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A17165	The gouernment of health: a treatise written by William Bullein, for the especiall good and healthfull preseruation of mans bodie from all noysome diseases, proceeding by the excesse of euill diet, and other infirmities of nature: full of excellent medicines, and wise counsels, for conseruation of health, in men, women, and children. Both pleasant and profitable to the industrious reader	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1595 (1595)	STC 4042; ESTC S107022	73,365	190

shallbe weake and the eies sight decay and the handes tremble and therefore it is not comely to sée the state of age without rest which in the time of youth did honestly trauell For there is a grace giuen to many creatures vnreasonable both beastes and foules to make prouision before hande what is then to be required of men reasonable as foloweth in these verses THe Bird in time her nest can make The Bee will build his h●use full fine The Crane with stone in foot wil wake The Conie will carue vnder the myne The Squirel in trees her nuts can keepe Against colde winter to feed and sleepe And should not a man well foresee In youth to know his old degree Then from .xxxv. or few yeres folowing the lusty braunches of youth begin to abate his pleasant leaues flowers and fruit by litle and litle wil decay raw humors crampes dropses quaterns melancholy will then draw neer The riots surfets sore labours bearing of extreame burdens wrestling actes venerous with the abuse of youth wil then spring forth to the detriment of age and sodaine decay of life in especiall of drunkardes Ioh. What be the places of bloud Choler Fleugme Melancoly naturall or vnnatrual Thou hast not made a particular distinction of their proper places but generally thou hast spoken well in thy song Hum. There are also other descriptions of the foure humors very necessarie to bee knowen and their places whereas they dwell within the body and first of bloud as Galen saieth in his first booke of effected places bloud saieth he that is in the pulses doeth greatly differ from the bloud of the veines for the bloud of the pulses is thinner yelower and hotter and this bloud may bée called the gouernor of life The spring and fountaine of the bloud generall is in the liuer which serueth euery veine of bloud and this bloud in colour is verie redde Fleugme is white is ingendred in the stomacke and at length by the vertue of naturall heate pure fleame is turned into bloud There be also watrie slimy glassie grosse salt sower thicke hard binding and extreme cold fleames which in dede be vnnaturall that bée engendred thorowe surfets coldnes or idlenes bringing to the body many noisome deseases There is also choler which is yelowe whose place in the body is the gall which commeth of the clensing or purifying of bloud and this choler is cleare hote and drie and the comforter of decoction Greene choler or choler myngled with fleugme be vnnaturall melancholie naturall in the Splene is nothing but the sixe degrées or heauie residents of the bloud the naturall melancholie is knowen by his blackenesse the vnnaturall commeth of the burning of choler and is lighter and hoter browne of colour sower of taste and putteth the bodie in great daunger as madnesse blacke ianders continuall feuers and sodaine deadly diseases Therefore my friend Iohn remember this short description of humours as the wordes of Galen and Auicen say Iohn Thus I haue heard thy seuerall placing of the foure complections of bloud Choler Fleugme and Melancholie and is there anie distinct hotenesse coldnesse moystnesse and drinesse in anie other creature besides man tell me Hum. Not onely in man but in beastes fish foule serpents trées hearbes mettals and euerie thing sensible and insensible according to their natures and bee equally mingled or tempered togither which is called meane temperance or else exceedeth in degrées which is called intemperance hote and moist may be compounded together so may colde and drie hote and drie colde and moist example A cholericke man hote and drie a fleugmatike man colde and moyst c. Of hearbes as Hysope and Rew hot and drie Purslen and Cowcumbers cold and moist c. But temperaments or complections of men beasts and trées be some hoter some colder according to their natures As a Lion is hoter than a cholericke man Pepper is hotter than Cloues And though there be degrées in more hotnesse or more coldnesse yet they are called but hote or cold as men after labour or trauell they will say they are hot but the fire which people warme them at is hotter Also there bee things repugnant to temperaments as moyste and drynesse together heate and coldenesse together as fyre to bee colde or the water of his owne nature to bee hote which water peraccidence of the fire is made hote and fire quenched by the water And euerie thing exceeding greatly with distemperaunce or wanting temperaunce or complexion do eftsoones come to an end as man by extreme sicknesses surfets or woundes or finally age lacking naturall vertue Of heate and moistnes of trees and hearbes from whom iuice and sap is withdrawen these things of necessitie must needes die and come to corruption as Galen and Aristotle saie Ioh. Whether be men or women of colder complexion Hum. Auicen saieth like as men be hot and drie so be women colde and moist Ioh. Yea but Lucian saieth they be perillous hot of their tongues full of venim though I am no phisicion yet can I make a