vapours of the feet that else should vanish away in the head and eyes Also you must if you can possibly sleepe in your chaire and let your head be meanely couered according to the time For as too much colde so too much heate doth astonish the minde and spirits Of early rising CHAP. 2. What are the commodities of early rising EArly rising is healthfull for the bloud and humours of the body and a thing good for them that be studious of waighty affaires for the animall spirit is then more readie to conceiue Yet notwithstanding it is not amisse to consider and serue the time and place because if the aire be corrupt as in plague time or enclined to moistnesse as in raynie and mistie weather or thundring it is better to abide either in bed with some light or to sit in the chamber by some sweet fire Of Dreames CHAP. 3. What are Dreames DReames are either tokens of things past or significants of things to come And surely if a mans minde be free from cares and he dreame in the morning there is no doubt but the affaires then dreamed of will truely come to passe How many sorts of dreames be there There be three sorts of Dreames To wit diuine supernaturall and naturall Diuine dreames are they which were sent by inspiration from God to his Prophets and faithfull seruants and as God is the Author of trueth so are they true and certaine Supernaturall dreames are placed in the middest betweene the diuine dreames and the naturall for they may happen without being precisely sent from God and their cause comes not onely by the sole deprauation of humours as naturall dreames doe but by the rauishment of the spirit which wakes while the body reposeth and which being oftentimes holpen by the inspiration of some good Angel or Genius doth represent by such Dreames things which commonly come to passe These kind of dreames chance in the morning when the braine is more free from the vapours of the meate which before had dulled it Among many examples which I haue read of this one seemes most strange vnto me Two friends trauailing together to a certaine Citie by the way at a little village parted the one to his friends house and the other to an Inne Hee which lodged at his friends house saw in his dreame his companion defiring him that he would come to help him or else he was to be killed by his hoast which when he saw he awaked rose out of his bed and was about to goe to the Inne but comming to himselfe and thinking how it might be a false dreame returned to his bed and slept then againe his friend appeared vnto him and seemed to request him more earnestly that he would succour him but he making no account likewise of this dreame slept againe to whom in like manner the third time his companion with a great complaint desiring him because hee had neglected to helpe him in his life time that now he would at last not denie to seeke reuenge on the murtherer saying that his murthered body was brought out of the gate of the Citie vpon a Cart couered ouer with dung to hide the offence By this meanes God disclosed the murther which well might be termed sera numinis vindicta Naturall dreames are they which represent the passions of the soule and body the imaginations of such dreames come to passe either by reason of outward causes or inward the outward are vaporous meates which ingender corrupt and burnt bloud For the vse of Coleworts Beanes Pease and Pottage causeth sorrowfull and troublesome dreames like as Garlick and Onions being eaten at supper doth make a man to dreame of terrible things The inward causes of which dreames are euill humours specially melancholicke which through the blacknesse thereof doth darken the light of the vnderstanding which is seated in the braine and there-hence as a candle imparts light vnto the whole body and there they imprint troublesome dreames To hinder a man from dreaming let him auoid bad and windie meates let him purge melancholy and at conuenient season if neede be let him bleed Likewise it is expedient to temper and correct the humours by sound antidotes and preparatiues to vse revulsions and deriuations to withdraw some of the fumes and vapours which ascend vp into the head filling the braine with many such troublesome conceits The fourth Section Of Euacuations CHAP. 1. How many kindes of Euacuations are there EVacuations are either naturall or artificiall the one vsuall as exercise vrine fasting and venerie the other compelled as by Bathes bloud-letting Purgations vomites glysters What be the commodities of Exercise Exercise is that which maketh the body light increaseth naturall heate and consumeth superfluous humours which otherwise would clotter and congeale within the body For in euery concoction some excrements are ingendred which being left alone may be the rootes of diuers sicknesses Now the thicker sort of excrements are auoyded by sensible euacuations But the thinner may be wasted and purged by exercise At what time is it best to exercise It is best to exercise when the body is fasting and emptie least after meats by violent and vehement motions digestion be hindered and putrifaction follow In Sommer