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AS for particular Evacuations, if any vitious humours are collected in the braine, it may be evacuated two wayes, by the Nose, and the Palate.
By the Nose, first Errhines call out phlegme, which is spread about the braine, and filmes that cover it, and stirs up its faculty that it may strive to cast out super fluous hu∣mours.
Moreover sternutatories, which are stronger, and irritate the braine, and by the force thereof humours which lye dee∣per may be cast forth, of both of these this in generall is to be noted, that such remedies are not to be used, unlesse uni∣versalls have preceded, and that the whole body be purged, but or the matter and forme of Errhines, and those things that cause sneezing, see before part the 1. Sect. 1. Chap. 18. and hereafter part the 3 d. Sect. 3. Chap 30.
But those things which evacuate by the Palate, are cal∣led Apophlegmatismes, and purge the more inward cavities and ventricles of the braine, they are not conveniently gi∣ven to those, the inward part of whose mouth, throate, gullet or Larynx is exulcerated, and such as are obnoxious at other times to distillations to the Chops and breast.
Those which purge the Lungs are called expectorating things, and because humours cannot cast out from the lungs through the Wind pipe, without a cough they are called Becchica of which kind for the most part are Arteriacks i.e. medicines for Rhemes all of them, especially those which cleanse, cut, or any way prepare the matter for expulsion, but that humours may the more easily be evacuated by cough, their consistence ought to be indifferent, neither too thin, nor too thick, but only so thick that they may be car∣ried upward by Aire; not so viscide, as to stick in the mouth of the Lungs, and therefore if the humours are vis∣cide they are to be moistned and cleansed with sowre things but if too thin, to be somewhat thickned.
The stomach is evacuated by vomit or by the paunch, the guts with glisters, and medicines purging the belly; the cavities of the liver, through the belly; the gibbous parts, by urine; the reines, and urinary passages, by urine, the wombe by the cources. Of which tis now spoken in univer∣sall evacuation.