the weak continuing their use more or less as the occassion and greatness of the cause requires After these Pills the following Tincture is very proper and beneficial The Scorbute Tincture hath a specific vertue against the Scurvy which discovers it self by certain symptomes attending it as lassitude heaviness and indisposition to motion or action pains of the head thighs hips knees and other parts putrefaction of the gums and loosness of teeth inflation and distention of the Hypochonders red purple or livid spots upon the skin c. Some of these signs are sufficient to declare the disease especially when remote causes concur as a close Air gross diet studious melancholy or sedentary life This Tincture asists the spleen in the discharge of its office from whose imbecillity and depraved operation chiefly as an approximate cause the bloud acquires a peculiar corruption and scorbutic malignity detected by some symptomes declaring its specific nature and according to the degree or heigth arrived at are the symptomes more in number and more exasperate worse in quality The Tincture resolveth and volatizeth coagulate and fixed tartareous matter attenuates and rarenes gross subsiding humours which obstruct the vessels of the Spleen and viscera of nutrition causing turgid inflations schirrous tumors and pains in those parts concocts crude ichorous bloud depurates and renovates it from scorbutick feculency and maligne putrefaction makes it more fit for nutrition and amicable to the body Take it in a glass of White-wine or Rhenish which is best or in good strong beer not new or beer with the juce of Orange which is better or whey if the body be hot In the morning fasting and at 4 of the clock in the after noon The Dose for men and women is 24 drops for the age 14 and under so many drops as they are years old Shake the Bottle then use it The Hydropic Pills are appointed for the cure of Dropsies and watery tumors of the body whether universal or in particular parts They are purgative and attract serous and watery humors from any part of the body and Evacuates by seige They excite the kidneys to attraction and expulsion which before was fluggish imbecile or impedited in their office whereby superfluous serosity or water is accumulated and retained in the body they are very aperitive resolutive and diuretical opening obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Ureters dissolving any coagulate matter and sending forth the Morbific cause by Urine The Dose for Men and Women is 5 Pills or but 4 if a tender body for 14 years old 3 Pills Take them in the morning fasting and drink little until noon then eat your dinner Thus doe 2 or 3 days in a week intermitting a day between Those dayes you purge not drink a draught of Wormwood wine and eat some white bisket every morning and at 4 of the Clock after noon keep a spare diet let your meat be rosted rather then boyled If your stomack be weak use the digestive Tincture Be moderate in drinking You may profitably use white-wine mingled with the decoction of sasaffras two parts to one of wine The Hydropic powder hath the same vertues and operation with the Hydropic Pills But because some are averse to Pills that with facility can take a powder they may chuse either Take it in a draught of posset drink or white wine warmed Observing the preceding directions The full Dose is one Dram for the age 14 2 scruples or half a Dram. And so proportionably to younger For the Guts THe Retentive Powder mittigates and stayes all Fluxes and violent excretions of the Guts whether lienterial Dysenterial or diarrhaea's not by an astringent or binding quality of the Medicine that were injurious to nature and not subsidiary to retaine what nature desires to expel but by attracting and collecting the peccant humor that stimulates to expulsion and evacuating it whereby one stoole that the Medicine procures carryes with it more of the offending cause then six other from the oft times vain irritations and struglings of nature without assistance By the anodynous vertue it allayes charms the turgid aestuation of stimulating humors by degrees evacuates and sends them forth with less disturbance and danger whether they be sharp bilious or acide serous humors a saline irritating Phleme a stinking corrupt Colliquation or acrid and adust Melancholy having also and astringent vertue to bind after wards and to roborate the retentve faculty the offending cause being removed this is the safest way to stop the flux of what nature soever and in any person women with child in child bed children or infants and to prevent the danger that may ensue If the Flux be bloody drink Whey wherein gads of Steel hath been quenched for your common drink The Dose of the Powder for man or Woman is a dram or more to a Child of twelve years old half a dram And so proportionably to younger Take it in Posset-drink in the Morning in bed and sleep after it if you can Do likewise the next day if the occasion continue The Apperitive