whence the veines doe spring and the stones of generation from whence the seed of life springeth but those compounded members that bee principall bee all the other members except the simple as the nose the eares the eies the face the necke the armes and legges and the braines and chiefe substaunce of our flesh bee compounded members of sinewes and couered with panacles which bee of a sinew nature but that sinewes giue féeling to all the whole bodie euen as the arteries giueth spirituall bloud from the heart to euerie member The whole body is couered with filmes and skinnes Out of the head springeth hard matter issuing from the places called the pores to purge vapours and smoke from the braine which ascendeth out of the stomacke into the head and is cleansed through pia mater called the tender couering of the braine or spirites animall And therefore as some partes of the bodie being diuided in sunder be each like vnto the other and yet called by the name of the whole as for example When the bones be broken in sunder or the flesh cut into diuerse péeces or the blood powred into sundrie vessels a péece of flesh is still called flesh a fragment of a bone is called a bone and a droppe of blood is called bloud Euen so an hande arme veyne or such like vnseparate partes beeing diuided into péeces or called by the name of péeces and not by the name of the whole part as is before But my friend Iohn to make a large description of Anatomie it were too long for mee but shortly I will say some thing And first the definition thereof is when the bodie of a dead man or woman is cut and opened and the members diuided or for the want of dead bodies to reade good bookes as Galen Auicen c. And it behooueth them that cutteth a deade corpse to note foure things First the nutrimentall members as the liuer with the veynes the second is the members spirituall as the heart with the arteries the third is the animall members as the head braines and sinewes the fourth and last be excrements of the bodie as armes legges skin haire c. Of these said members with the bones is all the bodie compounded And like as euerie trée and hearbe haue their rootes in the earth and their braunches springeth vpward euen so the rootes of mankinde haue the beginning in the braine and the sinew and branches groweth downeward in the which braine dwelleth the vertues of imagination fantasie memorie c. And these animall vertues be placed as it were heauenly aboue al the mēbers communicating their heauenly influences down vnto the heart as to a prince or chiefe ruler within the body which giueth life to euery part thereof Thou shalt consider that the hart was the first that receiued life from the spirites and shalbe the last that shall die Note also that as there be noble sences giuen to the body as seeing hearing smelling tasting féeling euen so nature hath foure principall vertues first Attractiue the second Retentiue the third Digestiue the fourth Expulsiue Attractiue is that by the which euery part of the body draweth the food of life serueth the vertue disgestiue and the Retentiue doeth holde the meate vntill it be readie to be altered and changed Digestiue doth alter and maketh the foode like vnto the thing that it nourisheth as fleme bloud c. Expulsiue separateth them from the other the good from the bad Thou oughtest also most chiefly to learne the knowledge of the veines and for what sicknesse they must bée opened and what medicins either in sirups or pils thou must vse And first marke this figure of the Anatomie here present before thee with the heauenly signes because I haue not painted at large the seuerall parts of the said Anatomie The middle veine of the forehead is good to be opened against Megrim forgetfulnes passions of the head And they that be let blood of this or any other veyne must first haue their head purged with pillule Chochi Rasis or some purgation but first vse thinges to extenuate matter as syrruppe of Buglosse c. Against Leprosy and deafnes Let bloud the two veines behind the eares and vse the said pilles or els pillule Aurea Nicholai or Arabice or cōfectio Hameth minor Against replexion or too much blood or bloud in the eies flowing in the head vpon the temple veines called Artiers for they bée euer beating And vse to purge with pillule Artritice Nicholai or puluis ad epithema Hepatis Against Squinancie stopping the throte and stopping of the breath Let bloud the veines vnder the tongue And for this vse Philoniūmaius Necholai and Gargarismes pilule Bechie and oxymel Simplex Ueines called Originales open not without great counsaile of a learned Physicion or cunning Chirurgion They be in the necke and haue a great course of bloud that gouerneth the head and the whole body Against short winde and euill bloud aproching to the heart and spitting bloud Open the vaine called Cordiaca or heart veine in the arme Use thinges to extenuate as