolving , cleanfwg and expelling the 
fame : Being Diuretick, hot and dry, and of thin 
parts , (harp and cutting, and fomewhat bitter. Alfo 
fome do it by Incifion and Deterfion, without heat, 
as Spirits and Oils of Nitre, Salt, Sulphur and 
Vitriol, fome by afperity , or by fome occult pro- 
perty. 
X. 8. SUDORIFICKS, ^ Hydroticks. 
Thefe are Medicaments provoking Swear. They 
are generally hot, and of thin parts , yet fome are 
fa id to be aflringent and cold, working occultly : 
But the hot being of thin parts, are fubtil and vo- 
latil, thining the Blood and Humours, and giving 
them a piercing volatility fo that being forced by 
the native heat , excited into ad ion, they penetrate 
thro' > all the coats of the Vejfels and Glands, thro ’ 
Flcfh, Fat and Skin, to the fuperfices or mojl ex- 
ternal parts , of the whole Body, from the crown 
of the Head to the foies of the Feet, expelling all 
noxious Fumes, malign and venene Humours, and 
peftilential Miafmata, from the Center, viz. from 
the Heart and Vital Parts, and fo defending them 
from their deleterious affaults. 
XI. 9. V E N E F I C K, or Poifoning. Thefe 
are things which take away Life, being wholly 
inimical to Human Nature, and they are in the 
extremities of heat or cold ■, now they poifon not 
from being in the ext reams of intemperature , but 
from another peculiar property, by which they cor- 
rupt the Vital Juices, and by a malign and peflife- 
rous Gas orSteem, finite both the Animal and Vital 
Spirits -, but which Property is excited or Birred up 
into all urn, by thofe extream degrees of intempera- 
ture. Of the Hot Kind, are Bears-foot, Hellebor, 
Leopards-bane , Monks -hood, Woolf s-bane, &c. Of the 
Cold Kind, are Hemlock, Hen-banc , Nightfhade, &c. 
There are Poifons alfo which all by a Narcotick Pro- 
perty, as Poppies, and Opium. Add to thefe Poifons 
which do it by a Congelation of the Blood, whence 
proceed a Stagnation, and almofl immediate Death-, 
as the biting of a Viper, Rattle-Snake, &c. There 
are alfo burning Mineral Poifons, as Arfenick, Cfc. 
And Poifons which are only fo by Accident, as Cor- 
rofive Sublimate, Spirits and Oils of Antimony, 
Nitre, Salt and Sulphur * which diluted and pru- 
dently given, are Salubrious and Healthful. 
CHAP. VII. 
Of the Fifth Qualities. 
I. '"pHE fifth Qualities of Medicaments are 
X fuch as are Adduflive, to wit, fuch as by 
a peculiar Property, add fomerhing to the Body, 
or to fome of its Juices or Parts. 
II. And thefe arc fuch asreftore , or daily add to 
the principal Juices and Parts of the Body , even 
to the whole Body, without which Human Life , or 
its Generative Powers, could not be con ferved-, and 
they are, l.Chylificks. 2. Analepticks. 3. Ga- 
laftogeneticks. 4. Spermatogeneticks. 5. Alexi- 
pharmicks. 
III. 1. CHYLIFICKS, or Breeders of 
the Nutritive Juice. Thefe are fuch things ascon- 
ferve the natural heat of the Stomach, fo that it 
may be able to concotf and d/gcll the Food received 
in, without which a good Chylus could not be bred. 
They are generally hot in the fecond, third and 
fourth degrees, fo that they may not only preferve 
but ref ore the Tone of the Stomach if hurt - and 
thefe are proper Stomachicks, hot , dty, and of thin 
parts, fharp and attenuating. But when the Sto- 
mach is over-heated, andfo the Concoflion is hurt 
as alfo the Appetite in a great meafure defroyed. 
Then cold Chylificks are to be chofen, which may 
allay the preternatural heat, and reduce it to its 
juft Temperament ; and thefe are Cowcumcrs, Let- 
tice, Pur fane, and generally Acids, as all ripe Fruits , 
Lime Juice, Limon Juice, Vinegar, Spirits of 
Nitre, Salt, Sulphur and Vitriol -, all which not 
only alky the preternatural heat , but alfo excite the 
Appetite, and help the Digef iom 
IV. 2. ANALEPTICKS, or Reltorers. 
Thefe are fuch things as breed a Re Bor at he Chylus, 
which is of abfo lute necejjity in fuch as are in Con- 
fumptions. The Stomach may breed Chyle, and 
that plentifully, yet it may not be good , or refora- 
tive * fuch a nutritious Juice is to be educed from 
thofe things, which have naturally in them a reBo- 
ring Virtue -, which as they ought to be Stomachick j. 
