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A25754	Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3608; ESTC R27652	39,777	161

of any thing is an enemy to Nature 3. Nature is the Physitian of Diseases but the Physitian is the servant of Nature and ought to imitate her she acting aright 4. Custome is a second Nature and those things which he are accustomed to a long time though worse they are wont to be less troublesome then those things we are not used to Doctrine of the preservation of health DOctrine for health is comprehended in these 2 parts viz. Materials of health or wholesome causes 2. A knowledge necessary for the preservation of health teaching how things called Non-Natural are to be used for the keeping men in health they are comprehended under the notion of things Non-Natural and ought to be ordered into four Ranks as 1. First Those things which are taken in 2. S●condly Those things which are carried 3. Thirdly Those things which are emitted and Retained 4. Fourthly What befalls the body by accident as Of Air Meat and Drink Passion of the mind Motion and exercise of body Rest Sleep and Watching Venery excretions and Retentions CHAP. VI. Of Air. AIr is the most worthy Element for the preservation of Life in every creature nay the other Elements subsist by it as for example fire is extinguished if you keep Air from it and water putrifies and stinks if Air comes not to it and the very Earth brings forth nothing to maturity without it Therefore we may well give precedency to its worth in discourse The Air affects our bodies two wayes viz. Extrinsecally as it insinuates through the pores of the skin and as it is attracted by inspiration so it hath a force upon our bodies and impresseth its quality whether good or bad upon us according to all writers The best air The best Air is temperate as to the primary quallities and is pure and infected with no pollutions but is Serene moved or stirred with the Winds breathing sweetly with pleasant Gales and sometimes moistned with wholesome showers Corrupt air On the contrary that Air is vitious which is infected with exhalations and vitious vapours breaking forth on every side or is compassed with marish or standing waters after what manner soever it be impure and such as cannot be purified by the blowing of Winds that Air which is troubled or too Hot or too Cold too Dry or too moist Constitution of air But the Constitution of Air may be polluted though divers causes first the Constitution of the Air depends on the scituation and nature of places for some Regions are hotter then others others colder for by how much the more any Regions receive the direct beams of the Sun and by how much the longer the Sun remains above their Horizon by so much the Country is more hot the contrary Reasons make it so much the Colder yet this cause only doth not suffice neither is the same Constitution of Air in all the inhabitants under the same Latitude for these ten Reasons First the mold and proper Nature of the Earth conduceth to the Constitution and Temperature of the air wherein is to be observed what the Nature of Ground is whether Fat Dirty Filthy Gravelly Stony Sandy Whether the place be high or low what scituation there is of Mountains and Valleys what Winds it often admits and from what Climates whether the Sea or any Lakes be near it whether it brings forth mettals from whence malignant air may be exhaled 2. Scituation of Mountains The Mountains also change the Constitution of the air according as the blowing of certain winds drive away and admit it and if the Mountains drive away the North wind but admit the South wind it comes to pass that the air is hotter and moister the contrary makes the place colder and dryer 3. Winds The different winds bring forth great Mutations as the Oriental or East winds are more temperate also the Occidental or West but these are moister the Northern are cold and dry and have power to bind bodies and dry them the Southern are hot and moist therefore as the Region or Scituation is more or less disposed to this or that wind so it obtains this or that Constitution of air but generaly Countrys exposed to the Oriental Sun are more wholesome then those which are exposed to the Septentrional or North winds and hot winds are more wholesome then those which are exposed to the West 4. Sea and Lakes The Vicinity to the Sea and Lakes conduce much to the peculiar Nature of the air unless interjected Mountains prohibit for from moist places of this Nature many exhalations are drawn up which mingle themselves with air and moisten it and indeed the humidity will be increased if the Sea or Lake be scituated on the South but if towards the North fridigity 5. Metallick Pits or Mines Mines generally communicate their malignant smell and vapou●s to the neighbouring places also Caves exhale venemous air also Woods that are too thick hinder the light of the Sun and Moon as also the motion of the air 6. Times of the Year Indeed the seasons of the Yeer change the air which Astronomers constitute equall according to the motion of the Sun and Zodiack being divided into four parts but Physitians regard these times according to the temper of the air and call that the Spring when the constitution of the air is more temperate when we grow neither stiff with cold nor sweat with heat but the Summer when the same is hot and dry Winter when it is cold and