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A63817	A way to health, long life and happiness, or, A discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisite for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise &c., with special directions how to use each of them to the best advantage of the body and mind : shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed and how to prevent them : to which is added a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the whole treatise displaying the most hidden secrets of philosophy ... / communicated to the world for the general good by Thomas Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3201; ESTC R30173	347,235	536

which proves not only chargeable but many times continues their ill Habits of Body and this is apt to make Men grumble fret and repine and thereunto the other Cross-accidents usually attending Married Persons as encrease of Charge the uncertain Gains and the certain Expences the hazards of Child-bearing the crying and noise of Children and their Death the Lamentation of a tender loving Wife refusing to be comforted for her Children because they are not or if there be no Children then the Discontents of Barrenness and Rachel's out-cry Give me Children or else I dye All these Troubles Inconveniences and many others too tedious to instance are apt to hover round the Marriage-Bed and therefore it ought to be well fortified with a fixed and unalterable Love founded on Virtue Piety and Iudgment for want of which Multitudes of both Sexes as soon as the Honey-Moon is past and the first fervours of their Passion glutted and slipt away as a Dream do become burthened and uneasy and spend in vain a thousand Wishes That they were single again For in truth Marriage does very rarely answer the Ends of those that chiefly propose Pleasure Money or the satisfaction of any particular Lust or Passion therefore none are happy or can answer the End for which Marriage was ordained but only those who chuse their Yoke-fellows in the fear of the Lord and from a well-composed Disposition and pure natural Affections not having an Eye to Money Honour Idleness Lusts or a petulant Abuse of the Creative Power of God for Man is the Image of God and his Son and Off-spring therefore they ought not to take unto themselves Wives of all that they like as the Sons of God are complained of to have done Gen. 6. They saw the Daughters of Men were fair and they chose unto themselves Wives of all that they liked not what the Lord liked nor in his fear but what themselves liked that is for Lust Honour Self-ends which was all contrary to God's Law and Commandment therefore the Lord was provoked to Wrath and they brought forth Gyants Monsters and Destroyers and the Lord cut short their days My Spirit shall not always strive with Man nevertheless his days shall be an hundred and twenty years Here you see Man's Life was abridged by reason of their unfit Marriages and the Corruption of their Conversation whereby Mankind became corrupted in the very Root whence proceeds not only fierce beastial Inclinations and Dispositions but a great number of Diseases which many bring into the World with them of which most are incurable 6. There are but very few Persons that do keep to or observe the Rules of Temperance in the use of the Marriage-Bed but are generally too indulgent and immoderate in the Pleasures of Venus which of all others are most inticing and seems more natural than any other Superfluity but it is also the most dangerous both to the health of the Body and Mind for when Men give themselves up thereunto it destroys the vigour of the Understanding make the mind poor base and effeminate and as to the Elements of the Body it weakens and consumes them and by degrees Contracts such Diseases as strike at and corrupt the very Root of Nature In a word nothing more Unmans a Man than this sort of Intemperance therefore the following Rules and Observations will be beneficial to all that shall observe them 1st Every one ought to be Temperate in Meats and Drinks and to eat those things as are naturally equal in their parts and to avoid all Rich Cordial Drinks and Spiced Compositions for such things over-heat the Blood and open all the Gates of the Venereal Property whence proceed irregular and vehement Inclinations which ought to be avoided Instead of such Excesses you will do well to entertain proper Labour and Exercise which will prevent the Generation of such Superfluous Matter and this will be the more effectual if sometimes you will be so kind as by Abstinence to give Nature time to Concoct her Crudities and Fast at the least eight or ten hours between your Meals For in truth were People but sensible what Benefits attend moderate Fasting there would not be so many secret Gluttons in the World and a great part of that Debauchery whereby so many Estates are swallowed so many Families dishonoured and so many Persons Bodies weakened and decayed would be prevented 2dly All young People ought to refrain the reading the Books of Romances Plays c. whose chief Subject is to treat of Wanton Love-stories and also to avoid idle Venereal Discourses and Lascivious Pictures