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A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

administered therein ibid. They are often needlessely feared ibid. This season often colder than other seasons of the summer 251. 252 c. Dogs-flesh See uncouth flesh Dosis of medicines divers 278. Dreames and their severall kindes 338. Signification of dreames and whether they concerne the ficke 338. 339 340. Drinke and the utility thereof 312. What drinke is ibid. Division of Drinke and rules to be observed in the use thereof ibid. Quantity of Drinke ibid. The ordinary measures of Drinke among the ancients 113. Morning draught ibid. Strong Drinke not to bee used fasting ibid. Beginning the repast with a draught ibid. Drinke often used in ancient time to close up the stomacke 114. Drinking to Bed-ward 115. Drinke made of corne used by the ancients especially Aegyptians 125. Drinke made of corne with us differeth much from that of the ancients ibid. Drinke very usefull in many diseases but in hot and acute Fevers especially 183. Divers drinkes usefull for the diseased 198. 199 c. Drunkards breake all the Commandements 130. They are pernicious to a cōmon-wealth 132 To bee put to death by the Lawes of a Scottish King 133. They are often short lived and many times dye of long lingering diseases 137 No new sinne 129. What it is ibid. Nations taxed with drunkennesse ibid. It is the cause of great mischiefe to the mind and understanding 131. It procureth divers diseases to the body making the same also subject to many outward dangers 131 132. It proveth likewise often dangerous to the soule and many times overthroweth a mans temporall estate 132. It is unseemely to all estates and degrees 133. Diet hath divers significations and what properly among Physitians 1. Diet whether necessary for healthfull and sicke persons 3. Whether by Diet the life of man may bee prolonged for many yeeres 4. Diet cannot perpetuate the life of man and yet a most forcible meanes both to preserve and recover health 5. Diet of the Diseased but slenderly handled heretofore and by very few 140. Strictly observed among the Antients ibid. Among the Aegyptians and Locrians ibid. Diet of the Diseased in generall 162. 163. A full and liberall Diet A spare and strict Diet and the meane betwixt both 163. Hippocraticall Diet too rigid for our country climat ibid. Arabian Diet better suteth with our bodies ibid. Diet of the Diseased reduced into two heads the diseased and the disease it selfe 164. Diet in acute diseases how to be ordered 167. In intermitting Fevers ibid. In continuall Fevers without intermission ibid. In prescribing the Diet of the diseased divers things to be considered 165. 168. By whom the most sparing diet is to be observed 166. Diet drinke See drinke of the diseased E. Eares of beasts 75. Earth nourisheth not 30. Ebionites haereticks their abstinence See abstinence Eeles not wholesome 93. Egestion See excrements Egges and their nourishment 83. Egges whether fit for the sicke they are not so hot as is supposed by Hippocrates in acute diseases 176. 177. Egs man safely be allowed in fevers ibid. Egs of Hens best of all others ibid. Egs prepared after several waies in sicknesse and in health ibid. Markes of Egges and how to discerne a new laid Egge 178. Electuaries how taken 288. Elements pure and simple nourish not 21. 29 c. Elephants flesh See flesh Embrocations 293. Empericke-physitians Intr. 2. Empericke what ibid. Empericks of divers sorts ibid. Empericks abound here with us Intr. 3. Emulsitions their compositions and severall sorts of them 201. Emunctories in the body of man whereby excrements are expelled 225. Endive 49. Error of such as divulge secrets as they call them in the vulgar coung Int. 26. Esseans fast or abstinence see abstinence Evacuation what 226. Evacuations sometimes too much abound ibid Before Evacuations what to be considered ibid. Evacuations of severall sorts generall and particular when they maybe most liberall 228. Ewes milke See milke Excesse of the Persian Kings in their ordinary expences 106. Excrements of the guts or fecall excrements 313. Best excrements ib. Worse excrements Evill coloured excrements of divers sorts wormes in excrements Liquid excrements and the causes 314. Soft excrements with their causes hard excrements and their severall causes Quantity of excrements Time of egestion and how often it is usefull in sicknesse and in health ibid. 315. Exercise and the vtility thereof 211. Vsefull in sicknesse and in health Fittest time foe exercise 213. Violent exercise immediately after meales hurtfull to health c. ibid. Place fit for exercise the persons to be exercised the quantitie or duration quality order c. 213. 