Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

CHAP III. Of the concord, and discord of Indicants.

BUt those Indicants, according as they sometimes agree amongst themselves, and somtimes disagree, they are allotted new names, and are called Indicaats, Consenti∣ents, contrary Indicants, Prohibents, Permittents, Repug∣nants, Correpugnants.

Co-indicants or consentients are those, * 1.1 which conduce to the finding out the same remedie, and more of them indi∣cate the same thing, yet others would not have Co-indicants to be Indicants, which require the same helpe, but to be that only which in the foregoing chapter we have said to be called not so properly Indicants, namely such as indi∣cate mediately, and by the intervening of another, but the rest which are properly called Indicants, and require the same helpe, which is required by another Indicate, are called by a peculiar name Consentients.

Prohibents which you may call contrary Indicants, * 1.2 and Re∣pugnants, they are those which differ from other Indicants and require, and indicate another thing which is adverse to that, which was indicated from another primary Indicant and indeed so that the indication thereof be to be preferred before the other, and that which was indicated from the other is to be omitted.

Those are called Correpugnants, * 1.3 which resist together with others, and prohibit something.

Lastly, Permittents are those which although they indicate contrary to that which was indicated by another, yet, they are overcome by another, as being more powerfull, so that they are compelled to suffer that which the other per∣swades.

From whence it is manifest that a Physitian ought to consider not only what one Indicant perswades, but also what another requires, for if all the Indicants agree, and conspire as it were in one, that is boldly to be performed which is commanded by them, but if there be some disagree∣ment amongst them, tis diligently to be weighed which of them perswades most powerfully, and those things which dissent amongst themselves are to be valued by their strength, dignity, and number. If they are equall according

to power and dignity, and are uneven according to num∣ber, those which exceed in number are to be preferred, and that is to be preferred which is indicated by most, but if the Indicants are uneven in strength and dignity, that is rather to be preferred which is commanded by the more noble, or even by one more noble, but if those Indicants are equall both in strength and number, in all things they are to be regarded according to each severall respect.

From whence it is manifest that if the magnitude of Indicants be even, the vitall indications are allwayes to be preferred before the rest, and the greatest respect is all∣wayes to be had to the strength, but if there be not a parity amongst the Indicants, that is rather to be performed which is indicated from that which most perswades, yet the rest if it may be are not plainely to be neglected.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Co-indi∣cants.
• * 1.2

  Repug∣nants.
• * 1.3

  Correpug∣nants. Permit∣tents.