which do secretly and insensibly stir up and strengthen the Venereal Qualities of Nature and cause Youth to think and do that which otherwise would never have fallen within their Imagination and having once got possession in the Soul they will soon wholly subdue and captivate it for when once a young Person of either Sex has bassled Modesty the Life-guard of Chastity or if once they have suffered the fort of their Virginity to be irregularly stormed tho they shall never so much repent of and resolve against such Folly for the future yet they will find it a very hard Task to obtain the Gift or Power of Continency again tho they seek it with Tears as Esau did his Birth-right 'T is easier to Prevent than Repent and not so hard for those who never violated their Integrity to perish therein as for those that have once trangressed to conduct the rest of their Lives according to the Prescripts of Chastity and Virtue for the latter are for the most part subjected by every Snare to all inferior Powers and the Vanities and Wantonness of the Flesh whereby they commit great Outrages against God's Law in Nature Add to this that Lasciviousness does much lessen that esteem which Men ought to have for Women and brings Contempt upon a Matrimonial Life and withal contracts many incurable Diseases and consumes the outward Substance 3dly As the first Errors in any kind are generally of fatal Consequence so most young People New-married inconsiderately lay a foundation for their future Discontents and Miseries like ill Horse-men they Whip and Spur so at their first setting out that 't is no wonder if they Tyre before they arrive at their Journies end contracting Surfeits Gouts general Weaknesses alteration of the Complexion Consumptions and other languishing Diseases as may appear by many young Men and Women especially Men who grow Pale and their Flesh wastes and their Joynts grow feeble and their Nerves tremble and an universal Indisposition seizes and spreads it self through the whole Body and then what can be expected but that their Children should become weakly and subject to Diseases Nay many times for this very reason they are radically tinctured with Infirmities and branded with Diseases even in the very Womb and thence by way of Rebound or Retaliation variety of Diseases result back again to their Mothers before they are yet disburthened or can imagine

Paraphrase on the Apostle Peter's Vision Arise Peter kill and eat p. 273. The true Rise and Ground of Nobility as to Birth and Blood p. 284 c Who are truly Noble and Honourable p. 288. Why Flesh and Blood is so much desired p. 291 c. A short Comment on Gen. 4. concerning Cain and Abel p. 301 c. The cause of Wars p. 311. Of Abraham's eating flesh with the Angels p. 315. Concerning the Resurrection p. 328. The grand Objection answered viz. If all People should live on Herbs c. what should we do with the Beasts They would over-run us c. p. 331. Chap. XV. The Voice of the Dumb or the Complaints of the Creatures expostulating with Man touching the cruel Usages they suffer from him very naturally expressed in a pleasant and useful Allegory p. 367. Chap. XVI A Treatise of most sorts of English Herbs either Physical or fit for common use shewing 1st the apt times to gather them Astrologically when the Planet that governs them is strong and well aspected the same being here calculated for Nineteen Years 2dly How to preserve and keep them without losing their Virtues And 3dly The best way of using them in Posset-Drinks Decoctions and Cordials so as not to destroy the pure spirituous parts of them p. 382 c. The Ignorance Blindness and Deceitfulness of the Doctors made manifest p. 396. A Copy of a learned Doctors confused Latin Bill to an Apothecary and some Observations thereon p. 404. The most natural and proper way of making of Cordials with any kind of Herbs Seeds Flowers Spices and Drugs either simple or compound p. 411. The proper and natural way of making Physical Decoctions Posset-Drinks c. with Herbs Seeds and Drugs p. 414. How Men came first to know the Virtues of several Herbs p. 417. Who were the great Masters of Physick which our modern Doctors make the foundation of their skill and the Reasons why their Rules ought not to be ours p. 421. Chap. XVII Of Bugs and from what Matter and Aliment they do proceed and how to prevent their Generation Of the excellency of clean sweet Beds and perniciousness of old stinking Feather-beds Also several Receipts how to kill Bugs and Fleas p. 434. Chap. XVIII A short Discourse of the Pain in the Teeth shewing from what cause it does chiefly proceed and how to prevent it p. 447. Chap. XIX Of Marriage and the Inconveniences of unequal Matches p. 452. Chap. XX. How to cure Wounds Cuts Pricks of Thorns and other Accidents without Salves Oyntments or Plaisters Also if any part of the Body or Flesh be poysoned it is a certain Remedy p. 474. Chap. XXI Of Harmony and the Power thereof the several sorts of Musical Instruments and under what Planet and Sign each of them is p. 479. A Dialogue between an East-Indian-Brackmanny or Heathen Philosopher and a French Gentleman concerning the present Affiairs in Europe p. 1. THE