214. Exercises ought not to be too violent especially in some persons 214. Difference of exercise ibid. Exercises of the whole body Of some part mixt particular exercises ibid. Exercises of some particular profession 216. Exercise must differ according to severall constitutions 213. Exercise in what kinde of disease may be permitted 221. Exercises in chronicall diseases ibid. Exercises of the minde 217. Expectoration 323. Error in the use of expectoration ibid. Caveats in the use of expectorants preparation of the humors to be expectorated 324. Forme of expectorants ibid. Expectoration in diseases of the lungs and pectorall parts chiefely to be considered ibid. Expectoration ceasing in vlcers of the lungs and the presage thereof 26. Expressum See Broth. Eyes of beasts 75. Eyes full of resplendent spirits 354. F. Fable of the Foxe and the Crane 218. Fecall excrements See Excrements Fancie See Imagination Fascination and the severall sorts thereof 334. Fascination with the eyes ibid Fascination by speech and voice and how procured 333. Fast See abstinence Fatt of Beasts 74. Feare and the severall kindes thereof 39● Feare produceth strange effects in the body of man Feare may cause death What persons it hurteth most Feare and Griefe stirre vp melancholy in the body of man Sicke folks are carefully to avoid this passion and great circumspection for the prevention thereof to be used 393 394 395 396. Feet of beasts 75. Figges 65. Filbird See Nuts Fild fare 81. Fish and their severall kindes 88. Fresh-water fish 92 Fish in ancient times how prepared how in our time 182. Fish whether fit for the sicke ibid. What Fish fittest for the sicke ibid. Fisticke ibid. Flesh of severall sorts 72 c. Goodnesse of Flesh according to their severall circumstances 71. Vncouth Flesh 83. Flesh for the sicke and divers preparations made of the same 178 179 180. Flounder 89. Fluxes of divers sorts 315. In Fluxes astringent medicines cautelously to be used ibid. Fonticulous See searing Food See nourishment Food of a grosse slender and of a meane substance 34. Foot-ball play 214. Fore-spoken what See Fascination Fowle of severall sorts 77. Tame-fowle wilde-fowle 79 c. Water-Fowle 81. Frictions usefell for the sicke 221. Frogges See uncouth flesh Fruits and their nourishment 59. Fruits of severall kindes together with their qualities and nourishment ibid. Fruits what fittest for the sicke 172. Frumentie See white meat G.

attained to 90 yeeres of age replied that hee had rather die within ten yeeres then live a hundred yeeres by meanes of so strict a diet And I make no question that without seeking farre wee might easily find many of this Epicurean Kings mind but since that health comprehends within its compasse a great latitude it cannot be that a like diet should fit every individuall and particular person Such as by reason of a laudable temper and natural constitution of body even from their very cradle injoy a perfect health are by an extraordinary prerogative privileged above their neighbours and may more boldly deale with any kinde of diet but let even such not be too bold but wise and circumspect lest they be overtaken and although the constitution may be strong yet we know a strong and able horse may be overloaded and sometimes haue his backe broken and let the aliment be of as laudable a condition as it will and thy stomacke as strong as that of the Ostrich yet may it be mastered at length And consider well this sentence worthy to be ingraved with letters of gold Plures gula quam gladio periere The sword hath killed his thousands but gluttony his ten thousands How many generous gentlemen of noble parentage and of an ingenious and liberall education might have attained to Nestorian yeeres and shined like bright starres in their orbes by the great good they might have procured to their common countrey if they had not too much prostituted themselves to their sinfull and carnall pleasures and bin drowned too licentiously in their worldly delights which have too much now adaies ceized upon the most part of the Christian world Now such as are valetudinary and of a more crazie constitution ought in a stricter manner compose themselves to a more exact observation of physicall prescriptions Herodicus being but of a crazie constitution of body yet by vertue of his precise diet attained to the age of an hundred yeeres Asclepiades relied so much upon his diet that he would lay a wager against Fortune that hee would never assume to himselfe the name of a Physician if ever he fell sicke And surely who so considereth aright the fraile and crazie condition of the body of man dare scarce be so bold as to lay any such wager I count it for a miracle saith Plinie and finde but onely this one example that Xenophilus the Musitian lived an hundred and five yeeres without any bodily infirmity or as another calleth him Pythagoras of Chalcis Curtius relateth the life of the Philosopher Calanus who being surprized with a great loosenesse and fearing lest his former felicity of seventy three yeeres health should be by this noysome disease interrupted threw himselfe into the fire and so was consumed into ashes CHAP. II. Whether by meanes of Diet the life of man may be for many yeeres prolonged IT is reported of that famous Philosopher Theophrastus that dying he accused nature in that shee had given and granted to brute and unreasonable creatures a long and to man the noblest of all other