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A05367	Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonardus Lessius, and now done into English.; Hygiasticon. English	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. English.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637, attributed name.; Sheppard, Thomas, attributed name.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Esser miglior la vita parca della splendida & sontuosa. English.	1634 (1634)	STC 15520; ESTC S113348	68,762	319

bloud there cannot be made good nourishment in the bodie but of necessitie the whole temper of the bodie is corrupted and so becomes subject to diseases For the third concoction which is made in the small pores of the bodie where the bloud is assimilated to every part which it is to nourish and lastly disposed to the receiving of the form thereof cannot mend the second By this means the temper of the bodie through these Crudities is by little and little altered and marred and made subject to many inconveniences Again the cruditie of the Chylus is a cause that the veins through the whole bodie are replenished with impure and foule bloud and such as is mingled with many evill humours which in tract of time do by little and little putrifie and at last upon occasion of Labour Heat Cold Windes and the like are set on fire breaking out into great and perilous diseases whereby an innumerable companie of men do perish even in the flower of their age These inconveniences a sober course of Diet prevents by taking away the Crudities which are the cause of all For when there is no more taken in then the stomack can well concoct and afterwards sufficient space of time is allowed thereunto Crudities cannot arise but the Chylus is made good and agreeable to Nature And from good Chylus good bloud is bred And from good bloud there followeth good nourishment and good temper in and throughout the whole bodie By this means also the putrefaction of the humours in the veins is avoyded as likewise obstructions in the inward parts and those superfluous excrements which do so often vex and molest the head and inward parts and joynts of the bodie So that a good constitution of the bodie and health is hereby preserved For they consist in these two things to wit in the due proportion and symmetrie of the humours both in respect of their quantitie and qualitie and in a certain spongie kinde of disposition throughout the whole bodie having no let nor impediment by obstructions so that the spirits and bloud have their free passage and recourse through all parts Nor doth Sobrietie onely prevent the Cruditie of humours and the evill consequences arising thereupon but it doth also consume the superfluous humours and that much more safely and effectually then bodily exercise doth as the famous Doctour Viringus doth learnedly shew in his 5. Book concerning Fasting chap. 3 4 5. For Labour doth confusedly stirre the bodie and alwayes exerciseth some parts more then other and most commonly onely some few parts alone and that oft times with a great perturbation in the humours with much heat and hazard of sicknesse especially of Feavers Pleurisies and severall kindes of Distillations upon sundry parts which breed much grief and pain But Abstinence peirceth farre more inwardly even unto the very entralls and to all the joynts and knittings in the bodie and doth with ease and equalitie make a generall evacuation For it extenuates that which is overthickened it opens that which is closed it consumes those things that are superfluous it unlocks the passages of the spirtis and makes the spirits themselves the more cleare and that without disturbance of the humours without fluxes and pains without heating the bodie and without hazard of diseases without expense of time or losse and neglect of better employments Notwithstanding it must needs be granted That Exercise if it be used in due time and do not exceed measure is very profitable and to many necessarie Yet ordinarily to such as leade temperate and sober lives and follow their studies being much given to the employments of the minde there is no great need of long walks or other long-continued exercises whereby much time is wasted and lost but it is sufficient if onely for the space of a quarter or half an houre before meals they use to swing or to tosse a Barre Stoole or some such like heavy thing or taking in each hand a weight of 2 or 3 pounds they strike and swing their arms about them the one after the other as if they fought with a shadow These are Exercises which many grave and worthy men even Cardinalls themselves do use and that not undecently in their Chambers And there is no other which I know that doth more stirre all the muscles of the breast and of the back nor more rid the joynts of superfluous humours then these forenamed Exercises do CHAP. VI. Of two other Commodities which it brings to the Bodie 33. THe second Commoditie is That a sober Diet doth not onely preserve from those diseases which are bred by crudities and inward corruptions of the humours but it doth also arm and fortifie against outward causes For they who have their bodies free and untainted and the humours well tempered are not so easily hurt by Heat Cold Labour and the like inconveniences as other men are who are full of ill humours and if at any time they be prejudiced by these outward inconveniences they are much sooner and easilyer cured The self same comes to passe in wounds bruises puttings out of joynt and breaking of bones in regard that there is either no flux at all of ill humours or at least very little to that part that is affected Now the flux of humours doth very much hinder the cure and causeth pain and inflammations Our Authour doth confirm this by a notable proof in himself num 11. Furthermore a sober Diet doth arm and fortifie against the Plague for the venime thereof is much better resisted if the bodie be cleare free Whereupon Socrates by his Frugalitie and Temperance brought to passe that he himself was never sick of the Plague which oft times greatly wasted the citie of Athens where he lived as Laertius writeth libro 2. de vitis Philosophorum 34 The third Commoditie of a sober Diet is That although it do not cure such diseases as are incurable in their own nature yet it doth so much mitigate and allay them as they are easily born and do not much hinder the functions of the minde This is seen by daily experience for many there be who have ulcers in their Lungs hardnesse of the Liver or Splene the Stone in the reins or in the bladder old drie Itches and inveterate distempers in their Bowells swellings in the Guts waterish Ruptures divers other kindes of Burstnesses who yet notwithstanding by the help of good Diet onely prolong their lives a great while and are alwayes cheerfull and expedite to the affairs and businesses of the minde For as these diseases are very much exasperated by over-eating so that they do very much afflict Nature and in a short space overthrow it so by a sober course of life they are maruellously allayed and mitigated insomuch as very little inconvenience is felt by them nor do they much shorten the ordinarie race of mens lives CHAP. VII That it makes men to live long and