exercise is to be vsed an houre after Sunne rising for feare of a double heate In Spring and Haruest time it is to be vsed about an houre and a halfe after Sunne rising that the morning colde may be auoided for as the heate at mid-day is hurtfull so the morning colde especially in Autumne is to be eschewed What kinde of Exercise is good Walking if it be not too slow is a commendable exercise and may be vsed in hot moneths specially of cholericke persons To hang by the hands on a thing aboue your reach so that your feet touch not the ground is good To climbe vp against a steepe hill till you pant and fetch your breath often with great difficultie is a fit exercise to be frequented in colde seasons Olde men must content themselues with softer Exercises least that the small heate which they haue should be spent They must onely euerie morning haue their ioynts gently rubbed with a linnen cloth To be briefe they must be combde and cherished vp with fine delights Vnto what complexion doth Exercise most appertaine Vnto the flegmaticke rather then the cholericke What exercise should short winded men vse They must vse loud reading and disputations that thereby their winde pipes may be extended and their pores opened Of Vrines CHAP. 2. What is Vrine VRine is the clearer and lighter part of bloud proceeding from the raines which if a man forceth to suppresse he is in danger of the collicke or stone What colour of vrine is most commendable That Vrine is most laudable which is of colour somewhat red and yealow like golde answering in proportion to the liquour which you drinke Teach me to prognosticate by Vrines White vrine signifieth rawnesse and indigestion in the
APPROVED Directions for Health both Naturall and Artificiall Deriued from the best Physitians as well moderne as auncient Teaching how euery Man should keepe his body and mind in health and sicke how hee may safely restore it himselfe Diuided into 6. Sections 1. Ayre Fire and Water 2. Meate drinke with nourishment 3. Sleepe Earely rising and Dreames 4. Auoidance of excrements by purga 5. The Soules qualities and affections 6. Quarterly monethly and daily Diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the Authour The fourth Edition LONDON Printed by T. S. for Roger Iackson and are to be solde at his Shop neere the Conduit in Fleetestreete 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE MY GRATIOVS MOTHER in Law the Lady Lettice VVife to the valerous and Heroicall Knight Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Duputie of his Maiesties Kingdomâ— of Ireland MADAME it hath euer beene a customary fashion among Students to chuse out some noble Personage eminent for vertue vnder the glory of whose name their Bookes might walke vp and downe on the worlds Theater secured from that spitefull Spirit of Detraction whose blustering blasts of Blasphemie I lately endeuoured to coniure and conuict After the like manner to be somwhat in the fashion loe here I submit before your eyes of Grace this saplesse Worke of mine that the starry influence of your auncient loue may reflect vpon the darkest parts therof where perhaps the distance of Climate with-holds your directest beames I know your Ladyship is stored with far more precious presents onely Dutie herein seemes to free me from Presumption in dedicating the blossomes of my youthfull Studies to One who is as wise as I am mindfull as fauourable as I am faithfull and euer will continue At your Ladiships command WILLIAM VAVGHAN A Table declaring the Contents of the Sections and Chapters of this Booke The first Section Chiefe causes and Rules for preseruation of man health Chapter 1. OF Ayres for pleasure health and profit Fol. 1 Chapter 2. Of Waters with their kindes 9 Chapter 3. Of Fire and what kinde is best 12 The second Section Food and nourishment what 's good and bad Chapter 1. OF Bread and Drinke of all kindes Fol. 13 Chapter 2. Of Wines of all kindes and how to choose the best 19 Chapter 3. Of Dyet drinkes for the sicke and healthy 28 Chapter 4. Of Cyder and Perry with the vse thereof 31 Chapter 5. Of Flesh and which is best and how to preserue it sweet 33 Chapter 6. Of Fish of all sorts and which is best 40 Chapter 7. Of Milke Butter Cheese and Egges 44 Chapter 8. Of Sauces best and most sauory 49 Chapter 9. Of Hearbes with their vses 54 Chapter 10. Of common Fruits with their vses 56 The third Section Sleepe Earely rising and Dreames Chapter 1. OF Sleepe with the commodities and discommodities thereof Fol. 58 Chapter 2. Of Early rising 60 Chapter 3. Of Dreames 61 The fourth Section Euacuations Chapter 1. OF Exercise and which is best Fol. 64 Chapter 2. Of Vrines 67 Chapter 3. Of Fasting 68 Chapter 4. Of Venery 69 Chapter 5. Of Bathes 70 Chapter 6. Of Excrements and Bloud letting 72 Chapter 7. Of Purgations with the vse of Tobacco 74 Chapter 8. Of Vomits 82 Chapter 9. Of common sicknesses 84 The fift Section Infirmities and death Chapter 1. OF the causes of hot infirmities and of cold Fol. 87 Chapter 2. Of the wicked motions of the minde 89 Chapter 3. Of the age of man and how his life is deuided 112 