CHAP. I.
Of the Quality and Nature of Ale, the most accustomed and most accommodate Body for the Base of this Composition.

I Know it is almost a com­mon receiued opinion, that Ale is a foggy ful­some stuffe, clogging the stomacke, stuffing the Lungs and puffing vp the body with loose fat, and flashie vnsound flesh; Nor am I ig­norant of the Record of the ancient Poet (Henrieus Abrincensis) who, in displeasure to a Pot of Ale that perhaps pleased not his pa­late, to cast a foule aspersion vpon this out more ancient drinke, falls into this furious rapture.

Nor (to speake the truth) is it altogether improbable, but there might in those ruder Times, be found many Tunnes of ill condi­tioned Ale, not vnworthy such splenique Dictoes, before one Stand or Rundlet of pure stuffe worthy the Encomion of a Pot Poet. Haue we not yet euen in these daies many Mother-Foulsums, scarce worthie the bearing of Bourne, much lesse the admittance for Brewing either Ale or Beere, which wan­ting both Art and industry requisite for the Mystery, marre no more Malt then they meddle with, and mash Ale, more like a mash or a medicine for a sicke horse then a potable liquor fit for a mans palate, stomacke or health? And surely, it was the Normans ill hap to haue his Cap fitted with a feculent cup of crude muddy Ale, to his morning Draught; and were not this able to moue the patience [Page 3] of a temperate man (much more the fiery choller of an Old Elderton, or a new Ale-Knight) any way regardfull of health, and cause him burst into as boysterous a Peece of Poetry, or other more vnmeasurable passion? Howsoeuer, were this Cynicke Passage of the Poet, an earnest Quarrell to a Pot of Ale, (vncouth, because vnaccustom'd, to his wine washt Palate,) or the Ʋent of a iesting vaine of Wit, sluced by some Slashes of the same Ele­ment, 'tis manifest to most Obseruers, that ill brew'd Ale is commonly of a puddle sub­stance, abounds with grosse Phlegmaticke & flatulent Humors, is heauie, and hurtfull to the Stomacke, stuffes the Ventricle, obstructs the Mesaraick veines, the Liver, Lungs▪ spleen, Reines, Ʋreters, and other inward vessells and passages of the Body, and by conse­quence puffes & blowes-vp the whole bulke thereof with slimie, flashie and faeculent Bal­lasts, shortens the Breath, breedes the Stone, Strangury, Gouts, and sends vp to the Braine grosse fumie Vapours, which offend the Nerues, & distemper & obsuscate the Spirits, (the Mechanique Operators of and in all the Faculties of Man) with much detriment and dammage to all the Senses both Internall and Externall.

[Page 4]But let a neat hous-wife, or cannie Ale wright, haue the handling of wholesome Bourne, and sound and mellow sweet Malt, and you shall find, and will confesse, there is Art and Dexterity in this cōmon businesse of Brewing: and that amongst those that as­sume vnto themselues the Name of skilfull Ale-Brewers, there are more that misse the marke, for all their supposed Artifice, than with constant Mastery make vp the true Mechanique of the Mystery. For you shall then haue a neat Cup of rich nappy Ale, wel boyled, defecated & cleared, that shall equall the best brewed Beere in transparence, please the most curious Palate with milde quicknesse of relish, quench the Thirst, hu­mect all the Inwards with rorid Iuice, helpe Concoction and distribution of Meat by 'its moderate Penetraction (especially promoted with the Additament of the Vehiculum which best Alistraes boil with the woort, to wit, such a proportion of Hop as giues no tact of bitternesse to the Taste after the Ale growes drinkable) much furthering the At­traction of the Parts, and by its substantiall succulence much nourish and corroborate the Corporall, and with spirituall vigour comfort the Animall Powers. This Ale will be better [Page 5] than beere for extenuated spare textures of bo­dy, by reason of its more nutritiue Qualitie, and that without inconuenience to the Cho­lericke, for that it excretes and voides the Bi­lous humor by vrine and by Stoale; or to the Phlegmatique, because it is not Obstructiue. And for the Sanguine; it may well suite with such Complexions, by reason of its moderate Heat and Moisture; nor can it be incongruent to the Melancholike, in regard it dissipates and spends fuliginous fumosities and exhile­rates the Spirits.

Such a Cup of pure Comfort, rich anima­ting Ale (neither Lanted, Gummed, nor o­therwise sophisticated) finde many good fel­lowes which walke ere they wash, for their Morning-Draught of true Darby, which, I dare be bold to say, had beene all sufficient to haue induced the famous Basilian, Foelix Pla­terus (had he happily euer plyed that Pot) to recant and retract his vnkinde censuring our Ceruisia, for faetid smell, fastidious Tast, & languid Strength, and to be as forward in af­fording such Noble Ale the Prize and praise of a Basilique Beverage, as we are in giuing it the Attributes of Meat, Drinke and Cloth.

CHAP. II.
That Ale is a fit Body and conuenient liquor, by Infusion to extract and imbibe the Qualities, and virtues of Ingredients, and to participate them to the Patient.

THat Liquors may the more ful­ly by meere Infusion, be im­pregnated with the faculties of Simples & other Ingredi­ents of impight and com­pact substances, 'tis requisite the Qualitie and Quantitie thereof bee both of them compe­tent: For the first; it must be either of an in­ciding and penetrating Power, that, by peir­cing and entring into all Parts of the subiect Materialls, it may cut, attenuate, reserate, di­uide & dissolue their compact & concrete Iuices, and really also attract, ingest and suck into it selfe the pure essentiall formes (in which the chiefe efficacy of Medicinall force and virtue consists) of their seuerall Natures se­parated from Earthly Feculency; Or of such a Specifique meet and familiar and pleasurable Essence, that by insinuatiō it may, (as it were) allure and intice them to infuse and poure [Page 7] into it their best Spirits so oblectated and woone.

For the second; sith Liquor is euermore Agent in this worke of Infusion, it must bee of sufficient Quantity to subdue and attract the Radicall humors and spirits of the Ingredients, because a small proportion is easily imbibed by the Bulk of the subiect Matter, and too much will bee too weakly tincted there­with, where a fit meane doth effectually draw-forth and attract the Iuices of the infu­sed Body to a due Impregnation.

For Chymicke Extractions; the Spirit of Wine, Hot waters, distil'd waters and Raine waters are held appropriate to make infusion. For Potions; wine, Hydromel, Oxymel, Brothes, Whey, Decoctions of attenuating Simples, are in request.

Now although Ale, by reason of its mild Tast, may seeme to participate but of small penetration, & by consequence be esteem'd an vnfit Liquor to macerate Ingredients, and extract their virtues by Infusion; yet by its operation and effects in the Body and Braine, and by the piercing and combustible Hot waters drawne from thence, it may well bee collected and concluded, that it is not with­out subtile and persant Spirits lurking and [Page 8] lying hid and veiled vnder the mild soft Mask of its Oleaginous Succulence, and there­fore a Liquor no way improper, but a very specifique and fit Body for the Infusion of most sorts of Ingredients, both for gaining and retaining their virtues within it selfe, and for prest and effectuall Participa­ting them. Howsoeuer; indubitate Ex­perience (verissima artis Magistra) truly tells and teaches, both Methodist and Empirique, that strong right-brewed Ale, well wrought vp with Yest, and duly tunned vp to fit In­gredients, (yea to solid and compact Sub­stances, euen to a Body impenetrable by Vul­cans sharpest (not hottest) Tooles, and more condense and obdurate than hardest woods) so macerates, penetrates and workes vpon their substantiall Formes by Fermentation, and Digestion, through force and efficacy of tem­perate heat and specifique moisture (neither dissipating the Spirits nor dulling their vigor, but rather fortifying both by stirring-vp and reducing their Calidum Innatum into Acti­on Cooperatiue) insinuating with supple ioynts, and spirituall Iuices into euery Cauitie & Per­spirable Ouerture of euery of them, that it subtilizes their inspissat thicke humors, rese­rates the recluse Closets of their impacted [Page 9] Spiris, concocts all Crudities residing in their Iuices, attempers and mitigates Bitternesse, corrects aliene Qualities, digests, incides, and diuides Concretions, and by disbanding and secluding some Heterogenities to the sides of the vessell, by Precipitation of the feculent, heauie and earthy to the Sediment, and by Eleuation and lifting-vp the light Refuse or excreat and dead Remaine with the Spumie froth to the Swim or Superficies, separates and amandates the secluded Faeces, and Impure Purgaments, couching in their inward Pene­tralia, quite from the Region of its Depurated Body.

Thus in few Daies, (seuen or more accor­ding to the season of the weather, hastning or foreslowing the Fining) it Clarifies and puri­fies its owne Body, and really and effectually impregnates it selfe (by alliciating and attrac­ting) with the pure and sincere Tinctures and Faculties of the infused Materialls, and with it vehiculates, caries, communicates and diffuses their virtues and powers into all parts, of the Propinors or Receiuers Body, secret and remote. And this Distribution is effectuated and wrought by this Liquor, partly through its liquid proprietarie Body, specificated by th'acquisite Qualitie of Penetration, deriued [Page 10] from attenuating Ingredients, and partly by the cooperating of oblectated Nature, which is euer eager to attract and imbrace whatso­euer participates of a familiar, succulent and nutritiue substance, as well-brewed Ale is well approued to doe, in due degrees of good Proportion suiting with its strength of Malt and Quantity of Ale, according to which the Extraction of Spirits from the infused Masse, is euermore made respectiuely. For the Quale and Quantum (ioyntly considered) of Liquors infusiue, bound and limit their Re­ceptivities of extracted Impregnances, as is be­fore intimated.

Besides that; this Panala, by reason of its apt forme and proprietie, and conuenient prae­paration, together with the fitnesse of the ves­sell, and its owne Crowning and Mantling it selfe all ouer with the Clothing or Couer of Yest, retaines and preserues euen the subtile and halable Spirits of euery Ingredient, mixed and fixed with both their radical Humidums, intire, exempt and free from Evaporation, and its owne Life and Quicknes from euanid flatnes & dead sowring, much better than most Liquors can doe, yea then Wine, which, though it be Patent in Attraction, is more Impotent in Retention, by reason that the Spi­rits [Page 11] are Volatile and nothing so Glutinous and Condensate as those of Ale; whereas decoctions, (though they haue their proper and com­mendable vses, being performed according to Art in a close or double vessell, which few Patients are curious in) doe commonly ex­hale, waste and spend the subtile Spirits of diuers Materialls, (most of all of most Pug­gers) and extract, ingest and retaine the He­terogene, flatuous and earthy parts of them and of others.

He that denies or doubts of this Penetra­tiue and extractiue force of such Infusions, by the meere efficacie of their inward Fire of Nature without helpe of forraigne Heat, let him drinke a Cup of such Liquor after three daies (or Wine after twelue houres) Infuse in Calice Chymico, and his Stomacke will not so much tell Him, that venter non habet aures, as vellicate them for not being more Beleeuing Ones.

Now if any Man, wilfully wedded to a selfe-conceit or singularity of opinion, doe yet suspect or will obiect, that Ale (the Base and Body of this Panala) more obstructs the pas­sages and puffes-vp full Bodies than Beere: ad­mit this were granted, tis no impeach to the Potion, because the Ingredience of the Bagge [Page 12] hath Power to transforme Liquors naturally Obstructiue to Deoppilatiue, which doth farre transcend and surpersede that of the ambitious Incoline, the aspiring Hop, ayming to reach the Head of the highest Pole, (and the Pole of the Head) and to banish This an­cient Ale, which in the 6. of Edward the 4. (some 147. yeares agoe) was in such request, that the Feast for th'installment of Nevill Archbishop of Yorke, and Chancellor of Eng­land, was constantly affirmed to bee furnisht with 100 Tuns of Wine, and 300 of Ale, but not one Barrell of Beere. Yet for Stomackes that brooke not Ale, they may with conue­niencie make the Infusion in Beere (adding more Raisons to palliate the bitternesse) which hath worthily gain'd the Repute of a wholsome drink, aswel for many medicinable Qualities, as for quenching Thirst, insomuch that the now Raritie of Leapries here, where they were frequent in former times, is attri­buted to Beere, in regard of the Hop, which hath speciall Faculties both Diuretique and Deoppilatiue, whereby it cleanses the Blood from all corrupt humours, and by excreting yellow choller makes the Body soluble, and all this without heating it, or offending the head with fumes, if the Beere be not ouerhopt [Page 13] nor toucht vntill the Bitternesse bee digested and worne out.

Wine also (chiefly the White) Pyrie, and Cyder are very good for this purpose, especially at the time of Vintage. But gene­rally Ale and Beere are the most appropriate Liquors to these parts for the base of this Com­position, both by reason of their natiue and fa­miliar accomodation to our Bodies, and for that they may be prepared at any time, for actiue Operation vpon the Ingredients, which is most powerfully and effectually performed by the Ebullition or reworking of the Liquor in the vessell after barrelling or tunning vp, without any that Losse or Diminution of their owne Spirits or vigours w^ch would ineuitably ensue in too great a proportion, if these or other Liquors once digested and fined should bee drawne out for Infusions.

For Hydromell, Mellicrate, Metheglin, or o­ther made-Drinks, they may bee accommo­dated against any prefixed time like Ale or Beere, but with caution of what Materi­als, lest you crosse the Intention or operatiue Qualities of the Bag or Composition.

CHAP. III.
What Bodie of Materials are accommodate for Composition of Panala.

