CHAPTER XIV. Of purging Medicines.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
Much jarring hath been amongst physicians about purging medicines, namely, whether they draw the humours to them by a hidden quality, which in plain English is, they know not how; or whether they perform their office by manifest quality, viz. by heat, dryness, coldness, or moisture: it is not my present scope to enter the lists of a dispute about the business, neither seem it such an hidden thing to me that every like should draw its like, only to make the matter as plain as I can, I sub-divide this chapter into these following parts.
1. Cautions concerning purging.
2. Of the choice of purging medicines.
3. Of the time of taking them.
4. Of the correcting of them.
5. Of the manner of purging.