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A95920	Regimen sanitatis Salerni: or, The schoole of Salernes regiment of health. Containing, most learned and judicious directions and instructions, for the preservation, guide, and government of mans life. Dedicated, unto the late high and mighty King of England, from that university, and published (by consent of learned physicians) for a generall good. Reviewed, corrected, and inlarged with a commentary, for the more plain and easie understanding thereof. / By P.H. Dr. in Physicke, deceased. Whereunto is annexed, a necessary discourse of all sorts of fish, in use among us, with their effects appertaining to the health of man. As also, now, and never before, is added certain precious and approved experiments for health, by a right honorable, and noble personage.; Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum. English and Latin.	Joannes, de Mediolano.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.; Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?; Paynell, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing V384; Thomason E592_9; ESTC R203898	149,028	239

of blood is wholesome There be two kinds of melancholymatural and vunafural Naturall is the dregs of bloud which when it aboundeth it runneth with blood and in letting of bloud is votded therewith For of the same temperate beat blood and melancholy the dregs thereof is engendred The fourth rule is that when boyling conturbation and calefactions of humors is feared it is wholesome to let blood and those persons as soon as they feel themselves inflamed should be let blood to avoid the foresaid motions caused by the great aboundance of humors Yet otherwhiles some ●e deceived by this rule for forthwith when they feel calefaction and fear boyling of humors they let them blood And when this commeth of beat calefaction and incision the calefaction or boyling ceaseth not by Blood letting but it is rather augmented for bloud-letting moveth the humors and maketh them run thorough the body Therefore letting of Blood is not wholesome except it be for aboundance of humors which is known by much sweat especially in the morning for there be some that sweat not except they need evacuation The fift this is they that be mighty and strong should be let bloud and not they that be cold and dry For Rasis saith That those bodies are apt to be let bloud which have great apparent veins that be h●iry and coloured between brown and red and folks not too young nor too old for children and vnweldy aged persons should not be letblo●d except necessity require ie Many of the said rules be gathered out ●i Avicen Aestas Ver dextras Autumnus Hyemsque sinistras Quatuo haec membra cephe cor pes epar vacuatur Ver Cor Epar Aestas ordo sequens reliqua Spring-time and Summer if we intend to bleed Veins on the right side do require as need Autumn and Winter they the left side crave In arm or soot as they best like to have The Head Heart Foot and Liver all these four Emptying require themselves best to restore The Heart calls for the Spring Summer the Liver Order vnto the rest is a due giver Here the Author reciting certain things concerning the members that be let bloud saith That in War and Summer the veyns of the right hand arm or foot should be let bloud But in winter and Autumn the veyns of the left hand arm or foot must be diminished The cause hereof may be for that Her encreaseth Blood and Summer Choler therfore in Uer and Summer vs should diminish those veins in which bloud Choler abound which be on the right side of the body near to the member that engendreth good bloud that is the Liver and the receptacle of choler the Gall. Autumne engendreth Melancholy which is gathered together and not resolved by Winter therefore in War and Winter these two Ueyns should be let-bloud in which melancholy hath dominion which be the left side voins for the spleneis on the left side of the body which is the receptacle of Melancholy Secondly be saith the Head the Heart the Foot and the Liver according to the four Seasons of the year must be emp●led the Heart in Uer the Liver in Summer the Head in Winter and the Foot in Autumn Dat saluatella tibi plurima dona minuta Purgat Epar splenem pectus praecordia vocem Iunaturalem tollit de corde dolorem Saluatella the opering of that Veyn In any man five benefits doth gain The Liver it doth purge from all offence And from the Splene commands annoyance thence Preserves the stomacks mouth and clears the Brest And keeps the voyce from being by harms opprest Here the Author reciteth five commodityes that come by letting of blood of the vein Saluatella It is the vein on the back of the hand between the midle singer and the King-singer it purgeth the lyder it cleanseth the Splene it mundifieth the brett is pr●serveth the stomacks mouth from hurt it doth away the hurt of the voice The reason of all these commodityes is because the foresaid vein avoideth blood from all these places as after it shall appeat For a more ample declaration you are to understand that in letting of blood other whiles the veynes be opened and sometime the Art●ryes The opening of the Artery is dangerous the cause here of is the overmuch bleeding which is caused two wapes One is through fervent heat of the Artery blood for a hot thing is soon moveable and dilateth and openeth the Artery and therefore t● help●●h much to void the blood in letting blood the Artery The second cause is mobility of the Artery and therefore the wound or gash in it is slowly healed Yet this letting of blood is wholesome thrée mannet of ways First when there is aboundauce of subtile blood in the body Secondly when the blood is vaporous Thirdly when it is hot For subtile blood of which natural blood and spirits be engendred rest each in the artery but gross blood that nourisheth the members resteth in the veins Like wise the vaporous blood is contained in the artery and sanguine blood in the veyn Also the hottest blood the which is of the heart the hottest member engendred and digested is contained in the Artery and the other Blood in the Veyns Secondly note that the veyns are opened in many members sometime in the arm or in the hand great or small sometime in the foot sometime in the nose sometime in the fore-head sometime in the lips sometime vnder the tongue or in the roof of the mouth sometime in the corner of the Eyes toward the fore-head From the Arm-pit to the Elbow are five veyns to be opened as Rasis and Avicen sayth The first is called Cephalica which is the Head-veyn The second is Basilica which is the Liver-veyn The third is called Mediana or Cardiaca or Nigra after Avicen or Matrix after Rasis The fourth is called Assillaris The fift is called Funis brachij In the left hand is Saluatella so that in the arm in that it contayneth the more and the lesse hand are six veyns to be opened Cephalica emptieth the parts abont the neck and therefore to open that veyn it is good for the diseases of the head as the Megrim and other hot griefs caused of hot matter This veyn beginneth at the shoulder and goeth forth soward the left side of the arm Basilica emptieth the parts vnder the neck as from the Bre●● and Liver and therefore the letting blood of this veyn is wholesome for diseases of the Brest and Liver and right good in a Plurisle This veyn beginneth at the arm-hole and goeth along to the bowing of the arm Mediana is betwéen these two said veins and is compact of them beth for it is the branch of each And it is also Median in vacuation for it voydeth from all about vnder from and about the neck Wherefore it is the vniversall veyn to all the body in voyding but not vniuersall as some say because it beginneth at the heart but because it is

floweth to the stomack which biting the stomack paineth the heart and stomack so that it causeth one to sound The twelfth is loathing for if in this loathing one be let bloud when the veyns be empty they draw to them ill matter that causeth loathsomnesse And besides the foresaid accidents th●●● be yet other that hinder bloud-letting First voyding of menstruous stire or the Emrauts for one diseased with either of these should not be let bloud yet it may be done to divert the flix or matter another tray The second is rarenesse of composition for in rare bodies is much dissolution And therefore this dissolution sufficeth them without evacuation as Galen saith Gal. 9. Res. The third is rawnesse and clamminesse of humours for then beware of leting of bloud because it encreaseth rawnes of humors therefore in long sicknesse ye should not be let bloud for of rawnesse humors encrease strength séebleth and the sicknesse prolongeth And therefore Avicen saith That in long sicknesse before one is let bloud he should take a laxative although he need both Rawnesse of humors is caused two ways One is through aboundance of humors that choke natural heat which choking breedeth raw humors and then bloud-letting is wholesome Wherefore Alexander saith Letting of bloud in the beginning of dropsie is wholesome Alex 2. l. cap. hydropic when it commeth by aboundance of menstruous bloud that through some cause is prohibited to issue or by aboundance of the Enmauds For like as a little fire