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. XII.

Of the cheape and prest accommodations of Panala.

MAny irrationall creatures, led by the meere Instinct of Nature, doe, vpon oc∣casion of need, betake themselues to th'use of medicinable meanes for recouery of health and cure of hurts: But Man, illuminated with the Diuine Beames of a reasonable Soule, is many times (more than onely the hominum vulgi) much more sottish and more absurdly conceited in this kinde, than meere bruits, (Birds, Beasts, Fish, Reptilia & Insecta etiam)

which we know doe vsually vse (with much labour many times to finde or fetch) Physi∣call helpes for their hurts and infirmities, where he is so farre from the intertaine of the Practicke or approue of the Art, that hee condemnes the sacred ordinance, which God himselfe created (and gaue to our first Pa∣rents) diuine Oracles so much and so oft commend, and prophane Authors of all sorts (Philosophers, Historians, Orators, Poets) cal∣laud; in so much that Donzellin holds them worthy to be abandoned of all mankind (An∣ticyras relegandos) which dare seens sentire, in∣tertaine an ill thought of it, and doubtlesse would hold him vnworthy the comfort of any creature that should collinire brand or besmeere this heauenly gift of the Creator with the foule clouted terme of Imposture or Iuggling. Yet for all this fond fancy against Physicke, the silliest Man of a million, when he sees his Iade tainted with the Yellowes, or his Beast infected with the Murren, will haste for helpe to some Horsleach, and count it fru∣gality, and good gaine too, to recouer a Cart-horse with a Crowne cost (sometimes) in hope to recouer ten. Oh, but to bestow fiue shillings in Physicke vpon his owne kar∣casse, tis a peslance expense, the quarter

charge will goe farre in Ale-berries and Caw∣dells, and a few pence will furnish the whole Manie with Treacle and Aquavitae: if these and a pepperd Possill with a Head-bind helpe not, then farewell my neighbour Hide-bound, he'le rather dye thrice, than deale once with other Drugs than such as his Maud can mash, and his fore-fathers vsed to meddle with for their Medeale.

Thus many people, euen whole Myriads of Men, through their superstitious aduers∣nesse against Physicke, or penurious pedling with paltry trash, or idle tempering with tin∣kerlie Physmicaries, doe ordinarily, in their penny wise wisedomes, exhaust and consume both Body and Goods in long languishings, which might haue beene easily remedied and redeemed by the timous counsell of an ho∣nest Artist.

For instance; Is it not a world of wonder, to see, what palpable poore neglect is com∣monly cast-vpon the curatiue care euen of Furie Feuers, chiefly Quartanes? doth not almost euery Man (though nigh mated with stupendious symptomes and passions) feed his fond fancy with this Selfe-soothed Sooth-say, Tis but an Ague and must haue the Course; Incursu nimirum suo Quartanam non esse impe∣diendam,

this misconceiued Tenet must blanch and roborate their sorry Conceipts, which further also to colour, one foists a piece of Piso, snatcht from the Sequence, for his plea, and boldly auowes from Hippo∣crates, that of all Feuers the Quartane is the easiest and the safest, and vindicates from other great Diseases, as Convulsions and Epi∣lepsies. Another dights-vp Auisoes Doore with the Ding-dong Prouerb, Pro Febre Quar∣tana ràrò sonat Campana, He flatly tells you, the Bell seldome tolls for a Quartane, neuer considering that Erratique and Quotidian Agues deriued from grosse and pituitous Humors, putrifying (whether turning atribi∣lary or otherwise) doe for most part turne Bastard-Quartanes, and that Quartanes con∣comitant with vitious Liuer and other vessells ill affected doe often lapse the Loath-Physick into Scyrrhosities of Liuer, Spleene, Reines, and breed Dropsies, Iaundise, Hypochondriaque Melancholly, or some other scuruy Disease, of which euer and anon diuers are dropping away, or else drooping in desperate languish∣ings, to teach them and all such Selfe-soothing heretiques in this kind, that this Opprobrium Medicorum (the Quartane) springing from the impatience of inconstant Patients, nor

brooking nor abiding any regular course for due cure, can quickly turne to a sharpe and a tough Scourge to schoole them with a Pay-Home by attourney, shall make them cry pec∣caui for so fond sleighting salutary Caues and medicinable Cautions for due Cure.

These Men are no markes for the bent of my aymes, I am well contented my Com∣position suits none of their humours; why should a man study the cure or the care of them, who are so carelesse of themselues? Fatuitatis suae poenas luent, let them reap the rotten-ripe bitter fruits of their owne follies, and post to anticipated ends before their times for contempt of the meanes, or ling∣ring miserably dye to saue charges, if it bee sauing to be dishabled, by long languors, of following their Callings which call for their personall mannage, without medication, for most part, very slowly made compe∣tible.

