through Crudities and indigested matter To be taken at any time night or day when any the aforesaid occasions require The full Dose is a spoonful for twelve years old half a spoonfull and so proportionably to younger The Bezoardic Confection is a Soveraign Antidote against the Plague and all contagious Feavers it powerfully expells poysons breaths out all putrid matter and malignity received by unwholsome Airs or otherwise generated in the body effectuall in the Small-Pox Measels Spotted-feavers to bring forth their Malignity to the skinn and to prevent returning inwards removes oppressions at the heart and any surfeit or over-charging of the stomack by intemperate eating or drinking of excellent use in all suddaine Sicknesses in young or old to defend the heart and vitalls until the distemper manifest it self Necessary to carry with you in Travel Take it on a knifs point or dissolve it in Posset-drink as oft as occasion requires The full Dose is the quantity of a Chesnut for fourteen years old as much as a Nutmeg for seven years old the bigness of a Hasel-nut And so proportionably to younger For the Stomack THe Stomack not performing its office rightly in Chylification either by its own weakness or otherwise impedited layes the foundation of many diseases and therefore is primely to be fortyfied and assisted when any dificiency appears for error in the first concoction is not amended in the following digestions of other parts from whence various preternatural affects disseminated in divers parts of the body owning their rise and spring from this fountain The symptoms of an ill affected stomack are fulness heaviness or opression loss of appetite slow digestion or depraved nauseousness or vomitting hicket or belching thirst heat or burning For which the following Medicines are appointed The Stomack Pills cleanseth the first region of the body downwards from abounding Choller and Phlegm evacuates and unloads an opressed stomack from humors and indigested matter that corrupts good nutriment dulls the appetite and hinders digestion by their abstersive faculty removes viscous Phlegm impacted in the tunicles of the stomack a receptacle for inflation and wind Prevents diarrhaeas lienterial and dysenterial Fluxes gripings and pains in the stomack and bowels from sharp biting Choller or flatulent crudity by taking away their causes And leaving a greateful astriction upon the stomack which promotes concoction Destroyes Worms and prevents their breeding by carrying away putrid matter whereof they are generated Takes away bitter eructations and nauseous belchings vellications and gripes in the stomack from bilious acrid humors makes the stomack clean and fit for the reception of wholsome food and then you may expect good nutriment Take them after your first sleep or earely in the morning when you are up Drink some warme Posset eat at noon You may go abroad if the weather be warm and the condition of your body will safely permit But otherwise keep house You may take them three or four dayes together they work gently The Dose for Men and Women is five or six Pills For the age fourteen 4 Pills The Digestive Elixir By its incisive and attenuating quality is very auxiliary to the stomacks ferment deficient and decayed or obtunded and overlayed with crudityes corrects the imbecillity and indisposition of the superior orifice of the stomack and causeth the stomack to close with more delight and satisfaction upon its object Prevents nauseousness flarulent belchings nidorous and unsavory risings in the stomack from indigestion and putrid fermentation Kills Worms in the stomack and Guts And amends a strong offensive breath By its saline quality excites and quickens a dull appetite and procures good digestion By its Balsamic amaritude is healing and grateful to a watrish crude raw stomack By its aromatic vertue cherisheth and refresheth a weak tender stomack But if the stomack be very foul stuffed and clogged with gross Phlegmatick humors then first clense downward with the stomack Pills or upwards by vomit if hot Cholerick adust humors fluctuate heate and broyl upon the stomack afterward strengthen with the use of this Elixir and you will finde a great alteration both for appetite and digestion the stomack much alleviated disburthened and cheerful in the performance of its office Drop it in a little fine powdred Sugar and take it upon a knives point in the morning fasting you may drink after it Wine Beer or other good Liquor most agreeable to your stomack eat an hour after and go abroad you may take it likewise at four of Clock in the afternoon The Dose for men and Women is sixteen drops for the age fourteen ten drops for eight years old six drops and so proportionably to younger Continue the use of it a fortnight together Shake the bottle when you use it Medicines appropriate to the Spleen Mesentery and Liver THe Cachectic Pills are effectuall against the defects and infirmities of the Spleen mesentery Liver and Gall from whence arise