moist neither do they appoint these seasons to be equal in all Countries 7. The Spring The Spring being the most temperate or as Hypocrates calls it hot and moist that is when calidity moderately overcomes frigidity and humidity moderately exceeds driness it is the most wholesome time of the Year and although diseases are generated or rather shews themselves in the spring time yet the spring of its self doth not produce them but the vitious humors which are gathered together in the Winter time are driven out in the spring by the heat o● the Sun and Planets 8. The Summer This quarter is hot and dry ergo makes bodies more hot and dry purifies and disolves and renders them weaker by reason of heat it attenuates humours and kindles them from whence Cholorick and Acrimonius humors are accumulated 9. Autmne This Season is mixed with cold and heat that is mornings and evenings are cold the midle part of the day hot its Constitution is hot and cold and by Reason of its inequality in Air it is very obnoxious to Diseases and blood at this time of the Year is diminished by Reason of approach of cold Winter makes it dangerous to Phlebotomise but upon necessity for now Melancholly abound bodyes are thickned by the Retiring of Blood and Spirits which causeth the pores to close 10. Winter Now the Frigidity of the Air with moisture makes Flegm abounds and procures Catarrhs Distillations Rotten Coughs But if the Seasons of the Year are variable and uncertain

Every MAN his own DOCTOR In two PARTS Shewing 1. How every one may know his own Constitution and Complection by certain Signs Also the Nature and Faculties of all Food as well Meats as drinks Whereby every Man and Woman may understand what is good or hurtful to them Treating also of Air Passions of Mind Exercise of Body Sleep Venery and Tobacco c. The Second part shews the full knowledge and Cure of the Pox and Running of the Reins Gout Dropsie Scurvy Consumptions and Obstructions Agues Shewing their causes and Signs and what danger any are in little or much and perfect Cure with small cost and no danger of Reputation Written by John Archer Chymical Physitian in Ordinary to the King Felix qui potuit Rerum Cognoscere Causas LONDON Printed by Peter Lillicrap for the Authour and are to be sold by most Booksellers 16●● To the Reader COnsidering the great damage that comes upon most people daily by not knowing or not regarding there own Constitutions of body whereby they neglect the pretious Jewel of Health and so by Ignorance do live negligenly and Eat and Drink they care not what so it be good in it self thinking it cannot be bad for them so it please the Pallat but thereby many dig their Graves with their Teeth and cut off the thread of their lives sooner then is required by God or Nature besides their uncomfortable living in sickness and disease of body Now for prevention I have to the benefit of all if perused writ this short Compendium Shewing how every one may know his own Complection and the Nature and Faculty of most Food now used in England whereby every Man may be his own Doctor in a Dietetical way which may prevent a Physical course and for such as are distempered or Diseased I have mentioned some of the most dangerous Diseases now in being which with their knowledge and dangers are clearly laid down and their best cure faithfully propounded which experience will best testifie having pitty to all that are so ignorant that eat they know not what or that are diseased and know not how to be cured but with ruine to their Credit and Name These Reasons made me publish this short tract for thy good that art willing and hast need of Advice least too late thou considerest J. A. Licensed and Entred according to Order The Contents of this Book FIrst The Epistle to the Reader Chap. 1. Of the preservation of health page 1. Chap. 2. Shews the best temperature page 4. Chap. 3. Shews certain Signs to know your Constitution and Complection page 6. Chap 4. Shews the benefit to be gathered from knowledge of our own Complection page 10. Chap. 5. Declaring some common Axiomes and Maximes to be observed in preserving of health page 12. Chap. 6. Treats of the worth of Air and the best and worst Air also difference of Air. page 14. Chap. 7. Treats of Meat or Food shewing the difference also the best and worst page 23. Chap. 8. Shews the Nature and Faculties of every thing we eat in beasts or fowl page 26. Chap. 9. Shews the Nature and variety of Fish page 40. Chap. 10. Treats of Food taken from living creatures as Milk Eggs Honey and others page 48. Chap. 11. Treats of Food from plants and Vegetables as Corn Fruits Roots Herbs page 57. Chap. 12. Shews the difference of drinks and nature of Waters Wine Beer Ale Honey drinks Coffee and Tobacco for whom it is good page 80. Chap. 13. Of passions of the mind and exercise and rest of the body sleep watchings excretions retentions and Venery page 96. The Second part Chap. 1. THe advertisement page 109. Chap. 2. Treats of the Pox. page 115. Chap. 3. Shews the Signs of Infection by the Fox page 118. Chap. 4. How to cure the Pox. page 120. Chap. 5. Shews how to cure the Running of the Reins or weakness of Nature page 125. Chap. 6. Shews how to know and cure the Scurvy page 129. Chap. 7. Treats of the Gout and how to cure page 132. Chap 8. Of the different Dropsies their causes and cures page 135. Chap. 9. Of an Ague or Feaver what it is and