is quenched under a great heap of wood so likewise naturall heat is suffocated with aboundance of humours The second cause of raw humors is féeblenesse of naturall heat as in folks of feeble complexion or such as have him long sick or be very aged for then the said bloud-letting is vnwholsome because it augmenteth rawnesse for the bloud that conserveth heat is drawn out and so the body is made cold and the humors more raw Therefore the bloud must be left to digest raw humors The fourth is vndue disposition of the ayr either too hote or too cold for much heat causeth strong resolution and great cold maketh the bloud thick and vnapt to issue or avoyd Quid debes facere quando vis stsbothomari Vel quando minuis fuer is vel quands minutus Vnctio siv potus lavacrum vel fascia motus Debent non fragili tibi singula mente teneri What should we do when we to bleeding go These faw instructions following will show Before and after unction will do well Lest the incision or the veyn should swell Yet unction without wine is not so good It prevents sowning and begets new bloud Bathing is wholesome in divers times observed And linnen cloths ought well to be reserved After bloud-letting be discreet in walking And trouble not the brain with too much talking This Text declareth five things that ought to be done about Bloud-letting Five things in letting bloud some before some at the time and some after The first is annointing which otherwhile is vsed in the Bloud-letting as to annoint the place or veyn that is opened to asswage the veyn Sometime it is vsed after Bloud-letting to keep the gash that it close not vp too soon that the humors that be lest in the veyns may have some respiration and some ill fumes voyd out The second is to drink and specially wine which is good in Bloud-letting if one happen to sown add also it is very whol●some after Bloud-letting to revive the spirits and engender new Bloud which thing in practise all Physicians observe The third is bayning which is wholesome thrée days before and thrée days after and not the same day It is good before if one think he have grosse humors within him for bayning looseth and moveth the humors and for the same cause it is wholesome to take a sharp strupe before to move dissolve and make subtile the humors And therefore when ye will let one bloud ye must rub the arm that the humors in the veyn be made subtile and prepared to issue out more eastly It is wholesome after bloud-letting that the residue of humors and vayors that be left behind may be loosed It is not wholesome the same day for bayning maketh the skin linnow or supple which made linnow will not abide the stroke that is given in bloud-letting and that is dangerous The fourth is binding with linnen cloaths which is very wholesome to stop the bloud after often evacuation thereof and before bleeding to draw the humors in the veyns and to cause them to swell and better to appear The fift is moderate walking after bloud-letting to dissolve and make subtile the humors and afterward to loose the residue of the humors that be left behind Some vse to let bloud fasting vut some other say it were better to eat a rere rafted Egge first and thereto drinke a draught of wine about the hour of nine or ten before dinner and forthwith to let bloud because when the stomack is empty nature retaineth still the bloud more strongly lest she should lack nourishment But when they have eat a little nourishing meat as wine and egges is then nature suffereth the bloud better to issue Exhilar at tristes iratos placat amantes Ne sint amentes flebothomia sacit Bleeding removes sad motions from the heart Asswageth anger being too mallepart And those distempered fits procur'd by love Bloud-letting gently doth them all remove Three effects of bloud letting First it maketh a sad person merry Secondly it pleaseth angry folks and the reason is this because much melancholy mingled with blood causeth heavinesse and much choler causeth anger which two humors as they be mingled with blood are drawn our by blood ●etting Thirdly it keepeth Lovers from furious raving for i● removeth the blood from the head and avoideth is by other exteterior parts Furthermore there be five cause of blood-letting The first is that the aboundance whether it be in quality or quantity or both should be voided For as Avicen sayth Two manner of folks must be let blood One are such as be disposed to be sick that have aboundance of bloud in quantity The other are they that are sick already through the malice of humours or blood But there is a difference in these bloud-lettings For bloud-letting for the aboundance of bloud ought to be much but when it is done to avoid ill bloud it must be moderate as Galen saith And therefore they do very ill that let themselves blood till they perceive the good blood issue for peradventure all their blood shall run out ere they see any good bloud appear Therefore they should void a little at once and after the mind of Galen in this case Before they let one bloud they should give him good meats to engerder good blood to fulfill the place of the ill blood that is avoided and after within a little space to let bloud a little and a little This

is called direct letting of bloud for it is done to avoid aboundance of bloud and of such humors as should be avoided The first indirect cause is the greatnesse of the disease and greatnesse of the apparent vehement inflamation for as Galen saith There is no better Medicine for an Impostume of vehement inflamation Fevers and a great ach then bloud-letting The second indirect cause is that the matter which is to bee avoided be● drawne unto the place from whence it must be avoided And therefore in retention of the menstruous flix Emetauds The great vein in the feet called Saphena must be opened as Galen sayth to draw down the matter of the bloud The third indirect cause is to draw the humours to the place contrary to the place that they flow to to divert them after from the place Therefore for too much aboundance of menstruosity the vein Basilica must bee let blood to turns the matter to the contrary part and so to void it from the proper course And therefore he that hath a Pluresie on his left side must be let bloud on the right side to divert and draw the matter to the place contrary to that place that it enclineth so And likewise if it be on the right side to let blood on the left The fourth indirect cause is that by letting of blood one portion of the matter may be avoided that nature may be strong upon the residue and so letting of blood is wholesome when the body is full least impostumes grow for the regiment of nature is feeble in regard of these humours Wherefore when a portion of matter is voided nature governeth the matter so that it should not flow to some weak place and breed an Impostume Fac plagam largam mediocriter vt cito fumus Excat vberius liberiusque cruor The Orifice or as some say incision When as for bleeding you do make provision Ought to be large the better to convay Grosse bloud and sumes which issue forth that way Grosse humors and grosse bloud must needs have vent In cold or hottest times by good consent Here the Author saith that the gash or Orifice made in letting of bloud ought to be of a mean largenesse that the grosse blood may easily issue out for when the gash is straight the pure blood only goeth out and the gross abideth stil in And note that sometime the gash must be great and sometime smal The gash must be great for thrée causes First because the humors be gross and gross blood must be voided as in them that be melancholly Secondly in winter the gash must be great for cold engrosseth the humors Thirdly for the aboundance of humors for they avoid better by a great gash then by a smal But the gash must be smal when the person is of weak strength that the spirits and naturall heat avoid not too much and likewise in a hot season and when the blood is pute Sanguine subtracto sex h●ris est vigilandum Ne somni fumus laedat sensibile corpus Ne nervum laedat non sit tibi plaga profunda Sanguine purgatus non carpas protinus escas When bloud is come away ye must be sure Six hours after watchfull to endure Least sleep raise fumes or turning on that arm Impostumes breed by doing it least harm The nerves and sinews Arteries also Offend not if in health you mean to go The blood thus purg ' d you instantly may eat So that the humors be in quiet set Three things must be considered when one is let blood First that bee sleeps not in sixe houres after least the fume engendred by sléept ascend to the head and hurt the brain Furthermore least in his sleep he turns him on the arme that in let bloud and thereby hurt him and least the humors by sleep flow to the painfull member by reason of the incision and so breed an impostume For Galen sayth Impostumes breed in the body or in a member that is hurt the humors will flow thereunto But Avicen assigneth another cause That by such sleep may chance confraction of the members The cause may be as Galen saith That sleep is unwholesome in the Ague-fit Gal. 2 aph super illo In quo c. because naturall heat goeth inward and the outward parts wax cold and the fumes remain unconsumed whereby the rigor is augmented and