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when ar( the feet to be waft¬ ed.
When are baths rood.
V hen it is ill to waft the feet.
srhcnfrittiont and ligatures are good.
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k moves and It irs them, ana rayiccn up a new leaver, as a fire that was almoft out * for by this innovation, difeafes do no jefle grow again, or Fcavcrs that are remaining arc ftrangely brought in again, no ochcrwife than they are by feme diftemper of meats and drinks, or changing of fhirts or linnen. For the fame reafoa I think not good to walh the feet at the beginning ofdifeafes, speci¬ ally in the decoition of hcarbs chat have an actraiting quality, as Mugworc, Pennyroyal, Marigolds, Pettier lew, Tanfcy, Bay-leaves. Nor is baching good till die body be purged, and the fury of the dileafe abate, and figns of con cod ion appear, and the Boring hu¬ mours are fit for excretion* ochcrwife they breax forth into fotnc principal parts, and flote here and there with uncertain motion. Wherefore we muft obferve when it is fit to wafh the feet, or to defift from this bufincffe, wherein the unskiiifull multitude errs to their great danger, who do it without ufing choice of difference, and fo toon as the difeafe comes upon them they fall to wafhing of their feet j For if the difeafes be above the Midriff, or Rheums fall from the head upon the Bread, wafhing the feet exafperates the di¬ feafe : fo if any man be troubled with a Pleurefy, inflammation of the Lungs, Quinfey, Cough, pain of the fide, Pofe, Hoarfneffe, Ca¬ tarrh, he mult altogether ceafe from waihing his feet, and by no meansufethis remedy, for the humour falls upon the parts under¬ neath, and exafperates and enrages all. But in difeafes that pro¬ ceed from the lower parts under the Midriffe, namely, that arc in the Stomach, Ventricle, Spleen, Liver, Matrix, Bladder, Reins, Guts ; it may be done fafely, and to great good purpofc, efpecial- ly if from thofc parts arife any faintings, or fwoundings, or any other affc&ion, whereto all'o we may ufe fri&ions and ligatures, and fee cupping glafl'es to the hips,or if there be need to open a vein, wc may do it in the great Toe, or about the Ankle or Ham, and draw forth bloud : for thus as in a fheep,
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To turn away the heat it's very good ^
To jlrike a vein it*,) foot , and let one lloud.
But for the trembling of the heart and palpitation, for fwoun- whmthe hands dings and pain of the heart, for fhortncfle of breath, for fwellings muft be pinched, cY,ethroac ancj tumours, it is good to pull theihandsand rubtnc
fingers, efpecially that .which is next the little finger, and -ufeth to wear a Gold ring, the middle vein in the arm muff be opened in that part where the pain comes, cupping glafles muff be let on the arms and (boulders, cutting and fcarifying the skin deeply, if the Nothing to be body be full ofbloud and humours 5 but lean wafted confumcd taken from lean people, muft be reftored with fomentations, wine, deep, and fweet t"*1** fmels, for nothing can be taken from them.
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Chap*?* Bearbs appointed for feveral parts of the body, &c.
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7 “hat by a mnderfull force of nature , and incredible efficacy, fever all hearbs are appointed for feveral parts of the body , to help them , and they do fever ally help feveral parts by their imbred qualities and vertues . . ■ -01)
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THat every man may be the more in love with God that made codiswondeu him, and by a fingular way hath brought forth all things for fail inhu the ufe and good of mankind, and may admire the skill of nature, mrfd*. that fhe hath received from God; I thought good to (hew, how commodioufly and fitly, and with what wholefotnc operation, all hearbs, whereof fome are fit for meat, others for medicine, and fome for both, are appointed feverally for fcvcrall patts of mans body, wherefore this is natural to plants, and they are endued with fuch a force, that by their imbred faculty they fhould help fome parts, and that leaving other parts they thould repair thi¬ ther, for which they are ordained, and the parts do not oncly draw viantsordam'i greedily their nutriment, but alfo fuch medicaments that are for feveral wholefome for them, and they enjoy that. So fome are applied ^AUS* to the fide, to the Midriff, to