the weight of a scruple â—or the strongest Maechoacham hote in the first dry in â—he second a remeedie fit for all sorte of â—eople his dose infused in white wyne â—s from two scruples to a dragme Ialap roote is to bee taken after the same manner and in the same quantitie The remeedies composed are opiates â—lectuaries pilluls trochisks opiates as caâ—holicum diaphenicum whose dose is from â—alfe an vnce to a whole for the strongest Electuaries are electuarium de citro his dose is from halfe an vnce to six drames Diacarthanium his dose is from halfe an vnce to a whole Pilluls as of Agarice Stomachiae sine quibus their dose is from halfe a dragme to foure scrupuls pilulae cocciae faetidae lucis majores arthriticae de hermodactilis their dose is from two scrupuls to a dragme Trocises are de agarico their dose is from two scrupuls to a dragme trochiscis of alhandall their dose is from sixe graines to a scruple Their bee other sort of purgatiues which men call purse purgations and these are of three sorte as the former gentle mediocre or violent The gentle comprehend the modest and moderate charges of an honest house The mediocre are the just reward of the physitian the due of the scholemaster and the fitting of the conscientious merchand compts The violent conteane the gorgeous depursements to the Goldsmith for lace cuppes and such like the persuing by law some tedious processe by the firie violence of these two the poore purse which â—ften taketh an irremediable fluxe and â—yeth of the skitter His Majestie with â—is most honourable and wise Counsell by an act of parliament evill keeped â—ath found out a remeedie for the former would GOD the wisdome and concord of his subjects would admit an other for â—he latter for then the Nobilitie and Genâ—rie should not bee so lukken-handed to other professions Of Vomitores Because some as bilious constitutions are sooner and better purged by vomiting then purging and seeing it is much vsed consider with mee the remedies of it Vomitores then as the purgatiues are of three sortes to wit gentle mediocre and violent the gentle are such as doe procure it in burdening the stomack by their quantitie as warme water fat broth butter oyle and the like taken to the measure of ten or twelue vnce The mediocre are the seede and flower of Anyse the seede and roote of orage the Latin terme is atriplex the roote of â—azarum given from a dragme to foure and agarick his dose a dragme The vehements are the seâ—de and flower of broome to the quantitie of two dragmes gratiola from a dragme to one and one halfe Some of the Ancients thought it to be expedient for the health to vomite everie moneth and that after a great carrouse but this counsell needeth not to be given to the soukespikkets of our age who asthey drinke like Suiczers yea rather like swine they cast as Dutches yea rather like dogs it were little fault for punishment to pinch so these intemperate and vntymous abusers of GODS creatures vntill they were glad with the dogs to returne to the vomite And this much to you Drunkards It is heere to be remarked that growne fat men should not bee purged by vomiting for by the prease yee will easily breake some veine in their body nor melancholicks for they hardly purge vpward nor asthmaticks or such as hath any impediment in their breath through the infirmitie of their lights for by it they are much more weakned yea sometymes torne nor hectiks for their body being already worne is wholly casten downe nether they who are of a weake â—eade tender eyes of a long neck and 〈◊〉 narrow breast only cholericks being of strong firme constitution not burdened with flesh and much subject to the vomiting of bile yallow greene or sea colored as also phlegmaticks of a rude robust nature whose stomack is full of flegme should be purged vpward by vomite and that with great caution followâ—ng in it the advise of some vnderstanding man for no lesse danger floweth from â—he extraordinarie dose of vomitores â—nd the malegovernement of the patient both after and while it worketh then by purgatiue medicines I haue only heere for breveties cause touched the qualities of the medicaments and their dose living the forme of exhibition and preparation to the giuers that takes vpon them to minister physicke in the country It is to bee remarked that except the bodie bee so full of blood and humors that the physicke cannot pearce through them purging ought to precead phlebotomie howsoever the bellie should alwayes bee emptie and cleane of the excrements The patient should keepe himself warme while the medicine is working helping the operation by a gentle motion as also by a little thinne warme broth after the taking of it about a littlâ— space And because that the not working oâ— medicine doth affraight many it is to bâ— vnderstood that some will not moue thâ— bodie any way and yet doe little or no harme to it such are gentle mediocre medicines the gentle purgatiues when they purge not are turned by nature into the blood the mediocre into the nature oâ— the humour which