a Cachectic or ill habit of body Dropsies Scurvy Hypochondriac Melancholy Jaundice black and yellow obstructions and pains in the several parts named various praeternatural febrific aestuations and fermentations crudityes and coagulations in those parts primarily affected from thence dessused and disperced into the mass of blood which being thereby vitiated and impure produceth various external Symptomes pallid and livid discolourations scorbute spots and desaedations of the skin Tumors and Ulcers These Pills evacuate and clense gently by which the fore named parts are exonerated and notably restored to their pristine vigour and due performance of their office but by strong purgatives debilitated They penetrate into the second and third digestion removing obstructions and attenuating viscous coagulations which obtund the spirits in their motion and activity stop the conveyance of nutriment and corrupting it hindering the communication of parts necessarily subordinate and subservient one to the other in their offices and duties and retaining excrements of the several digestions which ought duly to be seperated and sent forth from whence the ill effects that ensue are numerous They are prevalent in prevention and composing unnatural fermentations and turgid ebullitions in the bloud and humors from whence Erratic pains and various disquietudes They imbibe and drink up by their alkalizate quality sharp and acide humors which cause erosions and torsions of the bowells stimulating and provoking Fluxes and sharp pricking pains in several parts They depurate and renovate the bloud from scorbutic degeneration and exotic mixture by which the spirits recover strength and vigour which before were alienated torpid and inactive the organs for nutrition disburthened and releived and made fit to performe and execute their several offices and functions The Dose for Men and Women is 4 or 5 Pills According to the strength and condion of their body to operate For the age 14 3 Pills Take them early in the morning you may sleep 2 hours after when you are up drink a draught of posset drink eat at noon Thus do twice or thrice in
the weak continuing their use more or less as the occassion and greatness of the cause requires After these Pills the following Tincture is very proper and beneficial The Scorbute Tincture hath a specific vertue against the Scurvy which discovers it self by certain symptomes attending it as lassitude heaviness and indisposition to motion or action pains of the head thighs hips knees and other parts putrefaction of the gums and loosness of teeth inflation and distention of the Hypochonders red purple or livid spots upon the skin c. Some of these signs are sufficient to declare the disease especially when remote causes concur as a close Air gross diet studious melancholy or sedentary life This Tincture asists the spleen in the discharge of its office from whose imbecillity and depraved operation chiefly as an approximate cause the bloud acquires a peculiar corruption and scorbutic malignity detected by some symptomes declaring its specific nature and according to the degree or heigth arrived at are the symptomes more in number and more exasperate worse in quality The Tincture resolveth and volatizeth coagulate and fixed tartareous matter attenuates and rarenes gross subsiding humours which obstruct the vessels of the Spleen and viscera of nutrition causing turgid inflations schirrous tumors and pains in those parts concocts crude ichorous bloud depurates and renovates it from scorbutick feculency and maligne putrefaction makes it more fit for nutrition and amicable to the body Take it in a glass of White-wine or Rhenish which is best or in good strong beer not new or beer with the juce of Orange which is better or whey if the body be hot In the morning fasting and at 4 of the clock in the after noon The Dose for men and women is 24 drops for the age 14 and under so many drops as they are years old Shake the Bottle then use it The Hydropic Pills are appointed for the cure of Dropsies and watery tumors of the body whether universal or in particular parts They are purgative and attract serous and watery humors from any part of the body and Evacuates by seige They excite the kidneys to attraction and expulsion which before was fluggish imbecile or impedited in their office whereby superfluous serosity or water is accumulated and retained in the body they are very aperitive resolutive and diuretical opening obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Ureters dissolving any coagulate matter and sending forth the Morbific cause by Urine The Dose for Men and Women is 5 Pills or but 4 if a tender body for 14 years old 3 Pills Take them in the morning fasting and drink little until noon then eat your dinner Thus doe 2 or 3 days in a week intermitting a day between Those dayes you purge not drink a draught of Wormwood wine and eat some white bisket every morning and at 4 of the Clock after noon keep a spare diet