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A15587	A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke conteynyuge certeyne preceptes necessary to the preseruacion of healthe, and longe continuaunce of the same: verye pleasaunte and profitable to reade.	Wingfield, Henry.	1551 (1551)	STC 25852; ESTC S103647	17,986	72

aduisemente good order in diet preceding to preuent y e speciall causes thereof then not onlye of their maladies they shuld be y e soner cured but also phisitions shuld auoide y e reprocheful rebukes ●uyl reportes which of longe tyme they haue susteyned consequentlye the noble science of Phisycke shuld be eftsones restored to her pristinat honour dignitie And verelye that parte of physycke surmounteth all the other whych do the tracte and deuyse necessarie and conuenient forme of lyuynge whych we shulde diligentlye and circumspectlye obserue in tyme of our health and welfare if affectionatly we couet the preseruacion long cōtinuaunce therof ¶ A dyet prescribed for olde men with certeyne medicines agaynst the incommodities of age The seuenth Chapter THey whych are past the daūgerous passage of youthe nowe approche to olde age whych is about fyftie yere what tyme bothe naturall heate and strength begyn to decaye must diligently haue respecte and regarde to .ii. of the seuen planets Uenus and Saturnus The fyrste dothe signifie storyshyng youth the later withered and teble age Thei therfore whych ve vnder Saturne as olde men must vse circumspection that they be not entangled wyth the blandimē●es of Uenus of wāton appetites chief patronesse Also they must beware that they suffer not extreme colde nor vse not to bee oute of theyr houses in the ayre of the night tyme which thinges are knowen to bring damage to that age Also thei must vse such meats as ingender good and pure bloud as the yolkes of rier egges newe layed Also wyne fragrante and somthing swete whych ingenderith good spirites They muste not vse much honger or thyrst and specially auoyde much watchyng of the nyghtes Remedies for the prouocation of sleepe shall be remembred in the nexte Chapter Exercise of the bodye wold not be muche vsed in age also heauynes and sorow of the mynd wold be aboue all thinges expelled For the bodye can not seme yonge and lusty onles the mynd bequiet merie and pleasaunte Yf olde men be verie colde let them laye thys fomente or applicacion to their stomackes whyche is of wonderfull efficacie and power in prolonging lyfe R. all the inwarde parte of a hotte newe baked loafe sieped a lytle space in good maluissye and then rolled in poulder of mintes and so layde to the stomacke or holden to the nose is to olde men wonderfull profitable for as Diogenes Laertius writeth By vertue of this fomente dyd the renoumed and famous philosopher Democritus belong sicknes at deathes dore keepe and retayne the liuelye spirites wythin hys body and lyued a good space after Furthermore lyghte frications and baynes be verie good and necessari for aged men Also the iuyce of good licorice is supposed of manye to encrease naturall heate and moysture Almond mylke suger and raysynes wolde be also vsed Rasis doth greatly commend mirabolanes called kebuly condite in India and doth cōmaund olde men agaynste the incōmodities of age dayely to eate of them Remedies for olde men or any other that can not sleepe The eyght Chapter LAcke of slepe cometh of great driues of y e brayn which maketh short y e course of lyfe and nothing so much ēcreseth melācholy so that men hereby be oftentimes disposed to frensies and madnes the veste remedies to resyste thys euil be these that folow After supper to eate rawe lettes with a litle bread to drynke after a litle good and pure wyne For lettes eaten in the euenynge as Diascorides recordeth prouoketh slepe merueilously Wherfore Galene the most noble phisicion for this intent and purpose was accustumed to haue his poryge made wyth lettes Moreouer vehement prouocations shall be to take a confectiō at nyghte made on thys wyse ● .ii. vnces of whyte poppie seede and .i. vnce of lettes seede halfe a drame of safron .vi. vnces of white suger and sethe all together in the sirupe of poppie and eate of thys confection .ii. drāmes at one tyme and also