SImples and other Substances in generall, which by drying in the Shade, or by other due siccation, are quit of their su­perfluous Humidity, but retei­ning their Verdures or naturall Glosse, and be­ing sound and clensed from all putrified and dead parts, and grosly bruised or punned, or rather small cut or shred, that they may throughly imbibe and receiue the Liquor for effectuall working vpon them by macerati­on, are fitter for Infusions, than such as still re­taine superfluities of Moisture incorporate in them before they be dryed. For the super­fluous and aliene Humidity, still inherent in their Bodies, shuts out and hinders the neces­sary peircing and insinuating of the Liquor into their abstruse Inwards; yet the shiced & contused Substances, especially the strained Iuices of some greene or moist Simples or Drugges, are to good purpose many times infused in this case, because they doe easily [Page 15] incorporate and communicate their succu­lence and virtues with the Liquor, and the strength and Ebullition of it doth concoct and digest their Crudities.

But I haue of Dry Ingredients (so many as may well admit such preparation) compo­sed my Fund or Bagg, fully to answer the Scope and Drift of my Intention, which is truly to make good vnto the diligent Obser­uer, all the Attributes I giue it, how great and exceeding numerous soeuer they may seeme to bee: Howsoeuer other Bagges may male audire of many men for Raking, heating, drying and exhausting their Bodies, chiefly if they be of a feeble and weake constitution. This fault is in the Physitian which Emperi­cally & indiscreetly compounds it of suspec­ted Purgers and intemperate Simples, not in the Bag: Tis not the outward, but the in­ward Forme or Composure, that commends or discommends euery Medicine.

Some will in no sort admit the ingre­dience of Raisons of the Sunne into such like Infusions, affirming they would to small purpose (other than to increase the Bulke of the Bagge, lye sobbing and soak­ing in the Liquor, but rather approue the Ingredience of the strained Iuice, drawne out [Page 16] with some of the Ale, or of the closing of the Cup with halfe a score of them, their stones cast away. But though the Additament of this succulent Fruit seemes to crosse the Ca­non or Rule of Infusion, yet may their Eunuch-seruice be worthily admitted the presence of the greatest Prince, both chast Dians, and iea­lous Ottomans. For being washt, displayd, and diskerneld, and then closed againe and put into the vessell, the Ale doth with ex­quisite Extraction so effectually work-vpon their dissoluble Concretions, that in three daies space it eleuates, lifts and caries them vp from its Sediment or Bottome to the Superficies or Swim (demonstrable in a Ʋioll Glasse) dead and insipid, hauing left all their Dulcor, and sweet relish, with some third part of their poize (if reduced to former Drines) in deposito with the Liquor, and who doubts, but that together with their concrete Sweets, and E­lementary spissitude, their intire Ʋirtues are al­so extracted and diffused in solution into the Body of the Infusion? I haue not therefore reiected them, but for their manifold and fa­miliar Virtues presented in pleasant succu­lence to the comfort of the naturall Mem­bers, and especially vnto the Parenchyma He­patis whereunto they are so gratefull, profi­table [Page 17] and specifique (totius substantiae propri­etate) that they may be stiled the Life of the Liuer (Epatis quasi anima perhibeantur, accor­ding to Sennertus) giuen them a large patent for place in my Panala. But I oft leaue them forth of the Bag for the patient to put fresh and loose into the Ale to three ounces at least. For the astriction of their kirnels, Grapes im­part none to White Wine; and what doth this Infusion extract from such vnbroken shellie Crusts, more than doth the Wine presse? Et hoc aliquid nihil est, so that they may sans scru­ple be whole (but slit) cast into the Caske, and so much the rather, because some proporti­on of a binding Qualitie doth better such purging Diet Drinks: Yet I leaue them to the patient to vse ad libitum. Myrobalans, Ta­marinds and Sebestens may claime like priui­ledge for Admittance and vse.

For Drugges commonly cariosa non cara, knowne to bee deadly-dull slugs of doubtfull kinde, but manifestly auerse to the ventricle (whose dammage in all Medications, chiefly in long or continued courses for cures, be­cause it is totius corporis promptuarium, both for feeding the body and its sicknes with ex­crementitious, flatulent & nauseous Humidi­ty, must with particular intention be carefully [Page 18] preuented) especially when the Humors, brought into commotion by the Medicine, infest the Stomacke with their confluence, I could not by Motiue of Empiricall common vse be induced to giue admittance to their Ingredience here, where I would not haue the happy Harmony of most salutary Simples dis­tuned or once toucht with any manner of im­peach or tact by any the least discordant He­terogenity, let who will magnifie the Moun­tibancke Mixtures of others, that for cheap­nesse admit them. To supersede all such bran­ding Imputations, the profitable cheapnesse of this dangerous Simple, is abandond my Bag, and in place thereof, I entertaine One well approued (by price and frequent practice) of the best Physitians for excellent Operation, exempt from censure and made famous for Attributes of the Ʋirtues and good Effects, Purgatiue and corroboratiue, of Rheubarbe and Agarick, and this by the testimonie of Mo­derne Classicke Authors.

Because of the Heat and Drinesse, by some suspected to bee in Guaiacum, I had vtterly disclaimed it for all its Sanctimonie, saue that the oyly substance (praepinguis & resinacea) chiefly in the blacke Heart (euen of the old Stock) saies it participates of a cerain moisture, [Page 19] whereby it conserues and nourishes the Hu­midum primigenium of the Intrals and solid parts, ventrem (que) lubricū facit praeterquam dum sudores promoventur, and yet with astringent drinesse corroborates the moist, loose and nauseous Stomack, and all other the vessells. For these virtues and for its further great Fame (see Fernelius and Montanus, who neuer had the young tendrels of the two yeere old Tree, to which some ascribe the most Vertue) and Bezoardique Quality, in.which it hath the Power of an Antidote, directly op­posing and oppugning putrid Contagions, I haue dispensed with some proportionable degree of its Ingredience, yet but as a Quarter Master, vnder command of a temperate, po­tent and most pretious specifique, to mode­rate all excesse.

But for China, the costly and trauell'd Courtier, He is wholly cashierd both Fund and Caske, for all his Cash-worth, because I find Him, like many Auliques, meere Com­plement, rich in promises, poore in performan­ces, besides that Renodaeus disallowes Him in the sicke of Consumptions, and Hucchen sayes He is vnwholsome for the Sound.

And for that all sorts of Physicke, but most of all, all extended courses of Medication (as [Page 20] this is) doe much affect and work vpon the primarie Instruments of Concoctions, the Mo­narch of the belly, and Fountaine of Blood, the Stomacke and the Liver; I haue for their spe­ciall comfort and Corroboration furnisht the Fund or Bag with singular and most speci­fique Stomatiques and Hepatiques. Nor are the principall parts any way neglected; Here haue you a specifique Bezoardique to coole and corroborate the vitall spirits, and an ex­cellent Cephalique to fortifie the animal, so that nor Heart nor Head want their munition to maintaine valid and constant incoun­ters against diseases; not that the inherent malignity of any Ingredient necessitates such fortification, but to accommodate and at­temper Heaters with Coolers, and Resoluers and Openers with strong Roborators and mild Astringents, according to Quercetan from Galen.

CHAP. IIII.
Of the particular passages obseruable about the Infusion of the Fund or Bag.

I Haue now enlarged and pro­portioned the Bag of Ingre­dients to Panala for two Gallons (or twelue wine quarts) of Ale, that it may furnish man and wife for one weeke, or one patient for two. This is a bottle more than former vse, and I hold it the meane and best proportion for most part to be obserued, both for extracting, preseruing and participating the Qualities of the Ingredience. But this quan­tity of the Liquor may be somewhat augmen­ted or diminished, & the potion made strōger or weaker of Medicinable Qualities, to fit the affections of seuerall Stomackes, the Custome of little or larger drinking, or other intendments.

An ordinary Stand, Steine or Ale Can with a Tap-hole, will be an apt vessell to serue well for the Infusion, prouided there bee alwayes care to keepe it close couered: but a small Rundlet, fitly bungd for Receipt of the Bagge, will best of all retaine and conserue the Life and quicke Relish of the Liquor.

[Page 22]The Fund or Composition of Ingredients, neatly made vp and included in a Bag of fine Bolter stuffe, must be suncke into the ves­sell, with a Peble stone, or with some other Poize, or constantly kept downe with forked stickes (Oake and Ivie much im­proue the wholsomenes of the Drinke) or o­ther force, to preuent its rising vp to the Breaking of the Body of the Yest, because such a breach in open vessels, would bee▪ as per­nicious to this Panala, as the taking of vent, or winde is vnto wine or other Liquors by venting out and evaporating their spirits.

The Ale or Beere must be well mixt and wrought vp with good store of Yest to crowne and keepe it from expense of spirits, and the yesting in open vessells is requisite to be renewed once in 7. Daies; for the sow­ring of the Yest turnes the Drinke with its tartnesse, but shift of yest preserues the spirit and Life of the Liquor intire, and the Ale fresh and quicke for a Month or more Time of Drinking.

The fittest and only Season to make this Infusion, is the vsuall Time of the ordinary Tunning-vp of the Drinke, that by Ebullition, working and digestion in the vessell through its inward Heat of the fire of Nature, it may ef­fectually [Page 23] worke vpon, macerate and ingest the concrete Iuices and Faculties of the Sub­iect matter; and for better libertie of working, the Rundlet may haue some houre-Vent after the Liquor is tun'd into it, but then it must be bunged vp close. For placing the vessell of Liquor where it may receiue the be­nefit of accidentall or forraigne Heat, to pro­mote the Operation vpon the Ingredients, the force and efficacy of the inward and selfe con­tained Calidum Innatum or inbred Heat of this Liquor, is all sufficient for production of perfect maceration of the infused Materialls, so that Cellars which preserue Wine & Beere, serue aswell for this as for them; the like doe other close Roomes, which are exempt from the Extreames of distemper'd Seasons, no lesse from the spirit exhaling Summer Heats and others (though they clarifie the Remnants) then from the chilling and killing rigour of Winter, although a qualified cold, congregates and preserues the Spirits.

To the continuance of the Infusion: The common practice in like Operations, is neuer to straine nor stirre the Fund or Bag, vntill all the Drinke be spent; but it is full sufficient (for matter of evacuating Operation especial­ly) to infuse it, till there bee made a perfect [Page 24] Fermentation or Digestion of the continent Masse of Ingredients, that the Ale being ful­ly impregnated with the proprieties illiciated or ingested from them, there may in the Bo­dy of the Liquor be bred and brought forth a new Nature, fully participating, in one Ho­mogene and intire Body, of natiue and acqui­site Qualities, its owne and the Ingredients.

Three Dayes continuance is a competent Time for the Infusion to extract the purgatiue Faculties of the Bag, before which space to begin Drinking thereof, to auoid sowring and pricking, is a poore tricke of preuention. But if you deferre the broaching thrice three daies or more, the Drinke will bee better depured and much more pleasant both in Sight and Taste, without impeach to the Evacuatiue O­peration, besides that it thereby becomes more impregnate and imbibes its whole Dimensum both of Evacuatiue and Altera­tiue Virtues: therefore the best Index for Broaching Panala is the Test of perfect Depu­ration.

My Custome and Rule for curious palats, is to direct, that after foure or fiue Dayes Infu­sion, the Ale bee all drawne into Bottles and Corkt, and kept like vsuall Bottle-Ale; for by this meanes it is neatly preserued fortie [Page 25] dayes, and more if need, coole, perfect and intire in Tast and Virtue to the last Cup. This is the best course for frugall keepe and hus­banding the Potion; for so the Bagge be­comes free for a second Infusion, either by Dry­ing the Ingredients against halfe or two thirds of the Ale be spent, or by immediate Stray­ning and reinfusing the same into fresh Li­quor for Meal-drinke.

To make it drinke coole, fresh and quicke in the hottest Summer, hang it bottled in a deepe Well a little aboue the Water, twelue or foureteene dayes, and you haue your de­sire. For the cold vapour of the water pre­serues the Ale from Exhalation of the Spirits, and also irritates and makes them vigorous, whereby they incorporate all parts of the Liquor in more perfection: The like may be done at any time and that in the Rundlet it selfe to the same purpose.

CHAP. V.
Of the praeparation of the Body before taking the Ale, and when it is to be drunke.

PAnala, together with its Purgatiue Quality, doth so reserate and open the Ports and Passages of the corporall Ʋessels, so m [...] ­turate and make fluent the Humours, and so ef­fectually performe all the Parts and Of [...]ces of a good Preparatiue, that, before the vse thereof, there seldome needs any other pre­paration of the Body in that kinde; yet in case the Patient be accustomed to morning ejacu­lations or springs of watry Humors or vitious Contents floating in, or disturbing the Sto­mach, it is expedient, before the drinking of this Panala, for praeparation of the Ventricle (to receiue, not of the Humours to obey, the me­dicine) by gentle prouocation thereof with a sprig of Rosemary, or a feather, agitated about the roofe of the Mouth and roots of the Tongue, to cause eiaculation, or at least some expuition or fluxe of liquid Humors. Those [Page 27] Patients which doe not affect this practice, although the affections of their Stomacks craue the like, may doe well, some halfe houre before the Potion, to eate a small Tost of light houshold bread, rubd-ouer with a little Table Salt, to remedy the fluctuating of the raw phlegmatique recrements, and to digest and consume the crudities of the Sto­mack.

For other helpes of conuoy into the Body, and all the inward penetralia of the pallace of the Microcosme, Panala is so gratious and so potent an Ʋsher, (a Vehicle to powders, pills, electuaries) there needs no forraine vehicula­tion, where euery recluse, with ready expanse, inuites her welcome entrance and intertaine into each presence.