the Fever-fit prolonged Also by moving of the humors in letting of blood fumes are ●aised up to the sinews and brawns of the arms which remaining vnconsumed wax cold in sleep and ingresse in the viter parts And therefore it one sleep immediately after letting of blood they cause confraction of the sinews and brawns of the arms And he saith further That one in letting of blood must beware that he make not the gash too deep least he hurt a sinew Gal. coni●●●u● aph que reguntur or an arterie-string under the vein for hurting of a sinew causeth a mortal cramp or loss of a member as an arm or a finger and hurt of an artery-string causeth bleeding uncurable And one ought also not to eat immediately after he is let bloud but he must tarry til the humors in him be at quiet least the meat before it be digested be drawn together with the blood to succor the hurt member Omnia de lacte vitabis rite minute Et vitet potum flebothomatus homo Prigida vitabit quia sunt inimica minutis Interdictus erit minutis unbilus acr Spiritus enultat minutis luce per auras Omnibus apta quies est motui valde nosivus Shun milk and white meats when we are let blood Because at such times they are never good And drinking then perforce we should refrain With undigested drink ne're fill a vein Cold and cold 〈◊〉 with all cold things beside Are then our enemies by proof well tryed Cloudy and troubled Ayrs are likewise ill With melancholy bloud the veyns they fill Too stirring motion or excessive labour Avoid and with soft ease the body favour Here the Author saith sive things must be eschewed of him that is let bloud The first is milk and white meats for by stirring of humors caused by letting of bloud oft times some humors sloweth to the stomack therefore if he should eat milk by mingling with the humors it would corrupt in the stomack sith of it self it is very coruptible And also by reason that it is sweet the milk may be drawn to the veyns undigested and through stirring of humors lightly corrupt Secondly he must beware of much brinking for by reason that the dryns be empty the drink vndigested is lightly drawn to them as is before said Thirdly be must eschew all cold things as well outward as inward as meats very cold ayr cold hathing thin clothing resting on stones colonesse of the head and séet for by reason that the naturall beat is feebled by setting of bloud the body will soon be too cold Fourthly he that is

the branch of Cephalica and Basilica Therefore when you will let Cephalica bloud and it appeareth not ye should rather take Mediana then Basilica And likewise when ye will let Basilica bloud and it appeareth not ye should rather minish Mediana then Cephalica For it agreeth better to both then one of them with the other Saluatella is the veyn between the middle finger and the ring-finger more declining to the middle finger It beginneth of Basilica This veyn is opened in the right hand for opilation of the Liver and in the left hand for opilation of the Splene There is no reason why it should be so as Avicen saith but only Experience which Galen sound by a Dream as he saith He had one in cure whose Liver and Splene were stopt and he dreamed that he did let him bloud of this veyn and so he did and cured the Patient When this veyn is let bloud the hand must be put in warm water to engrosse and dilate it because it is suvtile and that the gash should not close too soon and to make the gross bloud thin Assillaris is vnder Basilica and appeareth in binding the arm and the like judgment is of it as of Basilica Punis brachi● is over Cephalica or else the bindermost bone and is of one judgment with Cephalica Therefore as Avicen and Galen say Though in opening of veyns be universall vacuation of all the body yet not from all the veyns equally nor like jeopardy is not in all For Rasis saith That Cophalica is the surer and Basilica more to be seared and Cardiaca is to be feard but not so much as Basilica Cephalica is surest for there is neither sinew nor Artery above nor under it but vnder Cardiaca there is a sinew and vyper above it is a subtil sinew therefore it is to fear least it should be cut Basilica is very jeopardous for vnder it is an Artery and near it a sinew and a muscle Saluatella is not jeopardous and therefore the better to open it it would be put in warme water In the feet he three veins Scyatica Saphena and the Ham-veyn These veynes be opened to draw the bloud to the lawer paris as in provoking menstruosity and the Hamme veyn is better then Saphena or Scyatica because it is nearer the matrice Saphena draweth blood from the yard cordes and matrice and Scyatica from the ancles reynes and other members towards mans left side Saphena from the Matrice and members there about they be branches of one veyn In the midst of the forehead is a veyn which is opened for old diseases of the face as Morphew dry scutse and Scab and for diseases of the eyes but first Cephalica must be minished There is likewise a veyn in the nose when any of them is opened the neck must be bound one opened after another and by binding of the neck they will better appear There be veyns in the lips which be opened for impostums in the month or g●●ns but Cephalica is first minished To open the four veins in the rooffe of the mouth is wholsom against the rheums that flow to the téeth and cause them to ak● These veins appear plainly and must be opened when the matter is digested There be veins in the corners of the eyes towards the forehead and they be opened for diseases of ths eyes but first Cephalica must be minished The veins in the Temples be let blood for the Megrim and for great and long Head-ache And those bee she veyns that Hypocrates and Galen call Iuveniles the incision of these veynes maketh a man vnapt to get Children Also in the neck be veins called Guides which must be opened in the beginning of ●epry and specially for stopping of the wind-pipes and in the Squinancie which letteth one to draw his breath Si dolor est capitis ex potu limpha bibatur Epotu nimio nam Febris acuta creatur Si vertex capit is vel frons aestu tribulentur Tempora fromsque simul moderate saepe fricentur Mirtella cocta nec non calidaque laventuo If head-ach come by drinking too much wine Or any other drink that may resign The bodies danger to an Ague fit Ingrossing fumes that much perplex the wit To drink cold water let him not refrain Because it hinders all that hurts the brain Crown of the head or fore-head being vext And with extremity of heat perplext Chafe then the temples with mild moderation And wash them with warm water in good fashion But seething Motherwort therein is best Because it gently cools and causes rest Here the Author noting two things saith That if the head-ach come by too much drinking Head-ach caused by drinking and remedy therefore and specially of wine or of any other drink that maketh folke drunken one must drink cold water upon it the which with the coldnesse thereof ingrosseth the fumes that are lifted up letteth them to hurt the brain The second thing is that if the top of the head or forehead be grieved with too much hear then the Temples should be moderately chafed and after washed with warm water in the which Mother-wort is sod for Mother-wort is cold and ●ooleth Temporis Aestivi j●ixnia co●pora siceant Quolibet in mense confert vomitus queque purgat Humores nocnos stomach● lavat ambitus omnes Ver Autumnus Hyems Aestas dominatur in anno Tempore vernali calidus sit aer humidusque Et nullum tempus meltits sit slebethomi● Vsus tunc homim veneris conf●rt moderatus Corporis motus ventrisque s●●●ni sudor Balnea purgentur turc corpora cum Medicinis AEstas morocalet siccat nascatur in illa Tunc quoquam praecipue coleram rubeam dominari Humida frigisla fercula dentur sit Venus extra Balnea non prosunt sit r●ra Flchothomia Veilis est requies sit cum modoramine potus In summer season fasting is not good Because it dries the body and the bloud To vomit once a month wholsom some hold For hurtfull humors thereby are controld And voided quite away The stomack clear Beware what next annoyance commech there Spring Autumn Winter Summer rule the year And all their severall hours in them appear The Vernall season is both moyst and hot And for bloud-letting no time better got Let men with Venus meddle moderately For then they best any spare such company Then temperate motion lask nor sweat offends To purge by bathing Phisick then commends Summer is hot and dry red Choler then Encreaseth and dries all that 's moist in men Meates moist and cool do best become that season And wantoning with women shews small reason Bath not at all and seldome open a vein Vse little motion labouring much refrain And drink but little least it prove to pain Here the Author noting divers things saith That much falling in Summer dryeth the body for in that that Summer is of nature hot and dry it resolveth the humors the