Aromaticum Chariophillatum Mesue serapium ex Absinthij in colde time serapium Boraginis hote time and pillule stomachi Agaynst palsie yellow Iaundies burning heats and apostumations of the liuer Open the liuer vein vpon the right arme Take Serapium exendiue Diamargariton frigidum Auicennie Against dropsy open the veine betweene the belly and the braunch the right side against the said dropsy and the left side against the passions of the milte but bée not rash vnlesse ye haue the consaile of one well seene in the Anothomie Use pillule Hiere cum Agarico Agaynst the stopping the secrete tearmes or fluxions of women or helping the Emerods and purging sores Open the veine called Sophane vnder the ancle Theriaca Andromachi Pillule Mastichine Petri de Ebano Within twentie houres after one is infected with the pestilence comming sodenly Open the vein betwéen the wrest of the foote and the great toe Use Serapium Cichorij and Pillule pestilentialis Ruffi Against stinking breath Open the veyne betwéene the lip and the chin Use for this Catharicum imperiale Nicho Alexandri Against the toothake Open the veine in the roofe of the mouth And first purge with Pillule Choci Rasis or with pilles of masticke Against quartens tercians and paines of the left side Open the splene veine commonly called the low veine with a wide cut and not deepe For Chirurgions nicely pricking or opening veynes with little Scarisfactions doe let out good pure bloud and still retaine grosse colde and drie earthly matter to the great hurt of their patients And albeit many more veynes might here be spoken of and their vtilities yet this shall well suffice by Gods grace to kéepe all people in health that vpon iust cause haue these veynes opened except olde men women with childe and children vnder xiiii yeares of age or men after diuerse agues For
good The crude rawe Date doth califie the bodie and doth conuert quickely into choler it is not good for the heades of the hot people ill for the throte and stoppeth the liuer maketh the téeth rotten but if they be cleane pilled and the inward rinde taken away they doe greatly nourish and restore being sodden in stewed brâ—ath they be of diuerse kinds in quantitie and qualitie but generally hote and moist in the second degrée Figs as Hipocrates saith the best be white the second bee red the third be blacke the ripest be the best and amongst all fruits doth most nourish prouoketh sweat because it doeth purge y e superfluitie of humors throgh the skin it doth ingender lice they be hot in the first degrée and the new figs be moist in the second the séedes the skin of the fig be not greatly commended Figges and Almonds eaten of a fasting stomacke be very wholsome to make the way of good digestion but best if they be eaten with nuts Figs and hearbe grace stamped together be verie wholsome to bee eaten against the pestilence Rosted figges beaten together and hote applied vpon the pestilent sore doth draw mollifie and make ripe the sore And to the lungs liuer and stomacke figs be verie comfortable as Galen saith Ioh. What be peares Hum. They bee of diuerse kindes heauier than Apples not good vntill they be verie ripe vnlesse they be tenderly rosted or baked and eaten after meales There is a kinde of Peares growing in the citie of Norwich called the blacke friers peare verie delicious and pleasant and no lesse profitable vnto a hote stomacke as I heard it reported by a right worshipfull phisition of the same citie called doctour Manfield which said he thought those Peares without all comparison were the best that grew in any part of England Ioh. What sayest thou of Apples Hum. Apples be very cold and windie hard to digest ingenderers of euill bloud hurtfull to fleugmaticke people good to cholericke stomackes if they bée through ripe but best if they bée rosted or baked and eaten with grosse Pepper to bedwarde they be of many kindes as the Costarde the Gréene-coate the Pippen the Quéene apple and so foorth The distilled water of Apples Campher Uineger and Milke is a good medicine to annoynt the faces of children that haue the small pockes when the said pockes bée ripe to kéepe their faces from eres prouided that the said children haue giuen them in their milke saffron or Methridatum to expell the venim and keepe them from the aire during the said sicknes Ioh. What be Peaches Hum. The leaues be hote for if they be stamped playsterwise and applied vnto the bellie they kill worms The fruit is colde and very good vnto the stomacke they be good to be eaten of them that haue stinking breathes of hot causes eaten of an emptie stomack which is Galens counsell which saith if they be eaten after meate they doe corrupt both in themselues and in the meats lately eaten and they bée binders of the belly But Quinces be most comfortable after meate for they do enclose the stomacke and doe let vapours to ascende into the braine and