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A14301	The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24619; ESTC S111506	55,728	158

vse to haue for hee falls like an Apple fully ripe euen by meere resolution mildly and gently away The bond of a Temperate mans Body and Soule is dissolued onely when the Radicall moysture is spent like vnto a Lampe which is extinguished when the Oy●e is quite consumed For euen as a Lampe may bee put out three manner of wayes First by outward violence as by v●hement wind Secondly by powring too much water vpon it wherewith the pure Liquor of the Oyle is oppressed Thirdly by the vt●er consumption of the Oyle So Mans Life which is compared to a burning Lampe may bee extinguished three wayes First by the Sword Drowning or such like violent death Secondly by the superfluity or depraued quality of the Humours wherewith the naturall moysture is corrupted Thirdly when this moysture is spent by the length of time If a man dyes by reason of eyther of the two former wayes there must ensue a great commotion in Nature and therefore he feeles extraordinary grie●ances when the bond of Nature is thus ●●o●ently before the day and ripe time compelled to bee dissolued But by the third manner of dissolution a man feeles no paine at all because the Temperature is all by leasure dissolued from within him and because the gentle moysture which feedes the Body becomes wasted together with the naturall heate at the same instant when the Soule departes And thus shall our Dyeted persons dye except they bee● forced by some outward Accident The fourth Commodity is that it makes the Body Actiue Light Liuely and ready to all motions and exercise For heauinesse lazinesse and the oppression of Nature proceede from the aboundance of Humours which destroy the passages of the Spirits and besiedging the ●ovnts they ouer moysture them at last Therefore when this aboundance of Humors is diminished or taken away by a Regular Dyet the very cause of dulnesse and heauinesse is also taken away and then the pores and passages of the Spirits are made broad and more open The fourth SECTION The Commodities which our Dyet brings to to the sences and Minde and how it may helpe to build there a more conuenient Temple for the Holy Ghost AS the Body feeles seuerall benefits by this admirable Dyet so the Minde partakes of no lesse commodities First it brings Health and Vigour to the outward sences for the sence of Seeing becomes darkned in aged Persons by reason that the Optick nerues are ouer-charged with superfiuous humours or vapors whereby the animall spirit which serues for the vse of the Sight eyther is obseured or else is not able to minister asmuch matter as is sufficient to make the Sight perfect This impediment is remooued or at least much diminished by Sobriety and Abstinence from those things which fill the Head with fumes of which kinde are all fat things and Bu●ter excessiuely taken raw Onions Garlike strong Wine omuddy Beere or A●e Or if at the worst their sights bee somewhat dimme or reddish the Oyn●ment of Tu●●● with a i. t. e. Aloes wi●●auayle them Or if the feare a greater griefe the Iuice of Stonecrop will 〈◊〉 the pin and the Web. The sence of Hearing is hindred by the defluxion of raw Humors from the B●aine into the Organ of Hearing or into the sinewes which serues it By which meanes a man becomes thicke of Hearing or deafe on that side where the Defluxion hapneth A temperate Dyet will preuent this Defluxion and with a few locall medicines vnlesse the deafenesse be inueterate it will quite expell it As for the Sence of Tasting it is certayne that the Taste of a Temperate man is farre more quicke sharpe and pleasing then it is in the Glutton and Drunkard who by reason of Chollericke or brackish Humors whether they bee ingend●ed in the Head or in the stomacke takes all Meates otherwise then they are in deede Another Commodity which a Temperate Dyet brings to the Soule is that it m●tigateth Affectors or P●ssions chu●fl● melancholly and Anger Wee see by experience that they in whom Cho●●r and Melanchoily bea●e Dominion if they bee not in conuenient time p●●ged of those Humors they fall into strange and violent sicknesses as Lunacy and Fre●zy especially if they bee suffered to get footing in the Braine and there to ens●ame If it bee sharpe and falls into the tunicles of the Stomacke it causeth a man to become very Ra●enous If there be aboundance of blood it makes a man Leacherous chiefy if there bee some windy matter crept into it The Reason is because the Affections of the Minde do follow the apprehension