by itselfe a lytle of the syrupe of popie For the same purpose it is good to anoynt the forehead and temples with oyle of violets with the oyle of the hearbe called nymphea in englyshe called a water rose and wyth oyle of almondes and to holde at their nose a lytle vynegre or rose water Also it is good to beset the bedde and strawe the chamber wyth colde hearbes as endiue purslane mallowes camomile vinetree leaues and suche other Marcilius Ficinus approueth ofte whashyng of the head wyth water wherin poppie lettes purslan malowes roses camomile the leaues of wyllowes and vyne trees be sodden of ech a like quantitie also wyth thys water not only to washe the head but also the armes legges and al the bodye And here I haue purposely lefte oute many other more vehement prouocations whiche be not vsed but when great nede doth require and they be only vsed when phisicious caste theire patientes into sleepe to the entente to cutte them wythout paine or griefe They be called of the Grecianes Narcotica and Anodoyna of the Latines Stupefaciencia indolorifica or molestia vacātia And here I cōclude to speake of remedies agaynst immoderate watchyng whereby the incommodities of age maye be somethyng mitigate also life time prolōged Of the golden drinke Auxum potabile and somethyng of the vertue therof The nynth Chapter THere is no man hauynge the fre vse of reason that wyl denye mannes lyfe chiefelye to bee conserued by the strengthe and power of that whyche is extracted as well forthe of the vertue o● hearbes as other metalles called the quint essence Foreseyng that not onlie the opinions of sage and wyse Philosophers haue in thys thyng concluded but also we maye see the experience of it in our owne bodyes For forthe of the meates beyng grosse of substance whych we receiue daylye to the sustentation of nature is extract by power digestiue the quinte essence of those same meates where doyth nature is fedde and noryshed that whyche is grosse and euyll beyng seperate awaye by power e●pu●siue as gobbettes not agreynge to her dyer Wherefore she abhorryng them desyreth to haue them expelled by sundrye kyndes of excrementes but nowe to my purpose Of al other that quint eisēce is the best and moste precious which is extracte forth of the precious metall golde for it of al other is most temperate not obiect to corruption and as Astronomers aflirme for the goodly and shynyng colour and also for hys temperature it is resembled to two of the most worthy planettes hauynge supremitie ouer the reste that is to wyt Sol and Jupiter Of thys is made a golden drynke called aurnm potabile whych is of great strength vertue in producinge of oure lyfe Of this aurum potabile is a boke intituled Celū philosophicū vnto the whych boke for the more ample and playne declaration hereof I remitte the studious reader for this litle treatise can not receiue it Of the opiniō of thē which

say mans lyfe by degrees of seuen yeres to be in daunger of death or misfortune The tenth Chapter FOr asmuche as shortnes of tyme and busines otherwise taketh from me labour and studye requisite to the exacte and perfite finyshyng of thys my purpose and enterpryse begone wherby I am constrained to leaue many thynges vnspoken concernyng certeyne preceptes of Astronomie by the healpe whereof Astronomers promyse preseruation of health and cōtinuance of the same which thyngs omitted I purpose onlye to remember their opinion whych affirme ourelyfe euermore at seuen yeres ende to be in daunger of death or misfortune which yeres the Astronomers call Auuos c●●nactericos they are called also An ●● sca●ar●s ●tadatii or dectetorii whiche they proue to be by this reasō Foreseyng that all the Planettes do raigne by order of successiō and course Euerye houre of the daye semblablie they raygne in order euery day in the weeke also euery planet in order geueth influence and constellacion for the space of a moneth to the chylde conceiued in the wombe and brought forth vy generation Whereby wyse Astrologers castyng the daye and hour of the chyldes natiuitye do indge hys naturall inclinacion and to what thynges he is of nature aptlye dysposed And consequentlye they saye that euerye planet in order for a yeres space geueth influence