HYGIASTICON OR The right course of preserving Life and Health unto extream old Age Together with soundnesse and integritie of the Senses Judgement and Memorie ¶ Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius And now done into English ¶ Printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge 1634. The things contained in this following Book 1. Lessius his Hygiasticon 2. Cornaro's Treatise of Temperance translated by Master George Herbert 3. A discourse translated out of Italian Ecclus. 37. 28 29 30. Be not unsatiable in any daintic thing nor too greedie upon meats For excesse of meats bringeth s●cknesse and surfeting will turn into choler By surfeting have many perished but he that taketh ●eed prolongeth his life ¶ To the Reader The Preface of the Publisher of the ensuing Treatises WE do not well this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us now therefore come that we may go and tell the Kings houshold Thus reasoned the L●pers that first came to the knowledge of the Syrians flight and Israels deliveratice And the application of their arguments hath in a much like case produced now the like resolution Having been a witnesse of the late discoverie of a richer Mine then any of those which golden PERV affords LIFE and HEALTH and vigarous STRENGTH of Minde and Bodie generall PLENTIE and private WEALTH yea and VERTVE it self inasmuch as for the 〈◊〉 part the conditions of the Minde ●ollow the temper of the Bodie being to be extracted thence with very little pain and cost and without any danger at all I have thought my self bound so give publick notice thereof to the world And so much the rather as having been a Spectatour onely I finde my self de●arred from that plca of modestie wherewith the Adventurers excuse themselves from the publication of this Treasure But who knoweth whether I have not in part been restrained from the credit of partnership to mine own private good to this intent that I might be enforced to become the Publisher of it for common benefit Surely me thinks as in some regard my want of Interest in the businesse makes my testimonie of the more validitie for who will not beleeve a witnesse giving in evidence to his own prejudice so it seems to impose on me a kinde of necessity of acquainting the world therewith if happily by the promotion of others good I may help to redeem● mine own negligence This good effect I hope may follow to mine own advantage upon this publication as on the contrarie I might justly be afraid of multip●ying damage and doubling punishment upon my head for the unjust concealment as well as for the not practi●ing of that which I cannot but approve most excellent and beneficiall to all those ends that a wise man and a Christian should aim at In this regard I hope the pious and charitable Reader and none but such I invite will help me rather with his prayers and a fair acceptance of my hearty desires of his good then censure or despise my want of absolute conformitie to that which I ex●ort him unto And thus much touching my self and the reasons that have moved me to the publication of these ensuing Treatises The middlemost of which as it was first written in order of time so it was in translation and therefore I will begin with it Master George Herbert of blessed memorie having at the request of a Noble Personage translated it into English sent a copie thereof not many moneths before his death unto some friends of his who a good while before had given an attempt of regulating themselves in matter of Diet Which although it was after a very imperfect manner in regard of that exact course therein prescribed yet was of great advantage to them inasmuch as they were enabled through the good preparation that they had thus made to go immediately to the practise of that pattern which Cornarus had set them and so have reaped the benefit thereof in a larger and eminenter manner then could otherwise possi●ly have been imagined in so short a space Not long after Lessius his book by happie chance or to speak better by gracious providence of the Authour of Health and all other good things came to their hands Whereby receiving much instruction and confirmation they requested from me the Translation of it into English Whereupon hath ensued what you shall now receive It was their desire to have the Translation entire and finding no just reason to the contrary 1 have been willing to satisfie them therein Mast●r Herbert professeth and so it is indeed apparant that he was enforced to leave out something out of Cornarus but it was not any thing appertaining to the main subject of the book but chiefly certain extravagant excursion● of the Authour against the Reformation of Religion which in his time was newly begun Neither his old blinde zeal nor the new and dangerous profession of Lessius will as we hope breed any scandal or discredit to these present works of theirs nor to the Imitatours of them with any discreet and sincere Protestants That they wore both Papists and the one of them a Jesuite is no prejudice to the truth of what they write concerning Temperance In the prosecution whereof we ought not onely to agree with them but to seek to advance and excell them in●smuch as the puritie of our Religion exacts a more perfect endeavouring after all manner of true vertue then theirs can do We have not therefore judged it meet either to wave or to disguise the conditio● of the Authours but rather to give notice thereof esteeming that as Treakle is made of Vipers so from this very poysonous superstition on their parts an excellent Cordiall may be extracted for the benefit of all that truely feare God and sincerely desire to serve him who cannot but make a conscience of being inferiour in the practise of Vertue to them over whom they are so much superiour is the knowledge of the Truth The qualitie of the Authour being thus known the Iudicious Reader will not finde any cause of stumbling at his commendation of some persons or institutions nor at his use of some kinde of phrases answerable to his Religion That which was of notorious scandal hath received correction In those thing which may receive a favourable construction or are not of any great moment it hath not been thought fit to make any alteration because it could not indeed be well done without obsouring or almost utterly dissolving the frame of the Discourse The names of Hermites and Monkes are perhaps offensive to weak mindes that have onely heard of the superstition and villanie of the late professours thereof and have not heard or do not beleeve the verrue and true holinesse of those in the Primitive times But since they are not brought in here for proof of any controversall points but onely as instances to confirm the