CHAP. XVII. Of Agglutinatives.
AGlutinating, or agglutinative medicine is of a middle nature, between the Sarcotick and Epulotick, more strong then the former, and weaker then the later, for it is dry to the second degree. It by the drying and astrictive faculty, void of all detersion, conjoins parts that are distant, or rather lends helping hands to nature the principal agent in this work. Gluti∣natives, whether they be strongly or weakly such, do agglutinate either by their proper or acci∣dental nature: Of this sort are Plantaginis omnes species, consolida utraque, buglossa, millefolium,* 1.1 ver∣bena, pimpinellae, pilosella, cauda equina, sem pervivum, telephium, sanicula, attractilis, folia quercûs et dracunculi, salix, ebulus, sambucus, pentaphylon, veronica, cortex pini ulmi, palma quercûs, Aqua vitis. aq. è folliculis ulmi, succus calaminthae, vinum austerum, teraebinthina, myrrha, sanguis draconis, bolus arme∣nus, terra sigillata, omnia denique acerba.
Glutinatives by accident are those that hinder defluction, and binde the part, as Sutures,* 1.2 Banda∣ges, Rest, rowlers, and the like. We use glutinatives in green, and as yet bloody wounds, whence the Greeks call a glutinative medicine Enema, although sometimes they are used to inveterate, malign, fistulous and sinous ulcers; for they hinder the defluxion from comming to the lips of ul∣cers. You must consider, when as you intend to apply them, whether the skin be whole or no; For ulcers knit together, or heal more difficultly, if the skin be rubbed off, or cut, or otherwise lost. Neither ought you to be unmindful of the forementioned cautions and indications drawn from the sex, the tenderness or hardness of the affected body, the continuance and magnitude of the ulcer: for hence indication must be taken, what the quantity and quality of the medicine ought to be.