whence the veines doe spring and the stones of generation from whence the seed of life springeth but those compounded members that bee principall bee all the other members except the simple as the nose the eares the eies the face the necke the armes and legges and the braines and chiefe substaunce of our flesh bee compounded members of sinewes and couered with panacles which bee of a sinew nature but that sinewes giue féeling to all the whole bodie euen as the arteries giueth spirituall bloud from the heart to euerie member The whole body is couered with filmes and skinnes Out of the head springeth hard matter issuing from the places called the pores to purge vapours and smoke from the braine which ascendeth out of the stomacke into the head and is cleansed through pia mater called the tender couering of the braine or spirites animall And therefore as some partes of the bodie being diuided in sunder be each like vnto the other and yet called by the name of the whole as for example When the bones be broken in sunder or the flesh cut into diuerse péeces or the blood powred into sundrie vessels a péece of flesh is still called flesh a fragment of a bone is called a bone and a droppe of blood is called bloud Euen so an hande arme veyne or such like vnseparate partes beeing diuided into péeces or called by the name of péeces and not by the name of the whole part as is before But my friend Iohn to make a large description of Anatomie it were too long for mee but shortly I will say some thing And first the definition thereof is when the bodie of a dead man or woman is cut and opened and the members diuided or for the want of dead bodies to reade good bookes as Galen Auicen c. And it behooueth them that cutteth a deade corpse to note foure things First the nutrimentall members as the liuer with the veynes the second is the members spirituall as the heart with the arteries the third is the animall members as the head braines and sinewes the fourth and last be excrements of the bodie as armes legges skin haire c. Of these said members with the bones is all the bodie compounded And like as euerie trée and hearbe haue their rootes in the earth and their braunches springeth vpward euen so the rootes of mankinde haue the beginning in the braine and the sinew and branches groweth downeward in the which braine dwelleth the vertues of imagination fantasie memorie c. And these animall vertues be placed as it were heauenly aboue al the mēbers communicating their heauenly influences down vnto the heart as to a prince or chiefe ruler within the body which giueth life to euery part thereof Thou shalt consider that the hart was the first that receiued life from the spirites and shalbe the last that shall die Note also that as there be noble sences giuen to the body as seeing hearing smelling tasting féeling euen so nature hath foure principall vertues first Attractiue the second Retentiue the third Digestiue the fourth Expulsiue Attractiue is that by the which euery part of the body draweth the food of life serueth the vertue disgestiue and the Retentiue doeth holde the meate vntill it be readie to be altered and changed Digestiue doth alter and maketh the foode like vnto the thing that it nourisheth as fleme bloud c. Expulsiue separateth them from the other the good from the bad Thou oughtest also most chiefly to learne the knowledge of the veines and for what sicknesse they must bée opened and what medicins either in sirups or pils thou must vse And first marke this figure of the Anatomie here present before thee with the heauenly signes because I haue not painted at large the seuerall parts of the said Anatomie The middle veine of the forehead is good to be opened against Megrim forgetfulnes passions of the head And they that be let blood of this or any other veyne must first haue their head purged with pillule Chochi Rasis or some purgation but first vse thinges to extenuate matter as syrruppe of Buglosse c. Against Leprosy and deafnes Let bloud the two veines behind the eares and vse the said pilles or els pillule Aurea Nicholai or Arabice or cōfectio Hameth minor Against replexion or too much blood or bloud in the eies flowing in the head vpon the temple veines called Artiers for they bée euer beating And vse to purge with pillule Artritice Nicholai or puluis ad epithema Hepatis Against Squinancie stopping the throte and stopping of the breath Let bloud the veines vnder the tongue And for this vse Philoniūmaius Necholai and Gargarismes pilule Bechie and oxymel Simplex Ueines called Originales open not without great counsaile of a learned Physicion or cunning Chirurgion They be in the necke and haue a great course of bloud that gouerneth the head and the whole body Against short winde and euill bloud