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A47787	The temperate man, or, The right way of preserving life and health, together with soundness of the senses, judgment and memory unto extream old age in three treatises / the first written by the learned Leonardus Lessius, the second by Lodowich Cornaro, a noble gentleman of Venice, the third by a famous Italian; faithfully Englished.; Hygiasticon. English. 1678	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornarus, Ludwig.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1181; ESTC R32465	69,139	222

Original Humidity in which Life chiesly consists is wasted together with the inbred heat For whilest the Humidity or Moisture wasteth the heat founded therein doth equally abate and the moisture being spent the heat is joyntly extinguished as we see it comes to pass in Lamps After this manner do most of them die who have observed an exact Rule of diet unless perchance they die by means of outward violence For having prevented evil Humors by their good diet there is no inward cause in them whereby their Temper should be violently overthrown nor their Natural Heat oppressed And therefore it will needs follow that they must live till the Original Moisture together with the Heat that is founded thereupon be so consumed as it is not sufficient to retain the soul any longer in the body And in the like manner would a mans death be if God should withdraw his conservation of the Natural Heat although the Radical Humor should remain or on the other side if the Radical Humor should by divine operation be in an instant consumed 41. The Fifth Commodity of a sober Diet is That it makes the body Lightsome Agil Fresh and Expedite to all the motions appertaining thereunto For Heaviness Oppression of Nature and Dulness proceed from the abundance of Humors which do stop up the way of the spirits and cloy the joynts and fill them too full of moisture so that the excess of Humors being taken away by means of Diet the cause of that Heaviness Sloth and Dulness is taken away and the passages of the spirits are made free And moreover by means of the self-same Diet it comes to pass that the Concoction is perfect and so good blood is bred out of which abundance of pure spirits are made in which all the vigor and agility of the body mainly consisteth CHAP. VIII That it maintains the Senses in their integrity and vigor 42. WE have found Five Commodities which Sobriety brings to the Body Let us now see the Benefits which it affords to the Mind and they may likewise be well reduced to Five The First is That it ministreth soundness and vigor to the outward Senses For the Sense of Seeing is chiefly deaded in old men by reason that the Optick Nerves are cloyed with superfluous humors and vapors whereby it comes to pass that the Animal spirits which serve to the sight are either darkned or not afforded in such abundance as is needful for quick and clear discerning of things This impediment is taken away or much diminished by the Sobriety of meat and drink and by abstinence from those things which replenish the head with fumes such as are all fat things and especially Butter if it be taken in a good quantity strong wines and thick beer or such as are compounded with those herbs that fly up into the Head 43. The Sense of Hearing is likewise hindered by the flux of crude and superfluous humors out of the Brain into the Organ of hearing or into the Nerve that serves unto it for by this means it comes to pass that a man grows deaf or thick of hearing in that part where this flux of humors is Now this flux is very easily prevented and driven away by the Sobriety of diet And as it may be taken away by help of Physick after it hath befallen a man in case it be not let go on too long so as it take root so likewise it may be taken away by means of Diet especially if together therewith some Topical Medicines to be used 44. The Sense of Tasting is chiefly marred by ill humors that infect the Organ thereof As if cholerick tart or salt humors possess the tongue and throat whether it be that they come out of the Head or out of the Stomach whose inward tunicle is continued with these Organs all things will relish bitter tart and salt This indisposition is taken away by good Diet by means whereof it is further brought about that the most ordinary meats yea and dry bread it self do better taste and relish a sober man and yield him greater pleasure than the greatest dainties that can be do to those who are given to Gluttony For the evil juices that did infect the stomach and the Organ of the Taste and which bred a loathing and offence being removed and cleared the Appetite returneth of it self and the pure relish and natural delight in meats is felt In like manner good Diet conserveth the Senses of Smelling and Touching 45. Nevertheless I grant that by long age the vigor of the Senses and especially of the Eyes and Ears is much