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. XI.

Of the excellent cautionary virtues of Panala.

NAture, the best Modera∣trix of mans liuelihood, not ignorant, that Prae∣cavere Morbis quam cu∣rare melius est, that ma∣ture preuention of mala∣dies is better than the best medication for cure, (Magis quippe op∣tandum est, omnino non pati, quàm à passionibus liberari,) duly aymes by daily endeauours to constitute and continue the body temperatum ad pondus, (as in Mans first creation) that it may be intire and perfect in state of health to the last period of life, or at least to conserue the same in such latitude of sanitude as it was produced.

As therefore euery intelligent and indu∣strious Hortulan is euer carefully curious in diligent cleering and curing his Plot of irre∣gularities, superfluities, weeds, incumbers and vndue Ballasts, and of storing and fur∣nishing it with all commendable and neces∣sary

accommodates: So prudent and proui∣dent Nature, administring all things the best she can, doth still, without intermission, moliri and labour the excretion and quitting the Bodie of all excrementitious, superfluous and peccant Humours and Contents, with the supplying of all defects, and reforming of all deformations, which good effects could she alwayes happily attaine vnto and accom∣plish, according to her intention, there should neuer need any Physicall meanes to rectifie the state, or preserue the health of the Body.

But the rebellious quality and ouer-maistring quantity of many potent opposites, together with the repugnance of stubborne and ob∣structed parts and passages (contracted many times by erring or vndue deuiating from the right administration or due mannage of the Six Non-naturalls) doth often delude and frustrate these her carefull intendments of their worthy ends.

Now this noble medicine, a most singular instrument of Physick, (Natures Hand maid) powerfully oppugnes and resists her opposites, and ioining with her in her salutary designes subdues and reduces them to her obedience, reserates the ports and passages of the body,

and amandates and expells whatsoeuer is aduerse or incongruent, and by consequence diuerts a world of diseases, and conserues the health in good latitude.

A boystrous rouzing Purge, like a rude Ramp that rashly pluckes-vp the Herbes with the Weedes, shuffles all sorts of Humors into con∣fusion, and promiscuously with much vio∣lence to Nature eliminates and voids both good and bad, as well Euchimique Balsamaries as Cacochymique Bayners, whereby Nature is defatigated and debilitated, and the state of the body much endammaged.

But milde Panala, like a discreet Damsell, which preserues wholesome Herbes, and weeds-vp hurtfull Weeds, doth by easie de∣grees gently, pleasantly, and safely, (nor ouer-heating the body, nor perturbing the Patient) raise and remoue the intrenched enemy, and disburthens Nature of sincere and meere peccant Humours, thereby pre∣seruing the succulent and salutary Iuices in∣tire and exempt both from euacuation and from incident corruption and infection, which would necessarily bee contracted by their continued mixture with the vnnaturall, if still retained.

To giue some particular instances for the

necessity and vse of this preuenting Physick, giue me leaue here, more fully than before, to present vnto your view and consideration the three Grande Colonells which vsually with their many troopes of Miscreants assault and batter our Bulwarkes of Health, against all whose infesting forces Panala is furnisht with such munition, that all their mischieuous machinations and designes, to demolish and ruinate the whole fabricke of Mans Edifice, are countermined, dasht and disanuld.

The three Chieftaines encamping against our Cittadell, are Cruditie, Rheume, Obstru∣ction, and vnder their Colours Bands of Sica∣ri••, bloody Bandetti, doe bandy themselues to bane our Bodies at least, yea many times with stupendious tortures they distune and destroy the Heauenly Harmony of the Soule.

Vnder Crudities Colours are encamped Cachexiaes, Hydropicall Diseases, Oedemata or phlegmatique and serous Swellings, flatuous discursions, and painfull wringings in the Ilia and Colon, the Lienterie or flux of Excrements and indigested viands, with many other great and long griefes; Imo, Cruditas assidua Mater est omnium ferè aegritudinum Mate∣rialium.

Those who liue not orderly (sobriè) doe daily, according to Lessius, in his Hygiasticon, make some additament of Crude Humors, which attracted into the veines & diffused into the whole moles and bulke of the Body, as into a Spunge, (to the quantity of 100 Oun∣ces in one yeere,) doe in tract of time putrifie and breed mortall diseases, which cut off most men before their time. For almost all that dye of sicknesse before Old Age dye of this Cause.

