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A07669	The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.	Moore, Philip, fl. 1564-1573.	1564 (1564)	STC 18059.5; ESTC S110028	57,968	162

requisite as if you doe pourge when bloodletting is onely necessarie then is the disease aided against nature wherby greater daūger of death dooeth ensue then would haue dooen if nature had been let a lone But to conclude briefly note that in all diseases the duetie of the Phisicion is to vse the contrarie remedie to the disease that healthe maie bee restored as to take awaie that whiche is superfluous to adde to that whiche lacketh to soften hardnesse and to rarifie grossenes and contrariwise alwaies endeuouryng to recouer the naturall state of the member diseased Likewise in hollowe vlcers and woundes to cause f●leshe to growe and to set in again bones that are out of ioynt and soche other like alwaies addyng subtractyng or amondyng that whiche is wantyng haboundyng or out of his dewe forme and place ¶ The. xii Chapiter ❧ What thynges the Phisicion ought to knowe before be attempte the cure of any disease I Haue declared sufficiētly in the former Chapiter how that it is the propertie of nature onely to striue and fight againste diseases And how that the Phisiciō is but the minister and seruaunt of nature either to adde soche thynges to her as she maie vse to destroie the disease withall or els by pluckyng cleane awaie the greatesse parte of that matter whiche causeth and maintaineth the sicknes And therefore it is mete and necessarie for the Phisiciō before he minister any thyng to learne and searche out perfectly the cause of the disease in whiche if he be ignoraunte it is more by good fortune then by cunnyng that he cureth any disease For how is it possible to help nature w t that that she hath nede of excepte it bee firste knowen what she needeth whiche none can knowe excepte the cause of the disease be manifeste to hym so that he maie minister thinges directly contrary to the cause of the disease And therefore I can not but lamente the ignoraunce of the common people that are perswaded that one medicin is sufficient for one disease not consideryng that one disease maie come of sondrie causes And therefore it necessarilie requireth diuerse medicines As for example weakenesse of the stomacke that it cannot digest well or that it hath no good appetite is one disease whiche neuerthelesse may bee caused a dosen sundrie wayes therefore the cure of it can not be alwayes with one medicine but rather in eche cause with a sundry medicine As if weakenes of the stomake come of a colde distēpure of it selfe only then it must be made hote bosome meanes If heate causeth the weakenes then it must be cooled Likewyse you must moisten drines and drie moisture But if the weakenes be caused of some humour that doth abounde whiche hath flowed into the stomake or hathe been there engendred then must that superfluous humour be pourged out either by vomite or purgation with a meke medicine As if it be fleme with a medicine that expelleth fleme if choler be abounding there then must it be soche a medicine as pourgeth choler And likewyse for Melancholie a mete purgatiō must be vsed to drawe out the humour But if the imbecillitie of the stomake be caused by a distilation and rewme that falleth out of the head into it then is the cure to be wrought in the head and not at all in the stomake And likewyse if distempure of the liuer or splene dooe weaken the stomake the cure consisteth in healing those members and not in ministring any thing for the stomake for it wilbe well as sone as they are cured Thus it is declared at large in one example the diuersitie of causes in one disease that thereby all men might likewyse consider that euery disease in eche member of the bodie may and doth likewyse come of diuerse causes against which causes if the medicines be not directly ministred it auaileth nothinge but rather hurteth Therefore let no man thinke it sufficient for the Phisicion if he knowe that a man hath soche a disease as the ague the Colicke the Flixe or soch other like that then he may straightwaye if he be conning minister a medicine mete for it No not so but he must first searche by al meanes possible the verie cause of the disease which the ignoraūt people haue long time been persuaded that a cunning Phisition may doe in all diseases by the onely fighte and inspection of the vrine But alas thei are craftely bewitched or couetously blinded For to come to the