which also be resolved by oft sweating in Summer and so falling thereupon dryeth the body much more for when the humidity of meates is gone the heat of the body worketh upon his own humidities and dryeth them clean away Wherefore Hypocrates saith Hunger is expedient for those that be very moyst for hunger dryeth the body The second thing is that vomiting once a moneth is wholesome for thereby hurtfull humors that be contained in all the circuit of the stomack are voyded To this agreeth Avicen saying Hypocrates biddeth one to vomit every month twice two days one after another that the second day may avoid it that which the first could not this conserveth health and scoureth the stomack from flegm and choler The stomack hath nothing to purge it like as the guts have red choler Avicen putteth other prests of vomiting that it is well done First it is good for head-ach caused of moyst vapurous matters that ascend from the stomack to the head but if head-ach come of his own hurt of the brain then vomiting doth rather hurt then proffe Secondly it cleareth the sight darkned with vaporous matter of the stomack or else not The third is it doth away wambling of the stomack in that it avoideth the hum is that cause it The fourth is it comforteth the stomack into which choler is descended the which corrupteth the meat The fift is it doth away loathing or abborting of meat The sixt is it doth away the cause that maketh one have a ●●st to sharp pantike and sower things the which cause by these dispositions being removed putteth or doth away the effects thereof The seventh is vomiting is wholesome for the lask that commeth before the Dropsie for it avoydeth the matter of the said lask and purgeth the stomack The eight is it is wholesome for the grief of the reins and bladder for it diverieth the matter that sloweth of those parts another way The ninth is if vomiting be done by constraint of Elchory it avoydeth the matter whereof Lepry groweth it amendeth the first digestion that the other digestions may the better be done The tenth is it maketh one to have a good colour The eleventh is it purgeth the stomack of a humor that causeth Epilepcy The twelfth is by strong constraint it removetth stopping matter the which causeth Ictericy And likewise it avoydeth a slegmatick matter the which commonly is cause of stopping The thirtéenth is it avoydeth the matter that causeth Asma a disease that causeth one to draw his breath painfully and also it comforteth the spirituall members by whose heat the superfluities that cause Asma are consumed The fourtéenth is it is wholesome against shaking and palste for it avoydeth the matter that is cause thereof The fifteenth is it is whelesome for one that hath great black sores on his lower parts for it turneth the humours from thence Now although vomiting duly and well done because of these commodities yet when it is vuduly done It induceth many hurts for it feebleth the stomack and maketh it apt for matters to slow into it hurteth the brest the sight the teeth causeth head-ach as Avicen saith The third thing that is noted in the text is that there bée foate Seasons of the yeare Spring Summer Autumn and Winter Spring time in respect of the other Seasons is vote and moyst though it be temperate in it selfe as Galen saith in his book of Complexions wherefore it followeth that this Season is more apt to let bloud then the other for it doth more enerease humours And therefore in this Season moderate vse of carnall copulation temperate motion lask stire and sweat is convenient and likewise temperate bathing to diminish repletion This Season is good to take purgations in The fourth is Summer heateth and dryeth and therefore it encreaseth red Choler hot and dry And for this cause is Summer we must seed on cold and moyst meats to diminish the ferventnesse of the heat and drought and then too ought to abstain from carnall copulation the which also dryeth and from oft hayning and be let blaud seldome nor like cause We must vse quietuesse and littie motion for quietnesse doth moyst and much motion dryeth In this season especially we must vse moderally to drink cold brink for superfluous drinking of cold drink by reason that the pores be open doth make the body suddenly to take cold or causeth the Palsle or laraty of the members or else sudden death From the which He defend Vs that liveth and raigneth eternally A MEN. FINIS THE TABLE A A Light supper pa. 2.13 Ale not well sod pa 60. Ale moderately drunk pa. cadem Anger pa. 12. Anger for certain folks is necessary pa. cadem Avoid water as often as needeth pa. 13 Apples pa. 21. A strong brain p. 45. Ayr is necessary two wayes p. 51. Ayr temperate and sweet p. cad 52.159 Amity between a Pike and a Perch p. 83. Asses milk p. 93. Amarillis a Bird. p. 81. Auripigmentum p. 158. Anise-seed with the vtilities thereof p. 115. Aboundance of blood is known by the thicknesse of the Urin. p. 76. Artery bloud p 181. Assellaris the vein p. 164 B Bacon p. 72. Bayning p. 182. Basilica the vein p. 199. Best hog-flesh p. 26. Begin thy dinner and thy supper with Ale p. ●● Begin thy meal with moist meat p. 99. Bean. p. 91. Beware of fruits in Autumn p. 63. Birds that she most swiftly are most praised p. 82. Bestiall fish p. 85. Be not too neer in observing custem p. 123. Bloud the treasure of Nature p. 179. Bloud provoketh to larghing p. eadom Bloud-letting p. 181. Black rice p 91. Black wine p. 39. Bodies wax more stronger by night then by day p. 14. Brawn p. 39. Brain of hens chickens hogs sheep hares and conies p 113. Brains p. 36. Braines well digested and for whom they be wholesom p. eadem Brains are medicinable and for whom p. 156. Branchus p. 8. Brimstone p. 134. Broth of Coleworts p. 127. Bread p. 35. Bread made with pure flower and some bran p. 71. Riting fume p. 35. Butter● milk p. 35.95 Butter p. 94. Bulls hom p. 144. Bloud letting restraineth vomiting and the lask p. 180. Bloud-letting may augment the lask two ways p. ead Bloud letting cooleth and augmenteth coldnes p. ead Bloud-letting is good for fevers and great aches p. ead Bodies that are apt to bee let bloud p. 168. C Care of mind p. 4. Catarri p. 9. Camels milk p. 93. Castorum p. 131. Canker p. 140 Causes of hear senes p. 155. Carnall copulation p. 149.183.151 Celendine p. 146. Cephalica the vein p. 199. Certain commandements to ob serve health p. 15. Chawing and swallowing of meat p. 19 Choise of milk p. 23.93 Choise of good flesh standeth in three things p. 25 Choise of egs p. 29 Choise of wheat p. 35 Choise of brains p. 39. Choise of wholsome ayr p. 51 Choise of fowles flesh p. 78 Charvill and his three operations p 140. Cheese p.

humet flegma sic illi vis fit aquosa Sicca ealet Colera sic igus sit simulata Melancholia friget sic●at quasi terra The bloud is hot and moyst like to the ayr And therefore therewith carryeth best compare Flegme cold and moyst even in his chiefest matter Bearing his best resemblance with the water Sullen is Melancholy cold and dry And to the Earth it self doth best apply But Choler being hot and dry desires To meet he cares not with how many fires For a further knowledge avi 1. doe 4. c. 1. know beside that after Avicen There be four humors in mans body Bloud F●egme Choler and Melancholy as is said The best of them is Bloud First because it is the matter of mans spirits in whom consisteth mans life and operations Secondly because it is comfortable to the principles of mans life it is temperatly hot and moyst Thirdly because it restoreth and nourisheth the body more then the other humors And it is called the treasure of Nature For if it be lost Death followeth forthwith Next to bloud in goodness is Flegme First by reason that if need be it is apt to be turned into bloud Secondly because it is very neer like humidity which is as the foundation of life After Flegme in goodness is Choler which is partner with naturall heat so long as it keepeth convenient measure Then followeth Melancholy as dregs and dirt removed apart from the principals of life as enemy to joy and liberality and of neer kindred to age and death Secondly note that in the division of humors there are two kinds of bloud that is to say naturall and vnnaturall Naturall bloud that is to say Veyn bloud which is ruddy and obscure and Artery bloud is ruddy and clear without ill savour and in comparison of other humors it is very sweet Of vnnaturall is two sorts the one is vnnaturall in quantity that is to say which is changed from good complexion in it self or else by mingling of another humor There is another vnnaturall bloud which through mingling of other humors is ill both in quality and substance quantity and in proportion of the one to the other And this is double for the one is not naturall by mingling of an ill humor that commeth to him from without The other is vnnaturall by mingling of an ill humour engendred in the selfe blood as when part of the blood is putrified and the subtile part thereof is turned into Choler and the gross part into melancholy or else into Choler or the melancholy or else both remaineth in the blood And this vnnatural blood by mingling of an ill humor va●yeth from natural blood many wares First in substance for it is grosser and fowler sith melancholy is mingled there with or ●lse it is more subtile when watrishnes or ●●trine choler is mingled therewith Secondly in colour for sometime when phlegm is mingled therewith it inclineth to whiteness or through melancholy to blackness Thirdly in favor for by mingling of putrified humors if is more stinking or else by mingling