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A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

Costinesse both new and old Cheese makes complaint that men on wrong suspitions Do slander it and say it doth such harme That they conceale his many good conditions How oft it helpes a stomack cold to warme How fasting 't is prescrib'd by some Physicions To those to whom the flux doth giue alarme We see the better sort thereof doth eate To make as 't were a period of their meate The poorer sort when other meate is scant For hunger eate it to releeue their want Although you may drinke often while you dine Yet after dinner touch not once the cup I know that some Physicions doe assigne To take some liquor straight before they sup But whether this be meant by broth or wine A controuersie 't is not yet tane vp To close your stomack well this order sutes Cheese after flesh Nuts after fish or fruits Yet some haue said belecue them as you will One Nut doth good two hurt the third doth kill Some Nut ' gainst poyson is preseruatiue Peares wanting wine are poyson from the tree But bak't Peares counted are restoratiue Raw Peares a poyson bak't a medicine be Bak't Peares a weake dead stomack doe reuiue Raw Peares are heauie to digest we see Drinke after Peares take after Apples order To haue a place to purge your selfe of ordure Ripe Cherries breed good bloud and help the stone If Cherry you doe eate and Cherry-stone ●…ole Damsens are and good for health by reason ●…ey make your intrailes soluble and slacke ●…t Peaches steepe in wine of newest season ●uts hurt the teeth that with their teeth they crack ●ith euery Nut 't is good to eate a Raison ●…r though they hurt the spleen they help the back ● plaister made of Figges by some mens telling ●s good against all kernels boyles and swelling With Poppy ioyn'd it drawes out bones are broken By Figges are lice ingendred Lust prouoken Eate Medlers if you haue a loosenesse gotten They bind and yet your vrine they augment They haue one name more fit to be forgotten While hard and sound they be they be not spent Good Medlers are not ripe till seeming rotten For medling much with Medlers some are shent New Renish-wine stirres vrine doth not binde But rather loose the Belly breeding winde Ale humors breeds it addes both flesh and force T is loosing coole and vrin doth enforce Sharpe vineger doth coole withall it dries And giues to some ill humor good correction It makes one melancholy hurts their eyes Not making fat nor mending their complexion It lessons sperme makes appetite to rise Both taste and scent is good against infection * The Turnep hurts the stomack winde it breed●… Stirres vrine hurts his teeth thereon that feedet●… Who much thereof will feed may wish our Nat●… Would well allow of Claudius proclamation It followes now what part of euery beast Is good to eate first know the Heart is ill It is both hard and heauy to digest The Tripe with no good iuyce our flesh doth fill The Lites are light yet but in small request But outer parts are best in Physicks skill * If any braines be good which is a question Hens braine is best and lightest of digestion ● In Fennel-seed this vertue you shall finde Foorth of your lower parts to driue the winde 〈◊〉 ●ennell vertues foure they doe recite 〈◊〉 it hath power some poysons to expell 〈◊〉 burning Agues it will put to flight 〈◊〉 stomack it doth cleanse and comfort well 〈◊〉 fourthly it doth keepe and cleanse the sight 〈◊〉 thus the seed and hearbe doth both excell 〈◊〉 for the two last told if any seed ●…h Fennell may compare 't is Annis-seed ●…e Annis-seed be sweete and some more bitter 〈◊〉 pleasure these for medicine those are fitter ●…me Natures reason far surmounts our reading ●e feele effects the causes oft vnknowne ●ho knows the cause why Spodium stancheth bleeding ●…podium but ashes of an Oxes bone 〈◊〉 learne herein to praise his power exceeding ●hat vertue gaue to wood to hearbs to stone ●he Liuer Spodium Mace the heart delights ●he braine likes Muske and Lycoras the Lites ●he Spleene is thought much cōforted with Capers ●n stomack Gallingale alwaies ill vapors Sauce would be set with meate vpon the table Salt is good sauce and had with great facilitie Salt makes vnsauourie vyands manducable To driue some poysons out Salt hath abilitie Yet things too salt are ne're commendable They hurt the sight in nature cause debilitie The scab and itch on them are euer breeding The which on meates too salt are often feeding Salt should be first remou'd and first