aproching to the heart and spitting bloud Open the vaine called Cordiaca or heart veine in the arme Use thinges to extenuate as Aromaticum Chariophillatum Mesue serapium ex Absinthij in colde time serapium Boraginis hote time and pillule stomachi Agaynst palsie yellow Iaundies burning heats and apostumations of the liuer Open the liuer vein vpon the right arme Take Serapium exendiue Diamargariton frigidum Auicennie Against dropsy open the veine betweene the belly and the braunch the right side against the said dropsy and the left side against the passions of the milte but bée not rash vnlesse ye haue the consaile of one well seene in the Anothomie Use pillule Hiere cum Agarico Agaynst the stopping the secrete tearmes or fluxions of women or helping the Emerods and purging sores Open the veine called Sophane vnder the ancle Theriaca Andromachi Pillule Mastichine Petri de Ebano Within twentie houres after one is infected with the pestilence comming sodenly Open the vein betwéen the wrest of the foote and the great toe Use Serapium Cichorij and Pillule pestilentialis Ruffi Against stinking breath Open the veyne betwéene the lip and the chin Use for this Catharicum imperiale Nicho Alexandri Against the toothake Open the veine in the roofe of the mouth And first purge with Pillule Choci Rasis or with pilles of masticke Against quartens tercians and paines of the left side Open the splene veine commonly called the low veine with a wide cut and not deepe For Chirurgions nicely pricking or opening veynes with little Scarisfactions doe let out good pure bloud and still retaine grosse colde and drie earthly matter to the great hurt of their patients And albeit many more veynes might here be spoken of and their vtilities yet this shall well suffice by Gods grace to kéepe all people in health that vpon iust cause haue these veynes opened except olde men women with childe and children vnder xiiii yeares of age or men after diuerse agues For
bloud letting will then engender perillous palsies as verie excellent Phisitions haue well declared And after one be infected with the pestilence xxiiii houres before hee haue receyued medicine or bloud letting miracle helpeth him but truly no medicine hath vertue to doe it Ioh. This same figure although it appeareth in many bookes yet verie fewe do vnderstand it in all points such be the secrete workes of nature And whereas thou hast well spoken of some veynes and apt medicines for the body I woulde faine see the true forme and shape of the bones Hum. Oh Iohn it were a long time to shewe the singular members with compounds as Galen doth in his booke of the partes and bones It requireth onely one worke but I haue taken in hand to teach thee but a Gouernment of health notwithstanding at thy request I will briefly rehearse the number of the bones no lesse true than newe which is the verie timber or postes whereupon our fraile flesh is builded beginning in our mothers wombes and ending in earth the mother of all things And as the noble prince Auicen affirmeth the number of all the bones be two hundred fourty and foure beside Sasamina Os laude Ioh. Thou hast spoken of the opening of veynes and medicins conuenient to cleanse the bloud with the number of bones but thou hast not spoken of conuenient time when to let blood nor of the state or age of them whose veynes should be opened Therefore I would be glad to learne not onely time of bloud-letting but also of purging the belly vomits bathings neesings and rubbing of the bodie c. Hum. Euery thing hath his time conuenient and must bee done with sober discretion and not with rash ignorance which killeth an infinite number Therefore the cause must be knowne and the time obserued as Galen writeth in the Commentarie of the Afforismes of Hippocrates manie bodies be extinguished by suddē death in whom is extreme fulnesse or aboundance For aboundance of blood or any other humor sayth Aristotle is the cause of many sickenesses and those men that vse much gluttonie in Winter shall bee apt to receyue manie diseases in the Spring time Therefore when the bodie hath extreme heat fulnes of veynes flushing with sodain rednesse in the face grosse and red vrine and such burning heate in the night that let the sleepe c then it is tyme to euacuate the bodie with some purgation bloud letting or abstinence as the strength and age of the patient will serue For manie diseases be helped by discrete bloud letting as Plurises hot Feuers Frensies Repletion or Surfets taken with ouermuch eating or drinking as Galen sayeth The letting of bloud dryeth vppe the superfluous moysture of the bellie helpeth memorie purgeth the bladder quieteth y e braine warmeth the marrow openeth the organs of hearing helpeth digestion induceth sleepe c. Unto this