of the Fantasy and the apprehension of the Fantasy is conformable to the disposition of the Body and to the Humours which bea●e rule in the Body Hence it is that the Chollericke doe dreame of Fires Flames Warres and Slaughters The Melancholick dreame of Darknes burialls Sepulchers Sprights of deepe pits fearefull flights and of the like troublesome things The Flegmatick● dreame of Rame Ri●ers Lakes Shipwracke drowning c The Sa●guine dreame of Banquets Loue Ioyes c. All these with their Causes are auoyded by a sober Dyet for insteed of bad there are ingendred nothing but true and good Blood Choller Flegme and Melancholly so that their inward conditions are wel composed gentle Milde Demure and quiet neuer ministring any cause of Debate but with Sobriety and Patience taking all things in good part The third Commodity which a sober Dye● brings with it is the safety of memory which is wont to be impayred and hu●t by reason of cold Humours which haue seized on the Braine and is very ominous to the intemperate or aged person This inconuenience is speedily cured by an orderly Dyet with abstayning from ho● liq●●urs and fuming drinkes vnlesse it be in sin●●l quantity For although Wine and strong drinke bee hote yet it causeth colde sicknesses beeing often taken as Coughes Distillations the Pose the Apoplexie or Palsie The fourth Commodity is the liuely Vigour of the Minde in Reasoning Iudging in Inuention and in an apter Disposition to conceiue or receiue Diuine Mysteries Heere hence it comes to passe that they which obserue a sparing Dyet are watchfull circumspect prouident and sound of Iudgement Whatsoeuer spirituall or mentall exercise they take in hand they commonly excell in that kinde of knowledge which they undertake The reason is because their thoughts are abstracted and seuered from this base earthly mould to Heauenly Contemplation and to those high Angelical raptures of which f●esh and blood can hardly enter into the Consideration I beleeue very few in these dayes may be sayd to be thus Diuinely disposed for I will stand vnto it that except they haue some power of Abstinence together with that vnspotted Faith which the Protestant Church holds they shall neuer passe for men truely Religious nor shine with that bright Light of Vnderstanding to cont●mne the Vanities of this seducing World nor receiue that solace in their spirits to conceiue themselues as it were in Paradise

that she might gayne freedome for that Towne which for their common and future good shee afterwards most zealously performed Now to aduance forwards and thereupon to conclude our worke of Purification to be brought to passe by abstinence and our newfound Dyet it is lookt for that I should first cu●e some of those infirmities which are already growne through Repletion and disorders Among which I behold the Lunges which waxe old sooner then the rest of the members as Aristotle affirmed And the reason is because they are subiect to all kind of excrements For they receiue catarrhes coughs and other fi●thy matter from the Braine besides excrementicious blood which is ingendred there and turnes to purulent matter which render them foule filthy as our late A●atomists haue found as●ve ●as that which comes from the head and what ber is made so impure must needes grow soonest old For which cause those Persons whose breath doth stinke by reason of the impurities of the Lunges shall waxe old sooner then others As on the contrary those whose breath smells well or doth not stinke whilest they are Fasting may liue much longer For the abating or correcting of this viscous clammy and mattry stuffe which is there ingendred or fallen from the Braine nothing anayles more then this our Dyet after that the same hath bene practised and vsed two or three Moneths such impurities will cease of their owne accord But for feare the Diseased party may in the meane time suffocate and perish like the Horse that starued while the Grasse grew let him that is troubled with a violent Cough which is accounted but a Symptome mingle some Manna well sifted and a little Saffron with his Panade Broth or Gr●ell and that being vsed for fiue or sixe dayes together will by gentle Purges by little and little consume away the cause yea and will supply the place of an Expecterall aswell as any of those Medicaments which they call Becchica or else they may use three or foure drops of the Syrupe of Tobacco in two spoonefuls of Hysop water or in default thereof a peece of Tobacco it selfe rowled and chewed in the Mouth before meate for foure or fiue dayes together will performe the C●re