creatures so short and so sorrowfull a life in so much that weighing both life and death in even and equall balance one might and not without cause doubt whether life or death were rather to be chosen as also in regard of the nights rest a man lives but the one halfe of his time that I say nothing also of the yeeres of infancy when as he liveth void of understanding and of old age his yeeres seeming to be produced to this period onely for a punishment witnesse so many cares and casualties so many dangers and sicknesses extorting so frequent an invocation of death that nothing seemeth more welcome then the fruition of such a wish But unjustly was noble nature of this unjust judge condemned before shee was heard For shee like a kinde and loving mother being very solicitous and carefull of the life of man hath not onely ministred unto him such things as are necessary for the maintaining and producing of his life but besides hath indued him with reason and given him hands to the end hee might more comfortably make use of such things as she in her bounty had bestowed upon him Now our life consisteth in moisture and heat neither is our life any thing else but a ioint-continuance of heat and moisture in our bodies But since our heat doth daily consume waste away this naturall and radicall moisture it is againe by the like humidity to be repaired Now this is performed by meanes of food both meat and drinke the right and moderate use whereof this dieteticall part doth instruct and direct the which also not onely maintaineth and entertaineth health present but helpeth also to recover that which is by sicknesse impaired and as some would have it produceth the life of man farre beyond the fatall period for all men appointed And some there were who by meanes of diet would promise the perpetuity of mans life and of a mortall man to make him immortall and such a one was that Sophist mentioned by Galen who promised immortality to all such whose education he had from their tender yeeres undertaken Galen is of opinion that the necessity of death can by no solid reason be demonstrated but confirmed by experience onely Some who would make good Galens assertion argue thus All men die either by meanes of externall or internall causes Externall causes which procure violent death are either such as may be avoided and befall the body of man from without as blowes bitings of venomous beasts and the like all which since they may easily be avoided come not within the compasse of this dietetiall art or else they are unavoidable and such be the things we call not naturall by the excesse and defect of the which diseases are ingendred and death doth thereon ensue In the golden mediocrity consisteth this health we now discourse of the which whosoever shall strictly observe shall prolong his life for many yeeres This mediocrity did our forefathers in that first and golden age of the world strictly observe and so many of them attained 900. and some neere 1000. yeeres Neither are we to suppose that these were Lunary yeeres or of the age of a Moone onely as S. Austine proves against Pliny and Baro. But yet further the longevity of these our forefathers did not onely depend upon their simple diet but there was besides a speciall providence in prolonging their lives and that as well for the multiplication of mankinde as also by meanes of their long lives they might the better attaine to the knowledge of the arts and sciences mathematicall especially and that part principally which concerneth the motion of the celestiall orbes which required no small time The internall causes of naturall and fatall death are according to Galen three naturall drinesse the continuall wasting of our triple substance and the abundance

often very truely verified many times for a little land they take a foole by the hand But because it is an easie matter for an ordinary understanding to make a large cōment upon this Text I here leave it wishing people to be wiser and not so much wrong their children as is now adaies the custome which oftentimes brings the gray-haires of the parents to the grave with sorrow and a too late repentance had I knowne so much c. The antient heathens against this used mans blood against this intoxication and histories make mention of Faustina daughter to the Emperour Antoninus Pius and wife to Antoninus the Philosopher who fell so farre in love with a sword-player that this Emperour asked counsell of all his wisards what was the readiest and speediest way to cure this strong and violent affection and they being instructed by their Master Satan a murderer from the beginning advised him to put to death this sword-player and that afterward Faustina should drinke up a good draught of his warme blood and then get her to bed to her husband which accordingly was performed of the which copulation was ingendred that cruell Emperor Commodus who with his frequent sword-plaies and slaughter of his subiects had almost quite over throwne the whole Roman common wealth And howbeit this woman was thus freed yet is this no warrant for the