description of that member for I am oftentimes stinged with it I would to God they had beene wormed when they were young but when they are olde they are past all cure but the best medicine that I haue it is a gentle herbe called Rewe of which I am neuer without great store Hum. Mankinde was borne naked to this ende that hee might cloathe himselfe with other creatures which hee brought not into this world with him as cloath leather harnesse made of iron for his defence because he is the chiefe creature But horses of nature haue hard hooffes Lions sharpe téeth Porpentines sharpe prickes which is their continuall and naturall armour as thinges euer prepared to debate and strife and by no Art can scant bee tamed The Rose as pleasauntly as shee doeth appeare and as swéetely as shee doeth smell spring not further without a greate number of sharpe prickes Therefore it is tollerable for men to beare with them whom nature hath sealed and marked for his owne With that humour most cholericke digresse from this thy communication and let vs talke of thinges more profitable for in déede this is pleasant to no man Ioh. Seeing thou wilt not describe me these particular members of which wee haue spoken I would bee glad to know the partes of mankinde with a short description of his members Hum. Members be simple and also compound the simples be ten in number the cartillages the gristles the bones veynes and synewes arteries pannicles lygaments cordes and the skinne Members compounded bee those that be ioyned and builded together of simple members as the handes face feete lyuer and heart and so compounded members be made of simple Some of the compounded members be called principalles as the heart from whence the arteries springs the braine from whence the sinewes springes the liuer which is the well of the bloud from

whence the veines doe spring and the stones of generation from whence the seed of life springeth but those compounded members that bee principall bee all the other members except the simple as the nose the eares the eies the face the necke the armes and legges and the braines and chiefe substaunce of our flesh bee compounded members of sinewes and couered with panacles which bee of a sinew nature but that sinewes giue féeling to all the whole bodie euen as the arteries giueth spirituall bloud from the heart to euerie member The whole body is couered with filmes and skinnes Out of the head springeth hard matter issuing from the places called the pores to purge vapours and smoke from the braine which ascendeth out of the stomacke into the head and is cleansed through pia mater called the tender couering of the braine or spirites animall And therefore as some partes of the bodie being diuided in sunder be each like vnto the other and yet called by the name of the whole as for example When the bones be broken in sunder or the flesh cut into diuerse péeces or the blood powred into sundrie vessels a péece of flesh is still called flesh a fragment of a bone is called a bone and a droppe of blood is called bloud Euen so an hande arme veyne or such like vnseparate partes beeing diuided into péeces or called by the name of péeces and not by the name of the whole part as is before But my friend Iohn to make a large description of Anatomie it were too long for mee but shortly I will say some thing And first the definition thereof is when the bodie of a dead man or woman is cut and opened and the members diuided or for the want of dead bodies to reade good bookes as Galen Auicen c. And it behooueth them that cutteth a deade corpse to note foure things First the nutrimentall members as the liuer with the veynes the second is the members spirituall as the heart with the arteries the third is the animall members as the head braines and sinewes the fourth and last be excrements of the bodie as armes legges skin haire c. Of these said members with the bones is all the bodie compounded And like as euerie trée and hearbe haue their rootes in the earth and their braunches springeth vpward euen so the rootes of mankinde haue the beginning in the braine and the sinew and branches groweth downeward in the which braine dwelleth the vertues of imagination fantasie memorie c. And these animall vertues be placed as it were heauenly aboue al the mēbers communicating their heauenly influences down vnto the heart as to a prince or chiefe ruler within the body which giueth life to euery part thereof Thou shalt consider that the hart was the first that receiued life from the spirites and shalbe the last that shall die Note also that as there be noble sences giuen to the body as seeing hearing smelling tasting féeling euen so nature hath foure principall vertues first Attractiue the second Retentiue the third Digestiue the fourth Expulsiue Attractiue is that by the which euery part of the body draweth the food of life serueth the vertue disgestiue and the Retentiue doeth holde the meate vntill it be readie to be altered and changed Digestiue doth alter and maketh the foode like vnto the thing that it nourisheth as fleme bloud c. Expulsiue separateth them from the other the good from the bad Thou oughtest also most chiefly to learne the knowledge of the veines and for what sicknesse they must bée opened and what medicins either in sirups or pils thou must vse And first marke this figure of the Anatomie here present before thee with the heauenly signes because I haue not painted at large the seuerall parts of the said Anatomie The