Inspection Thou art also to know the Operations of the Soul as it is distributed in and makes use of several parts of the Body whether they be Nutritive Generative Vital Animal Sensitive Motive The particulars contained in the Diaetetical part thou hast in this Treatise Thou art likewise to have exact knowledg of all diseases of the whole Body and of every Part Their Nature Causes Differences Symptoms or concomitant Accidents and Signs as well to know them by as also to fore-know their issues and events Their usual Mutations Duplications sudden and many times frightful Alterations which will distract the Practitioner who to save his credit will then also venter but with extreamest danger to the Patient But above all and that which is most necessary is right knowledge of the manner and method of Curing which comprehends all the operations in Physick and Surgery which are exceeding numerous and require a large Discourse but to reckon up and explain And as one requisite hereunto thou oughtest to be furnished with the Knowledge of all Plants and Trees at least that are in use in Physick Their Roots Stems Barks Leaves Flowers Berries Fruits Seeds excresences to know all Forraign Drugs Gums Rozens juyces liquid and inspissated all medicinal Animals their parts and Excrements Whatsoever the Sea affords for Medecine or the bowels of the Earth as Mettals and Minerals All these ought well to be known both how to choose them to prepare mix and compound them To make of them distilled Waters Simple and Compound Conserves Syrups Loches Powders Electuaries Pills Trochisks Diet Drinks Apozems Potions of all sorts proper to each body part disease Vomits Iuleps Ptisans Opiats Epithems Lotions Fomentations Baths Liniments Oyntments Cataplasmes Cerats Plaisters Vesicatories Colliries for the Eyes Caps for the Head Gargarismes for the Mouth and Throat Dentifrices for the Teeth Errhina for the Nose Sneezing-powders Suffiments Pessaries Suppositories Clysters and Injections These of diverse kinds with many more which for brevity sake I omit a Physician ought to be well seen in and acquainted with but principally to know the proper time and season of using them which is not to be done but with much study education therein great helps and experience and yet without that all Medicines though in themselves they be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the hand of God to cure diseases prove like a sword in a mad mans hand by which instead of doing the Physicians work Work is made for the Physician I intend not by this to affright any from the acquisition of the Medicinal Art but rather to let the World see what is requisite thereunto that it may understand how far short of being Physicians such men are who upon the bare stock of a few Receipts and knowing how churlishly to Purge and Vomit with three or four more common Operations in Physick presently and with confidence fall to the practise therefore As if a man should boast himself a good Painter because he knows how to mix Colours but knows not what belongs to Symmetry and Proportion Sed quo non mortalia pectora cogit Auri Sacra Fames It were better their need or Avarice did prompt them to venter upon some other subject then the body of man Thus much I thought good to insert in this place to shew the difference between what is requisite to the preserving preserving thy Health and restoring it The first is properly thy own work the last is the Physicians unless thou givest thy time to make thy self such But to return from whence I doubt I have too long digressed They who resolve to continue their course of life without care or consideration of their Health guided by their appetite and not their understandings will receive little or no benefit by this Treatise however Liberavi animam meam I have done my duty and therein receive satisfaction Others who are more careful of themselves will I question not hence gain some light and benefit to whom I offer this but not impose it prefer it in my own understanding as best but submit it to theirs and wish them to be perswaded as the reason thereof proves efficacious all that I desire is that they would not be prejudiced by Custom and long received opinion wch in some places it thwarts but preseinding from that give their understandings leave clearly to examine and so judge and Practise It is like my attempt herein may set others at work I shall be glad of that also and of whatsoever else may tend to the Helath and Commodity of Mankind Studious whereof is Thy Friend and Servant H. Brook From my Study in More-Feilds this 16. of April 1650. To my Freind the Author a Truly Learned and Expert Physician WHat mean you Sir This will undo Physicians and Surgeons too They live by Sickness not by Health Disorder brings them all their Wealth If this take place you ne'r will ride On foot cloth with a Groom by your side This is as if a Draper should Invent a neat spun cloth that would Seven Ages last and after be Fresh and fit for Livery Pray timely think on 't