Chap. 12. Of Emplasters.
BY 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 here, do I mean things glutinative, and they are clean contrary to things clensing, They are of a fat glutenous or tenareous substance. They differ from things stopping because they do not stop the pores so much, as stick to them like Bird∣lime.
They have a certain glutenous heat, tempered both with coldness and moisture.
From these, Plaisters take their names.
Their tast is either none at all, or not discernable whether hot or cold but sat, insipid or without tast or sweet, viscous in feeling.
Their use is to stop flowing of Blood and other* 1.1 Fluxes, to cause suppuration, to contain in the heat, that so tumors may be ripened.
Also they are mixed with other Medicines, that they may the better be brought into the form of an Emplaster, and may stick the better to the Mem∣bers.