Amongst all sicknesses marching after Cruditie I beg license not to forget that nu∣merous Fyle of secret, but forward foes, Ser∣pentine Wormes, those treacherous Ʋndermi∣ners of our Microcosmique Castle, which come for most part of crude, superfluous Chylus, and rauening for the like become Robbers of Rest, Restauration and Life it selfe.

These petty, puny Pygmies (subterranean spirits bred of Corruption and humid Heat) these pernicious pyoners and pyners of the Body, feed-on, deuoure, and consume the good Iuices prouided to nourish and main∣taine the whole Bulke, which hauing the conuoy of Nourishment continualll cut-off, doth necessarily become leane, meager, and misliking, and the Appetite many times insa∣tiable,

by reason the famelique or esurient spi∣rits are robd of the foizon of food, which the Mechanique should worke-on to furnish all the parts with congruent and competent food.

Oftentimes the nutrient Succi being in∣competent to satiate and glut their nume∣rous Gorges, they molest and torment the intestines (the very Beds they were bred in) with corrodant sucking, cause the Cholicke, paines like to the Hypochondrique flatus (the Girdle of the Spleene) flux of the Bowells, Di∣stension and Inflation of the Belly, and diuers times stupendious passions, and in fine, most dolorous death by perforating and eating-thorough the Guts.

Though therefore these Lumbrici, bred and nourisht in the small Guts (especially) of the Chylous Iuices, being crude and pitui∣tous, doe oft continue and quietly containe themselues therein a long time, in some bo∣dies, without any manifest dammage or in∣conuenience, and at length, sans former dis∣couery, cure or care, descend with the ex∣crements into the Crassa Intestina, and are with the same from thence eiected and cast out by stoole, yet oftentimes in their hungry hunting after food they ascend, creepe and

crawle vp into the Ventricle, (yet sometimes produced there of putrid Ballasts) defatigate and tire the Stomacke with tiring, pulling and lugging, hinder concoction, cause much Dolour, Nauseam and loathing of Meat, Dry Cough, Thirst, Hickup, Vomitings, and vari∣ous other violent and perillous accidents, and by gnawing, crawling about & pestring the Mouth of the Stomacke, make difficult swallowing, and worse Symptomes.

Yea, so wofully fatall are these accursed Miscreants many times to our weale, that they wrecke vs in their owne wrackes; for lying dead in the Bowels, till they bee putrifi∣ed, they send vp stinking vapours, and ma∣lignant fumes, which affect and infect both Heart and Head, causing Suffusions and Ca∣taracts in the Eyes, Falling Evills, Alienation of the Minde, Palpitation of the Heart, Faintings, Swoondings, Cold and ill-sented Sweats, inordinate Feuers with horrour and rigour, Trembling and dissolution of the Body, Convulsions and other fearfull Symptomes, and other Concomitants of daingerous conse∣quence. This multiplicious Band of bane∣full Miscreants are the most timous and fre∣quent infesters of the Bodies fabricke, not onely assaulting tender Infancy and Child∣hood,

but euen setting vpon Manhood also, with their pestiferous Troopes of Torturess which are many times found to swarme in malignant Fevers. And I hold it very pro∣bable, that the vntimely Death of most Children, may truly be attributed to Wormes, and other dints and effects dimaining from such superfluous and crude Indigestions. But this dainger (saith Lessius) by well pur∣ging the body yeerly at Spring and Fall, is preuented, and the Life produced to verie Old Age.

For Children therefore and all Students and others of small exercise or ill Diet, it is most requisite to vse such temperate Evacu∣ation euery yeere at such times, and for all others against euery Climaterique or Seuenth and Nynth yeere, according to the Counsell of Taisnerus, from Marsilius Ficinus, shewing that by helpe of Astrology and Physicke, na∣turall Death may be deferred. Sed haec pa∣rerga: These wormes haue made me weaue too large a Webbe of course raw Thread: therefore no more of Colonell Cruditie.