powder is emollient absterfive and opening appointed for costive hot and dry bodys whereby excrements being too long retained are hardned and baked sumes return up to the stomack troubling Concoction and offensive to the brain it corrects the dry distemper of the Guts or intemperate heat of the Liver frequent causes of costiveness humects and softens dry hard excrements and procures two or three stools It is a necessary preparative to Physick making the body fâ—uid and fit for purgation opening obstructions of the bowels mesentery Liver Spleen Pancreas and Matrix whereby any Medicine hath access to those parts with more facility and speed and less abatement of its strength before it comes to operate upon the part intended the ductures and passages being laid open by its Apperitive vertue The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for fourteen years two scruples Take it in a wine-glass full of the Liquor of stewed Prunes in the morning fasting half an hour after drink a good draught of posset drink or Whey if you have a hot costive body an hour after this you may eat your breakfast spoon meat is best Thus you may do four or five mornings together For the Reins and Bladder THe Nephritic Extract by a specific virtue resists the lapidifactory disposition of the Reins and petrifactive succus prevents coagulation and petrifaction By the abstersive tartareous property clenseth the Reins and Bladder from mucilaginous slimy matter sand or gravel that lodgeth in the urinary passages By the unctuous quality mollifies relaxeth lubrifies and dilates the uriters and urinary ductures for the more facile and speedy exclusion of the stone-gravel or any viscous coagulated matter which may cause a suppression of urine or strangury By the balsamic vertue Heals excoriations of the urinary passages caused by attrition of the stone and gravel or acrimony of Urine and mitigates the pain Very subtile and resolutive powerful to
only the joynts but the periostia of the Bones between joynt and joynt the Muscles of the body and membranes of the internal viscera they prevent fluxion and transition of turgid humors evacuates biting Choler Saline and sharp Serous humors And checks the serocity of their nature By their alkalisate quality they destroy exotic acidities which are dolorous and hostile to neru us and and membranous parts and are a singular prophylactic or preservative from the cruelty of arthritick arthritic or Gout pains Use them Spring and Autume for prevention or at other seasons if occasion require The full Dose is 5 Pills for feminine and tender bodyes easy to operate 4 may be sufficient Take them early in bed lye an hour or two after drink a little posset when they work and eat at noon Do so two or three days together intermit 4 or 5 dayes and take again After Purgation the Sudorifio Pills are beneficial For the Skin THE Cosmetick Water is appointed for discolourations and commaculations of the skin native or adventitious accounted no small infirmity with the Ladyes being symptomes denoting the constitution temperature of some principal parts diseases present and imminent or the vestigia and markes of preceding infirmities and external accidents displayed in their proper distinguishing colours citrine liuid brown red swarthy c. According to the nature of their causes as in both the jaundice Scurvy distempered Livers and Spleens obstructions and most Cachectic bodyes small-Pox Measels Contusions burns c. This washing is no fucus that sayes an artificial colour upon the skin to palliate a bad complexion and deceive the sight But to amend and tiear a dark brown skin of the face neck breast or bands it takes away Sun-burn roughness swarthiness Morphew small Pox spots and pimplex hath an abstersive and attenuating faculty to thin and puriâ—e a muddy thick skin which clouds the lustre of a lively peircing aspect There is nothing more amiable then the life which is presented to view with some interposition being vailed with the skin which if dark and thick eclipses and hides much of the lustre and penetration But if thin clear and more transparent the glory and beauty of the life then streams forth with great attraction And therefore the eye is the most lovely victorious part for its dilucid clearness in which the sparklings and vigour of life is most visible and naked 'T is not white and red that hath the magnetisme of love but the life dressed in those perspicuous colours You may use or leave this water when you will without prejudice there is no Mercury not any thing to injure the tenderest skin Shake the Bottle then wet a cloath with it and wash your face every morning The Powder of Saturn is appointed for Cutany defaedations venereous Scabâ— Vlcers pustules knobs in the flesh and glandulous tumors From the venereous cause Also Scabs and Vlcers from other causes Tettars Ringworms itch pushes pimples Chilblanes cooles all outward inflammations represseth tumors and asswageth their pain very profitable for