agréeth Rasis saying it helpeth greatly against Leprosie Squinances Appoplexes Pestilences c. But olde men children or women with childe ought not to be let bloud nor also those people that dwell in colde regions may not be let bloud because the bloud is the chief warmer of nature The people that dwell in hot regions if they be letten bloud it will dry their bodies for blood is the chiefe moister of nature Therefore is the heate of Sommer and the coldnesse of Winter forbidden to open veynes or let bloud except for a stripe or sudden chaunce as Rasis sayth the spring of the yeare is the chiefe time to let bloud in the right arme or right foote in the veyne called Mediana Which veyne must bee opened aswell at other times in the beginning of sicknesses as hot feuers and plurisies c. as Basilica should bee opened in the middle or toward the ende of a sickenesse Purgations ought to bee ministred with great discretion and not rashly to be taken for euerie trifle as thou hast heard me speake of bloud letting So obserue the selfe same rules in purgation as time person qualitie or quantitie For Hippocrates sayeth without doubt it is needfull to purge the superfluitie of the bodie As if bloud doe abound to take things to purge blood If fleugme be superfluous then take things to cleanse his superfluitie If choler bée too ardent hote vse things to extinguish If melancholy be too extreme then taste things to bring him into a meane And not to purge one humour with the medicines of an other but to take them in due order and aptnes For the said humors as Valarius Cordus Mesue and Nicholas teach the maner of making of the most excellent purgations with their quantities And as in blood letting sléepe must bee auoyded for viii or xii houres after them so when your purgations be taken aire is to be auoided and to be kept close for ii or thrée daies or more as the malice of the disease or power of the purgations be the counsaile of Rasis must bee followed which sayth oftentimes to take Purgations or laxatiue medicines doeth make the bodie weake and apt to the Feuer ethicke and specially in verie leane or weake persons they that bee verie fat haue small guts and veynes purgations bee verie noisome vnto them But strong bodies hauing large vessels may sustaine purgations without any hurt but strong purgations either in pils or potions if they any thing do excéede be verie hurtfull therefore the doces or quantities may not excéede And also they must bee made as pleasant as Art can doe them vnlesse they offend the stomacke Hippocrates giueth counsell that men should not mingle medicins with meate but to take them thrée or foure hours before meat or else so long after Unlesse they bee pils called Antecibum which may bée taken at the beginning of supper or else Pilli chochi a little before sléepe two hours after supper The best time of purgations is in the spring time as the doctors doth affirme the apt dayes and signes are commonly knowne in the English Almanacks calculated into English As in the writings of master Leonard Digges and of William Kenningham a learned student both in Astronomie and Phisicke with manie mo good men that taketh paynes to profite the common wealth There is another maner of purging of the bodie by vomit for it clenseth from the midriffe vpward if they haue large brests and be cholericke persons It is good against dropsies leprosies better in summer than in winter as Hippocrates saith and wholsomer one houre before supper than at any other time and not to be vsed as a custome for the custome of vomits hurteth greatly the head and eies and maketh the stomack so féeble that it will scant beare anie meates or drinkes but eftsoones cast them vp again They which haue narrowe throtes and breastes and long neckes vomits be neither apt nor good for them And Auicen saith that vomits
hearbe is hote and dry and prouoketh vrine clenseth the matrix stoppeth the bloud in a wound If it be put in a pigge it dryeth the humours that would engender fleugme it is good against the paulsie oftentimes eaten or sodden in wine it will helpe and clense itch scabs and filth from the pudent and secret members Aetius doeth greatly commend this hearbe and the excellent regiment of Salern where it saith Cur moritur homo cui saluia crescit in horto enquiring why men doe die that haue Sage growing in gardens But truely neither Phisicke hearbe nor cunning can make man immortall but assuredly Sage is holsome for old folkes to be put into their meates for it clenseth fleugme from the sinews which fleugme will relax the sinewes The wine of sage drunke vpon an emptie stomake is holesome for fleugmaticke persons or them which haue the falling sicknes or dropsie Ioh. What is Polopodie that groweth vpon the Oke tree Hum. If