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A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

the first Of other two the last of each are worst But yet those daies I grant and all the rest Haue in some cases iust impediment As first if nature be with cold opprest Or if the Region I le or Continent Do scorch or freize if stomacke meat detest If Baths or Venus late you did frequent Nor old nor yong nor drinkers great are fit No● in long sickenesse nor in raging fit Or in this case if you will venture bleeding The quantity must then be most exceeding ●hen you to bleed intend you must prepare ●…me needfull things both after and before ●arme water and sweet oyle both needfull are ●…d wine the fainting spirit to restore ●…e binding clothes of linnen and beware ●…at all the morning you do sleepe no more ●…me gentle motion helpeth after bleeding ●…d on light meates a spare and temperate feeding ●o bleed doth cheere the pensiue and remoue ●he raging suries bred by burning loue ●ake your incision large and not too deepe ●hat bloud haue speedy issue with the fume ●o that from sinewes you all hurt do keepe ●or may you as I toucht before presume 〈◊〉 sixe ensuing houres at all to sleepe ●est some slight bruise in sleepe cause an apostume ●ate not of milke nor ought of milk compounded Nor let your brain with much drink be confounded ●ate no cold meats for such the strength impaires ●nd shun all misty and v●…holesome aires Besides the former rules for such as pleases Of letting bloud to take more obseruation Know in beginning of all sharpe diseases 'T is counted best to make euacuation To● old to● yong both letting bloud displeases By yeares and sicknesse make your computation First in the Spring for quantity you shall Of bloud take twise as much as in the Fall In Spring and Summer let the right arme blood The Fall and Winter for the left are good The Heart and Liuer Spring Summers bleeding The Fall and Winter hand and foot doth mend One veine cut in the hand doth help exceeding Vnto the spleene voyce brest and intrailes lend And swages griefes that in the heart are breeding But here the Salerne Schoole doth make an end And here I cease to write but will not cease To wish you hue in health and die in peace And ye our Physicke rules that friendly read God grant that Physicke you may neuer need FINIS De valetudine conseruanda OR ●HE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVLL MAN Collected out of HENRICVS RONSOVIVS which he wrought for the vse of his Sonnes And now published for the helpe of all those that desire their owne HEALTHS By S. H. LONDON Printed by William Stansby for the Widow Helmes 1617. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull SIR EDWARD PIT Knight of Keere Court one of his MAIESTIES Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Worcester c. And to the right Worshipfull SIR IAMES PIT his Sonne AMongst all the parts of physick Right Worshipfull I suppose there is none to be preferd before that part which preserueth health and preuenteth sicknesse for as Tully saith Health is the most perfect state of mans body in this life and the only end and intention whereunto the Physician diuerteth all his doings which state to continue and to enioy is much better then to hazzard the recouery of a sicknesse that by ill dyet is taken as it is better to stand fast ●hen to fall and rise againe and better to ●…epe still a Fortresse or a Castle then when we haue suffered the Enemy to enter to rescue it againe for as the Poet saith Aegrius eijcitur quam non admittitur hospes And because as Cornelius Celsus saith that all medicines do in a manner hurt the stomack and be of euill nutriment And therefore Aesclipiades did endeuour most to cure his Patients by dyet which dyet Right Worshipfull I haue here described and published to the view of the world and haue sheltered it vnder the title of your Name praying you to accept the same with a willing minde considering that I haue no better thing to present you with And as that Persian Monarch did dayne to receiue from a poore man a handfull of cold water so your Worship will accept this poore labor which I now present you with which shall encourage me hereafter to present you with some other labours of more worth In the meane while I humbly take my leaue cōmitting both you and all yours vnto the protection of the Almightie Your Worships most obseruant S. H. THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVL MAN CHAP. I. The causes of corruption and destruction of our humane bodies THAT we may come to our purpose the first and chiefest cause of corruption and destruction of our Bodies of old Age Death and all other miseries which doe happen vnto vs in this life is the fall of our first Parents and the reliques of Sinne remayning in our corrupt Nature as the Apostle doth witnesse in the eighth Chapter of the Romans Corpus nostrum morti destinatum est propter pcccatum For euen as death is the last of all euills which may afflict vs in this life euen so by the name of Death we endure in this life all miseries and afflictions Heere-hence