Volume 1

The method of physick, conteining the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech medicine / by Philip Barrough.

  • Philip Barrow
Date:
1617
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Credit: The method of physick, conteining the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech medicine / by Philip Barrough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the battels which they attempred, or any other the like enterprife.He craued nothing atthe hacd of the gods, butonely the fruition of his health;thinking that indultry and diligence meeting with the bealth of the body , were able to atchieue any thing, were it belet with neuer fo many dangers. And in mine opi- nion,(as the Hiftorian very grauely dilcourleth ) men do foolifhly erre, when they complaine of nature, for limiting the age of man within the compaffe of fo few yeares, as three or fourefcore ; when as truly ,if the matter were well ex- pended, we would contefle, Induftriam potius quam tempus deeffe (as he faith,) aod that there is no-Artor (Cience,be it nener fo difficule,but might be perfect ly knowne within that fhort precin@,if the greater part of our life did not paffe and vanith away in darknefle, flouth and ignorance drowning and ouerwhel- ? raing in vs alllioht ofnature;) or if the courfe thereof were not interrupted and | cut off by vatimely death, which is haftned on our parts by our inordinate and heedleffe liuing, The yong man flourifhing as it were in the Aprill of bis ace, cockereth in himfelfe,a foolith imagination of his owne luftinefle,aud reputeth it as a difcredite vato-him to feeme to feare the approach of any difeate,leauing the prouident gouernment of the body to decrepite and withered old age. In the meane time he layeth the reines vpon his affections, and expofeth himlelfe | to any inconuenience ; either he weltereth inidienefle ,- or is tyred with im« moderate exercife, ot (which is incident {pecially to that part of our age) he admitteth vnfeafonable watchings,' {urfetting banquets , and the vnfatiate exe- cuting of the follies of Henus; thinking indced that there is nothing lefle agree« ing vato youth and adoleicency , thentobe pliant and obedient to any com~ mendable and wholefome method oflife : yea many of them are of this mind, . that the time of their your is infamoullly ouerflipped,when they do votruh in- ee: their voluptuous and inordinate demeanour 3 at what time the luftie prime of ; ra to their age doth fomewhat enable & {upportthem, Andi at any time they be i ay oucrtaken with any infirmity (which often happeneth)as vnwilling to bebehol« Pa ding tothe {cience of Phyficke , they leaue t to be worne away by the ftrength of their body; which indeede I confeffe hideth many difeafes, and for the time taketh away the lenfe of thé,butit neuer veterly extinguifheth any.For althoueh in the infancy of the infirmity, in refpeét of the weaknefle of it, itis eafily de- prefled and ouermaiftered by the valour of the body ( which in youth is fome- thing puiflant and forcible:)yet when age coming oa with his ftealing fteps, or clfe rectleffe life doth detraét from the forceofthe one, and maketh way for the other to fpread and gather power, thedifeafe being as.it were the farueyour, poffefleth the whole bodie, and at the latt procureth his vtter fubuerfion, And maoy times it hapneth that a dileafe breaketh out in old age, the cau‘e whereof ~ perhaps was given in our youth, Andit fareth with vs as it doth with them that are bitten with the little ferpentof Arabia, which ftriketh a man , but fo fez cretly that he neuer feeleth it,ncither doth he know it but by the wound which fheweth it felfe a long time after the foundation thereof was layed. The opi- nion thatthe ancient Phyfitionshad of the effe€tof Snow-water is of force to | perfwade this,who have written,that if (now refolued into water be drunke of a young child, it will asit were maintaine warre again’? naturall heate, and that with {uch continyance, as:it willsorfhew his effect, yutil] he hath attained vato extreme Se a mnt