the Breaft, to the vocal artery, if at any time they are fallen into any diftemper : others are laid to the Milt, Liver, Kidneys, Inteftines, Matrix, Bladder, Head, Brain, thepmsdrari Eyes, Nofe, Ears, and thefc arc cured by them : other hearbs (hew totbemwbat u their forces and effedfs upon the Nerves, Bones, Marrow, Mufcles, &°* M Arms, Chords, Membranes, and are carried to them by a wonder- full vertue, and that which is peculiar and proper to each of them, whereby they are qualified with power to help and ftrengthen, or to purge thofe parts from excrements, fo fome hearbs refpedt cer¬ tain parts, and are ordained for them. For Liverwort, common¬ ly called Acrimony, is for the Liver, Succory and all its kinds, amongft which is common Garden Endive, Sowthiftle, Sorrel, . _ , Haukweed, that where a hot diftemper hurts one, do wonderfully help him. But when a cold affedtion offends this part, Annifeed, Pontick-Wormwood, and common Wormwood, Dodder : For the gall, Rheubarb,Celandine,Scamony, that drive yellow choller downwards, partly to the guts, partly to the bladder : For the 7 r c w/* Spleen that hinders light-armed fouldiets, and runners when it fwells. Milt-wort, Walfern, Harts-tongue, that is the common7 Scolopendra,Polypod, CaperSjTamarisk, bitter Almonds, Peach kernels, to purge out the excrements, and to corroborate this part are commended. For the Stomach and Ventricle, Mints? Mace,
Maftick, Ginger, andwhat may beconfedted of thefe. For the ibat are good Brain, Rofemary-flowcrs, true Acorns; Virgils, fvveet Mar jorum ^ for** Brain, Marjorum, Betony, both Lavanders, Nutmegs, Piony roots and berries, Miftel roe; For the Breaft and Lungs are Hyfop, Savoury, p. .. Wild Time, Hcrehound, Coltsfoot, Scabious, Licoris, decodtion freajl, 7 9 of Barley, Rayfins ; For the Heart, Saffron, Cinnamon, Pearls,
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Hearbs appointed for fever al parts of the body, &>c. Book HU*
. m,ttd red Rofcs, Citrons, Coral, Jacinth, Gold, Cloves, the bone If a f„ tbt hem. Stags heart, alfo the imell of new bread, good wine that refrefheth re mi and recreateth the Heart. For the Rems, Saxifrage, Sampire Jortimn. Grommel, Alkakengi, a kind of a night-fhade, whole berries are red and round like to Cherries, Daucas, Garden-Smallage. But what are good for the Matrix, arc Motherwort, beeaufe it purgeth the womb for the Matrix. frocn foulnefle^ Savin3 Calamint, Penniroyall, Savoury, Clarv rvbat aregood So feme penetrate into the remoteft and fartheft parts, and are car- for the Heroes, ried to the Nerves, as Hermoda&yls, fweet Mullens, commonly called Palfey-hearb, Madder, that colours the bones of Cattle red, if they chance to eat it green, though they touch not the root that is red, which may be feen in the boy led ftefti of that cattle, and in ftieep that are painted red with the deco&ion of it, as Woad dyes them blew 5 wild Saffron, Saffron, and yellow Ocre. So that they sea Amber, call Sea- Amber, or Sperma Ceti, commonly mlfcot , fodders bro¬
ken, cleft, cut, gaping bones* in which thing I find fuch a force, that it will peirce through the folid boxes it is kept in, and moyl flrfulmf to them with dewy drops. So artificial Mummy, called PiflL v, , r phalfum, the Arabians call it Mummy, is ufed with good fucteffe for falls, blows; hurts, contulions, fractures, bruifes : for that ro- finy mixture, by reafon of the Oyl of Myrrh, Myrrh, Aloes, Saf¬ fron, and other Ipices that are in it, that they ufe coEmbalme the bodies of Nobles with, as we read was done on Chrifts body hath a great force to confblidate and bind. On the other fide wbatfyngs fome things have a diaphoretick, thatisa difeuffive force, to re- ntove urine, fol ve humours, and to provoke fweat. Some by a natural proper¬ ty move urine, and break theftone ; as Parfiy, Garden-Smallage, Daucas, Sofcls , Ammi, Jews-ftone, Goars blond, Lovage, and
wbatthim many m0re# Sotne thc fl§ht> as Eyebright, Fennel, Celan-
drive awayve- dine, Rue 5 Others by a prefent remedy refift poyfon, asZedoary, nomes. Mafterwort, Germander, Garlick, Theriac, Mithridate, and fomc whlttrTthe berthings that Galen commends highly. Somebya fpecifique, €ad . or fecret quality and not elementary, purge forth juice that is fa¬