they purge whitheâ— bile pituite or melancholie but the violent cast the bodie in a fever readilie and become venemous while as nature overcome hath not force to expell them but the other two being overcome by nature are reteined within the bodie so that the stay of them is from a weakenesse in them but the stoppe of the last is from a weaknesse in the bodie Gentlemen therefore seing you know both the names and varieties of the purgatiues spare not to aske at your Leeches what they be ere yee take them Bairnes before they bee eighteen or â—wentie yeare of age and old men after â—ourtie except they be of a strong complexion doth not stand in neede of this yearly purging Canon 2. The bodie being thus made cleane take heade least by overcharging of it yee file it a new for being in some fashion weakned by the former remeadies it doth not shortlie admit that measure of nutriture that it did before it is expedient therefore to come to your accustomed dyet by degrees least a new file require a new clense and too often scowring of the potte although it were of brasse weares it Canon 3. Flee mornings sleepe and lazie lying in winter after six and summer after seven for long lying to the health is hurtsome Because it hindreth the cleansing of the bodie from the excrements and judge you giue it bee either handsome or wholsome to see the midding at the fire-end while it stoppeth the passage of the spirits animale the causes of motion for their expulsion it sharpeneth or by the haemorroides oâ— some other way it procures melancholie hypochondriake sometimes the fever quartan sometimes other diseases for this is good the barke of the roote of Tamarisk and of capres with the foresaid herbs The retention of the
one falling in the Summer the other in â—he Harvest and two solstice one in Summer and an other in Winter equinox is an equalitie in length of the night and day which befals to all the world alyke when the Sunne is vnder the equinoctiall lyne the first is in March the other in September Solstice is when the Sunne comming to such a point standeth and cannot goe forward but from thence turneth his course backward the first in lune the other in December This change in the air causeth a change in our bodies from the which according to the diverse season divers humours doe abound requyring the changing of the dyet for this cause wee shall insist in everie one in particulare and first Of the Spring The Spring beginnes at the equinox when the sunne first enters into Aries and ends at the solstice of the summer when hee enters in Cancer containing a parte of March and Iune and all Apryle and May from the equinox in the spring till the solstice in summer the day still groweth longer the night shorter for in March the night hath twelue houres the day as many but from thence till the end the day groweth longer but the night shorter The first signe of the spring is called Aries that is Ramme because hee punsheth as it were with his hornes the borders of the new yeere the sunne then in the middes of March beginning to recover his force display liuely his beames Taurus is so termed because the tyme maketh for the coupling of the bulles or oxen for labouring the ground being fred from the rigour of the winter and moistned with the drops of pleasant raine Gemini hath the name from the duplication yea rather multiplication of the grouth of the grouÌ„d Pleiades or 7 stars are at the back of Taurus and Hyades so called because rainie at his head The Poets feinzie that they were the Nymphes of Bacchus they cutte short often the hope of the labourer for when they rise the Sunne being opposite to them and the Moone recountering also if none of the other Plaâ—ets doe not interveene in hote signes here followeth many heavie raines which â—poileth the cornes and fruites of the ground 〈◊〉 from tyme to tyme some dangerous â—ayes at the end of the spring which are â—urtfull to the good of the earth hath â—eene remarked The spring is of temper â—ote and moist yea these qualities are so â—empered in it that it appeareth no wayes â—xcessiue neither in the one nor other Amongst the signes of the spring Aries is more moist and humide than hote yet â—emperately but in Gemini the heate goâ—th beyond the humiditie The spring keepeth a midde temper bewixt the great heat of the summer and â—he extreame cold of the Winter two exâ—remities wherefore it is more wholsome â—nd lesse dangerous than the rest of the â—easons although sicknesse bee frequent in 〈◊〉 yet that proceeds from the multitude â—f humours which the winter hath gatherâ—d in the body and now are melted by the heate of the season nature stryving to exâ—ell them such are melancholie epilepsie the quinance but they proceede from melanâ—holicke humours which the Harvest before had gathered in the body such are distillations cough and other cold diseases flowing from the aboundance of phlegme gathered by the Winter The proper diseases of the spring are scabbes puâ—â—uls tumours and goute but these are all without danger and cause health to