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. VI.

Of the Dose, the manner of Taking and the Continuance of vsing this Ale.

THe vsuall Dose of purging Poti∣ons seldome exceedes the measure or proportion of Three Ounces, lest the Quan∣tity should subuert the Ven∣tricle and cause Nauseum or perhaps Casting: But so small a draught here is too little, it may movere, but not promouere, stirre the Hu∣mor, but not extirpe or purge it forth: This Ale being most benigne and familiar to Nature, in Sight, Sauour, Taste and Digest, a man may without errour or suspition of any foule accident, take a full Draught to tenne or twelue Ounces: Some men drinke sixteene Ounces or a whole pint at once, though halfe a Pint be a reasonable Dose.

For manner of taking the Ale; It is ordina∣rily drunke without Heating, according to the custome of common Ale or Beere, and in winterly seasons, it will doe very well, and indeed is very requisite, to fright away the frigidity with the sight of the fire, or with a browne Tost attempered, if you will, with the Tests of Suger and Nutmeg, to aggrate both palate and stomacke. Or you may scare off the Cold, by quenching in the cup a Gad of Steele, or rather some peeces of Gold made hot in a siluer spoone, (or the spoone alone) with a chafing-dish, because it leaues in the Liquor no astriction nor other Heterogene quality.

Touching the continuance; this hath refe∣rence to the Cause that occasions the course of Medication, which must and best doth li∣mit the same. Seuen daies will doe well for clensing the Intestines, Liuer and Ʋeines of the Colluvies of Humors, and to reserate the vessells and passages; but double that Time will effectually remoue many setled Affects, re∣forme distempers, and produce good Rectifi∣cation of all the parts of the Body: and one Fund or Bag, will vpon the first Infusion suf∣ficiently furnish a temperate Patient for a Fortnight, and the like vpon the Second. And the taking of either of them may without

errour or much inconuenience in many cases aswell Curatiue as cautionarie, bee a day or two omitted or discontinued to correspond some vrgent occasions, prouided the discon∣tinuance bee redeemed with diligent pursuit for Reparation.

And this is most requisite to bee done, if sincere and exact. Evacuation be not already accomplisht. For the noxious humor, sith it is an vnnaturall Alien, (alienus ac praeter nae∣turam) must bee wholly and absolutely eli∣minated and eiected, whether the counsell be precaution or profligation of the disease. I confesse, the Remaine of some minute small portion of the peccant humour may by the spirituall force and fire of Nature, promoted and fortified with an exquisite rule of Diete∣ticall Regiment, be so mastred and vanquisht, that safe and sound health may sometimes succeed without feare of Relapse.

But if the Reliques be many, except Na∣ture (happily potent in all her Faculties) doe voluntarily subdue and avoid the same, the exactest order of Life cannot safe-guard the sicke from the daingerous Machines of the Disease: for though hee may seeme in some sort to haue receiued ease by the purging, He will relapse into the former infirmity, sooner

or later, in more or lesse latitude, according to the Copy or Malignity of the Reliques, and his strength and Diet, because the Reliques of diseases breed Relapses, Quae à morbis relin∣quuntur, recidiuos morbos facere consueuerunt, Hipp. lib. 2. Aph. 12. For when the part remaining, retaines the condition of the whole, which was altogether against Nature, that remaine can neuer be conuerted and assi∣milated into the substance of the Body, but will in processe of time corrupt the pure hu∣mors, together with the Aliments, and pro∣duce morbid fruits like to the first. Hence it is, that the more you feed a foule body (not fully clensed from impure humors) the more you offend, Impura corpora, quo magis nutris, hoc magis offendis, Aph. 10. lib. 2. For you nou∣rish not the sicke but the sicknesse. There∣fore to vindicate and cleere the Man from his Maladie, whatsoeuer noxious Humour nests in the Body, it must bee absolutely and totally taken away and eliminated.

This Panala then in rebellions, maligne, stubborne, and diuturne diseases, should bee constantly continued a month or more with∣out intermission, or any other Drinke, onely the Meale-drinke may bee made of a Bagge, made vp without Purgers, or else the pur∣ging

potion carded with other Drinks.

The reason of extending the medication to so long a Time may bee, that Creationis morbi, at{que} curationis paria sunt quodam modo Temporum Momenta. For as weedes are hardly hailed and pluckt out their Holds, when they are once deeply rooted, though quickly quit and rid the Plot when they are young; so diseases long in breeding (though perhaps suddenly breaking forth by occasion of Cold-taking, ill diet or other error, as newly bred) are for the most part long in curing. It is almost a Miracle to plow them vp in a moment, though such Herculean helpes we find somtimes by specifique Meanes.

But they fondly run into a grosse Errour, whosoeuer in Diuturne Affects or inueterate deepe trenched Maladies giue ouer or negli∣gently interrupt without reparation the con∣stant course of Medication before the Hu∣mors offending, being prepared by motion and flux, be fully avoyded, and the parts and Harmony of the body duly rectified by com∣petent continuance of the Meanes.

For although good Euacuation, from di∣uerse parts of the body, may in many cases be effectually wrought and performed in few daies, deepe rooted Impressions doe necessarily

require longer extent of Physicall helpes for due Eradication of peccant causes, and for true Rectification, as aforesaid.

And let no man attempt nor imagine by extraordinary ingurgitation and qua••••ing vp the whole quantity of the Ale in a few daies to accelerate the cures of long continued in∣firmities; It is the moderate and temperate vse of Medicine, with regular cariage and constant perseuerāce in the same, that breeds and produces the best and readiest effects and performance for remouall and riddance of the dolours and dire affects dimaning from deepe impressed diseases.

But the customary vse and continuance of the same meanes (Meat or Medicine) breedes dulnesse of Appetite or of Operation. Forbeare the Potion but a few daies (proui∣ded a good diet be in the interim obserued) and you salue this Sacietie. For intermission, aggrates in effect with the gratefull fruits of change, and we finde that in some sort New, which hath for a reasonable space beene in∣termitted.