darken the Mind which is the great Eye or Light of the Body And this is the cause that when the one is grieued th' other is grieued and when th' one is merry th' other is so too Therefore it is a thing to bee wished that they were kept both in an equall proportion and symmetry with conuenient nourishments recreations exercise and aboue all with spirituall food Yea and other whiles if need require the Mistresse must correct her rebellions Seruant that the Image of our great Creator bee not quite defaced But to returne to the Subiect wee haue in hand the Body of Man is the most temperate of all other mortall Creatures and therefore it may bee rightly termed the Golden Rule measure and square whereby the Excesse of all other things may be obserued and their different Faculties discerned And for this cause in respect of our humane Bodies the fours Elements are noted to be Hot Cold Moist and Dry Here hence we gather that the Flesh of Fowle is hot and dry and that the Food of Fish is cold moist fit to engender flegme Betwixt these as the Meane are Earthly Creatures placed and among these Mans Body hath the preheminence as the best tempered vnder the Cope of Heauen The which also varies according to the Climate Sunt Homines alij variant vt Climata munds For our Northerne Nations are of a Colder constitution then theirs that liue within the Tropickes or neere vnto them And therefore the Ancient Phylosophers would not allow a temperate Body but with in a temperate Country Neyther is this temper so constant in our temperate countries but the inequaltity of the Soyle and Sâ—ituation controules this temper For we haue Spring and Summer weather in places at the same instant within a mile or two distant As for Example in Dales and at the foote of Hils we feeâ—e it warme whereas wee cannot endure long to stay on the Neighbouring Mountaynes by reason of Snow or furious Winds which likewise other-throw or hinder the growth of Plantes and Corne sixe or seauen weekes later then such as we finde in the bottom or lowest descent The same alteration I haue seene in the Alpes and Pyrenaeâ—n Mountaynes where I could be hold ripe Grapes and a fourishing Haruest in the Vallies and Trauailing but a League higher vp towards the top of the Mountaynes I might see nothing but horrid Rockes Hayle Snow and Windes in that impetuous manner that there a man would take September to be Ianuary Moreouer this change crosseth our Temper iâ— respect of Age for Youth is more hot and moyst then more setled yeares And that Dyet which might be properly accommodated to olde men perhaps would weaken or statue the younger sort How then shall we be able to finde out this Golden meane and Temper in mans Body when we are subiect to so many mutations Do not we perceiue the very Beasts and vnreasonable creatures to go beyond vs in some of our noblest Organs Do they not excell vs in the fiue sences viz. The Boare in hearing the Ounce in seeing the Ape in tasting the Vultur in smelling and the Spider in touching as these ancient Verses imply Nos Aper auditu Lynx visu Simia gustu Un tur â—doratu pâ—aecellit Aranea tactu This cannot bee denied in those Creatures but because I am an ill Huntes-man I will continue my conuersation with men amongst which there is much diuersity for their seueral parts Here stands a man with a most temperate Braine there another with a sound Liuer some are long breathed some excell in the Temper of their Hearts and in many of these wee might behold Actions which tend vnto Vnity as to their Center But in generall of late yeares wee degenerate from that which by our Baptisme we vowed to be as in like manner wee haue crackt our Braines shortned our breathing faculties corrupted our Liuer inframed our Blood and all with excesse of varieties of meates and drinkes We pâ—ate of the Holy Ghost of the Temple of God but let euery man examine his owne conscience whether it bee possible that such a sanctified Guest could remaine in such an impure Body which hath receiued into it so great store of Victualls and the choysest which the Ayre Earth and Sea could yeelde and of the strongest Wines euen vnto vomiting If after this inquisition wee finde that the Spirit of God requires an vndefiled and purer seate to lodge in then let vs sweep cleane and do our best to purifie and prepare our Bodies to be tolerably meete to entertayne this sacred Messenger for if hee knockes at the doore of our hearts and we slight his Call it is to bee feared hee will returne no more to such a nasty Roome where the Master of the house neglects his dearest Land-Lord To reduce the World vnto a better Temper the Body as well as the Minde I had recourse to many Cures I read Marsilius Ficinus his Worke concerning a Heauenly Body here on Earth but there meeting with nothing but distractions at the last I lighted on two Treatises the one Published by Lodouico