XI 
NTRODUCTION. 
Part which one would think had fome Senje in it, 
becaufe it is pteafei and delighted with fome things , 
as Aromaticks, Perfumes , and the like ; and dif- 
f leafed (fo as to fly from them ) with ft inking and 
ill-fcented things, asTurds, Affa foetida, and other 
f linking things of like nature. Therefore fmee 
Vapours , Hyjlerick Fits , dnd Hyft crick Convulfions , 
proceed from the Womb , thofe things which alleviate 
them,ftpprefs the Fumes, and reduce the Womb to its 
place , cafe it sPains, and profligate it. Convulfive 
Motions are properly called Hyftcricks , fo Musk, 
Ambergrife , Aromaticks , applied to the Nofe, in- 
duce Vapours, Fits, Convulfions, Sc. Whereas ap- 
plied to the place of Conception, fupprefs them all. 
But Affa fixtida, and other ftinktng things applied 
below, bring thofe Difcafes s whereas held to the 
Nofe, or taken inwardly by the Mouth, they fru- 
lirate and Cure them. Medicines which provoke 
the Terms, or Laches, &c. or which fupprejs or flop 
them , are accounted Hyftericks ; but of them we 
fhall treat in the fourth Qualities. 
XIV. 12. ARTHRITICKS. Thefe are 
Medicines appropriated to the Joints. And feeing 
that they conftft chiefly of tendinous and nervous 
Parts, therefore they are chiefly compofed of A eu- 
rolick Medicaments, zohich hove a heating and dry- 
ing Quality, gently aftringent or binding, and with- 
al/ having a peculiar ftrengthening Property : But 
becaufe the Joints are the exlream parts of the Bo- 
dy, and more remote from the Vital Center, they 
require the flronger Medicaments. Pains are eafed 
by Anodyn Arthriticks , mixed with Narcoticks , 
as a mixture of Camphir, and Spirit of Wine, with 
Opiates. Inflammations are abated by Arthritick 
Baths : And the Arthritick Tumour is removed ei- 
ther by Epifpafticks, of Burning ; or by the appli- 
cation of Arthritick Repercuflives, mixed with Cam- 
phir, or Opium, or both. 
CHAP. VI. 
Of the Fourth Qualities. 
I. 'TpHE fourth Qualities of Medicaments are 
X fuel) as are Abftra&ive, to wit, fitch as by 
their Power or Operations , take away fome thing 
from the Body or from fome of its Bowels or 
'Parts. 
II. And thefe receive their Names from the va- 
riety of their Operations , which they each perform 
in the refpellive parts of the Body , to which they 
are adapted * which are the Nine following. , viz. 
i. Emeticks. 2. Catharticks. 3. Salivaticks. 
4. Ptarmicks. $. Emmenagogicks. 6. Diureticks. 
7. Lithontripticks. 8. Sudorificks. 9. Veneficks. 
III. 1. EMETICKS, or Vomitories. Thefe 
by giving a reluctance to the nervous Fibres of the 
Stomach caufe their Relaxation \and Stimulation , 
whereby afterwards as the relullancy grows more 
and more , and the naufeoufnefs encreafes, thofe 
nervous Fibres before relaxed , fuffer a kind of 
Convulfwn , or Contraction, and fo ejett the offend- 
ing Matter upwards , or by the Mouth , whereby 
that Vifcus, by fuch a dif charge, comes to be rejlo- 
red to its prijline Health. Nor is the Stomach 
otherwife to be cleanfed , for ten Catharticks, or 
Purges, how firong foever, will not fo well clcanff 
the Ventricle, as one proper and well-dcfigiPd F.me' 
tick. The Stomach therefore is to be cleanfed up~ 
wards by Vomiting-, the Entrails, or Inteftinesi 
downwards ; by Purging, which as according to the 
Law oj Nature. 
IV. . 2. CATHARTICKS, or Purging 
Medicines. Thefe peculiarly cleanfc the Entrails, 
but wit hall draw the Peccant Matter from all parts 
of the Body , as has been feen in fome who have 
for many Months lojl all the Ufcs of their extream 
Parts, or Limbs, by violent and inveterate Rheu - 
mat if ms, and Colicks -, who by only Purging with 
proper Catharticks, have been perfellly reflored ; 
for which purpofe, the Pulvis Cornachini has been 
notorioufly known. They remove ObflruUions, not 
only by opening the Pores of the Skin, but the in- 
teriour DuHus of the Bowels, as an thofe things 
Nitrous and Bitter, althd' tncy have feme fmall 
aftri&ion. They are a/fo Abfterfive in degree for 
thofe things which open the Pores and cleanfe the 
Paffages, muft have a power of At trail ion, and a 
great tenuity of Parts, moderately hot , nitrous, and 
bitter, and Jo have a power of ab ft erging and pur- 
ging the greater Paffages -, but fome purge by lubri- 
fying, as Fat things. Some by wafhing and abfter- 
fion, as Whey impregnated • with Sena and Beets. 
And fome by refolving, penetrating, and pricking, 
as fcveral Salts . 
V. 3. SALIVATICKS. Thefe are Sa- 
livating or Spitting Medicines, which refolving all 
the Lympha of the Body, into apituitous or ferous 
Subfiance , it is conduced from' all parts of the Body 
to the Head, and pajjing thro * the falivatick Glands , 
is fpit forth. This is only or chiefly perform’d by 
Mercury, and fome of its Preparations, which incit- 
ing the coagulated Juices, and carrying them with 
it, caufes this Operation. The order of it , and 
how it is to be performed, is not our Bufinefs here . 
They who would know more of this, may fee what 
I have f aid at large upon this Subjell, in the Third 
Edition of my Synopfis Medicine, in my Ars Chi- 
rurgica, and in my Praxis Medica -, the Second 
Edition 0} my Annotations upon Dr. Sydenhams 
Proceflus, lib. 3. cap. 28. fe£l. 1 1 3. ad feft. iyy. 
to which I refer you. 
VI. 4. PTARMICKS, or Errhines. Thefe 
are for the mojl part hot and dry in the third de- 
gree, and are endowed with a very piercing Acri- 
mony, by which they extream/y irritate, or Jhrivel 
up as it were the Membranes of the Brain, ( as 
Emeticks do the Tunic les of the Stomach-,) and by 
means whereof the Head and Brain are cleanfed 
or freed from their Recrements , and the vifeid and 
pituitous Humour , or Matter, is expelled thro ■ the 
Nojlrils, in a very extraordinary me a fare ; If the fe 
Nafales, as fome call them, caufe Sneezing, they 
are then called Sternutatories. But proper Errhines, 
which only attraU the Recrements from the Brain , 
are of mighty ufe in curing Apoplexies, Lethargies, 
Megrims, Vertigo > s, Epilepjies, and other Cephalick 
Difeafes of like nature , proceeding from Cold and 
Moiflure . 
VII. ?. EMMENAGOGICKS. Thefe 
are fuch as provoke or draw forth the Terms. 
They are hot in the third degree, and of thin parts, 
concoll and digejl crude Humours s extenuate and 
incide the Grojs and Tough , and remove Obftru- 
llions, by opening and cleanfing the Paffages. And 
fuch are all proper Diureticks, for that they pro - 
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