Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. = A treatise of the nature and qualities of such simples as are most frequently used in medicines,: both purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. To which is added: many compound medicines for most diseases incident to mankinde: as also two alphabeticall tables, very necessary for the reader. Together with, the explanation of all hard words or termes of art, whereby the vulgar may the better understand it. / By Robert Pemel, practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. Licensed and enterd according to order.

The Hurtfull Quality.

The daily and too frequent use of Aloes, is much forbidden; for being much and often taken, it doth fret and excoriat the stomach and bowells. Constant. Affric. de grad. fol. 355. Aloes is hurtfull to old men. Gal. de sanitat. tuend. fol. 365. Massaria, fol. 72. Freitag. aur. med. fol. 215. Fernel. meth. med. fol. 112. Aloe o∣peneth the Orifices, or mouths of the Vaines, therefore it is hurt∣full to such as have the Hemroids, or Piles, Flux of the Womb, Belly, or any other Bloudy Flux; as also to Women with Child, to those that have the Hectick Feaver, Burning Feaver, and to all hot, and dry, and macerated, or lean bodies. It is very hurtfull to those that have hot Livers, especially given in a large quanti∣ty; which though some deny, yet experience makes it good. And Scaliger Exercitat. 160. Sect. 3. saith, they which deny Aloe to of∣fend the Liver, Experientiae scutica digni sunt, hoc per annos quadra∣ginta compertum habemus. 'Tis not to be given often to Children, especially such as are of a hot and dry Constitution. When the season is extream hot, or very cold, 'tis not so safe to give Aloes, for then it will cause one to void bloud. Antonius Musa, saith, that after the taking of Aloes (in the depth of Winter) he was

so troubled that he could not sit for the space of a week. A. Mu∣sa exam. simpl: med. 4^o. 355. Wecher. Antid. spec. 4^o. 222.

Cinamon, Mace, Nutmeg, Cloves, Mastich, and Gum Tragacanth, are the best correctors of Aloes, and may be mixed with it. If Aloes be taken a little before supper, it doth so much the lesse hurt and of∣fend the stomach.