let your meat be rosted rather then boyled If your stomack be weak use the digestive Tincture Be moderate in drinking You may profitably use white-wine mingled with the decoction of sasaffras two parts to one of wine The Hydropic powder hath the same vertues and operation with the Hydropic Pills But because some are averse to Pills that with facility can take a powder they may chuse either Take it in a draught of posset drink or white wine warmed Observing the preceding directions The full Dose is one Dram for the age 14 2 scruples or half a Dram. And so proportionably to younger For the Guts THe Retentive Powder mittigates and stayes all Fluxes and violent excretions of the Guts whether lienterial Dysenterial or diarrhaea's not by an astringent or binding quality of the Medicine that were injurious to nature and not subsidiary to retaine what nature desires to expel but by attracting and collecting the peccant humor that stimulates to expulsion and evacuating it whereby one stoole that the Medicine procures carryes with it more of the offending cause then six other from the oft times vain irritations and struglings of nature without assistance By the anodynous vertue it allayes charms the turgid aestuation of stimulating humors by degrees evacuates and sends them forth with less disturbance and danger whether they be sharp bilious or acide serous humors a saline irritating Phleme a stinking corrupt Colliquation or acrid and adust Melancholy having also and astringent vertue to bind after wards and to roborate the retentve faculty the offending cause being removed this is the safest way to stop the flux of what nature soever and in any person women with child in child bed children or infants and to prevent the danger that may ensue If the Flux be bloody drink Whey wherein gads of Steel hath been quenched for your common drink The Dose of the Powder for man or Woman is a dram or more to a Child of twelve years old half a dram And so proportionably to younger Take it in Posset-drink in the Morning in bed and sleep after it if you can Do likewise the next day if the occasion continue The Apperitive powder is emollient absterfive and opening appointed for costive hot and dry bodys whereby excrements being too long retained are hardned and baked sumes return up to the stomack troubling Concoction and offensive to the brain it corrects the dry distemper of the Guts or intemperate heat of the Liver frequent causes of costiveness humects and softens dry hard excrements and procures two or three stools It is a necessary preparative to Physick making the body fâ—uid and fit for purgation opening obstructions of the bowels mesentery Liver Spleen Pancreas and Matrix whereby any Medicine hath access to those parts with more facility and speed and less abatement of its strength before it comes to operate upon the part intended the ductures and passages being laid open by its Apperitive vertue The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for fourteen years two scruples Take it in a wine-glass full of the Liquor of stewed Prunes in the morning fasting half an hour after drink a good draught of posset drink or Whey if you have a hot costive body an hour after this you may eat your breakfast spoon meat is best Thus you may do four or five mornings together For the Reins and Bladder THe Nephritic Extract by a specific virtue resists the lapidifactory disposition of the Reins and petrifactive succus prevents coagulation and petrifaction By the abstersive tartareous property clenseth the Reins and Bladder from mucilaginous slimy matter sand or gravel that lodgeth in the urinary passages By the unctuous quality mollifies relaxeth lubrifies and dilates the uriters and urinary ductures for the more facile and speedy exclusion of the stone-gravel or any viscous coagulated matter which may cause a suppression of urine or strangury By the balsamic vertue Heals excoriations of the urinary passages caused by attrition of the stone and gravel or acrimony of Urine and mitigates the pain Very subtile and resolutive powerful to
dissolve the stone diuretical purging by urine The Dose for Man or Woman is half a Dram which is about the quantity of a hasel nut Take it thus five or six mornings together fasting roll it in fine powdered Sugar or Hony and so swallow it then drink a good draught of White-wine after or mixed with Ale And you may follow your business The Nephritic Powder clenseth the Reins and bladder from sand and gravel opens the Uriters and Urinary passages provokes Urine cooles the reins and prevents the stone Take it in a glasse of White-wine fasting half a douzen mornings together But let the Powder be put into the wine over night and stand close covered The Dose is one Dram. The Dysuretic Powder corrects the sharpness of Urine having an Hostile quality and antipathy to acidityes which causeth the Uriters to twitch and vellicate with a painful Convulsive motion and contraction in the small of the back and hips to the