of raw humors it hath no savor Fourthly in tallage for by mingling of Choler it inclineth to bitternes and by melancholy to sowernes or the phlegm of unsavorines Also of phlegm there be two kinds natural and vnnatural Natural is that which within a certain space wil be bloud for phlegm is vndigested blood There is another spice of phlegm which is sweet and somwhat warm if it be compared to the bodily hear But comparing it to the ruddy bloud and choler it is cold Flegm is naturally white and this is called sweet phlegm extending this name sweet to all the talages delighting the taste for otherwise the naturall phlegm is not sweet but unsavory and waterish and very neer the ●allage of water And to this phlegm nature hath not given a proper Mansion as she hath done to Choler and melancholy but nature maketh it run with the blood for it is a very néer similitude to blood And of this phlegm there be two necessityes one vtility The first necessity is that it be near the members so that their vertue may digest it and turn it into bloud and that the members by it may be nourished when they have lost their naturall food that is for to say good bloud through restraint of material blood which restraint is caused through the stomack and liver through some cause accidentall The second necessity is that it mingle with the blood and make it apt to nourish the memhers of phlematick complexitous as the brain and such for that which must nou●●sh these members must be mingled with phlegm The vtility of phlegm is that it moysten the joynts and members that move much least they ware ●ry through the heat that cometh of their moving and rubbing Vnnatural phlegm may be divided first into the substance and to some thereof is Muscilaginosum and that is phlegm to ones seeming divers for in some part it is subtile thin and in some other gross and thick is called Muscilaginosum because it is like Muscilages drawn out of seede There is an other phlegm that appeareth equall in substance that is in subtility and grosseness● to one● deeming but for a truth it is divers in every place this is named raw phlegm and this increaseth in the stomack and entrailes And to avoid it out of the stomack Hypocrates biddeth us To cast twice a moneth and to avoid it out of the guts Nature hath ordained Choler to turn it from the chest of the Gal to the entrail Iejunium and so sorth to the lower guts to scowr away the phlegm from the brims of the entrails and cause it to descend down with the other dregs and filth Sometimes the flegm is increased in the vein●s specially of old folkes by diminishing of their digestion and there remaining is by little and little augmented and engrossed and hurteth nature which cannot by the veins thereto ordained avoid it out Yet it doth all that is possible to keep it from the hearts and other inward m●mbers and driveth it to the outward members and specially to the Legs for by the heavinesse thereof it draweth naturally to the lower parts of man And this is the cause why old folkes legs are sw●lne and that if one press downe his finger therein there tarryeth a hole specially towards night most in fat folks and such as were wont to be nourished with moist meat There is another spice of phlegm very subtile and watrish like vnto water and somewhat thick this phlegm is often mingled with their spittle that have ill digestion and of those that be great drinkers it removeth from the brain to the nose as it is wont in the beginning of the pose and when by decoction and boyling in a man it becommeth grosse it is turned into phlegm grosse white and musc●lage There is another phlegm grosse and white called Gipseum the subtile parts of this phlegme is dissolved through long

biding in the joints and the grossenes thereof remaineth in the joynts as hard as stones This phlegme engendreth the Gowt vncurable There is another phlegm thick and grosse like to the mol●en glasse in colrr clammines and weight Secondly vnnaturall phlegm differeth in Tailage for there is certain phlegm that is sweet which is by mingling of blood with phlegm And vnder this is cōtained the vnctuous flegm which is ingēdred by mingling vnctuous blood flegm There is another manner of vnsavory phlegm caused of rawnesse as certainly glassy phlegm There is another salt phlegm caused by mingling of choler And this is more biting drier and lighter then any other flegm through the choler mingled therewith which is dry light and sharp And this phlegm is often found in their stomacks that be phlematick that drink much strong wine and that vse salt and sharp meats because it cleaveth to the stomack and causeth other while thirst intollerable and running by the guts if it sometime fle●eth them and causeth the blood men●●n and in the fundament oftentimes induceth strong costivenesse There is another phlegm that is sharp by mingling of sharp melancholy therewith and sometime through boyling of fi●gine as it chanceth in the swéet juyces of fruits that first boyl and after wax ripe And this phlegm appeareth oftner in their stomacks that digest ill then in other parts for naturall Choler floweth to the mouth of the stomack to stirre vp the appe●ite which desconding downward sometime mingled with flegm maketh it sowre and this is perceived by sowre belchings And otherwhiles this phlegm is engendred in the stomack by boyling with a weak heat There is another phlegm called Pantick which is sometime caused by mingling of pontick melancholy But this is seldoms by reason that pontick melancholy so very scarce It is sometime caused through vehement coldnesse thereof whereby the moistnes thereof is congeled somwhat altered to earthlines and thereupon commeth no weak heat which causing it to boyl should convert it into sharpnes nor no strong heat which digesting it should turn it into blood There be two kinds of Choler naturall and vnnaturall Vnnaturall Choler is the some of bloud whose color is ruddy and clear that is c●trine in the last degree of citrines as Saff●on heads and it is light and sharp and the hotter the more redder it is And after this Choler engendred in the head it goeth wite the bloud into the veins the other goeth into the purse of the gall The part that goeth with the blood endureth therewith both for necessity and prof●e It is needfull that it mingle with the bloud to nourish the cholerick members It is behooveful that it make the blood subtile and cause it to enter into the veins The part that goeth to the purse of the gall goeth thither for necessity and profit The necessity is double The one is néedful for all the body to mundifie it from cholerick superfluities The other necessity is in respect of the gals p●r●s The prest also is double The one is to wash the E●drails from dregs and clammy phlegm cleading to them The other is to wash the guis and Muscles that they may féele the thing that hurteth them and voyd all other filthines The proof of this is that the cholick chanceth often times by stopping of the hole that commeth from the purse of the gall to the guts Vnnatural choler is double For one is vnnatural through outward cause mingled therewith The other is vnnaturall through a cause in it self for the substance thereof is not naturall Choler vnnaturall through an outward cause is another known and fame as and is is that that phlegm is mingled with and it is called famous or notable by reason that it is often engendred And of this kind of Choler commeth the third that is wel known There is another that ●●lesse famous and that is it wherewith melancholy is mingled Famous Choler is either ●●t●me and engendred by mingling of subtile phlegm with naturall choler or else it is yolky like to the yolks of egs and is engendred by mingling of gross phlegm with a naturall choler Choler of lesse same is caused two ways One is when the choler is burned in it self and turned to ashes from which the subtile part of the Choler is not separated but mingled therwith and this choler is the worst Another is when melancholy commeth from without and mingleth it with the chole● And this Choler is better then other is ruddy in color it is not clear nor ●lowing but more like to vein-bloud This vnnatural choler having his own proper substance without mingling of any other humor is often engendred in the liver by reason that the subtilenes of the blood burneth it self turneth into choler and grossely into melancholy Another choler is engendred in the stomack of ill meats not digested but corrupted or ●is it is engendred in the veins by other humors And of this choler be two kinds for one is called Choler Praslive like the color of the bearb called Praslion which is engendred of the yolkines when it is burned for burning causeth a yolky blacknesse in the choler which mingled with choler citrine engendreth a green cholet The other is called rusty choler like to rusty Iron and it is engendred of Prassive when Praslive is burned only til the humidity thereof be dryed away and of the drinesse beginneth to war white And these two last Cholers be ill and venemous yet rusty is the worst Likewise there be two kinds of melancholy naturall and unnaturall The naturall is the dregs and superfluity of good blood whose tallage is between sweet and pontick And thus melancholy when it is engendred in t●●●●ver is ●●rted in two paris Of which one entreth with the bloud and the 〈◊〉 remaineth in the veins the other is conve●●ed to the splen● The first part entieth with the bloud for necessity and profit It is néedful that it mingle with the blood to nourish the melancholy cold and dry members as the bones The vtility is to make thick and then bloud to stint the superflous tunning thereof to make it strong and to strengthen those members into which it must be converted The other part that néedeth no blood goeth to the spi●ne both for necessity and profit The necessity is double one vniversall through out the body to purge it of melancholious superfluity The other is but particular onely to govern the s●lent This melancholy is also profitable for mans body for it ●●tinneth to the mouth of the stomack straining out the humidityes that is findeth there as a woman strayning a cows dugs draweth out the milk this vtility is double First it constraineth thicketh and comforteth the stomack Secondly by reason that the eagernesse thereof moveth the mouth of the stomacke it maketh one to have an appetite to meat Vnnaturall melancholly is a thing burned or ashes in respect of other humors Of this there are four famous kinds