the bodie being clensed from all vitious humours by such meanes so the spring is the most wholsome of all the seasons for if it get a body with good humours it keepeth it so in health Yet if it doth surpasse the limites of the owne temperature it is no lesse fertile of sicknesse than the other seasons so Hipp. sayeth if the winter bee dry and cold and the spring hote and humide the summer is accompanied of necessitie with many fevers ophthalmies and dysenteries And if the winter bee gentle warme and rainie and the spring dry and cold women with children who should be brought to bed in the spring doe with light occasion parte with child and if they bring foorth without danger their birth commonly is weake and subject to sicknesse for the bodies by the clemencie of the aire made soft moist and open receaues easily within the cold of the circumsisting aire so that the children â—ong accustomed with the heate bestrickken powerfully by the coldnesse of the â—ire dyeth in the belly of the mother or â—fter the birth not dying liveth vnarmed by nature against all danger For preveening sicknesse It is good to purge in this â—yme and to draw blood This season requireth a dyet conforme to it selfe in temper so if cold in the beginning it should haue the dyet of the winter and if very hote at the end the dyet of the summer â—he meates agreable for this season are Veilles and Kiddes fish haunting about â—ockes soft rosted egges foules are not good â—hen because they are about their procreâ—tion boylled meate is better than rosted more drink lesse meate than in winter Of Summer Although the sunne bee the father of â—ll the rest of the foure seasons yet hee carrieth greatest respect to the summer of any it receaueth greater force from his beames and is made more like his father than the spring his elder brother or the rest that are younger It is he that makes the loue of the spring and of Dame Flora to bee faecund and fertile in receiving the sweete droppes sprinkled by the spring in the bosome of the earth Ceres doth present him with Cornes Bacchus with wines and Pomon with fruits Summer beginning at the solstice when the sunne enters in Cancer the 11 of Iune and endeth at the equinox of the Harvest the sunne being in Libra the 13 of September from his solstice in summer till the equinox in Harvest the dayes shortneth still and the night groweth longer and then they are of equall length Among the signes Cancer is more hote than dry Leo extreame hote and dry in Virgo the drouth surpasseth the heat Cancer taketh the name from the back going of the sunne being at the hight as a partane doth and Leo is so called because the sunne is red and burning then as a Lyon Virgo by reason of the earths infertilitie in that season the earth being dryed by the heate of the sunne The sunne entering in Leo the little dogge beginneth to kyth and so soone as hee enters in the first degree the great dogge is perceived which hath eighteene starres the little dogge is called by the Greeks Syrios because of his great heate and drouth the little dogge appeareth a day before the great the first the 16 the latter the 17 of Iulie while the dogge doth make his course the space of six weeks in the caniculare dayes hee augmenteth the heate of the sunne by his presence ingendring many diseases from extreame heate for the moderating of this heate the LORD hath appointed
forborne so a childe by oft looking to his gâ—yed Nourse will become so in end having imprinted by long custome a habitude in the muscels moving the eye towards the nose which are stronger than the opposite muscles such-like bairnes by oft vse of the left hand becommeth more perfite of it than of the right Of the Nurse There is no milke so proper for the child as the mothers being accustomed in his mothers belly to feede on it while it was as yet blood and now turned by the pappes into milk but when the mother can not being either sickly or weake or lacking milk sufficient or pappes competent Let them make choise of a Nurse with these conditions following first that she be of a temperate complexion not subject to diseases of good colour and proportion of body neither too fat nor too leane but proper and handsome with pappes of mediocre consistance that is neither too little nor too bigge nor long and hanging neither over soft or hard with the ends long eneugh that the child bee not troubled in gripping â—hem with the brest large and great Secondly let her bee in the flower of her age that is betweene 25 and 35 one younger aboundeth in superfluous excrements and older is too dry by lack of the naturall moist and heate dayly decressing Thirdly see shee be diligent lustie merry sober chast meeke not sluggish nor sadde no gluttoun nor delicate of her mouth no drunkard or vncleane not cholerick or envyous but gentle and courteous for the child doth not follow so much the nature of any except the parents as the Nurses Fourthly that shee bee not of a long tyme delyvered for when they passe two moneth without causing suck their pappes nature