how to cure page 137. Chap. 10. Of a Consumption and decays of strength and how to cure page 140. Chap. 11. Treating of all sorts of Jaundies and obstructions and green sickness page 146. Chap. 12. Of the prices of the Medcines that cures these great diseases and proper for all Constitutions page 149. Being to be had at the Authors house only Every man his own Doctor CHAP. I. Of the preservation of Health TO preserve health when present and to Restore if lost is the chief end of Phisick and shall be my Main design in this small tract The word Medicina being derived amedendo that is healing such as are sick doth properly belong to the Theraputicall part only which part being most necessary was first invented yet afterwards when that part was added which shews the preservation of present health the same denomination was still retained and is now given to the whole art of Phisick therefore for definition Phisick is an art of preserving mans health when present and restoreing it when lost as far as it is posible The subject of Phisick is mans body as it is obnoxious to diseases the scope or end of Phisick is to heal although it is impossible to cure all that are sick yet the Physitian hath performed his office if he hath omitted none of those things that are in the power of nature and art Health amongst all things called good by Mortals is most desired when sick therefore ought to be highly prized when in well being and I think it may not only be acceptable but very profitable to all to be sincerely and briefly informed how to keep health and cure themselves Especially for those that have not patience to read voluminous Authours and those that want time and means for due Regulation and Government although we have an old Proverb that every Man is a Fool or a Physitian at forty year old Which saying is very true my meaning is that every Man in prudence should so far be his own Doctor as rightly to know his own Constitution and Complection and the reasons for the Friendly agreement or the Antipathy of any Food to his own body and for this end he ought to know the Nature of all Meat and Drink in use as ordinary Food amongst us in England especially The aforesaid knowledge is the Hygenial part of Physick that is Rules how present health may be preserved and how to beware not to fall into a Disease not that I think it necessary that every particular Person should be able to read an Anotomy Lecture upon the parts of his own Body nor study the Nature differences causes of Diseases nor the various sorts nor qualities of Purgative Medicines but that Man is to be pittied that eats for hunger and knows not the Nature of what he

and generate Putrid humours and sometimes Worms in Putrid Feavers taken by surfeit and ever-much eating them yet the black are most wholesome and indeed Medicinal against Convulsions Plumbs and Prunes Plumbs in general are cold and moist but there are divers kind of Plumbs the sweet ones are not so cold as the sower in nature they are chiefly profitable to cholorick stomachs they are easily concocted and pass through the belly those that are fresh alter most powerfully they mollify the belly being taken before meat but very dangerous taken after by reason they scatter abroad many excrements and that crude they do not generate good juice those which abound most with a moistcrude juice are the worst also the white or yellowish are the worst but the best are of a black or blew colour like Damsons and Damask Prunes the dry are more fit for nourishment for those that are weak in stomach plumbs are not convenient because they loosen its strength by a cooling moisture Mulburies Mulburies do very powerfully quench thirst from their moisting and cooling quality they mitigate choller but nourish little they easily pass through the belly but if they are retained they are easily corrupted and become putred and acquire an ill Nature wherefore they are to be eaten when the stomach is empty only and not stuffed with peccant humours that they may quickly descend through the belly Figs. Figs are hot and moist by Nature and nourish very much above any other Fruits they easily descend and pass through the belly they have a penetrating and cleansing faculty yet too much use of them begets Wind dry Figs are hotter and dryer then green and are of a very opening and attenuating quality and do also loosen the belly and drive humours to the external parts therefore profitably taken by Women near their time of travel they generate blood also but none of the best Grapes Grapes that are sweet are hot and therefore cause thirst sharp sower austere are colder therefore allay drotwh or thirst the mean between sweat and sowre are best to make Wine of the fresh gathered ate flatulent windy afford little nourishment and if they are detained long in the Stomach are corrupted and dilate the belly and stir up Chollick Fits and cause the Spleen to swell and fill the Stomach and Liver with crude humours the fresh gathered serve rather for pleasure then health but the best are the sweet ones mixt with a little sharp tast those without stones loosen the belly more but with stones strengthen the Stomach Almonds and Nuts Sweet Almonds are the best of Nuts and of them the largest and sweetest are most to be desired they are temperately hot and moist and yeilds store of nourishment and of good juyce and moderate they attenuate and cleanse for