this hearbe bee sodden with Beetes and Mallowes in the broth of a henne and drunke it will loose the belly and clense fleugme the roote of this hearbe beeing drie and beaten into fine powder and drawen into the nostrilles helpeth a disease called Polipus Ioh. I haue hearde talke of Hoorehound I would faine heare of his working Hum. It is a hearbe hote and drie if it be sodden with faire water suger or hony and streine it this drinke doeth clense the stomake from stinking fleugme it is an excellent hearbe for women to clense their moneth tearmes the water of this is good to helpe them which haue a moist rewme falling from the head vpon the lunges beeing often drunke but it is hurtefull to the bladder and reines the sirope thereof doeth clense the kings euil and also put into the eares doeth greatly comforte the hearing if the eares be troubled and stamped with hony and applied into the eies it clenseth the sight Ioh. What is Verben Hum. It is called the holy hearbe it dryeth and bindeth if it bee sodden with vineger it helpeth a disease called saint Anthonies fier oftentimes waâ—hing the pained place the leaues of Uerben and Roses and fresh swines grease stamped togither will seace paine and griefe in euery wounde and will keepe woundes from corruption it is good for people that haue the tertian or quartaine Agues and thus saith Dioscorides moreouer he saith the weight of a dram of this hearb with three halpenies weight of Olibbulom and put in nine ounces of olde wine tempered togither and drunke fortie daies of this quantity fasting it wil helpe a disease called the kings euill or paine in the throate Ioh. What is Rew or hearbe Grace Hum. I tell thee this hearbe is verie hote and bitter and doth burne because of his hotenes in the third degree if a littie of this Rew be stamped and sodden with wine and drunke it is an excellent medicine against poyson and pestilence with Roses and vineger and Rew stamped togither and put in forred cloth or biggen applied vnto the temples of the head or forehead doe cease grieuous paines itn the head And in like maner it healedh the bitings of serpentes or dogs stamped with vineger many nice people cannot abide it crying fie it stinkes The seede of this hearbe beaten in powder and put in fresh clarified butter and pitch melted togither is good for them to drinke that are brused Ioh. What is burnet Hum. It is of the nuture of fiue finger drie and binding and not moist as many saith stampe it and put it to the eies doeth take away the dropping and pricking and doth heale woundes and is good to drinke for the tercian Ague Ioh. What is Dandilion Hum. It is trmperate colde and drie with Roses and vineger tempered togither it helpeth the head in hote diseases The sowthistle called Soncus hath the same vertue and so hath Suckery if they be sodden they lose the belly and quencheth heat which burneth in the stomake and defendeth the heade from hote smoking vapours and purgeth yellow choller and rebateth venerous aâ—d fleshly heat and is good to be sodden and drunke in hoate burning Agues though this hearbe be commonly knowen and counted of many as a vile weede yet it is reported of Dioscorides to be an excellent hearbe Ioh. What is Spynnage Hum. An hearbe much vsed in meate colde and moist in the first degree it mollifieth and maketh softe the belly it is good for them that be hote and drie and ill for fleugmatike men Ioh. What is Cucumbers Hum. They be truely in the seconde degree very moist and colde The seedes be good to be giuen in hote sickenesses the powder of the said seedes drunke in cleane wine is good against diuers passions of the heart this fruit wil cause one to make water well the roote dried in powder therof drunken in water and hony prouoketh vomite if they be moderately eaten they bring good blood tempered with hony and annointe the eies that helpeth a disease called Epinictidas which troubleth men with strange sightes in the nightes the best of this fruit is which beareth the best seedes the sauour of that is not holsome mellons citrons pompons and this kinde of pepons or great apples be much vsed in England and are more common than profitable because they vse to eate them raw English men being borne in a temperate region inclining to colde may not without hurt eate rawe herbs rootes and frutes plentifull as many men which be borne far in the South partes of the world which bee most hote of stomacke therefore let them eate these fruites boiled or baked with hony and pepper and fennell seedes or such like there be an other hote kind of bitter cucumers which do purge Ioh. What is garlike Hum. Garlike is very hote and drie in the fourth degree it troubleth the stomacke it is hurtfull to the eies and head it encreaseth drienesse but it will prouoke