becommeth forgetfull to furnish them matter for milk Fiftly that she be not with child otherwise the best part of the blood will bee imployed for the intertaining the child in her belly Sixtly that her last birth be a man child because her blood is purer and the excrements are fewer and so the milk must bee better Seventhly that she hath beene brought to bed at the tyme for they who are before the tyme are commonly sickly or infirme Eightly that their milk bee of an mediocre substance betweene grosse and subtile thick and cleare of colour white of tast sweete in smell pleasant and in sufficient quantitie The Nurse should vse much nourishing meate except shee abound in milke and of easie digestion as wheate bread of two dayes the flesh of vealles kiddes fowles and birds of the field pearches trouts solles pykes and soft rosted egges flying all spyceries all sowre or bitter things and mustard Fruites are not good except prune-damase and â—igges nor wine or strong drink neither the companie of man First because dallying with Venus troubleth the blood and consequently the milke secondly because it diminisheth the quantitie of the milke by turning the course of the blood downe-ward from the breast to the matrix thirdly because it giveth the milk an evill smell by the corruption of its qualities and lastly because it lifteth the Nurses apron and putteth a kidde in her kilting Milke is deficient to the Nurse either from lacke of meat great care too much griefe and paine or from any in disposition of the whole body or of the pappes only if lacke of victualls cause it cause help her dishes both in quantitie and qualitie if care griefe or paine cause banish them Goates pappes or yewes boyled with their owne milke haue a peculiar facultie for restoring of the milke lost as also wheate bread baken with kynes milke decoctions made with the leaves and seede of greene finkle or of anise and milk The Nurse should haue care to keepe the chylde in a place of temperate aire shunning the Sunne the night raine and all sort of intemperate season The quantitie of the milke is to bee taken from the age complexion and the desire the child hath to sucke The first moneth lesse by reason of his inabiltie to digest much afis better for him so hee that is of a complexion humide sooner than hee who is drye also one that is wholesome than he who is infirme and sicklye Diseases also according to their diverse nature will change the terme causing waine him sooner or later such-like the season for in Summer it is not good to waine him for to give him solide meate in place of his milke which are not so easily digested in like manner the region for in a countrie verie cold hee may bee wained in the midst of summer in a very hot in the hart of winter Also the sexe for the males may bee sooner wained than the femals because they haue their teeth sooner and haue greater heate and force to digest their meate Hee should bee wained by little and little by giving more seldome the pape and ofter of other meate And if hee bee not willing to quyte it you must cause rubbe the head of it with wormewood or Aloes or any bitter thing Being wained Veilles mutton capons henns partridges and birds of the field are fittest for them boyled meate is better than rosted soft egges are never evill so prunes boyled with suggar they must abstaine from oynions leekes sybouse garliâ— mustard salt meat or spyced olde cheefe baken meat Their drinke should bee small aile or watter no wayes wyne because it easily hurts their braine and nerves being as yet weake and tender as also addes heat to heat whereby their naturall moysture or humiditie is dryed vp The child should sleepe much because he is of a moyst complexion and sleepe moisteneth more by hindering the dissipation of his naturall humide substance hee should ly on his back till his members bee strong and hee beginne to vse stronger meat than milk and easie rocking is best for by it the naturall heat retires the selfe within and the spirits become drowsie but a toylsome catching tosseth the milk to and fro in the stomack hindereth the disgestion troubleth the spirits and braine So soone as he awakes in the morning you must haue a care that his bodie bee made cleane from all the excrements by the seidge below and by purging the head aboue at the nose washing his mouth eares and eyes and combing of his head both for the lightning of the same and making of the haire pleasant and faire And having attained to the age of five yeares send him to the Schoole where hee may with the elements of knowledge bee informed in the rudiments of pietie that is taught to know loue feare and serve his GOD The neglect of this makes them first disobedient to their parents next shameleslie debosht thirdly spectacles of miserie through their tragicall end or objects of pitie having nothing to spend our thriftie yea rather theifie parents now a dayes stryving per fas nefas by hooke and crook to bigge a hedge of earth about their children either they liue within this hedge a firie divell or a