set downe At table of the Knight and of the Clowne As tastes are diuers so Physicions hold They haue as sundry qualities and powre Some burning are some temperate some cold Cold are these three the Tart the Sharpe the sowr●… Salt bitter byting burne as hath beene told Sweet fat and fresh are temperate euery houre * Foure speciall vertues hath a sop in wine It maketh the teeth white it cleares the eyne It addes vnto an emptie stomack fulnesse And from a stomack fill'd it takes the dulnesse 〈◊〉 to an vse you haue your selfe betaken 〈◊〉 any dyet make no sudden change ● custome is not easily forsaken ●…a though it better were yet seemes it strange ●…ng vse is as a second nature taken ●ith nature custome walkes in equall range ● Good dyet is a perfect way of curing ●…d worthy much regard and health assuring ● King that cannot rule him in his dyet ●ill hardly rule his Realme in peace and quiet ●…y that in Physick will prescribe you food ●…x things must note we heere in order touch ●…rst what it is and then for what 't is good ●nd when and where how often and how much ●ho note not this it cannot be with-stood ●hey hurt not heale yet are too many such ● Col●…rts broth doth loose the substance bind ●hus play they fast and loose and all behind ●ut yet if at one time you take them both ●he substance shall giue place vnto the broth In Physicke Mallowes haue much reputation The very name of Mallow seemes to sound The roote thereof will giue a kind purgation By them both men and women good haue found To womens monthly flowers they giue laxation They make men soluble that haue beene bound And lest wee seeme in Mallowes prayses partiall Long since hath Horace praised them and Martiall * The worms that gnaw the wombe neuer stint Are kil'd and purg'd and driuen away with Mint But who can write thy worth O soueraigne Sage Some aske how man can die where thou dost grow Oh that there were a medicine curing age Death comes at last tho death comes ne're so slow Sage strengths the sinewes seuers heat doth swage The Palsy helpes and rids of mickle woe In Lattin Salu●… takes the name of safety In English Sage is rather wise then crafty Sith then the name betokens wise and sauing We count it natures friend and worth the

for look what ayre we draw in such and the like spirits goe out from vs. Odors and smells that are oner-hot are not by me approued because it filleth the head and ingendreth the catarrh for the temperature it selfe of the braine being a meane betweene hot and cold doth chiefly reioyce in things that are temperate and on the other side it is much offended and hurt by the contrary therefore sometimes those odors are to be mixed and changed as if cold doth raigne let the odors decline to heat and if heat doth beare sway then frame that they may be of cold operation Of Roses therefore Violets and Myrtels Campher Sanders and Rose-water which are cold things on the other side of Cinamon Citron rynds Orenge peeles Aloes Amber Muske which are hot of which you may vse at your pleasure Odors are not only drawne by the nostrills but there must bee application to the brest and stomacke Treacle Mithridate Frankincence Amber Angelica and such like which are thought to haue vertue against venome no lesse comfort to recreate your spirits ariseth out of gardens where-hence ariseth sweete smells and sauours also to vse sweete smelling hearbes flowers and rushes at the time of the yeere conuenient to the constitution and state of the bodie and to cast about the court and in the chambers the leaues of Withies of Roses Violets Vine-leaues Origanum wilde Time Time Lauender Myrtils Quinces Peares the flowers of Orenges Pomegranates and other such like and also to sprinkle the chamber with Rose-water or the water of the flowres of Orenges and other like also to euaporate the place with vineger and sometimes also in your chambers to burne perfumes fragrant and sweet smelling What sweete smells fumes or torches I am wont to vse I will heere set downe that hauing a care to the temperature and state of the body you may vse also A description of an odoriferous water TAke an equall weight of Rose-water with the best white wine Rose-viniger the fourth part Suger-candie a third part dissolue it in those things some adde a little Saffron with this water wash the hands and face the ioynts and eyes and therewith cleanse the teeth and besprinkle the rest of the clothes CHAP. V. Of Meates and Drinks IN meate and drinke wee must consider these sixe things first the Substance then