Region of the bladder and bottom of the Belly helps incontinency of Urine or debility of holding water strengthning the Sphincter Muscle of the bladder and taking away the acrimony of the Urine which provokes the expulsive faculty it checks the over strong attraction of the reines causing immoderate making water thereby wasting the body exhausting the natural humidity and impoverishing the Masse of bloud coagulates a saline and tartareous resolution in the body which comming into the ductures of the Vrine stimulates and irritates to expulsion by its acrimony Cooles the reins mitigates the ardor and scalding heat of Vrine The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for the age 14. two scruples 8 years old half a Dram. Take it in the morning an hour before you rise in posset drink you may eat or drink when you are up and go abroad Vse it a fortnight or three weeks together Observe your diet and let your drink be steeled For the Genital Parts THE Restaurative essence asists digestion in the Spermatic vessels strengthens the generative faculty effectual against sterility or barrennesse in the feminine sex and deficiency in the masculine if the causes be superfluous moisture crudity and infaecundity of the seed debility of the Genital parts frigidity or imbecillity of nature and not organical impediments and defects It strengthens a weak back preserves the balsom of nature and natural heat restores consumptive weak persons strengthens old age and the declinings of nature refresheth the animal and vital spirits by its aromatical fragrancy roborates the internal parts asists the digestions prevents crudityes and the superfluity of crude humors Taketh away putrefaction in bodyes that have a ranke or strong favour by reason of putrid humors breathing forth through the pores of the body it will depurate clense and make such bodyes more sweet and wholesome and more acceptable to their bed fellows Shake the bottle before you use it Drop it into fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point then drink a glasse of Tent Muskadel or Sack after it The Dose is 24 drops for Men or Women You may take it night and morning in bed In the use of strengthning Medicines Take this observation That if the body be soul let gentle purgation precede first clense then strengthen that 's a regular course for this purpose let women take the Hysterical Pills Men may use the Stomack or Cachectic Pills As the condition of their body most requires The Hysterical Pills have an abstersive and purgative faculty to clense and open obstructions of the veins leading to the Matrix whereby the terms may have their due times and colour according to the course of nature they dissipate flatulent vapours and evacuate noxious humors collected in the womb which having aquired maligne qualities by residence there occasions various symptomes and disturbance in several parts by consent from the Matrix as Hypochondriac Melancholy palpitation of the heart shortness of breath and compression about the stomack pains of the head deliriums Convulsive motions sadness palenesse and unwonted Complection they prevent fits of the Mother disperse the vapours and corrects the malignant cause They cure the Green Sicknesse brings the termes into their right order restores the Complexion and purgeth the lower Region of the body The full Dose is 6 pills for fifteen years old 5 pills or but four if she be a tender body and easie to operate Take them early in the Morning you may lye an houre after when you are up drink a good draught of warm Posset and walk in the House Eat at noon Thus do two or three days together intermit so many days then take twice or thrice more And you will finde the benefit The Expulsive Powder Is appointed for a difficult and perilous Child birth being effectual to expedite the delivery of Women in a slow hard labour it procures travelling pains when nature is unable and weak giveth strength to the woman and Child and hastens the Birth expells a dead child and brings away the after burden You may give it twice in twelve hours for the foresaid occasions not oftner The Dose is one paper of powder Take it in a small spoonful of Cinnamon-Water Penyroyal-Water or Mace Ale or these mixed at the discretion of the Midwife The Restringent Powder helps the debility and weakness of the Spermatic Vessels procured by immoderate coition or other accidents stayes a Gonorhaea or Running of the Reins so called corrects the heat and acrimony of the seed that stimulates to expulsion and allays the pain asswageth any sharp humor in the privities of either Sex heals an exulration or excoriation there takes away itching or molesting heat prevents the danger by immoderate copulation cools allayes and strengthens those parts Use it thus Take a quart of Smiths water let it stand six hours to settle then pour off a pinte cleer in it put the Powder shake it well in a Bottle then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night and you will receive much