Cornario an Italian and th' other by Lessius of Bruxels a learned Iesuite out of whose Precepts I collected this admirable Dyet which whosoeuer hath the power to practise hee shall quickly apprehend the difference betwixt a Table furnished with variety of meates whose nature in digestion are contrary the one to th' other and betwixt that simple Cheere which conrented our Sauiour here on Earth with his Disciples By the former spring all our sicknesses By this latter of Sobriety we stint Concupiscence and after one quarter of a yeare our Bodies being accustomed to a set measure of meat and drinke wee shall confesse that saying of the Heath'nish Phylosopher to iumpe aright with a reformed Christian Turpe est homini non nosse mensuram ventres sui It is a shamefull thing for an vnderstanding man not to know the measure of his owne Belly To wind vp this my Preparatiue in a word when I had compared Lessius his obseruations with Daniels and his three Companions Dyet and how by reason of their slender fare being but Pulse they were in better state then those that fed on dainties I concluded this new found dyet to be acceptable to Gods spirit and if it awaites on Faith it will serue for a Christians Purification before Glorification The second SECTION The Description of a New found and cheape Diet to preserue the Body and Minde from all sâ—cknesses and Passions and how a man shall find out the true Proportion what will content a reasonable Creature BY the former Discourse it is apparant that the Well-being and Health of Mans Body consists in obseruing the Golden Meane which is Temperance in our Dyet that is cating and drinking no more then the Stomacke can well digest and that thereby the functions of the Minde bee not hindered nor made obscure by the excessiue Quantity For this reason and because
two dâ—agmes of Opium on diagme and a halfe weâ—l beaten with one ounce of Sugar-candy The which with syrupe of Licâ—ras must be made in a Masse and then diuided into Pils and swallow them They will serue for two or three times A drinke to ripen and ure the Cough Take of the syrupe of Enulacampana and Licoras of each two ounces of Hysop water a quarter of a pint Boyle these in a quart of Ale or Beere with some red sugar candy to a pint and drinke thereof two or three spoonefulls at a time lying on your backe and letting it distill downe your throate by little and little To preuent the Palsie Nothing is better then to eate some Diatrion Pâ—perior or to swallow downe in the morning foure or fiue graines of pepper The Cure of the Winde in the Stomacke and the Collicke Commonly this Infirmity hapneth for want of stirring and exercise or by eating of Fish Fruite or the like windy food in greater aboundance then Nature is able to beare without Belching Rumbling or the like commotion in the Stomacke which sometimes descending lower downe into the Guts before the former meate bee fully digested begets more strength of winde so that betwixt the olde excrements and the new this grieuous payne called the Collâ—cke is ingendred For the Cure whereof if the Wind proceedes from heate by drinking of Sacke or strong Liquor or in the Summer first let him abstayne from those causes and take a Glister made of Sugar Milke and some cooling Hearbes or of Broath where in Raisons Prunes or Currants haue beene sodden or where Diaprunis is dissolued with some Anniseeds And for a Topicke Medicine to fortifie and ease the place affected for the present let the Party apply a dryed Rose-cake somewhat warme and besprinkled with a few drops of Vinegar to the Belly The poorer sort may clap warme trenchers or napkins But if the Collicke be ingendred of the Colde as in Winter or by feeding on moyst and raw sustenance I wish the poore to content themselues with Garlicke boyled or raw And for the Richer sort I prescribe this singular Receit Take Venice Treacle or Mâ—thridate with a few beaten Cloues dissolued and mulled in a cup of Wine Or in default thereof a spoonefull or two of Worme-wood Cinnamon or Anniseede Water or some liquour wherein Pepper hath beene soaked Diatrien Pâ—perion also eaten is exceeding good fasting or at going to bed And for a locall Remedy let him put dryed Cammomill betwixt two linnen cloathes to the Belly Or for want thereof the Oyâ—e or Paracelsus his stipticke playster the place being first annoynted with that kind of Oyle or with that of Roses Against the euill disposition of the Body as the Dropsie the Greene-sicknesse and the like Take of Allom Brimstone and of the fiâ—ings of iron or steele of each a handful Infâ—se them bruised in three quarts of white wine Vinegar three dayes and let the Party adde thereof a spoonefull at a time to euery draught of drinke Likewise a Posset made of Allome will correct this ill disposition of the Body Râ—medies for the straightnesse of the Breast and the rising of the Lights