Chap. 18. Of Medicines casing Pain.
THere is no dispute of the story but that which causeth the disease causeth the pain, as also what 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the disease caseth the pain.
Yet are those properly called 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (which is the Physical term for such Medicines) which barely regard the pain, both cause and disease remaining.
These are temperate for heat, and thin for essence.
For seeing they are to be applied both to hot and cold effects, they ought not to vary much from tem∣perature.
They something excel in heat, and so they ease pain, because they open the pores, and loosen the skin.
But they also cool because they let out those hot fuliginous vapors which cause the pain.
Such things as case pain by 〈◊〉〈◊〉, are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
They do not take away the pain at all, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 cause sleep, or so dul the sences that they cannot 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it.
They are administred at such times when the Symp∣toms are so grievous that they threaten a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dan∣ger than the disease is.
If in giving them, you fear a greater fluxion will come to the part afflicted, mix some things with them, which are medicinal for the disease.
If the pain lie in the skin, let the anodines beli∣quid; the deeper it lies, the more solid let them be, lest their vertue be discussed before they come at the part afflicted.