Sores or Tumors of the Kings evil Vse it thus take a quart of Smiths water let it stand to settle then pour of a pinte and halfe clear in it put the powder and let it boil gently to a pinte in a glassâ— bottle set in a Kettle of water then let it stand 2 dayes to settle very clear poure it off and keep it for use and with this liquor bathe the places affected morning and night For the Venereal Pox. THE Italic Pills are a specific purgative Medicine for the Venereal Pox. They purge and clense the body by their appropriate vertue from the virulency and foulness of that disease which corrupts the whole masse of bloud and breaks forth into pustul's Scabs and Vicers by time invading the solid parts they mitigate pain checkes and abates the rigour of other symptomes which attends this disease and prevents the danger The Dose for Man or Woman is 5 Pills Take them early in bed lye an hour after and when they work drink a little posset-drink you may eat at noon The Neapolitan Pills are a Peculiar Sudorific Medicine for the great Pox after the preceding purgation to transpire and breath out by sweating the remaining malignity and contagious infection wherewith the body is tainted They dispell the maligne vapours and releive the spirits oppressed purifie the bloud and eradicate the impurity and venenate qualities of the disease by their peculiar propriety and opposition The Dose for Man or Woman is 4 Pills Take them in bed eaily or at night if more convenient for your occasions half an hour after drink a draught of hot bear or posset drinke wherein Sage is boiled be covered warm and lye to sweat when you have sweat 2 hours not longer let some cloaths be taken of and cool by degrees and have a care you take not cold after sweating the Pores being open A regular and easie cure for the Venereal Pox with the preceeding Medicines THis disease sometimes lyes obscure and dificult to be dettcted and puts on the disguises of other infirmities but those who are guilty of the danger may conclude by some of the following symptoms what it is that troubles and alters them Yet this foul disease is not alwaies got by impure copulation But otherwise sometimes Man with Man and Woman with Woman lying together and having intimate Society And although it be infections yet all bodies are not apt to receive it as all catch not the Plague in an infected house But I must shorten the discourse and come to the symptomes which attend the disease and they are various according to the degree and heigth arrived at At first a lassitude weariness and indisposition to motion heaviness and dulness the Spirits being tainted and opressed with the infection pain of the head shoulders and other parts cheifly at night heat and burning in the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet a Gonorrhae a or running of the Reins afterwards breakin gs out upon the skin venereous buboes and Ulcers of the privy parts c. Which come not altogether but successively by degrees discovering the discase in its progress and degree of malignity The cure is performed thus the first day take a Dose of the Iâ—alic pills the second day let a vein be opened if you be Feavorish or of a hot constitution take blood at the discretion of your Chyrurgeon The fourth day take the Italic pills again rest the fifth sixth and seventh the eight day take the Italic pills again the tenth eleventh twelfth dayes take the Neapolitan Pills to sweat then rest 2 or 3 dayes and take the Italic pills again and after that the Neopolitan As occasion requires continuance This method you are to observe for a short or longer time according to the greatness and inveterate contumacy of the disease Interchainging these Medicines and giving convenient respite which course will not be hard for you to observe although
Fontanels or issues NAture having appointed the Body to be preserved and nourished by a continual supply of necessary food daily to be received in which before it be assimilated and incorporated into the substance of the body suffers several concoctions and transmutations by the digestive ferment of the parts destinated for that office and work in which praevious disposition and gradual preparation for nutrition there is a separation made the nutritive and necessary part from the excrementitious and unnecessary the purest defaecated part ordained for aliment is conveyed still farther from one digestion to another untill it hath received the compliment and full perfection intended by nature the excrementitious and inutile part segregated is received by sinks and channels peculiarly appointed and framed for their conveyance out of the Body as the lower guts Urinary ductures Nose Pores c. Which passages if at any time obstructed and stopt up the derriment and sensible dammage soon confirms the necessity of their use office And as nature hath appointed and framed in the Body vents and out-lets for the daily discharging of excrementious superfluities which otherwise would putrifie suffocate