or in case of necessity let him drinke but once an O●nce of the Iuyce of the Blew-Flower-de Luce root called Ir●s newly gathered beaten and strayned with sug●ed Water and some Saffron and though the Party were at the very poynt ready to bee choaked with these s●●my and grosse h●mours and could not rest but sit vp wheezing and without sleepe yet within two or three houres as it were by Miracle hee shall auoyde by Vomit and Stooles the causes of his deadly distemper Or else let him take twenty or twenty fiue graines of Pantomagogon in Pils with the Powder of Lycoras once euery second day for a weeke and these will gently purge a●l the Humours And these Pi●s I hold to bee singular good to preuent many other diseases and not so loathsome as most Medicines be Next the Braine presents it selfe to my View the indisposition whereof may be discouered by the Heate or Coldnesse If it be ouer hot it causeth distillations into the Lunges Lunacies c. For the Cure whereof some Lettice may bee boyled with our Dyet or the greene leaues of Poppy and in defaulte thereof their seedes or their Syrupes In that case Diacodion which is composed of white Poppy with sugred Water alone or mixt with our Diet is of admirable operation both to coole and to procure sleepe To which as a Cau●at I wish such distempered persons to beware how they keepe their Heads too warme with Night-Caps for thereby I haue obserued that many haue vnaduisedly miscarried For the cold distemper of the Braine accompaned with Moysture the smoake of Tobacco with a drop or two of the Oyle of Anny-seed is expedient if the Party be not too narrow breasted or else troubled with the fits of Asthma But oftentimes the Braine may suffer by reason of outward Causes as Frost or Cold windes in the same manner as the Lunges are for both alike are impayred by Cold that they might the sooner become weakned and old and that by reason of respiration For both these Members doe breath and respire the Braine for the perception of smells and the Lunges more aboundantly for the recreation of the heart Therefore both these Members doe secretly through their Pores and passages draw in the Ayre and do receiue their impressions which happen not to any of th' other Members For this discommodity whereto our Northerne Nations are much subiect thet haue lately armed themselues with Hoodes agaynst Raine Snow and Tempests and if before their iournies they annoynt the soles of their feete with that excellent Oyle of Euphorbium or of Pepper and stop their ●ares with Cotton or bumbase dipt in Oyle of An●●seed or with Cyuet They neede not feare distempers through Cold as long a so as Englands Golden Fleece is able to furnish them with Outward Defences But wee haue cause to doubt a greater inconu●nience then a momentary cold which commonly with the weather for sake the hold for if it prooue an extreame Frost or blustring Windes specially after ●ainy Weather which occasion the cuils aforenamed that treacherous guest the Sc●ruy the store-house of al diseases Farrago omnium morborum which some haue mistaken for a spice of the Catholick Disease may get possession within the Body And this happens both by the Sunnes absence and for that the skinne and all the outward Pores are stopt thickned and congealed with Cold so that there is no place left for the venting of Euaporations and Exhalations out of the Body And therefore they are driuen backe coagulated where those Vapours are forced for want of vent to assault the inward parts and at length they domineere and cause Oppilations and stoppages so that the liuely Spirits cannot performe their Offices Heere hence it fals out that some of these tainted exhalations are carried vpwards to the Eyes Eares Nose and to the Teeth and Gummes and other-whiles to the Breast or else they descend downe to the Legges A spoonefull of the Iuyce of Lemons at a time or the luyce of Scuruy-graf●e or the salt of it as I shewed in the former Section mixt with our Panade will remooue this Suruy-baggage And for the putrified Gummes a drop or two of the Oyle of Vitrioll or some Vnguentum Aegyptiacum applyed vnto them will speedily cure them I neede not correct the Stomacke but with the owne simple Dyet yet if at first by reason of the suddaine alteration which I haue notwithstanding here expresly forbidden and on the contrary aduised them to proceede by degrees from twenty ounces to foureteene or twelue and by so many or a little more of drinke to bee diminished within a moneth Then if the Stomacke should become somewhat fainting a cup of Wine and Sugar added to the Dyet or in extremity Cinamon water Anniseed