use of such a remedy although some of the antients have set downe this as a remedy both against this and the Epilepsie The Paracelsists promise wonders of mans blood as Paracelsus himselfe promiseth by a secret made of mans blood to cure all Epileptick diseases And one Ioh. Ernestus Burgravius maketh a lamp of mans blood called brolychnium or lampas vitae mortis Of this lampe of life and death hee promiseth wonders to wit that it shall burne as long as the party of whose blood it was made continueth and goe out at the same instant that the party dieth and withall that as this lamp burneth cleare and quietly without any sparkling the party shall live with freedome from any infirmity either of body or minde but if otherwise it sparkle or the light be dimme and obscure and the flame be sometimes lighter than at other times then it is a token of anxiety heavinesse and the like Credat Iudaeus apella Let them beleeve it who list It is not unknowne how Satan hath from the beginning thirsted after mans blood hence have wee so many sacrifices of mankinde as in antient stories recorded so even unto these our times so many still continue as our Spanish narrations make mention of the Westerne parts of the world And hence was if also that hee suggested to his ministers so many remedies composed not onely of the blood but of divers other parts of the body of man and as our Magicians still teach their too too credulous disciples as an antient Father well observeth But now it may be asked whether one may die of love inseeming not to offer that violence to nature as to extinguish this lampe of life ● I answer that this passion as we have heard may emaciat dry up and exhaust all the radicall moisture of the body And so although it doe not worke such a sudden impression upon the body whereby it is in an instant overthrowne yet doth it by degrees so extenuate and debilitate the whole body that it is thereby often cast into an irrecoverable consumption And with histories in this kind it were easie to make up a great volume Schenchius maketh mention of a maid who being by her parents crossed of a match intended betwixt her and a young man pined away and died many I make no question can instance of many in their owne experience as it were easie for my selfe to doe also but that I hasten to other matter And besides because I thinke few of judgement will make any doubt thereof I will therefore leave it To this place also we may referre iealousie called zelotypia being nothing else but the excesse of love with a continuall feare of being deprived of that they love or at least of having any corrivall which often maketh a man or woman to lose the use of reason insomuch that the minde is never at rest And this feare is merely imaginary I meane without any just cause and sometimes there is too just cause ministred It behooveth therefore both man and woman to be carefull in their choice and afterwards to give no just occasion to bring their reputation in question Some instances of jealousies both justly and unjustly conceived a r famous late Physitian setteth downe A certaine Merchant of a chiefe towne in Switzerland a man of good account and esteeme in that place being divorced from his former wife married another being a maide who bare him divers children After certaine yeeres perceiving his man too familiar with his Mistresse conceived a strong iealousie of his wife which caused him the more narrowly to observe her carriage Vpon a time he fained himselfe to goe a iourney into the countrie about some earnest businesse and yet in the evening conveied himselfe secretly into a chamber next adioining to his owne bed-chamber where he might easily observe what passed and within a short space es●ies his man come boldly to his Mistresse where he killed them both in the very act of adultery and then as is the custome of that country laid certaine pieces of mony upon their dead corpses which was a signe that they were taken in this filthy act and might therefore lawfully be killed the matter being afterwards examined hee was acquitted of the fact The same Authour maketh mention of a Doctor of the civill law in the South part of France who was very iealous of his wife and not without iust cause and suspecting her familiarity with a Scrivener so narrowly observed her actions that one day hee comes rushing into the roome where shee and this Scrivener were together being in his owne house masqued and accompanied with many schollers students in law where he first bindes him hand and foot then cut off his nose his yard and afterwards cut his hamstrings and so let him goe the same maimed Scrivener sayth mine Author I saw afterwards at Montpelier going upon crutches and in a miserable and wretched case drawing his lame leggs after him A just recompence for adulterers and it were to be wished we might see some such exemplary punishment inflicted upon such as thus neigh after their neighbours wives since especially Moses law that the adulterer should dy the death which in all the Germane countries is in force is not here with us in force The ● same Auth●● 〈…〉 yet mention of another ev●n me jealous of his wife and yet with out any cause This was a scholler newly returned out of France who married Do●●●● of physickes daughter with whom a long time before h●e had been 〈◊〉 love 〈◊〉 Doctor had a