Chapter 4. Of the foure Humours 121 The sixt Section Restauration of Health Chapter 1. OF the foure parts of the Yeare Fol. 123 Chapter 2. Of Monethly Dyet 129 Chapter 3. Of medicines and meanes to prolong life 138 Chapter 4. Of Mirth and the effects thereof 141 Chapter 5. Of daily Dyet 143 FINIS NATVRALL AND ARTIFICIAL DIRECTIONS FOR HEALTH The first Section What be the causes of the preseruation of Mans health CHAP. I. THE causes of the preseruation of mans health be foure The first Aire Fire and Water The second meate and drinke and such as we vse for nourishment The third mirth exercise and tranquillity of the body The fourth auoydance of excrements vnder which Phlebotomie purgations vomits vrine sweat bathes carnall copulation and such like are contained temperately What is Ayre Aire naturally by it selfe is an element hot and moist whereupon the whole constitution of our liues dependeth The attraction of this naturall body is so necessarie vnto vs that if any one of the instruments of our bodies be stopt we cannot choose but forthwith be strangled In respect whereof the choosing of a good ayre must for the preseruation of health obtaine the chiefest place Which is the best ayre That which is a mans natiue soyle and Countries ayre is best This by the Philosophers is approued in this principle Euery mans naturall place preserueth him which is placed in it And by the Poet confirmed Sweet is the smell of Countries soile Also a good Aire may be knowne both by his substance as when it is open pure and cleane free from all filthy dunghils noysome channels Nut trees Figge trees Coleworts Hemlocks Mines and Forges for these haue a contrary quality vnto the animall spirit and make men to fall into consumptions and by his qualities as extremity of colde heat and moysture What is the cause that the Aire changeth so oft The Aire receiues sundry alterations not onely according to the sundry aspects of the starres and of the heauenly planets but also by reason of the diuersities of Countries and of the particular situations of some places as well vpon the water as vpon the land Doe but marke how feauers rheumes plagues are ingendred by reason of troubled aire and of low marshie grounds And on the contrarie how our health is continued refreshed and recouered in drie or sandie Countries What shall a man doe if the Aire be either too hot too cold or too corrupt He must vse cold things to keepe away the heat and hot things to expell the cold He must adde dry things to moyst and moyst to dry To depart thence into another place were not amisse For oftentimes it is seene that sicke folkes doe recoure their former health onely by change of aire But if the aire be corrupt and that a man cannot remoue thence very quickly hee must artificially rectifie it by perfuming his Chamber with Iuniper Rosemary Bay tree or vvith wood of Aloes and then by sprinkling vineger here and there in his chamber In briefe a man in such cases must get him a Nosegay composed of Roses Violets Maioram Marigold and such like And when hee goeth abroad he must hold in his mouth eyther the pill of an Orenge or a peece of the root of Angelica Likewise he must haue an especiall regard that his Chamber be at least once a day neatly swept Our Mariners lately returned from their East Indian voyage confesse that their onely remedy against the Callentura the Scuruie and other
them that be in health Pigeons plump and fat boiled in sweet flesh-broth with coriander vineger or with sower cheries and plums do purge the raines heale the palsie proceeding of a colde cause and are very good in colde weather for olde persons and stomackes full of flegme A young fat Goose farsed with sweet hearbs and spices doth competently nourish Notwithstanding tender folkes must not eate thereof for it filleth the body with superfluous humours and causeth the feauer to follow Young Ducks stifled with Borage smoke and being eaten in cold weather strengthen the voice and encrease naturall seed Young hen Partridges eaten with vineger doe heale all manner of fluxes and dry vp bad humours in the belly Quailes eaten with coriander seed and vineger doe helpe melancholick men Woodcocks and Snites are somewhat lightly digested Yet hurtfull for collerick and melancholick men Swans Turkies Peacocks Hearnes and Cranes if they be hanged by the necks fiue daies with waights at their feet afterwards eaten with good sauce do greatly nourish and profit them which haue hote bellies Larkes and Sparrowes are meruailous good for them that be diseased of the collick Shew mee a way to fatten great Fowle in most short time You must follow Master Plats aduise namely to take the bloud of beasts whereof the Butchers make no great reckoning and boyle it with some store of branne amongst it perhaps graines will suffice but branne is best vntill it come to the shape of a bloud-pudding and therewith feede your fowle so fat as you please You may feede Turkies with bruised Acornes and they will prosper exceedingly Of Fish CHAP. 6. Shew me how to feed fishes in Ponds IN the fourth booke of the maison rustique lately translated