come our errours which leade vs by our blinde will and through the perswasion of the Deuill driue vs to commit all wickednesse and euill wherby we accumulate and heape vp the iust wrath and indignation of God to afflict vs with euery kinde of disease miserie and calamitie Another cause of diseases destruction and deprauation of our bodies is the sinister and maleuolent influence of the celestiall Planets and the infelicitie of our temperaments for as in euery thing there are certayne naturall properties which God from euerlasting hath endued with naturall effects so euery effect and vertue is incited in our bodies from Heauen which God created not only in a certayne order and greatnesse that we should discerne the Yeeres Dayes and Moneths but that there should be signes also from whence wee might take certayne Arguments of things to come For the inferior bodies doe depend vpon the Superior and are contayned in a certayne mutuall knowledge amongst themselues for the Superior doth infuse a certayne secret force and vertue into the Inferior bodies by which the humours of our bodies are changed increased and diminished according to the placing and qualitie of the Starres and this is more cleerely and euidently taught vs by daily experience the Mistris of all things then that it needeth farther demonstration If no man will giue credit to our wordes let him consider the Moone which doth challenge vnto her selfe the chiefe dominion in Humours and they shall well perceiue their error Seeing then it is manifest that the humours of our bodies are gouerned by the Superior bodies And of the euill humours of our bodies to grow Diseases and from disease death therefore not vnworthily of death and the cause of other diseases to

depend in some part vpon the celestiall bodies is declared Besides this there are two other kindes of causes that doe change and destroy our bodies which doe grow from the superior Planets One kinde is that that is ingendred with vs and is therefore said to be Interne necessarie and ineuitable and they are in number three that is Drynesse which by the course of Age bringeth to death a daily wasting of substance or the great varietie and mobilitie of the matter in our bodies and the abundance of excrements Another kinde of them are which happen outward and therefore are called Externe of which the reason is said to be twofold for some of them are which doth not change or affect our bodies of necessitie for although when these things happen their hurt may be by vs auoyded notwithstanding there are some of them that our life may be safe without them They are such things which doe bruise hurt and wound our bodies which for the most part hapneth by some outward force as in the warres and other cases of Fortune as either being drowned or made away with poyson There are other things also which are said of necessitie to alter Mans body which although we may auoide particularly yet generally we cannot when we cannot liue without them These things I say doe destroy and ouerthrow the temperature constitution and naturall health of man if they be not rightly vsed as necessity and the state of the body requireth And those are those sixe things which are called not naturall which we will consider in particular which sixe things are placed in our power and election and they are of sixe kindes 1. The first is Ayre Water and Fire 2. The second is Meate and Drinke and all those things which are giuen the body for nourishment 3. The third is Motion and Rest both of the whole body as of euery part thereof 4. The fourth is Sleepe and Watchfulnesse 5. The fifth is Excretion or Expulsion of excrements or retention vnder which is contayned the opening of a veine Purgation Vomit auoyding of Urin Sweate Bathing the act of Generation and such like 6 The sixth are the Symptoms Perturbations Affections or Accidents of the minde such as are Feare Anger Sorrow Ioy and such like of which we will speak more afterwards These things being duely and rightly vsed doe conserue man in good health but vsed contrarily they destroy for as health doth consist in a meane and a mediocritie so also in a meane vse of things necessary it is conserued CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health I Haue declared vnto you the chiefe causes through which the diuers mutations destructions and corruptions of our bodies doe arise Now on the contrarie I will declare vnto you also those things which if we vse them in right order and manner doe contayne the safetie of life restore health lost and diminish some kindes of diseases and expell them For this thing it is first needfull and requisite that you know certainely and be sure of that although the celestiall bodies doe exercise a certayne force and admirable vertue in the affaires of Man yet notwithstanding GOD Almightie the Worke-man and Creator of all Nature and Humane things being the Lord of Life and Death who hath the gouernement of all Inferior bodies that cannot be remoued but that he doth gouerne and rule the influence of all Stars and Planets and remoue the course and efficacy