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
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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.

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    But that I might not be miftaken herein, I fliall tell you what I underftand by a Univerfal Medicine 5 I do not mean abfolutely univerfal, as if one fingle Medicine were fufficient to cure all Difeafes whatever, in all Bodies, without exception or limitation • although I know fome great Philofophers that plead for it : but by a Univerfal Medicine, I underftand fuch a one as is graduated to a high pitch of energy,and hath adepted a latitude Univerfal,accord¬ ing to that intention of Cure in all Difeafes. Now there is three principal intentions of Cure aimed at by which difeafes are profligated and fubdued 2 * J C Purgation, Namely, < Tranfpiration, and Roboration. And the whole Art of Curing, or Indications refpe&ing the Me¬ dicine, may be limitted and bounded within a few Claffest So that a Medicine.Univerfal in its Claflis, fliall ferveforall intents and purpofes within the latitude of that Claffis, and may fitly be termed Univerfal; to diftinguifti them from peculiar, appropriate fpeci- iick Medicines. , . | For example ; 'A Medicine may be Univerfal in Purgation• fo that in all cafes where Purgation is requisite, this Medicine will be fit and properly ufed. Such a purgative Medicine that cleanfeth all impurities and degenerate matter; and he that hath this, need not trouble himfelf with variety of Purgers, fo called and efteemed ?hlegmagogay Cholagogay Melanagoga Hydraaoqa • which indeed are but fancies, and if any difference be in the elrement* voided uj! on the exhibiting thefe feveral Purgers, it is by reafon of the vari¬ ous fomentation caufed from their peculiar delitereous qualities not from the diverfity of humour prasexifting in the Body, and ek- peculiarly attra&ed and brought forth by the Medicine. And although I do not deny but that the fuperfluous degenerate humours to be evacuated, are divers, according to the diverfity of bodies, which for diftindtion fake you may call Phlegme, Choler Melancholy, &c. being of different natures : Yet one good purga¬ tive Medicine is fufficient to difeharge all thefe effeduajly ; fince that Purgatives do not operate elective y but fermentative : and there¬ fore what degenerate matter the Body abounds with, that is brought away, be the Medicine this or that. * Hence it comes to pafs, that from one and the fame Medicine in