Some do highly commend Quicke Sulphur beaten to powder and well mixed with Sugar Caudy to be taken either alone or with Wine Others at the time of the fit do aduise to giue him Vinegar Scillitick with Ammoniacke dissolued Fracastorius extolies Lungwort eyther of the Oke or Iuniper liâ—ewise the smoake of Sandaraca oâ— Oâ—piment in the manner as I haue shewed in my Booke of Directions for Health But in truth the Foxes Lights soaked for three dayes in Vinegar and afterwards dryed in an Ouen being taken to the quantity of a Nutmeg eyther alone or with some Liquor is the best Remedy aswell for this infirmity as for the Cough proceeding of the difficulty of breathing for it is knowne that of all Creatures the Foxe hath the longest breath and strongest Winde In default of the substance the common Receite called Looch de Pulâ—â—one Vulpis is expedient Remedies for the Gout whether it proceed from Hot or Cold Causes First let him betake himselfe if he can to our Dyet Secondly let him beware of all strong Drinkes and Wine Thirdly let him purge himselfe with the Potion of Hermodâ—câ—â—lâ—s Mâ—choacan c. which I haue before described against the Scuruy Or else let him vse Pilluâ—ae Cochiae which drawes awayes the causes from the Head And these Purgations hee shall vse once a moneth And if there bee cause let him bleede sometimes Fourthly let him exercise Fiftly let him annoynt for a locall Lenitiue the place affected with Oyle of Frogs or of Mirrh eyther alone or with a little Saffron and if the paine bee violenâ— with some Opium But indeede to mollifie and asswage the griefe for the richer sort I aduise them neuer to bee without this precious Cataplasme Take of dried Rose leaues one Ounce of Masticke halfe an Ounce of Saffron one dragme of Campher sixteene graines and of Barly meale two ounces Powre thereon as much white wine as wiâ—l make them boyle which must bee gently aâ—l by leasure and often stirred The tenth SECTION Remedies against the odious and vnhealthfull vice of Drunkenesse The Authors admonitory Conclusion to liue soberly and temperately FOr the shutting vp of these particular Cures I will insert this Corollary which I wish all them that haue a care of their healths daily to reuolue in their mindes being drawne out of Hippocrates his golden Aphorismes That whatsoeuer Nourishment enters into an impure Body will make it the more impure But there is one Sicknesse more which rightly may be stiled the Northerre Catholicke crept among vs within these forty yeares the sinne of Drunkennesse brought hither out of Germany and the Low-Countries which beares such sway that few merite the name of Gallants or sociable Creatures vnâ—esse they can Carouse more Cups then the large Body of a Camell is able to brooke without great alteration in Nature For the suppressing of this odious sicknesse we haue laudable Acts of Parliament but for want of due execution of the Lawes it increaseth to the great displeasure of Almighty God the scandall of our Religion and the grieuous disturbance of their Bodies which wee see drooping away daily before the date of life conditionaly granted vnto vs by our Creator What shall wee do in this desperate case Our Statutes faile to remedy this euill Our Preachers with their thundring Woes misse to reforme it The carefull Cure is neglected for most men now a dayes doe more intend their priuate ends then the publicke good Only this prouident Counseâ—l is left which I submit in most humble manner to the higher Powers that some more Additions bee enacted that in such places as lye remote from the meridian of the Fountayne of Iustice all blind Ale-houses bee suddainly put downe that none be Licensed except they were worth twenty pounds at the least in Goods able to keepe Bedding
Study and Contempâ—ation doe mightily hinder Concoction they that are this way busied must eate and drinkelesse then those that be idle or doe trauailc abroad But now to finde out this Measure I confesse it a great difficulty by reason of the dinersities of mens Constitutions Yeares and Strength For that Measure which agreeth with an o'de man cannot square well with a young man nor that of the strong man with the weake The Chollericke must haue his proportion differing from the Flegmaticke These haue euery one a stomacke repugnant to one anothers nature How then shall wee compose an exact Measure to reconcile these repugnances Necessity requires vs to lookeafter this Soueraigne good for the health of the Body and Soule but Concupiscence and our longing wills can hardly consent to be limitted Yet notwithstanding naturall reason bids vs to proserue Nature although wee smart a little to enioy the more content Let vs then search out what proportion of meate and drink will serue a reasonable Creature the which the easier to find we must obserue these Rules First if one takes into his body ordinarily so much