out of French into English by Master Surphlet I finde these meanes for the preseruing of Fish-ponds layd downe It will be good sometimes to cast in some sorts of small fishes the bowels and entrailes of great fish crackt walnuts fresh cheese lumps of white bread certaine fruits chopt small all sorts of salt fish and such other like victuall and sometimes it will be good to cast vpon the pooles and ponds the fresh leaues of Parsley for those leaues doe reioyce and refresh the fishes that are sicke Sith it is most certaine that the fishes abiding in the sea or streames and running riuers haue greater store of victuall than those which are shut vp in pooles and ponds for such as haue their full scope of liberty in the sea and streames doe alwayes meet with one reliefe or other brought vnto them by the course of the water besides the small fishes which are the food and sustenance of the greater but the other shut vp and inclosed in safegard cannot goe forth a hunting after any pray What is the best fish A fresh Carpe salted for the space of sixe houres and then fried in oyle and besprinkled with vinegar in which spices haue boyled in all mens censure is thought to be the wholesomest kind of fish It may not be kept long except it be well couered with bay mirtle or Cedar leaues Salmon and Trouts well sodden in water and vinegar and eaten with sowre sauce doe helpe hot liuers and burning agâ—es Barbles rosted vpon a gridiron or broyled in vineger are very wholesome If any man drinke the wine wherein one of them hath beene strangled to death he shall euer after despise all manner of wines Which conclusion were fit to be put in tryall by some of our notorious swil-boules Riuer sturgeons sodden in water and vineger and eaten with fennell doe coole the bloud and prouoke lecherie Cuttles seasoned with oyle and pepper do prouoke appetite and nourish much Riuer Lampreyes choked with Nutmegs and Cloues and fryed with bread oyle and spices is a Princely dish and doth very much good Female Tenches baked with Garlick or boyled with Onions oyle and Raisins may be eaten of vouth and collerick men Pikes boyled with water oyle and sweet hearbs will firmely nourish Eeles taken in Spring time and rosted in a leafe of paper with oyle Coriander seed and Parsley doe breake flegme in the stomacke Riuer Perches will prouoke appetite to them that be sicke of the hot ague Oysters rosted on the imbers and then taken with oyle pepper and the iuyce of Orenges prouoke appetite and lechery They must not be eaten in those moneth which in pronouncing want the letter R. Cra fish rosted in the imbers and eaten with vineger and pepper purge the reines and helpe them that be sicke of the consumption or Ptisick Shew me a way to keepe Oysters Lobsters and such like sweet and good for some few daies Oysters as maister Plat saith may be preserued good a long time if they be barrelled vp and some of the brackishwater where they are taken powred amongst them Or else you may pile them vp in small roundlets with the hollow parts of the shels vpward casting salt amongst them at euery lay which they make You may keepe Lobsters Shrimps and such like fish If you wrap them seuerally in sweet and course rags first moistned in strong brine and then you must bury these cloathes and couer them in some coole and moyst place with sand Of Milke Butter Cheese and Egges CHAP. 7. What is the vse of milke THere be many kindes of milke according to the diuersities of the nature of liuing things The milke of kine and sheepe is the most butterish and nourishing next vnto it goates milke is chiefe sauing womans milke with which there is no comparison as being the most agreeable to the Sympathy of our natures and proper to dry and melancholick persons yea and a remedy against the consumption There be three sundry substances which lie hidden within the nature of milke euen as they doe within all other naturall things whatsoeuer they be namely a sulphureous substance which is the butter conceiuing a flame much differing from that whayish or mercuriall part which is the thin milke next it conceiues cheese which represents the salt and lastly the thinne milke being the remainder of both being made into pottage with Rice and Suger it encreaseth the generatiue seede and strengtheneth the body Buttermilke in which Fumitorie haue beene steeped and drunke in the Sommer time or rather in the Spring time is an excellent remedy against all diseases exceeding of coller and melancholy yet notwithstanding with this caueat that after the taking of it you doe neither eate any other thing nor sleepe within three houres after To conclude it must not in any case be taken of them which are subiect to feauers head-aches or fluxes according to that vulgar saying Dare lac aut vinum febricitantibus capite dolentibus est dare venenum What is the vse of butter Butter whether it be fresh or salt purgeth mildely and helpeth the roughnesse of the throat fresh butter being taken fasting with a little Suger hindreth the ingendring of the stone and cureth the shortnesse of breath