and Recall This Book that will undo us all You rather should excess invite And raise decayed Appetite Cry down all Rules and Freedom praise The Rich t' Apicius Diet raise Teach Curious Sauces and advance The Mysteries of Intemperance Make Rabelaies in our English shine Erect a School for Aretine That to encrease Physicians gain The Rich mans Gout and P may raign Catarrhes and Palsies and the new Disease that lately scapt so few Or think you that egregious Race Of Leeches that yet spring apace From every Trade will find you more Work then diseases did before Or then those Books which teach new skill How with good Medicines men to kill But your diffusive Soul that still Studies the World with truth to fill And useful Knowledge shews a way Would mankind but your Rules obey To scape those Quick sands and live free From need of Drug or Surgery Reader THis little Manuel will prove A House Physician that in Love To each mans Health will ready stay Without his Fee and every day Councel sound and plain impart Drawn from surest Rules of Art Where by an undisturbed Health Thou mayst enjoy the Crown of Wealth But I detain you from a Feast At which you long to be a Guest Read and Practise so you 'l find In a Sound Body a Sound Mind Sam. Blaicklock Chirurgus The Table OF Aire 55 Which the best Aire ibid. Helps against bad Aire 58 Sharp Aires 60 Corruption of Aire 62 Change of Aire by Winds 63 Of Native Aires 71 Sudden alteration of Aire bad 72 Caution about Aire 74 Of Anger 237 Its Discommodities ibid. Remedies against Anger 228 B. No Breakfast 123 C. Benefits of Continency 185 Costiveness to be prevented 52 Of Custom 34 Customs how to be altered 35 D. Rules for Drink 133 Effects of Drunkenness 136 Of Dotage 240. E. Of
to hot Distempers to use cooling aliments to drink VVater in stead of VVine to frequent Bathing where it may be had to Rest much and forbear Violent Motions To have little Cisterns of Water always running such as are commonly made of Peuter to hang up Wet clothes to strew the pavement with Roses Rushes Vine-leaves Water-Lillies and other Cooling Hearbs which may likewise be sprinkled with Rose-water and Vinegar On the contrary cold and moist Aires may be much helped by Large Fires Bath-stoves Warming-stones and agreeably provisions may be made in other cases I purpose not to insist upon every consideration that relates to Aire but passing by those that are speculative I shall touch only upon such as are useful and practical and from which most men may derive some Commodity to themselves Mountanous Aires are esteemed wholsomer then in the Valley because more perflated and cleansed by the Winds whereas the others are stagnant like standing Waters But I doubt the truth hereof for that I see not how one part of the Aire can be moved without the other its motion and impulsion being so easy that we see the very voice moves and makes it give way at a very great Distance and then again if to some bodies more gross and stagnant Aires are not so wholsom for instance to the slaggy and corpulent to others they are most agreeable and the thin sharp and Penetrative most inconvenient namely to thin spare and emaciated Bodies What the inconveniences of Metalline Vapors are I shall not need to recite neither yet what helps there are against them because living not where they are we are not subject thereunto The Causes whereby Aire is Corrupted that are within our Ken and which may by us be Remedied are especially three 1. Great Standing Waters never Refreshed 2. Carrion lying long above ground 3. Much People in small Roome living uncleanly and sluttishly The Aire Changes its qualities from the Diversity of Winds By those from the North 't is cold and dry they do confirm and strengthen such bodies which are able to bear them From the South they are hot and moist and so loosen and dissolve the West is more Temperate but the East apt to blastings The South Wind without rains continuing long disposes to Feavors andthe Pestilence and generally so do stagnant Airs without Winds Rain and Thunder It is observed that from the North there arises with the Dogg-star certain Winds called Ethesiae which do not only contemperate the Heat of the Aire but Purg it from putrefaction and pestilential Infections and have thence got the name of Scoparij because they do as it were Brush and Clense the Aire In Consumptions and for Restauration after long Sicknesses the best Aires are in dry Champaignes where there is much Timber-Shade and Forrest Beach Trees and Groves of Bayes where likewise grow odoriferous Plants as Wild Time Wild Marjerom Penny-royal Camomil Calamint Juniper and the like and where the Brier-Rose smells like Musk-Roses Helpful whereunto is likewise the Steam of new ploughed grounds and for such as have not strength to walk a Fresh Turf of Earth every Morning with a little Vinegar poured upon it However 't is best for them that are any thing Healthful not to be over-solicitous in the choise of Aire or to judg that they cannot have their healths