regard it a little more It was a care worthy of commendation those antient Fathers had in former times in constituting so many worthy Canons in their counsels against this odious sinne And hence came it to passe that as well in all the Churches of the East as also in Greece it selfe it was forbidden Clergy-men to enter into Tavernes or victualling-houses except in trauailing And that even the heathen Priests at least many of them did either wholly or at least some daies before their sacrifices abstaine from strong drinke may by antients histories appeare The Aegyptian priests abstained all their life long from wine and flesh as witnesseth S. Ierome And concerning other Priests by many other places it may appeare And concerning the Esseans it is by Iosephus recorded that they abstained altogether from wine Since then the holy fathers in former times were so vigilant and carefull to prevent this loathsome sin of drunkennesse in the Clergy as appeareth by the former canons and constitutions what care and circumspection ought there now to be had therof in this our age when as the light of the Gospell is not now set under a bushell but with its bright beames shineth overall this our Goshen I hope the reverend Fathers of the Church in a laudable imitation of antiquity will narrowly looke into this so enormious and swinish a sinne If the watchman bee overtaken with strong drinke what shall become of his charge he is set over If the minister bee a drunkard how shall he reprove this sinne in his Parishioners Or if hee doe may they not reply Medice cura teipsum Physitian heale thy selfe Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum It was a worthy saying of a learned man that Drunkennesse in a Lay man was a great and hainous sinne but in a Clergy-man a sacriledge whereby the one suffocats and kills his soule the other the Clergy-man quite extinguish the holy Spirit It were therefore to bee wished that as David would have no liar to dwell in his house so a drunkard should not have the charge of soules in Gods house Too much moisture will extinguish a light wherefore if this cannot be amended I wish such might bee removed and better burning lights set up in their roomes And if any shall thinke this too sharpe a censure I answere that sometimes for lesser matters some have been as sharply censured And whereas men are often so Eagle-eyed that they can espy a broken pane in a glasse window or a stone broken up in the Church pavement I wish there might be the like vigilancie and circumspection in presenting punishing of drunkards especially the Minister if such ● parish I speake not here against the keeping of Gods house in that orderly decencie becomming the same but I would not have mint and cumin tithed and weightier matters of the Law neglected It is a true saying Vivimus exemplis non regulis People are are apter to imitate the life and conversation of their minister especially in any sinne whereunto all Adams sinfull off-spring are prone enough by nature than his doctrine And I wish these two golden sentences were deepely engraven in all Clergy mens breasts Sonne of man I have set thee a watchman c. And that of the new Testament If the blinde lead the blind they shall both fall into the ditch Clergy-men often complaine that they are not in that esteeme and account as the eminency of their calling requireth and I confesse it to be too true but withall I advertise them that many times this proceedeth from themselves and besides they are often the cause that many honest ministers have the same aspersion howbeit undeservedly cast upon them But because I purpose not to uncover my parents nakednesse I leave this point which I have onely touched occasionally and by the way Since then drunkennesse is so loathsome and detestable a sinne so hurtful both to the soule and body leaving both liable to Gods curse so hatefull to God and man and by which all Gods commandements are broken it being so great an enemie also to the common-wealth and so great an enemy to the health of the body is it not fit that such offenders should be condignely punished And if many yeeres agoe som Germane writers did even then acknowlege some judgements which had then befalne that Nation and others then threatned which neverthelesse were but flea-bitings to that hath since befalne them was by reason of this beastly and swinish sinne of drunkennesse what may we say now But this I leave to them whom it most concerneth to handle such a subject I confesse indeed we have good and wholesome lawes enacted against drunkennesse and I praise God for it and withall my wish is there were no neglect in the execution I could likewise wish that the superfluous number of Ale-houses the very nurseries and upholders of this swinish sinne did not so much exceed It seemeth that howsoever