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The fifth Caufe is Comp report, or Crufhing: As when Water is C mined 
out of-a sounge: So wee fee that Taking Cold moueth LooienefTe b v G011- 
traTion of theSkinne, and outward Parts , And fo doth Cold likewife 
caufe Rheumes, and Defluxions from the Head ; And fome Aflringent 
Plafters crufh out purulent Matter. This kinde of Operation is not found 
in many Medicines : CMirabdanes haue it 5 And it may bee the Barkes of 
Peaches ; For this Vertue requireth an Aftriffion ; but fuch an Aft riff ion 
as is not gratefullto the Body : (Fora pleafing Aftriffion doth rather 
Binde in the Humours, than Expell them :) And therefore fuch Aft ri¬ 
ff ton is found in Things of an Harrifh Tafte. 
The Sixth Caufe is Lubrejaffion, and Relaxation . As wee fee in Medi¬ 
cines Emollient • Such as ar sMilke, Honey, Mallowes, Lettuce, MercuriaR, 
Pelletory of the Wall, and others. There is alfo a fecret V ertue of Relaxation 
in Cola: For the Heat of the Body bindeth the Parts and Humours toge¬ 
ther, which C^relaxeth : As it is feene in Trine, Bloud, Pottage , orthe 
like; which, iftheybee Cold, breakeanddifiblue. Andby thiskindeof 
Relaxation, Feareioofeneth the Belly; becaufe the Heat retiring,inwards 
towards the Heart, the Guts and other Parts are relaxed j In the fame 
manner, as Scare alfo caufeth Trembling in the Sinewes. And of this 
Kinde of Purgers, arc fome Medicines made of Mercury, 
The Seuenth Caufe i s Abftertion ; which is plainely a scouring off, or 
Incifton of the more 'vifeous Humours, and making the Humors more lluide ; 
And Cutting betweene them, and the Part. As is found in ISfftrous Wa¬ 
ter, which fcoureth Linnen Cloth (fpeedily) from the Foulencffe. But 
this Incifton mull bee by a sharpmjfe, without Aftriffion ; Which wee 
finde in Salt, Worme-weod, Oxymel, and the like. 
There bee Medicines , that moue St odes, and not Trine • Some other, 
Trine, and not Stooles. Thofe that Purge by Stoole are fuch as enter not 
at all, or little into the Mefentery Terns ; But either at the fi rtlare not di- 
o-eftible by the Stomacke, and therefore moue immediately downwards 
to the Guts ; Or elfe are afterwards reieaed by the Mefentery Femes, and 
(0 turne likewife downwards to the Guts j and of thcle tw 0 kindesaie 
mod Purgers But thofe that moue Trine, are fuch, as arc well digefted 
of the stomacke, andwell reccinedalfoof the Mefentery Teines ; Sothev 
come asfarre as the Liner, which fendeth Trine n the Bladder, as the 
Whey of Blood: And thofe Medicines being Openingand Piercing, doe 
fortifie the Operation of the Liner, in fending downe the wheyey Part 
of the Blood to the Reives, Yot Medicines Trindtiue doe not worke. by Re-/ 
ie&ion, and Indigeftion, as S olutiue doe. 
There bee diuers Medicines, which in greater Quantity, moue Stoole, 
and in fmaller, Trine : Andfo contrarmfife, fome that in greater Quan- 
tity, moue Trine, and in Smaller, Stoole. Of the former fort isRubarb,smd 
fome others. TheCrftf/Hs, for that Rubarb is a Medicine, which the Sto¬ 
macke ilia fmall Quantity dothdigeft, andouercome, being not Flam- 
ous, nor Loathibme ;) andfo fendeth it to the Mefentery Teines ; And 
fobbing opening, ithelpeth downe Trine : Butma greater Quantity, 
