Panala medica vel sanitatis et longævitatis alumna catholica: = The fruitfull and frugall nourse of sound health and long life. Per Guil: Folkingham Gen: Math. & Med. studiosum.

CHAP. X.

The excellent Ʋertues of Panala in Generall.

PAnala is a true and per∣fect Medicamentum A∣limento sum; ministring to the body both food and Physicke: It is a legiti∣mate Diacatholique, a generall happy Purga∣tiue eliminating all humors offensiue in qua∣litie or in quantity, but working most on the most redundāt, in that they are most affluent to Electiues, & most obedient to expulsiues, though rebell tenants which Nature most endeuours to eiect, because they infest Her with more frequent and more mortall Duels then all forraigne and other domestique Foes.

It is a Generous and almost a Generall Vniuersall Medicine, (not inferiour to any Galenicall Physicke whatsoeuer) happily

performing all the parts of a good Prepara∣tiue, Evacuatiue, and Alteratiue, and not a lit∣tle participating of the Comfortatiue also, to the Naturall, Ʋitall and Animall parts, the Liver, Heart and Braine, and their Powers or Spirits, and, being compounded according∣ly, it is a Benedict remedy for any infirmity or defect in a manner, euen for Hunger it selfe, in that it participates of (if not exceeds) the Alimentary virtues of the Staffe of Life, com∣forting the Stomacke and nourishing the whole body.

It Concocts crude and raw humours, cuts, liquifies, attenuates and makes the thicke, the tough and Tartareous become plyant and ob∣sequious to Nature: the attenuated, the concocted, the serous and watery it digests and consumes: it clenses the Ventricle from slymie and Phlegmatique Crudities sticking to its rugosities and wrinklings, deterges the Lungs and Chest from viscous and putrid Hu∣mours, which, cleauing vnto them and sub∣sisting in the slender Branches of the Aspera Arteria, doe obturate and shut vp those straight passages and cause difficult brea∣thing.

It dissolues, dissipates and rids terrene and gravelly concretions, it deoppilates, opens

and mundifies the Lungs, the Intestines, the Liver, the Spleene, the Reines, the Matrix, and all the vessells, Parts, and Passages of the body, euen the neruall conduits of the spi∣rits, and by these meanes makes excel∣lent way for further workings, both of this same, and of other Medicines, by Stoole, Vrine, Evaporation, and other Operations.

It gently, safely, effectually and most com∣modiously purgeth Choler, Phlegme, Melan∣cholly, nor rudely, nor rashly rouzing this sleeping Lyon, (by agitating or stimulating the stubborne humor) from quiet Denn to furious Doo of daingerous dints, causing fear∣full Passions or grieuous affects; so doth it also clense and cary forth all corrupt and pu∣trid humours (Authors of wormes and ma∣ny other woes) with other peccant and su∣perfluous contents, sincere and alone leauing the laudable for Natures store.

It is therfore more auaileable for Longaeuity & length of life, than exercise and sweat, for such moderate purges worke chiefly vpon the humors, whereas succulent Iuices and good Spirits (not easily repaired) together with humors and excrementitious vapours are exhailed and consumed by perspirations and sweats.

Particularly, it purges (without perturba∣tion or shuffling of humours) first of all the first region of the body, to wit, the Ventricle, the Mesaraicke veines, (those numerous roots of innumerable Symptomes, and Diseases) the Cauities of the Liver, the Milt, the Hypo∣chondria, the Mesenterie and Pancreas, those two Sinkes and Swallowes of all Illuvies and Impurities: yea, there is scarce any other Cathartique that doth so mildly and so po∣werfully draw forth and eliminate corrupt thicke Humors; besides that by continuance and consequution it euacuates the other Regi∣ons, the Convex or outer parts of the Liuer, the Vena caua & its Concomitant the Great Arterie: and after its effectuall expansure and purgature of the first two, it vndertakes the third also (the Taske of our Gigantine and most valid purgers) and effectually, by its pro∣prietie, promoted by extended perseuerance, performes eradication of deepe-rooted Ma∣ladies from the Muscles, Membranes, Ioynts, the remote Extreames and whole Moles and habit of the Body, thereby cutting off and curing many stubborne diseases able to beare the brunt of the strongest remedy.

Ictibus innumeris cecidit Dodonia Quereus. The huge maine Oake, which Cannon cannot downe, Hew'd through with many stroakes, strikes th'Earth with's Crowne.

Nor doth it evacuate the Body by Stoole onely, but it is likewise both Diuretique and Diaphoretique, dissoluing & expelling serous thin humours, by vrine, and by insensible Transpiration, (easily breathing forth rarified exhalations through the dilated Pores) and effectually causes Sweat being taken hot, (especially compoūded without purgatiues) and the Body well happed accordingly. For as it separates and eliminates Heteragene and superfluous Humors per secessum, by Stoole, so doth it also therewithall, and by Evapo∣ration euacuate Fumes and vapours of malig∣nant quality and vicious condition, without expense of the Humidum radicale, or Primi∣genium (the Foundation and food of Spirit and heat, and by consequence of Life and Beeing) thereby preseruing Natures rich Treasures Corporall and Animall.

It corrects and remedies Crudities, carmi∣nates Winde, and discusses flatuous discursi∣ons

and wringings in the body, stayes vomi∣tings by diuersion, excites the Appetite, quenches Thirst, enlarges the Pectoralls, and causes easie Spitting.