of them and likewise doth moderate all inclinations that grow from the Planets and oftentimes according to his great goodnesse doth turn away diseases and change them into better sometimes also according to his secret and iust iudgement for our sinnes to exasperate and turne them into worse For the diuine Maiestie is not in the Starres which the God-head hath framed for the profit and conseruation of mankinde neither is it inclosed within a certayne fatall necessitie as it were shut vp in prison but doth worke freely and as the chiefe cause doth gouerne and moderate all other causes This therefore eternall God the most louing Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which proroged the life of King Hazechias for fifteene yeeres is humbly to be prayed vnto daily that he would bestow vpon vs also a long and a safe life with a right constitution as well of body as strength of minde and to preserue the same for rightly is it said Astra valent aliquid plus pia vota valent Astra regunt mundum sed regit astra Deus Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse piorum Next when for our sinnes our bodies are affected with often and diuers kindes of diseases we must carefully striue that we gouerne the inclinations and wandering motions of our mindes and that we vse a bridle to our outward members and that we doe not only flye wickednesse but that we auoide the occasions also thereof It becommeth you my deare Sonnes to vse this diligence in the gouernement of your life and manners and chiefly to embrace true Religion and due obedience and loue to your Parents which if you shall doe God will in like manner as he hath promised in the Decalogue giue vnto you happinesse and long life for as S. Paul saith truely in the 1. of Tim. 4. Pietas ad omnia vtilis est c. Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things which hath the promise of the life present and of that that is to come the which in some manner was vnderstood by an Ethnick Zoroaster King of the Bactrians where he saith Qui mentem ardenum ad opus pietatis intenderit labile corpus seruabit and Cicero saith Pietatem esse matrem fundamentum omnium virtutum That Godlinesse is the mother and foundation of all vertues Secondly when it is said that the Starres be the working causes of destruction and mutation and the causes of diuers diseases in our bodies and whereas the obseruation of the celestiall effects is not forbidden I will that you take this care that as well the yeerly directions as the figures of your natiuity be obserued which I haue diligently and exactly computated I leaue to euery one of you which notwithstanding you shall examine without all superstition and shall be aduised by the iudgement of the learned Astrologians and Physicians that you may the better auoid the euill foreseene and the good things shall be brought to their wished euent for that is true which some doe affirme that coelum esse fatalem picturam in coel●sti tabula and very well was it said by Hipp. and Galen the Princes of Physicians that the Arte of physicke without the supportation of the Heauens to be oftentimes in vaine yea also oftentimes to be hurtfull This obseruation doth profit very much for the preseruation of the health and for the preuention of diseases therefore you must regard the more your naturall inclination with the greater vigilancy that you may bee the better able to gouerne your

for look what ayre we draw in such and the like spirits goe out from vs. Odors and smells that are oner-hot are not by me approued because it filleth the head and ingendreth the catarrh for the temperature it selfe of the braine being a meane betweene hot and cold doth chiefly reioyce in things that are temperate and on the other side it is much offended and hurt by the contrary therefore sometimes those odors are to be mixed and changed as if cold doth raigne let the odors decline to heat and if heat doth beare sway then frame that they may be of cold operation Of Roses therefore Violets and Myrtels Campher Sanders and Rose-water which are cold things on the other side of Cinamon Citron rynds Orenge peeles Aloes Amber Muske which are hot of which you may vse at your pleasure Odors are not only drawne by the nostrills but there must bee application to the brest and stomacke Treacle Mithridate Frankincence Amber Angelica and such like which are thought to haue vertue against venome no lesse comfort to recreate your spirits ariseth out of gardens where-hence ariseth sweete smells and sauours also to vse sweete smelling hearbes flowers and rushes at the time of the yeere conuenient to the constitution and state of the bodie and to cast about the court and in the chambers the leaues of Withies of Roses Violets Vine-leaues Origanum wilde Time Time Lauender Myrtils Quinces Peares the flowers of Orenges Pomegranates and other such like and also to sprinkle the chamber with Rose-water or the water of the flowres of Orenges and other like also to euaporate the place with vineger and sometimes also in your chambers to burne perfumes fragrant and sweet smelling What sweete