to vse honey within and oyle without being inwardly taken it looseth the belly it causeth one to vomit vp malignant humours yea poyson it selfe if a man hath drunken of it or taken it but a small time before one or two ounces of it taken with the iuyce of Lemonds cureth the wormes in childrens bodyes and the disease commonly called the Scuruie which kinde of oyle I holde best for I confesse that there be many kindes of oyle yet none like to the oyle Oliue which I here doe onely commend in respect that the Oliue doth yeeld more Oyle then any other seed or fruit it hath deserued the name of excellency aboue all the rest for the fat and vnctuous liquours of other seedes and fruits are not like to haue any other name bestowed vpon them then that which belongeth of right vnto the liquour which is pressed out of the Oliue for which reason when we speake of the Oyle of the Oliue we onely say Oyle but when wee speake of other oyles wee adde the name of the seed or fruit from which it was pressed as for example oyle of Vitriall oyle of Sage oyle of Wormewood oyle of Cloues and so of the rest Vineger prouokes appetite tempereth hot cholerick humours keepeth backe corruption and infection in the plague time but it hurteth them that be sorrowfull except they correct it with Suger Veriuyce is of the same nature as vineger is Shew me a way to make wholsome and good vinegar in a short time Take stale drinke and cast into it salt pepper and sowre leuen mingled together afterwards heate red hot some Tyle or gadd of Steele and put it hot into the drinke In like manner a Radish roote a Beete roote and a shiue of Barley bread new baked put into stale drinke and put forth in a glasse in the Sunne or in the chimney corner to the heat of the fire will make good vineger in a short time or if you will haue it better and to prouoke appetite infuse into your said vineger the leaues or iuyce of red Roses dryed the iuyce of Mints and Centorie Shew me a way to make vineger with corrupted and marred wine Take rotten and marred wine and boile it taking away all the scumme that riseth in the boyling thereof thus let it continue vpon the fire till it be boyled away one third part then put it vp into a vessell wherein hath beene vineger putting thereto some cheruile couer the vessell in such sort that there get no ayre into it and in short time it will proue good and strong vineger Of Hearbes CHAP. 8. What is the vse of our ordinary hearbs and roots BOrage is a cordiall Hearbe It purget bloud maketh the heart merry and strengtheneth the bowels Cabbages moderately eaten doe mollifie the belly and are very nutritiue Some say that they haue a speciall vertue against drunkennesse Radish rootes doe clear the voice prouoke vrine and comfort the liuer Cucumbers are of a colde temperature and fit to be eaten onely of cholericke persons Onions Leekes and Garlicke are onely fit to be eaten of flegmaticke folkes They clarifie the voyce extend the winde-pipes and prouoke vrine and menstruall issue But men subiect to the headach must not aduenture to eate such vaperous nutriments Shew me the best Sallet The best Sallet is made of Peniroyall Prasley Lettice and Endiue for it openeth the obstruction of the Liuer and keepeth the head in good plight Of Fruit. CHAP. 9. What is the vse of Fruit ALL Fruit for the most part are taken more for wantonnesse then for any nutritiue or necessary good which they bring vnto vs. To verifie this let vs but examine with the eye of reason what profit they cause when they are eaten after meales Surely we must needs confesse that such eating which the French call desert is vnnaturall being contrary to Physicke or Dyet for commonly fruits are of a moist facultie and therefore fitter to be taken afore meales but corrected with Suger or comfits then after meales and then also but very sparingly least their effects appeare to our bodily repentance which in women grow to be the greene sicknesse in men the morphew or els some flatuous windy humor White figs pared and then eaten with Orenges Pomegranats or seasoned in vinegar in spring time do nourish more then any fruit breake the stone in the rains quench thirst Raisins and curranes are very nutritiue yet notwithstanding they putrifie the raines and the bladder Sebastian Prunes doe loose the belly and quench choler Red garden Strawberries purified in wine and then eaten with good store of Suger doe asswage choler coole the liuer and prouoke appetite Almonds and Nuts are very nutritiue and doe encrease grosnesse they multitiply sperme and prouoke sleepe But I would not with any to eate them that are short winded or troubled with head-aches Olde and ripe Apples roasted baked stewed or powdered with Suger and Annise seed doe recreate the heart open the wind-pipes and appease the cough Ripe Peares eaten after meat and powdered with Suger cause appetite and fatten bodies And if you drinke a cup of olde wine after them they will doe thee much good Weighty Orenges are very good for them that be melancholick and keepe backe the rheume Cheries Plums and Damsons doe qualifie bloud and represse cholerick humours The third Section Of