Worme-wood water or Manus Christi or Ginger-bread will quickely restore the cowardly Stomacke But if the Midriffe rise or any winde which our Dyet will speedily chase away Vineger Scilliticke or Sea Onion will keepe it downe Afterwards if they chance to breake this Dyet if it be but for a meale or two I wish them to fast the next meale after although it were more commendable Esu●ire inter epulas to rise vp with an Appetite For the Stone if Walter Caries Quintessence of Goates Blood which in his Farewell to Physicke he cals the Hammer for the Stone may not be gotten let the Party take Goates Blood and vse it after the Arabian manner That is dried in the O●en and drunke in some Liquour More Medicines I could lay downe for this and other sicknesses but that I doubt our Practitioners of Physicke would indite me for intiusion into their Profession albeit I thinke they will bee more offended with me for the Publishing of this Dietary Cure then for any other Quarrell For I make no question but the same will both preuent and heale more Diseases then all their Recipes grounded but vpon coniecturall Prognostickes for the most part like vnto our Almanackes Me thinkes if it were nothing else but for the auoyding of Physitians Fees and Ap●th●caries Bils that were a motiue sufficient to enduce vs to liue soberly Whereto might bee added the shortning of our dayes which their Drugges doe cause besides the poysoned relicks which they leaue behind them in the Body For we must vnderstand that all Purgations specially Electuaries soluble haue some venemous quality in them and likewise that the good humours aswell as the bad are exhausted by them to the future decay of health and the treacherous wasting of the Oyle of Life The like fatall inconuenience comes by Blood letting The eight SECTION Speciall Remedies against Sea sicknesses the Scuruy and against the annoyances of snow Frosts and cold Winds Wherein the cause of my Lord Baltimores Disasters in New-found Land this last Winter is debated THe Disasters which hapned to my Lord Baltimore and his Colony the last Winter at Feriland in our New-land Plantation by reason of the Scuruy haue mooued mee to inserte some more specifique Remedies against that Disease which not onely in those Climates beares dominion but likewise heere in England although hooded with other Titles yet commonly sprung of the same causes For sometimes the Scuruy is ingendred of outward Causes and sometimes from within the Body or from both And therefore they that dwell neere the Sea-side where the North-east Windes rage are most subiect to this infirmity Before the sayd Lord euer beganne his Plantation he cannot deny but I aduised him to erect his Habitation in the bottome of the Bay at Aquafort two leagues distant from that Place which for ought I heare is not much to be discommended and more into the Land where my people had wintred two yeares before and found no such inconuenience Nay his Lordship himselfe suspected the place sor●● his Letters hee complayned that vnlesse hee might be beholding to me for the assignment of both those places out of my Grant he was in a manner disheartned to plante on that Coast by reason of the Easterly Windes which with the Mountaynes of Ice floating from Estotiland and other Northerne Countries towards New-found land rendred that Easterly shore exceeding cold Yet notwithstanding his Lordship beeing perswaded by some which had more experience in the gainefull Trade of Fishing then in the Scituation of a commodious Seate for the Wintring of his new Inhabitants bestowed all his charge of building at Fertland the coldest harbour of the Land where those furious Windes and Icy Mountaynes doe play and beate the greatest part of the Yeare Whereas if hee had built eyther at Aquafort or in the Westerly part in the Bay of Placentia which hath aboue 50. miles ouer-land betwixt it and that Easterne shore his enterprize had suceeeded most luckily And so this of Fertland might haue serued well for his profit in the Fishing and also for a pleasant Summer dwelling Sir Francis Tanfield vnder the right honourable the Lord Vicount Faulkland continued two yeares but three leagues more Southward at Renooz and did well enough in which place likewise my Colony remayned one Winter without any such mortall accidents But all Winters I confesse are not alike in that Country no more then they are here with vs in Europe Yea and here too in the same paralell the season differs Who will imagine that wee in Wales haue lesse Snow and Frosts then London and Essex And yet by