abated and almost extinct in regard that the Temper of the Organs as also of the other parts is by little and little dissolved the Radical Humor and the Native Heat being by degrees consumed and dried up whereupon the Temper becomes more dry than is proportionable to the operations of the Senses and all the passages and pores are stopped up with cold Phlegm which is most of all other things contrary to the functions of the mind For as old men by the inward temper of their bodies grow dry and cold in excess so likewise they become full of moisture by reason of excrementitial humors so that old Age is nothing else but a cold drie temper proceeding from the consumption of the Radical Humor and the Native Heat to which there must needs be conjoyned great store of cold Phlegm dispersed through the whole body CHAP. IX That it mitigates the Passions and Affections 46. THe Second Commodity which a sober Diet brings to the Soul of a man is That it doth very much abate and diminish the Affections and Passions and especially those of Anger and Melancholy taking away from them their excess and inordinate violence The self-same it works upon those Affections which are conservant about the taste and touch of delectable things so that in this regard it ought to be highly prized For it is in truth a shameful thing not to be able to master Choler to be subject to Melancholy and to sower cares of the Phansie to be enthralled to Gluttony and Slave to the Belly to be hurried on with violence to eating and drinking and poured out as it were to the exercise of lust and concupiscence Nor is it only shameful and contrary to Vertue to be thus disposed but also very prejudicial in regard of Health and full of opprobry in respect of good men But Sobriety with much ease remedies all these mischiefs partly subtracting and partly correcting the Humors of the body which are the causes of them For that the Humors are the causes of such Passions is both a received ground amongst all Physicians and Philosophers and manifest by experience 47. Inasmuch as we see those who are full of Cholerick Humors to be very Angry and Rash and those who abound with Melancholy to be alwaies troubled with griefs and fears And if these Humors be set on fire in

man run beside himself to see such a ransacking of all the Elements by Fishers and Fowlers and Hunters such a turmoiling of the world by Cooks and Comfit-makers and Tavern-keepers and a numberless many of such needless occupations such a hazarding of mens lives on Sea and Land by heat cold and a thousand other dangers and difficulties and all forsooth in procuring dainties for the satisfaction of a greedy Maw and sensless Belly that within a very short while after must of necessity make a banquet of it self to worms What an endless maze of error what an intolerable hell of torments and afflictions hath this wicked Gluttony brought the world unto And yet wretched men that we are we have no mind to get out of it but like silly Animals led by the chaps go on all day long digging our Graves with our Teeth till at last we bring the Earth over our heads much before we otherwise need to have done And yet there was a certain odd fellow once in the world I would there were not too many of the same mind now adays Philoxenus by name that seriously wisht he might have a swallow as long and as large as the Cranes the better to injoy the full relish of his licorish morsels Long after him I read of another of the same fraternity Apitius I trow that set all his happiness in good chear but little credit I am sure he hath got by the means no more than Maximinus for all he was an Emperor by his using every meal to stuff into his paunch thirty pounds of flesh beside bread and wine to boot But Get a deserves in my opinion the Monarchy of Gluttons as he had of the Romans His feasts went always according to the letters of the Alphabet as when P's turn came he would haye Plovers Partridges Peacocks and the like and so in all the rest his table was always furnished with meats whose names began with one and the same letter But what do I raking up this carrion Let them rot in their corruption lie more covered over with Infamy then with Earth Only to give the world notice who have been the great Masters of this worthy Science of filling the belly and following good chear I have been inforced to make this remembrance of some of their goodly opinions and pranks Which let who so will be their partner in for my part I solemnly avow that I find no greater misery than to victual the Camp as the Proverb is cramming in lustily over night and to be bound next morning to rise early and to go about serious business Oh what a piece of Purgatory is it to feel within a mans self those Qualmes those Gripings those Swimmings and those Flushing heats that follow upon over eating And what a shame if our foreheads were not of brass and our-friends before whom we act them infected