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. VIII.

Of the diuerse and contemporarie Operations of Panala.

MVlta nescientes (saith Seve∣rinus Danus) de multis dubitare necesse est. From much ignorance must needs issue a nume∣rous brood of doubts: But a Man, that will needs be a great Master in Physicke, feares (or rather faines, transla∣ting plaine Cavil, maine scruple,) the confused distracting of Nature with the various taske of meat, and this medicine set to work, if not tane at one time, and the contemporary Opera∣tion of my Panala, from the Circumference to

the Center of the body by deiection or stoole, and from the Center to the Circumference by Evaporation or Sweat.

Is it not Natures Innate Office and com∣mon Deuoire together and at once to ope∣rate and produce multiplicious and various effects in our bodies, to incide, attenuate, de∣oppilate, to astringe and corroborate, to rari∣fie the grosse, deterge the tough, condensate the fluid and thinne, to digest all Ingestions, and by separating the impure from the pure, to assigne and distribute this for Nutriment to all parts of the body (how dissimilar soe∣uer in substance;) and that partly to seque∣ster and send vnto peculiar vessells and recep∣tacles, and partly to amandate and expell by Stoole, Ʋrine, Sweat, and by sundry other wayes, meanes, and Emunctories? Doth Shee not simul et semel, at the same time, and in the same Mesaraique Veines cary the Chylus from the Guts to the Liver, and the Blood from the Liuer to the Guts?

And the familiar benignity of Panala doth rather associate and sympathize with Na∣ture in the diffusing and imparting of her sa∣lutary and wholsome Faculties, than any way affront or impeach their participation. For the contrary Qualities residing in one

substance, worthy Fernelius saues my labour in his various attributes vnto Guaiacum, which saith he, if any man meruaile at, Vete∣res consulat Artis proceres, Let him aduise and consult with the writings of the ancient great Masters of Physicke, who haue tryed and approued One and the same simple and single Medicine to bee indued with, and preuaile in diuerse faculties, as of Heating and Cooling, or of Drying and Humecting, or of thin and grosse parts, &c. And that this record of his may not to bee thought to be confined to the first Qualities, Headdes; and except those Primarie Quali∣ties, were confused and mixt together in one medicine, surely the secundarie, which dimane and proceed from them, could not bee likewise complicate in commixture. So Rhubarb, and Steele haue diuerse parts deoppilatiue and astringent. Wormewood restraines Laxes, and relaxes bodies con∣stipate, it heates the cold Liver, and by accident through opening Obstructions cooles the Hot: Saffron congregates and contracts the Spirits too much diffused, and yet expanses and diffuses them where it finds them contracted. Aqua vitae cures Contusi∣ons and Burnings: To conclude; is't not a

common practice amongst the vulgar to helpe Hot griefes, with Hot meanes? Doe they not coole Feuer-heats with Hot purgers? Apply they not Wine and spirit of wine, to Heats and Inflamations of the Head? Yea, they fire out Feuers with Pepper, with Ad∣ditament of Aqua vitae many times.

But what will you say to Mercurie, which is both moist and dry, the Hottest, the Coldest, and both rarifies and condensates: The Chymist calls him a true Healer, a wicked Murderer, the Tobacco of Mineralls, Proteus, Magician, &c.

But to the Doubt; how One and the Selfe-same Medicine, shold at one & the same time produce diuers effects of purging & sweating. Quercetanus is so full and pregnant in this point, He may be instar ommum, and serue for a Sea of witnesses, for punctuall resolution of the Quaere; Take therefore his Testimonie in his Pharmacopoea, vpon a Maceration or In∣fusion (nothing dissuiting this in the Genus) both Purgatiue and Sudatiue.

Double Euacuations (saith He) are there∣fore at one and the same time (simul & semel) performed by one and the same remedy, which will seeem strange vnto some, as I my selfe, circumuented and transported with the

same errour, conceiued before Experience (Rerum optima Magistra) taught & brought me into a contrary opinion.

Nor is Forestus (in his Scholia vpon his 20. Obseruation de Lue venerea) his disauow of this double Euacuation, to bee taken abso∣lutely for a generall rule for the reason he al∣leages proues it not: Si multum sudet, non po∣test alvus fluere; si fluit alvus, non potest sudare; This multum surely caries no lesse relation vnto the Flux than to the Sweat, to wit, mea∣ning both to bee profuse, and Magnos effatu dignos, so that profuse purging may suspend and minorate, but not supersede the sweat.

And the same Author (Observ. 11.) ap∣proues and prescribes stronger Physicke com∣prehending both purgatiue and diaphoretique Faculties in one Medicine, than this Panala is, with this Testimonie of the double work∣ing of the same: Habebat plurimos secessus quotidie & subinde egregie sudebat; Hee had daily many Stooles, and therewithall also sweat excellently well, and by these meanes was perfectly cured.

But sweating here by my Medicine exhales onely the rarified Humors not attracting the Faeces to the Skin, but leauing them in Depo∣sito within their peculiar Receptacles, to be in

due time eiected. How can I then, without iniustice depriue the remedy of its iust rights, by iniurious concealing its speciall Facultie of causing sweat, sith it doth with facilitie vtram{que} paginam absoluere?

To the Cumber or inconuenience of dis∣couery or exposure of the open body to the cold Ayre by purging in Sweat; what great Dainger or Doe is it to conuey a lined Bed∣stoole or warme Boll to the Patient, euen in the heat and height of the Exhalation, which no man can truly conceiue I intend should be profuse or excessiue from Panala, because my declared ayme in the dispensation, is at temperate moderation in all tne Evacuating Attributes I giue vnto it? And assuredly, whosoeuer, after his Morning-Stoole, sweats in bed with this Potion (made hot as it must be) may securely continue that Evacuation an houre or two (or more were it not too many at once) before hee need feare or ex∣pect prouocation to a Second Stoole.

If yet any Scruple chance to sticke in some fond or froward Stomacke, the Fund without Purgers will assuredly evaporate all such friuolous conceits from out his fancie; And the Second Infusion will reasonably worke such like effects. But with which

infusion soeuer you sweat, let the body bee well clensed with 4 or 5 dayes continuance of purging by stoole, then take the morning potion sufferable hot, but in bed and after a stoole, if it may be.