Culpeper.] That my country may receive more benefit than ever the college of Physicians intended them from these, I shall treat of them severally.
- 1. Of the Juices.
- 2. Of the Gums and Rosins.
Concrete Juices, or Juices made thick, are either
Temperate, as, Juice of Liquorice, white starch.
Hot in the first degree. Sugar.
In the second. Labdanum.
In the third. Benzoin, Assafœtida.
Cold in the third degree. Sanguis Draconis, Acacia.
In the third. Hypocistis.
In the fourth. Opium, and yet some authors think Opium is hot because of its bitter taste.