Touching the time for select vsage of this potion: The Spring of the yeere is the fittest season of all other, for this and for all other courses of medication, because it is the most temperate and most wholesome; besides that, then the blood most encreases, (as sap in vegetables) and the recreated spirits are most actiue in vigorous rotations, and most apt and able and prest with their Opifique powers to cooperate with physicall meanes. More­ouer, Euacuations are then most requisite, [Page 28] because grosse pituitous Humors, heaped-vp in winter (which condensates them and con­stipates their Meatus) now dissoluing, with hotter ayre, will easily, if they be not euacua­ted, be diffused into the whole body, and be­get grieuous Diseases. And in the later end of the Spring, the redundance of hotter Hu­mors are ready, if obstructions be not remoued and they auoided, to inflame and to putrifie and produce Feuers. The Spring therefore (especially that which next precedes the Cly­materique yeare) should neuer passe-ouer a prouident Mans head without some helpe of physicke equiualent to Panala, though he feele no infirmities. Much more when a man per­ceiues spontaneous lassitude, heauinesse or in­disposition in his body to the actions thereof, it is then high time by mature euacuation to preuent the ingruent and approaching sick­nesse, for those are manifest signes, that the mesaraique veines (the double conduits, Chy­liducts from the bowels, and Sanguiducts from the Liuer) are replenished with peccant hu­mors, which not timously euacuated will shortly bring forth fruits of ill effects. For the vitious matter, retained in the veines, at length putrifies, breathes forth ill vapours, and breeds diuturne Feuers, or else conuerted [Page 29] into a venemous nature, with sodaine as­sault, like a poysonous Serpent coucht in am­bush for a mischieuous designe, sets vpon the principall parts (heart and braine,) producing grieuous accidents and effects of dangerous sequell. Sometimes these vitious Humors powred forth into the bowels and other ves­sels, doe cause the Cholick, Iaundice, Cachexia, and other maladies, & other whiles elapsing forth of the greater branches into the habit of the body vnder the skin, they breed itches, scabs, botches, and other praeternaturall Tumors.

Next vnto the Spring is the fall of the leafe, or Autumne, which indeed is a second Spring, though many degrees short of the former; but here the crudities and reliques of raw fruits and Sommer-indigestions (the banes of health) ingested and heaped-vp in the veines and other vessells, necessitate that medication, which there is inuited through conue­niencie.

For time of the Moone; I hold it not amiss for a constant Man, where occasions may be accommodated for free choice, to elect the mids of the first Quartile, and continue the take of the first infusion most part of the two next Quaternaries or Decrease, and the se­cond [Page 30] or altering potion the Increase, because the bodie is then most animated by exaltati­on of the Spirits, and thereby Nature most potent for any worke. But I would not be too punctuall in this point; there is no ne­cessity of the obserue of such precise termes, nor is it my meaning to confine vnto so strict limits, sith euery temperate season doth ex­cellently serue for this manner of Physicke, onely the vernall and autumnall are very meet to be selected for a continued course of the like, when the purpose is for preuention of sick­nesse, or remouall of rooted diseases, whose affects are not precipitate or of sodaine dain­ger. But in acute diseases, where grieuous distempers, of violent motion or doubtfull issue, infest or fasten vpon the bodie, a man must neither dwell vpon the expectance of seaso­nable weather, nor of the beneuolent aspects of the Planets, but setting apart all dallying delayes (the Deluge which few men doe dry­shod decline and quit) fall too and follow this familiar Helpe, be it Winter or Sommer, or other vnseasonable time, rather than, by deferring it to a more accommodate season, suffer the sicknesse, confirmed by procrastina­tion, to become incurable or of doubtfull consequence. Prouided alwayes, that the [Page 31] extreames and iniuries of distempered wea­ther bee mitigated or auoided by keeping within prepared roomes; the meanes and man­ner of which preparation are laid downe in the dietetique part of this worke, in the cor­rections of the ayre vpon discourse of that E­lement.

But our Sommers in this Northerne Cli­mate giue no true cause nor scarce any colour of that generall nice curiosity fondly fostred for decline of weather-health, for feare of incur­ring the supposed ineuitable hazard tho­rough medling with physicall meanes, in so much that moderate and rationall medication may safely bee ministred euen in the Dog­dayes themselues; which superstitious scruple (deriued from the Canicular aphorisme with­out consideration of the Authors Country, or indeed of his conceipt) of dissoluing, distrac­ting, and dissipating the Humidum Radicale with the calidum innatum, hath made so ob­seruable, that the vulgus hominum (at least) will rather cowardly crouch and prostrate, bend the backe to beare the brunt of the insul­ting Foe, amating sicknesse, than draw the dag­ger of one medicinable Dose to encounter the assault, much lesse enter the Lists (by any methodicall course) of a constant combat [Page 32] to make good the Keepe of the Castle of his soule committed to his religious charge.

In hazardous diseases then, let no man be too precise in curious termes of choice Seasons, nor yet stand too strictly vpon con­coction of Humors, but be the malady acute or diuturn, venienti occurrite Morbo, though you cannot, for lacke of specificall Munition, giue apposit encounter to the first assault or seisure, yet hast diligent cleering the common passages (Ʋentricle and Intestines) of superflu­ous recrements, and neuer permit the redun­dance of crude matter to regurgitate, fluctu­ate and flow to and fro in the veines and ves­sells, or to settle and nest vpon some principall part, to the ruine of it and all the rest, nor diu­turne or lingring affections to grow more stubborne or rebellious both against Nature and Physicke, to the vtter confusion and de­molition of the whole Fabrick.

This generous Medicine and gentle Mino­ratiue, confidently taken and constantly con­tinued, hath power to accelerate the concocti­on of diseases by helping Nature both by eua­cuation and alteration, and to make those which essentially and of themselues are of doubtfull and daingerous euent, to become salutary and safe, and others, of lesse hazard, [Page 33] but more lingring and tedious, more tolle­rable and much shorter,

In diuturne diseases it is profitable, and in acute very necessarie to make some euacua­tion of superfluous humors before concoction, because that ouer and aboue the continent chiefe matter of the Malady in the veines or in the intrals, or in the habit of the body requi­site to be concocted, there are many times vitious contents nested in the ventricle, in the intestines, and about the precordiall parts (ma­nifest by dolour, heat, nauseous loathing, bitter­nesse, distention, and other Dignostiques) the concoction whereof (especially of the sto­macke recrements) is many times expected in vaine; and Patients thus affected may doubt­lesse profitably be purged, by such familiar meanes, at all times of the disease, euen before any appearance of concoction. And were I called in such cases (caeteris concurrentibus) I should aduise, first to prepare the Body, for receipt of so generous a Medicine, by St [...]ma­tique Pills, or by Emetique meanes, and after­wards vpon occasion open a veine, for venti­lation at least: so should this pretious Potion happily produce effects of excellent worth and secure assurance with more speed and pleasure.

[Page 34]Now touching the time of the day for drin­king this Ale, although it be so milde and fa­miliar a medication, that it may, not much a­misse sometimes (when tis compounded with Purgers) be carded with common Ale or Beere to make it a meal-drinke, especially for the extenuating and much abating of grosse and fat corpulency, by occasioning more copious detraction of superfluities and vnne­cessary iuices, yet when the intention is to make sincere euacuation of vitious or super­fluous contents in other constitutions, it will be more proper and indeed the most ap­proued and requisite method to take it fasting (especially to such as vse to drinke next their hearts, as they terme it) betimes in the mor­ning, that it may the more deeply penetrate and carry it selfe into the Humors and all the veines and parts of the Body, and by conse­quence more effectually produce all its ope­ratiue effects both of Euacuation and Alte­ration.

To others, not vsed to drinke fasting (as they call it) because common drinke com­ming into their empty stomackes may affect and somewhat offend the head and nerues, a potcht Egge seasoned with salt and three or foure drops of Vineger, or some other small [Page 35] morsell of light or easie digestion, may conueni­ently be premised or admitted. Not that any dammage or dainger depends vpon the so­daine entry and conuoy of this Potion into the empty cauity or substance of the stomacke: the body of Panala is an alimentary medecin so milde and benigne, there can bee neither cause nor colour to suspect the concomitance or sequence of any violent, sinister, or offen­siue Effects, by or from the quality thereof, to the empty ventricle; but that the admis­sion of so small a pittance before the Potion, subscribing to custome of diet without con­founding of Art (Aëtius commends pur­ging medicaments giuen with meat in bodies naturally costiue) stirs-vp Nature, and awakes and quickens the mechanique spirits of the stomacke with pleasurable delight to imbrace the approach of a greater Peregrine so vshe­red into the presence by the aggrating prece­dence of so welcome a well-knowne familiar. He that doubts, the medicine and the humors it moues will corrupt the Meat, precipitate crude indigestions, and conuoy an excre­mentitious Chylus into the Veines and Liuer, let Him, to auoid all colour of scruple, spare it at meales, and all manner of meat when He drinkes it; so shall the mixture nor worke [Page 36] vpon his stomacke nor conceipt.

To conclude, the rightest method is to drinke this Ale vpon an empty stomacke, and tis a very good order to take it betimes in the morning, and two houres before meales both dinner and supper also, if the ayme be to purge much.

In Summer it may bee taken to bedward, and two or three houres also before you rise onely, to the end most part of the purging may be past before the heat of the day, and that some sleepe then vpon it may vnite natu­rall heat, and promote the working of the Medicament. For though profound sleepe may stay it a time, it neither quite supersedes the euacuation, nor perturbs the action of the Ale more than it doth of Stomatique or other Pills sine custodia, which are customably and best so taken.

In Winter take it onely before Noone; viz. one Dose or Draught about 6 or 7 in the mor­ning in bed, and another when you are vp after some motion of the body, with a third (if need be) an houre or more before dinner, or the 2 last onely (if not all three in this or­der where you like not that first) so shall you well accommodate the medication, and hap­pily preuent the inconuenience of night-wor­kings.

[Page 37]These Cautions are specially for tender Bodies, and intemperate Seasons; ordinarie Constitutions, and seasonable Times need no such precise Rule of definite Drinking this familiar Liquor.

CHAP. VI.
Of the Dose, the manner of Taking and the Continuance of vsing this Ale.

THe vsuall Dose of purging Poti­ons seldome exceedes the measure or proportion of Three Ounces, lest the Quan­tity should subuert the Ven­tricle and cause Nauseum or perhaps Casting: But so small a draught here is too little, it may movere, but not promouere, stirre the Hu­mor, but not extirpe or purge it forth: This Ale being most benigne and familiar to Nature, in Sight, Sauour, Taste and Digest, a man may without errour or suspition of any foule accident, take a full Draught to tenne or twelue Ounces: Some men drinke sixteene Ounces or a whole pint at once, though halfe a Pint be a reasonable Dose.

[Page 38]For manner of taking the Ale; It is ordina­rily drunke without Heating, according to the custome of common Ale or Beere, and in winterly seasons, it will doe very well, and indeed is very requisite, to fright away the frigidity with the sight of the fire, or with a browne Tost attempered, if you will, with the Tests of Suger and Nutmeg, to aggrate both palate and stomacke. Or you may scare off the Cold, by quenching in the cup a Gad of Steele, or rather some peeces of Gold made hot in a siluer spoone, (or the spoone alone) with a chafing-dish, because it leaues in the Liquor no astriction nor other Heterogene quality.

Touching the continuance; this hath refe­rence to the Cause that occasions the course of Medication, which must and best doth li­mit the same. Seuen daies will doe well for clensing the Intestines, Liuer and Ʋeines of the Colluvies of Humors, and to reserate the vessells and passages; but double that Time will effectually remoue many setled Affects, re­forme distempers, and produce good Rectifi­cation of all the parts of the Body: and one Fund or Bag, will vpon the first Infusion suf­ficiently furnish a temperate Patient for a Fortnight, and the like vpon the Second. And the taking of either of them may without [Page 39] errour or much inconuenience in many cases aswell Curatiue as cautionarie, bee a day or two omitted or discontinued to correspond some vrgent occasions, prouided the discon­tinuance bee redeemed with diligent pursuit for Reparation.

And this is most requisite to bee done, if sincere and exact. Evacuation be not already accomplisht. For the noxious humor, sith it is an vnnaturall Alien, (alienus ac praeter nae­turam) must bee wholly and absolutely eli­minated and eiected, whether the counsell be precaution or profligation of the disease. I confesse, the Remaine of some minute small portion of the peccant humour may by the spirituall force and fire of Nature, promoted and fortified with an exquisite rule of Diete­ticall Regiment, be so mastred and vanquisht, that safe and sound health may sometimes succeed without feare of Relapse.

But if the Reliques be many, except Na­ture (happily potent in all her Faculties) doe voluntarily subdue and avoid the same, the exactest order of Life cannot safe-guard the sicke from the daingerous Machines of the Disease: for though hee may seeme in some sort to haue receiued ease by the purging, He will relapse into the former infirmity, sooner [Page 40] or later, in more or lesse latitude, according to the Copy or Malignity of the Reliques, and his strength and Diet, because the Reliques of diseases breed Relapses, Quae à morbis relin­quuntur, recidiuos morbos facere consueuerunt, Hipp. lib. 2. Aph. 12. For when the part remaining, retaines the condition of the whole, which was altogether against Nature, that remaine can neuer be conuerted and assi­milated into the substance of the Body, but will in processe of time corrupt the pure hu­mors, together with the Aliments, and pro­duce morbid fruits like to the first. Hence it is, that the more you feed a foule body (not fully clensed from impure humors) the more you offend, Impura corpora, quo magis nutris, hoc magis offendis, Aph. 10. lib. 2. For you nou­rish not the sicke but the sicknesse. There­fore to vindicate and cleere the Man from his Maladie, whatsoeuer noxious Humour nests in the Body, it must bee absolutely and totally taken away and eliminated.