meate and drinke that after the meale he feeles himselfe more heauy sleepy and lesse capable to conceiue matters of Diuine knowledge Sermons or any kinde of Study then hee was before his meale let him rest assuredly that hee hath exceeded the Measure wee looke for For it is not fit to feede and please the vegetatiue and sensuall part so much that thereby the noblest part be offended which is the Animall and reasonable Faculty Wee must consider that out of the aboundance of meates which wee receiue into our Bodies there will arise Vapouis from the Stomacke vp to the Head which will darken the Vnderstanding and also store of Humours and Blood ingendred in the Liuer Mâ—lt and Veines which will inflame vpwards and helpe with the former Vapours to ouercloud the cleare Rayes of Reason and Wisdome which they would neuer do if a man had not exceeded the lawfull measure O how much are they deceiued who feeling themselues feeble in the morning runne speedily to Breake-fast as though Nature languished for want of meate when as in very deede their weaknesse proceedes from the aboundance of Humours congested and gathered together which by their ouer-much moysture haue stuft the Musckles and the sinewes and stopt the passages of the spirits so that the Scuruy and other Diseases creepe in by reason of those Obstructions and Oppilations The like abuse some commit in their mornings draughts which indeede is the chiefe cause of the Dropsies Gouts Coughes and other moyst sicknesses Secondly a man must not suddainely thinke to meete with this Measure but by little and little by degrees hee must leaue of his former course of Dyet and all by leasure proceede by diminishing his wounted fare vntill hee arriues to that Quantity that after his meale hee feeles none of the aboue named impediments to grieue his Head or to hinder the Functions of his Minde Thirdly although a certayne set quantity cannot rightly be prescribed by reason of the different natures of meates and of the ages of men yet notwithstanding it is lately tryed by experience that for olde Persons or for such as approach neere vnto it or for some that feare some incurable sicknesse twelue thirteene or foureteene Ounces of meate will serue a man for a day accounting Bread Flesh Egges or any such solid meate and so many Ounces or somewhat more of drinke This measure I prescribe onely to aged persons the sickely to Clergy men to Iudges Schollers or to such as are wholly addicted to their Bookes to Maydes and such sedentary or idle people who vse not bodily exercise Loaoâ—i â— Cornarie Father Lessius and many others by late experience found this quantity to be sufficient Fourthly as for the Quality of the meats there is no great heed to be taken so that they exceede not in the quantity if the meate distaste not the Appetite and that the due measure be obserued Among al the sorts of meates which we eate those are commended which are of least putrifaction For wee see that Fish and Flesh will taint sooner then Pulse or Corne. And therefore Rice Bread or such as are made of them will agree best with Nature for by experience it is sound that the chiefe cause of the small Pockes c. comes of the eating of flesh too soone They which haue practised this Dyet do highly commend Panades or Gruell which the Italians call Panatâ—llam or Pulticulam which is compounded of Bread and Water or Brewis or the like diuersified with Butter Oyle Egges Wine Currents Cynamon Sugar Hony Pepper Saffron Cinger c. because this kinde of meate is most easily to be concocted being ready to breed good blood and very like to the Chyle or that substantiall myce which the Stomacke workes out of the Concoâ—tion of our meate The fifth Rule for asmuch as all the difficulty for the obseruing of this measure proceedes of sensuall appetite and that this sensuall appetite springs of the apprehension of Imagination whereby varieties of meates are conceiued to bee very pleasing to the sences wee must doe our endeauour to correct this depraued Imagination For the correcting whereof two things among others are chiefly to bee regarded First that we with-draw our selues from the sight of such prouoaking and enticing dainties as we read Epaminonda that valiant Theban did who being inuited to a friends house and seeing the Table too fully replenished with delicacies departed suddainly away And afterwards beeing demaunded wherefore he went so rudely and hastily from thence answered because he thought his friend had prepared all that aboundant cheare as a Sacrifice for the Gods and not for necessary foode to mortall Men. Secondly when wee are forced for manners sake to stay and behold such vaine Varieties that wee imagine them not to be in very deede so delightfull faire and wholesome as in outward shew they seeme to be but that they are deceitfull baites to catch and eâ—snare his fantasie to feede on them