help and ease But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent proceeding from the Pox then it is requisite also that you take the Medicines proper for that disease as the italic and neapolitan Pills to purifie and clense your body from that malignity and virulency where with the humors are tainted and vitiated And to prevent future danger For the joynts THe Arthritick Pills are peculiarly appointed for the Gout whether hereditary or acquired by diaetetic errors or differing in the part affected as the feet knees hips hands or other Joynts yet owning the same approximate cause and admit the same cure They attract the serous acrid humor which pricks and lancinates the Periostium and nervous parts about the Joynt and retract the confluence of humors caused by pain resorting to the part affected They are very profitable and Auxiliary against a rheumatismus commonly called the running Gout which is an erratic pricking pain wandring from part to part caused by a flatulent acrimonious humor afflicting not
being the cheifest part of my Study and most delightful of late years And having approved in practice what in reason they promised at the veiw enticing to experiments I may with confidence commend to your use being a witness to all that belongs to them made choice of their Druggs saw their due preparation and Composition and not only a spectator but an agent sometimes where the strictest care and nicest curiosity is required being the best recreation I know or can desire For my part I desire no other weapons to oppose any Herculean disease where the capacity of the subject will endure the contest and be conformable to the commands of such a discipline I shall require to be observed The Patient must bear a part or no good to be expected there must be a conspiration consent and agreement between the Physician the Patient and the Medicine against the disease or the design will fail The Physician cannot oure without a good Medicine the Medicine cannot cure except prudently appointed by the Physitian in fit Doses at due times with the requisite circumstances and yet neither shall prevaile if the patient be disobedient intemperate and careless For if by good medicine you prevaile against your disease get ground one day and lose it the next or soon after by an unfit improper ordering your self the labour is in vain as by too often experience we finde it in practise with peevish unruly imprudent patients who thinke the taking of the physick is sufficient let themselves live at the old rate and customes which first occasioned the disease You must not therefore expect these medicines to take that effect as is promised declared in the enumeration of their vertues appropriate use if you by an irrigular course and daily common practise in eating drinking sleeping passions of minde rest and motion or other customes whatever improper and unfit for the condition of your body and distemper act with a Counter motion and repugnancy to the efficacy and vertue of the Medicine and also cherish indulge and strengthen the disease Therefore remember that a duty is required incumbent upon you and impute not your miscarriages improper unseasonable insufficient use of the means to the deficiency of the Medicine and that you make a difference between a chronic inveterate radicated disease to which you are propense by hereditary nature constitution or constant bad customes and a slight accidental infirmity The former requiring a more serious prosecution continuance and repetition of Medicines if you have been many moneths perhaps years contracting a disease you may well allow some days for a parting And that these Medicines may not receive a prejudice in their reputation undeservedly and for want of knowledge in the proper choice and use of them especially in such cases and persons where a subordinate use of Medicines is required for the eradicating of a contumacious and chronic disease such I say who desire a methodical and exact course in the use of these Medicines more at large and peculiar for their complicated diseases and condition of body then what is exprest and provided for in this book I shall upon their application to me whether by letter if far distant or otherwise give them my advice and directions in the choice and use of any Medicine or Medicines as their particular case requires according to the true account and relation I shall receive of their infirmities at my dwelling next to the Blew-Bore on Ludgate-hill London OF Life Health and Sickness AFter the praevious disposition of formation and effiguration of seminal matter in the wombe by the innate spirits thereof the chief actors in vegetation having prepared fabricated and made ready for animation the Soul then exerts her power animates and gives life and as supreme moderator and governor disposeth and orders all for future conservation and perfection of operation The seminal Spirits which before were chief and principal in preparation and fabrication of this mansion are