This Panala then in rebellions, maligne, stubborne, and diuturne diseases, should bee constantly continued a month or more with­out intermission, or any other Drinke, onely the Meale-drinke may bee made of a Bagge, made vp without Purgers, or else the pur­ging [Page 41] potion carded with other Drinks.

The reason of extending the medication to so long a Time may bee, that Creationis morbi, at (que) curationis paria sunt quodam modo Temporum Momenta. For as weedes are hardly hailed and pluckt out their Holds, when they are once deeply rooted, though quickly quit and rid the Plot when they are young; so diseases long in breeding (though perhaps suddenly breaking forth by occasion of Cold-taking, ill diet or other error, as newly bred) are for the most part long in curing. It is almost a Miracle to plow them vp in a moment, though such Herculean helpes we find somtimes by specifique Meanes.

But they fondly run into a grosse Errour, whosoeuer in Diuturne Affects or inueterate deepe trenched Maladies giue ouer or negli­gently interrupt without reparation the con­stant course of Medication before the Hu­mors offending, being prepared by motion and flux, be fully avoyded, and the parts and Harmony of the body duly rectified by com­petent continuance of the Meanes.

For although good Euacuation, from di­uerse parts of the body, may in many cases be effectually wrought and performed in few daies, deepe rooted Impressions doe necessarily [Page 42] require longer extent of Physicall helpes for due Eradication of peccant causes, and for true Rectification, as aforesaid.

And let no man attempt nor imagine by extraordinary ingurgitation and qua [...]ing vp the whole quantity of the Ale in a few daies to accelerate the cures of long continued in­firmities; It is the moderate and temperate vse of Medicine, with regular cariage and constant perseuerāce in the same, that breeds and produces the best and readiest effects and performance for remouall and riddance of the dolours and dire affects dimaning from deepe impressed diseases.

But the customary vse and continuance of the same meanes (Meat or Medicine) breedes dulnesse of Appetite or of Operation. Forbeare the Potion but a few daies (proui­ded a good diet be in the interim obserued) and you salue this Sacietie. For intermission, aggrates in effect with the gratefull fruits of change, and we finde that in some sort New, which hath for a reasonable space beene in­termitted.

CHAP. VII.
Of the Diet and Order obseruable in the vse of this medicinable Ale.

THe head of this Chapter is the Subject of the Dietetique or Second Part of Panala: in which, besides some large discourse of the salutary vse of the six Non-naturalls, the alimentation both of the Spirits and Body, is anatomically delinea­ted. Yet that this Medique part may not in the meane time, bee posted forth Pede primo claudicaens, with downe-right halt before, I held it vnfit to be altogether past-ouer here in silence, and haue therefore borrowed leaue for a touch or two in a few lines, before I goe about to trace out the whole Linea­ments of that Body.

In diuturne, lingring and daingerous dis­eases it is very conducible and requisite in all sorts of Physicall courses ordained for their cures, to foster and follow the constant keepe of regular strict moderation, not in the qualities and quantities of Meats and Drinkes onely, but in the rest of the Rerum non natu­ralium [Page 44] likewise. But in the vse of this Medi­camentum Alimentosum, there is much lesse need to prescribe any so exact and precise Rules of Diet, be the Intension cautionary or curatiue, to secure or arme the Body in pre­uention of ingruent infirmities, or to remoue or cure them when they haue made seisure. Yet is it very commendable and conuenient too, in the vse of this Ale, as of all other me­dicinable meanes, to obserue and keepe a moderate abstinence from food, of manifest ill condition at least, and in all others to rise e­uery Meale from Table with good appetite, that Nature, being no way hindred or op­prest with meats of hard digestion or naugh­tie iuice, or with too large proportion of in­gurgitation, may without impediment freely and happily produce her curatiue and salutary aymes and effects.

This Generall Rule may well serue as all­sufficient to the common sort of People, to whom tis idle folly to prescribe strict orders, which they neither can nor will keepe. Ma­ny mens Purses are not furnisht for meats of fit iuice, and many robust and laborious per­sons are happy in their habilities of strong constitutions, accustomed to hardnesse and to grosse feeding, and meats of light digest [Page 45] are of sleight esteeme with stomackes inured to make full meales on solid strong dishes. One word more yet by the way, of the diffe­rent fruits of full and spare feedings.

Repletion or too liberall feeding heaps vp abundance of excrements and superfluous and vitious Humors (the Relicts of ouer-taxed concoctions) begets crudities and obstructions, oppresses and suffocates the diuine and natiue heat, much hindring the laudable functions thereof spirituall and corporall, for it dulls all the Senses, and disanulls all dexterity, agility and actiue promptitude of the body, and be­sides breeding all sorts of maladies humor all, excrementitious, and such as proceed from Plethora and Cachochymia, it causes many times recidiuation and returne of diseases o­therwise quit and cured, and seldome failes to frustrate the care and cure of the honest Artist, in that they obtunde, debilitate, and oft depraue the salutary operations of medici­nable meanes. For Nature being ouer-borne with the heauy load of abundance, sinkes vnawares in the mid-way vnder her burthen.

But contrariwise, the Innatum calidum (that diuine Opifex and author of all naturall functions) nor implicated, nor intricated with ingestions of viands offensiue in Quan­titie [Page 46] or Quality, but free to diffuse it selfe into and through all parts of the body, shall bee able euerywhere to extend and execute its natiue power and strength, to conuert good iuices and depurated blood by nutrition into the substance of the body and all its parts, to digest, rarifie and dissipate by insensible transpiration all superfluous Humors, to con­coct the crude, and change them into sangui­neous nutriment, to attenuate the thicke, make fluent the tough, expedite obstructions, make patent all the corporall Passages, and fortifie the expulsiue facultie. And by these meanes, the operation of this generous medicine shall be rectified, exalted, and more enhabled to produce and shew-forth its most exqui­site worthy effects, euacuatiue, alteratiue, and otherwise operatiue, with more speed and fa­cility. Such and so great is the virtue, force and effects of Abstinence or Spare-diet.

To returne; After each morning draught of the Ale, you may to many good purposes eat a few Raisons of the Sunne, and now and then make your Supper of them and a morsell of Bread if you will, for they leuigate, smooth and supple the roughnesse of the rough Ar­tery or Wind-pipe, by opening and strength­ning they cure the torrifaction, or retardate [Page 47] the sexilitie of the Liuer, clense Phleagme, ir­rorate and madifie the body with nutrient moisture, and make the iuices thereof roscid, lesse dissipable and more reparable, they breed good blood, and helpe infirmities of the Throat, Lungs, Chest, Milt, Kidneys, and Bladder. For forbearance of meat after pur­gation taken, some limit the space of two houres after a strong purging Potion, but in purges of solid forme, or in Pills, double that time should bee interposed and past, before other Repast. And many admit of no meale vntill the Purge haue performed its Office, lest the meat should be corrupted by mixture with such medicine, but it is all-sufficient that the substance or body of the Purge hath so quit the ventricle that it hath past the Port Pylorus into the Intestines; of which there is assured test, when neither Belching, nor vp­braiding, nor loathing, nor sense of gnawing at the stomacke, nor any sent of the medicine re­maines. Then moderate refection with meat of good iuice and easie digest may conueni­ently, and must necessarily bee taken to re­fresh Nature. Yea tis a common practice (contrary to Auicen (Fen. 4. l. 1. doct. 5. c. 5.) to prescribe the taking of a Messe of thinne Broth, after the first or second stoole, to wash-down [Page 48] the Reliques of the Medicine, to quali­fie the tedious qualities thereof, to comfort the stomacke, and to promote the operation of the Physicke.

But this Ale is so milde and benigne a Medicine, it may safely be admitted a neerer neighbour vnto meales, though it hath no need of washing-downe by any other liquid meanes.

For keeping the house; This Panala is phy­sicke fine custodia, neuer in respect of its owne nature, confining the patient to his Chamber, but be he of any indifferent hability of body, or that he intertaine it for caution or preuen­tion of sicknesse, hee may in the day-time, when the weather is any thing temperate, either walke or ride abroad, or follow his necessary field-occasions. But if the day be immoderate in heat, cold, wet, or winde, com­mon sense will tell euery sensible man, that the strong ought not in the vse of this nor any other purging Physicke (how mildly soeuer euacuating) rashly expose his bodie (of which neither diuine nor humane law per­mits to make wilfull wracke) to the iniurie of such distempered Skies, and that keepe-within-doores is the safest and surest (and in­deed necessary) guard for the crasie in such [Page 49] cases. For the humors stirr'd vp and agitated by purge, are, in too hot seasons (which debilitate the strength, kindle hot diseases) more or lesse, according to the strong or weake working of the Medicine, either drawne to the Superfice or skin, (a contrary course) or else over heated, doe kindle a Fe­uer: thorow Cold they grow sluggish and dull, and slowly descend and passe thorow the straitned passages. The Ayre being ve­ry moist, in wet weather, passing into the body through the dilated Pores, loosens the same, and occasions defluxions, but a more vast and free Ayre, agitated with blustering winds, much trouble the Body with a shuf­fling confusion of the Humors, and cause dif­ficult Purging.

For Matter of motion: It is verie requisite and conuenient (viribus constantibus) to vse moderate Exercise or Labour of the Body af­ter taking the Potion to stirre vp and kindle the Fire of the Innatum Calidum (the mouer of all Medicines and Causa sine qua, without which their spirituall faculties lie as it were consopited, and produce no good Action) and before meat an houre or more to further Concoction, Digestion, and Distribution of Vi­ands, to restore and corroborate all the Cor­porall [Page 50] Faculties, and rectifie the Actions of all the Senses, but with this Caution, that it be continued ad Ruborem onely, in thin Tex­tures of Body, lest it exhale, dissipate and spend the Spirits, and debilitate the Mem­bers, yet in strong corpulent and stuffy Con­textures it may well be extended ad sudorem, and the rather if bee not vsed till some two houres after taking the Medicine.

CHAP. VIII.
Of the diuerse and contemporarie Operations of Panala.

MVlta nescientes (saith Seve­rinus Danus) de multis dubitare necesse est. From much ignorance must needs issue a nume­rous brood of doubts: But a Man, that will needs be a great Master in Physicke, feares (or rather faines, transla­ting plaine Cavil, maine scruple,) the confused distracting of Nature with the various taske of meat, and this medicine set to work, if not tane at one time, and the contemporary Opera­tion of my Panala, from the Circumference to [Page 51] the Center of the body by deiection or stoole, and from the Center to the Circumference by Evaporation or Sweat.

Is it not Natures Innate Office and com­mon Deuoire together and at once to ope­rate and produce multiplicious and various effects in our bodies, to incide, attenuate, de­oppilate, to astringe and corroborate, to rari­fie the grosse, deterge the tough, condensate the fluid and thinne, to digest all Ingestions, and by separating the impure from the pure, to assigne and distribute this for Nutriment to all parts of the body (how dissimilar soe­uer in substance;) and that partly to seque­ster and send vnto peculiar vessells and recep­tacles, and partly to amandate and expell by Stoole, Ʋrine, Sweat, and by sundry other wayes, meanes, and Emunctories? Doth Shee not simul et semel, at the same time, and in the same Mesaraique Veines cary the Chylus from the Guts to the Liver, and the Blood from the Liuer to the Guts?

And the familiar benignity of Panala doth rather associate and sympathize with Na­ture in the diffusing and imparting of her sa­lutary and wholsome Faculties, than any way affront or impeach their participation. For the contrary Qualities residing in one [Page 52] substance, worthy Fernelius saues my labour in his various attributes vnto Guaiacum, which saith he, if any man meruaile at, Vete­res consulat Artis proceres, Let him aduise and consult with the writings of the ancient great Masters of Physicke, who haue tryed and approued One and the same simple and single Medicine to bee indued with, and preuaile in diuerse faculties, as of Heating and Cooling, or of Drying and Humecting, or of thin and grosse parts, &c. And that this record of his may not to bee thought to be confined to the first Qualities, Headdes; and except those Primarie Quali­ties, were confused and mixt together in one medicine, surely the secundarie, which dimane and proceed from them, could not bee likewise complicate in commixture. So Rhubarb, and Steele haue diuerse parts deoppilatiue and astringent. Wormewood restraines Laxes, and relaxes bodies con­stipate, it heates the cold Liver, and by accident through opening Obstructions cooles the Hot: Saffron congregates and contracts the Spirits too much diffused, and yet expanses and diffuses them where it finds them contracted. Aqua vitae cures Contusi­ons and Burnings: To conclude; is't not a [Page 53] common practice amongst the vulgar to helpe Hot griefes, with Hot meanes? Doe they not coole Feuer-heats with Hot purgers? Apply they not Wine and spirit of wine, to Heats and Inflamations of the Head? Yea, they fire out Feuers with Pepper, with Ad­ditament of Aqua vitae many times.

But what will you say to Mercurie, which is both moist and dry, the Hottest, the Coldest, and both rarifies and condensates: The Chymist calls him a true Healer, a wicked Murderer, the Tobacco of Mineralls, Proteus, Magician, &c.

But to the Doubt; how One and the Selfe-same Medicine, shold at one & the same time produce diuers effects of purging & sweating. Quercetanus is so full and pregnant in this point, He may be instar ommum, and serue for a Sea of witnesses, for punctuall resolution of the Quaere; Take therefore his Testimonie in his Pharmacopoea, vpon a Maceration or In­fusion (nothing dissuiting this in the Genus) both Purgatiue and Sudatiue.