experience wee finde it so whereof the very cause proceeds from the Easterne windes whose rigorous force before they arriue ouer land into our Westerne parts cannot but be much broken and abated Besides these Winds snows and Fr●sts the Scuruy is ingendred by earing of those meates which are of corrupted iuice raw cold salted or of ill nourishment which breede grosse blood and melancholly Among which I reckon Bacon Fish Beanes Pease c. And among Drinkes I ranke all strong liquors whatsoeuer specially if they be taken in Frosty weather when the Stomacke ouer abounds with heate and consequently at that time most subiect to infiamations which when the Th●●● comes will certainely breake out into some dangerous disease Do but obserue how the Sap of Plants and Hearbes in Frosty seasons descends downe to the Roote as to the last refuge and helpe in Nature The which Plants if we should refresh with Chalke or Lime well may they flourish for a little while but their Fruite and themselues are of no continuance The like I may say of such as by strong liquors doe conceiue that they fortisie and comfort their stomackes in cold weather when as indeed they get but a sparkling heate like a blast that will quickly extinguish From hence arise the Scuruy Catarrhes Rhumes Coughs Feuers c. But leauing these Causes I will proceed to the Cure of this fatall sicknesse which now a dayes prooues a stumbling stone to the wisest Physitians by reason of the manifold symptomes and infirmities which accompany it able to deceiue Aesculapius himselfe First let the party that feares or suspects himselfe tainted change or ayre his apparrell putting on cleane shifts and linnen Secondly let him sleepe in boorded Roomes and if hee bee able to haue his Chamber Wainscotted or well dryed of those dampish sauours which stone or earthen walls are wont to euaporate and breath out Thirdly let him beate and burne one Acre of Land round about his dwelling Fourthly let him eate those meats which are tender light of digestiō that will not be soone corrupted chiefly fresh meats with dited sauce but moderately and without excesse Fiftly let him often vse the expressions of Currans Prunes or Reasins or Diaprunis or some of these in broath made with Manna Cassia Tama●ind or Seene For these will loosen the Belly by their moysture and slippery faculty whose

the Spanish Author in his Triall of Wits was of opinion that for many Generations after it did reduce their Bodies to a more Temperate Constitution then my other Nations in so much that their Seede did multiply and their Minds were more purified and prepared capable of Gods miraculous blessings to inherite the land of Canaan which their Fathers whose longing thoughts were altogether set on the Onions Garlike and flesh-pots of Egypt wherewith from their Infancy they had accustomed to feed on were debarred off for their hardned hearts I prescribe not this Dyet though solide and substantiall to Labourers and Hindes for their stomackes are like Ostridges which can digest Iron and by their Violent motion can better away with Bull-Beefe Ram Mutton Beanes and Bacon then with the daintiest meate in the World As I hard that a Clownish Boore told my Vncle Sir Iohn Perrot who on a time comming to visite him being his Tenant and sicke aduised him to eate some der meate as Chicken or sucking Rabbet he answered him Alas Maister what shall I doe with such kinde of Meate when I cannot eate the Bacon which is as yellow as the Golden Noble I limit no such persons no more then Galen did when he Dedicated his Worke for the preseruation of Health De sanitate tuenda not vnto the strong Complexioned and the Barbarous as the Germanes who were so accounted in those dayes but vnto the ciuill and nice-b●ed Italians I present the discouery of this Secret and the Practise of it to them that make a conscience of their Calling not to wallow like swinish Epicures in sensuall beastly pleasures but as men resolued to liue soberly like Christians who must acknowledge that the Holy Ghost cannot long reside in fat foggy Bodies that make a God of their Bellies and who for that cause doe still pamper themselues with delicacies and continue more houres at their gluttonous meales swilling of sugred Sacke and many cups of strong drinke then they doe at their Prayers or in the seruice of God St. Paul as likewise the first Christians did often vse to mortifie their Bodies for feare of Temptations I tame my Body sayth hee to bring it into subiection least while I Preach to others my selfe become a Cast ●way But wee are so fa●ie from such mortifications that