except in some few Places of best and excellent Aire for they do thereby very much deject Nature and opinionate themselves into Sickness Such Imaginations the mind in continuall doubts perplexities and make us sickly out of a fear of being sick We see that many men and those not of the strongest and most healthful constitutions live long and without sickness amidst noysom and unpleasant Smells as Oyl-men Sope-boylers Tallow-Chandlers and divers others besides those that are conversant about Dung cleanfing of Common-shores and Jaxes and though Custom in these cases may be urged because of the familiarity that by long use is begotten between such Smells and their Natures yet is it thence clearly evincible that health and noysom smells are not inconsistible which is a clear argument that we need not be over nice and solicitous in the election of Aires as if in this City of London amidst thick fumes Sulphurious Vapors from the Sea-coal we could not enjoy our Health In these cases Opinion is more our Mistris then Reason which whilst we are pleading for we can content our selves with the Smoak of Narcotick Tobacco not only surround our selves therewith in a close Room and in hot weather too but suck it in and let it sometimes descend-into our Stomacks and sometimes ascend into our Nostrils and so into the very Brain it self In some cases therefore we are scrupulously exact in others supinely negligent a middle between both were best as not to think but that health is preservable in Aires not exquisitely serene and penetrative and on the other side to avoid choaking hot and too exiccative Fumes which in time parch the Lungs and dry up the Brain For Odors those are best which neither by their super-abundance of Heat Strength and Crassitude of Spirits do overcome us but which by their rarity and quickness do refresh us But they also are good only sometimes and the bodies infirmity requiring it for otherwise no Smell is best but that which is almost insensible in the Aire it self It is observed that the Aire we are born in tends much to the Restauration of Health Something may be allowed to 't because of its Sympathy with the innate Spirits of the Body which remain in some measure from our generation to our Dissolution Although I conceive when we go into our Native Countries to repair our Health after long Sickness the principal means thereof is vacancy from care and business the wholsomness and simplicity of Country Feeding the enjoyment of friends merriment and pleasant pastime which is usuall and which ought indeed to be especially intended in such Journies But above all sudden alterations in Aire from extream to extream is very dangerous Such as usually falls out in March April and somtimes in May as also in September October the change is usuall too in severall parts of the same day the Mornings and Evenings extream cold the mid day excessive Hot In these cases the surest way is for them that are crazy to go warm clothed till the uncertainty of the weather is over the Proverb speaks well though homely Till May be out Leave not off a Clout We must not like the unexperienced Marriner believe the Stormy Season to be past because of a fit of Sun-shine If we err t is better do it on the safe hand and not run the hazard of a sickness for fear of an unhansome Nick-name This Caution concerns those only that are any thing infirm and sickly as indeed most are the youthful and robust can bear all Weathers and in the thinnest apparel though there is a Proverb
and thereupon are very solicitous to find out Meats of better nourishment which when they have done and fed largely thereupon do yet alas find the same Lassitude and indisposition of Body remaining the true cause whereof is the ill Juyce and Moisture the Reliques of their former Surcharge as their much spitting their frequent Catarrhs and the swelling of their Bellies do eminently demonstrate This Moysture likewise remains in the Joynts the Brain and Nerves and so renders both the Limbs unable to perform their severall offices and hinders likewise the Conveyance of a due and competent proportion of Spirit thereunto And hence comes that Dulness and Lumpishness of the Limbs and Senses so generally complained of amongst men Another generall mistake in this particular is That Men and Women finding this Heaviness and Indisposition in the Mornings judge it to proceed from Fasting and therefore as for prevention thereof carefully provide good Breakfasts from which they may happily for the present find some alteration by the present Warmth and Spirit of their new Feeding which being in present motion in their Bodies takes away not the Cause but the sensibility of their former Lassitude but that being gone which continues but for a very short time their Wearisomness returns again with the addition of new Crudities till at last an accumulation is made to that degree and quantity as doth both very much dispose them to the Gout and also begets other Diseases The preventive Remedy whereof is to spend