and constellacion vnto mans lyfe For a more euident declaracion whereof it is to be noted that Saturne the hyghest planet in the fyrste moneth after the chylde is conceyued hathe supremitie and chiefe rule ouer the chylde lying in the wombe not hauyng perfecte shape of manne or woman and so by discention vnto the loweste In the seuēth moneth Luna hath rule and gouernaunce and so after the chylde is borne and broughte forthe by ascention agayne 〈◊〉 fyrste yeare of the childes age the Moone hath soueraigntie and geueth her influence In the second Mercuri in the thirde Uenus in the fourth Sol in the fifte Mars in the syxt Jupiter in the seuenth Saturne so in order returnyng agayne that suche course there is in all mans lyfe whych causeth in oure bodies euerye seuen yeare a greate alteracion and chaunge Wherefore euerye seuen yeare is thought daungerous and ieoperdous for the causes before mencioned For this cause by y e aduertisemēt of auncient writers at euery seuen yeres ende we shulde consult with phisicions wyse and well learned to knowe how to escape the daunger then imminent For by certeine remedyes Ptolomeus affirmeth that the manaces and threatnings of the planettes may be repressed Also he affirmeth that mans lyfe maye be prolonged by vertue and power of certeine Images made of precious stones or other metal if they be made at time oportunate and conuenient accordinge to the raygne of the planettes as Philost●atus telleth of a manne named Appolonius whych by the vertue of seuen rynges whyche he made geuyng euery one of them a name accordyng to the names of the planettes and vsinge dayly to put the ringes on hys fingers as the planettes raygned in the dayes of the weeke ly●ed an hundred yeres reteinyng styll the yong and goodlye bewtie of the visage the liuelye power and quicke vigoure of the mynde and strength of the bodye Albeit I let pas to wryte of suche astrologicall Images for because such witchcraft and sorcerye is superstitious and deuyllishe vnlawfull by the lawes of god and man Wherefore all trust and confidence taken from suche detestable practise these medicines only maye be lawefully vsed to dryue awaye the in commodities of age whych on the earthe God hathe created for mannes necessitie A confutation of the exoniouse opinion of certayne philosophers whyche thought phisycke to be of such efficacie and power to make the body immortal wyth the causes of bodely deathe and the necessitie thereof The eleuenth Chapter THere were in tyme paste certeine philosophers whyche supposed that by suche craft and other lyke as is before hearted the bodi of mā might be made immortal Whych opinion to be folyshe peruerse and erronions it may sone appeare to al them whiche wyll eyther folowe daylye experience or natural reason to leaue of that I shuld firste haue named and that is the most true and substanciall reason verelye the determinate sentence of almyghtie god Albeit not only philosophers but also phisicions by ouermuche affiaunce and trust had in their science supposed that this thyng myghte be brought to passe against whose presumption arrogancie the noble phisicion Auicene the chiefe of the Arabians in forme folowyng replieth sayenge The science of phisytke doth not make a manim mortall nor doth not defend surely out bodies from outward hurtefull thynges no nor can not assure euery man to lyfe to the last terme and daye of his lyfe But of two thynges it maketh vs sure that is from putrefaction and corruption and also defendeth that naturall moysture be not lyghtly dissolued or consumed Wherfore that cruel Lady of destenie named A●ropos whom we call comenlye death assayleth and pursueth oure bodyes to destroye and kyll them by two sundry maner of wayes Whereof the fyrste is called resolution or consumption of natural moysture whyche in continuaunce and precesse of tyme muste of necessitie be consumed and wasted and can by no phisycke be auoyded And all the preceptes whych here be gathered together if thei be discretelye vsed and put in due execution serue speciallye for thys purpose that it bee not lyghtlye as in floryshyng youthe or chylde age consumed or wasted but be deferred to olde age as longe as nature wyll permitte and suffer The latter