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INTRODUCTION. 
Cure cf an Vlcer , which conjoins the fldes of an 
Vlce)\ before brought together. *Aml V leers re- 
quire a greater degree of drying than Wounds , not 
only to confume what flows out } but alfo what re- 
mains liquid in the hlefb. 
XXIX. 13. CICATRIZERS, */■ F.pulo- 
ticks. Thefe are fuel) things as skin a Wound , 
Sfl/r, or Vlcer. They dry and bind without biting $ 
abforbing the humidity of the Flejh , controlling it 
with a Skin , or a thin Callus like unto a Skin^ and 
therefore are more drying than Incarnatives or 
Glutinatives : For thefe bind , contrail , conflipate , 
and indurate ; beiftg cold , and of a thick Sub fiance. 
There is alfo a fharp and biting Epulotick, which 
confumes dead Flejh , as Cathereticks ^ and a third 
fort , which dries without aflrilfion. The left part 
of the Cure of a Wound or Vlcei\ is to cover it 
with Skin , and re fore the place to its pn[t inc 
beauty : Now thefe Medicines . meddle with the 
Flefh , no farther than only to convert it into 
Skin. 
XXX. 14. CGSMETICKS, wBeautify- 
ers. Thefe adorn the Body by adding beauty to it , 
by ab forging or cleanflng it from defilements, as 
Leprofic , Leuce, Scabs , Itch , Pimples , Rcdnefs, 
Wrinkles , Freckles , l'ellowncfs , ' Tanning , &//?- 
burning , and the like. Thefe which proceed from 
heat , are /o be remedied by cooling things : If the 
defilement is impalled in the Skin, extenuating 
Medicines are to be applyed $ // Freckles or Worms 
aflett it, the Skin it Jclf is to be abferged by Em- 
plalters of Soap, or Oil of Tartar per deliquium, 
diluted with Water • if L.eprofu\ Scabs, or Puftules, 
conftant/y breaking out, the Cuticula muft be taken 
of' by Epilpatticks, life. 
•chap. v. 
Of the Third Qualities. 
I. 'Tp H E third Qualities of Medicines are fuel) as 
A are Appropriate, that is to Jay, which are 
appropriated to fome principal and noble Parts of 
the Body , the knowledge of which Phyficians have 
learned and obtained, either, 1 . From the fignatures 
0} the Medicaments themfelvcs. 2. Or from a 
dong feries oj Prallice and Experience. 
If And therefore as Medicines are faid to be 
appropriate , to the mojl noble and principal Parts 
of the Human Frame ° fo from them they take their 
Denominations orNames, and accordingly are faid 
to be, 1. Cephalicks. 2. Neuroticks. 3. Stoma- 
chicks. 4. Pulmonicks,? or Pe&orals. 5. Pleu- 
riricks. 6 . Cardiacks, or Cordials. 7. Hepaticks. 
8. Spleneticks. 9. Mefentericks, or Hypochon- 
driacs. 10. Nephriticks. n. Hyltericks. 12. 
Arthri ticks. Of which in their refpellive order. 
fll. 1. CEPHALICKS. Thefe Medi- 
cines arc [aid to be appropriated to the Head, and 
have reJ'peU chiefly to the Brain , the Medulla- 
oblongata, and the Membranes called Pia & Dura 
Mater, but have very little to do with the Tongue, 
Cor that is a very tutruly Member . The Brain is 
the feat of Apprehenfion , Judgment , and Memory , 
and by Nature moderately hot - and fo is very cafl- 
ly a If hided by cither loo much heat or cold , but 
chiefly by the latter , and for the moji part by too 
much moiftme , and therefore the Medicaments ap . 
propriated to the head and Brain , arc generally 
hot and dry , and of very fubtil , thin , and volatile 
Parts, for otherwife they could have no ajfeHion 
upon thofc Parts. To thefe fome add Ptartnicks, 
and Sternutatories ; sis true, thefe will purge the 
Brain and Head from a world of pituitons, cold, 
and moift Recrements,, but thefe are not proper 
Cephalicks, for what they do, is by the Virtue of 
their violent heat , and flrong all r Alive power. 
Whether there be any cooling Cephalicks is a doubt, 
if cooling things affefl the Head and Brain, they do 
it fimply , either by their cold Quality, or by coding 
other Parts over-heated , which by Sympathy ov 
Confent, affect the Head. 
IV. 2. NEUROriCKS. Thefe are 
Nervous Medicaments, and are all hot and dry , 
from the Jecond even to the fourth degree, of a very 
thin Subftance and penetrative Parts, without which 
they could net pierce and affed the Nerves, to eafe 
their extravagant Pains, as in Cramps and Convul- 
ftons, or to warm, comfort , and ftrengthen them, 
as in Palftes, 8cc. they ought to be very fubtil and 
volatile, that they may agree with the Animal Spi- 
rits, and as it were recuperate them. Their ufe 
is both Internal, given in Jome proper vehicle $ and 
External, being app/yed to the Parts affeSed, and 
all along down the Spine or Back-Bone, from whence 
all the Nerves of the extream Parts, as well 
as fome others fpring. They very much agree in 
their Qualities with Cephalicks, bccaufe the Root or 
Original of all the Nerves thro ' the whole Body , 
arife from the Brain. 
V. 3. STOMA CHICK S, w Stomach 
Medicaments. Thefe are fuch as open Obfiruttions 
in the Stomach, cafe its Pains, and Jirengthen i't's 
Tone. They may be either hot or cold, and fo af- 
fed the Part, according to the Indtfpofnion which 
attends it. 1. When it is obft railed, the Appetite 
is diminijhcd or depraved, with a kind of naufeous- 
nefs concomitant : And this is remedied chiefly by 
acid Aperitives. 2. When it is pained, ‘or there is 
a ficknefs at Stomach, it is commonly from being 
either over-heated, and then cooling Smmackicks are 
to be given ; or over-cooled, and then hot Stoma- 
chicks are to be exhibited ; or from vehemently 
acid or fharp Humours in it, and then Abforbents, 
or fixt Alcalies , will be chiefly of ufe. 3. When 
its Tone is weakned, or hurt, then the Digejiion 
is bad, the Concothon is weak, and fo a bad Chy- 
lus is generated -, whence the Retentive Faculty is 
alfo many times profligated, 'and whence proceed 
fometimes the Scurvy, and Rheumatick Pains , or 
the Gout ; and if it be of long continuance, it in- 
duces a Confumption , becaufe the Body will want d 
fuil able Nourijbment. And thefe things are reme- 
died ( after due evacuation ) by Stoma ticks, of a 
hot and dry Quality, of thin Parts, andConfortative 
withall , which have power to warm, comfort, and 
ftrengthen it, and have likewfe an Aft rin gent pro- 
perty, which Jlrcngthens the Retentive Faculty. 
VI. 4. PULMONICKS, or Pectorals. 
Thefe are Medicaments appropriated to the Fungs , 
and have regard either to the Part afliiOed, or to 
the Matter affliHing. 1. Thofe which regard the 
Part a blitted , are fuch as flop bleeding, if any 
Left el is broken in the Lungs, and by a kind of Styp- 
tick Quality, have power to conglutinate or heal it $ 
or if there be any Vlcer in the Lungs , have the 
power of cleanflng it, and heating it withall, which 
b is 