drunkennesse is no new-upstart yet in antient times people were not come to that height of brazen-faced impudency to bee drunke in the day time but as it is a worke of darkenesse so was it the custome to be most used in the night-season as may by the Apostles speech appeare They that are drunke are drunke in the night But now people are come to that height of impudency and have so steeled their fore-heads against all shame that they dare even in the sight of the Sun yea in the open view of the world yea even before God and all his heavenly host of Angels reele drunk up and downe the streets It was againe wont to be a proverbial speech Drunke like a begger but now many of the Gentry alas the more is the pitty doe assume this as a prerogative to grace their gentility And what a pitty is it now to see Gentle-men of faire estates of antient houses descended of noble parentage and pedegree so farre to wrong themselves as in Tavernes and Tap-houses to become a companion to any base varlet swill-bowle tosse-pot and pot-companion If their noble predecessors of martiall courage and invincible valour men famous in their generations among whom many spared not their blood for the defence of their countrie and to purchase peace to the publicke should now behold these their degenerate successors with their busie heads long love-locks slasht sutes Italianised Frenchised Espaniolised and what not and besides should yet see their excesse in gluttony and drunkennesse chambring and wantonnesse in taverns ale-houses play-houses and whoore-houses and neglecting that antient hospitality and good house-keeping which heretofore hath been so common in this kingdome I leave to the judicious reader to judge what they would say to such a sight But if I should proceed in this point I should lose my selfe and too much inlarge this discourse Onely this counsell I shall be bold to give to some that are most exorbitant

of the body And Galen in many places of his workes doth not a little extoll and magnifie exercise as in these words following To mainetaine our bodies in good health we must beginne with labour and exercise And elsewhere To maineteine the body in good health the moderate exercise of the body is marvellous usefull and necessary but on the contrary rest ease and idlenesse are very hurtfull And in the same book hee affirmeth That both himselfe and a companion of his for the space of many yeeres lived in very good health hee attributed to the moderate and seasonable use of their exercise by meanes whereof crudities were avoided And of the same minde is the learned Celsus Sluggishnesse saith he dulleth the body exercise and labour maketh it firme and strong the one hasteneth on old age the other prolongeth the time of youth And the opinion of Plato is that exercise strengtheneth but ease and idlenesse corrupteth the body But fearing to trespasse too much upon the readers patience in the enumeration of more Authorities I come next to the time and then to the several sorts of exercises of us seriously to be considered The fittest and most opportune time for exercise is agreed upon among all our Physitians in the generall to be best before meales when concoction is accomplished to be seene in the urines And as for the particular time of the day the morning is both by Hippocrates and of others preferred before any other time of the day Howsoever let this alwaies carefully be observed that thy exercise be not undertaken before thy food be well concocted and that now the time of thy next repast approach And this a late Writer proveth both by reasons and the example of Alexander the great And Hippocrates mentioning the moderate use of divers things which concerne the life of man ranketh labour and exercise in the first place Let labour or exercise and meat and drinke carnall copulation and sleepe all be used with moderation And Celsus wisheth those who in the day time have been busied either with their owne private or else with the publike affaires of the Common-wealth to set apart sometime wherein they may take care of their owne body Now the principall care thereof consisteth in the use of exercise and ought alwaies to be used before meales and hee that hath taken lesse paines and his food be well concocted may use it more freely but he that hath beene toiled out with labour and hath not well concocted his food let him use exercise more sparingly And this was the sauce the noble Cyrus used in all his warlike expeditions for saith Xenophon he never supped before he had sweat or had performed some warlike exploit or some rusticall and country imploiment and by this meanes inioyed his health perpetually And besides being not only sollicitous of himselfe but also of all his souldiers servants health he had an especiall care that they were never admitted either to dinner or supper before they had laboured hard And the Egyptian youth by the command of Amasis did not eat before they had run about 20 miles and Tully relateth that Denis the Tyrant having supped with the Lacedemonians said hee cared not much for their blacke-broth