for his destruction and that when they passe through the Body they are most loathsome Excrements leauing poysoned relickes behind them to be conuerted into hurtfull humours Euery thing when it is resolued into the first Principles and Elements will appeare in the true shape which is no other but Corruption And the more sweete it is when it so resolued it becomes the more sordide and stâ—nking as may be noted by Suckets and such sugred Condited ware whereas the Dung of Labourers is nothing so displeasing for that they feede on simple food which Nature best approoues To verifie this let vs enquire whose Dung is most stinking the Dogges or the Deâ—â—es This Dyet composed of Bread is pure simple not subiect to Corruption as other nourishments be And therefore I may well auerre that it resembles that choyse food of Manna which God bestowed on the Israelites in the Wildernesse the which as
that she might gayne freedome for that Towne which for their common and future good shee afterwards most zealously performed Now to aduance forwards and thereupon to conclude our worke of Purification to be brought to passe by abstinence and our newfound Dyet it is lookt for that I should first cuâ—e some of those infirmities which are already growne through Repletion and disorders Among which I behold the Lunges which waxe old sooner then the rest of the members as Aristotle affirmed And the reason is because they are subiect to all kind of excrements For they receiue catarrhes coughs and other fiâ—thy matter from the Braine besides excrementicious blood which is ingendred there and turnes to purulent matter which render them foule filthy as our late Aâ—atomists haue found asâ—ve â—as that which comes from the head and what ber is made so impure must needes grow soonest old For which cause those Persons whose breath doth stinke by reason of the impurities of the Lunges shall waxe old sooner then others As on the contrary those whose breath smells well or doth not stinke whilest they are Fasting may liue much longer For the abating or correcting of this viscous clammy and mattry stuffe which is there ingendred or fallen from the Braine nothing anayles more then this our Dyet after that the same hath bene practised and vsed two or three Moneths such impurities will cease of their owne accord But for feare the Diseased party may in the meane time suffocate and perish like the Horse that starued while the Grasse grew let him that is troubled with a violent Cough which is accounted but a Symptome mingle some Manna well sifted and a little Saffron with his Panade Broth or Grâ—ell and that being vsed for fiue or sixe dayes together will by gentle Purges by little and little consume away the cause yea and will supply the place of an Expecterall aswell as any of those Medicaments which they call Becchica or else they may use three or foure drops of the Syrupe of Tobacco in two spoonefuls of Hysop water or in default thereof a peece of Tobacco it selfe rowled and chewed in the Mouth before meate for foure or fiue dayes together will performe the Câ—re or in case of necessity let him drinke but once an Oâ—nce of the Iuyce of the Blew-Flower-de Luce root called Irâ—s newly gathered beaten and strayned with sugâ—ed Water and some Saffron and though the Party were at the very poynt ready to bee choaked with these sâ—â—my and grosse hâ—mours and could not rest but sit vp wheezing and without sleepe yet within two or three houres as it were by Miracle hee shall auoyde by Vomit and Stooles the causes of his deadly distemper Or else let him take twenty or twenty fiue graines of Pantomagogon in Pils with the Powder of Lycoras once euery second day for a weeke and these will gently purge aâ—l the Humours And these Piâ—s I hold to bee singular good to preuent many other diseases and not so loathsome as most Medicines be Next the Braine presents it selfe to my View the indisposition whereof may be discouered by the Heate or Coldnesse If it be ouer hot it causeth distillations into the Lunges Lunacies c. For the Cure whereof some Lettice may bee boyled with our Dyet or the greene leaues of Poppy and in defaulte thereof their seedes or their Syrupes In that case Diacodion which is composed of white Poppy with sugred Water alone or mixt with our Diet is of admirable operation both to coole and to procure sleepe To which as a Cauâ—at I wish such distempered persons to beware how they keepe their Heads too warme with Night-Caps for thereby I haue obserued that many haue vnaduisedly miscarried For the cold distemper of the Braine accompaned with Moysture the smoake of Tobacco with a drop or two of the Oyle of Anny-seed is expedient if the Party be not too narrow breasted or else troubled with the fits of Asthma But oftentimes the Braine may suffer by reason of outward Causes as Frost or Cold windes in the same manner as the Lunges