stoppeth vomets they be wholesome for sicke folkes that bee swelled in the bodies Eaten with the grosse pouders of Gallanga Spickanarde Calamus and Ginger and may bee eaten before meate of the sayd sicke patients as well as after meate But much vse of them be not so profitable as delectable to the eaters of them Ioh. What be Quinces Hum. If thy stomacke be very hote or moyst or thy belly laxatiue then Quinces be good to bee eaten before meate being rosted or eaten colde and in this case the tarter bee the better and Pomgranets bee of the same vertue as Isaac sayeth but eaten after meate they doe enclose the stomacke and moist the belly they ought not to be vsed in common meats the custome of them hurteth the sinewes but in the way of medicine they bee excellent and the kores béeing taken out and preserued in Honie or kept theyr musse lege then they may long continue to the vse of rosting or baking for they bée perillous to the stomacke eaten rawe But preserued they doe mightily pruaile against drunkennes they be cold in the first degree and drie in the beginning of the second Ioh. What be Cherries Hum. The tarte Cherries vndoubtedly bee more wholesome than the swéet and eaten before meat do mollify the belly prepare digestion they be most excellent against hot burning choler they be good also after meate and bee of manie kindes as blacke red and pale The red Cherrie partly tarte is best Galen and Rasis greatly commend this fruit In the country of Kent be growing great plentie of this fruit So are there in a towne neare vnto Norwich called Ketreinham this fruite is colde and moyst in the first degrée Ioh. What be the vertues of grapes rasins prunes barberies oringes and medlers Hum. Hippocrates saith that the white Grapes bee better than the blacke and wholsomer when they are two or thée dayes gathered from the vine then presently pulled from it and if they be swéete they be partly nutratiue warme the bodie And vnto this agréeth Galen Rasis séeming to commend swéete grapes aboue dates saying although they be not so warme yet they doe not stop the bodie or make opilation as dates do They be wholsome to be eaten before meate euen as nuttes be good after fish Toward the South and Southeast partes of the world there be many growing in diuers regions whereof the wines bée made The farther from vs the hoter wine There be very good grapes growing here in England in many places as partly I haue séene at Blaxhall in Suffolke where sometime I was néere kinsman vnto the chiefest house of that towne Raisins of the sun be very wholsome and comfort digestion but the stones and rindes would be refused and then they be good for the splene and liuer So be aligants Rasis doth much coÌ„mend them but vndoubtedly the smal rasins be hurtfull to the splene Prunes or damasens haue vertue to relaxe the belly if they be swéete and ripe but they do norish very litle but quench choler Grapes rasins and prunes plumbs and siâ—es if they bée sower be all binders of the belly and so is the barberie called Oxiacantha and Oringes except the said Oringes be condited with suger and then they bee good coolers against hote choler whose rindes be hote and drie of nature The fruit called the Medler is vsed for medicin and not for meat and must be taken before meat prouoketh vrine and of nature is stipticke Ioh. What be Capers and Oliues Hum. Fresh Capers be hot and dry in the second degrée and eaten before meates doe greatly comfort digestion and be the best things for the splene or to cleanse melancholy that can be
to prouide for age 11 The description of the foure humors 12 Men hote but womens tongues hoter 13 Al things bringeth their apparell with him man onlie except 14 A definition of meÌ„bers 15 A part called by the name of the whole ib. What anotomy is 16 Foure things considered in the body of man ib. Against dropsie 18 Helping the Emerodes ib. Thernia excelleÌ„t triacle ib. Capers good ib. Miracle helpeth when phisicke faileth 19 Time for al things ib. Of bloud letting 20 Vsurpation 21 Morning best to let blod ib. Of meats medicines ib. Best time to purge 21. Vomites their profits 22 Custome in vomiting il ib. Of bathings and their properties ib. Discommodities by common hot houses ib. Afore bathing vse good ointments ib. Perillous to bathe vppon an empty stomacke ib. Of neesing 23 Of suppositers ib. Boxing good for the body ib. Of glisters ib. Manupractitioners ib. Beastes and birdes vse pruning c. ib. Hot water vnwholsome 24 Frication wholsome ib. Combing the head ib. Cutting off haire and paring nailes ib. Consideration to be had in eating ib. A cause why the soul departeth from the body 25 To eate both flesh and fish together hurteth the flegmatike ib. Diuerse sorts of meates corrupt the body ib. Good diet prolonges life 26 What meats doe cause good bloud ib. To goe to bed with empty stomacke hurts ib. An order in dieting ib. An order for