Double Euacuations (saith He) are there­fore at one and the same time (simul & semel) performed by one and the same remedy, which will seeem strange vnto some, as I my selfe, circumuented and transported with the [Page 54] same errour, conceiued before Experience (Rerum optima Magistra) taught & brought me into a contrary opinion.

Nor is Forestus (in his Scholia vpon his 20. Obseruation de Lue venerea) his disauow of this double Euacuation, to bee taken abso­lutely for a generall rule for the reason he al­leages proues it not: Si multum sudet, non po­test alvus fluere; si fluit alvus, non potest sudare; This multum surely caries no lesse relation vnto the Flux than to the Sweat, to wit, mea­ning both to bee profuse, and Magnos effatu dignos, so that profuse purging may suspend and minorate, but not supersede the sweat.

And the same Author (Observ. 11.) ap­proues and prescribes stronger Physicke com­prehending both purgatiue and diaphoretique Faculties in one Medicine, than this Panala is, with this Testimonie of the double work­ing of the same: Habebat plurimos secessus quotidie & subinde egregie sudebat; Hee had daily many Stooles, and therewithall also sweat excellently well, and by these meanes was perfectly cured.

But sweating here by my Medicine exhales onely the rarified Humors not attracting the Faeces to the Skin, but leauing them in Depo­sito within their peculiar Receptacles, to be in [Page 55] due time eiected. How can I then, without iniustice depriue the remedy of its iust rights, by iniurious concealing its speciall Facultie of causing sweat, sith it doth with facilitie vtram (que) paginam absoluere?

To the Cumber or inconuenience of dis­couery or exposure of the open body to the cold Ayre by purging in Sweat; what great Dainger or Doe is it to conuey a lined Bed­stoole or warme Boll to the Patient, euen in the heat and height of the Exhalation, which no man can truly conceiue I intend should be profuse or excessiue from Panala, because my declared ayme in the dispensation, is at temperate moderation in all tne Evacuating Attributes I giue vnto it? And assuredly, whosoeuer, after his Morning-Stoole, sweats in bed with this Potion (made hot as it must be) may securely continue that Evacuation an houre or two (or more were it not too many at once) before hee need feare or ex­pect prouocation to a Second Stoole.

If yet any Scruple chance to sticke in some fond or froward Stomacke, the Fund without Purgers will assuredly evaporate all such friuolous conceits from out his fancie; And the Second Infusion will reasonably worke such like effects. But with which [Page 56] infusion soeuer you sweat, let the body bee well clensed with 4 or 5 dayes continuance of purging by stoole, then take the morning potion sufferable hot, but in bed and after a stoole, if it may be.

CHAP. IX.
Obseruations remarkable in the vse and ope­ration of the Ale.

THat Physicke workes not a­like in all Seasons and vp­on all subiects, common sense informes the most stu­pid poore Obseruer; but sometimes, though it bee methodically ministred by a good Artist, the expectation is illuded by excessiue or diminutiue operation; nor is it a matter of facile disquisition to beat out and discouer the certaine reason of such incertain­tie. For some bodies, by a secret propriety of their owne natures, are easily and plenti­fully purged with milde medicines, and o­thers scarce moued with very strong Pur­gations.

[Page 57]But of occult causes it is not pertinent nor fit, either to the place or my pen to discourse; onely a Touch or two of others, because, though more euident, they are not so per­spicuous or manifest to vulgar notion, but that they may necessarily admit some particular demonstration.

The working of Cathartique medicines doth commonly vary (quoad majus & minus) according to the variation of Seasons, and the states and constitutions of mens bodies.

For the first: The hot and dry season or disposition of the Ayre extracts, euaporates, and wasts much of the humours of the body, & by consequence debilitates the same, and leaues lesse matter to furnish forth copious deiections; nor is it fit for purging Physicke which for most part heats and weakens.

Cold weather and Northerne winde con­tract and straighten the passages, binde the body, exiccate and thicken the humors, and make them rebellious, or lesse obedient at least, to Physicke, which in these cases must needs be lesse copious in euacuation.

South windes, moist Climates, and wet or Rheumatique weather, humect the body, loosen the humours, and occasion plentifull deiections vpon due meanes.

[Page 58] Moderate seasons, Southerne winde, (not boystrous) and temperate Regions are most accommodate to Purgations for production of best operations.

Touching the state of the Body; hot and moist constitutions with most ease and safety of all others doe beare and obey Cathartique medicines.

Hot and dry bodies purge sparingly for lack of matter and its vnaptnesse to moue, and must with caution be purged with well qua­lified meanes, lest they distemper with hea­ting and drying; to meet with which incon­uenience let such constitutions take this Po­tion a little before meales.

The moist, the young, and those who are accustomed to a sedentary life, are easily mo­ued by Purge, according to its strength and the Patients ballast of humours and excre­ments; the like may be said of women, sith they ate vsually of soft, loose, rare and patent textures, yet none of these accord with strong medicines, though pregnant women may in the third, fourth, and fift Months (the liga­ments, by which the child adheres to the wombe, being then more firme) admit of moderate euacuations in acute diseases at­tended with turgent matter.

[Page 59] Robust strong bodies, and those that are in­ured to laborious liuing, and constitutions indued with obtuse sense of the parts, doe slowly yeeld vnto deiectiue meanes, yet may they safely suffer plentifull euacuations.

Corpulent bodies likewise, though they ea­sily endure purgations, doe purge with some difficulty, because their constitutions are cold, their corporall passages straight, and their spirits but few, and those turbid and grosse.

The thinne, the leane, and the temperate, are easily moued by Physicke, yet purge but sparingly, because of the rarity of their tex­tures and tenuity of their humours, nor are strong purges accommodated for them, by reason they weaken their languid virtue, and spend their dissipable spirits.

Note further; that Plethorique, full and foggie bodies, whose vessells are stuft with tur­gid illuvies of copious and restagnant Hu­mors (whether congested by surfet or other repletions) doe many times, vpon light and slight Purgations, powre one profuse and copious deiections, with much perturbation of the Bowells many times. For the redun­dant humors long pent vp, and now finding the veines and vessells reserate, and the pas­sages [Page 60] of export expansed by the purge, Qua data porta ruunt, rush and gush out (like li­quor forth of a full cask pierced and vented) in copious flux, without any effrenate or vn­bridled force or effect of the medicine, but by reason that Nature, mouing to expulsion, now thus a little inhabled doth deonerate and ease her selfe of ouer-burthens. For whilst Nature is vigorous, strong and sound, and mannages well her offices of gouerne­ment ouer our bodies, shee excludes and driues out of them whatsoeuer is peccant and superfluous; but when shee is ouer-bur­thened and ouer-borne with abundance, shee so attends and waits all occasions and oppor­tunities of easement, that shee apprehends many times the first and least hint of helpe, and ioynes her owne forces with the for­reine aid.

Yet sometimes profuse deiections fall out contrary to Nature, when through imbecil­lity of her regent and retentiue faculty, she suf­fers defluxions.

Or though she be more valid and strong, yet is she sometimes so much prouoked and molested with the copie and acrimony of the humor, that shee cannot retaine it, but must euen let and suffer it by its own force to sluce [Page 61] and breake forth from out its vessells and re­ceptacles.

Both these euacuations are symptomaticall, vnnaturall and vselesse, because the benigne and salutary succi, together with the maligne and pernicious, doe promiscuously and irre­gularly, without any election, burst and rush out with violence.

But these profuse euacuations, whether symptomatique or legitimate (exterminating onely whats cumbersome, either in the kind or in the quantum) whether occasioned through disorder of the Patient, or procee­ding from other causes (euident or occult) iumping and ioyning with the contemporary operation of a purgatiue medicine (though milde and moderate) cast foule aspersions vpon the Physician, where concurring cau­ses are nor well considered or not duely weighed of the censurer.

To leaue no colour of cauill to the carping Momus, and to meet with the many incom­prehensible secrets shut vp in Natures closet; my Panala neuer astonishes her with sodaine, nor debilitates with vehement assault, but gently assayes her with medication of so mild allay and gradation, (facilitate non vi operan­do) that it may securely, without any endain­gering [Page 62] the patient, sound and search out the abstruse and vnknowne conditions of any constitution, euen of the commoderate and soundest in integritie of sanitude, which ac­cording to Hippocrates (Aph. 3.37.) brookes not Purgations without difficulty and perill, because by setting vpon the spirituall and bal­samique Mumie, for want of vitious humors to worke vpon, they cause grindings in the guts, swoundings, vertiginous and other symp­tomes, and by continuance colliquation and consumption.

Obserue further; that after foure or fiue dayes vse of this Ale, much matter being therewith auoided, you cannot expect the daily continuance of like copious deiection, as you found at first (although by cleering some passages, which perhaps were blocked vp before, the wayes for free working be­come more patent) if you bee temperate in meat and drinke, and the time in wind and wea­ther, except you extend the dose or draughts in taking larger proportions of the Me­dicine.

Nor will the Second Ale, prepared by rein­fusion of the same Fund or Bag, doe much more, for matter of purging by stoole, (though it will then effectually purge by vrine) than [Page 63] keepe the body soluble, by reason the purga­tiue spirits of the ingredients, being more dis­soluble and allectiue than the alteratiues, will be well-nigh exhausted and drawne-out by former infusion.

This orderly discent and passage, from purging by the first Infusion to meere solu­bility (which in most cases, will then be all-sufficient) by the Second, cuts off and preuents all occasions of constipation or costiuenesse (the vsuall subsequents to purgers) by conti­nuing the cutting of humors, deoppilating of the vessells, and by still stimulating or sol­liciting the excretiue facultie to the ordinate fit performance of its office. But the additi­on of two ounces of Sene with Rubarb and Mechoacan, of each halfe an ounce, vnto the ingredients in the bag, will now indifferently furnish the second Infusion with purgatiue fa­culties, and for the alteratiue, it retaines suf­ficient force in the first Composition, as a­foresaid.

Note moreouer, that in some cases, by competent continuance of this Medicin (as in other Dietetique Physicke) there follow and are brought forth excellent fruits and effects of Alteratiue working in the Bodie, long after ending and giuing-ouer the taking [Page 64] of the same, insomuch, that many time a mo­neth or more thence, you shall finde much more fruit and benefit by it (without any euill Diathasis, or impression of disaffect cōtracted from the extended vse thereof, than, during the continuance of drinking the Ale, you could well conceiue, or by any probable coniecture from present perseuerance, expect or propound vnto your selfe, provided, that you doe not relapse through manifest disorder or grosse distemper, the Patients scourge, and the Physitians scandall.

The reason of such Haruest of physicall fruits in expectance and future, rather than in Present, may well be, that Nature, being kept in continuall Action, and the Humours and Spirits in more motion than ordinarie, by the daily vse of the Potion (though gen­tle and moderate) the effects thereof cannot be so setled, nor so sensibly discerned, during the Machine of Medication, as it will bee af­ter some competent repose and Cessation from the purging, for composing all agitati­ons. Besides that, the plenteous store of salu­tarie spirits, deriued from so excellent a potion by an extended course of drinking, diffused and impressed into al the parts & dimensions of the body, doth with the Opifique spirits of [Page 65] the body continue mutuall cooperations, many daies, or rather weekes, after the gi­uing ouer of the Ale, to the perfect maturati­on of the fruits.

CHAP. X.
The excellent Ʋertues of Panala in Generall.

PAnala is a true and per­fect Medicamentum A­limento sum; ministring to the body both food and Physicke: It is a legiti­mate Diacatholique, a generall happy Purga­tiue eliminating all humors offensiue in qua­litie or in quantity, but working most on the most redundāt, in that they are most affluent to Electiues, & most obedient to expulsiues, though rebell tenants which Nature most endeuours to eiect, because they infest Her with more frequent and more mortall Duels then all forraigne and other domestique Foes.

It is a Generous and almost a Generall Vniuersall Medicine, (not inferiour to any Galenicall Physicke whatsoeuer) happily [Page 66] performing all the parts of a good Prepara­tiue, Evacuatiue, and Alteratiue, and not a lit­tle participating of the Comfortatiue also, to the Naturall, Ʋitall and Animall parts, the Liver, Heart and Braine, and their Powers or Spirits, and, being compounded according­ly, it is a Benedict remedy for any infirmity or defect in a manner, euen for Hunger it selfe, in that it participates of (if not exceeds) the Alimentary virtues of the Staffe of Life, com­forting the Stomacke and nourishing the whole body.

It Concocts crude and raw humours, cuts, liquifies, attenuates and makes the thicke, the tough and Tartareous become plyant and ob­sequious to Nature: the attenuated, the concocted, the serous and watery it digests and consumes: it clenses the Ventricle from slymie and Phlegmatique Crudities sticking to its rugosities and wrinklings, deterges the Lungs and Chest from viscous and putrid Hu­mours, which, cleauing vnto them and sub­sisting in the slender Branches of the Aspera Arteria, doe obturate and shut vp those straight passages and cause difficult brea­thing.

It dissolues, dissipates and rids terrene and gravelly concretions, it deoppilates, opens [Page 67] and mundifies the Lungs, the Intestines, the Liver, the Spleene, the Reines, the Matrix, and all the vessells, Parts, and Passages of the body, euen the neruall conduits of the spi­rits, and by these meanes makes excel­lent way for further workings, both of this same, and of other Medicines, by Stoole, Vrine, Evaporation, and other Operations.