which was notwithstanding the principall dish of the feast whereunto the Cooke replied that it was no marvell for saith hee the sauce was wanting What sauce saith the Tyrant Labour and exercise saith hee in hunting sweating running hunger and thirst for these be the sauces wee Lacedemonians use And Hippocrat●● hath one particular precept to this purpose to use exercise before our meales Labour and exercise saith he must goe before our meales But to use exercise especially if it be violent immediatly after meals is altogether unfit for the health of man And that by reason it filleth the body full of crudities from whence proceed strong and often invincible and incurable obstructions the orignall and as I may say the mother of most Fevers and a multitude of other diseases for the foode being before concoction violently expelled out of the stomacke must needes much annoy the body Let such therefore looke to themselves and be warned who immediatly after meales give themselves to any violent exercise as jumping dancing and the like violent motions and agitations of the body Having now sufficiently discoursed of the time wee come next to the place Now the place where exercise is used is not of small consequence as whether it be in a towne or in the country and in particular whether within doores or without in a warme aire or in a cold whether in a blustring windie or in a calme and quiet aire We are againe to consider the place wee tread on or whether it bee hard or soft grassie dusty sandy wet with water or snow or whether hard or dry And againe we are to consider the time of the yeere whether in Sommer or Winter which doe intend or remit the manner of exercise Violent exercise in Sommer in the heat of the Sunne heateth much dissolveth and melteth the humors and procureth distillations and where the braine aboundeth with humors the head weake and the stomacke stuffed with crudities it occasioneth sometimes death or at least very dangerous diseases And in Winter exercises in the Sun being violent cause wearinesse inward impostumes as pleuresies in hot countries I thinke especially such as is Spaine where this author lived In the shade it is safer yet ought it to be shorter in Sommer and lesse violent but in Winter it may bee more violent In the use of exercise againe we are to consider the persons to be exercised as whether men or women young or old weake or strong for according to these and other the like circumstances the manner of exercise must bee ordered and altered The strong may use stronger exercise than the weake and the man other exercise than the woman and againe the same patient is to alter his exercise according to the seasons of the yeere and other circumstances Children againe are not to use such exercise as able young men and old age must use such exercise as becommeth that age Cholericke persons also are not so much to exercise their bodies as the phlegmaticke and other constitutions and withall their exercise must be gentler and the like is to bee said of thinne extenuate dry bodies who by strong and violent exercise are much in damaged And exercise in the quality must also bee accommodated according to severall circumstances as hath beene touched already and shall more particularly hereafter appeare And in it we consider first the manner of exercise whether violent or no whether by lifting any great weight a lighter or of a middle size and whether it bee continued or interrupted whether the motion bee swift or slow Wee are againe in it to consider the site and posture of the bodie moved as whether it stand

Angell of light or darknesse this being also a thing most certaine that hee neither can nor dare in the least point exceed his commission And therefore it is altogether without sense or reason to aske if then the tutelary Angells leave their charge as though God had now forsaken them I answer that his is meant of either his owne electiones and then he somtimes leaves them to Satan to try for a time as he did to Iob or else they are reprobate Ahab who was by lying Prophets seduced and that by Satans inspiration although by Gods owne direction Hath not the Potter power over the clay to make of it a vessell of honour or dishonour And to no more purpose is it that because it is said The uncorruptible Spirit of the Lord is in all things and that from the Spirit of Gods mouth proceede the vertues of all things with such other places which for brevity I here passe by therefore God doth not make use of inferiour Angells And therefore there was no neede of the enumeration of so many places to so small purpose no man calling in question the power of Gods Spirit But whereas the defendant would from hence inferre such a new spirit of Paracelsus and his owne forging to operate in this weapon-salve we have at least as good reason to deny it I cannot here for brevity insist upon the severall acceptations of this word spirit in holy Writ but must leave it with the true meaning of the severall places alleaged to those who have more leisure and meanes to effect the same Yet sure I am