the Quantitie third the Qualitie fourth Custome fift the Time and lastly Order We must also vnderstand that it is best and most wholesome to vse meates that be simple for meates that be simple are most wholesome and profitable but many and sundrie sorts of meates are very vnhealthfull and hurtfull to our bodies our elders which liued very long and without sicknesse were wont to eate at one meale flesh only and at another bread only yet would I not wish you my sonnes to accustome your selues to one only meate especially if you be yong for Galen expounding the Aphorisme of Hipp. saith That such things as wee haue of long time beene vsed to although they bee not of the best nourishment they are not so dangerous as other things which are farre better whereunto we haue not beene accustomed wee must therefore now and then alter our diet and vse to eate such meates as before wee vsed not neither must we bind our selues to any one kinde lest we be driuen at any time to change our custome and so wee fall sicke presently thereupon Cornelius Celsus a good Physicion giueth counsell that such as bee in health should vse their ordinarie fore and plaine vsuall diet and to forbeare much varietie of meats is best and wholesomest because the stomack set a work too too much laboureth greatly in the digesture of sundry meates at one time It is thought good to mixe moist with drie things cold with hot and hot with cold and those meats which are in the meane or mediocritie of all excesse to be most commendable of which sort is bread made of cleane corne sufficiently leauened and moderately baked Also the flesh of Hens and Capons Phesants Partriges Woodcocks yong Pigeons Blackbirds Thrushes Turtles and such like small birds In like manner Fishes bred amongst rocks and stones or about the sea side and such as in taste are neither vnpleasant and vnsauourie nor yet clammie and vnctious of the which we will speake particularly hereafter Now in meats nothing so well encreaseth good bloud as when they are well digested for thereby is ended more easily the second concoction which is in the veines and liuer and also admitteth the third digestion which is in the particular members parts which be nourished Also there bee some meats betweene whom there is but small difference of digestion as is betweene a Henne and a sucking Calfe a Chicken and a Kid the flesh of an old Calfe and a yong Bullock in such respects as these where the difference is so small it skilleth not greatly if they which be somewhat hard to digest be eaten before that which is of lighter digestion And this I suppose was the opinion of Galen for heauie meats and such as bee slow of digestion require a stronger and greater power digestiue therfore meats of easie digestion are first to be taken before those which doe differ so far from them in easinesse of concoction And also you must take heede of crude and raw meates and that the same be both throughly boyled or rosted but in any wise beware of stuffing of your selues too much with meate and drinke nor to irritate and prouoke your appetite with delicious sawces for meates excessiuely eaten although they be of good nourishment commonly they doe ingender crudities lasks and vomits Againe to take lesse then necessitie and nature doth require is the cause why the body is not nourished but weakned and made vnable to doe his businesse for euen as repletum hindreth nourishment and hurteth nature so all sorts of too much abstinence causeth vomits hurteth the stomack resolueth the powers of the body and increaseth ill humours And euen as an ill dyet bringeth heauinesse to the body and dulnesse to the senses so a good dyet refresheth the spirits and reuiueth the minde making it more able and actiue to know and practise vertues operations Of Drinke COncerning drinke at meales it would not be taken before something hath beene eaten at the beginning the drink would be strongest and so towards the end more small if it be Ale or Beere And if it be Wine more and more allayed with Water and the best Physicians hold the drinke would rather be mixt with the meate by sundrie small draughts then with one great draught at the end of the meale for the mixture tempereth well the meate without hindrance A great draught drowneth the meate and hurteth naturall heate that then worketh in concoction and with the weight driueth downe the meate ouer-hastily Hot wines and sweet or cōfectioned with spices or very strong Ale or Beere is not good at meales for thereby the meate is