INTRODUCTION To the Whole TREATISE CHAPTER I. A Description of the four Grand Qualities whence the four Complexions proceed How every Man may know his own Complexion KNOW THY SELF was one of the first Precepts which the Ancients dictated to the Students of Wisdom nor is there a greater Happiness attainable upon Earth than to have in a Sound Body a Sound Mind To direct my Fellow-Mortals towards this great Point of Felicity is the Scope and Intendment of our Pains in this Book The Foundation-Principle of Wisdom being to understand Nature which is the Art of God and thereby our own Frame Powers Faculties and Constitution so as to imbrace what is good wholsom and agreeable and to eschew all that is evil and harmful and the End and Consummation thereof is to know the Supream Being Author of created Nature and to love obey and enjoy him for ever In Order hereunto Temperance and Sobriety are sublime Gifts and to be regarded with the highest esteem not only for the delight and pleasure they afford the Body and Mind but as they fortifie those that observe them against many Vices and Temptations as well as preserve them from a thousand racking Pains and torturing Diseases and so furnish them with the best Treasures of this World viz. Health not only of the Body but also of the Mind for 't is that Health that sweetens all God's Blessings and is the prime good of this Life What advantage or pleasure is there in the highest prepared Food or choice compounded Dishes of the rarest Dainties in the richest or most Cordial Drinks the gayest Apparel or the most flattering Addresses of Honour to a Person rackt with the Stone or tortur'd with an Iliaca passio or half-drown'd with an overflowing Dropsie or burning within like Mount AEtna with the raging violence of a Fever What are Riches and Fame to a Body full of Pain Or who would accept of a Crown upon condition that his Head should thenceforth perpetually Ake Now if the Body be distemper'd thro' disorder and superfluity the Mind and all the Senses are presently afflicted if the Harmony of the one be interrupted or destroyed the other cannot continue For the Spirit is the original whence the Body proceded and is the Life of every visible Substance and as the Properties or Qualities are in their degrees in the Spirit either strong or weak so also they are in the Elements of the Body That quality that doth predominate in the Spirit at the Incarnation and Birth that very same property doth carry the upper Dominion in the Body which is manifested by the Inclination Shape and Form Behaviour Words and Works and this is call'd a Man's COMPLEXION of which there are commonly reckon'd four kinds viz. the Cholerick the Phlegmatick the Sanguine and the Melancholy and since the true understanding of each of these does mainly conduce to a mans knowing and right regulating of himself we shall therefore treat of them severally But in the first place we will lay down a short Description of the four grand Qualities viz. the Bitter Sweet Sour Astringent or Saltish from whence the four Complexions proceed Of the Bitter Quality 1. Those that are dignified with this Quality are for the most part of strong Bodies thick well set of middle Stature of hard fierce Countenances Visage rather round than Oval big Bones Hair curling of quick piercing Eyes bold Behaviours ready of Speech and Apprehension of strong powerful Spirits able to go thro' much Labour and Action if Intemperance do not impede which many of this sort of People are subject to quickly moved to Passion but their Fires burn too fierce to hold long of strong natural Heats great Appetites therefore they are apt to be Gluttons the Diseases they are most subject to are Acute Fevers Gout Pox both small and great Food good for this sort of People are all sorts of Gruels Herbs Fruit small Drinks and all Food made of Milk and every other sort that is Simple and Natural and the contrary they are to

at first it will send forth a strong fulsome musty Steam or Fume And if this will do so what will Feathers do that in the Boot of Nature are unclean fulsom Excrements of a hot strong Quality Therefore they have the greater power not only to attract and suck into themselves the fulsom Excrements that are breathed forth of the Body by Sweatings and the like but they have also power to retain such evil Vapours and when others come to lye on them and are throughly hot it awakens those pernicious Steams which often bring many Inconveniencies on the Body Besides it is very unpleasant to lye in such Beds a Man must always be forced to keep his Nose above-board Indeed each Mans own Bed does not stink or smell strong to himself because he is accustomed to it neither does a Tallow-Chandler smell those horrible Scents and pernicious Fumes that old Tallow sends forth when it is melted But let any other Person that is not accustomed to it be near such things and it will be very offensive to him Even so it is in all other stinking Trades and things of this nature so that the greatest Slut in the World does hardly smell her own House or Bed stink For in Man is contained the true Nature and Property of all things both of Good and Evil therefore he is both