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A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

parts of Libya and Egypt in Sommer are farre cooler than places more remote from thence Plutarch seemeth likewise to favour this opinion who affirmeth that it is not necessary to prescribe any remedies for the preservation of the teeth of such as dwell neere the sea and that in regard of the dry quality of that aire and wind strengthening and corroborating their heads Againe that the sea-aire is hot appeareth in that Pliny writeth that no snow falleth in the maine Ocean but what may then be the reason that in may places of Italy the sea aire is so bad The reason many be in the first place because perhaps this wind bloweth sometimes too violently and so in too great abundance drawne in by the inhabitants or else by reason that by the sea aire divers marshes or stincking standing pooles and ponds or yet salt water mingled with fresh or any the like occasion which causing the water to putrifie sendeth forth such ill vapours and exhalations as are altogether hurtfull to the health of man And by reason this is ordinarie in most places of Italy hence have we this evill report and slander raised upon the sea aire and wind which notwithstanding is onely accidentall being in it selfe most healthfull and without any hurt at all Hence is it also that the Philosopher affirmeth that the sea creatures are farre more vigorous and of a greater stature and Averroes affirmeth that they are longer lived As concerning that which was before alleged out of Aristotle seeming to maintaine the contrary opinion was spoken of creatures living in the water the word Water taken in a generall sense but is not meant of the sea in particular Hence also commeth it to passe that the Venetians hemm'd in on every side with the sea breathing in no aire which doth not partake of the qualities of their so neere bordering neighbour are so lively and vigorous that many of that republique attaine very nigh the hundred yeere of their age and this was verified in that noble and renowned Champion and sea Captaine Andrew Dore Admirall of the fleet of Charles the fift Emperor and who spent in a manner his whole life upon the Sea as the aforesaid Author averreth And this opinion seemeth yet more probable in that both the snow which falleth neere the sea-coasts yea even in the most Northerne parts of this Iland both falleth often in a small quantitie and lieth a shorter while than in the places further remote from the same and the corne is also sooner ripe caeteris paribus and no other let or rub come in the way and yet further to confirme this truth we see most commonly that sea-faring men seldome need any sauce to provoke their languishing appetites I have a little the longer insisted of set purpose upon these winds blowing from the sea by reason of our new colonies now planted and planting in these remote regions that they may neither be afraid to settle themselves neere the sea coast if all other things be answerable nor yet any such as are there already seated be by any needlesse future fears discouraged by reason of this aire And now being arrived into these remote regions ere we return a word or two of the nature and property of som of these winds blowing in those far distant contries Acosta the Iesuit relateth that upon all the coast of Peru it bloweth continually with one only wind which is South and South west contrary to that which doth usually blow under the burning Zone being by nature the most violent tempestuous unhealthfullest of all other yet in this region it is marvellous pleasing healthfull agreeable insomuch that we may truly attribute the habitation of that place thereunto Now the Northerne wind is not usually cold and cleare in Peru and beyond the line as here In some parts of Peru at Lima and on the plaines they find the Northern winds troublesome and unwholesome and all along the coast which runnes above 300 leagues they hold the Southerne winds for healthfull and coole and which is yet more most cleare and pleasant yea with it it never raines contrary to that we see in Europe on this side the line The Solanus or Easterly wind is commonly hot and troublesome in Spaine and in Murtia it is the healthfullest and coolest that is for that it passeth thorow that large champian and sweet pleasant orchards In Carthagena which is not farre from thence the same wind is troublesome and unwholesome The Meridionall is commonly rainie and boisterous and yet in the same Citie whereof I speake it is wholesome and pleasant In a region containing fiftie leagues in circuit I put it thus for example the wind which bloweth on the one part is hot and moist and that which bloweth on the other is cold and drie And Pliny reports that in Africke it raines with a Northerly wind and that the Southerne wind is cleare And Acosta tells us yet more that there is a certaine wind of such a quality that when it bloweth in some countrie it causeth it to raine fleas and that in so great abundance that they trouble and darken the aire and cover all the sea-shore and in other places it raineth frogs There are winds which naturally trouble the sea and make the water thereof looke greene and blacke others make it looke as cleare as chrystall some comfort and make glad others trouble and breed heavinesse Such as nourish silke-wormes have great care to shut their windowes when as the South-westwinds doe blow and to open them to that opposite to it having found by certaine experience that their wormes die and languish with the one fatten and become better-like by the other The same Authour reporteth that in some parts of the Indies he hath seene grates of yron rusted and consumed that passing it betwixt your fingers it dissolved into powder as if it had beene hay or parched straw the which onely proceeded from the wind corrupting it and it having no power to withstand the same But before we conclude this chapter we must take notice that without the Tropicks from the twentie seventh to the thirtie seventh degrees the winds are said to be for the most part Easterly as some thinke by a repercussion of the aire even as we see waters being incountred with more force returne with an eddie in a manner backe This which is said of the Easterly wind is to be understood of the sea for at the land though winds be as hath beene said certaine and set yet that which is the generall wind of one countrie is not generall to all yea in the same countrie they have a set wind for the day and another quite contrary bloweth for the night also neere the coast they are more subiect to calmes in this burning Zone than further off in the sea the grosse vapours which arise out of the earth and the divers

