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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    be TO THE READER: extreme old-age, - I do not altogether beleeve this,’ alchouph the great cold which 16 naturallyin that water niay lead me to thinke, that itis of a mighty operations Bur there is nothing more certaine then this,that many men yepo- fing too much truft inthe trength of their bodyes, ‘and’ {6 being’ carelefle in gainftanding and refifting the beginnings” of maladies (which their diflolute order of life hath begotten and ingendred) have beens yuked by old age be. fore the courfe of ther yeares did require it, and have brotght it fo to paffe, fes. ‘Which kind of men T may well compare to an evill and négligent tenant, who ‘being fetled in a faire dwelling lroufe by his land-lord, fuffercth it to tue naté,and in the end to fall upon his own head for want of repairing ; fothey, when God hath beftowed their bodies upon them as gorgeous palaces or man- fion houfes, wherein'themind may dwell with plealure and delight, do firft by this evill demeanour fake and difcrafe them, and ‘then being altogether catelefle of repairing them, do fuffer them totunto deftru@ion; or elfe While thicy go. about too laréto underprop them declining to ruine,(as he that is lode ged'in an old cabbia, fearerh leaft'with every puffe of wind it fhould be over= turhed)fo they quake actheleaft alteration of the body,and at every little pain dovexpect 4 finall diffolution ; then they will confeffe unto you,that while they rioted unadviledly in their youth, they did bur build matter for repentance in ‘age. “‘And'what dothey els but by their examples give us to learn,that as the interception and’ preventing of difeales is very available. which carrieth a man ‘throughout hisrace with pleafure and delight,even fo nothing commeth mote Beare unto the goodnefle thereof, then (if by chance when we be plunged into “the which'that thou mayeft the better do] have (gcod reader) for thy benefiz “ficks & together with thofe deductions, ¥ have enterlaced experiments of mine owne, which by long ufe and praGile [have obferyed to be true. Throughout the Whole booke T have bin more cutious in prefcribing the fundry curations and wayes te helpe the difeafes.then in explaining the nature of chem:my rea= ‘fon was,becaufe if my books thould come to the hands of the unlearned, a lit- tle would fuffice (the former being more neceflary,) ' Againe, I knew that the learned would not be contented or fatisfied with it, though it had beene never appeare eafily to any capable braine _{ thall {eeme boldly to have adyentured the Edition of this labour, {eeing that I thallrun into the babble of our couns - ‘ery Phyfitions, who think their Art to be‘difcredited,when it-is publifhed ima “bafe tongnésand againe.aré foath to have the fecrets of their. (cience. revealed toevery man, Indeed Iknow that under fome colour they may object fomes what,but yet they may underftand that I haye followed the example of many learned Phyfitions, both of our Englifhmen and other countrimena'fo, who ublithed their pradtifes in their mother tongue,and in other countryes,e(peci= “country langtiage,then in Latin’s “yea we have many booksin Phyficke, wh | 1ay!