liable and also apt to receive all Impressions and to be wrought on by all things he shall either communicate with or joyn himself to whether it be Cleanness or the contrary Also by Meats Drinks and Communication all things have power by a Sympathetical Operation to work on Man because he is like unto all bearing a proportionable Nature unto all things If People did understand this they would prefer Sobriety and Temperance with Cleanness far beyond what they do and then Men would not be subject to so many Diseases as now they are 9. Heat and Moisture is the Root of all Putrefaction and therefore Bugs are bred in Summer but they live all the Winter tho they are not then so troublesome They harbour in Bedsteads Holes and Hangings Nitting and breeding as Lice do in Cloaths But all Men know that Woollen and Linnen are not the Element of Lice but they are bred from the fulsome Scents and Excrements that are breathed forth from the Body The very same Radix have Bugs and if there be any difference they are from a higher Putrefaction and therefore they are a more noisome stinking Creature Several Receipts to destroy Bugs and Fleas TAke a convenient quantity of unslaked Lime and put it into some Water and let it stand three or four days then pour off your Water and add to it a quantity of common Salt more or less as you think good but the stronger the Water is made both of Lime and Salt the better it will perform the Cure then take this Liquor and wash the Floor and the Sides of the Wall and the Bedstead very well two or three times a Week for a Month or two together not forgetting to give your Room as much Air as you can by setting your Windows open most part of the day this Liquor will destroy both Bugs and Fleas if other Circumstances of good Housewifery and Cleanness be observed Another Take Colliquinto Seeds a sufficient quantity to make Water strong boyl them one quarter of an hour in Water and wash the Walls Floot and Bedstead with this Water two or three times in a Week in the hottest Season for a Month or as you see occasion This will also prevent the breeding both of Bugs and Fleas But do not forget to let into your Rooms your Friend the Air. Another Take Wormwood in its proper Season dry it according to our Directions and slip it from the stalks and put it into White Paper Bags made flat and prick Holes in them to let the Fumes out and put some of these Bags between your Bed and the Sacking Mats or Boards and some of them under your Boulster and also under your Bed on the Floor and some of the same Wormwood loose on the Tester of your Bed The Fumes and Scents of this Herb doth not only prevent the Generation of all kinds of Vermin but it makes the Air of such Rooms where it lies wholsome Another Take Wormwood and Rue a good quantity boyl them a quarter of an hour in Water then take common Salt and add to this Water what quantity you please the stronger the better then wash the Sides of the Wall Floor and Bedstead with this Water two or three times a Week and it will kill both Bugs and Fleas Another Take the Rinds or Outsides of Green Wall-nuts bruise them and steep them in Water three or four days and wash your Rooms and Bedstead with it two or three times a Week and it will work the same effect Another Take Wormwood and Mustard-Seed bruised boyl them in Water a quarter of an hour then add Salt to the Water and wash the Wall Floor and Bedstead with it which will prevent the Generation of all kinds of Vermin if the sweet Influences of the Sun and Air be not prevented Another Take the Lees of Sope after you have done washing and boyl Onions in it then add a little Salt to it and wash your Room and Bedstead with it Another Take strong Vinegar and mix some Salt to it and sprinkle your Room this doth not only prevent and kill Bugs and Fleas but it is otherways wholsome A Fume Take Brimstone and burn it on a Chafing-dish of Coles in the middle of your Room but remember to shut your Windows this do two or three times a Week or as often as you please the oftner you do it the sooner will the Cure be performed Another Take three or four Ounces of Genny-Pepper more or less burn it on a Chafing-dish of Coles in the middle of your Chamber shut your Windows and Doors and go out or else it will serve you as it will the Bugs and Fleas If you do thus two or three times a Week for a Month or two in the hot Seasons it will destroy all kind of Vermin in the bud Another To conclude There is nothing better to prevent the Generation of Bugs and Fleas and to keep your Bed sweet than every Morning when you rise to set open your Windows and lay open your Bed-cloths and so let it continue four or five hours in which time the excrementitious Fumes and gross humid Steems which the Body breathed forth in the foregoing Night will Evaporate by the help of the Air this is a very good way to keep the Bed sweet and to prevent the breeding of Vermin it being impossible for any to keep their Bed sweet if they do not more or less observe this Rule CHAP. XVIII A short Discourse of the Pain in the Teeth shewing from what Cause it does chiefly proceed and how to prevent it THe terrible Pains and Diseases of the Teeth do chiefly