those ill Juyces and Superfluities by Abstinence with the assistance of an Exiccative Medicine or as the Crudities and excess may have been of Vomit or Purgation And this is the way to restore the Lightsomeness and Agility of the Body My first Caution is that we Enure our selves what may be to a simple Diet as most healthful as the best Remedy against Intemperance so prescribes Nature we see those Creatures in whom Nature is least perverted and who are not distracted from their Course by the Lust and Tyranny of Man do strictly and with excellent success observe this Rule In this Simplicity there is not that entisement to the Appetite whereas Diversity of Meats and Drinks do extend it ultra famen sitim as Socrates was wont to say beyond hunger and thirst In this our English Feastings are exceedingly blamable in wch no Art or Charge is wanting to furnish us with Diseases There are all the Curiosities that can be invented to provoke us to Intemperance Diversities of Courses and Services each of which is much more then sufficient and all to renew decayed Appetite and entise it to subvert it self and its yielding Master the next daies Nauceousness tells us as much The Pleasure of Feasting consists not in the daintiness and curiosity of Fare and Multitude of Dishes but in the Society of Feeding not in our Eating much but in our Eating together it is poverty of Spirit and below a man to place felicity in Meats and Drinks 't is an argument that in us the sensual exceeds the Rational that our Desires are our Masters our Bellies Soveraign to our Brains A great Feast is indeed a handsome opportunity to exercise our Temperance for they are most truly such who can resist the Entisement and abstain when delicate cates are before them but since few there are of us though some I know that are arrived to such a degree of Vertue 't is best to decline the Field not being able to endure the Combate Next to Resisting a Temptation is the avoiding it nay in some sense 't is to be prefered in that it avoids the hazard of being overcome thereby Though the first shews most Fortitude this shews greater Prudence 2. Provoke not Hunger if the Body want not Nourishment by Sawces or Vomit but Rather by Exercise and Abstinence These are the Natural ways of least disturbance to the Body and are most efficacious to the begetting of Appetite 2. In the Quantity of Meats respect is to be had to three particulars 1. To the Nature of the Meat 2. The Constition of the Person and his maner of life 3. To the Season of the year Meats that are tough Viscid Dry of hard Digestion must be eaten in lesser quantity Such also as are most ingrate to the palate for that the Stomack upon their Ingestion doth not firmly close but with some kind of Reluctation Meats also that are uncustomary unless they be very pleasant and of easy digestion must very sparely be fed upon These following do require a larger proportion of Meat 1. They that have Hot Stomacks and so both wast much and have greatest Heat and ability to Digest with whom likewise solid Meats and somewhat of hard Digestion do best agree 2. They that are in their growth 3. They that Labor or Exercise much On the other side a lesser proportion is sufficient for 1. Those that have Cold Stomacks 2. That are in their full age or declining 3. For those that lead a sedantary Life and use no Labor or Exercise 4. For those that are indisposed in their Bodies newly recovering their Healths or falling into Sickness But as well these later as the former must observe the two Rules of Health formerly prescribed In Winter Spring our Stomacks are hotest and our Sleeps longest and therefore a larger proportion may be allowed in those Seasons of Meat but not of Drink for that the Body is then moist both because the Seasons are such and also because the Cold hinders the egression of Vapors which being closed in turn into Humors In Summer what is wanting in Meat may be taken in Drink for then the Body is dry and the inward heat and Vapors are extracted by the external Autumn is more Variable and so not capable of Rule in it self much like Spring and must be respected as it partakes of the precedent and Subsequent Season The next Circumstance to be considered in Meats and Drinks is the Time of Feeding And therein the best Guide is Hunger that before the next Meal the former Meat be well digested and perfectly distributed then will Hunger follow the Richest Sawce without which we may conclude the body being in Health that the Stomack hath a part of its former work to do and therefore ought not yet to be charged with new employment This rule truly observed would exceedingly conduce to the Conservation of Health for it would keep the Stomack and Bowels clean much better then purgations and all artificial Helps it would keep its strength Fresh and Vigorous prevent Crudities Nauceousness filthy and unsavory Eructations and that Catholick Source of most Diseases Obstructions This as to the general to be observed by all The particular Considerations for often feeding are much the same as for much feeding Children must eate little and often Little because their Stomacks are as yet streight not enlarged Often because little because their Stomacks are