For such as blow-vp Trifle-Fees with tur∣gid put-off of wind-puft Complement, let their empty bladders freely float-on their dung-hill puddles and turne ayrie Bubbles, till their glitterand selfe-swolne greatnesse, with the Launce of inward Pride (not of my Pen) burst into Hally-water to besmeare their

browes in their base bowes to Mammon.

For those who once assured of cure, by honest care of the carefull Physitian, doe straight grow sight-sicke, eare-sicke, thought-sicke of him, and in stead of remunerating his merits, doe nauseate his Face, Name, Me∣mory; let their penance bee daily to be verst in publique profession of this foure-fold ver∣sion, till shame, conscience, or dread of Duell with the last auersion, worke his conuersion from penurious basenesse.

Deus.

Vm nigris aegrum propè Mors circumu••lat alis Funestamque aciem funera jamque parat, Tum me promissis beat & domus omnis adorat, Me{que} salutiferum clamitat esse Deum.

Angelus.

Paulò vbi conualuit, paulum de numine nostro Cessit, & in nostris auribus ist a sona••••, Tu Caelo nobis demissus es Angelus alto, Praemia quae vestri quanta laboris erant?

Homo.

Iam{que} Machaonia magis & magis arte leuatus, Cum sedet ante focum progreditur{que} tripes, Oh Homo non frustrà, tantos subijsse labores Nosces, quod restat tu modò tolle malum.

Daemon.

Ast ego, si penitus jam sanum praemia poscam, Ille Deus pridem, mox Cacodaemon ero; Aurea verba volāt, mala vox cirūvolat aureis, Limine me, torvo lumine, pellis onus.

I haue transformed the last lines of the Doctors gradarie Disreguard, and translated it thus;

God.

Whilst ore thy down-sick Head pale Death doth houer, And's eager Stoops to trusse thy Soule affright thee, Faire Heights of Bounty blesse Me, all doe honour, All Dei••ie, all God of Health doe height Me.

Angell.

Streight as thy State to better plight inclines, I'me styl'd an Angell sent from Heauen to cure Thee, My Deitie to Demi-God declines, Yet ô, what golden words thou giu'st t'allure me!

Man.

Still, as thy strength doth wax, my worship waines, Chaire, Staffe and Stomacke, all things gin to ease thee; Good Sir now saist, yet happy are thy paines, Root out the Reliques and Ile richly please Thee.

Deuill.

But to full freedome bayl'd from bayn-full Euill, If then my carefull Visits speake due prize, God-Head, Gold-Heights forgot, thou dubst me Deuill And (••••••••uie) con••ures forth with toruie Eyes. Thus, whom with painfull Care J'ue cur'd my Patient, The Sicke this must I personate, turne Patient.

To meet with some misconceiuings of better minded people, who, willingly em∣brace Gods Ordinance, and the vse of ordina∣ry meanes of cure by Physicke, but not well apprehending, heeding or remembring their directions for vsage of the medicines pre∣scribed or giuen vnto them, wrong them∣selues and crosse the Physician in their prepo∣sterous applications, I haue selected and set∣led vpon the composition of Panala, the prescript of whose Administration and vsage is so plaine and familiar, no man, of any braine, need fall into any misprise or mistake, much lesse commit the palpable grosse Er∣rors, which many runne into in most other medicable courses, in which euery Practiti∣oner finds mistakings to be as vsuall as Eating and Drinking. Here's one champes his Pils, and for disgust spits them out with an out, out, another stuphes or bathes with his potion, a Third drinkes his Clister-stuffe, or eates his Suppositarie; and there's one turnes Electua∣ries to vnguents, Injections to Gargarismes, & vice versa; but he that's so warie, hee will not turne th'other furnishment to the Task of his Teeth, yet mistakes the morning-Draught for the Euenings, and either doubles or diuides th'appointed Dose. But in th'vse and pur∣suit

of Panala, there are nor curiosities, nor varieties of the Medication, to beget misprisions, only a constant Course, without any Cumber, to drinke a Cup of Ale twice or thrice a day, as is shewed Cap. 5. & 6.