miliar to them. So Rhapontick, commonly Rheubarb, and Scam- mony purge forth yellow cholcr.- So Sena, Poly pod, Epithime, Bans of Me- black Hellebour purge out melancholique juyee. Wild Saffron, imhoij. Agarick, Mercury, Efula, andthefeven Tithymals, purge flegme what purge and watry humours. Fumitary,Caffia, Cylindrace, commonly fagme. called Fiftularis, Violets , Damask Prunes, Bugloffe, purge the Mat purge the bloud from fowlnefle. But all medicaments that are purgative, blond . as Galen faith, do it by the fimilitude of the whole fubftance, and
SmipL c * by a fecret property, and their fpecifique form. For the Elemen- r here is one ef- rary venue that confifts in the temperament of heat, cold, moift, Wesin%am anci dry, doth not caufc a medicament to make one vomit, or to tmd another of purge forth this or that humour; but it is the fimilitude of the the fub(iance. whole fubftance, which being ftirred by heat and a celeftial force, forceth the humour that is peculiar and familiar to it, to be dri- ph delights w ven forth. So Galen maintains that attradion is made by the fi- militude of fubftance, whereby he intimates that there is a certain ' fc ' - fimilitude
Chap. 2 . H curbs appointed for fever dl parts of the bod^ &c. 261
flmilicudc and likcncffe in both fubftanccs both of that which pur- geth, and of chat which is purged. Moreover that which is purged being ftegme , that whictv purgeth it, out mu ft be of a flegrnacique nature alio : whereby he (hews, that between the humour and :the ’’ 1 '
medicament there is a fimilitude and agreement and natural famU liarity, which cannot be aferibed to the. firft qualities, bur to the fubftance. » • i n
Therefore we rauft ufe otherwayes to try the force of herbs that do any thing by the force of their qualities, that isofhcat,cold moyfture or drynelfc, and of fuch as work upon the body by a pro¬ perty of their whole fubftance, and a heavenly effect , or lidercall influence. For thole that change the quality of the body , are to Reafon and cx = be examined by reafon and judgment, but thofe that purge out the thence are re - ' humours, are to be found out by experience and daily ufe. So in irsd m ans° the former there muft be judgment and choice, in the latter expe¬ rience * whereof the one as Hippocrates faith is difficul t: , the other faife and dangerous. So purging medicaments that drive the hu- v”! 1 mours out of the body, or elfe venemo.us things that are pernicious and dangerous to the body , wherewith fomie.Nacions go about to deftroy their Enemies, as others do with thefword, aretobetry- ed by ufe and experience , for they do it not by reafon of heat * otherwile. Pepper, or Cardamom would do the like, but by an im~ bred and native property. Hippocrates feems to fubferibe to this tib, de natun opinion, when he faith, Phyfick when it is come into the body , it human . firft attra&s and draws unto jit felfe, that which is 010ft familiar and naturally agreeing with it, and like unto it , then it moves the other humours alfo, and foreeth them out. For as plants draw to * finite from, them what is moft agreeing with them, by a natural! propinquity, t^eefar^>^ and they live by that moyfture, and change it into nutriment * io medicaments,appointed to drive forth humours, are carried to their like, and drive them forth either above or beneath. Where¬ fore let no man rejed it as an old or ridiculous fable , that we now cambaride j ex- fay 5 that to every part certaine hearbs are propcrlyappointed:w/mw* when Spanifh flyes that are of a corroding quality, if they beap- plyed outwardly to the skin , will hurt no intcrnall parts but the bladder, as G alen faith, fo that they are carried through the fto- mach and ventricle without doing hurt, and by the paflages of the Liver they penetrate to the bladder, and they exulcerate no part but that. Sothejuyce of black Poppy, and Hemlock hurt the heart and brain * the Sea hare, the Lungs : though all poyfons, un- lefle they be caft out by vomit, or rebated and kept down by Anti¬ dotes, will by degrees come to the heart if they be applyed ondy outwardly, which is clear by the biting of a mad.dogg, and his voiftm a^td fome that flicks upon the wound* for by a penetrating force , the outwardly wilt skin being firft corroded, the venome flyes to the principal! parts, e£j£rt'the and makes a man mad. We muft referr it to the fame caufcs , *
that the Loadftone attra&s Iron* Jet and Amber ftraws, and chaff, wee of the and ocher light matter. Alfo the influence of the Starrs works ef- fe&ually upon fublunary bodies. So Mars moves yellow choler • • " Saturn
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That Planets are of both Sexes,