though there be many not famous The first is ashes of Choler The second is ashes of flegm if the phlegm that is burned wer very subtile and watrish then the melancholy therof engendred will be salt in tal●ge But if the phlegm be gross that is burned then the ashes thereof or the melancholy of it engendred inclineth to sowernes or ponticity The third is ashes of bloud and this melancholp is salt a ●●tle inclining to sweetnesse The fourth is ashes of naturall melancholy And if naturall melancholly whereof soever it be be subtile then it will be very so●r And when it is cast out upon the ground it boileth and laboureth of the ayre and causeth both flies and beasts to avoid the place But if the naturall melancholy be grosse the vnnaturall thereof engendred shall not be sower Sangui●eorum signa Natura pingues isti sunt a●quejocantes Sempor rumores up●unt audire frequentes Hos Venus Bacchus delectant fercula risus Et facit hos hilares dulcia verba loquentes Om●i us his stud●is habiles suxt ac magis apti Qualibes ex causa nee hos leuit●r moves ira Largus amans hilaris ridens ruberque colo● i● Cantans carnosus satis audax atque benig●●us To Sanguine men Nature hath much commended First with a jocond spirit they are attended Desirous to hear tales and novelties Women nor wine they gladly not despise Their looks are chearfull and their language sweet For any study they are prone and meet No common matter kindles angers fire Contentious company they not desire They are liberall loving mirthfull and benigne Fleshy and fat capring and apt to sing No muddy countenance but smiling chear And bold enough as causes may appear Here the Authour teaching vs to know S●nguine folkes s●●th that a sanguine person is naturally sat But yet wee may not understand that sanguine ●●●ks be properly fat For that is a token of a cold complexion as saith Avicen But they be sat and fleshy withall ●orfat in Sanguine persons is taken for Fleshy Avicen saith That aboundance of all ruddy flesh and stiff signifieth a hot and a moyst complexion as a sanguine person is For the aboundance of ruddy fl●sh witnesseth fortitude of vertue assimulative and multitude of bloud that work and war by heat and moyst●re as witnesseth Galen saying The aboundance of flesh is engendred of the aboundance of bloud For heat perfectly digesting and the like ●ertue to flesh maketh the flesh fast and stiff Also Avicen saith Every fleshy body without aboundance of fat and greace is sanguine Whereto Galen assenteth Secondly the sanguine person is merry and jucond that is to say with merry words he moveth others to laugh or else he is glad through benignity of the sanguine humour provoking a mall to gladnesse and ●ocondity through clear and perfect spirits engendred of bloud Thirdly he gladly heareth fables and merry sports for the same cause Fourthly he is enclined to ●●●hery through heat and mois●nesse provoking to ca●uall-copulation Fifthly he gladly drinketh good wine Sixthly he delighteth to feed on good meat by reason that the sanguine person des●●eth the most like to his complexion that is good wines and good meats Seventhly he laugheth lightly for bloud provoketh to laughing The eight is the sanguine person hath a gladsom● and an amiable countenance through likelinesse of col●ur and fairnesse of complexion The ninth is he speaketh sweetly through amiablenesse of sanguine nature The tenth is he is a●t so ●●●●n any manner of Science through livelinesse and peripicuity of wit The eleventh is be is not 〈…〉 and this commeth through moys●nesse abating the f●●ve● of choler provoking to anger The last two Verses roci●e some of the foresaid tokens and also some other First a sanguine person is free not covetous but liberall Secondly be is amorous Thirdly he hath a merry countenance Fourthly he is most part smiling of all which the benignity of the bloud is cause and provoker Fifthly he hath a ruddy colour For Avicen saith That ruddy colour of the skin signifieth aboundance of bloud And this must be vnderstood bright ruddy colour and not dark such as is wont to be in their faces that drink wines aboundantly and that vse sauces and sharp spices for such colour signifieth Lepry to come Sixtly he gladly ●●●geth and heareth singing by reason of his merry mind Seventhly he is fleshy through the causes beforesaid The eight is he is hardy through the heat of the bloud which is cause of boldnesse The ninth is the sanguine person is benigne and gentle through the bounty of the sanguine humor Flegma vires modicas tribuit lat●sque brevesque Flegma facis ping●es sang●isreddit mediocres Sensus hebes tardus motus pigritia somnus Hic somnolentus piger sputamine multus Et qui sensus habet pingues facit color albus Men that be flegmatick are weak of nature Most commonly of thick and stubbed flature And fatnesse overtaketh them amain For they are slo●hfull and can take no pain Their fences are but dull shallow and flow Much given to sleep whence can no goodness grow They often spet yet natures kind direction Hath blest them with a competent complexion Here the Author sheweth certain properties concerning the complexion of phlegm First phlegmatick folks be weak by reason that their natural heat which is the beginner of strength and operation is but feeble Secondly phlegmatick folks be short and thick for their naturall heat is not strong enough to lengthen the body and therefor● it is thick and short Thirdly phlegmatick folks be fat by reason of their great humidity Therefore Avicen saith That superfluous grease signifieth cold and moistnesse for the bloud and the unctuous matter of grease piercing through the veins into the cold members through coldnes of the members do congeal together and so ingender in man much greate As Galèn saith in his second book of operation He saith also That sanguine men are midle men between the long and the short Fourthly phlegmatick folks are more inclined to idlenes and study then folks of other complexion by reason of their coldnes that maketh them sleepy Fiftly they sleep longer by reason of their great coldnesse that provoketh them to sléep Sixtly they be dull of wit and vnderstanding for as temperate heat is cause of good wit and vnderstanding so cold is cause of blunt wit and dull vnderstanding Seventhly they he slothfull and that is by cold for as heate maketh a man light and quick in moving so cold maketh a man heavy and slothfull The eight is they be lumpish and sleep long Est et humor cholera qui competit impetuosis Hoc genus est h●minum cupiens pracoliere cunctos Hi leviter discunt multum comedunt cito crescunt Inde mag●animi sunt largi summa petentes Hirsutus fallax irascous prodigus audax Astutus gracilis siccus croceique coloris Choler is such an humor as aspi●es With most impetuous insolent desires