them that bee sicke 27 Of sirrops and drinkes 28 As the complexion is so man desireth ib. Moderate walke after meat profiteth ib. To helpe digestion by diuers waies 29 A note which be the wholsomest aires to dwel in 30 What aires doe corrupt the bloud ib. Corrupt aire bringeth sun dry diseases ib. Feruent praier vnto God doeth mitigate his wrath ib. Sweete aires to be made in time of sickenesse ib. What situation is best for an house 31 Pleasant people ib. Moderate exercise a soueraigne thing ib. What profite commeth by exercise 32 Vse maketh labour easie ib. Idlenes the mother of mischiefe ib. Of exercise before meare ib. Of sleepe and weaking 33 To sleepe after dinner hurteth ib. To sleepe on the right side best 34 Lodging to bee kept cleane ib. To sleepe in fields is hurtful ib. The cause of the stone ib. Remedies for the stone 35 Of vrines with the colours therof and the iudgements ib. Contents in vrine bee the chiefe things to know diseases by 36 Of stooles and the iudgement of the colours thereof ib. Of doctor Diet Quiet and Meriman 37 Better to lacke riches than to want quietnes mirth ib. Many apt similitudes for the same ib. Poore mens pleasure 38 The torments of the mind ib. Thought killeth many ib. Ire is a grieuous passion ib. Diuels incarnate ib. A good face in a glasse ib. Better to be spited than pitied in some case 39 The vertues of Wormewood 40 The propertie of Annis seed ib. The vertue of Mouse are ib. Of Chickweed 41 The properties of sorrel ib. The properties of plantain ib. Of Camomel and his propertie 42 Of Sage and his propertie ib. Of Polipodio and his propertie 43 Of horehound and his properties ib. Of veruen and his properties ib. Of Rew or hearbe grace ib. The properties of Burnet 44 The properties of Dandelion ib. Of Spinage ib. Of Cucumbers ib. Garlike his propertie 45 Onions ib. Lettis and his propertie 46 Mints their properties ib. Fenel and his properties 47 Isope and his operation ib. Sencion his operation ib. Parcely his operation 48 Mugwort and his propertie ib. Of cabbage ib. Philopendula and his operation 49 Agremony and his operation ib. Of Dragon ib. The vertue of violets ib. Of the white lillie and his operation ib. Centory of his vertue 50 Rosemary ib. Peniroyall and his operation ib. Of mustard and his operation 51 The vertue of buglosse ib. The vertue of Basil ib. Roses their vertues 52 Sauory and his vertue ib. Time and his vertue ib Parcely and saxifrage and their operations ib. Liuerwort and his operation ib. Bitony and of his vertue 53 Beetes and their vertue ib. Maidenhaire his vertu ib. Nelilot and his vertue ib. Pease and beanes and their operation 54 Of hutles and tares ib. Leekes their properties ib. Of radish and other rootes ib. Hearbs ingender melancholy ib. Good things to disgest choler 55 To purge choler ib. To disgest fleugme ib. To purge melancholy 56 To prouoke vrine ib. Comforts for the braines to smell on ib. Things good to stoppe the flixe ib. Good thinges to prouoke neesing ib. Good things to comfort the heart ib. Figges and dates ib. Of peares 57 The friers peare ib. Of apples ib. A medicine for the small pox 58 Of peaches ib. Of quinces ib. Of cherries 59 Of grapes ib. Sweete prunes laxatiue ib. Of Barberies medlers 60 Of Capers ib. Of Biefe ib. Remedy for the flix ib. How to help disgestion 61 A medicine for the eies ib. Porke and his operation ib. The description of swine ib. Beasts haue no reason 62 Puddings of swine ib. A plaister of Saint Anthonies fire 63 Of rammes weathers and lambes ib. Of redde and fallow deeres flesh 64 Of hares and conies their properties ib. A medicine for bloudy eies 65 Of cockes hennes and capons ib. Of geese 66 The properties of great foules ib. Of the flesh of duckes ib. Of pigeons and doues ib. Of the flesh of peacocks 67 Rosted pigeons ib. Of the flesh of cranes ib. Of swannes flesh ib. Of herons bittors or shouels ib. Of partriches sesants and quailes c. ib. The properties of smal birds 68 The operation of fishes ib. The best feeding for fish 69 Soone labour after eating fish hurteth ib. Fat fish grose ib. The election of fish 70 Crauises and crabs ib. Of oile ib. Of water ib. What kinde of water is best 71 Of vineger ib. Of common salt 72 Of hony ib. Bees example to vs ib. Of milke 73 Milke not good for ful stomackes 74 Of Butter and Cheese ib. Of egges 75 Of wine ib. Heate of excesse in drinking 76 Beere and Ale ib. Breade of all sorts 77 Rise 78 Almonds ib. Walnuts ib. Filberds 79 Nutmegs ib. Of Cloues Galingale and Pepper ib. A practice ib. Callamus ib. Of triacle 83 Of methridatum ib. Of saffron ib. A regiment of the pestileÌ„ce 84 Good aire ib. Noone sleepe 85 Of sleepe ib. Exercise ib. Of mirth ib. Signes of the pestilence ib. MithridatuÌ„ andromachi 86 FINIS The Gouernement of Health Iohn OF al pleasures and pastimes mee thinke there is none like vnto good cheere what shoulde a man doe but passe away the time with good fellowes and make merrie seeing we haue but a time to liue cast away care wherefore is meate and bellies ordained but the one to serue the other The flesh that we dayly encâ—â—â—se is our owne Abstinence and fasting is a mightie enemie and nothing pleasant to mee and bee vsed of very fewe that loue