and stifle if not in some measure duly evacuated In imitation of natures contrivance Art hath invented Issues as Ports and Vents to be placed here or there as the variety of occasions require to supply natures insufficiency and inability to relieve and help her self in the discharge and emission of superfluous extravasated humours and putrid vapours which retained produce various symptomes according to the several proprieties of their nature and degeneration organicall difference and peculier office of the parts they invade and infest And having such a passe Port by which nature findes her self alleviated and disburthened does daily amandate and send superfluous humours to this out let as to other common passages and conveyances for the excretion and voiding of excrements by her own institution and fabrication And having found such an auxiliary conveniency she does expect it to be continued and relies upon the assistance untill the occasion be otherwise prevented the cause removed or nature better able to discharge and free her self by the channels and passages of her own appointment Now if praematurely and unseasonably this artificial passage be denyed and stopt up there being cause for the contrary the confluence of humours meeting and gathering at the place regurgitates back again with a united force and greater current at which nature being surprised unexpectedly and having made no provision to secure her self from such a retrogradation or reflux produceth the same preternatural symptoms and effects for which the issue was first made or worse For your better satisfaction and information in the use of issues first I shall consider for whom and in what cases beneficial Secondly what it is that issues forth and is evacuated Thirdly the places and parts of the body proper and conveniant for them Lastly the signes when to close them without danger For corpulent and plethorick bodyes that feed high and live a sedentary inactive life whereby ventilation and transpiration is cohibited and restrained issues may be used by way of Praecaution In Cachectic bodies and diseases from putrid humours issues makes evacuation and allevates For revulsion derivation or interception of a humour inconveniently resorting to an eminent or infirm part issues alters the course and current In Diseases from venenate and noxious vapours appearing with uncertaine motions and intervals issues retards and abates the strength of their paroxysmes For Eiratic pains Cutany defaedations and extuberations from extravasated humors frustraneous digestion the use of issues may be beneficial Issues are as Rivulets or Channels from a fountain to prevent inundation and direct the streams they do not destroy the Spring but give vent and current this way that it shall not overflow to do hurt otherwaies They do not eradicate a disease but they lessen and abate the swelling productions or growth prevent or retard the frequent paroxysmes and returns of formidable and dolorous symptoms give time and space for a Physician to use fit efficacious Medicines to extirpate and take away the antecedent cause and are but remedia a posteriori palliativa to mitigate the effects not curative and eradicative For the nature and quality of humors issuing of 〈◊〉 they are divers according to the various disposition of bodyes temperaments and morbific causes such as the body abounds with and is superfluanous such is transmitted thither for emission That the humour evacuated is not usefull and necessary for the body appears first by the concomitant figns manifesting the nature of it itching pricking sharp pain about the place inflamation and spongious flesh rising in some more in others less which are not signs and effects of a natural good humor but a hot corroding sharp unnatural humor flowing thither degenerate and corrupt beside nature is not prodigal in the excretion and expence of humors profitable and useful for the body except by irritation What is the reason that in cachectic foul bodyes Ulcers in any part are difficult to cure but by reason of a continual supply of bad humors resorting thither for evacuation and will not let the sore heale up because they will have vent and therefore a skilful Chirurgeon does not only apply topical Medicaments but also endeavours to remove the antecedent cause by internal medicine and reduce the Cacochymical ill habit of body to a natural good state and condition by alteration and evacuatioy which being procured the wonted fluâ—â— humors to the ulcerated place is staied and then nature heals the sore with a very little help In placing of Issues rightly three things is to be considered First that they be commodious and properly scituate for the affluence and effiux of the morbific humor for humors have a tendency and an inclination to one part more then to another according to the communication of parts and rather downwards then upwards from the propensity of their gravity Secondly whether Revulsion or derivation of the