It cures long Feuers, Quotidians, all Inter∣mitters and pestilentialls, the Greene Sicknesse, (Albas virginum Febres) Cachexias and all lent, tough and lingring Infirmities, bredd of the impurity of the Ʋiscera or of inuete∣rate obstructions.

It deoppilates and extenuates the stuft and distented Spleene, abates obese and cor∣pulent Bodies, and is very conducible for ex∣hausting and curing of all Distillations and defluxions to any part: It is auailable for Tooth-Ach, Inflamations of the Eyes, Vvula, and Almonds of the Throat, for the vertigo, and all infirmities of the Head, wombe and Bladder, both new and old; for all Cephalique Dolors and disturbances through fumes and vapours, and for all Fluxes, Dropsies, and the Falling Euill.

It helpes all Colds, Coughs, Asthmaes, or diffi∣cult breathings, the Iaundise blacke and yel∣low; Ill habits of the body, Putrifactions, hard Tumors, and all other swellings, wan∣dring paines, stinging and fixed Aches; the Cholicke, the Stone, all Gouts, both the run∣ning

and the impacted, hot and cold, Palsies and all ill-affections of the Sinewes. It helps Salt Rheumes, Itches, Scabs, Byles, Botches, the Scorbuto, the Leprie, and other contagious Maladies, and the cure of all curable wounds and vlcers, (inward and outward) with ma∣ny other defects and deformations Intus & in Cute. Foetet anima? deformat Hircus? Make Panala thy sweet Companion if thou hopest for helpe.

It rectifies the Stomacke and erecting the Digestiue Facultie, furthers the Concoction & Distribution of meat, comforts the Lungs and all the Pectorall parts, corroborates the heart, strengthens the Liuer, purifies it and the whole Masse of Blood, and breeding laudable Chylus, impinguates ••qualid and starueling Bodies, by inhabling them in future to be∣come fat or faire and much better-liking.

It cleeres the Sight, flories the Complexion, cherries the pallid Cheeke, quickens the Memory and all the Senses, Internall and Externall, refocillates and exhilerates the Mind and Animall Faculties, incites and en∣hables furtherance to conception, nourishes and maintaines the Balsamique Mumie of the Bodie, increases youthfulnesse, and re∣tardates and keepes backe the approach and

seisure of Old Age.

For the frequent vse of evacuating and emaciating dyets is a speciall meane to pro∣mote Prolongation of Life, for that after them, the body becomes plumpe faire and almost new, through pure sound flesh, with re∣stauration of youthfull vigor in some degree, as Oxen wrought leane, regaine the flesh of young beefes by good pasturage.

Touching diseases which are wholly In∣curable, or those whose legitimate cure is ve∣ry perillous, this Panala is a most approued helpe producing such salutarie fruits of Pal∣liation, (the securest and most commenda∣ble course of medication in such cases) as ex∣ceed all expectation; for without any Dain∣ger and incumbring Doo of dayly newed dispensings, it alleviates and mitigates all Symptomes of the sicknesse, which disturbe the Patient, if he be but patient, to persevere in competent continuing the Potion.

By dissoluing coagulate blood, it discusses and scatters inward contusions, and pre∣serues the body from putrifaction, and other perillous Symptomes.

Some men may perhaps expect I should capitulate and euidence all the particulars, and instance both the persons and infirmi∣ties,

aswell touching their Symptomes, as the mediate operation of Panala, for abando∣ning or abating at least of their baynings or oppressing burthenings. This I grant had not beene impertinent to the worke, but, were I so punctually satisfactory, I should doubtlesse of many people bee branded for a Matchlesse Mandevill in Hyperbolizing, maulger the magnifique good applause of Myriads of Patients, extolling it beyond the furthest extent of my praysing Attributes to the operation of its Mechanique Spirits. To avoyd such Stygmatique Rasures, and that my intended Manuall (of both parts) might not grow voluminous in tedious In∣stances (which might perchance incurre, with others suspect of fiction and impo∣sture) I propounded to my selfe, rather then to presse too much vpon prouoked patience, cursorily to point at particulars for the pre∣sent, well knowing that a word is enough to a man of good meaning, especially if any thing verst in Physicke (though such haue most cause of cauill at this Medication which benefits the Patient, but brings little or no profit to the Physitian and Apothecarie,) for he will easily grant, that such a Remedy may well be available in all diseases saue in Nude

distempers sine materia, which are seldome found in our cold and full-feeding Climates, yet such may easily bee met withall by this medicable Potion.

For as all Geometrique Figures, may bee measured by Triangle, so all Infirmities materiall and immateriall, may be medicated by Panala: Will you haue an excellent Re∣storatiue for Consumptions and Bodies em∣maciate and spent with long lingring sick∣nesses? the Bag compounded without Pur∣ger with the Ingredience of meat of nutrient iuice, perboiled vntill the blood be in effect decocted away, and minced very small both flesh and bones, presents you with a cup little inferiour in degree to a Chylus, which shall exceed all other preparations of food for easie digestion, fine and facile diffusion into the veines and members and for copious Nutrition with least quantity of excremen∣titious Reliques. To conclude;

Would'st lumpish Melancholy medicate, And gloomy Fumes at once euaporate? My Straines crosse canuast by brisk-witty Criticks, Change Moods dull-moody to cheer'd-merry Crickets.