which Reason they are the best Food for imatiated bodies and they replenish the intrails and the whole body with convenient nourishment and such as is not apt to corruption they purge the breast open Obstructions of the Urinary passage and cause sleep but are not so useful for a Chollerick Stomach nor good to be given in Feavers proceeding from Choller they are usually given to the Sick dissolved in broaths which are called emulsions Filberds and Hasle-Nuts The best of Hasle Nuts are Filberds and do come nearest to Almonds in vertue but they are hot and dry in quality hardly digested afford a thick juyce if old the young or newly gathered are the best Walnuts Walnuts if new gathered are hot and moist the old are hot and dry in faculty the new are safer eaten then the old for the old generates Choller offend the orifice of the Stomach and hurt the Gullet or Wind-pipe cause a Cough and causeth pain in the head the use of them is commended after eating of Fish because their heating and dryness prevent the corruption of Fish Chestnuts Gallen that learned Physitian believes that Chestnuts have no ill juyce as all other Fruits of Trees have they are hot and dry and if they are well concocted nourish very much and affords durable nourishment they bind the belly and if they are eaten in too great plenty generates Wind. Olives Oyle Olives are temperate and the Oyl drawn from them that are Ripe affords nourishment temperate and agreeable to our Nature and can correct the pravity of other Aliments amends the crudity of Herbs Resists poyson it mollifies and loosens the belly it takes away sharpness it helps Ruptutes and such as are bursten bellied and mittigates pain internally and externally Mushromes and Toad-stools Lastly since the wantonness of some will eat Mushromes yet they are not eaten without danger they are by nature cold they yeild a watry and thick nourishment but oftentimes they are poysonous therefore better let alone then eaten Now we have passed through all eatable things it is necessary we speak next of all sorts of Drink CHAP. XII Of Drink Its Use DRink is of so absolute necessity that without it the moist substance which is daily consumed cannot be restored nor the natural thirst allayed neither can the Fat and thick moisture be carried through the narrow passages and by drink the meat in the Stomach is mingled concocted and poured forth and an inflamation of that Fat which destinated by Nature to nourish our bodies is prohibited Kinds of Drink There are divers kinds of Drink as Water Wine Strong Beer Ale Syder Perry Drinks made of Honey Sugar c. and divers decoctions Waters how to know good There is great variety of Waters all which are cold and moist but the best is that which is pure and clear by the sight taste smell and offers the sale of nothing to the tast nor odour to the smell which upon the fire is soon made hot and taken from the Fire doth soon grow cold which is light and wherein Flesh and Fruit are soon boyled some is Fountain others is River water some Rain water others Lake or Pond water some marish others Snow waters Fountain Water Fountain water is the best which hath these marks of good water that spreads towards the East and Runs Eastward and Riseth through Sand and Gravel that carries no mud with it that is hotter in Winter and colder in Summer River Water River Water for the most part is Fountain water and ariseth from many Fountains flowing together and therefore is of a mixed nature and receives also a mixt Nature from the Earth it passeth through Waters are mixed And sometimes also they are mingled with Snow melted in the Mountains and great showres of water collected together yet its crudity is corrected by the beams of the Sun whilst it runs through divers parts of the Earth before the use of it it should stand and settle in Cisterns and Tubs that what impurities it brought with it may settle to the Bottom Rain Water Rain Waters which falls in the Summer time with Thunder is the thinnest and lightest but since many vapours are lift up by

I thought it necessary to say something of it therefore take notice that some that have writ of it do mu●ter up as many vertues pertaining to it as can be mentioned which is a common Fault in Herbalists to ascribe more praise by much then is due to every Herb but this is certain Tobacco is a good vulnary Herb as may be used to wounds whether made into Oyntment from the green Herb or the leaf it self applyed it is in Nature hot and dry very Balsamaical now as used by smoaking in a pipe it is very attractive of moist and crude humours as Water and Phlegm cut of the Head and Stomach and so it makes a pump of the mouth for the benefit of some and detriment to the health of others And that I may make some discovery for whom it is good and for what I say it is chiefly proper for those that are of a Phlegmatick constitution and those that abound with humidity as Rhumes Catarrhs Distillations and Hydropick persons my Reasons are it is good for the Phlegmatick because it is hot and dry and so resists the generation of Phlegm as well exhausts it next it is good against Rheums Catarrhs Distillations because it draws sorth by the mouth and so prevents the distilling upon the Lungs for the acrimony of Salt Phlegm falling from the head upon the Lungs is the worst and dangerous symptome in a Catarrh which ulcerates the Lungs and brings the whole body