now after the souls assuming the Government but instrumental and subordinate immediately acting by vertue and power from the soul received neither can the one act without the other the soul cannot act the body in its operations but mediately by the intervening Spirits there is so great a distance between the spirituality of a soul and the corporiety of bodies but the Spirits being of the most refined subtile volatized material substance are the fittest Intermedium of conjunction conveyance and commerce between the Soul and body nor can the spirits act their parts in any Vital operation but by the energy command and power derived from the soul These spirits have their residence in every part of the body as principal assistants and excitors to the performance of the office and duty belonging to the several parts and are the approximate immediate agents of the soul and they are preserved maintained and supplied by the additional spirits extracted from the bodyly aliment daily received There is also a ferment or transmutative quality peculiar to each part or office for concoction resulting from the particular nature property and temper of each part being the author of alteration and transmutation by vertue whereof the food received is digested volatized and receiving various impressions according to the disposition of the ferment of each part by which it passeth until it be fit for assimilation into the substance of the body In the vigour and rectitude of these ferments and the aforesaid spirits consists the sanity and integrity of each member in its office but the diminution alienation and depravation of either vitiates and imbecillitates the parts indisposeth and incapacitates them to their office and duties from whence various morbifick effects are produced answerable to their several causes and the variety of organical parts in their principal or ministerial functions These Spirits and ferments are preserved and maintained in their natural purity and vigour by a temperate sweet Air wholsom and regular dyet seasonable sleeping and waking moderate and constant exercise due evacuations and retentions tranquillity and ease of minde But these irregular unnatural disproportionate or unsutable in matter manner times or order destroyes the regular oeconomy and peaceable Government of the body raiseth discords introduceth and begets morbifick causes abbreviates and shortens life Of which particularly hereafter This I have premised as a ground work for the superstructure intended and for your preparation and clearer apprehension of what shall be delivered in the following discourse knowing upon what bases it is founded The life of man consists in the Conjunction of soul and body mutually embracing each other with the bands of Love and desire of continued Union until the incapacity and unfitness of the body by its ruinous and decayed condition or other impediments and deficiency enforceth the soul to desertion and departure Spiritual and Corporeal substance are now knit and interwoven one with another by an extraordinary curious artifice and contrivance so that you can not say
receive the prejudice then others But fragrant smells refresh and chear the vital Spirits and are very wholsome breathing forth the vertue of those things from whence they do proceed Be not late abroad nor very early before Sun rising and after setting the Aire is not so good being infested with noxious vapours until the radient influence of the Sun dispells and purifies and those whose custome it is to be often aproad at such times are most frequently molested with Rheumes Rheumatic diseases which their declining years will more evidently manifest the prejudice Likewise in moist foggy dark weather t is better being within then abroad and if it be a cool season good fires fragrant fumes are then both pleasant very wholesom Be frequent abroad in the fields when a clear sky invites you forth and let the fresh Aire fan you with its sweet breath but more especially in the morning the Aire is softer and more pleasant then your bed and sure I am far more wholsome Temperie Coeli corpusque Animusque juvatur Ovid Meat and Drink Esteem temperance and regularity in eating and drinking as a great preservative of health not a Lessian dyet to pine and enseeble the body but moderate in quantity proportionable to the stomack agreeable in the first and second qualities seasonable as to times and order The contrary irregular practice hath destroyed and shortned the lives of many Plures gula quam gladius For quantity your own stomack must measure to you what is convenient which is a certain rule of proportion if you observe not to eat to a satiety and fullness but desist with an appetite being refreshed light and cheerfull not dulled heavy and indisposed to operation and action either of mind or body A set quantity or measure of meat and drink cannot be prescribed as a general rule and observation for all to follow in regard of the variety and great difference of persons