knowlege of the cause of some inward disease the vrine profiteth nothing And in moste inwarde diseases of the bodie there ought as good regard to be had to the pulse and to the disposicions and state of the brain of the sicke as there should be of the vrin Also the egestions sweate spettle and other excremētes ar not to be neclected in so moche as at some time thei do declare the cause of the disease and the state thereof when the vrine sheweth nothyng at all As for exāple In a pleurisie or in an inflamacion of the lunges or in a squinancie or soche like There is more to be knowen by spittle then by Vrine likewise in a laxe or in a bloodie flixe or in a Colike or Iliacke there is more certaintie of iudgemente to bee geuen by egestion or ordure then is by vrine whiche thinges those that bee not altogether addicte so their own fantasie maie quickly by good reason be perswaded to credite For Vrine is nothyng els but the watrie and whaishe parte of the blood for it is strained from blood in the Liuer and sucked from thense into the raines from whens it distilleth doune into the bladder and so passeth forthe Since therefore vrine is the excremente that is separate from blood there is good cause why it should shewe the estate of the liuer and of blood in all partes of the bodie And also it can well declare the estate of soche members as it passeth by as of the raines the blader and soche like But certainlie in other diseases that bee out of the vaines and be distaunt frō the places by which the vrin passeth there is no certain iudgemente to bee geuen by the vrine vnlesse the vehemencie of the disease hath infected the blood or liuer after some sort Neuerthelesse soche is the ignoraunce of the common people that thei thinke him worthie of no estimaciō in Phisick whiche can not at the first sight of the vrin although it hath been caried .xx. miles tell whether it be a mannes water or a womānes and how the disease greueth the paciente better then hymself also whether he shall liue or die what disease so euer it be whiche thinges vndoubtedly in diuerse diseases are impossible to be tolde by the onely sight of the vrine And therefore it is thought méete for hym that will minister Phisick duely and rightfullie First to se the pacient and to talke with hym or her

men and women to doe their endeuour to knowe thē and learne their vertues Nowe in this place I will reherse the names of certain herbes of the field that be moste common more of their vertues and properties for breuitie I lette passe vntill an other tyme. ¶ The names of herbes growing of them selues 1. Wormewoode 2. Houselike 3. Mouse eare 4. Shepherdes Purse 5. Calaminte 6. Centorie 7. Woodbinde 8. Enula cāpana 9. Agrimonie 10. Iyebright 11. Fumitoris 12. Paritorie of the wall 13. S Iohns wort 14. Gromell 15. Sa●ifrage 16. Horehounde 17. Melilote 18. Flare seede 19. Mercurie 20. Yarrowe 21. Water Lilies 22. Plantaine 23. Maiden here 24. Polipodie of the Oke 25. Fiue leaued grasse 26. Scabious 27. Nightshaad 28. Veruaine 29. Knotgrasse Hetherto I haue declared the names of those herbes whiche emong all other I would wishe wer well knowen of the common people that by thē thei might the easilier get remedie and help of their griefes sicknesses without any greate coste or trauaile ¶ The .xi. Chapiter ❧ A declaracion of sickenes and health I Thinke it were superfluous to declare that healthe is profitable and pleasaunt to al menne since eche man daily doeth wish and praie either for the restitucion or for the continuaūce of thesame But I suppose it be nedeful to declare what health is and wherein it consisteth that thereby the ignoraunt maie learne to knowe when thei are in perfecte health when thei be enclined to sicknesse Note therefore that healthe is a naturall affeccion and state of the bodie wherein eche mēber is able to doe that office and accion that nature hath ordained it for partly as the stomacke to digeste perfectly and to haue good appetite c. Note also that this naturall state doeth remain so long in eche member as it kepeth the naturall temperature that it should haue in heate cold moistnes and drines and also hath thesame forme quantitie nomber and place that nature hath ordained it to haue If these thinges bee present to eche member of the bodie then is the hole bodie in perfect health Excepte some externall cause dooeth hinder it as a wounde pricke brouse or some soche like outwarde euente whiche doe deminishe healthe and cause some sickenesse Note therefore that sicknes