wee cannot spare one mea●e in the Weeke though it were to fa●●● a Neighbours life or to conuert the expence of that mea●e to defend the Publ●cke State from ruine or from Antichristian Tyra●●y And yet we must passe for reformed Christians None must say Blacke is our Eye or that wee haue the least skarre abo●t vs. O that men would looke within them and see whether that place bee fit to receiue the holy Comforter If then they finde that my words be true and that their Gurmandize and Intempetance ●a●e obscured their Iudgements whereby they were not able by reason of stupidity and dulnesse to fall to the Practise of a Sober Liuing let them out of hand beginne to make some experience of this Dyet if not continually yet on those Fasting dayes which our Church hath ordayned of Christian Policy to purifie a loathsome Carkases and not as meritorious for satisfaction of Gods Iustice Thus the Israelites of old time were aduised to fast and commaunded to Purifie their Bodies in another manner The which the very Turkes and Iewes doe put in Practise at this day And wherefore stands this Purification but to prepare ●oome for the spirituall Bridegroome yea and perhaps this Abst●●ence may ser●e for some qualification of his Iustice although not for any satisfaction Yet helpe to couer a Mult●●ude of sinnes As Saint Peter and Saint Iames wrot specia●ly if the estimate of what is spared be conferred on pious vses The third SECTION The Commod●●ies which this New-found Dyet brings to the Body IT remayneth now that I propose what Commodities this set Dyet produceth First it preserues a man free from all sicknesses for it keepes backe all the Humours and watrish spirits which arise from the Stomacke to the Head It cures the Go●t the Dropsie the Astmaticke Passions the Cough and Catarrhes it hindereth Crudities and raw f●●gmaticke humours which indeede are the ingendring causes of all diseases It bridles and keeps all the Humours in such an equall temper that none shall offend eyther in Quantity or in Quality for indeede all our sicknesses proceed from Repletion sauing some few which proceede of Famine in taking more sustenance then Nature requires or the Stomacke can well digest For manifestation whereof we see that all Diseases are cured by Euacuations Blood letting is vsed to ●ase Nature And so are Purgatious taken to free the Body of that insupportable load of filthy matter which by Gluttony was ingendred Nor will one Purge sustice But before an ordinary sicknesse be remooued the Apothecary must minister many Nauseatiue and bitter Potions able to weary the strongest Nature For at the first the first Region as Physitians call it must be purged that is the Guts and entrailes Secondly the Liuer And lastly the Veines must bee emptied of their watrish Humors and excrements And it is holden for certaine that in euery two yeares there is such store of ill humors and excrements ingendred in the Body that a Vessell of one hundred Ounces wil scarce contayne them These humours being let alone will corrupt in processe of time and wil cause a man to fall into some deadly sicknesse And commonly most people which dye in their Beds before they arriue to extreamity of old age doe perish by these ouer-abounding Humors which they heaped within them through their excessiue Feasts and Belly-cheere The second Commodity that comes by this orderly Dyet is that it doth not onely defend a man from those superfluous Humors within the Body but likewise it fortifieth him agaynst outward Causes for hee which hath his Body pure with temperate humors shall easier endure the ini●ries and discommodities of cold or hot weather and of ●oylesome labour then he that liues licentiously Yea and if he be wounded in his body he will speedily recouer The reason is because very little fluxe of any offending humor can fall into the wounded part which in other bodies is wont to inflame yea and sometime it will cause a griping Convulsion or a violent Fea●er An which our temperate habit of bodily Mould shall neuer once bee affected with for there is as much difference betwixt them as the●e is betwixt a perfe●t Ch●●ensian Procellane and our roughest earthen Vessels Lastly it preserues a man from the Plogue for there is nothing heere to spa●● no matter to worke vpon which was verified insober Socrates who notwithstanding that the Plag●e had oftentimes wasted Athens yet hee was neuer sicke eyther of that or any other disease The third Commodity is that it causeth not onely Health dut a●so Long Life in so much that when hee dyeth hee feeles no such pangs and torments as other men