Rhume musters Inflamations of the Eyes, of the Almonds, of the Throat, of the Vunla: the Angina, Tooth-Ach, paines in the Eares, and others parts of the Head, Coughs,

griefes and weaknesse of the Stomacke; Exco∣riations, and Apostumes of the Lungs, Liuer, Reines and Bladder, stabbing Pleurisies, pi∣ning Consumptions, Fluxes of the Belly; the Cholicke and the Sciatica, Gouts of diuerse sorts, and Tumors against Nature: Deafnes and Blindnesse, Palsies and mortal Apoplexsies.

For this Distillation (Catarrbus, deflluxion, or falling of supervacuous humors from the Head into the subiected parts) yssuing from the ventricle of the Braine, and from its Con∣vex and encompassing Meninges when tis more exuperant into the Inwards of the body, stirres vp diuers mischiefes in our Mi∣crocosme: For rushing into the Roots or O∣riginalls of the Nerues, it causes Stupors, Tremblings, Palsies, and Apoplexies: into the Organs of the Senses, it causes tabring in the Eares, and dulnesse of Hearing, and Dim∣nesse of Sight: into the Nose, Stuffings and losse of Smelling; into the Iawes and rough Arterie, Cough and Hoarsnesse; into the Lungs, the Asthma and Consumptions; into the Ventricle, Cruditie and Indigestion; into the Intestines, Flux of the Bowels, and from hence if it insinuate it selfe into the Liuer-Veines (by the Mesaraicks) it thickens there and stuffes both veines and vessels with Ob∣structions.

Sometimes it sallies and comes from without and aboue the Cranium or Skull, especially from vnder the Skin of the Crowne (where the Extreames of the veines, creeping and caried by and thorow the face and fore-head or Temples, are bestowed and terminated in and about the Verticall point) and then it passes and disperses into the eyes, into the Mandibles, the Teeth, the Necke, the Shoulders, Armes, Sides, Backe, Loynes, Hyps, Thighes, and in conclusion into all the Ioints; insomuch that all Arthritique and al∣most all Externall paines dimane from this Outward Defluxion.

The last, not the least of the Three-Chiefe∣taines is Obstruction, a Potent Foe, vigilant in his designes and neuer vnfurnisht of one Machine or other, Fire-workes, water-workes, and other Munition.

The Liuer is a maine marke of his Ayme, both because it furnishes all parts with proui∣sion, and for that it lies open to his Battries, by reason, that the numerous deriuation of Venulae, both from the Port and Hollow-veine (through which two all the Alimentarie Iuices haue their Passages) is in most exile and slender branchlets (apt to bee oppilated and stopt with viscid Humours) dissipated

and obliterated into the substance of that Pa∣reuchyma.

Here he commands ouer Scirrhosities, hard Swellings, Inflammations (to the fortifying of the Liuer sometimes) Feuers, Fluxes, Iaun∣dise; There Hydropique, Cachectique, Ca∣chochymique affects, Greene Sicknesse, and o∣ther Discolorations, putrifaction of Humours, and Atrophia (snailie extenuation or slow pi∣ning away of the body) with Battries many moe.

Now he leuels at the Gall, turnes the con∣tained Choler to stony concretion, and diuerts the affluent to the diffusion of au∣ruginous Tinctures.

Hemorrhages and naturall Evacuations of Blood are supprest in both Sexes through his designements vpon the great veines, and vpon the Mesaraiques, the Hemorrhoids are stopt, and Melancholique and feuerous af∣fections set to broach.

By setting vpon the Mist, Hee obfuscates the Mind with colid fumes, col••••quates and wasts the Body and defaedates the skin.

By attempts in the Intestines, he hurts the Digestion (occasioning crudity of Stomacke) and hinders Ejection: sometimes though sel∣dome hee indurates and euen lapifies the

Phlegme heapt vp in the Cells of the Caecum and Colon, but many times stirs vp and raises stupendious windie Passions in the Ilia and greater guts, as if he meant by Mines to blow vp the maine Bulwerke with violent blasts.

For impeaching the free Conuoy of the Spirits by obstructing their Conduits the Nerues and thereby mustering-vp Suffusions of the Eye, Palsies, Convulsions, Apoplexies, Epilepsies or the like; because it may be con∣trouerted, whether the inrolment of these belong to this Band or to some Regiments mustering-vp maligne vapours, or other ho∣stile meanes, I leaue it to the subtile disputes of deeper straines.