middle veine of the forehead is good to be opened against Megrim forgetfulnes passions of the head And they that be let blood of this or any other veyne must first haue their head purged with pillule Chochi Rasis or some purgation but first vse thinges to extenuate matter as syrruppe of Buglosse c. Against Leprosy and deafnes Let bloud the two veines behind the eares and vse the said pilles or els pillule Aurea Nicholai or Arabice or cōfectio Hameth minor Against replexion or too much blood or bloud in the eies flowing in the head vpon the temple veines called Artiers for they bée euer beating And vse to purge with pillule Artritice Nicholai or puluis ad epithema Hepatis Against Squinancie stopping the throte and stopping of the breath Let bloud the veines vnder the tongue And for this vse Philoniūmaius Necholai and Gargarismes pilule Bechie and oxymel Simplex Ueines called Originales open not without great counsaile of a learned Physicion or cunning Chirurgion They be in the necke and haue a great course of bloud that gouerneth the head and the whole body Against short winde and euill bloud aproching to the heart and spitting bloud Open the vaine called Cordiaca or heart veine in the arme Use thinges to extenuate as Aromaticum Chariophillatum Mesue serapium ex Absinthij in colde time serapium Boraginis hote time and pillule stomachi Agaynst palsie yellow Iaundies burning heats and apostumations of the liuer Open the liuer vein vpon the right arme Take Serapium exendiue Diamargariton frigidum Auicennie Against dropsy open the veine betweene the belly and the braunch the right side against the said dropsy and the left side against the passions of the milte but bée not rash vnlesse ye haue the consaile of one well seene in the Anothomie Use pillule Hiere cum Agarico Agaynst the stopping the secrete tearmes or fluxions of women or helping the Emerods and purging sores Open the veine called Sophane vnder the ancle Theriaca Andromachi Pillule Mastichine Petri de Ebano Within twentie houres after one is infected with the pestilence comming sodenly Open the vein betwéen the wrest of the foote and the great toe Use Serapium Cichorij and Pillule pestilentialis Ruffi Against stinking breath Open the veyne betwéene the lip and the chin Use for this Catharicum imperiale Nicho Alexandri Against the toothake Open the veine in the roofe of the mouth And first purge with Pillule Choci Rasis or with pilles of masticke Against quartens tercians and paines of the left side Open the splene veine commonly called the low veine with a wide cut and not deepe For Chirurgions nicely pricking or opening veynes with little Scarisfactions doe let out good pure bloud and still retaine grosse colde and drie earthly matter to the great hurt of their patients And albeit many more veynes might here be spoken of and their vtilities yet this shall well suffice by Gods grace to kéepe all people in health that vpon iust cause haue these veynes opened except olde men women with childe and children vnder xiiii yeares of age or men after diuerse agues For

helped very much with this Methridatū drunken with stilled waters palsies sickenesses in the midriffe the liuer reines and bladder be cleansed therby it prouoketh the menstrual termes in womē being drunk with posset ale If Isop or Germander bee sodden in the said ale it is excellent against the pestilence or poison if it be drunke but a little quantitie thereof according to the disease strength or age of the person It is very good against the stone or for womē which haue a new disease peraccidents called the gréene sicknes there is nothing better against the biting of a mad dogge than to drinke of this and to annoint the wound If it be giuen in drinke to any sicke bodie a little before the accesse or comming of the olde fittes of quotidians tercians or quarteins so that it be drunke with wine temperately warmed This Methridatum is a medicine of no small price Democrates hath a goodly composition of it an other excellent composition is of Cleopatre as Galen writeth An other and the most excellent is the description of Andromachus phisition vnto king Nero but the chief father of this act was king Mithridatus the noble king of Ponthus after whose name it is called Ioh. Indeed this is an excellent medicine but I pray thee where shall I buy it Hum. The blind fellow Iohn doe eate many a flie and the plaine meaning man is oft deceyued There is no trust in some of the Apothecaries for although the vsurpation of quid pro quo is tollerable for their Succidanes yet to abuse their simples or compounds it is not onely theft to rob simple men but also murther to kill the hurtlesse Ioh. Of late time we haue beene so afflicted with sundrie sickenesses and strange diseases that in many places we could get no physitions to helpe vs and when men be sodainly sicke 200. miles from London Cambridge or Oxford it is too late for the patient to sende for helpe being infected with the pestilence I pray thee tel me some good regiment for me my family if it please God that it may take place Hum. I shall be glad forasmuch as thou hast taken paines to heare me all this while to teach thée a pretie regiment for the pestilence Ioh. Reade it faire and softly and I will take my pen and write it Hum. Certainly the occasion of this most feareful sicknesse commeth many waies as the change of the aire from a good vnto an euill qualitie taking his venemous effect of the vital spirits which incontinent with all spéede