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The second Chapter, of medicaments which appease dolour called Anodins in Greeke.
DOlour is a grieuous feeling like as pleasure is a ioyfull feeling the which is cured, first by knowing the cause,* 1.1 next by the ablation of the same. The cause of dolour is eyther distemperature or solution of continuitie which is eyther hot, drie, or humide. The hot causeth vehement paine. The drie causeth paine but not so vehemēt. The hu∣mide maketh almost no paine at all,* 1.2 medicament Anodins called bp the Greekes Paogonta are those that haue force by their temperate heate to appease the dolour, of the which some be propers, some be impropers. The propers Anodins are those which be a contrarie qualitie open and take away the cause of dolour, like as oleum laurium in cold dolors, violet in hot dolors, hyd••••elium in drie dolors. The Anodins improper are these which not by themselues but by accident appease the paine & are called by the Greeks Narcoticks the which stupifie the feeling of the part and make it more heauie: The office of the proper Anodins is to euacuate, digest, rarifie, extenuate the euill humors which be sharp, thick, vaporous, and cold.
The Anodins proper are eyther simple or Composed.
Simple like as oleum amygdalarū dulcium, butiri, lini, o∣uorum, hyperici axungia, galline, anatis, auseris fol malne, violar••••, parietarie, medulla vituli, et cerni, a∣qua calida. semen lini, camomilla, fenu grecum mellilo∣tum, folia hyoschiami.
The compounds of these are oyles, vnguents, linimēts, & plasters, fomentations, cataplasmes, and such like, which may be made according to the va••le••ie of the disease.