vrine and is good to be laied vppon the biting of a snake or adder it is good for the emeroids applied to the sore place being first stamped if it be sodden the stinke is taken from it but the vertue remaineth to be eaten against the coughes and paines in the lungs it cutteth and consumeth corrupt fleugme and bringeth sleepe It is not good for hote men nor women with childe or nurces giuing milke to children but Galen calleth it the common peoples treacle if sanguine men do eate much of it it will make them to haue red faces but it is a speciall remedy against poison Ioh. What is onions Hum. They doe make thin the blood and bring sleepe they be not good for chollericke men the long onion is more vehementer than the round and the red more than the white the drie more than the greene and the rawe more vehementer than the sodden or preserued in salt although they doe cause steepe very painefull and
mightie men It maketh men like to monsters with countinaunces like vnto burning coales It dishonoureth noble men and beggereth poore men and generally killeth as many as be slaine in cruell battelles the more it is to be lamented Ioh. What is beere or ale Hum. Ale doth engendre grosse humors in the body but if it be made of good barly mualt and of wholsone water and verie well sodden and stand fiue or sixe daies vntill it be cleare It is verie wholesome especially for hot cholericke folkes hauing hote burning feuers But if Ale bee very sweete and not well sodden in the brewing it bringeth inflammation of winde and choller into the belly If it be very sower it fretteth and nippeth the guts and is euill for the eies To them that be verie flegmaticke ale is verie grosse but to temperat bodies it encreaseth bloud It is partely laxatiue and prouoketh vrine Cleane brewed beere if it be not very strong brewed with good hops clenseth the body from corruption and is very wholsome for the liuer it is an vsuall or common drinke in most places of England which indeede is hurt and made worse with many rotten hops or hoppes dried like dust which commeth from beyond the sea But although there commeth manie good hoppes from thence yet it is knowen that the goodly stilles and fruitfull grounds of England do bring forth to mans vse as good hops as groweth in any place of this world as by proofe I know in many places of the countrey of Suffolke Whereas they brewe their beere with the hoppes that groweth vpon their owne grounds And thus to conclude of ale and beere they haue no such vertue nor goodnes as wyne hath and the sur fetes which be taken of them through drunkennes be worse then the surfetes taken of wyne Knowe this that to drinke ale or beere of an empty stomacke moderatly hurteth not but dooeth good But if one be fasting hungry or empty and drinke much wine it will hurt the sinewes and bringeth crampe sharpe agues and palsies as Auicen Auerois and Rasis saie Ioh. What is bread Hum. The best Bread is made of cleane sweete wheate which groweth in claie ground and maketh but little branne when it is ground light leauened meanely salted and the bread to be baked in an ouen not extremely hot for burning of the bread nor les then meane hâ—t for causing the bread to be heauie and rawe the lighter the bread is and the more full of holes it is the wholsomer as Auerrois and Rasis saieth And also bread must neither be eaten new baked nor verie stale or old for the one causeth drinesse thirst and smoking into the head troubling the braines and eies through the heate thereof The other drieth the body and bringeth melancholy humours hurting memory The best bread is that which is of a day olde and the loues or manchets may neither be great nor little but meane for the fier in small loues drieth vp the moistnes or vertue of the bread and in great loues it leaueth rawnesse and grosnesse Reade Galen in the properties of bread Sodden bread which be called simnels or cracknelles bee verie vnwholsome and hurteth many one Rie bread is windy and hurtfull to manie therefore it shoulde be well salted and baked with Annis seedes and commonly crustes of bread be verie drie and burneth they doe engender melancholy humours Therefore in great mens houses the bread is chipped and largelye pared and ordynarily is made in brewesse and sosse for dogges which will helpe to feede a great number of poore people but that many be more affectionate to dogges then men Barly bread doth clense coole and make the body leane Ioh. What is rise Hum. There be many opinions in the vertue thereof but I shall stay my selfe with the iudgement of Auicen Rise saith he is hot and drie and hath vertue to stop the belly it doth nourish much if it bee sodden with milke but it ought to be steeped in water a whole night before if blanched Almondes be stamped