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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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or make it thin and fluid. V3. 'And to evacuate it
for the mo]? part byPerfpirotton.
XXI. s. EMOLLIENTS. Thefe are
fuch thing: at mollify or foften any hard Tumour
or Part. Thcfe are generally hot and mag]? ; hot
in the hr]? degree, and mail? in the frfl or jhcond
degree. Their heat is a little be and the Proper-
tion of Nature, and they are of2 thin and humid
Pam, that they may ptercexinto the Matter, and
mollily or [often it. [or which reafon It 1: of ufe
in Strumou: or Scirrhu: Tumour:, Oedetaa‘:, and
V other: of like Nature gtojbften the hardnefr, and
reduce it to ittgrijtine heat : And theft are either
Common, or roper. x. The Common are fuch
(quft general Operation 11: to ftften .hard Swellinge,
andfuch part: and place: of the Body, cu are hard-
,ned by Congelation. 2. The Proper, are jitch a:
are. a plyed or appropriated to peculiar liumourt,
whichpheing either hot or cold, the Emollxent mull
be oppwte to them, in thzje ailive Propertiet, but.
'- retaining it: due humidity. ,
XXII. 6. ATTRACTIVES. Thefe
are drawing Medicines, which attralI or draw the
Humour: from the Center to the Circumference.
They are hot, and of thin Parte: For that which as
hot, altralh', and that more jirongly, if it ha: con‘
join’d with it a tenuity of Part1. Theft which are
hot and dry in the fecond degree, moderately at-
trat’t‘, if in the third, more manual 5 but moji
thcgfe which are hot in the fourth, for the attrac‘lian
is according to the jirength or degree of heat : Tet
fame thing: attr'at‘? S eciiically, and not by any
Matti-fey? Quality, in gmeticks, Carharticks, Ur.
Theft are conlraryjo Repaculfwes, for their N -
ture is to drivefrarn the Circumference to the Cen-
ter; but Attraaives draw from the Center to the
Circumference. .They are of ufe in Wounde, made
by the Biting: of Mad Dog:, Serpentr, and other
PoWnou: Creaturec; in Burningc, Venereal and.
Pejlilential Tuntaure, SIC. where it i: abfolutely ne-
ceyitry, to draw the PoWn and Malignity outwardr,
in order tothefaving ofLife- . ,
XXIII. 7. SUPPURATIVES, orMatu-
ratives. ‘ Thefe turn into Matter, contufed hkjh,
and llumourt, 4! am; the Subllance, of which ma-
ny Tumour: or Swelling: conhjl, andhring it to
perjcfl ripemyi'. They are moderately hot, and
next to Entollientc, yet dfering in tht'e that Sup-
purati-oe! have an Emplajiieh faculty, w ere,byob-
Ilruli'ing the Poree, they produce heat, mo]? like
unto that of the Body, without any Confumption or
Addition of the Humidity. They'e are friendly to
Nature, and cortfpire together with ‘it, to bring
the fuperjluout Matter tyorm, and to fuel) a
form, (L! that it may be c’parated and co]? out,
and the ahlilled Part there y etJed. '
XXIV. 8. PYROTICKS, otCORROSIVES.
Their are threefold. 1. Catheteticks. 2.'Septicks.
3. Laul’cicks, or Efchargticks. l. Cathereticks, or
Eaters. Thefe are meanly jirang; they by their
corrodve Propertiee, corljitme Excrefcenctee, and cat
away proud and dead Flelh. ll. Septicks. T7;
are Corrohver, vehemently hot and dry, of thin
Pam, and connjieace, which by their vehement
heat, eliqnate the Part, and are callchutteEtElives .
on thetr ttfe Is to draw Bli on. thcfe 'grg ngfz
[al0r1(g. 11L] Sauilicfsb, or Efcharoticks. Thefe
art 'Ut’ [”1577] MI I?” krill” 4
a all, fa thii they corJurnegitllbnhlg thejlrongtll
. , t ' .