are for both alike are impayred by Cold that they might the sooner become weakned and old and that by reason of respiration For both these Members doe breath and respire the Braine for the perception of smells and the Lunges more aboundantly for the recreation of the heart Therefore both these Members doe secretly through their Pores and passages draw in the Ayre and do receiue their impressions which happen not to any of th' other Members For this discommodity whereto our Northerne Nations are much subiect thet haue lately armed themselues with Hoodes agaynst Raine Snow and Tempests and if before their iournies they annoynt the soles of their feete with that excellent Oyle of Euphorbium or of Pepper and stop their â—ares with Cotton or bumbase dipt in Oyle of Anâ—â—seed or with Cyuet They neede not feare distempers through Cold as long a so as Englands Golden Fleece is able to furnish them with Outward Defences But wee haue cause to doubt a greater inconuâ—nience then a momentary cold which commonly with the weather for sake the hold for if it prooue an extreame Frost or blustring Windes specially after â—ainy Weather which occasion the cuils aforenamed that treacherous guest the Scâ—ruy the store-house of al diseases Farrago omnium morborum which some haue mistaken for a spice of the Catholick Disease may get possession within the Body And this happens both by the Sunnes absence and for that the skinne and all the outward Pores are stopt thickned and congealed with Cold so that there is no place left for the venting of Euaporations and Exhalations out of the Body And therefore they are driuen backe coagulated where those Vapours are forced for want of vent to assault the inward parts and at length they domineere and cause Oppilations and stoppages so that the liuely Spirits cannot performe their Offices Heere hence it fals out that some of these tainted exhalations are carried vpwards to the Eyes Eares Nose and to the Teeth and Gummes and other-whiles to the Breast or else they descend downe to the Legges A spoonefull of the Iuyce of Lemons at a time or the luyce of Scuruy-grafâ—e or the salt of it as I shewed in the former Section mixt with our Panade will remooue this Suruy-baggage And for the putrified Gummes a drop or two of the Oyle of Vitrioll or some Vnguentum Aegyptiacum applyed vnto them will speedily cure them I neede not correct the Stomacke but with the owne simple Dyet yet if at first by reason of the suddaine alteration which I haue notwithstanding here expresly forbidden and on the contrary aduised them to proceede by degrees from twenty ounces to foureteene or twelue and by so many or a little more of drinke to bee diminished within a moneth Then if the Stomacke should become somewhat fainting a cup of Wine and Sugar added to the Dyet or in extremity Cinamon water Anniseed
Worme-wood water or Manus Christi or Ginger-bread will quickely restore the cowardly Stomacke But if the Midriffe rise or any winde which our Dyet will speedily chase away Vineger Scilliticke or Sea Onion will keepe it downe Afterwards if they chance to breake this Dyet if it be but for a meale or two I wish them to fast the next meale after although it were more commendable Esuâ—ire inter epulas to rise vp with an Appetite For the Stone if Walter Caries Quintessence of Goates Blood which in his Farewell to Physicke he cals the Hammer for the Stone may not be gotten let the Party take Goates Blood and vse it after the Arabian manner That is dried in the Oâ—en and drunke in some Liquour More Medicines I could lay downe for this and other sicknesses but that I doubt our Practitioners of Physicke would indite me for intiusion into their Profession albeit I thinke they will bee more offended with me for the Publishing of this Dietary Cure then for any other Quarrell For I make no question but the same will both preuent and heale more Diseases then all their Recipes grounded but vpon coniecturall Prognostickes for the most part like vnto our Almanackes Me thinkes if it were nothing else but for the auoyding of Physitians Fees and Apâ—thâ—caries Bils that were a motiue sufficient to enduce vs to liue soberly Whereto might bee added the shortning of our dayes which their Drugges doe cause besides the poysoned relicks which they leaue behind them in the Body For we must vnderstand that all Purgations specially Electuaries soluble haue some venemous quality in them and likewise that the good humours aswell as the bad are exhausted by them to the future decay of health and the treacherous wasting of the Oyle of Life The like fatall inconuenience comes by Blood letting The eight SECTION Speciall Remedies against Sea sicknesses the Scuruy and against the annoyances of snow Frosts and cold Winds Wherein the cause of my Lord Baltimores Disasters in New-found Land this last Winter is debated THe Disasters which hapned