and with Rosewater streined into them and sodden with cowes milke it is verie nutrimentall Ioh. What be almondes Hum. The bitter Almondes be hotter then the sweete Almondes Drie Almondes be hurtfull the milke of moist Almonds wherein burning steele is quenched stoppeth the flix To eate almondes before meate preserueth against drunkenes Walnuts be wholsome when they be new to bee eaten after fish for they hinder engendring of fleugme Simeon Sethi saith they are hote in the first and drie in the second degree not wholsome before meate Plinie speaking of Metridatis the great king that Pompius found of his owne hand writing that two nuttes and two figges and twenty rewe leaues stamped together with a little salt and eaten fasting doth defend a man both from poison and pestilence that daie Filberdes and hazle nuttes be hard of disgestion ill before meate hurtfull to the head and lunges if they be rosted and eaten with a little pepper they will helpe the running and distillation of rumes Chesnuttes if they bee rosted and eaten with a little hony fasting they helpe the cough if they be eaten raw although they greatly nourrish the brdy yet they be hurtfull for the splene and fill the belly full of winde Nutmegges be very good for colde persons comforteth the sight and memory as Auicen saieth but without doubt Nutmegges doe combust or burne sanguine men and drie vp their bloud and thus much haue I spoken shortly of the vertue of nuttes Ioh. What be cloues galangell and Pepper Hum. They be hote and drie and as Rasis saieth doe comfort colde stomackes and make sweete breath and is good in the meates of them that haue ill disgestion Blacke pepper is hoter then long pepper and doth mightily warme the bodie the grosser it is eaten with fish or frute the better it prouoketh vrine it is hot and drie in the fourth degree therefore they doe erre that saie pepper is hot in the mouth and colde in the stomacke Although pepper be good to them that vse it well yet vnto artificiall women that haue more beastlines then beuty and cannot be content with their natural complexions but would faine be fayre they eate pepper dried corne and drinke vineger with such like bagage to drie vp their bloud and this is the verie cause that a great number though not all fall into weakenes greene sickenesse slinking breathes and oftentimes sodaine death Iohn What is sweete Callamus odoratus Hum. An excellent sweete roote and profitable for men if the poticaries keepe it not vntill it bee rotten it is hote and drie in the beginning to the mides of the second degree it hath power to clense to dry to waste al winds within the body without hurt Galen doth greatly commend the sauour of it They that drinke of this roote sodden in wine shall haue remedie of the white morphew and recouer
helped very much with this Methridatū drunken with stilled waters palsies sickenesses in the midriffe the liuer reines and bladder be cleansed therby it prouoketh the menstrual termes in womē being drunk with posset ale If Isop or Germander bee sodden in the said ale it is excellent against the pestilence or poison if it be drunke but a little quantitie thereof according to the disease strength or age of the person It is very good against the stone or for womē which haue a new disease peraccidents called the gréene sicknes there is nothing better against the biting of a mad dogge than to drinke of this and to annoint the wound If it be giuen in drinke to any sicke bodie a little before the accesse or comming of the olde fittes of quotidians tercians or quarteins so that it be drunke with wine temperately warmed This Methridatum is a medicine of no small price Democrates hath a goodly composition of it an other excellent composition is of Cleopatre as Galen writeth An other and the most excellent is the description of Andromachus phisition vnto king Nero but the chief father of this act was king Mithridatus the noble king of Ponthus after whose name it is called Ioh. Indeed this is an excellent medicine but I pray thee where shall I buy it Hum. The blind fellow Iohn doe eate many a flie and the plaine meaning man is oft deceyued There is no trust in some of the Apothecaries for although the vsurpation of quid pro quo is tollerable for their Succidanes yet to abuse their simples or compounds it is not onely theft to rob simple men but also murther to kill the hurtlesse Ioh. Of late time we haue beene so afflicted with sundrie sickenesses and strange diseases that in many places we could get no physitions to helpe vs and when men be sodainly sicke 200. miles from London Cambridge or Oxford it is too late for the patient to sende for helpe being infected with the pestilence I pray thee tel me some good regiment for me my family if it please God that