in Constitution age strength of nature condition of life and infirmities that what is convenient for one is too much for another and too little for a third the strong and healthy cannot conforme to the sickly weak and infirme in quantity nor the labouring man to the sedentary and studious or the idle therefore every stomack is to be its own judge and every one ought to moderate themselves by the cautions before mentioned Indulge not to the cravings of an irrationall sensitive appetite but allow such a supply of daily food as will support and maintain bodily strength and not over-load it thereby the spirits will be vigorous and active humors attenuated and abated Crudities and obstructions prevented many infirmities checkt and kept under the senses long preserved in their integrity the stomack clean the appetite sharp and digestion good But by the surplusage and over-charge the stomachical ferment is overlaid and its incisive penetrative faculty obtunded the appetite and digestion abated the stomack nauseating fluctuating and belching with crudities from whence Gripes Fluxes and Feavers the spirits clogged dull and somnolent by their indisposition and inactivity humors subside degenerate incrassate obstructs from whence various symptomes and depraved effects throughout the body debilitating and decaying the fenses enervating and stealing away the strength of the body by defrauding it of good nutriment hastning old age and shortning Life In Winter you may eate more freely the ambient external cold compresseth and unites the spirits drives them to the center and fortifyes the stomack but in Summer the spirits are dilated exhausted and drawn forth by the external heat opening the pores wherefore the appetite is not so sharp nor digestion so quick And the Rule is true though heate be not the principal cause of concoction yet it is a necessary agent excitor and cooperator For the quality of dyet make choice of such for the most part as is commended to you convenient for that constitution you are of as you will finde prescribed in the several temperaments following But withal observe what is most agreeing and disagreeing to your peculiar nature and individual propriety what is most desired by your stomack and best digested is a good guide in the choice of meate and drink Paulo peior sed suavior cibus potus meliori at ingrato praferendus Change your dyet according to the seasons of the year the variation of your temperament and inclination to this or that distemper in Winter more meate and less drink in summer less meate and more liquids in hot weather a cooling diet in cold weather that which is warme and heating in summer meats boiled in winter rosted a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist diet a cold and moist body a hot and dry diet temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodies are rectified and reduced by their contraries and dissimilar The more simple and single your diet is the better and more wholesome but if your stomack must have variety let it be at several meals and so you may please your pallate without prejudice accustome not your self to delicacies and compound dishes the heterogenity of their nature begets a discordant sermentation in the stomack troubling concoction from whence eructations nauseous belchings and offensive risings in the throat Quo simplicior vict us ratio eo melior Aphor. Of all meat flesh affords the most nourishment and the strongest If your diet sometimes be not so good and proper for you in the quality make amends â—n the quantity and eat the lesse Of all sauces a good stomack is the best but â—f you must have other let it be acide sharp or biting Accustome strong stomacks to strong meats the weaker to lighter of digestion very light meats in strong stomacks are soon digested but withall parched and corrupted and turn to a bitter and cholerick juce solid hard meats in weak stomacks lye long and heavy and passe away crude and indigested Meats in respect of their facility and difficulty in digestion are tearmed heavy and light Heavy meats be such as are more dry hard solid and dense grosse course and tough or over moist slimy and cold requiring a longer time in fermentation volatization and digestion before they be fit to passe off the stomack And they are either so in their nature as all old flesh bull beef and oxe brawn pork venison hare goose duck swan crane bitter heron and most water fowle Eeles lobster lampreys tench stockfish beanes pease when they be something old brown bread barly and Rye bread also some parts are of harder digestion then other as brains hearts livers except of tame fowl birds and some very young flesh milts kidneys skin Meat made heavy or made worse then in their own nature by preparation keeping and dressing as dryed fryed and broiled meats meats long salted and kept as bacon hangâ—d beef and long powdered old ling salt cod haberdine pickled herrings red herrings pickled scallops sturgion salt salmon old cheese hard eggs