But I may not omit his obturating or contracting the Pores of the skin (whether by mustering the cold and open ambient Ayre against the Maine, or by calling-in some ayerie or windie Percolation against any one Member) whereby excrementitious matter rarified into fuliginous vapours for exhalation and evaporation is reverberated and driuen backe againe. For this Reverbe∣ration shuffles the Humors and the Spirits, in∣to confused Combustions, and all the Intrin∣sicke Faculties into mutinous and tumultuous Routs to the grieuous pervert and great dis∣turbance

of the Oeconomie of the Microcosme and many times to the vtter subuersion and ruine of the Fabricke. Besides; who hath not heard of the Hollād Baliue & of the Bay∣life of the Hundreds (Popular Agues, Plagues of those parts) how frequently they infest these Fenny & Moorish Flats? Neither of these walkes (and they are euer restlesse) his Per∣ambulation (chiefly the Autumnall) but hees furnisht with a thousand Warrant Dor∣mants, to attach with Arrest that will daunt the daring courage of the stoutest Heart with shiuering cold, and trembling rigour; yea, more, before he leaue fingring him on whom he once fastens his hold, he will amate his man∣hood, melt his marowie and brawnie strength, and powre out his haughty Spirits in sordid Sweats. And doth the Vp-land Countries scape and goe Scot freee from such bainfull Arrests? shew me the Towne can truly tell and auow it smells not of the Summons of a Trienniall Ʋisitation (at least) by some Epedi∣mique Disease or other? If the blacke Ague (so the Country calls her frequent but vn∣welcome guest, Synochum putridam malignā) the Measils, small Pocks, Tertian or Quart••n feuer wil be sure to haue a fling amongst thē: And few or none goe about to aske or once

to question them, but let them passe impune as too potent or too masterfull to be dealt with∣all. For all these miscreants this mild medica∣tion is a dainty & deliuer Supersedeas, to pre∣uent the Arrest, & seldome fails of an authen∣tique Liberate, to deliuer frō all dures of such fellon faitors. Nay, though hee's no right Er∣rant nor a true Arrant Bailiffe, that loues not a Cup of nappy Ale, yet whosoeuer's perfumed with a Fortnight-sent of my Ale, hees sped of a Spell that will not fail to fright-away all such Miscreant spirits from neerer approach.

For noble Panala (Penthesilea like armed at all points) passing corporally by veines and other vessells, and spiritually by invisible Per∣spirations into all the members and dimensi∣ons of the body (per totū transfluxilis et perspi∣rabilis) tufts and hunts out al superfluous and vitious contents, and serrits them forth from out their lurking Holds and Dens, by means whereof no matter being left for putrifaction nor for obstruction, the whole body actuates in free perspirability, and the Calidum Inna∣tum, no way obrute but freed from extincti∣on, yeeldes to no forraigne contagion, nor stoopes to inbred corruption, but stoutly and strongly marches against, encounters, foiles and eliminates all malignities. For by

attenuating, absterging and euacuating, it quits all the materiall causes of those and o∣ther morbosities, intercepts and cuts-off their conuoyes of Munition (whether con∣sisting in vitious or superfluous Humors, in∣disposition or excesse of nutrient iuices, or other contents, or straightnesse of the passa∣ges) and by rectifying and roborating the principalls, remedies the distemper and imbe∣cility of the parts, and diuerts or quashes their mischieuous designes, and lastly by congruent association to Nature and by equa∣ble and proportionate contrarietie to Sicknesse, it conserues and maintaines the state of the Body in good latitude of Health, repells in∣congruent diseases, and effectually repaires lapsed and impaired sanitude.

Such and so manifest, with many more, howsoeuer these attributes may seeme to many men to be too many, are the virtues and effects of this duly composed and truly impregnated Panala, especially if it be (as it alwayes ought to be) ministrred Medica manu, quae vniuersalia particularibus, ordinata & rationali methodo, accommodata, adhibet; otherwise, it is (like euery other Medicine) but a Caruers toole in a Carters hand, whose wooden workmanship quickly marres, but

neuer makes a good Sculpture. Tis not the instrument but the knowledge and dex∣terity of the Artist, which makes-vp the Master-piece in euery Artifice: Argus his eares had kept-open his eyes to keepe-on his head, if better fingring than Parts rude hand∣ling, though vpon Apollos Harpe, had not charmed them with harmonious melodie to betray their double charge.