it may take place Hum. I shall be glad forasmuch as thou hast taken paines to heare me all this while to teach thée a pretie regiment for the pestilence Ioh. Reade it faire and softly and I will take my pen and write it Hum. Certainly the occasion of this most feareful sicknesse commeth many waies as the change of the aire from a good vnto an euill qualitie taking his venemous effect of the vital spirits which incontinent with all spéede corrupteth the spirituall blood And sodenly as it were an vnmercifull fire it quickly consumeth the whole bodie ouen vnto death vnlesse the wholsome medicine doe preuent and come to the heart before the pestilent humor And because it is a very strong sicknes it is requisite to haue a strong curing medicine For weake things will not preuail against so strong a matter Therfore I pray you note these six sayings as aire diet sléepe or watch quietnes or trouble and finally medicine First walk not in stinking mists nor by corrupt marrish ground nor in extreme hot weather but in fair cleare aire vpon high ground in swéet fields or gardens hauing fire in your chāber with swéet perfumes of the smoke of Olibanum or Beniamen Frankensence being cold weather And in hote weather roses willow branches sprinkled with vineger often shifting the chamber is wholsom fléeing the South winde Secondly diet moderate eating meate of good digestion as all that haue pure white flesh both of beasts and foules good bread of wheate partly leauened Eate no raw hearbs purslein Lettise yong Lettish or sorrel except with vineger Drinke of cleare thin wine not chaunged and vse often times vineger with your meates and mingle not fish and flesh together in your stomacke to drinke a tisant of barly water rose water sorrell water betwene meals is good eight spoonfuls at once Thirdly beware you sléepe not at noone it bringeth many sicknesses and giueth place to the pestilence and abateth memory For as the marigold is spred by the day and closed by the night euen so is man of nature disposed although through custome otherwise altered vnto great domage and hurt of body Eight hours sléepe suffiseth well to nature but euery complexion hath his proper qualities to sléepe vpon the right side is best euill vpon the left and worse vpon the backe Fourthly vse moderate exercise and labor for the euacuation of the excrements as swift going vp hilles stretching forth armes and legges lifting weightes not verie ponderous for by labour the first and second digestion is made perfite and the bodie strengthened and this is a mightie defence agaynst the pestilence and many mo infirmities wheras through idlenesse be engendered all diseases both of the soule and bodie whereof man is compounded made Fifthly aboue all earthly thinges mirth is most excellent and the best companion of life putter away of all diseases the contrarie in plague time bringeth on the pestilence through painefull melancholie which maketh the body heauy earthly Company musicke honest gaming or any other vertuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heauinesse of mind Sixtly medicine the partie being chaunged in nature and condition trembling or burning vomiting with extreame paine in the day colde in the night and strange imaginations c. Apt to sléepe when these signes doe appeare giue him medicine before xij houres or else it will be his death Take therefore with all spéed sorrel one handful stamped with Rew Enulacampana Oringe rindes Citron seedes the great thistlerootes Geneper berries walnuts cleane picked of each one ounce stampe them all together then take pure sharpe vineger a quarter of a pynt as much buglesse water as much white wine and temper your sayde receytes with these licours Then put in two ounces of pure Methridatum and romachi which is an excellent triacle and two drams weight of the powder of pure Bolearmein mingle them all togither in a verie close vessell and giue the pacient a spoonefull or more next his heart and etfsoones asmuch more let them that take this not sléepe during twētie hours or else take pure triacle and setwel mingled in posset ale made with white wine wherein sorrel hath boyled a good draught and let an expert Chirurgion let the pacient bloud vpon the middle veine called Mediana or the heart veine Basilica a good quantitie according to the strength and age of the pacient except women with childe and children For the retaining the said bloud would all turne to venom and incurable poison And note this that blood bee lette vpon the same side that the sore doth appeare If any appeare for many causes and sléep not viij houres after and vse this most excellent pill oftentimes Take pure aloes epatik and myrre well washed in cleane water or rose water of each 2. drams and one dram of the powder