corrupteth the spirituall blood And sodenly as it were an vnmercifull fire it quickly consumeth the whole bodie ouen vnto death vnlesse the wholsome medicine doe preuent and come to the heart before the pestilent humor And because it is a very strong sicknes it is requisite to haue a strong curing medicine For weake things will not preuail against so strong a matter Therfore I pray you note these six sayings as aire diet sléepe or watch quietnes or trouble and finally medicine First walk not in stinking mists nor by corrupt marrish ground nor in extreme hot weather but in fair cleare aire vpon high ground in swéet fields or gardens hauing fire in your chāber with swéet perfumes of the smoke of Olibanum or Beniamen Frankensence being cold weather And in hote weather roses willow branches sprinkled with vineger often shifting the chamber is wholsom fléeing the South winde Secondly diet moderate eating meate of good digestion as all that haue pure white flesh both of beasts and foules good bread of wheate partly leauened Eate no raw hearbs purslein Lettise yong Lettish or sorrel except with vineger Drinke of cleare thin wine not chaunged and vse often times vineger with your meates and mingle not fish and flesh together in your stomacke to drinke a tisant of barly water rose water sorrell water betwene meals is good eight spoonfuls at once Thirdly beware you sléepe not at noone it bringeth many sicknesses and giueth place to the pestilence and abateth memory For as the marigold is spred by the day and closed by the night euen so is man of nature disposed although through custome otherwise altered vnto great domage and hurt of body Eight hours sléepe suffiseth well to nature but euery complexion hath his proper qualities to sléepe vpon the right side is best euill vpon the left and worse vpon the backe Fourthly vse moderate exercise and labor for the euacuation of the excrements as swift going vp hilles stretching forth armes and legges lifting weightes not verie ponderous for by labour the first and second digestion is made perfite and the bodie strengthened and this is a mightie defence agaynst the pestilence and many mo infirmities wheras through idlenesse be engendered all diseases both of the soule and bodie whereof man is compounded made Fifthly aboue all earthly thinges mirth is most excellent and the best companion of life putter away of all diseases the contrarie in plague time bringeth on the pestilence through painefull melancholie which maketh the body heauy earthly Company musicke honest gaming or any other vertuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heauinesse of mind Sixtly medicine the partie being chaunged in nature and condition trembling or burning vomiting with extreame paine in the day colde in the night and strange imaginations c. Apt to sléepe when these signes doe appeare giue him medicine before xij houres or else it will be his death Take therefore with all spéed sorrel one handful stamped with Rew Enulacampana Oringe rindes Citron seedes the great thistlerootes Geneper berries walnuts cleane picked of each one ounce stampe them all together then take pure sharpe vineger a quarter of a pynt as much buglesse water as much white wine and temper your sayde receytes with these licours Then put in two ounces of pure Methridatum and romachi which is an excellent triacle and two drams weight of the powder of pure Bolearmein mingle them all togither in a verie close vessell and giue the pacient a spoonefull or more next his heart and etfsoones asmuch more let them that take this not sléepe during twētie hours or else take pure triacle and setwel mingled in posset ale made with white wine wherein sorrel hath boyled a good draught and let an expert Chirurgion let the pacient bloud vpon the middle veine called Mediana or the heart veine Basilica a good quantitie according to the strength and age of the pacient except women with childe and children For the retaining the said bloud would all turne to venom and incurable poison And note this that blood bee lette vpon the same side that the sore doth appeare If any appeare for many causes and sléep not viij houres after and vse this most excellent pill oftentimes Take pure aloes epatik and myrre well washed in cleane water or rose water of each 2. drams and one dram of the powder

bloud letting will then engender perillous palsies as verie excellent Phisitions haue well declared And after one be infected with the pestilence xxiiii houres before hee haue receyued medicine or bloud letting miracle helpeth him but truly no medicine hath vertue to doe it Ioh. This same figure although it appeareth in many bookes yet verie fewe do vnderstand it in all points such be the secrete workes of nature And whereas thou hast well spoken of some veynes and apt medicines for the body I woulde faine see the true forme and shape of the bones Hum. Oh Iohn it were a long time to shewe the singular members with compounds as Galen doth in his booke of the partes and bones It requireth onely one worke but I haue taken in hand to teach thee but a Gouernment of health notwithstanding at thy request I will briefly rehearse the number of the bones no lesse true than newe which is the verie timber or postes whereupon our fraile flesh is builded beginning in our mothers wombes and ending in earth the mother of all things And as the noble prince Auicen affirmeth the number of all the bones be two hundred fourty and foure beside Sasamina Os laude