with the same disease would it be to stand yawning stretching and perbreaking the crudities of the former days surfet On the contrary what a happiness do I prove when after a sober pittance I find sound and quiet sleep all night long and at peep of day get up as fresh as the morning it self full of vigor and activity both in Mind and Body for all manner of affairs Let who will take his pleasure in the fulness of delicates I desire my part may be in this happy injoyment of my self although it should be with the abatement of much more content than any dainties can afford When I was last at Messina my Lord Antony Doria told me that he was acquainted in Spain with an old man who had lived above a hundred years One day having invited him home and entertained him sumptuously as his Lordships manner is the good old man instead of thanks told him My Lord had I been accustomed to these kind of meals in my youth I had never come to this age which you see nor been able to preserve that health and strength both of Mind and Body which you make shew so much to admire in m. See now here 's a proof even in our Age That the length and happiness of mens lives in the old world was chiefly caused by the means of Blessed Temperance But what need more word in a matter as evident as the Sun at noon-day to all but those whose Brains are sunk down into the Quagmire of their Bellies I 'le make an end with that which cannot be denied nor deluded nor resisted so plain is the truth and so great is the authority of the Argument and this it is Peruse all Histories of whatever times and people and you shall always find the haters of a Sober Life and Spare Diet to have been sworn enemies against virtue and goodness Witness Claudius Caligula Heliogabalus Clodius the Tragedian Vitellius Verus Tiberius and the like And on the contrary the friends and followers of Sobriety and Frugality to have been men of divine spirits and most heroical performances for the benefit of mankind Such as were Augustus Alexander Severus Paulus Aemilius Epaminondas Socrates and all the rest who are registred for excellent in the lists of Princes Soldiers and Philosophers A spare diet then is better than a splendid and sumptuous let the Sardanapaluses of our age prattle what they list Nature and Reason and Experience and the Example of all vertuous persons prove it to be so He that goes about to perswade me otherwise shall lose his labor though he had his tongue and brain furnished with all the Sophistry and Eloquence that ever Greece and Italy could joyntly have afforded FINIS * Qui medicè vivit miserè vivit That this subject is not un befitting a Divine The Measure is different according to the diversity of constitutions and ages What is every ones due measure Whether Students in Colledges or those that live in Monasteries c. ought to trouble themselves about this measure * Crudo aliquo fructu * Plethoram * Cacochymiam * Apophlegmatismos * In duobus paximaciis * Absque ullo obsonio That this measure may suffice ordinarily even those that are healthy and strong Panada * Esculenta potulenta * Menestris Hurtful meats are to be avoided * Nebula * Asthmata * Brassica * Humoris viscosi Panada a very convenient food for the aged c. Variety of dishes prejudicial to health * Qul ultra sitim famemque sedandā appetentiam producerent Whether this measure or stint ought not to be altered Whether the daily measure or stint ought to be taken at one or at more refections * Saplentia in sicco residet non in paludibus lacunis * Lux sicca anima sapientissima Another help to preserve health * Dolores ischiadicos * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crudity the mother of diseases * Non plures gladio quàm cecidere gula Health consisteth in two things * Vectis agitatio * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A sober Diet armeth against outward causes and accidents It mitigateth incurable diseases * Scirrho * Enterocele Hydrocele aliisque herniae generibus * In Columna Homicides and blasphemous persons do not live long seeing Neither luxurious persons * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Mancipata est It brings quiet dissolution Mans life compard to a Lamp It makes the body agil and expedite for all imployments The Commodities of the Mind by a sober Diet. It affords vigor to the Senses * Topica quaedam * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Ex Hypochondriis * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Coryzas This is a Benefit of greatest moment * Sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus Why the Appetite is deceitful * Bulimia * Mangonia * Chameunia * Non est tanto digna dolore solus The discommodities of Intemperance * Mangerà più chi manco mangia Ed è contrario Chi più onangia manco mangia Il senso è Poco vive chi treppo sparechia * Fa più pro quel ' che si lascia sul ' tondo che quel ' che si mette nel ventre * Cresses or wild Mint