Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
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Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
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Royal College of Physicians of London.
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London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,
1653.
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Pharmacopoeias -- England.
Dispensatories -- England.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Chap. 7. Of Drawing Medicines.
THe Opinion of Physitians is concerning these as it is concerning other Medicines, viz. Some draw by a manifest quality, some by a hidden, and so (quoth they) they draw to themselves both humors and thorns, or splinters that are gotten into the Flesh, however this is certain, they are all of them hot, and of thin parts; hot because the Nature of heat is to draw, of thin parts that so they may penetrate to the humors that are to be drawn out.
Their Use is various, viz.
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1. That the Bowels may be disburthened of corrupt* 1.1 humors.
2. Outwardly used, by them the offending humor* 1.2 (I should have said the Peccant humor, had I writ∣ten only to Scholers) is called from the internal parts of the Body to the Superficies.
3. By them the Crisis of a Disease is much helped* 1.3 forward.
4. They are exceeding profitable to draw forth Poy∣son* 1.4 out of the Body.
5. Parts of the Body overcooled are cured by these* 1.5 Medicines, viz. By applying them outwardly to the place, not only because they heat, but also because they draw the spirits by which life and and heat are cherished to the part of the Body which is destitute of them, you cannot but konw that many times parts of the Body fall away in Flesh, and their strength decays as in some peoples Arms or Legs, or the like, the u∣sual Reason is, Because the vital Spirit decaies in those parts, to which use such Plaisters or Oyntments as are attractive (which is the Physical term for draw∣ing Medicines) for they do not only cherish the parts by their own proper heat, but draw the Vital and Natural spirits thither, whereby they are both quick∣ned and nourished.
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They are known almost by the same tokens that Attenuating Medicines are, seeing Heat, and thin∣ness of parts is in them both, they differ only in re∣spect of quantity, thinness of parts being most pro∣per to Attenuating Medicines, but Attractive Medi∣cines are hotter.