Panala also happily preuents and cuts off the fond irresolution which ordinarily pos∣sesses many Patients, who hauing taken a Dose or two of any Prescript, and not finding manifest present-ease thereby, doe straight entertaine a strong and a resolute aban∣doning of all further progresse in Physicke, when that they tooke was perscribed but in Nature of a preparatiue to the maine Intenti∣on, either onely to prepare the vessells or the Humors, or to comfort the Spirits, and enha∣ble Nature to hold out for the cure. For com∣ming in the Port and customable Habit of meere Ale or common Drinkes, what Man amongst a Million will be so wilfull or incon∣siderate, as, hauing past the Pykes of pay∣ment and preparation of the Potion, that he will euer entertaine a thought of refusing or gi∣uing ouer so prest, so familiar and so freindly a Companion, before the last Cup conclude and strike the parting blow of a comfortable kind Farewell? And the resolued Patient by constant perseuering in propining and

following the Medicine, may with good as∣surance propound and promise to himselfe truly to reape the ripe and wholsome fruits of the principall Intention by beneficent Medication, which so many daily misse of through impatient and preposterous hast to reach and reape them before Maturitie.

For those therefore that in Heart doe ho∣nour the honest physitian as the Instrument of God, ordained for their Health, and like good Tenants for Terme of Life cary conscionable minds, to keepe the Edifices of their Bodies committed to their care and custody, in good and sound plight, and to repaire dilapidations and decayes respectiuely, although perhaps neither very able to bestow much cost, nor in case to spare much time in Quest and pur∣suit of such their care, haue I published the benefique operation of this most accommo∣date Medicine, that I may in some reasonable measure gratifie such their ingenuous re∣spects: And for further gratification, I haue at all times Funds or Bags of the Ingredients in readinesse made vp compleat (as well without purgatiues, as with them) and fitted for Infusion.

The Bag is portable (in pocket or other∣waies) many Hundred Miles, and durable in

full vigor and virtue, thirty or forty dayes at least, yea many Moneths, being made vp without Raisons, so that any man may furnish himselfe therewith in his trauell or other∣wise, and at his pleasure and leasure, when he comes home, infuse and vse it without Cu∣riosity or Incumber.

For the Body thereof, let that bee no Bur∣then of Imputation to any Impeach of the Reputation, seeing, as I haue said, it Super∣cedes the Additaments which many famous Medicines of other Formes need Bodying with all for apt taking and vehieulation, in that being composed into potable Liquor, impregnated with the Essentiall parts and Spirits (no whit evaporated with forraigne heat) of euery Ingredient diffused in and in∣corporated with ordinarie Drinks, there can be no vehicle or better Conuoy of medicina∣ble qualities into the Members & Remotes of the body. The purchase of Panala is too cheap for so precious a medicine; for the price is but fiue shillings (with directions for the vse) and the same seruing for two Gallons of Ale will furnish two Patients for seuen, or One 14. daies Physicke, as aforesaid: so that a man may haue two Doses or Draughts for a Tester, which in other Medications is com∣monly

doubled and many times trebled for one Purge: but compounded without pur∣gers, you haue it for the moitie of the charge, and this makes a most delicate Drinke (of like quantity) of much more true worth than Bragat or Metheglin.

Panala also supercedes and saues the charge of preparations, for cutting of humors and of vehiculums, for diffusion and cariage into all parts of the body, both which helps are necessarily required in most other sorts and formes of Physicke. Besides that, this sparing or temperate Diet, requisite in the vse hereof, saues more money in meat and Drinke, then the cost this Physicke comes vnto: and for the second Infusion of the same Bag, it lasts no lesse time, and costs no∣thing you know but new Raisons, and Ale, yet is it of excellent vse, either for Meale-Drinke in th'vse of th'other, or after th'o∣ther is spent for rectifying and confirming the State of the Body. For the new and Nude Infusion compounded without Purgers, the proportion finds a man altering Physicke for a matter of two pence per Diem, (besides Ale) except it bee made a Meal-drinke, which in most cases is needlesse.

Touching the Time taken-vp in continu∣ing

the take of this Physicke, I may say, Sat cito, vt sat scite, fit Medicatio, quae sat bene: Good speed is euermore best speed. But this salue may well be saued, here's seldome any Soare to need it. For in Cautionare courses, for Prevention of Infirmities, it spends time, but loses none, because it interrupts no bu∣sinesse, saue when the Inclemencie of the Heauens giue Caueat of Keepe-in, to auoyd the iniuries of ill weather, which no wise man will vpon any Naturall Flux expose his body vnto: and in the Arrest of Sicknes 'tis the Infirmity, not the Physicke, that de∣taines him within Doores, not so much for shelter and couert from the frownes and worse effects of the Skye, as for the necessi∣tated Dures enforced by the Disease: besides, that if vrgent occasions call forth into in∣temperate weather from Cautionary courses, he may intermit a day or more, as in Cap. 6. is laid downe.