It gently, safely, effectually and most com­modiously purgeth Choler, Phlegme, Melan­cholly, nor rudely, nor rashly rouzing this sleeping Lyon, (by agitating or stimulating the stubborne humor) from quiet Denn to furious Doo of daingerous dints, causing fear­full Passions or grieuous affects; so doth it also clense and cary forth all corrupt and pu­trid humours (Authors of wormes and ma­ny other woes) with other peccant and su­perfluous contents, sincere and alone leauing the laudable for Natures store.

It is therfore more auaileable for Longaeuity & length of life, than exercise and sweat, for such moderate purges worke chiefly vpon the humors, whereas succulent Iuices and good Spirits (not easily repaired) together with humors and excrementitious vapours are exhailed and consumed by perspirations and sweats.

[Page 68]Particularly, it purges (without perturba­tion or shuffling of humours) first of all the first region of the body, to wit, the Ventricle, the Mesaraicke veines, (those numerous roots of innumerable Symptomes, and Diseases) the Cauities of the Liver, the Milt, the Hypo­chondria, the Mesenterie and Pancreas, those two Sinkes and Swallowes of all Illuvies and Impurities: yea, there is scarce any other Cathartique that doth so mildly and so po­werfully draw forth and eliminate corrupt thicke Humors; besides that by continuance and consequution it euacuates the other Regi­ons, the Convex or outer parts of the Liuer, the Vena caua & its Concomitant the Great Arterie: and after its effectuall expansure and purgature of the first two, it vndertakes the third also (the Taske of our Gigantine and most valid purgers) and effectually, by its pro­prietie, promoted by extended perseuerance, performes eradication of deepe-rooted Ma­ladies from the Muscles, Membranes, Ioynts, the remote Extreames and whole Moles and habit of the Body, thereby cutting off and curing many stubborne diseases able to beare the brunt of the strongest remedy.

Nor doth it evacuate the Body by Stoole onely, but it is likewise both Diuretique and Diaphoretique, dissoluing & expelling serous thin humours, by vrine, and by insensible Transpiration, (easily breathing forth rarified exhalations through the dilated Pores) and effectually causes Sweat being taken hot, (especially compoūded without purgatiues) and the Body well happed accordingly. For as it separates and eliminates Heteragene and superfluous Humors per secessum, by Stoole, so doth it also therewithall, and by Evapo­ration euacuate Fumes and vapours of malig­nant quality and vicious condition, without expense of the Humidum radicale, or Primi­genium (the Foundation and food of Spirit and heat, and by consequence of Life and Beeing) thereby preseruing Natures rich Treasures Corporall and Animall.

It corrects and remedies Crudities, carmi­nates Winde, and discusses flatuous discursi­ons [Page 70] and wringings in the body, stayes vomi­tings by diuersion, excites the Appetite, quenches Thirst, enlarges the Pectoralls, and causes easie Spitting.

It cures long Feuers, Quotidians, all Inter­mitters and pestilentialls, the Greene Sicknesse, (Albas virginum Febres) Cachexias and all lent, tough and lingring Infirmities, bredd of the impurity of the Ʋiscera or of inuete­rate obstructions.

It deoppilates and extenuates the stuft and distented Spleene, abates obese and cor­pulent Bodies, and is very conducible for ex­hausting and curing of all Distillations and defluxions to any part: It is auailable for Tooth-Ach, Inflamations of the Eyes, Vvula, and Almonds of the Throat, for the vertigo, and all infirmities of the Head, wombe and Bladder, both new and old; for all Cephalique Dolors and disturbances through fumes and vapours, and for all Fluxes, Dropsies, and the Falling Euill.

It helpes all Colds, Coughs, Asthmaes, or diffi­cult breathings, the Iaundise blacke and yel­low; Ill habits of the body, Putrifactions, hard Tumors, and all other swellings, wan­dring paines, stinging and fixed Aches; the Cholicke, the Stone, all Gouts, both the run­ning [Page 71] and the impacted, hot and cold, Palsies and all ill-affections of the Sinewes. It helps Salt Rheumes, Itches, Scabs, Byles, Botches, the Scorbuto, the Leprie, and other contagious Maladies, and the cure of all curable wounds and vlcers, (inward and outward) with ma­ny other defects and deformations Intus & in Cute. Foetet anima? deformat Hircus? Make Panala thy sweet Companion if thou hopest for helpe.

It rectifies the Stomacke and erecting the Digestiue Facultie, furthers the Concoction & Distribution of meat, comforts the Lungs and all the Pectorall parts, corroborates the heart, strengthens the Liuer, purifies it and the whole Masse of Blood, and breeding laudable Chylus, impinguates [...]qualid and starueling Bodies, by inhabling them in future to be­come fat or faire and much better-liking.

It cleeres the Sight, flories the Complexion, cherries the pallid Cheeke, quickens the Memory and all the Senses, Internall and Externall, refocillates and exhilerates the Mind and Animall Faculties, incites and en­hables furtherance to conception, nourishes and maintaines the Balsamique Mumie of the Bodie, increases youthfulnesse, and re­tardates and keepes backe the approach and [Page 72] seisure of Old Age.

For the frequent vse of evacuating and emaciating dyets is a speciall meane to pro­mote Prolongation of Life, for that after them, the body becomes plumpe faire and almost new, through pure sound flesh, with re­stauration of youthfull vigor in some degree, as Oxen wrought leane, regaine the flesh of young beefes by good pasturage.

Touching diseases which are wholly In­curable, or those whose legitimate cure is ve­ry perillous, this Panala is a most approued helpe producing such salutarie fruits of Pal­liation, (the securest and most commenda­ble course of medication in such cases) as ex­ceed all expectation; for without any Dain­ger and incumbring Doo of dayly newed dispensings, it alleviates and mitigates all Symptomes of the sicknesse, which disturbe the Patient, if he be but patient, to persevere in competent continuing the Potion.

By dissoluing coagulate blood, it discusses and scatters inward contusions, and pre­serues the body from putrifaction, and other perillous Symptomes.

Some men may perhaps expect I should capitulate and euidence all the particulars, and instance both the persons and infirmi­ties, [Page 73] aswell touching their Symptomes, as the mediate operation of Panala, for abando­ning or abating at least of their baynings or oppressing burthenings. This I grant had not beene impertinent to the worke, but, were I so punctually satisfactory, I should doubtlesse of many people bee branded for a Matchlesse Mandevill in Hyperbolizing, maulger the magnifique good applause of Myriads of Patients, extolling it beyond the furthest extent of my praysing Attributes to the operation of its Mechanique Spirits. To avoyd such Stygmatique Rasures, and that my intended Manuall (of both parts) might not grow voluminous in tedious In­stances (which might perchance incurre, with others suspect of fiction and impo­sture) I propounded to my selfe, rather then to presse too much vpon prouoked patience, cursorily to point at particulars for the pre­sent, well knowing that a word is enough to a man of good meaning, especially if any thing verst in Physicke (though such haue most cause of cauill at this Medication which benefits the Patient, but brings little or no profit to the Physitian and Apothecarie,) for he will easily grant, that such a Remedy may well be available in all diseases saue in Nude [Page 74] distempers sine materia, which are seldome found in our cold and full-feeding Climates, yet such may easily bee met withall by this medicable Potion.

For as all Geometrique Figures, may bee measured by Triangle, so all Infirmities materiall and immateriall, may be medicated by Panala: Will you haue an excellent Re­storatiue for Consumptions and Bodies em­maciate and spent with long lingring sick­nesses? the Bag compounded without Pur­ger with the Ingredience of meat of nutrient iuice, perboiled vntill the blood be in effect decocted away, and minced very small both flesh and bones, presents you with a cup little inferiour in degree to a Chylus, which shall exceed all other preparations of food for easie digestion, fine and facile diffusion into the veines and members and for copious Nutrition with least quantity of excremen­titious Reliques. To conclude;

CHAP. XI.
Of the excellent cautionary virtues of Panala.

NAture, the best Modera­trix of mans liuelihood, not ignorant, that Prae­cavere Morbis quam cu­rare melius est, that ma­ture preuention of mala­dies is better than the best medication for cure, (Magis quippe op­tandum est, omnino non pati, quàm à passionibus liberari,) duly aymes by daily endeauours to constitute and continue the body temperatum ad pondus, (as in Mans first creation) that it may be intire and perfect in state of health to the last period of life, or at least to conserue the same in such latitude of sanitude as it was produced.

As therefore euery intelligent and indu­strious Hortulan is euer carefully curious in diligent cleering and curing his Plot of irre­gularities, superfluities, weeds, incumbers and vndue Ballasts, and of storing and fur­nishing it with all commendable and neces­sary [Page 76] accommodates: So prudent and proui­dent Nature, administring all things the best she can, doth still, without intermission, moliri and labour the excretion and quitting the Bodie of all excrementitious, superfluous and peccant Humours and Contents, with the supplying of all defects, and reforming of all deformations, which good effects could she alwayes happily attaine vnto and accom­plish, according to her intention, there should neuer need any Physicall meanes to rectifie the state, or preserue the health of the Body.

But the rebellious quality and ouer-maistring quantity of many potent opposites, together with the repugnance of stubborne and ob­structed parts and passages (contracted many times by erring or vndue deuiating from the right administration or due mannage of the Six Non-naturalls) doth often delude and frustrate these her carefull intendments of their worthy ends.

Now this noble medicine, a most singular instrument of Physick, (Natures Hand maid) powerfully oppugnes and resists her opposites, and ioining with her in her salutary designes subdues and reduces them to her obedience, reserates the ports and passages of the body, [Page 77] and amandates and expells whatsoeuer is aduerse or incongruent, and by consequence diuerts a world of diseases, and conserues the health in good latitude.

A boystrous rouzing Purge, like a rude Ramp that rashly pluckes-vp the Herbes with the Weedes, shuffles all sorts of Humors into con­fusion, and promiscuously with much vio­lence to Nature eliminates and voids both good and bad, as well Euchimique Balsamaries as Cacochymique Bayners, whereby Nature is defatigated and debilitated, and the state of the body much endammaged.

But milde Panala, like a discreet Damsell, which preserues wholesome Herbes, and weeds-vp hurtfull Weeds, doth by easie de­grees gently, pleasantly, and safely, (nor ouer-heating the body, nor perturbing the Patient) raise and remoue the intrenched enemy, and disburthens Nature of sincere and meere peccant Humours, thereby pre­seruing the succulent and salutary Iuices in­tire and exempt both from euacuation and from incident corruption and infection, which would necessarily bee contracted by their continued mixture with the vnnaturall, if still retained.

To giue some particular instances for the [Page 78] necessity and vse of this preuenting Physick, giue me leaue here, more fully than before, to present vnto your view and consideration the three Grande Colonells which vsually with their many troopes of Miscreants assault and batter our Bulwarkes of Health, against all whose infesting forces Panala is furnisht with such munition, that all their mischieuous machinations and designes, to demolish and ruinate the whole fabricke of Mans Edifice, are countermined, dasht and disanuld.

The three Chieftaines encamping against our Cittadell, are Cruditie, Rheume, Obstru­ction, and vnder their Colours Bands of Sica­ri [...], bloody Bandetti, doe bandy themselues to bane our Bodies at least, yea many times with stupendious tortures they distune and destroy the Heauenly Harmony of the Soule.

Vnder Crudities Colours are encamped Cachexiaes, Hydropicall Diseases, Oedemata or phlegmatique and serous Swellings, flatuous discursions, and painfull wringings in the Ilia and Colon, the Lienterie or flux of Excrements and indigested viands, with many other great and long griefes; Imo, Cruditas assidua Mater est omnium ferè aegritudinum Mate­rialium.

[Page 79]Those who liue not orderly (sobriè) doe daily, according to Lessius, in his Hygiasticon, make some additament of Crude Humors, which attracted into the veines & diffused into the whole moles and bulke of the Body, as into a Spunge, (to the quantity of 100 Oun­ces in one yeere,) doe in tract of time putrifie and breed mortall diseases, which cut off most men before their time. For almost all that dye of sicknesse before Old Age dye of this Cause.

Amongst all sicknesses marching after Cruditie I beg license not to forget that nu­merous Fyle of secret, but forward foes, Ser­pentine Wormes, those treacherous Ʋndermi­ners of our Microcosmique Castle, which come for most part of crude, superfluous Chylus, and rauening for the like become Robbers of Rest, Restauration and Life it selfe.

These petty, puny Pygmies (subterranean spirits bred of Corruption and humid Heat) these pernicious pyoners and pyners of the Body, feed-on, deuoure, and consume the good Iuices prouided to nourish and main­taine the whole Bulke, which hauing the conuoy of Nourishment continualll cut-off, doth necessarily become leane, meager, and misliking, and the Appetite many times insa­tiable, [Page 80] by reason the famelique or esurient spi­rits are robd of the foizon of food, which the Mechanique should worke-on to furnish all the parts with congruent and competent food.

Oftentimes the nutrient Succi being in­competent to satiate and glut their nume­rous Gorges, they molest and torment the intestines (the very Beds they were bred in) with corrodant sucking, cause the Cholicke, paines like to the Hypochondrique flatus (the Girdle of the Spleene) flux of the Bowells, Di­stension and Inflation of the Belly, and diuers times stupendious passions, and in fine, most dolorous death by perforating and eating-thorough the Guts.