into a Cons●mption and death therefore whatsoever leads forth the distilling humour prevents the great mischief it brings For whom Tobacco is not good First it is not good for those that are hot and dry Chollerick constitutioned yet if such have long accustomed themselves to the taking it it is not safe leaving it of too hastily but by degrees neither is it proper for Sanguine p●ople that are not troubled with Rheums because it attracts humours by heat and brings an influx where would be none without it and it doth certainly decay the Teeth for two causes from its own heat which comes with a burning Oyl with the smoak into the mouth and likewise it destroys the Teeth from the frequent Flux of Rheum from the Head to the Teeth which may well be avoided by them for whom it is not agreeable Order in taking Tobacco Some Directions ought to be given as to the manner of using this drug as well as others as first for the Phlegmatick For Phlegmatick persons it is best for them to take it ordinarly after Meats especially after drinking and before going to bed and not to drink after it but rather before they smoak that the crudities of the drink and Stomach may be emited but for hot constitutioned persons as the Chollerick it is best for them to drink both before and after except to bed ward least their natural heat with the heat of Tobacco may be inflamed and cause a burning at the Heart and in the Stomach CHAP. XIII Of the Passions of the Mind and exercise and rest of the body THe next thing conducible to health having now sufficiently spoken of wholesome Air Meat and Drink c. Is passions of the mind and exercise of body the perturbations of the mind do much hurt to the body as no Physitian will deny and an Euthumy or well setled mind and such as is at quiet doth very much tend to the preservation of health for although every man that is diseased in body is troubled also in mind by the peccant humours which makes men angry and peevish so that it makes true the saying there can hardly be found mens sana but in corpore sano yet there are some men in perfect health that wilfully take upon them such a habit or custome of anger that not only disturbs their own house and Relations but thereby bring into their own bodies Sickness and Death but contrarywise moderate joy and a chearful spirit doth preserve the body in health and sound constitution for it recreates and refreshes the heart and spirits and whole body but if joy be excessive it dissipates and consumes the spirits Exercise of Body Motion and Exercise is of it self sufficient to keep the body from Diseases because it brings a solidity and hardness to the parts of the body that they that use exercise moderately need little other Physick this makes the labouring mans sleep sweet and pleasant this shews the Justice of divine providence distributing the happiness of this matrocosm in proportion to all Ranks of men for they that are poor and forced to labour are recompensed with the rich Jewel of health better then which nothing can here be found Exercise doth increase health and strength also it moves and agitates the spirits from whence the heart is made strong and can resist external injuries and is fit to undergo all actions and good nourishment is made and vitious excrementitious vapours are discussed on the contrary those bodies that live idly are soft and tender and unfit to perform labors of every kind as Dancing Running Playing at Ball Gesture of Body Riding Swimming Walking and all others but divers exercise have different force and some exercise some parts more then others in walking the Legs are most exercised in handling of Weapons the Arms in singing speaking loud and clear Reading with a loud voice the Lungs Breast and Face but the playing with a Ball Gallen that great Physitian hath writ a peculiar book in commendations of that exercise above any other by reason it exercises the whole body also there is a great difference according to strength used or magnitude in motion for example swift motions attenuates the body thickens it slow motions Ratifies and increaseth Flesh vehement motions extenuates the body and makes it lean but with hard flourishing and firm flesh too much exercise exhausteth and dissipates the spirits and the substance of the solid parts and cools the whole body and dissolves the strength of the Nerves and Ligaments and sometimes breaks the lesser Veins and distendeth the membrances Of Sleep and Watching Watchings that are moderate is a help to distribute Aliment and promotes the emission of excrements it stirs up the spirits and renders them more flourishing but if watchings are immoderate they consume and dissipate the animal Spirits and dry the whole body especially the brain they increase Choller they inflame and the heat being dissipated they stir up cold Diseases Sleep being moderate doth refresh and kindle again the decayed strength and spirits that are wasted by diurnal labours are by it restored the heat is called back to the internal parts from whence a concoction of Aliment and crude humours is happily performed in the whole body especially the Bowels are sweetly moistned the heat increased and the whole body become stronger cares are taken away Anger is allayed and the mind enjoys more tranquillity in moderate evacuations besides sweat are hindred as the Diarhea or Flux of the Belly Sleep is especially beneficial to old men