due inquiry he is to find out and then from them all compared together he is to make his judgement of the nature of the Disease and so may fitly and with best probability of Success apply his Remedies The other by seeking his own Glory hazards thy Health regarding more the being thought skilful by thee then rightly to inform himself that so he may knowingly proceed to the Cure The diseases of the Breast are best known by the pulse insomuch that in those greifs many times the Urin speaks fair and Healthful even to the last moment of Decaying Life The Brain and Animal parts have their proper Excrements are best known by them Neither is she any other then deceitful even in the indicatin of the diseases of the parts above-mentioned from which the Urin more immediatly proceeds It is changed and appears different according to the diversity of Meats Drinks and Medicines its Colour and Substance is wholy altered upon the Critical Determination of diseases which many times evacuate themselves by Urin and which cannot but Confound the Judgement of our Pisse-Prophets proceeding only upon Inspection thereof The Sex can with no certainty be known by it for though the Urin of a Man and Woman are usually different in Colour and consistency yet since both the one and the other is upon easy changes alterable no certain judgement can be made thereupon Besides that a Cbolerick Woman after exercise and after the use of Hot and spiced meats will make a deeper coloured water then a Phlegmatick man She likewise hath different Urin according to the diversity of the disease that then possesses her The Comparison therefore is only to be made between the Urins of a Healthful Man and a Healthful Woman wch have received no alteration by any thing eat drank or external accident and so is the difference given by Physicians to be understood when they say That Man yeilds thinner Vrins higher coloured with small Contents or Sediment but Women pale with Copious Sediment In Virgins and also other Obstructions of Natural courses there wil be much the same alterations in Urin as in Conception because the Blood and consequently the Urin is also thereby Tainted Pregnant Women do also render different Urins both one from another and also the same Women at several Seasons neither is there any one sign of certainty to determine the same Let me subjoyn a History for confirmation hereof and 't is Dr. Cottas a Northamtonshire Physician whose fortune it was to take the profession of a Dying Physician in this point He was saith he but simple in manners and meanly Learned but in his Auguration of Conception by Urin held most excelling and preferred before the best learned of the Country Some small time before his death he was for the behoof of posterity importuned to leave behind him that skil in Urins that had made him so famous he Replyed that it was unworthy Posterity unworthy the name of Art That he had long indeed with the felicity of good opinion exercised it but with tryed certainty known it to be uncertain and deceit Simplicity he said was easily ready to betray it self and the ignorant People especially to one used to the observation will easily discover their hearts in their Eyes Gesture and Countenances of themselves unobserved and unconsidered Sometimes I have predicted right upon Conceptions and that hath spread it self but I have proved more often to my own knowledge false but that hath soon dyed or found excuse I somewhat satisfied my self in my deceitful custom in that I deceived none but such as either desired or deserved it who by their insidiation of the proof of my skill either provoked it or by unreasonable earnestness extorted it Thus some daies before his death did this famous Deviner unbowel himself and thereby indeed made someamends for his former inpostures Lastly 't is most easy to deceive the Physician by other Liquors especially if he smells them not and though some notes of difference are given by Avicen and others yet are they very doubtful and not to be trusted to I judge it no dishonor to be deceived in this kind unless to such as arrogate a certainty of Divination It should be considered also that thou art ignorantly doltishly imploying thy self about posing the Physitian mispending thy time that way running from Doctor to Doctor till thou art struck in the right Vain and inveighled by the Artifice of some more crafty then the rest who sets himself to deceive thee in this kind when in the mean time the disease by delay gets strength and becomes more obstinate Malignant and peradventure incurable I advise therefore all good People that you regard not other mens fame fraudulently gotten but your own health and in order to that that you punctually and expresly inform the Physician of all you know concerning your disease particularly of your pain