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.

Pemell, Robert.

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THE NATURE OF Simple Medicines.

CHAP. III. De Aloe. Of Alloes. Or Aloe succotrina.

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The Inward Ʋse.

Aloes purgeth first Choller, then Flegme, not from all parts, but chiefly from the stomach and belly; therefore saith Gallen, Est eustomachicum plus omnibus catharticis. Gal. Alter. de dinamid. fol. 76. It is more proper for the Stomach then all other purging Medi∣cines. And by its adstrictive faculty, it strengthneth the stomach. It much helpeth a crude, moist, and nauseous stomach. It is pro∣fitable in these Diseases, in the Head-ach, when vapours arise from the stomach, in the Night-Mare, in the Scorbute, or Scurvy, in the Falling sicknesse, in Rheumes: It resisteth putrifaction, killeth worms of all sorts, whether in the belly or stomach; nay it is a speciall Antidote against Worms. It preventeth Arthriticall paines, or paines of the Joynts; it quickneth the senses by purging ob∣noxious humours from the braine. It provoketh womens courses, and the Hemrods or Piles. The use of Aloes doth preserve the body Page [unnumbered] from many dangerous Diseases: it helpeth those that have a pale colour, and is used against the Jaundise: Aloe doth hardly draw humours from any part above the Liver. Fernel. Meth. medend. fol. 112.

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