cause by the whyche death assayleth the bodie is called putrefaction or corruption of naturall humiditie whyche maye be easelye auoyded if man be circumspecte in vsyng the counsels before wrytten and to keepe the bodye in safety and health From the daunger hereof dothe belonge the diligent consideration and ryghte vse of those thynges whych be called in phisicke not natural whyche be syxe in number Ayre meate and drinke sleepe and watche mouing and reste emptines and repletion and affectes of the mynde Of the vse whereof is some thyng spoken in master Eliots Castell and ther fore here omitted But nowe to returne to this necessitye of our dying to the which by force and constraynt we are driuen and commeth by thys reason Naturall heate in oure bodies by continuaunce and processe of time is a necessatie cause of her owne de struction For if it shulde alwayes continue in our bodies then shuld we liue but the thyng is contrary for at the lengthe it dothe consume and wast her owne matter wherof she is made that is naturall moysture For a more euidente and playne declaration whereof it is to be considered that lyke as the lyght of the lampe dothe by continuaunce of tyme consume the oyle which is cause of the lyght and so is at length extingwyshed Lykewyse it fareth by naturall heate in our bodies and the more it aprocheth to age the more it becometh drier wherby heat is diminyshed which diminution of naturall heat is caused of two thynges the one is ouermuch drynes in al the mēbers the other is lacke of moysture whych of necessitie immediately after causeth death to come and the body to be dissolued This I thynke sufficient to the confutacion of the opinion before remembred One thynge I had almoste forgotten whych althoughe it be but a faynyng of the poetes yet it is necessarye to the amplifiyng of our purpose and doth conteine in it thynges delectable worthye knowledge The poets fayne there to be iii. fatall Ladies or Ladies of destinye in whose wyll it standeth to prolonge and shorten mans lyfe and they be called of the Latines Parce because as I suppose they fauour no manne The fyrste named Clotho is fayned to holde a rocke or distafe in her hande The second named Lachesis to plucke forthe the threede and the thyrde called Athrop●s to plucke asunder and breake the same whereby they vnderstand that the fyrste of these Ladyes hathe power of oure lyfe at the begynnyng of it and the seconde ladye to stretche forth and draw along mannes lyfe the third ladye at her pleasure and when she wyll to shorten it so as it runne not hys full course An Epiloge or briefe rehearsall of the pr●misses THys is sufficiente for the declaracion of those thynges which be necessary and expediente to be knowen to the preseruation of the health and longe continuaunce of the same whych specialye doth consyst in reducing naturall heate and moysture to an equall and iust temperature in makyng digestion good and perfite in rectifieng of bloud viciate or corrupt in consideracion to be hadde concerning a mansion or dwelling place in ordinarie dyet to be obserued in preparing necessarye remedies agaynst inordinate watching finallye in the power and strength of that whych beyng extracte out of hearbes and other metalles is called a quine essence which being studiousely read and put in due execution I trust shall be to the readers both commodious and profitable o● whom I praye ●hat my small and symple ●abo●●es hece●● bestowed at vacant tyme from other lettes and busines maye be fauorably accepted and hereafter when I shall perceiue where ●●her my lytle power or poore ●●beuoure maye better accomplyshe the thyng for theyr commoditie ther shall no laboure let me from doyng of it Thus fare ye well gentle Readers FINIS Uiue vale Lector si quid scis rectius istis Candidus imperti si non scis viere gratus Imprinted at London by Robert Stough ten dwellynge wythin Ludgate at the sygne of the Bishoppes Myter Ingeni●● memoria Juditi● ▪ Experientia Longa vi ta ad scientie cognitionem necessaria Gen. xvi M. fici●● lib. i de stud ▪ ca ▪ tu●nd ca ▪ tercio ▪ Celius auti-lecti lib. xvi Corn. Celsus lib. x. Prou. xv Libr. ● cap. vii Hesiodus 〈◊〉 2. ●●gou ca● eme●on Rayses li bro. iii al mansoris Diatetici