if any be and of all external accidents that may have any waies caused it of the place and part affected of the Impediments you have in the performance of any action in the Body and let the Physician then feel your Pulse see your Urin consider your Temperature of Body know your use and Custom of Living so is he most likely truly to understand your State and Condition and you to receive benefit and Curation I shall not need to insist longer hereupon the Vanities and Deceits of Vroscopy or Devination by Vrin having been fully and demonstratively discovered by many able Physicians and by some in English as Mr. Brian in his Piss-Prophet and by Dr. Cotta in his Discovery of the Errors and dangers of Ignorant Practitioners To which I refer the Reader who if notwithstanding all that can be said hath yet a mind to be deceived doubtless he may and there be enough that are provided for 't Of Sweat SWeat and Vrin have the same material cause but have different waies of Excretion The skin is therefore made pervious that so there might be free Egress for the Sweat which retained in the Body corrupts it and begets a languishing wearisomness in every part thereof as in Burning Feavours when the Party cannot Sweat whereas the kindly and free Evaporations thereof make the Body lightsome removes colds chilness and lassitude of the Limbs It is most to be avoided in Cold weather either in Bed or at Exercise for though it frees the body from internal causes of Diseases yet it more disposes it to receive wrong from external sharpness and penetration of the aire or wind by opening the spiracles and so giving admission thereunto As to preserve the Body which is my intent it is necessary that every one upon a Cold taken which together with the usual signs preceding is manifested by a sudden heaviness and lumpishness of the Limbs do with the first convenience he may with an empty Stomack dispose himself to a gentle and leasurely breathing which in most Bodies may be procured with a draught of
IN Sadness the Heat and Spirits retire and by their sudden surrounding and possession of the Heart all at once do many times cause suffocation They being likewise by uniting encreased do violently consume the moisture of the Body and so beget drowth and leanness Hence saith Solomon A joyful heart causeth good Health but a sorrowful mind drieth the Bones like the moth in a Garment or a worm in the Tree so is sadness to the Heart It likewise takes away Appetite over-heats the Heart and Lungs decays the complexion unfits us for our Business and employments and shortens our daies The Remedies are diverse as the cause is only in general consider that what is without thy power to help ought not to afflict thee for 't is utterly vain if it be within thy power then greive not but help thy self Thou art likewise to fortifie thy self against all accidents before they come by frequent reading and rightly understanding the Scriptures and other Religious and * Moral Writings that are full fraught with good Instructions to arm thy mind against the day of need that so when affliction comes thou mayest be provided for it for our Sadness is generally falsly grounded upon mistake and mis-apprehension wch may by this means be prevented Without this Help thou shalt be hardly able in the day of thy streight to take good advice though it given thee In the Scriptures and other good Books thou shalt find sound advice that will enable thee to bear the Ingratitude of a Friend the loss of nearest Friends of goods or office a Repulse in thy desire of preferment and all other casual accidents with which the World is replete and which do frequently befall us Another Remedy there is and that is to give our Sadness vent for so it spends it self and the sooner forsakes us whereas cooped up and stifled it takes deeper hold upon us For that purpose discover the causes and take the advice of a Bosome Friend restrain not thy tears but give them way and it will ease thee If Pain begets thy grief take thy Liberty to Cry and Roar neither should thy Freinds restrain thee for that if it do not totally remedy yet will it revell and somewhat divert thy pain But lastly If Distemper of Body be the cause of thy Sadness and thy very Temperature dispose thee thereunto Then avoid all things that be noyous in sight smelling hearing and embrace all things that are Honest and Delectable Fly Darkness much Watching and business of mind over much Venery the use of things in excess Hot and Dry often or violent Purgations immoderate Exercise Thirst and Abstinence dry Winds and very Cold Meats of Hard Digestion such as are very Dry and Salt that are Old Tough or Clammy Cheese Hares flesh Venison Salt-Fish Wine and Spice except very seldom and in small quantities Prepare now and then when Sadness most oppresses thee one of these following drinks which upon long experience I have found very recreative and quickning the Spirits Rec. Waters of Carduus and Wood-sorrel of each 4. Ounces Syrup of Violets 2. Ounces and a half The