morbific cause be most convenient and benificial in the case for which an issue is appointed Thirdly That the position and motion of the Muscles be diligently observed else the Issue will not be so beneficial nor lye easy for if it be set upon a Muscle the motion and attrition of the Muscle will continually molest and disturb it and the evacuation will be but little Therefore you must endeavour to place them in Interstitiis Musculorum in the distances between the Muscles where the extravasated humors are most frequent in their motions and perambulations In the Closing up of an issue these are to be considered the cause for which it was appointed what effects alteration or abatement of infirmity the age of the person whether in youth strength of nature or declining years as also the season and time of the year which is to be adjudged and determined variously as the particular case and circumstances collated do suggest
dissolve the stone diuretical purging by urine The Dose for Man or Woman is half a Dram which is about the quantity of a hasel nut Take it thus five or six mornings together fasting roll it in fine powdered Sugar or Hony and so swallow it then drink a good draught of White-wine after or mixed with Ale And you may follow your business The Nephritic Powder clenseth the Reins and bladder from sand and gravel opens the Uriters and Urinary passages provokes Urine cooles the reins and prevents the stone Take it in a glasse of White-wine fasting half a douzen mornings together But let the Powder be put into the wine over night and stand close covered The Dose is one Dram. The Dysuretic Powder corrects the sharpness of Urine having an Hostile quality and antipathy to acidityes which causeth the Uriters to twitch and vellicate with a painful Convulsive motion and contraction in the small of the back and hips to the Region of the bladder and bottom of the Belly helps incontinency of Urine or debility of holding water strengthning the Sphincter Muscle of the bladder and taking away the acrimony of the Urine which provokes the expulsive faculty it checks the over strong attraction of the reines causing immoderate making water thereby wasting the body exhausting the natural humidity and impoverishing the Masse of bloud coagulates a saline and tartareous resolution in the body which comming into the ductures of the Vrine stimulates and irritates to expulsion by its acrimony Cooles the reins mitigates the ardor and scalding heat of Vrine The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for the age 14. two scruples 8 years old half a Dram. Take it in the morning an hour before you rise in posset drink you may eat or drink when you are up and go abroad Vse it a fortnight or three weeks together Observe your diet and let your drink be steeled For the Genital Parts THE Restaurative essence asists digestion in the Spermatic vessels strengthens the generative faculty effectual against sterility or barrennesse in the feminine sex and deficiency in the masculine if the causes be superfluous moisture crudity and infaecundity of the seed debility of the Genital parts frigidity or imbecillity of nature and not organical impediments and defects It strengthens a weak back preserves the balsom of nature and natural heat restores consumptive weak persons strengthens old age and the declinings of nature refresheth the animal and vital spirits by its aromatical fragrancy roborates the internal parts asists the digestions prevents crudityes and the superfluity of crude humors Taketh away putrefaction in bodyes that have a ranke or strong favour by reason of putrid humors breathing forth through the pores of the body it will depurate clense and make such bodyes more sweet and wholesome and more acceptable to their bed fellows Shake the bottle before you use it Drop it into fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point then drink a glasse of Tent Muskadel or Sack after it The Dose is 24 drops for Men or Women You may take it night and morning in bed In the use of strengthning Medicines Take this observation That if the body be soul let gentle purgation precede first clense then strengthen that 's a regular course for this purpose let women take the Hysterical Pills Men may use the Stomack or Cachectic Pills As the condition of their body most requires The Hysterical Pills have an abstersive and purgative faculty to clense and open obstructions of the veins leading to the Matrix whereby the terms may have their due times and colour according to the course of nature they dissipate flatulent vapours and evacuate noxious humors collected in the womb which having aquired maligne qualities by residence there occasions various symptomes and disturbance in several parts by consent from the Matrix as Hypochondriac Melancholy palpitation of the heart shortness of breath and compression about the stomack pains of the head deliriums Convulsive motions sadness palenesse and unwonted Complection they prevent fits of