situation thereof being the cause of these differences Many other strange effects of winds may in these Authors be seene which here I willingly passe by having dwelt somewhat the longer upon this point to acquaint such as shall travell into this new world with the condition of the aire and winds of those remote regions CHAP. VI. Of the foure Seasons of the yeere and how they affect the body GOD of his infinit goodnesse to man-kinde after that great and terrible deluge and inundation of the universall world made man a promise that from thenceforward should not faile the severall seasons of the yeere Sommer and Winter Seed-time and Harvest which hath hitherto accordingly come to passe Now these seasons according to severall climats and countries doe much vary and differ Vnder the Line and betwixt the Tropickes they continue more constant and lesse deviation from their ordinary course is to be observed Without the Tropicks there is a greater difference and irregularity therein to be observed Now these seasons therefore according to their unconstant course must needs diversly affect the body of this Microcosme man both in sicknesse and in health and therefore will not be impertinent to say something of this subject Wee will threfore begin with the naturall temperature of the seasons of the yeere as they are commonly seene and observed with us here in Europe The naturall temperature of the Spring then with us here in Europe ought to be hot and moist of the Sommer hot and drie of the Autumne or Harvest cold and moist of Winter cold and drie These among innumerable others are the chiefe alterations incident to our aire and by the which the seasons of the yeere are with us ordinarily divided and distinguished and these seasons are occasioned by meanes of the exaltation or declining of that glorious prince of Planets Now the further these seasons decline frō the afore-mentioned qualities the more intemperate and greater enemies to the health of mankind they prove Our Hipporcrates defines not these seasons after this manner but according to the rising and setting of certaine starres and the chiefe times by him observed are these following the two Solstices the one in Sommer about the eleventh of Iune the other in Winter about the eleventh of December then next the two Aequinoxes the one about the eleventh of March the other about the eleventh of September These times because of dangers about these seasons this old Father would have us to observe The Sōmer Solstice he accounteth most dangerous and the Harvest Aequinox The same Authour againe observeth the rising and setting of certaine starres as namely of the Pleiades Vergiliae rising the five and twentieth of April and setting about the first of November and againe the rising of Arcturus about the one and thirtieth of August and setting about the beginning of March. Besides this same Authour observeth also the rising of the Dog-starre the ninteenth of Iuly and setting againe the twenty seventh of August and with these also he observeth the blowing of the West-wind And this is all the Hippocraticall spheare comprehending such starres and seasons as he thought fit for Physitians to observe But now againe as concerning the temper of these seasons whereas I say the Spring is hot and moist it may be objected that in it selfe it is rather temperate To this I answer that howsoever it be so accounted yet in comparison of the other seasons it may be called temperate And againe it may be called temperate as some say effective by producing the best temper It may againe be demanded if heat and drouth be proper qualities befitting Sommer and cold drouth approptiated for Winter whether the hottest Sommer be not the healthfullest as likewise the coldest Winter To this I answer they are not so simply and absolutely considered Nam omne nimium vertitur in vitium The extreme hot Sommer inflames the humours of the body making it subject to hot and acute diseases and the extreme pinching cold accompanied especially with sharpe piercing Northerly winds disposeth the body to rheumes and rheumatecke diseases as likewise to Apoplexies and many other such like dangerous infirmities The humours in the body of man have pre-eminence and dominion according to these foure seasons for in the Spring blood most abounds in the Sommer choler in the Harvest melancholy and in Winter phlegme and the parts of our civill day answer likewise to these seasons the morning to the Spring the noonetide to Sommer the afternoone to autumne and the night to Winter Now these anniversarie or yeerely seasons doe much differ according to the climat For within the Tropicks the seasons are much warmer than without and under the Equinoctiall Line then Winter is when the Sorrow is perpendicular over their heads by reason that then it doth more powerfully attract and draw unto it selfe divers moist exhalations which descending againe in great abundance upon the face of the earth doth plentifully refresh water the same and this season they therefore call their Winter But againe when the Sun declineth a little the beames not darting downe so perpendicularly as before there not being now that forcible attraction of vapours and by consequent as fewer clouds and lesse raine so heat to the outward appearance being then intended and of greater force than before and this time they call their Sommer as being fairer and warmer than the former quite contrary to that which befalleth us here without the Tropickes as in particular may be observed in the country of Chili in the West Indies Now the situation of places as hath before beene mentioned often altereth the nature of this ambient aire and by consequent altereth the seasons in those particular places although the elevation of the Pole differ little or nothing the which is evidently seen in Peru whereas the whole breadth of the countrie not much exceeding forty leagues in the plaine it neither snowes raines nor thunders and in the meane time upon the Sierra or hils the seasons have their courses as in Europe where it raines from the moneth of September untill April and in the Andes it raines in a manner all Winter And even here in Europe no small difference may thus be observed that oftentimes the high hills are infested with terrible cold tempests when as the adjacent vallies goe many times scotfree as travellers can testifie And of this my selfe was once an eye-witnesse when as in the yeere 1610 travelling from Misnia towards Prague and passing over the high hills which encompasse Bohemia round about on Easter eve at night falling then about the midst of April as likewise all Easter day and the three next daies after it snew continually without any intermission accompanied with so nipping a frost and North-Easterly wind that I have seldome at any time observed a sharper season the next day after the snow fell no more and comming downe into the plaine of Bohemia about