smells fumes or torches I am wont to vse I will heere set downe that hauing a care to the temperature and state of the body you may vse also A description of an odoriferous water TAke an equall weight of Rose-water with the best white wine Rose-viniger the fourth part Suger-candie a third part dissolue it in those things some adde a little Saffron with this water wash the hands and face the ioynts and eyes and therewith cleanse the teeth and besprinkle the rest of the clothes CHAP. V. Of Meates and Drinks IN meate and drinke wee must consider these sixe things first the Substance then the Quantitie third the Qualitie fourth Custome fift the Time and lastly Order We must also vnderstand that it is best and most wholesome to vse meates that be simple for meates that be simple are most wholesome and profitable but many and sundrie sorts of meates are very vnhealthfull and hurtfull to our bodies our elders which liued very long and without sicknesse were wont to eate at one meale flesh only and at another bread only yet would I not wish you my sonnes to accustome your selues to one only meate especially if you be yong for Galen expounding the Aphorisme of Hipp. saith That such things as wee haue of long time beene vsed to although they bee not of the best nourishment they are not so dangerous as other things which are farre better whereunto we haue not beene accustomed wee must therefore now and then alter our diet and vse to eate such meates as before wee vsed not neither must we bind our selues to any one kinde lest we be driuen at any time to change our custome and so wee fall sicke presently thereupon Cornelius Celsus a good Physicion giueth counsell that such as bee in health should vse their ordinarie fore and plaine vsuall diet and to forbeare much varietie of meats is best and wholesomest because the stomack set a work too too much laboureth greatly in the digesture of sundry meates at one time It is thought good to mixe moist with drie things cold with hot and hot with cold and those meats which are in the meane or mediocritie of all excesse to be most commendable of which sort is bread made of cleane corne sufficiently leauened and moderately baked Also the flesh of Hens and Capons Phesants Partriges Woodcocks yong Pigeons Blackbirds Thrushes Turtles and such like small birds In like manner Fishes bred amongst rocks and stones or about the sea side and such as in taste are neither vnpleasant and vnsauourie nor yet clammie and vnctious of the which we will speake particularly hereafter Now in meats nothing so well encreaseth good bloud as when they are well digested for thereby is ended more easily the second concoction which is in the veines and liuer and also admitteth the third digestion which is in the particular members parts which be nourished Also there bee some meats betweene whom there is but small difference of digestion as is betweene a Henne and a sucking Calfe a Chicken and a Kid the flesh of an old Calfe and a yong Bullock in such respects as these where the difference is so small it skilleth not greatly if they which be somewhat hard to digest be eaten before that which is of lighter digestion And this I suppose was the opinion of Galen for heauie meats and such as bee slow of digestion require a stronger and greater power digestiue therfore meats of easie digestion are first to be taken before those which doe differ so far from them in easinesse of concoction And also you must take heede of crude and raw meates and that the same be both throughly boyled or rosted but in any wise beware of stuffing of your selues too much with meate and drinke nor to irritate and prouoke your appetite with delicious sawces for meates excessiuely eaten although they be of good nourishment commonly they doe ingender crudities lasks and vomits Againe to take lesse then necessitie and nature doth require is the cause why the body is not nourished but weakned and made vnable to doe his businesse for euen as repletum hindreth nourishment and hurteth nature so all sorts of too much abstinence causeth vomits hurteth the stomack resolueth the powers of the body and increaseth ill humours And euen as an ill dyet bringeth heauinesse to the body and dulnesse to the senses so a good dyet refresheth the spirits and reuiueth the minde making it more able and actiue to know and practise vertues operations Of Drinke COncerning drinke at meales it would not be taken before something hath beene eaten at the beginning the drink would be strongest and so towards the end more small if it be Ale or Beere And if it be Wine more and more allayed with Water and the best Physicians hold the drinke would rather be mixt with the meate by sundrie small draughts then with one great draught at the end of the meale for the mixture tempereth well the meate without hindrance A great draught drowneth the meate and hurteth naturall heate that then worketh in concoction and with the weight driueth downe the meate ouer-hastily Hot wines and sweet or cōfectioned with spices or very strong Ale or Beere is not good at meales for thereby the meate is