best Canary 3. Ounces Spirit of Vitrioll 12. drops Mix them and drink it at thrice at ten in the fore-noone and four in the afternoon Take a large sound Pippin and cut out the Core and in its place put a little Saffron viz. Three grains dryed and beaten very fine cover it with the Top and rost it to Pap then put to it half a pint of Claret Wine damasked sweeten it well with fine Sugar and make Lambs-wooll and so drink it Take the first of these when thou artCostive the last when thou art loose or goest orderly to stool But in this case it is expedient that thou take further advice of thy Physician Of Joy THere is no great Fear of the Immoderation of this Passion the present condition of the World hardly affords cause for it and man hath generally lost his Chearfulness with his Innocency 'T is now in Fits and Flushes not solid and constant The effects of it are very good for by Dilating and sending forth the Spirits to the outward parts it enlivens them and keeps them fresh and active it Beautifies the Complexion it fattens the Body by assisting the Distribution of Nourishment to every part 'T is that doubtless which God intended should be the Portion of every man he therefore made the World so full of delightful objects for every sense and plentifully furnished it in every place with all things necessary for the solace and contentation of Mankind But we unhappily have distracted our own Lives and multiplyed the occasions of Hatred Oppression Jealousy difficulty of gaining a very competency doubts of loosing endeavours of supplanting one another Envying Law-Suits Wars and a thousand other Engines we have contrived to destroy our Contentment and multiply our sorrows and afflictions Insomuch that very Wise and good men have much ado to preserve that chearfulnes which is the reward and Recompence of their Vertue I wish I could here propose Remedies Some I have but the World is not able to bear and must yet longer by its Miseries and sufferings be chastised into Repentance and Amendment These Passions are the Principal that have Influence upon the body others have not or very little I shall therefore pass them over with this generall Caution relating to them all that as we expect to keep them in due subjection and not to become Slaves to our Affections let us lead a Temperate and Continent Life for all Disorder and Excess especially in Meat Drink Venery makes us their Slaves and gives them heat and spirit to Lord it over us and renders us impotent to withstand their Temptations and Assaults And so I have done desiring that what I have said may be fairly accepted and Interpreted by all as intended for every mans good and is but a preparatory to much more that I have in my Thoughts Beseeching Almighty God to give his blessing to it that it may prove effectual at least in some measure to preserve every man and woman in Health and Vertue FINIS Health what it is Bonum constat ex Integris By the orderly use of what things Health is preserved Of Custom Customs how to be altered Cautions in using Physical Helps Whether Customary Physicking is to be continued Physick worst for the Healthful Which the best Aire in general Which to each Particular Helps against Bad Aire Of sharp Aires Corruption of Aire Change of Aires by winds What Smells best Of Native Aires Sudden alterations Cautions about Aire Of Hunger Of Thirst Of Quantity in Meats Arguments against Intemperance Much feeding hinders nourishment growth 1. Digestion 2. Growth or Augmentation Greatest Pleasure in Temperance Plutar. Praecep Sanit The Bounds of Temperance 1 Rule of Temperance 2. Rule of Temperance Error in Feeding 2. Error 1. Caution Of Feasting True end of Feasting 2. Caution Respect had to the Nature of Meats To the Constitution of the Person To the Season Times of Feeding Best Time when Hungry No Break-fasts Large Supper best Rules for drinking Order of Feeding The Commodities of Exercise Discommodities of a Sitting Life Caution to Women and Maids History Pro. 31. When Exercise is to be forborn Exercise for the Fat and Lean. Exercise when Best When Bad. Place bad for exercise Violent Exercise bad Drinking cold Drink after Excercise bad Drinking Sack and hot Spirits bad Kinds of Labor Cause of Sleep Commodities of Rest * Sleeping The Evils of Immoderate Sleep Large Sleep best for whom Sleep after Dinner Form of Lying The benefits of Continency The incommodities of Incontinency Of the Excrements of the Belly It s proportion to the Aliment Of Looseness Divination by Urin a deceit When to be avoided When to be used Caution Helps to Sweat Why Sleep causes Sweat Too long violent Bad. Of Spitting Excrements of the Brain * Chewing In the Ears and Nostrils Its incommodities Remedies against Anger Three kinds of Love God-like 2. Humane 3. Conjugall Caution concerning the third Of Lust Of Dotage Evils of Sadness Pro. 17. 22. Remedies against Sadness * Chaâ—on of Humane Wisdom Seneca Plutarchs Morals and Lives 1. Drink againsh Melancholly 2. Drink against Melancholly Effects of Joy