viii INTRODUCTION. 
c r make it thin and fluid. 5. And to evacuate it to, and are chiefly of ufe to make lffues or oven 
for the mojl part by Perfpiration. Apoftems. ’ “ 
XXI. 5. EM OLLIENTS. T hefe are 
fuel) things as mollify or /often any hard Tumour 
or Part. Theft are generally hot and moift -, hot 
in the fir It degree , and moift in the firft or fccond 
degree. Their heat is a Tittle beyond the Propor- 
tion of Nature, and they are of thin ani humid 
Parts, that they may pierce into the Matter , and 
mollify orfoften it. tor which reafon it is of ufe 
in Strumous or Scirrhus Tumours, Oedema's, and 
others of like Nature ; to /often the hardnefs, aqi 
reduce it to its prifline heat : And thefe are either 
Common, or Proper. 1. The Common are fuch 
whofe general Operation is to J often hard Swellings, 
and fuch parts and places of the Body, as are hard- 
ned by Congelation. 1. The Proper, are fuch as 
are applyei or appropriated to peculiar humours, 
which being either hot or cold, the Emollient mutt 
be oppofite to them, in thofe atlive Properties, but 
retaining its due humidity, 
XXII. 6 . A TTR ACTIVES. Thefe 
m e drawing Medicines, which attraU or draw the 
Humours from the Center to the Circumference. 
They are hot , and of thin Parts: for that which ts 
hot, attralls, and that more Jlrongly, if it has con- 
join'd with it a tenuity of Parts. Thofe which are 
hot and dry in the fecond degree, moderately at- 
tratl ; if in the third, more effetlually -, but mofi 
thefe which are hot in the fourth, for the attraliion 
is according to the ftrength or degree of heat : let 
fome things dltrafi Specifically, ani not by any 
manifeft Quality, as Emeticks, Catharticks, (He. 
Thefe are contrary to Reparcuffives, for their Na- 
ture is to drive from the Circumference to the Cen- 
ter-, but Attraffives draw from the Center to the 
Circumference. They arc of ufe in Wounds, made 
by the Sitings of Mad Dogs, Serpents, and other 
Poifanous Creatures 5 in Burnings, Venereal and 
Peftilential Tumours, &c. where it is abfolutely ne- 
cejfary to draw the Pofon and Malignity outwards, 
in order to the faving of Life. 
XXIII. 7. SUPPURATIVE S, or Matu- 
ratives. Thefe turn intt Matter, contu/ed tlefh, 
and Humours, as alfo the Subfiance, of which ma- 
ny Tumours os- Swellings confift, and bring it to 
perf eel ripenefs. They are- moderately hot, and 
next to Emollients , yet differing in this, that Sup. 
puratives have an Emplaffick faculty, where, by ob- 
flruSing the Pores, they produce heat , mofi like 
unto that of the Body , without any Confumption or 
Addition of the Humidity. Thefe are friendly to 
Nature, and confpire together with it, to bring 
the fuperfluous Matter to form, and to fuch a 
form , as that it may be feparated and cafi out, 
pnd the afllifled Part thereby eafed. 
XXIV. 8. PYROTICKS, or CORROSIVES. 
Thef e are threefold. 1. Cathereticks. 2. Septicks. 
9. Caufticks, or Efcharoticks. /. Cathereticks, or 
Eater's. Thefe arc meanly ftrong ; they by their 
corrofive Properties, confume Excrefccnctes , and cat 
away proud ani dead F/efh. II. Septicks. They 
are Corroftvcs , vehemently hot and dry , of thin 
Parts, and confifience, which by their vehement 
heat, c liquate the Part, and are callcdPutxehStNes-, 
and their ufe is to draw Blifters ; thefe are Vefi- 
catories. III. Caufticks, or Efcharoticks. Thefe 
are vehemently hot and burning, being the firongeft 
of all, fo that they confume all they come near. 
They caufc Crufts upon the place they are applyei 
XKV. 9. DIGESTIVES, \hcfe are 
a kind of Maturatives , which bring laudable or 
well digefted Pus, «• Matter, into Comdex or 
contufed Wounds, ani ill natured eating Ulcers ■ 
without which the Pain can neither be taken away 
nor the Wound or Ulcer healed, or a flop put to 
the eating. Sec. Of thefe we have largely dt/courfei 
in our Ars Chirurgica, where you may find a plen- 
tiful number of Prefcnpts in exemplification tb-ie- 
of. 
XXVI. 10. ABSTERSIVES. Thefe are 
Clcanfers , which feparate and remove the glutinous, 
clammy, or putrid Mutter, adhering to Wounds and 
Ulcers, which hinders their healing. They have a 
power to exficcatc to/;/; tenuity of Subfiance ; and 
they may be either hot or cold ; nor is is of any 
great moment , which of them, by rerffon neither 
Quality can hinder their aSion, except Exceftive. 
Tet fome count them chiefly hot and drying, with a 
certain thickncfs of Pans to com poll the Humours : 
And bccaufe they cannot be defined, by either heat 
or coldnejs , finer fame of both forts cleanfe , they 
arc to be underfiooi to have a terrene Subfiance 
which may take away the filth with them ; and muji 
a certain roughnejs, or nitrous Quality , to cany 
away the eompalled filth. J 
XXVII. 11. SARCOTICKS, or Incar- 
natives. Thefe generate Tlefh in hollow Wounds 
and Ulcers, and fill up their cavities, as far as 
Nature will admit. They are hot in the fij-fl de- 
£r a'n- ll " ,e Deterfive i ani that without Biting or 
Altnfhon. Alfo moderately drying, viz. under the 
fec.ond degree. And fuch as Iinpinguate, or breed 
Fat, are Healing, Nourijhing , lmpulfive, Attra- 
ttive, Retentive, or Spcafick -, as Hemp-Seed, Pon- 
der of Sareocol, Kernel of the Indian Nut. They 
dry, and change the Blood that comes to any part 
into Tlefh. Their degree of drynefs. mu ft be accord- 
ing to the Part : If the Ulcer happens in a dry 
part of the Body, the Sarcotick muft be very dry, 
and therefore fome of. them are drying, even in the 
fourth degree. But if the part of the Body ss moift 
in which the Ulcer is, the lncarnatives are to be 
lefts drying : They ought not to exceed the firft de- 
gree, unlefs the Ulcer be very moift. They breed 
not good Blood, nor correll the intemperature of 
the place affefled ; they only defend the Blood from 
ill Symptoms, and the Ulcer from Corruption in 
breeding Tlefh ; for Nature in breeding Tlefh, pro- 
duces either ferous or purulent Recrements, and 
thefe Medicines which cleanfe ani confume thofe 
Excrements, by their drying Quality, arc /aid to 
breed Tlejb, becaufe by their help. Nature performs 
that Office. 
XXVIII. 12. AGGLUTINATIVE S. 
Thefe are fuch as-glem the Lips of Wounds, and 
feparated Parts together. They are alfo called 
Symphitica, which is the reafon that Comfrv is cal- 
led Symphitum, becaufe of ' its glewing Quality. 
They are generally drying in the fecond degree ■ 
and are in a mean between lncarnatives, and Ci- 
catrizers. They are not Ablterlive, but Aftringent, 
and prohibit the T lux of Humours , to the Lips of 
Wounds, V leers, and Ti fluids. They are tempe- 
rate, in ref pell of heat, and of a thick Sub fiance. 
By their drynefs, they abj. orb 1h.1t humidity, which 
intervenes between the Lips of Wounds, that there- 
by they may be conjoined : And that is the true 
Cure 
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