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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    ‘Sugar,in refped of the decoétion prepared, or diftilled waters, To all thefe ‘potions made of decoctions and the’ juice of plants; and fruites, Sugar’ ard hony be mingled,not only fortheir prefervations, or for their fweetneffe and ‘pleafancneffe in tafte and favour, butalfo for the proper force of hony and Sugar, which they impart unto thefe decoctions, For Gththefe two: be als moft daily ufed;and familiar unto-us,not only for fauce, but alfo as meates, “Rirte-up the natural fireagth aftonicd, “or dulled, ‘and lanewifing in’ Gcke- nefle,-and do comfort the natural! -heac, which “alone ‘doth conco& and niitigate difeafes ; and'by extenuating ‘gtoffe' matter, {courine flimy, and making a riddance of obitrudtiony they caufe ¢afie purgations. ‘And thefe faculties come to the decoGions or potions by reafon of the Sugar‘and hany, avhich decoéions notwithftanding of themfelves doe much availe ro -diverfe ufes,the commodities wherof-I-will declare in’ deferibing: “each of them, by obferying that order which'both the trade-of <ompounding doth require, and the metliod! of curing doth prefcribe. : Bor feeing the fimple is by nature ‘before the componnd, and the tight order of miniltring medicines well, bea. reth by order onething to be -propoundtd and ufed before ‘another, he be. ginneth firft-with thofe thar are more fimple medicines,and of fuchas by dire@ order of enring’are uled before ozhers 5: minding to obferve ‘the fame. order inallthis booke, beginning! with Syrupus acidus fimplex,che tharpe imple ‘fi. rupe. For in this place we {peak nor-of Aperemata and Juleps, bur onely of Condita,commonly called Conferyes, and of herbesand fruites ‘certaine well feafoned juyces, called-of the Grecians Worx ovlgume, be more fimple then firupes, and therefore might feeme the rather to be {poken’ of before yer becaufe forthe moft part they be ordained after purgations, to the’kkeeping or getting of the Arength of the parts, therefore my mind was’ to deterre them toanother place,the method of curing {o requiring.” Now Grupes‘were invented'to have in a geadineffe-fo oft'as occafion chanceth, becaufe thar herbes,and other rootes,and-fruites be not alwaies ready at hand, ‘and fottie. time-when they beat hand; neceflityfourgeth, that there ‘is no ‘leifure to make of them Apozemata and Luleps, «In the firft: place’the compofition of fyrupes is fet downe, - which are fit to prepare humoursfor purging : then aft ter, fuch as be meet to purge the remnants of the parts, andto keepe of pre feevetheir ftrength.And this generally of {yrupes. Particularly the tharp fimple fyrupe was not to be made only of ‘viriegar and Sugar, as orher tharpe {yrupes be,buc-alfo of water,to mitigate the ftrerigth and fharpnefft of vineger. Heed maft be taken that in ftead of white vineger, diftilled be not: put in, which being moft fharpe doth pierce-and pinch the other patts to ‘no: Small annoy. anceof the receiver.” Heede likewife muft be taken that no ‘more quantity of vineger-be putin:: for this meafure was thought meetand-equal],-. Burif any fufpect the: fharpenefle of the: yineper, ‘left’ through his ‘piercing cold, bodies of tender conftitution, asof children, and {pecially of women, their ta if