Tlxy mufe Cm Ils upon the place they’ya::,”2p;]::;
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to, and are chiefly of ufe to nuke Miter,“ or open
Apejletne. " - -' . . A: ’ ‘.
XXV. 9. DIGES‘TIVES. Thefe are
a kind of Maturativcs , which bring laudableor
well digelled Pus, or Matter, into Com In or
contufed Wounds, and ill naturedreating lccrs;
without which the Pain can neither be takenawoy‘,
nor the Wound or Ulcer healed, or a jly put to
the eating, Kc. Of thefe we have largely i courfcd
in our Ars Chimrgica, whet‘eyotc moyjin a plea;
tiful number of Prefcript: in exempluieation there-
y
m
X'XVI. Io. ABSTERSIVES. twine
Cleanfere, which [eparate and remove the glutinous
clammy, or putrid Matter, adhering to Wound: and
Ulcert, which hinder: their healing. They have a
power to exfccat'e with tenuity of Subjiance; and .
thcy may be either hot or cold 3 nor it it of any
great moment, which of them, by realhn neither
Quality can hinder their aliion, except Exccliive.
certein thicknef: of Part: to compat? the Humour: :
or coldnejt, fince fame of both 1277!! cleonfc,‘ they
are to be underflood to have a terrene Subjlance,
which may take away the filth with theta; and majt‘
a certain roughnef: or nitrout Quality, to con)
away the caropalledplth. ' g ' . '. . .
XXVII. t1. SARCOTICKS, or Inuit:
natives. Thefe generate F147; in hollow lVottndr
and Ulcer:, and h]! It '
Nature will admit.
grcc, a little.DeteIIive, and that without Biting or.
Aflriaion’. Alla moderately drying, Viz! under the
[econd degree. Andfuch a: Impinguatc, or breed
.Fat, are Heating, Aourijhing, vlmpuljve, "Attra.
owe, Retentioe, ‘or Spectfck; a: Hemp-Seed, Pott-
der quarcocol, Kernel of the Indian Nut. . The]
dry, and change the Blood that" come: to try part.
lng to the Part : I the Ulcer
part of the Body, t e Satcotick mu be very dry,
and therefore tome of them are dr tng, even in the
fourth degree. Bat if the, part a the Body is moi]?
lei: drying : 'Ihey ought not to exceed the jidl de-
gree, unlef: the Ulcer be very maiji. They breed
not‘ good Blood, nor correll the tntemperotttre of
the place more -,,they only defend the Blood from
111 Symptom, and the Ulcer from Corruption in
breeding. Flelh; for Nature in breeding Hell), pro-
duce: eitherfetous or purulent Recretnenlt, and
thek Medicine: which cleary'e and eonfume thqffe
f:c2egez:,bbv thet; dirying Quality, are faid to
r e e ecau e t .v t '
that (Mm, f y. erhelp, Aalureperjorm:
XXVIII. 12. A GG UTIN A TIVES.
Thefe are fucb a: glew 1h; Lip: of Wound:, and
feparated Port: together. They are aljiz called
Symphitica, which it the no on that Condry i: cal-
led Symphitum, becatt e.o it: glewing Quality,
They are generally drying in the fecond‘ degree -
and are in a mean between Incarnativcs, and .CiI.
cattizets. They are notrAbIlctIiVe, but Ailtingent,
Wounde, Ulcen, and I'ilt‘ttla'e. are ten: e,
rat), to reject! of - heat, and o a ”3% Subjlan’ie.
lay their dtynefs, they abforb t at humidit ,Vtchicb
intervener, between the Lip: ofWounda, t otthere-
17)‘ ”My ”My 5! conjoined: And that it the 17:1:
And becaufe they cannot be defined, by either beat-
thonte count them chiefly hot and drying, with a .
their cavitiet, a: for a: '
hey are hot in' the“ nrji de- .
z.
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into Hell). Their degree if drynef- ntuji be accord- '
op ene-irt a dry .
in whichthe Ulcer it, the lncarnativet are to be V
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and prohibit the flux of Humattrc, to the Lip: (J ‘
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