the Mother disperse the vapours and corrects the malignant cause They cure the Green Sicknesse brings the termes into their right order restores the Complexion and purgeth the lower Region of the body The full Dose is 6 pills for fifteen years old 5 pills or but four if she be a tender body and easie to operate Take them early in the Morning you may lye an houre after when you are up drink a good draught of warm Posset and walk in the House Eat at noon Thus do two or three days together intermit so many days then take twice or thrice more And you will finde the benefit The Expulsive Powder Is appointed for a difficult and perilous Child birth being effectual to expedite the delivery of Women in a slow hard labour it procures travelling pains when nature is unable and weak giveth strength to the woman and Child and hastens the Birth expells a dead child and brings away the after burden You may give it twice in twelve hours for the foresaid occasions not oftner The Dose is one paper of powder Take it in a small spoonful of Cinnamon-Water Penyroyal-Water or Mace Ale or these mixed at the discretion of the Midwife The Restringent Powder helps the debility and weakness of the Spermatic Vessels procured by immoderate coition or other accidents stayes a Gonorhaea or Running of the Reins so called corrects the heat and acrimony of the seed that stimulates to expulsion and allays the pain asswageth any sharp humor in the privities of either Sex heals an exulration or excoriation there takes away itching or molesting heat prevents the danger by immoderate copulation cools allayes and strengthens those parts Use it thus Take a quart of Smiths water let it stand six hours to settle then pour off a pinte cleer in it put the Powder shake it well in a Bottle then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night and you will receive much help and ease But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent proceeding from the Pox then it is requisite also that you take the Medicines proper for that disease as the italic and neapolitan Pills to purifie and clense your body from that malignity and virulency where with the humors are tainted and vitiated And to prevent future danger For the joynts THe Arthritick Pills are peculiarly appointed for the Gout whether hereditary or acquired by diaetetic errors or differing in the part affected as the feet knees hips hands or other Joynts yet owning the same approximate cause and admit the same cure They attract the serous acrid humor which pricks and lancinates the Periostium and nervous parts about the Joynt and retract the confluence of humors caused by pain resorting to the part affected They are very profitable and Auxiliary against a rheumatismus commonly called the running Gout which is an erratic pricking pain wandring from part to part caused by a flatulent acrimonious humor afflicting not
the Sea nor the fish upon the land nor your nature continue long in an unnatural way against her self Are you composed of natural principles and will you not live conformable to what you are do you not live by natures assistance and natural means and do you think to continue long in a Counter-motion against the nature of your Composition they that invert natures course preposterously promiscuously in congruously using the necessary conservatives of life not onely are deprived of their benefit but also receive a positive hurt disordering the constant regular motions in the body and discomposing the harmonious and sociable temperaments of the parts There is a rule therefore method measure and season in all the requisite supports and auxiliary helps belonging and necessary unto life or lawful actions and customes whatsoever which duely observed are of much advantage for the preservation of the body in its true natural state vigour and prolongation of being but other wise a methodically and inordinately used disturbs natures course uniformity and regularity of operations raiseth unnatural motions commotions and cessations introduceth disorders and disjoynes the frame of nature accelerates and hastens the dissolution of the body The Impediments of long Life AN infirme and weak constitution from the Wombe derived from tender imbecile and infirm parents Irregular and unfit tractation of Infants whose tender bodies are soon discomposed and disordered by bad Nurses their erronious customes and the ill proprieties of their milk Noxious and intemperate Aire Irregular eating and drinking Immoderate and unseasonable exercise motion or labour Too much or unfit rest Sleeping and waking in extreams Immoderate Venus Undue excretion and retention of Excrements Inordinate passions and perturbations of mind All unnecessary and bad customes Hygiastic Precautions and Rules for the preservation of Health and prolongation of life Of Aire AIre is so necessary to life that without it we cannot subsist which surrounding us about and being continually suckt and drawn in must needs affect the body