sleepe early rising and dreames CHAP. I. What be the commodities of sleepe MOderate sleepe strengtheneth all the spirits comforteth the body quieteth the humours and pulses qualifieth heat of the liuer taketh away sorrow and asswageth furie of the minde What be the discommodities of sleepe Immoderate sleepe maketh the braine giddie ingendereth rheume and impostumes causeth the pasie bringeth obliuion and troubleth the spirits How many houres may a man sleepe Seauen houres sleepe is sufficient for sanguine and cholerick men and nine houres for flegmatick and melancholick men Vpon which side must a man sleepe first Vpon his right side vntill the meat which he hath eaten be descended from the mouth of the stomack which is on the left side then let him sleepe vpon his left side and vpon his belly that the meate may be the more easily sodden and disgested in a more hot and fleshly place May a man conueniently lie vpright on his backe No for it heateth the raines hurteth the braine and memorie and oftentimes breedeth the disease which is called the riding Mare Shew me some remedies to procure sleepe Take a little Camphire and mingle it with some womans milke and anoint your temples therewith or else take an ounce of the oyle of Roses and three drams of vinegar stirre them both together and vse them What thinke you of noone sleepe Sleeping at noone is very dangerous But if you iudge it good by reason of custome then doe off your shooes while you sleepe for when the body and members be heauie with deepe sleepe the thicknesse of the leather at the soles doth returne the hurtfull
his purpose frustrate and hopelesse he fell into a frantick humour one morning among the rest in the Church of Saint Marke casting himselfe through the Guard endeuoured to murther the Duke but this amourous foole as God would haue it was resisted and led into prison The matter was examined very straightly and at the last it was found that Loue had made him mad The wise Senate vpon graue deliberation dismissed him committing his cure to that famous Physitian Pracastorius who at that time dwelt in Venice This learned man vndertaking his charge and cure disguised a Courtizan like the Gallants mistresse to lye with him a whole night and to yeeld him his amorous contentment vntill he was weary Then hee caused him to be well couered with clothes till he fell into a sweat His phantasie and lust being thus partly pleasured hee proceeded to other remedies to purge him of his melancholicke humours so that at length he restored him to his former state I write not this to the intent it should serue for a precedent the same being diameter-wise repugnant to our Makers Commandement but because our Physitians should counsell the youthfull amorous to marry rather then to burne in vnlawfull desires and the amorous marryed to content himselfe with the wife of his youth giuing her due beneuolence and satisfying his burning lust vpon her body whom God had ioyned with him for that purpose for surely by this carnall copulation the vaporous fumes of the seede are taken away from the Patient which doe infect his braine and lead him into melancholy By how much the more and longer they continue in the body so much the more thoughts doe they engender which at last will turne to folly or madnesse What is Iealousie Iealousie is a doubtfull quandarie of the minde for that the soule suspects a corriuall or copartner in the thing beloued Our ignorance in discerning spirits and the discording tunes of our soules affections occasion this strange breach or suspicious scruple in our Consciences Wherefore yee husbands beginne betimes to admonish your Wiues of the soules saluation Let no day escape without prayers and thanksgiuing vnto the Lord. Ioyne together as true yoak-fellowes in Gods seruice daily prostrating your selues before his omniscient presence least Sathan creepe into your carelesse hearts and minister iust cause of Iealousie vnto you If the head gets in the whole body followes If the head be well the body can hardly be distempered so if Husbands doe their duties towards GOD their Wiues will imitate them in time and conforme their liues according to the square of vnitie O noble vnitie which shapest this indiuiduall vnion betwixt man and wife not onely in their bodies constitutions but in their soules coniunctions firme stable neuer to be remoued Bone of my bone flesh of my flesh Tu nostra de carne caro de sanguine sanguis sumptaque de nostris ossibus ossa geris As Adam spake to Euah Away therefore yee iealous Italists with your golden lockes with your artificiall chaines with your straight mewings If Pasipâ—ac cannot haue the company of a man she will yeeld her body to a wanton Bull. If Ariostoes Queene be restrayned one way shee will satisfie her appetite another way with a deformed dwarfe Qui era tanto dotto per mettre la Regina sotto There is no locke nor chaine comparable vnto the feare of the Lord whose wrath is a consuming fire The very thought of Hels torments terrifies the conscience more then all the worldly deuises of flesh and bloud What is Anger Anger is a vehement