Though therefore these Lumbrici, bred and nourisht in the small Guts (especially) of the Chylous Iuices, being crude and pitui­tous, doe oft continue and quietly containe themselues therein a long time, in some bo­dies, without any manifest dammage or in­conuenience, and at length, sans former dis­couery, cure or care, descend with the ex­crements into the Crassa Intestina, and are with the same from thence eiected and cast out by stoole, yet oftentimes in their hungry hunting after food they ascend, creepe and [Page 81] crawle vp into the Ventricle, (yet sometimes produced there of putrid Ballasts) defatigate and tire the Stomacke with tiring, pulling and lugging, hinder concoction, cause much Dolour, Nauseam and loathing of Meat, Dry Cough, Thirst, Hickup, Vomitings, and vari­ous other violent and perillous accidents, and by gnawing, crawling about & pestring the Mouth of the Stomacke, make difficult swallowing, and worse Symptomes.

Yea, so wofully fatall are these accursed Miscreants many times to our weale, that they wrecke vs in their owne wrackes; for lying dead in the Bowels, till they bee putrifi­ed, they send vp stinking vapours, and ma­lignant fumes, which affect and infect both Heart and Head, causing Suffusions and Ca­taracts in the Eyes, Falling Evills, Alienation of the Minde, Palpitation of the Heart, Faintings, Swoondings, Cold and ill-sented Sweats, inordinate Feuers with horrour and rigour, Trembling and dissolution of the Body, Convulsions and other fearfull Symptomes, and other Concomitants of daingerous conse­quence. This multiplicious Band of bane­full Miscreants are the most timous and fre­quent infesters of the Bodies fabricke, not onely assaulting tender Infancy and Child­hood, [Page 82] but euen setting vpon Manhood also, with their pestiferous Troopes of Torturess which are many times found to swarme in malignant Fevers. And I hold it very pro­bable, that the vntimely Death of most Children, may truly be attributed to Wormes, and other dints and effects dimaining from such superfluous and crude Indigestions. But this dainger (saith Lessius) by well pur­ging the body yeerly at Spring and Fall, is preuented, and the Life produced to verie Old Age.

For Children therefore and all Students and others of small exercise or ill Diet, it is most requisite to vse such temperate Evacu­ation euery yeere at such times, and for all others against euery Climaterique or Seuenth and Nynth yeere, according to the Counsell of Taisnerus, from Marsilius Ficinus, shewing that by helpe of Astrology and Physicke, na­turall Death may be deferred. Sed haec pa­rerga: These wormes haue made me weaue too large a Webbe of course raw Thread: therefore no more of Colonell Cruditie.

Rhume musters Inflamations of the Eyes, of the Almonds, of the Throat, of the Vunla: the Angina, Tooth-Ach, paines in the Eares, and others parts of the Head, Coughs, [Page 83] griefes and weaknesse of the Stomacke; Exco­riations, and Apostumes of the Lungs, Liuer, Reines and Bladder, stabbing Pleurisies, pi­ning Consumptions, Fluxes of the Belly; the Cholicke and the Sciatica, Gouts of diuerse sorts, and Tumors against Nature: Deafnes and Blindnesse, Palsies and mortal Apoplexsies.

For this Distillation (Catarrbus, deflluxion, or falling of supervacuous humors from the Head into the subiected parts) yssuing from the ventricle of the Braine, and from its Con­vex and encompassing Meninges when tis more exuperant into the Inwards of the body, stirres vp diuers mischiefes in our Mi­crocosme: For rushing into the Roots or O­riginalls of the Nerues, it causes Stupors, Tremblings, Palsies, and Apoplexies: into the Organs of the Senses, it causes tabring in the Eares, and dulnesse of Hearing, and Dim­nesse of Sight: into the Nose, Stuffings and losse of Smelling; into the Iawes and rough Arterie, Cough and Hoarsnesse; into the Lungs, the Asthma and Consumptions; into the Ventricle, Cruditie and Indigestion; into the Intestines, Flux of the Bowels, and from hence if it insinuate it selfe into the Liuer-Veines (by the Mesaraicks) it thickens there and stuffes both veines and vessels with Ob­structions. [Page 84] Sometimes it sallies and comes from without and aboue the Cranium or Skull, especially from vnder the Skin of the Crowne (where the Extreames of the veines, creeping and caried by and thorow the face and fore-head or Temples, are bestowed and terminated in and about the Verticall point) and then it passes and disperses into the eyes, into the Mandibles, the Teeth, the Necke, the Shoulders, Armes, Sides, Backe, Loynes, Hyps, Thighes, and in conclusion into all the Ioints; insomuch that all Arthritique and al­most all Externall paines dimane from this Outward Defluxion.

The last, not the least of the Three-Chiefe­taines is Obstruction, a Potent Foe, vigilant in his designes and neuer vnfurnisht of one Machine or other, Fire-workes, water-workes, and other Munition.

The Liuer is a maine marke of his Ayme, both because it furnishes all parts with proui­sion, and for that it lies open to his Battries, by reason, that the numerous deriuation of Venulae, both from the Port and Hollow-veine (through which two all the Alimentarie Iuices haue their Passages) is in most exile and slender branchlets (apt to bee oppilated and stopt with viscid Humours) dissipated [Page 85] and obliterated into the substance of that Pa­reuchyma.

Here he commands ouer Scirrhosities, hard Swellings, Inflammations (to the fortifying of the Liuer sometimes) Feuers, Fluxes, Iaun­dise; There Hydropique, Cachectique, Ca­chochymique affects, Greene Sicknesse, and o­ther Discolorations, putrifaction of Humours, and Atrophia (snailie extenuation or slow pi­ning away of the body) with Battries many moe.

Now he leuels at the Gall, turnes the con­tained Choler to stony concretion, and diuerts the affluent to the diffusion of au­ruginous Tinctures.

Hemorrhages and naturall Evacuations of Blood are supprest in both Sexes through his designements vpon the great veines, and vpon the Mesaraiques, the Hemorrhoids are stopt, and Melancholique and feuerous af­fections set to broach.

By setting vpon the Mist, Hee obfuscates the Mind with colid fumes, col [...]quates and wasts the Body and defaedates the skin.

By attempts in the Intestines, he hurts the Digestion (occasioning crudity of Stomacke) and hinders Ejection: sometimes though sel­dome hee indurates and euen lapifies the [Page 86] Phlegme heapt vp in the Cells of the Caecum and Colon, but many times stirs vp and raises stupendious windie Passions in the Ilia and greater guts, as if he meant by Mines to blow vp the maine Bulwerke with violent blasts.

For impeaching the free Conuoy of the Spirits by obstructing their Conduits the Nerues and thereby mustering-vp Suffusions of the Eye, Palsies, Convulsions, Apoplexies, Epilepsies or the like; because it may be con­trouerted, whether the inrolment of these belong to this Band or to some Regiments mustering-vp maligne vapours, or other ho­stile meanes, I leaue it to the subtile disputes of deeper straines.

But I may not omit his obturating or contracting the Pores of the skin (whether by mustering the cold and open ambient Ayre against the Maine, or by calling-in some ayerie or windie Percolation against any one Member) whereby excrementitious matter rarified into fuliginous vapours for exhalation and evaporation is reverberated and driuen backe againe. For this Reverbe­ration shuffles the Humors and the Spirits, in­to confused Combustions, and all the Intrin­sicke Faculties into mutinous and tumultuous Routs to the grieuous pervert and great dis­turbance [Page 87] of the Oeconomie of the Microcosme and many times to the vtter subuersion and ruine of the Fabricke. Besides; who hath not heard of the Hollād Baliue & of the Bay­life of the Hundreds (Popular Agues, Plagues of those parts) how frequently they infest these Fenny & Moorish Flats? Neither of these walkes (and they are euer restlesse) his Per­ambulation (chiefly the Autumnall) but hees furnisht with a thousand Warrant Dor­mants, to attach with Arrest that will daunt the daring courage of the stoutest Heart with shiuering cold, and trembling rigour; yea, more, before he leaue fingring him on whom he once fastens his hold, he will amate his man­hood, melt his marowie and brawnie strength, and powre out his haughty Spirits in sordid Sweats. And doth the Vp-land Countries scape and goe Scot freee from such bainfull Arrests? shew me the Towne can truly tell and auow it smells not of the Summons of a Trienniall Ʋisitation (at least) by some Epedi­mique Disease or other? If the blacke Ague (so the Country calls her frequent but vn­welcome guest, Synochum putridam malignā) the Measils, small Pocks, Tertian or Quart [...]n feuer wil be sure to haue a fling amongst thē: And few or none goe about to aske or once [Page 88] to question them, but let them passe impune as too potent or too masterfull to be dealt with­all. For all these miscreants this mild medica­tion is a dainty & deliuer Supersedeas, to pre­uent the Arrest, & seldome fails of an authen­tique Liberate, to deliuer frō all dures of such fellon faitors. Nay, though hee's no right Er­rant nor a true Arrant Bailiffe, that loues not a Cup of nappy Ale, yet whosoeuer's perfumed with a Fortnight-sent of my Ale, hees sped of a Spell that will not fail to fright-away all such Miscreant spirits from neerer approach.

For noble Panala (Penthesilea like armed at all points) passing corporally by veines and other vessells, and spiritually by invisible Per­spirations into all the members and dimensi­ons of the body (per totū transfluxilis et perspi­rabilis) tufts and hunts out al superfluous and vitious contents, and serrits them forth from out their lurking Holds and Dens, by means whereof no matter being left for putrifaction nor for obstruction, the whole body actuates in free perspirability, and the Calidum Inna­tum, no way obrute but freed from extincti­on, yeeldes to no forraigne contagion, nor stoopes to inbred corruption, but stoutly and strongly marches against, encounters, foiles and eliminates all malignities. For by [Page 89] attenuating, absterging and euacuating, it quits all the materiall causes of those and o­ther morbosities, intercepts and cuts-off their conuoyes of Munition (whether con­sisting in vitious or superfluous Humors, in­disposition or excesse of nutrient iuices, or other contents, or straightnesse of the passa­ges) and by rectifying and roborating the principalls, remedies the distemper and imbe­cility of the parts, and diuerts or quashes their mischieuous designes, and lastly by congruent association to Nature and by equa­ble and proportionate contrarietie to Sicknesse, it conserues and maintaines the state of the Body in good latitude of Health, repells in­congruent diseases, and effectually repaires lapsed and impaired sanitude.

Such and so manifest, with many more, howsoeuer these attributes may seeme to many men to be too many, are the virtues and effects of this duly composed and truly impregnated Panala, especially if it be (as it alwayes ought to be) ministrred Medica manu, quae vniuersalia particularibus, ordinata & rationali methodo, accommodata, adhibet; otherwise, it is (like euery other Medicine) but a Caruers toole in a Carters hand, whose wooden workmanship quickly marres, but [Page 90] neuer makes a good Sculpture. Tis not the instrument but the knowledge and dex­terity of the Artist, which makes-vp the Master-piece in euery Artifice: Argus his eares had kept-open his eyes to keepe-on his head, if better fingring than Parts rude hand­ling, though vpon Apollos Harpe, had not charmed them with harmonious melodie to betray their double charge.

CHAP. XII.
Of the cheape and prest accommodations of Panala.

MAny irrationall creatures, led by the meere Instinct of Nature, doe, vpon oc­casion of need, betake themselues to th'use of medicinable meanes for recouery of health and cure of hurts: But Man, illuminated with the Diuine Beames of a reasonable Soule, is many times (more than onely the hominum vulgi) much more sottish and more absurdly conceited in this kinde, than meere bruits, (Birds, Beasts, Fish, Reptilia & Insecta etiam) [Page 91] which we know doe vsually vse (with much labour many times to finde or fetch) Physi­call helpes for their hurts and infirmities, where he is so farre from the intertaine of the Practicke or approue of the Art, that hee condemnes the sacred ordinance, which God himselfe created (and gaue to our first Pa­rents) diuine Oracles so much and so oft commend, and prophane Authors of all sorts (Philosophers, Historians, Orators, Poets) cal­laud; in so much that Donzellin holds them worthy to be abandoned of all mankind (An­ticyras relegandos) which dare seens sentire, in­tertaine an ill thought of it, and doubtlesse would hold him vnworthy the comfort of any creature that should collinire brand or besmeere this heauenly gift of the Creator with the foule clouted terme of Imposture or Iuggling. Yet for all this fond fancy against Physicke, the silliest Man of a million, when he sees his Iade tainted with the Yellowes, or his Beast infected with the Murren, will haste for helpe to some Horsleach, and count it fru­gality, and good gaine too, to recouer a Cart-horse with a Crowne cost (sometimes) in hope to recouer ten. Oh, but to bestow fiue shillings in Physicke vpon his owne kar­casse, tis a peslance expense, the quarter [Page 92] charge will goe farre in Ale-berries and Caw­dells, and a few pence will furnish the whole Manie with Treacle and Aquavitae: if these and a pepperd Possill with a Head-bind helpe not, then farewell my neighbour Hide-bound, he'le rather dye thrice, than deale once with other Drugs than such as his Maud can mash, and his fore-fathers vsed to meddle with for their Medeale.

Thus many people, euen whole Myriads of Men, through their superstitious aduers­nesse against Physicke, or penurious pedling with paltry trash, or idle tempering with tin­kerlie Physmicaries, doe ordinarily, in their penny wise wisedomes, exhaust and consume both Body and Goods in long languishings, which might haue beene easily remedied and redeemed by the timous counsell of an ho­nest Artist.