to my Lord Baltimore and his Colony the last Winter at Feriland in our New-land Plantation by reason of the Scuruy haue mooued mee to inserte some more specifique Remedies against that Disease which not onely in those Climates beares dominion but likewise heere in England although hooded with other Titles yet commonly sprung of the same causes For sometimes the Scuruy is ingendred of outward Causes and sometimes from within the Body or from both And therefore they that dwell neere the Sea-side where the North-east Windes rage are most subiect to this infirmity Before the sayd Lord euer beganne his Plantation he cannot deny but I aduised him to erect his Habitation in the bottome of the Bay at Aquafort two leagues distant from that Place which for ought I heare is not much to be discommended and more into the Land where my people had wintred two yeares before and found no such inconuenience Nay his Lordship himselfe suspected the place sorâ—â— his Letters hee complayned that vnlesse hee might be beholding to me for the assignment of both those places out of my Grant he was in a manner disheartned to plante on that Coast by reason of the Easterly Windes which with the Mountaynes of Ice floating from Estotiland and other Northerne Countries towards New-found land rendred that Easterly shore exceeding cold Yet notwithstanding his Lordship beeing perswaded by some which had more experience in the gainefull Trade of Fishing then in the Scituation of a commodious Seate for the Wintring of his new Inhabitants bestowed all his charge of building at Fertland the coldest harbour of the Land where those furious Windes and Icy Mountaynes doe play and beate the greatest part of the Yeare Whereas if hee had built eyther at Aquafort or in the Westerly part in the Bay of Placentia which hath aboue 50. miles ouer-land betwixt it and that Easterne shore his enterprize had suceeeded most luckily And so this of Fertland might haue serued well for his profit in the Fishing and also for a pleasant Summer dwelling Sir Francis Tanfield vnder the right honourable the Lord Vicount Faulkland continued two yeares but three leagues more Southward at Renooz and did well enough in which place likewise my Colony remayned one Winter without any such mortall accidents But all Winters I confesse are not alike in that Country no more then they are here with vs in Europe Yea and here too in the same paralell the season differs Who will imagine that wee in Wales haue lesse Snow and Frosts then London and Essex And yet by experience wee finde it so whereof the very cause proceeds from the Easterne windes whose rigorous force before they arriue ouer land into our Westerne parts cannot but be much broken and abated Besides these Winds snows and Frâ—sts the Scuruy is ingendred by earing of those meates which are of corrupted iuice raw cold salted or of ill nourishment which breede grosse blood and melancholly Among which I reckon Bacon Fish Beanes Pease c. And among Drinkes I ranke all strong liquors whatsoeuer specially if they be taken in Frosty weather when the Stomacke ouer abounds with heate and consequently at that time most subiect to infiamations which when the Thâ—â—â— comes will certainely breake out into some dangerous disease Do but obserue how the Sap of Plants and Hearbes in Frosty seasons descends downe to the Roote as to the last refuge and helpe in Nature The which Plants if we should refresh with Chalke or Lime well may they flourish for a little while but their Fruite and themselues are of no continuance The like I may say of such as by strong liquors doe conceiue that they fortisie and comfort their stomackes in cold weather when as indeed they get but a sparkling heate like a blast that will quickly extinguish From hence arise the Scuruy Catarrhes Rhumes Coughs Feuers c. But leauing these Causes I will proceed to the Cure of this fatall sicknesse which now a dayes prooues a stumbling stone to the wisest Physitians by reason of the manifold symptomes and infirmities which accompany it able to deceiue Aesculapius himselfe First let the party that feares or suspects himselfe tainted change or ayre his apparrell putting on cleane shifts and linnen Secondly let him sleepe in boorded Roomes and if hee bee able to haue his Chamber Wainscotted or well dryed of those dampish sauours which stone or earthen walls are wont to euaporate and breath out Thirdly let him beate and burne one Acre of Land round about his dwelling Fourthly let him eate those meats which are tender light of digestioÌ„ that will not be soone corrupted chiefly fresh meats with dited sauce but moderately and without excesse Fiftly let him often vse the expressions of Currans Prunes or Reasins or Diaprunis or some of these in broath made with Manna Cassia Tamaâ—ind or Seene For these will loosen the Belly by their moysture and slippery faculty whose