affection because it sees things fal out contrary crosselike to reason Why doe some looke red and others pale when they be angry Some when they are angry become red because their bloud ascendeth vp into the head and these are not so much to be doubted Others wax pale when they are angry because the bloud is retyred vnto the heart whereby they become full of heart very dangerous What is Choler Choler is a fiery passion of the minde because it seeth all things fall out contrary to reason or wit there are two sorts of Choler abounding in euery man the one open the other hidden wherof this latter is more dangerous From both of them being terrible ebullitions motions of the spirit all the body the bloud and humous become heated and chafed insomuch that they grow to be sulphureous kindeling of fiery feuers pleurisies gall in the stomacke yealow iaundises tumours Erisipelaes itch and innumerable other maladies as well externall as internall whose chiefest and specifique cure consisteth that Christian Vertue Patience as for other Phisicke to coole the violence thereof I leaue to greater Clerkes What is sorrow Sorrow is an affection of the mind whereby it is oppressed with some present euill and languisheth by little and little except it finde some hope or other to remedy the griefe thereof What is the effect of Sorrow Sorrow stifleth vp the purer faculties of the soule causeth a man to fall into a Consumption and to be weary of the world yea and of himselfe How many kindes of Sorrowes are there There be two kindes of sorrowes the one deepe and heauy the other short and temporarie The former is properly termed Sorrow the latter Mourning VVhat be the causes of both these kindes Their causes are outward and inward The outward are grieuances which happen vpon diuers occasions eyther for the losse which Husbands receiue by reason of their Wiues deaths or by reason of some deare friends death which in nature wee loue extreamely or else by reason of the shipwracke or discredit of our name fame and goods To these outward causes I adioyne the depraued dyet of the melancholicke which engender melancholicke humours as those euill weedes and seeds which our Farmers gather among their corne grinding the same with the rest into bread or malt Out of these corrupt seeds malignant vapours arise vp into the head which intoxicate the braine whirling about the imaginatiue facultie straying vp and downe along the memorie and eclipsing the light of the vnderstanding The inward causes spring from melancholick or burnt bloud contained within an inflamed braine and there-hence tainting the veines and whole body Of this blacke and enraged bloud which originally proceeded from the diuersities of vapours or exhalations there grow diuersities or diuers sorts of Sorrowes which diuersly work vpon the functions of the imagination For if it be true that the soule is in the bloud and dispersed through euery part of the same as God is wholy in the world and wholy in euery part of the same then surely must it follow that the variety of the bloud doth change and diuersifie the vnderstanding and also that the actes of the vnderstanding soule doth change the humours of the body so that out of these diuersities of tainted humours there are ingendred strange and wandring phantasies caused by reason of such blacke bloud smoake and sweat which
and lustfull thoughts touching the fruit in Paradise but to tel how at what time that is a secresie neuer disclosed to any creature Such as the mans life is such is his death A Righteous man dieth righteously But a wicked man hath a wicked end dying without repentance Death is a so daine and a sullen guest neuer thought on before hee apprehendeth vs as his slaues When we think our selues safely mounted on the pinacle of worldly felicity he vnawares suppresseth vs rudely and smiteth vs deadly For which consideration O mortall men lead your liues vprightly hearken not vnto the counsels of the vngodly nor like greedie Cormoraunts snatch vp other mens rights Rather know your selues contentedly which done be vigilant well armed in Christ Iesus and alwaies meditating on your deaths VVhich be the most dangerous yeares in mans life The auncient Sages by curious notes haue found out that certaine yeares in mans life be very perillous These they name climactericall or stayrie yeares for then they saw great alterations Now a climactericall yeare is euery seauenth yeare The reason is because then the course of the planets returne to Saturne who most commonly is cruell and noysome vnto vs. And euen as the Moone which is the next planet vnto vs and swiftest of course passeth almost euery seauenth day into the contrary signe of the same qualitie from whence she came forth and there-hence bringeth the criticall daies so Saturne which is the planet furthest from vs and slowest of course for hee resteth in one signe so many yeares as the Moone doth dayes bringeth these climactericall yeares and causeth sundry mutations to follow Hence is it that in the seauenth yeare children doe cast and renew their teeth In the fourteenth yeare proceedeth