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AS for the houre of giving a purge, * 1.1 purging medicines are to be given at the fourth, fifth or fixth houre in the morning, but if there be any thing which impeades purgation at that time, or requires a purge to be given sooner, it may al∣so be taken at another houre, for fits hinder, which if they come in the morning, the medicine is to be exhibited in the Evening, but a violent disease forceth us to purge, since it threatens present danger, in which case purging is not to be deferred, but to be given, although in the Evening, the purge being taken, you must abstaine from meare foure, five or six hours, after the medicine is taken, those which are given to drink should be given, hot, not cold, nor luke-warme.
Some are wont to mingle purges amongst their meates, * 1.2 but they did not well, for the force of the medicine is hindred by the meate; and the meate is defiled and corrupted by the medicine, and the humours which are drawn; its con∣coction is hindred, and being uncocted, the medicine stimu∣lating, it is expeld; and tis to be feared, least some excre∣ments, mixt with the meate, should be distributed into the Liver and veines, or that the meate it selse, being not e∣nough concocted, or rather corrupted, should breed some in∣conveniency in them.