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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77586	Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B.	Brooke, Humphrey, 1617-1693.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4905; Thomason E1404_1; ESTC R209490	46,267	289

Saffron and Milk of Posset drink with a few Camomill Flowers boiled in it either of them drank hot and close covering thereupon or if need require it with a scruple of Gascoignes Powder in either of them which Sweat being gently continued for about an Hour care is to be taken that thou beest rubbed well with warm clothes and shifted with fresh and well aired Linning and that about half an Hour after thou drink a draught of hot and comfortable Broth Cawdle or other Supping and so by degrees enure thy self to the aire and Customary way of Life This timely and carefully performed may save thee many a sharp and irksome sickness Provided alwaies that thou then beest not costive for so sweating will harden the Excrements and evaporate the moisture thereof into the Body Before thou sweat therefore if thy belly have been fast open it either by some gentle Lenitive or loosening Clyster They that have dry hard skins and therefore difficultly sweat should be bathed or at least fomented with a Decoction of Warm Water with Hot and mollifying Hearbs boiled therein that through the skin so relaxed the Sweat may have the easier passage The Help of Bottles with a Decoction of Sudorifick Hearbs as Camomil Penny-Royal Rosemary Mother of Time Hyssop c. is very assistant in this case encreasing the heat by degrees as by putting in less Heated Bottles first and half an Hour after the more Heated Sleep that stops other Fluxes causes Sweat because the Heat and Spirits first moving inward do there gather force which so encreased works upon the moisture and evaporates it by Sweat Sweat is not to be over-long or over-violent for it impairs the Body too much better it is to Sweat twice or thrice for that's Natures way who never expels the whole Morbifick matter at one Sweating Thus much as to the Preservative by Sweating Of other Excrements THey that spit much want exercise for that is the best way to spend the matter thereof for to stop it begets pains in the Head and endangers many diseases of the Brain besides that it may afterwards take another course as upon the Lungs in the Spine or on the Reins whereas exercise safely breaths it out through the Body If the Humors and Viscosities remain in the Brain and Head and descend not they are to be provoked down by the Nose or Mouth either by Sneezing or the * Mastication of those things which are of Subtile Parts and so open and clear the passages as Tobacco Rosemary Bettony Seeds of Thlapsi Crosses c. are very good so are their fumes but then they must not be brought into a Custom but used only as the necessity requires The Foulnesses in the Ears and thick wax that by Time grows there ought to be prevented by often cleansing them taking first into them the fume of Camomil and Penny-royal boiled in Ale and afterwards of hot Viniger which done clense them with thy Earpicker carefully for fear of hurting the Tympanum and Provoking Coughs After Meats and in the Mornings Wash and Rub the Teeth thy Eyes Ears and Nostrils thy Hands likewise and Face with Cold water even in Winter Comb thy Head well that thou mayest make way for the Egression of Vapors which will otherwise fill thy brain In the observation of these small Matters how much doth Health consist I am in these things but thy Remembrancer Of the Affections or Passions of the Mind OF these I purpose breifly to treat not as a Natural Philosopher but Physician and so to consider not their Essences or Causes but Effects and how their Regulation conduces to the Conservation of Health Their power is doubtless very great upon us as being of force not only to hurry us into diseases but to bring upon us sudden death Their Steers-man is Reason which assisted with the Devine Spirit manifested in the Holy Scriptures is able to keep down the Surges of our Passions and is by Almighty God given us to be as a Check or Bridle to prevent or restrain all their Extravagances so that although there be great force in our Passions yet are we not involuntarily and without the power of Resistance overcome by them but yield unto them cowardly and unworthily for want of making use of that Reason by which we might Restrain them Our Affections indeed are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unreasonable but yet they also are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} under our own power and command one principal work that man hath to do in the world is to moderate them And though some Passions as also Vices have through Custom and an habituall commitment become Usurpers upon reason and over-rulers thereof insomuch that it becomes a most difficult thing for Reason to reassume its Empire and keep them in due subjection This however is attributable not to their Nature but our own default and is decreed as a punishment of our first yielding thereunto 'T is just in God to harden his Heart who first hardens his own the penalty is appropriated to the offence From whence we may collect that Vice is a Punishment 2. 'T is observable that there is a mutual influence from the Body upon the Mind and from the Mind upon the Body not necessitating but inclining 'T is clear in the several effects the Passions produce in the Body which I shall presently speak of and 't is as clear that Anger Sadness Joy c. in their Immoderation I mean are more easily produced in those that are under the Violence of a Feavour or other Sicknesse or pain or yet of depraved and unequal Constitutions then in them that are in Health and of Sound Complexion That therefore thou mayest be Vertuous keep thy self in good Health that thou mayst be in good Health keep thy self Vertuous and Regulate thy Passions Passions are not bad of themselves but in their excesses or defects for by their assistance we more easily attain good and Laudable Ends there are some things against which they are well and by injunction imployed Be Angry and sin not saith the Apostle and our Saviour drove the Money-Changers out of the Temple our Love and Hatred our Fear Sadness and Rejoycing have all of them proper objects about which they may and ought to be employed 'T is to be more then man to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} wholy indolent and void of Passion we are required only to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} well to manage moderate them Of Anger IN its excess the incommodities are many and evil as Feavours Phrensies and Madness Trembling Palsies Apoplexies Decay of Appetite and want of rest paleness as when fear is conjoyned and the Spirits called in sometimes Redness of the Face and Eyes when the Spirits are sent out as in desire of Revenge which is also accompanied with an Ebullition of the blood stamping bending

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