their strippling age And betwixt that and the fifteenth yeare there falles out in the body a tumultuous whurly-burly or wambling commotion of humours which in some breakes out into scabs or hote watry issues in others into kindes of agues In the one and twentieth youth And when a man hath past seauen times seauen yeares to wit nine and forty yeares hee is a ripe and perfect man Also when he attaineth to tenne times seauen yeares that is to the age of threescore and ten his strength and chiefest vertue begins to fall away And againe euery seauenth yeare was by Gods owne institution pronounced hallowed And in it the Israelites were prohibited to manure their grounds or to plant vineyards Aulus Gellius mentioneth that the Emperour Octauian sent a Letter vnto his step-sonne to this effect Reioyce with mee my Sonne for I haue past ouer that deadly yeare and enemie to olde age threescore and three In which number the seauenths and ninths doe concurre The sixe and fiftieth yeare is very dangerous to men borne in the night season by reason of the doubled coldnesse of Saturne And the threescore and third yeare is very perillous to them that be borne in the day time by reason of the drinesse of Mercurie and Venus It is also obserued that the nine and fortieth yeare composed of seauen times seauen is very dangerous Others againe of our late Criticks collect by experience that in the seauenth yeare more vnnaturall ill humours are ingendred then the true and naturall constitution of the bodie can possibly digest because the liuer and heart being the radicall Fountaines of the bloud by little and little are so corrupted within the compasse of sixe or seauen yeares which cannot chuse but at the last breake out like the Paroxismes or fits of an ague tertian or quartane in some kinde of bodies at the seauenth yeare and in others of a stronger ability at the ninth yeare So when these steps are past the liuer heart do prepare humours for the yeares or steps following vntill it burst out into a remarkeable euent Finally whensoeuer any man entreth into these climactericall yeares if certaine tokens of imminent sicknesse doe appeare as wearisomnesse of the members griefe of the knees dimnesse of sight buzzing of the eares loathsomnesse of meate sweating in sleepe yawning or such like then let him incessantly pray and beseech God to protect and guide his heart let him be circumspect and curious to preserue his health and life by Art nature policy and experiments Or if no eminent cause appeare let him purge aforehand the better to preuent the encrease of humours Which be the criticall daies The critical daies are the first and seauenth of Ianuary The third and fourth of February The first and fourth of March The eigth and tenth of April The third and seauenth of May. The tenth and fifteenth of Iune The tenth and thirteenth of Iuly The first and second of August The third tenth of September The third and tenth of October The third fift of Nouember The seauenth and tenth of December VVhich humors are predominant in the night season and which in the day time Euery one humour raigneth sixe houres Bloud is predominant from nine a clocke in the night vntill three a clock in the morning Choler from three a clock in the morning till nine Melancholy ruleth from nine a clock in the morning till three in the euening Likewise flegme gouerneth from three in the euening vntill nine a clock at night So that flegme and melancholy doe raigne at night and bloud and choler in the day time Also bloud hath his dominion in the Spring time choler in the Sommer melancholy in Autumne and flegme in Winter For which respects I aduise you if perchance you fall into a disease to marke well in the beginning of your sicknesse the houre and humour then raigning that thereby you may the sooner finde out remedy In conclusion you must consider of the Critical daies in which great alterations either towards your recouerie or towards your further sicknesse willensue Most commonly the criticall day happeneth the seauenth the fourteenth the one and twentieth or the eight and twentieth day from the beginning of your sicknesse Notwithstanding according to the course of the Moone the fourth day the eleauenth the seauenteenth and the foure and twentieth day from the beginning of your sicknes will foretell you whether you shall amend or waxe worse Of the foure Humours CHAP. 4. What is an Humour AN humour is a moist and running body into which the meate in the Liuer is conuerted to the end that our bodyes might be nourished by them VVhat is the nature of the sanguine humour The sanguine humour is hot moist farty sweet and seated in the liuer because it watereth all the body and giueth nourishment vnto it out of which likewise issue the vitall spirits like vnto small and gentle windes that arise out of riuers and Wels. VVhat is the flegmaticke humour The flegmatick humour is of colour white brackish like vnto sweat and properly placed in the kidnyes which draw to themselues the water from the bloud thereby filling the veines in stead of good and pure bloud What is the Cholericke The