pipe of the Eights and let the doyce are diminished The eleventh is it angmenteth the strength for thereby the body is discharged of grief wherefore the vertue is angmented Tres insun i●tis Majus September Aprilis Et sunt Lunares sunt velut Hydriades Prima dies prim● postremaque posteriorum Nee sarguis mi●u● nec●arnibus Anseris vti In senevel juvene si venae sanguine plenae Omni mense bene confort incisio Venae Hi sunt treimenses Majus Septembris Aprilis In quibus eminuas vt longo tempore vivas Three speciall Moneths our text doth here remember For letting-bloud Aprill May and September The Moon rules most these Moneths yet certain days Some do deny and other some dispraise The first of May and the last of Aprill As also of September they hold ill Days of these Moneths they do forbid to bleed And think it dangerous on a Goose to feed But this is idle for these Moneths are good And for our health in these to let our bloud For old or young if bloud abounding be All Moneths it may be done advisedly If length of days and health you do desire These are the Moneths that bleeding best require Here the Author saith that these thrée May September and Aprill are the moneths of the Moon and in them are days forbidden to let bloud that is the first of May and the last of September and April Though this be a common rule yet it is false For the foresaid days may be as good and as worthy to be chosen as the other after the diversity of the Coustellation in them Farther he saith that in those days one should not eate flesh which is also false and erroueous and very withchcraft I think the Author had this saying of the Jews which observe such manner Secondly he saith That men of middle Age and young solkes whose Veyns be full of bloud may be let bloud every moneth for those may well re●● resolution and in them is great quantity of good bloud Thirdly he saith that bloud-letting for mans health must be done in one of these three moneths May September and April But yet with difference for in April and May the Liver-veyn must be let bloud because then in Spring the bloud encreaseth And in September in the splene-veyn because of Melancholy which then in Autumn encreaseth Frigida natura frigens regio dolor ingens Poit lavacrum cottuns minor aetas atque senilit Morbus prolixus reple●i● potus escae Si fragilis vel subtilis sensius stomachi sit Et fast●diti tibi non sit slebothomandium A cold complexion and a chilly ayr Aches or ingreams that to inslame prepare Bathing and wanting dallying in that sport Where Venus most delighteth to resort Too young or else too old A long disease Eating or drinking nature to displease Sea-sick feeling when the stomacks weak And empty Veyns that loathingly do speak All these forbid bloud-letting and advise Not then to deal therewith in any wise Here the Author setteth dawn twelve things that do hinder bloud letting The first is coldnesse of complexion For as Galen saith Bloud letting cooleth and augmenteth coldnesse Because as Isaac saith bloud is the foundation of naturall heat and in regard that bloud-letting voydeth the bloud it voydeth heat and so consequently cooleth The second is a fervent cold Countrey vnder which a cold season should be comprehended which also letteth bloud-letting for in a Country and Season very cold the bloud is closed in the deepest parts of the body and the bloud that carrieth in the vpper parts the cold maketh thick which to avoid is no wisdome The third is fervent ach vnder which also may be comprehended great inclamation of the body for if one in such accidents be let bloud there followeth great motion agitative contrary to nature and greater inflamation which weakneth nature more The cause of this motion agitative is attraction to divers parts for by bloud-letting attraction is caused to the place that is let bloud and by great ach attraction is cause to the place of ach The cause of greater inflamation is that by bloud-letting the humors be moved whereby they be the more inflamed And this is truth when blou●-letting is little and artificiall yet if it be done till one swound it is wholesome in the foresaid cases For this bloud-letting when it overcommeth the attraction of the ach it causeth not motion agitative and like wise it taketh away inflamation when there be no humours that should move heat and cause more inflamation This is Galens mind saying Gal. comments illius apli qua geruntur There is no no better medicine for an impostume of fervent inflammation Fevers and a great Ach than bloud-letting The fourth is bayning specially resolutive for that denyeth Bloud-letting because that were vacuation vpon vacuation which Nature cannot easily bear The fifth is carnall copulation for immediatly after that one should not be letten bloud because of double weakning of Nature The sixth is too old or too young as it is before touched Of this Avicen sayth Take heed how thou lettest one bloud in any of the foresaid cases except thou trust in the figure insolidite of the muscles largnesse of the veyns the fulnesse of them and ruddy colour The seventh is long sicknesse for by such letting of bloud Nature is doubly feebled both by long sicknesse and diminishing This is truth sayth Avicen except there be corrupt bloud for then bloud-letting is wholesome The eight is great repletion of drink The ninth is to eat too much meat and vnder this is comprised meat vndigested The cause whereof as Avicen sayth is this There be three things that draw to them that is emptinesse heat and secret vertue or property Then if the veyns be empty through voyding of bloud they draw to them from the stomack or liver undigested or supersluous meat or drink which undigested meat when it commeth to the members cannot be amended that is digested for the third digestion cannot amend the fault of the second nor the second of the first if the fault be so great that it cannot convert into the members and it there remaining may cause some disease The tenth is feeblenesse for bloud-letting is a strong voyder as Galen saith therefore a feeble person may not endure great diminishing of bloud The eleventh is subtile sensiblenes of the stomacks mouth which is called the heart-string for of such bloud letting sowning followeth lightly And vnder this wesknesse of the stomack is comprised an easte flowing of choler to the mouth thereof inducing vomiting wherefore they that have the foresaid accidents should not be let bloud for by bloud-letting the humors moved be endured to the stomacks mouth as to a place accustomed And because it is a weak and an impotent member to resist that flixe therefore by such letting of bloud many inconveniences chance This is one cause why so many sound when they he let bloud by reason that Choler

let bloud shouls not walk in dark cloudy or troublous ayr for that maketh him heavy and vninsty as is before said at Aer sit mandus c. And heavinesse is cause of melancholy bload Therefore he must walk in a faire clear ayr for that recreateth the naturall and lively spirits Fiftly he must esch● excessive labour and vse moderate rest for excessive stitting about then specially weaketh and moveth humors but temperate rest swageth motion Principio minuas in acutis peracutis Aetatis mediae multum de sanguine tolle Sed puer atque senex tollet vterque parum Ver tollit duplum reliquum tempus nisi simplum In the beginning of a sharp disease Then letting bloud is good if you so please The middle age doth favour bleeding best Children and aged folks may let it rest Or take but little from them In the Spring A double loss of bloud no hurtfull thing At other times to take but indifferently And still let good advice keep company Here he speaketh of four things First the letting of bleod should be done in the beginning of sharp diseases which are ended the fourth day For such be short and make no delay therefore they must be remedied at the beginning The second is that from 30 year to 45 or 50. one should be let bloud most for at that age Bloud encreaseth most of all nor the diminishing thereof letteth not the growing nor the bodily strength is not lessened therevy because the Body in that age groweth not but seemeth to stand still at one state The third is that old folke and children should be let bloud but little for young children need most bleed to nourish and encrease them and aged folks strength decayeth from them Fourthly in Spring-time double quantity of Blood should be boyded in regard of other seasons for that time specially enereaseth bloud as all Physitians say Touching the first saying a few rules concerning letting of blood would be given The first is that at the beginning of the sicknesse one should not be let bloud for as Galen saith That Nature is worker of all things and the Physician is Minister But he saith That no vacuation at the be●●●ning of sickness Gal. 3. reg Idem 3 Ape in consu agritu dini Ga in pho Inchoantibus morbi is naturall for as Nature in the beginning of sickness avoideth nothing likewise no more should the Physitian Yet three things withstand this Rule The first is furlo fity or sterceness of the matter For Avicen saith That when the sickness beginneth one should not be let bloud because letting of bloud shrreth the humours and maketh them subtile and to run throughout all the body except the matter be furious The second is aboundance of the matter for Galen saith That it is then behovefull to be let bloud or take a Medicine laxative to alleviate Nature loaded with aboundance of matter The third is greatnesse and sharpness of the sickness as when there is a great and an achfull imposiume though the matter be little For Galen saith If the Impostume be great ye must be let bloud at the beginning though there be but little matter least it break or open before it be ripe therefore to eschew many inconveniences bloud-letting must be done The second rule is that bloud-letting may not be done on the day of motion of the sicknes erists is a sudden indication either to hea'th or deaths mutation as in Crisis nor no other vacuation nor diverting of matter from the place that nature sendeth it to c. Nor likewise in the Ague fit For Galen saith That when the sickness is in his estate neither bloud-letting nor laxative should be done For then the matter ripeth which ripeth better by quietnesse then by stirring The third rule is that bloud-letting should not be done in beginning of the sicknes