Ioh. Thou hast spoken of the opening of veynes and medicins conuenient to cleanse the bloud with the number of bones but thou hast not spoken of conuenient time when to let blood nor of the state or age of them whose veynes should be opened Therefore I would be glad to learne not onely time of bloud-letting but also of purging the belly vomits bathings neesings and rubbing of the bodie c. Hum. Euery thing hath his time conuenient and must bee done with sober discretion and not with rash ignorance which killeth an infinite number Therefore the cause must be knowne and the time obserued as Galen writeth in the Commentarie of the Afforismes of Hippocrates manie bodies be extinguished by suddē death in whom is extreme fulnesse or aboundance For aboundance of blood or any other humor sayth Aristotle is the cause of many sickenesses and those men that vse much gluttonie in Winter shall bee apt to receyue manie diseases in the Spring time Therefore when the bodie hath extreme heat fulnes of veynes flushing with sodain rednesse in the face grosse and red vrine and such burning heate in the night that let the sleepe c then it is tyme to euacuate the bodie with some purgation bloud letting or abstinence as the strength and age of the patient will serue For manie diseases be helped by discrete bloud letting as Plurises hot Feuers Frensies Repletion or Surfets taken with ouermuch eating or drinking as Galen sayeth The letting of bloud dryeth vppe the superfluous moysture of the bellie helpeth memorie purgeth the bladder quieteth y e braine warmeth the marrow openeth the organs of hearing helpeth digestion induceth sleepe c. Unto this agréeth Rasis saying it helpeth greatly against Leprosie Squinances Appoplexes Pestilences c. But olde men children or women with childe ought not to be let bloud nor also those people that dwell in colde regions may not be let bloud because the bloud is the chief warmer of nature The people that dwell in hot regions if they be letten bloud it will dry their bodies for blood is the chiefe moister of nature Therefore is the heate of Sommer and the coldnesse of Winter forbidden to open veynes or let bloud except for a stripe or sudden chaunce as Rasis sayth the spring of the yeare is the chiefe time to let bloud in the right arme or right foote in the veyne called Mediana Which veyne must bee opened aswell at other times in the beginning of sicknesses as hot feuers and plurisies c. as Basilica should bee opened in the middle or toward the ende of a sickenesse Purgations ought to bee ministred with great discretion and not rashly to be taken for euerie trifle as thou hast heard me speake of bloud letting So obserue the selfe same rules in purgation as time person qualitie or quantitie For Hippocrates sayeth without doubt it is needfull to purge the superfluitie of the bodie As if bloud doe abound to take things to purge blood If fleugme be superfluous then take things to cleanse his superfluitie If choler bée too ardent hote vse things to extinguish If melancholy be too extreme then taste things to bring him into a meane And not to purge one humour with the medicines of an other but to take them in due order and aptnes For the said humors as Valarius Cordus Mesue and Nicholas teach the maner of making of the most excellent purgations with their quantities And as in blood letting sléepe must bee auoyded for viii or xii houres after them so when your purgations be taken aire is to be auoided and to be kept close for ii or thrée daies or more as the malice of the disease or power of the purgations be the counsaile of Rasis must bee followed which sayth oftentimes to take Purgations or laxatiue medicines doeth make the bodie weake and apt to the Feuer ethicke and specially in verie leane or weake persons they that bee verie fat haue small guts and veynes purgations bee verie noisome vnto them But strong bodies hauing large vessels may sustaine purgations without any hurt but strong purgations either in pils or potions if they any thing do excéede be verie hurtfull therefore the doces or quantities may not excéede And also they must bee made as pleasant as Art can doe them vnlesse they offend the stomacke Hippocrates giueth counsell that men should not mingle medicins with meate but to take them thrée or foure hours before meat or else so long after Unlesse they bee pils called Antecibum which may bée taken at the beginning of supper or else Pilli chochi a little before sléepe two hours after supper The best time of purgations is in the spring time as the doctors doth affirme the apt dayes and signes are commonly knowne in the English Almanacks calculated into English As in the writings of master Leonard Digges and of William Kenningham a learned student both in Astronomie and Phisicke with manie mo good men that taketh paynes to profite the common wealth There is another maner of purging of the bodie by vomit for it clenseth from the midriffe vpward if they haue large brests and be cholericke persons It is good against dropsies leprosies better in summer than in winter as Hippocrates saith and wholsomer one houre before supper than at any other time and not to be vsed as a custome for the custome of vomits hurteth greatly the head and eies and maketh the stomack so féeble that it will scant beare anie meates or drinkes but eftsoones cast them vp again They which haue narrowe throtes and breastes and long neckes vomits be neither apt nor good for them And Auicen saith that vomits