that in all holy Scripture there is no such signification of spirit as is here intended But now I proceed to the salve it selfe the ingredients and manner of use or application As for the ingredients the various waies of composition doe evidently evince the vanity and nullitie of the operation of this ointment Some indeed set downe a number of various ingredients collected after a superstitious manner Some againe are not so scrupulous and superstitious either in the number of simples or curious composition some contenting themselves with dogges grease and a learned late Writer relateth an insianee in a woman of high Germany who professed shee onely stucke a sticke or weapon in a piece of lard and had as good successe as others with their most curious composed ointment And it is there usuall with others to sticke a knife or any other thing that hath hurt them or a sticke in stead of it in a loafe of bread or in the earth it selfe and yet say they followeth still the same effect And this I thinke were sufficient to confute this weapon-salve if there were no more But it is to be observed that whereas blood by our defendant is accounted one of the principall ingredients of this ointment how commeth it then to passe that Crollius as it were Paracelsus his owne genius doth omit the same But howsoever since such an account is made of the blood I will not quite passe over it in silence It is then demanded why God gave so strict a charge to his owne people of Israel that they should eat no blood if not for this reason that the life is in the blood I answer that indeed the blood is the vehicle and receptacle of life which is communicated to the whole body But this was not the reason why God forbad them the eating of the blood of beasts but as that worthy light of the Church Calvin allegeth In this prohibition God would accustome men to a gentle and milde kinde of diet and lest then being too much accustomed to the eating of blood they should afterwards be imboldned to shed mans blood which is the principall scope is here aimed at Besides as the same Authour allegeth that the flesh and the blood are not here as divers and distinct set downe as differing so much one from another but the same in substance and yet was the flesh of beasts even then permitted to be eaten and so was the milke being nothing else but blood refined and dealbuted or whitened in these gloobus mamillarie glands Moreover if this had beene simply and in it selfe a sinne and had obliged us adsemper for ever then had it beene still a finne the contrary whereof is true this ceremoniall precept being but a part of that legall pedagogie as the difference of meats cleane and uncleane and the like And the blood of the murthered cries as loud in these our times as ever it did after the death of Abel this being still a crying sinne and this being a figurative speech as the plantiffe hath sufficiently proved And howsoever blood by some be esteemed for one of the principall ingredients in this salve yet saith the same learned Libavius Surgeans hold mans blood to be poyson to wounds and that the cure is thereby rather hindred than helped and put the case it were indeed helpefull yet were this onely applyed and not at so farre a distance And as for the spirits in the blood wee justly deny so active operating spirits in the blood now separated from the body And besides admit there were any such matter yet were all spirits alike efficacious Hath a heavy melancholicke or phlegmaticke blood as active spirits as a quick cholerick and firy blood And what if the blood be putrefied by the poxe plague poison or any other contagious disease the blood being starke naught shall these corrupt spirits be so powerfull and efficacious Surely the more we stirre in this businesse the more it stinketh And whereas it is said that of mans blood with the spirit of wine is extracted a spirit whereof is made that burning lamp which will burne as long as the party whose blood it is liveth and at his death goe quite out with divers other like allegations I answer that even in this they then confesse that this blood is actuated by meanes of this operating menstruum the spirit of wine and therefore no such efficious power proceeding from so farre a distance can be the cause of this cure Besides that the right spirit of wine is to be knowne for such if it be suddenly quite consumed with the flame and put the case the blood might a little retardate and hinder this operation yet could it neither wholly inhibit the operation of this devouring element nor could there such strange effects follow as are related of this lumpe But for brevity I passe by all other things concerning this point The fat is likewise forbidden to be eaten howbeit no vehicle of life the flesh permitted notwithstanding to bee eaten being farre neerer the substance of blood as hath beene already proved Againe as for the bones of the skull mummy and skull-mosse or usnea by them called the essence I say rather the excrement of the skull being now but parts of the cadaver or dead corps them cannot bee that