when Crisis is removed For Isaac saith in his Book of Vrines That though the Heart be the Engenderer of the bloud and spirits yet the bloud is foundation of Natural heat and sustaineth it for the heat is naturally thereof engendred And therefore be that voydeth Bloud voideth heat which should digest the matter of the sickness and so consequently the sicknesse is prolonged and strength weakned And therefore it is to be feared least through the lengthning of the sickness and weakning of the strength nature would sail The fourth rule is that the body having dregs of filth in the guts should not be let blood The cause is there be thre● things that draw to them heat emptines and all things sharp so when as the veins be emptied by Letting of blood they draw to them from the next member as the guts and stomack whereby the belly is judurated and the matter in the Veins is more infected the Meseraike drawsth the humidities of the ordures and the ordures are dried the more therefore you must first mollifie the belly with Clisters or Suppositorie●● except it war laxative alone The fift rule is that letting of blood should not be much vsed for by oft vsing thereof one drawing on in age falleth into divers diseases as Epilepsie Apoplexie and Palsey for by removing of the blood and heat many phlgematick super flutties are engendred that cause these diseases The sixt rule is that a woman menstruate or with child should not be let blood A Woman with Child should not for thereby the heat that digesteth meat is diminished and the food of that she goeth with is taken away specially when if that she goeth with waxeth great for then it needeth more food Thus saith Hypocrates When the menstruosity keepeth due course and avoidoth naturally enough letting of blood should not be done but when it avoydeth too much then to divert the matter it must be done for nature would not be let of her operation The seventh rule is that after the Chollicke passion one should not be let blood for by reason that Letting of blood stirreth vp the humors a Cholerick humor may flowe to the stomack and enflame it Nor after vomiting least humors likewise flow to the stomack Nor after the Flixe nor after great watching nor after much travell nor after any thing that greatly hurteth or dissolveth for in these two ●ases letting of blood should greatly move the humors and enféeble the strength Now it is to be considered who are meet to be let bloud and therefore we shall declare a few rules The first rule is that letting of blood is very expedient for delicate idle and corste folks and that vse meats engendring much blood The second rule is it is wholesome for those that have aboundance of bloud which aboundance is known by the thicknesse of the brine for aboundance of bloud maketh it thick and aboundance of Choler maketh it thin The third is they should be let bloud in whom melancholy aboundeth For when much naturall Melancholy runneth with the bloud throughout all the body not puristing the ill bloud then letting

88 Cheese engendreth grosse humors p. 96. Cheese with bread doth digest p. ead Change of dyet p. 123. Cheries with their commodities p. 103 Cheristous p. ead Cheries are of two sorts p. ead Children should drink no wine p 58.162 Children and old folkes should be let bloud but little p. 179. Claret wine p. 33 Clisters p. 195 Cockstones p. 39.33 Constrain not the Fundament p. 3 Close ayr p. 52 Combing the head in the morning p. 5. Coriza a Rheum p. 8. Collick and the inconveniences thereof p. 12.195 Condition of good fish p. 85 Coleworts p. 127. Cold of the head p. 130. Clean and a corrupt stomack p. 18 Cow flesh p. 22.25 Cow milk p. 94. Cramp and the diversity of cramps p. 11. Crevices p. 87. Crysis p. 194. Crusts must be eaten after dinner p. 71 Custom is another nature p. 122 Customes ought to be kept p. ead Customs in eating and drinking p. ead D Dayes forbidden to let blood p. 181 Darnell p. 95. Damask-prunes p. 13. Delicate meats and drink p. 34. Delicious meats p. 34 Decoction of Peaches p. 20. Decoction of rape seed p. 136 Definition whether a man should eat more at dinner then at supper p. 13. Dissenteria p. 66. Divers fauces for divers meats p. 6.67 Digestion by day is but feeble p. 8 Diseases engendred of the afternoons sleep p. 8 Dressing of brains p. 39 Dyet and the diversity of dyets p. 122. 123. 124. Dry figs p. 38. Dry. grapes p ead Dry Nuts and hurts that they engender p. 46 Drink so that once in a month thou mayst vomit p. 53 Drink a little at once p. 89 Drink little and oft at meat p. 98 Drink not between your meales p. ead Drink after a new layd Egg. p 100 Drink wine after pears p. 20. Drunkennes is cause of sixe inconveniences p. 73 Drunkards are infected with the palsey p. ead Dropsie and three spices thereof p 45 Dulce and sweet things engender choler p 42. E Eat and drink soberly p 2 Eate not till thou have a lust p 18 Eat not much of sundry meats ead Eat little Cheese p 23 Eat no great quantity of meat in Ver. p 61 Eat little in summer and much in winter p 67 1●8 Eat no crusts p 64 Eating of fi●h good and bad p 85 Eat nuts after fish p 102 Eating of E●les p 87 Egs roasted p 29 Egs are roasted two wayes ead Egs sod in water two wayes p 30 Egs rere roasted engender bloud p 59 Eyes and 21 things hurtfull unto them p 151 English men do first eat or ever they drink p 99 Ennula campana and the effects thereof p 144 Excessive eating and drinking p 2 Exceeding sweet wine is not to be chosen p 73 Emptinesse p 61. 195 F Fat corsie f●lks p 2 Fatness is a token of a cold complexion p 168 Easting in Summer p 179 Fesants p 80 Fenell-seed and the properties thereof p 114 Fenel sharpneth the sight of Serpents p 115 Fevers p 7 Figs and the choise of them p 38 Figs with nuts and almonds p. ead Figs must be ●aten fasting p ead Fistula and remedy for it p 158 Filth of the teeth p 5 Fish is lighter of digestion then flesh p 84 Fish taken in the North Sea p 8. Fish should not be eaten after travell p 87 Fish corned with salt ead Five conditions of day sleep p 11 Five things by which good wine is proved p 40 Five bounties of wine moderately daunk p 67 Five things to know good ale p. 59 Five properties of good bread p. 70 Five inconveniences that breed of drinking of new wine p. 73 Five things that ought to be done about bloud-letting p. 178 Five causes of bloud-letting p. 180. Five things that must be ●●chewed of him that is let blood p. ead Five commodities that come by letting of blood of the vein Satuatella p 161. Fleshes that endender the Fever Quartain p. 22. Fleshes that should be sod and rosted p. 26 Fleshes of fouls is more wholesom then of four legged beasts p 79 Flegm of two kinds p. 160. Fresh water fish p 85 Fish is lighter of digestion then flesh p ead Flower of wheat p. 35. Fryed egs p 30. Four properties of Cheese p. 96. Four things that mo Ili●ie p. 121. Fruits should be eschewed p. 19 Fruits hurt them that have an Ague p. ead Funis Brachij p. 199 G Garäck p. 46.47 48. Gash made in blood-letting p. 199. Gall the receptacle of Choler p. 172 Good wine is proved five manner of ways p 40 41. Good wine sharpneth the wit p. ead Good medicines for the Palsie p. 144. Goats milk p 23.24 Goats flesh p. 25. Grey goose p. 80 Gross flesh is best for labourers p. 26 Grosse nourishment is best in Winter p. 64 Gross meats p. eod Green cheese p. 32 86 Grapes p. 35 Gurnard p. 64 Gowte p. 9.138 H Heart of Beasts p. 113 Heart is the engenderer of bloud p. 178 Harts flesh p. 25 Hare flesh p. eod Hard Eggs. p. 29 Head ach p. 8 164 Head●ach called Vertigo p. 12 Hen. p. 78 Heat is cause of augmentation p. 144 Herbs wholsom put in drink p. 64 Herbs whose water is wholsom for the sight p. 154 Herbs sod in vinegar p 67 Hearing p. 76 Holding of wind p. 11 Hogs fed with pears p. 11 Hogs flesh p 25 Hot bread p. 70 How Grapes should be eaten p. 38 How to be let blood for a Pluresie p. 178 Hony p. 39 Hill wort p. 142 Hunger p. 168 Hunger is after two sorrs p. 17 Hunger long endured ead Horse-dung p. 128 Hogs stones p. 39. Hurts of red wine p. 64 Hurts that come by drinking of water p. 74 Hurts of Salt meats p. 117 Hurts of Coleworts p. 127 Hurts of vomiting p. 140 I Iuyce of Peaches p. 19 Iuyce of new gathered fruit p. 21 Iuyce of coleworts p. 128 Iuyce of Water-cresses p. 143 Inaca p 12 Incision of the veins p. 167 Ioyfull life p. 3 K Kernels p. 106 Kernel of cherystones p. 103 Kid flesh p. 25 Know ledge of the best flesh of four footed beasts p. ead L Lampreys and dressing of them p. 88 Lavender p 132 Lask p. 63 Laxative meats p ead Leeks raw and sodden p. 7 Light supper p. 2 Lights p. 113 Lights of a tup p. 114 Let not bloud in long sicknesse p. 193 Letting of bloud is wholesome in the beginning of the Dropsie p. 194 Letting of bloud keepeth Lovers from surious raving p. 195 Letting of bloud may not be done in the ague fit p. ead Letting of blood should not bee much used p. 196 M Making of water p 2 Marow and the choise thereof p. 37. Many good things come by drinking of wine toberly p. 55 Man may live by the smel of hot bread p 70 Malard p. 80 Ma●owes and three properties of them p. 129 Maw of beasts p. 113 Meat a little powdered p 118 Meat and why it is taken p. 13 Meat upon meat is hurtfull p. 15 16 Meats that