is contrary to health and therefore it is not harde to knowe what sickenes is and wherein it doeth consiste Howbeeit I will declare somwhat of it that it maie bee the more plainlier vnderstanded of all menne Sickenes is an vnnaturall affeccion and state of the bodie wherein some mēber is hindred and letted that it can not perfectly fulfil that office and action that nature hath ordained it to doe as when the stomacke dooeth lothe meate or can not kepe it til it be digested c And note that this vnnaturall affeccion of the bodie doeth consiste in the members of the bodie three diuers waies for either it commeth by distempure of some member so that it is hotter colder moister or drier then it should be of nature Or els by vndecent fashion quantitie nomber or place of some member Or last of all by solucion and disheuering of some partes by vlcers impostumes woundes or soche like which partes wer ordained by nature to be ioyned together and therefore the separacion of them is a disease These bee the diuersities of diseases whiche when thei chaūce in mānes bodie there is a strief and battaill betwene nature and them whiche shall ouercome other And if sicknes ouercome nature then doeth death insue but if nature dooe ouercome the sickenes then the bodie by little and little is restored to health again And note that in this combare betwen the disease and nature the Phisicion is as it were a minister and aider to nature to help her to ouercome the disease by soche meanes as the arte of Phisicke doeth teache hym maie beste bee doen For there are sondrie kindes of aides whiche are to be sought out by this meanes First it is to bee noted that this is a moste generalle precepte in Phisicke Contraria contrarijs curantur that is diseases are cured by their contraries and therefore if the disease bee a distempure of hotte colde moiste or drie whereby any parte of the bodie is altered from his naturall state then to help nature against that distempure you must applie or minister a medicine that is cōtrary to it that is a cold medicine to a hotte disease a hotte medicine to a cold disease a drie medicine to a moiste disease And this muste bee dooen with diligente obseruacion or els there is daunger in it rather then profite As for an example If a little distempure of heate should happen to a member of the bodie there might bee applied so colde a medicine to it that would alter the mēber into a greater distēpure of cold then the heate was Note therefore that the temperature of eche member muste bee learned considered whē it is in health and then the distempure must diligently be noted how moche it diffreth from the said temperature for so moche must the medicine differ on the cōtrary parte As for example If a member were distempured that it were twoo degrees hotter then it was beyng in healthe then must the medicine bee twoo degrees colder then the temperature of the mēber was And so by that meanes the twoo cold degrees of the medicine will destroie and quenche the two hote degrees of distempure and will bryng the member again into his naturall temperature Thus 〈◊〉 a due proportion diligently to be considered alwayes betwene the disease and the medicine or els ther will rather hard then good insue But 〈◊〉 a disease be caused by aboundaunce of humours in the bodie whiche 〈◊〉 to oppresse nature then the phisicion helpeth nature by taking away some part of the aboundaūce of those 〈◊〉 humours whereby nature is the 〈◊〉 able to ouercome y ● 〈◊〉 in short time And note that this takyng awaie of humours is dooen diuersely accordyng as occasion best serueth Sometyme by settyng of 〈◊〉 sometyme by purgacion or vomite and sometyme by prouoking of sweate or otherwise these and soche like are sometime the doinges of the Phisicion wherwith he helpeth nature against the disease of repleacion in whiche the former rule is obserued That is to heale by cōtraries for euacuacion and pourgyng bée contrarie to repleacion and fulnes of humours But in dooyng of these thynges there ought diligent heede to be taken that thei bee attempted in a conuenient tyme and that thei be dooen with good measure that is not to little nor to moche And further consider where howe and with what you were beste to worke that nature maie thereby receiue more cōmoditie then hinderaunce Here therefore the helpe of a skilfull and circumspecte Phisicion is moste requisite for if euacuacion by pourging bloodlettyng sweatyng or otherwise be dooen out of tyme out of measure or contrarie to that whiche is