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INTRODUCTION. 
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CHAP. III. 
Of the Firfl: Qualities of 
MEDICINES. 
1. 'T' H E Vitalities of Medicaments are fivefold', 
X according , 1. To their Temperaments. 
2. As they are Alteratives. 3. As they are Ap- 
propriate. 4. As they Diminijh Something. 5; . As 
they Add or Reft ore Something all which Vitalities 
we come now to explicate in order. 
II. The Temperaments of Medicaments are five- 
fold, , confideredy 1. As they are perfettly Tem- 
perate , viz. neither Hot nor Cold , Dry nor Moifi. 
2. As they are Hot. 3. As they are Cold. 4. As 
they are Dry. 5. As they are Moifi. In the four 
laji of which , there are faid to be 4 Degrees , re- 
ceding from their principal, ver. gr. An Herb which I 
is Hot , may be hot in the firft, fecond , third, or 
fourth Degree of heat. Again, from the four prime 
Vitalities , theft alfo proceed, viz. that a Medica- 
ment , 1. as it is Hot j may be hot and dry , ari&af and 
moifi. 2. As it is Cold, alfo cold and dry , or cold 
and moifi ■, and thefe likewife in all the four De- 
grees of Temperature. 
III. Temperate Medicaments are fuch which work 
no change at all , in refpett of heat, coldnefs, dry- 
nefs , or moifture. 
And thefe may be Temperate in fame refpett. 
I. As being neither hot nor cold , and yet may be 
moift or dry. 2.* As being neither moifi nor dry , 
and yet may be hot or cold. Their Ufe is , where 
there are no apparent Excejfes of the four other 
Vitalities to preferve the Body Temperate , con- 
ferve Strength , and refiore decayed Nature. 
IV. Hot Medicaments (and fo alfo Cold) are 
confidered in refpett of our Bodies , and not of them- 
f elves : Yor thofe Simples are called Hot , which heat 
our Bodies. 
Their Vfes are , 1 . To make the offending Hu- * 
mour thin , to be expelled by Sweaty or thro ’ the 
Pores. 2. To help Concottion. 3. To warm and 
comfort the Vifcera. 4. And by outward applica- 
tion , to difeufs Tumors. 5. Or raife B/fiers , 
make Cauteries, Stc. according to the degrees of 
Heat. 
V. Cold Medicaments are fuch , as cool our Bodies 
being over-heat , by any adventitious or accidental 
Caufes. 
Their Ufes are, 1 . To cool the Parts or Bowels. 
2. To condenfe Vapours, 3. To thicken Humours. 
4. To abate the heat of Yevers. 7. To refrejh the 
Spirits almoft fujfocatei. 6. Allay Inflammations . 
7. Reprefs Sweating. 8. Eafe violent Pains. 
VI. Drying Medicaments, are fuch as make dry 
the Parts overflowing with moifture. 
They are ufed, 1 . To flop fluxes. 2. To firm fort 
and dr eng then Nature. 3. To con fume a fuper - 
fluity of Humours. 4. To fortify the Bowels. 
5. To reft ore in Confumptions, where great fluxes 
of the Bowels have been. 
VII. Moift Medicaments, are fuch as are oppo - 
fed to drying , which mofien, loofen , are lenitive , 
and make flippery. 
They are ufed, 1. To moift en an over dry and 
conflipated Habit of Body. 2. To eafe Coughing. 
3. To help the roughnefs of the Wind- pipe. 4. To 
loofen the Belly. $. To relax Parts com ratted Or 
hardned. 
VIII. Things hot in the Juft Degree, gently warm 
the Body being over cooled , and outwardly open the 
Pores. Hot in the fecond Degree as much exceed 
the firft , as the firfl exceed Temperature , and 
thefe cut tough Humours , open Obflruttions , and 
the Pores alfo outwardly. Hot in the third Degree , 
more powerfully heat , and are able ( if much ufed ) 
to inflame the Body , and caufe Yevers , provoke 
Sweat exceedingly , and reffi the malignity of the 
Plague or Peftilence, and more powerfully aljo cut 
tough Humours. Hot in the fourth Degree , burn 
the Body if outwardly apply ed, raife Bliflers, cor- 
rode the Skin. 
IX. Things cold in the firfl Degree , qualify the 
heat of the Stomach , and rejrejh the Spirit. Cold 
in the fecond Degree, are chiefly of ufe to abate In- 
flammations. Cold in the third Degree, are Reper- 
cuffive, and drive back the Matter, reprefs Sweat , 
and keep the Spirits from Painting. Cold in the 
fourth Degree, ftupify the Senfes, eafe violent 
Pains, and are ufed in extream Watching f. 
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X. Things dry in the firfl Degree , Strengthen. 
In the fecond Degree, Bind. In the third Degree, 
flop Yluxes, and reftore in Confumptions. In the 
fourth Degree, flop Catarrhs , and all Yluxes of 
Blood and Humours ■, are highly Stiptick > and dry 
up a fuper-abundancy of mofiure. 
XI. Things moift in the firft Degree, are oppo - 
fed to drying in the fame Degree : They'- moift en 
the Body , and Parts dryed. In the fecond degree, 
they Lenijy , loofen the Belly, and make flippery. 
In the third, degree, they fmooth the roughnefs of 
the Wind-pipe. In the fourth degree , they cure a 
conftipation of the Bowels. 
XII. Thus Medicines alter according to their 
Temperature : Whofe attive Qualities are Heat 
and Cold ; and by them Difeafes are faid to be era- 
dicated. The Pajfive are drynefs and mofiure. and 
they are fubfervient to Nature. 
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