Nor doth the medicine giuen ouer, or ended after moderate continuance, constipate or leaue the body Costiue, ouer-dryed, heated, debilitated or exhausted of Balsamique iuices, nor affected with any distemper, ill Impression or deprauing affects cōtracted or dimaning from the same (as is already declared Cap. 9.)

but well disposed, vigorous, actiue and full of Spirits.

He that is any thing verst in the Practique of Physicke, may easily obserue and find, that Nature euermore best accords and co∣operates with Medicines which aggrate and oblectate the Senses, but shewes her selfe a∣uerse in refractary reluctation against the dis∣pleasant, so that euen Stomatiques, giuen for comfort and fortification, if they be very in∣grate, doe bring forth little Good, but in stead of subuening and helping, they subvert and hurt the Ʋentricle: what fruit then can bee expected from Physicke, whose Disgust and auersnesse to Tast and Stomacke breed••s that nauseous loathing in Nature which peruerts her operatiue Faculties in all parts of the Body?

Best practitioners therefore, to preuent all incongruences, and to gratifie the patient, do clarifie, color, edulcorate, acidulate & aroma∣ti••e Syrupes, Iulapes, Apozemes, Electuaries, and other Formes of physicke, respectiuely, palliating pills with gilding, when they can∣not paliate their bitternesse. For when fa∣miliar Obiects delight the Eye, recreate the Sensory of smelling, please the Pallate, comfort the Stomake, and exhilerate the Heart, (that

Fountaine of Life,) they Sympathyze and side with Nature, eleuate the Spirits, stimulate and stirre vp the languishing Appetite, rouze her drowsie Forces and Faculties (vitall and Animall) sopite in sicknesse, and resuscitate and refresh the Natiue Heat which alone concocts, digests and calmes Diseases, and by extenuating the Thicke, and clensing the viscous Humors, and by expediting Obstruc∣tions, faciliates and promotes the operations both of Food and physicke, insomuch that pur∣ges compounded of some Ingredients which of themselues would subuert or di∣sturbe the Stomacke, if they be condited, cor∣rected and accommodated with good Aro∣matiques, they are little or nothing offensiue to the principall parts, and more safely purge excrementitious Humors by Stoole, as also by vomit respectiuely.

My care therefore was so to compound my Panala, that besides the little Cost and lesse Cumber, it neither offends the Eye with the loathed Obiect of a muddy substance, nor the smell with ill vapor or sauor, nor palate nor ventricle with disgust or ingrate Relish, but it is a depured, cleere, sweet, delicate and sin∣gular Extract impregnated with the succu∣lent Iuices, sincere Spirits and singular Vir∣tues

of Specifique Ingredients. Moreouer, 'tis of a moderate Temperature indifferently accommodable to euery Age, Sex, and Con∣stitution, and so familiar and pleasing to the Sight, Smell, Taste and Stomacke, and so con∣formable to the principall Members, that the most curious palates and daintiest Bodies may and doe drinke it, and digest its operations with Delight: yet for all this will I not arro∣gate the title of a Purum Putum Areanū vnto my Panala, though considering the whole progresse of preparations of the Potion (from the growing of the Graine, to the drawing of the Drink) it may well merit the esteeme of a singular Extract and Spagyrique Medicine.

Much lesse will I bee so absurd an Impu∣dent to attribute vnto one and the same In∣fusion, founded vpon irrationall Empiricie or other confused Intention, the potent Super∣cede of all other Physicke, and so to gull the world or beget an opinion, that my single Panala is simply an absolute Panacea, which instar vniuersalis cujusdam vniuersalissimi, is able to cure all diseases in all Persons, and at all Times promiscuously without other meanes. One Last fits not the Size and Shape of euery Foot, nor can any one Medicine bee of that admirable efficacie, that it can alone perform

all the Intentions of Medication in all Con∣stitutions and Complexions (no lesse nume∣rous and variable than Faces) and in all Ca∣ses of Sicknes without distinction: yet thus much giue me leaue to affirme and say of it, though I doe intirely honour the Fundamen∣talls of Physicke found in the most exact ob∣seruations of our Fore-Fathers (the Grandees of Medicine) that for virtues & accommoda∣tions, this Potion it is not easily paralleld; be∣sides that, it hath this speciall prerogatiue, that it is in a manner a Compendium for all cures, the base & perpendicular that measure all Tri∣angles; or rather the Triangle which measures (euen without either of them) all Figures, and may easily be reduced to the equivalence of a Circular Scale, or Sector accommo∣dable and applicable to euery Chart or Di∣mension, sith it is richly suited with prepara∣tiues, evacuatiues, cordialls and Rectifyers, and may easily be impregnated with the spirits of Spaw Waters, with more salutary preualence than can bee deriued from crude springs, whose farre blazed fame superstition rings so loud.