with its conditions and properties and by observation you may finde the body by the various constitutions and changes in the air to be variously affected well and ill disposed of which infirme parts are most sensible that they prognosticate before an alteration come the minde also by the mediation of the spirits is drawn into consent and hath its dispositions and variations when the Aire is close thick and moist the spirits are more dull heavy and indisposed but at the appearance of the Sun and a serene sky the spirits are unfettered vigorous and active the minde more cheerful airy and pleasant The Spirits are of an aetherial nature and therefore do much sympathize with the present constitution and change of air for of the air drawn in by the motion of the vital parts are the vital spirits augmented supplied continually by the peculiar ferment and operation of the heart therefore the pureness of the aire makes much for the purity of the spirits A gross impure and noisome aire obtunds and deads the spirits makes a slow pulse obstructs the pores and hinders ventilation generates superfluous humors and causeth putrefaction A serene sweet thin Aire perfumes and purifies an unwholsome body cherisheth the heart makes a lively pulse and much encreaseth the vital spirits rarifies and volatizeth a gross coagulate blood opens the pores for transpiration of putrid and offensive vapours acuates and sharpens the appetite and helps digestion The best aire and most agreeable to temperate bodies is in temperate climates for heat cold wet and dry not subject to sudden and violent changes as in some parts of America and other Countries very frequent not gross and turbulent infected with putrid vapours and noxious exhalations from stinking ditches Lakes Boggs Carrions Dunghills Sinks and Vaults for which causes great Cities and the adjacent places are not so healthful nor the people so long liv'd Change of Aire somtimes is very necessary for the conservation of health the recovery of it declining and lost for temperate bodies by an intemperate aire shall gradually and in time become intemperate intemperate bodies by the contrary intemperate Aire shall be reduced to temperature at least shall conduce much and be very Auxiliary for the reduction Therefore bodies declining from exact temperature are best preserved in that Aire opposite to their declensions as Cholerick hot and dry bodies in a moist and coole aire Phlegmatick cold and moist bodies in a dry and warme Aire It is not therefore of small moment in what place you live and more especially such who labour of or are more subject to any pectoral infirmity for the Lungs being of so tender a substance and porous continually drinking in the aire is most apt to receive impressions from it according to the qualities it is pregnant with and infested and many diseases of the breast arise from this sole cause and many exasperated by it and continued hence it is Asthmatick Phthisical and Consumptive persons shall not be cured in some places but may have cure in another Be cloathed according to the Clemency season and temperature of the Aire your age and habit of body leane and thin bodies pervious corpora rarae texturae and whose skin are loose and lax may wear thicker cloathing because such are more perspirable do magis emittere transpirare and are also more penetrable and subject to injury of the Aire Fat and fleshy people and whose bodies are solid firm and hard are more impenetrable and impervious and may wear thinner Garments Infants and children lately cherished in the stove of the wombe being of tender soft bodies and porous are easily exposed to the prejudice of the Aire Vigorous youth and middle age being accustomed to all weathers whose spirits abounding do strongly resist and keep out the assaults and injuries of an offensive Aire may best indure hardship Old age whose natural heate is abated and spirits exhausted stands in need of good defensatives against external cold and to cherish internal heat Observe the seasons and changes of the Aire and be then most careful for at such times you are in most danger to exchange health for sickness hence it is that Spring and Autumne abounds most with diseases the Air then assuming new qualities opposite to its former constitution sets new impressions upon our bodies which occasions the various aestuations and turgid fermenting of humours producing divers symptomes according to the variety of their nature the organical difference office and constitution of the several parts The Sun being risen and the aire clear open your Chamber-windowes that the fresh Aire may perfume your Room and the close Aire and inclosed vapours may go forth Bad smells and putrid vapours being drawn in with the Aire are very injurious to the Lungs and vital parts contaminating the spirits and impressing upon the ferment of those parts their tetrid nature are oftentimes the original of a Consumption and if the Lungs be weak and infirme are more apt to