For instance; Is it not a world of wonder, to see, what palpable poore neglect is com­monly cast-vpon the curatiue care euen of Furie Feuers, chiefly Quartanes? doth not almost euery Man (though nigh mated with stupendious symptomes and passions) feed his fond fancy with this Selfe-soothed Sooth-say, Tis but an Ague and must haue the Course; Incursu nimirum suo Quartanam non esse impe­diendam, [Page 93] this misconceiued Tenet must blanch and roborate their sorry Conceipts, which further also to colour, one foists a piece of Piso, snatcht from the Sequence, for his plea, and boldly auowes from Hippo­crates, that of all Feuers the Quartane is the easiest and the safest, and vindicates from other great Diseases, as Convulsions and Epi­lepsies. Another dights-vp Auisoes Doore with the Ding-dong Prouerb, Pro Febre Quar­tana ràrò sonat Campana, He flatly tells you, the Bell seldome tolls for a Quartane, neuer considering that Erratique and Quotidian Agues deriued from grosse and pituitous Humors, putrifying (whether turning atribi­lary or otherwise) doe for most part turne Bastard-Quartanes, and that Quartanes con­comitant with vitious Liuer and other vessells ill affected doe often lapse the Loath-Physick into Scyrrhosities of Liuer, Spleene, Reines, and breed Dropsies, Iaundise, Hypochondriaque Melancholly, or some other scuruy Disease, of which euer and anon diuers are dropping away, or else drooping in desperate languish­ings, to teach them and all such Selfe-soothing heretiques in this kind, that this Opprobrium Medicorum (the Quartane) springing from the impatience of inconstant Patients, nor [Page 94] brooking nor abiding any regular course for due cure, can quickly turne to a sharpe and a tough Scourge to schoole them with a Pay-Home by attourney, shall make them cry pec­caui for so fond sleighting salutary Caues and medicinable Cautions for due Cure.

These Men are no markes for the bent of my aymes, I am well contented my Com­position suits none of their humours; why should a man study the cure or the care of them, who are so carelesse of themselues? Fatuitatis suae poenas luent, let them reap the rotten-ripe bitter fruits of their owne follies, and post to anticipated ends before their times for contempt of the meanes, or ling­ring miserably dye to saue charges, if it bee sauing to be dishabled, by long languors, of following their Callings which call for their personall mannage, without medication, for most part, very slowly made compe­tible.

For such as blow-vp Trifle-Fees with tur­gid put-off of wind-puft Complement, let their empty bladders freely float-on their dung-hill puddles and turne ayrie Bubbles, till their glitterand selfe-swolne greatnesse, with the Launce of inward Pride (not of my Pen) burst into Hally-water to besmeare their [Page 95] browes in their base bowes to Mammon.

For those who once assured of cure, by honest care of the carefull Physitian, doe straight grow sight-sicke, eare-sicke, thought-sicke of him, and in stead of remunerating his merits, doe nauseate his Face, Name, Me­mory; let their penance bee daily to be verst in publique profession of this foure-fold ver­sion, till shame, conscience, or dread of Duell with the last auersion, worke his conuersion from penurious basenesse.

I haue transformed the last lines of the Doctors gradarie Disreguard, and translated it thus;

[Page 97]To meet with some misconceiuings of better minded people, who, willingly em­brace Gods Ordinance, and the vse of ordina­ry meanes of cure by Physicke, but not well apprehending, heeding or remembring their directions for vsage of the medicines pre­scribed or giuen vnto them, wrong them­selues and crosse the Physician in their prepo­sterous applications, I haue selected and set­led vpon the composition of Panala, the prescript of whose Administration and vsage is so plaine and familiar, no man, of any braine, need fall into any misprise or mistake, much lesse commit the palpable grosse Er­rors, which many runne into in most other medicable courses, in which euery Practiti­oner finds mistakings to be as vsuall as Eating and Drinking. Here's one champes his Pils, and for disgust spits them out with an out, out, another stuphes or bathes with his potion, a Third drinkes his Clister-stuffe, or eates his Suppositarie; and there's one turnes Electua­ries to vnguents, Injections to Gargarismes, & vice versa; but he that's so warie, hee will not turne th'other furnishment to the Task of his Teeth, yet mistakes the morning-Draught for the Euenings, and either doubles or diuides th'appointed Dose. But in th'vse and pur­suit [Page 98] of Panala, there are nor curiosities, nor varieties of the Medication, to beget misprisions, only a constant Course, without any Cumber, to drinke a Cup of Ale twice or thrice a day, as is shewed Cap. 5. & 6.

Panala also happily preuents and cuts off the fond irresolution which ordinarily pos­sesses many Patients, who hauing taken a Dose or two of any Prescript, and not finding manifest present-ease thereby, doe straight entertaine a strong and a resolute aban­doning of all further progresse in Physicke, when that they tooke was perscribed but in Nature of a preparatiue to the maine Intenti­on, either onely to prepare the vessells or the Humors, or to comfort the Spirits, and enha­ble Nature to hold out for the cure. For com­ming in the Port and customable Habit of meere Ale or common Drinkes, what Man amongst a Million will be so wilfull or incon­siderate, as, hauing past the Pykes of pay­ment and preparation of the Potion, that he will euer entertaine a thought of refusing or gi­uing ouer so prest, so familiar and so freindly a Companion, before the last Cup conclude and strike the parting blow of a comfortable kind Farewell? And the resolued Patient by constant perseuering in propining and [Page 99] following the Medicine, may with good as­surance propound and promise to himselfe truly to reape the ripe and wholsome fruits of the principall Intention by beneficent Medication, which so many daily misse of through impatient and preposterous hast to reach and reape them before Maturitie.

For those therefore that in Heart doe ho­nour the honest physitian as the Instrument of God, ordained for their Health, and like good Tenants for Terme of Life cary conscionable minds, to keepe the Edifices of their Bodies committed to their care and custody, in good and sound plight, and to repaire dilapidations and decayes respectiuely, although perhaps neither very able to bestow much cost, nor in case to spare much time in Quest and pur­suit of such their care, haue I published the benefique operation of this most accommo­date Medicine, that I may in some reasonable measure gratifie such their ingenuous re­spects: And for further gratification, I haue at all times Funds or Bags of the Ingredients in readinesse made vp compleat (as well without purgatiues, as with them) and fitted for Infusion.

The Bag is portable (in pocket or other­waies) many Hundred Miles, and durable in [Page 100] full vigor and virtue, thirty or forty dayes at least, yea many Moneths, being made vp without Raisons, so that any man may furnish himselfe therewith in his trauell or other­wise, and at his pleasure and leasure, when he comes home, infuse and vse it without Cu­riosity or Incumber.

For the Body thereof, let that bee no Bur­then of Imputation to any Impeach of the Reputation, seeing, as I haue said, it Super­cedes the Additaments which many famous Medicines of other Formes need Bodying with all for apt taking and vehieulation, in that being composed into potable Liquor, impregnated with the Essentiall parts and Spirits (no whit evaporated with forraigne heat) of euery Ingredient diffused in and in­corporated with ordinarie Drinks, there can be no vehicle or better Conuoy of medicina­ble qualities into the Members & Remotes of the body. The purchase of Panala is too cheap for so precious a medicine; for the price is but fiue shillings (with directions for the vse) and the same seruing for two Gallons of Ale will furnish two Patients for seuen, or One 14. daies Physicke, as aforesaid: so that a man may haue two Doses or Draughts for a Tester, which in other Medications is com­monly [Page 101] doubled and many times trebled for one Purge: but compounded without pur­gers, you haue it for the moitie of the charge, and this makes a most delicate Drinke (of like quantity) of much more true worth than Bragat or Metheglin.

Panala also supercedes and saues the charge of preparations, for cutting of humors and of vehiculums, for diffusion and cariage into all parts of the body, both which helps are necessarily required in most other sorts and formes of Physicke. Besides that, this sparing or temperate Diet, requisite in the vse hereof, saues more money in meat and Drinke, then the cost this Physicke comes vnto: and for the second Infusion of the same Bag, it lasts no lesse time, and costs no­thing you know but new Raisons, and Ale, yet is it of excellent vse, either for Meale-Drinke in th'vse of th'other, or after th'o­ther is spent for rectifying and confirming the State of the Body. For the new and Nude Infusion compounded without Purgers, the proportion finds a man altering Physicke for a matter of two pence per Diem, (besides Ale) except it bee made a Meal-drinke, which in most cases is needlesse.

Touching the Time taken-vp in continu­ing [Page 102] the take of this Physicke, I may say, Sat cito, vt sat scite, fit Medicatio, quae sat bene: Good speed is euermore best speed. But this salue may well be saued, here's seldome any Soare to need it. For in Cautionare courses, for Prevention of Infirmities, it spends time, but loses none, because it interrupts no bu­sinesse, saue when the Inclemencie of the Heauens giue Caueat of Keepe-in, to auoyd the iniuries of ill weather, which no wise man will vpon any Naturall Flux expose his body vnto: and in the Arrest of Sicknes 'tis the Infirmity, not the Physicke, that de­taines him within Doores, not so much for shelter and couert from the frownes and worse effects of the Skye, as for the necessi­tated Dures enforced by the Disease: besides, that if vrgent occasions call forth into in­temperate weather from Cautionary courses, he may intermit a day or more, as in Cap. 6. is laid downe.

Nor doth the medicine giuen ouer, or ended after moderate continuance, constipate or leaue the body Costiue, ouer-dryed, heated, debilitated or exhausted of Balsamique iuices, nor affected with any distemper, ill Impression or deprauing affects cōtracted or dimaning from the same (as is already declared Cap. 9.) [Page 103] but well disposed, vigorous, actiue and full of Spirits.

He that is any thing verst in the Practique of Physicke, may easily obserue and find, that Nature euermore best accords and co­operates with Medicines which aggrate and oblectate the Senses, but shewes her selfe a­uerse in refractary reluctation against the dis­pleasant, so that euen Stomatiques, giuen for comfort and fortification, if they be very in­grate, doe bring forth little Good, but in stead of subuening and helping, they subvert and hurt the Ʋentricle: what fruit then can bee expected from Physicke, whose Disgust and auersnesse to Tast and Stomacke breed [...]s that nauseous loathing in Nature which peruerts her operatiue Faculties in all parts of the Body?

Best practitioners therefore, to preuent all incongruences, and to gratifie the patient, do clarifie, color, edulcorate, acidulate & aroma­ti [...]e Syrupes, Iulapes, Apozemes, Electuaries, and other Formes of physicke, respectiuely, palliating pills with gilding, when they can­not paliate their bitternesse. For when fa­miliar Obiects delight the Eye, recreate the Sensory of smelling, please the Pallate, comfort the Stomake, and exhilerate the Heart, (that [Page 104] Fountaine of Life,) they Sympathyze and side with Nature, eleuate the Spirits, stimulate and stirre vp the languishing Appetite, rouze her drowsie Forces and Faculties (vitall and Animall) sopite in sicknesse, and resuscitate and refresh the Natiue Heat which alone concocts, digests and calmes Diseases, and by extenuating the Thicke, and clensing the viscous Humors, and by expediting Obstruc­tions, faciliates and promotes the operations both of Food and physicke, insomuch that pur­ges compounded of some Ingredients which of themselues would subuert or di­sturbe the Stomacke, if they be condited, cor­rected and accommodated with good Aro­matiques, they are little or nothing offensiue to the principall parts, and more safely purge excrementitious Humors by Stoole, as also by vomit respectiuely.

My care therefore was so to compound my Panala, that besides the little Cost and lesse Cumber, it neither offends the Eye with the loathed Obiect of a muddy substance, nor the smell with ill vapor or sauor, nor palate nor ventricle with disgust or ingrate Relish, but it is a depured, cleere, sweet, delicate and sin­gular Extract impregnated with the succu­lent Iuices, sincere Spirits and singular Vir­tues [Page 105] of Specifique Ingredients. Moreouer, 'tis of a moderate Temperature indifferently accommodable to euery Age, Sex, and Con­stitution, and so familiar and pleasing to the Sight, Smell, Taste and Stomacke, and so con­formable to the principall Members, that the most curious palates and daintiest Bodies may and doe drinke it, and digest its operations with Delight: yet for all this will I not arro­gate the title of a Purum Putum Areanū vnto my Panala, though considering the whole progresse of preparations of the Potion (from the growing of the Graine, to the drawing of the Drink) it may well merit the esteeme of a singular Extract and Spagyrique Medicine.

Much lesse will I bee so absurd an Impu­dent to attribute vnto one and the same In­fusion, founded vpon irrationall Empiricie or other confused Intention, the potent Super­cede of all other Physicke, and so to gull the world or beget an opinion, that my single Panala is simply an absolute Panacea, which instar vniuersalis cujusdam vniuersalissimi, is able to cure all diseases in all Persons, and at all Times promiscuously without other meanes. One Last fits not the Size and Shape of euery Foot, nor can any one Medicine bee of that admirable efficacie, that it can alone perform [Page 106] all the Intentions of Medication in all Con­stitutions and Complexions (no lesse nume­rous and variable than Faces) and in all Ca­ses of Sicknes without distinction: yet thus much giue me leaue to affirme and say of it, though I doe intirely honour the Fundamen­talls of Physicke found in the most exact ob­seruations of our Fore-Fathers (the Grandees of Medicine) that for virtues & accommoda­tions, this Potion it is not easily paralleld; be­sides that, it hath this speciall prerogatiue, that it is in a manner a Compendium for all cures, the base & perpendicular that measure all Tri­angles; or rather the Triangle which measures (euen without either of them) all Figures, and may easily be reduced to the equivalence of a Circular Scale, or Sector accommo­dable and applicable to euery Chart or Di­mension, sith it is richly suited with prepara­tiues, evacuatiues, cordialls and Rectifyers, and may easily be impregnated with the spirits of Spaw Waters, with more salutary preualence than can bee deriued from crude springs, whose farre blazed fame superstition rings so loud.