Nova medendi ratio : a short and easie method of curing. Exemplified by a ternary of radical medicines, universal in their respective classes. Viz. purgation, transpiration, roboration ... / By Everard Maynwaringe.

Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?

Date:: 1666

Credit: Nova medendi ratio : a short and easie method of curing. Exemplified by a ternary of radical medicines, universal in their respective classes. Viz. purgation, transpiration, roboration ... / By Everard Maynwaringe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

19/64

$f°T f°me yearS emft°yedmy filfjn Pharmacyy i ^rf \i toferve my ovon PraShce i endeavouring thereby to improve Medicines, by the curiojity of their prepa¬ ration and compofition, to thegreatefl enemy I could advance them ( which by prefcription and appointment cannot be done, but by infpeiiion and manual operation ) in the profe- cution whereof I found much fattsfall ion and difcoveri.es con¬ cerning Medicines s whereby their virtues and manner of opera¬ tion were laid open and demonflrated, which before were latent or clouded, and conjellurally depended on : and being fatisfied in the intentions of Cure, in all Difeafes, that they are not manyfut reducible to a few heads s I formed Medicines an fevering thofe intentions, working on them and improving them to that extent and latitude, whereby they became tiniverfal in that Claffis of intention : Jo that hereby both Patient and Phyfitian, are freed from the tedious trouble of multiplicity of Medicines, and Cures performed with better fatisfallion, fecurer > and more expe¬ dite. Now the three grand intentions of Cure are3 P ^rgation Tran- fpiration, and Roboration : Scarce any T>ifeafe but will fall under thefe general beads, or indication for Cure: fo that a Me¬ dicine ape rating radically, is tlniverfal,andfuliy arfwers all in¬ tents andpurpofe: under that general Head and (flafjis .> and the Medicines fo formed and improved to that extent of power Jhall be as effectual in various and different cafes (being radi-$