Volume 2

The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough].

  • Barrough, Philip, active 1590
Date:
1639
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Credit: The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    precepts of the fame; and after hin O/ris the King of gypt and Ze/ofris alla: King of the fame counrry(though rudely) Laied the foundation. of Altroaom] : by demonttration of the courfe of the heayens,and of Phyficke, by opening the nature of many herbes,and alfo the fecrets af their water of Nilus. To the wore thineffe of which fecrec, Plato that great- Philofopher did willingly fudferibe, when falling into a grievous malady in fgypt,and being not able by his.owae experiments (though he had affaied many) -ro cure himfelfe, he was preferved by the Prietts of chat countrey, who taught him the vertue of their water, wheras afrer in remembrance of this benefit he wrote this-verfe, rehearfed by Laert iia: Mare univer (a proluit bominum mala: The fea doth wath away al the infirmities of man.So that by this we may fee, that this-noble and learned Phi- Yofopher had never brought us news our of SE gyptcicher of their policy.and government of their country,or of their rare and exquilite knowledge in A- itronomy, if he had not tafted of the benefit which the Phyficke of that time afforded him, “Bur we will remember fome of thofe Kings, wio had an e[pe-~ eiail fancafie to this Art,whefe names are devolve: d and brought unto us by the. fucceflton of ages,chough their works have nor efcaped the wracke, but have perifhed in the fea-guife of antiquity,which hath fwallowed the doinzs of mas ny men. And Mirbridates the King of Pontus thall. be the fi: {t,who at one time undertooke two mighty battels,the one with the Romanes,the other with nae ture. Inthe laft of which the more dangerous, he prevailed like a conqueror : and in the firit he deale fo valiantly, that the glory of ‘his forepaffed victories fuporefléd and killed the remembrance of his laft overthrow, The waich(as Pliny remembreth) was alike profitable to the common-vwealth, andto-mans life’: foria his Manout where he lay, there were found many books writtea by his owne hands, both of the vertues of herbes, and of the confitucion of mans body.with remedies for many infirmities of the fame. Evax alfo the king of Arabia wrote a booke of the effects of fimples, which he dedicatedto Nero. the Emperour. But what thould I reckon particularly the names of every one, when in formerages there was no King,cither of e# thiopia,e gypt, or Aras big, who did not himfelfe either write fomeyhat concerning this Art of Phy- ficke, or elfe by his liberalicy encouraged others to employ their time in the fame ? Which may maake much(no doubr)to the credit of the Art, when as Kings haye appropriated it to themfelves,and have thought themfelves honous ged by che profeflion of the fame, And,as many arguments do induce me ta beiceve (befides the. witneffe of Hiftorians) that Phyficke is the Are wherein many Kings have travelled and delighted : ‘fo nething more ftronglythea this that wheras other gods were tied to their feyerall places,2s Zubiter to Elis,Dia- wa to Epbe/is,.Apolloto Delos,and fo forth; e£ '{culapius thefonne ot _spolla by the daughter of Phlezias, made a god for his cunning in Phyficke, bath his temple aud altars every where,in Cori nth ,inLaced#mon,in Athens,in The bes, in Epidaure, in Arcadia, Meffenia, and in many other countries (as Paufanias remembreth:)al which honors fo done to him,were inftiruted(no doubt) by the Kings and rulers of thofe countries,who efpecially favoured thatvart, thinking itigreat réafoia, that he who invented an Kind fhould be generally honoured of allmen, And J pray you how .much inferioy Oe See ee ee ee ee