Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell].

  • Robert Lovell
Date:
1665
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    GRAF MRM cae: HO mm {6) The fecond Qualities are x. The Malatiick or mollifying, t6] an equal and fymmetrick heat, and acorrefpondent ficerty, yet unto that of the body, without any confumption or addition of humidity. The emollient accends heat a little beyond the pro- portion of nature, and contracteth a little humidity, wherefore | that rather operates by quantity than by the quality of heat, but the emollient,rather by quality. Therefore that which is exactly Seppuratory is emplaftick,, yet (ometimes emollitionis the con- fequent of humidity, if yoyned with moderate calidit or heat, andis ufefulin feirrbus s, and tumors; and though emollition may be by humettation and evacuation, yetits properly by hea- ling, loofening and callignation : Emollients being moderately dry and hot, 20 or so in fcirrbus's; and proportionable in other tumors, Hereto belongsthe cbalaflick or loofening 5 yet this is lefs hot, and more mo:flening than the emollient, and of athin fubfiance. 2. Scleryntick or hardening, which properly isthat, which doth exiccate without any excefs of heat or cold; for cold alfo may make obdurate, as alfo too much heat, yet after another mannerthan only by exiccation, for though that which is dry is hard, yet all that is hard is not dry. But Siccity doth dry and induratetwo wayess fc. by altering and making more dry the effence of the patts,which moft properly ; or by cosfuming the humors in the pores; yet fometimes obduration may alfo be d by repletion ox fullnefs ; and fome fay, it is; by cold and ryne[fs. M. Vi vaiotick and rarefying, or diapboretick and refolvings which are moderately hot, with teausty of parts, and very little res ficcant or drying, for excefsive heat doth not rarefie but buras and by adwflion doth conden(ate and dry. But moderate beat opens eth the paflages, and deeply penetrateth by the tenwity of its fub» ftance;and eafeth pain; alfo it openeth the pores and attenuates thefubftance; The proper Diaphorticks, are hot; dry, and of thin parts, attenuant, mollifying, and difcuffing wind: and the Rarefacient moderately hot, like our own heat, moiftening, and of thin parts. 4. Pycknotick or condenfating , contrary to the rarefacient, contratiimg the pores, and tncraffating what is rarefied and hu: mid,and making it more folid, which is in thofe things which refrigerate yet are not terrene, or aerious, but aqueous, andare nothing at all, or but little affringent ; for thefe do weakly con- tract, and bind, fc. by reafon of their foftne/s. s. Anaftomotick or aperient, opening the mouths of the vef. fels, and is in thofethings that are of groffe parts, bot; beyond the firt degree, fbarp; and biting. 6. Steg.