hearbe is hote and dry and prouoketh vrine clenseth the matrix stoppeth the bloud in a wound If it be put in a pigge it dryeth the humours that would engender fleugme it is good against the paulsie oftentimes eaten or sodden in wine it will helpe and clense itch scabs and filth from the pudent and secret members Aetius doeth greatly commend this hearbe and the excellent regiment of Salern where it saith Cur moritur homo cui saluia crescit in horto enquiring why men doe die that haue Sage growing in gardens But truely neither Phisicke hearbe nor cunning can make man immortall but assuredly Sage is holsome for old folkes to be put into their meates for it clenseth fleugme from the sinews which fleugme will relax the sinewes The wine of sage drunke vpon an emptie stomake is holesome for fleugmaticke persons or them which haue the falling sicknes or dropsie Ioh. What is Polopodie that groweth vpon the Oke tree Hum. If this hearbe bee sodden with Beetes and Mallowes in the broth of a henne and drunke it will loose the belly and clense fleugme the roote of this hearbe beeing drie and beaten into fine powder and drawen into the nostrilles helpeth a disease called Polipus Ioh. I haue hearde talke of Hoorehound I would faine heare of his working Hum. It is a hearbe hote and drie if it be sodden with faire water suger or hony and streine it this drinke doeth clense the stomake from stinking fleugme it is an excellent hearbe for women to clense their moneth tearmes the water of this is good to helpe them which haue a moist rewme falling from the head vpon the lunges beeing often drunke but it is hurtefull to the bladder and reines the sirope thereof doeth clense the kings euil and also put into the eares doeth greatly comforte the hearing if the eares be troubled and stamped with hony and applied into the eies it clenseth the sight Ioh. What is Verben Hum. It is called the holy hearbe it dryeth and bindeth if it bee sodden with vineger it helpeth a disease called saint Anthonies fier oftentimes waâ—hing the pained place the leaues of Uerben and Roses and fresh swines grease stamped togither will seace paine and griefe in euery wounde and will keepe woundes from corruption it is good for people that haue the tertian or quartaine Agues and thus saith Dioscorides moreouer he saith the weight of a dram of this hearb with three halpenies weight of Olibbulom and put in nine ounces of olde wine tempered togither and drunke fortie daies of this quantity fasting it wil helpe a disease called the kings euill or paine in the throate Ioh. What is Rew or hearbe Grace Hum. I tell thee this hearbe is verie hote and bitter and doth burne because of his hotenes in the third degree if a littie of this Rew be stamped and sodden with wine and drunke it is an excellent medicine against poyson and pestilence with Roses and vineger and Rew stamped togither and put in forred cloth or biggen applied vnto the temples of the head or forehead doe cease grieuous paines itn the head And in like maner it healedh the bitings of serpentes or dogs stamped with vineger many nice people cannot abide it crying fie it stinkes The seede of this hearbe beaten in powder and put in fresh clarified butter and pitch melted togither is good for them to drinke that are brused Ioh. What is burnet Hum. It is of the nuture of fiue finger drie and binding and not moist as many saith stampe it and put it to the eies doeth take away the dropping and pricking and doth heale woundes and is good to drinke for the tercian Ague Ioh. What is Dandilion Hum. It is trmperate colde and drie with Roses and vineger tempered togither it helpeth the head in hote diseases The sowthistle called Soncus hath the same vertue and so hath Suckery if they be sodden they lose the belly and quencheth heat which burneth in the stomake and defendeth the heade from hote smoking vapours and purgeth yellow choller and rebateth venerous aâ—d fleshly heat and is good to be sodden and drunke in hoate burning Agues though this hearbe be commonly knowen and counted of many as a vile weede yet it is reported of Dioscorides to be an excellent hearbe Ioh. What is Spynnage Hum. An hearbe much vsed in meate colde and moist in the first degree it mollifieth and maketh softe the belly it is good for them that be hote and drie and ill for fleugmatike men Ioh. What is Cucumbers Hum. They be truely in the seconde degree very moist and colde The seedes be good to be giuen in hote sickenesses the powder of the said seedes drunke in cleane wine is good against diuers passions of the heart this fruit wil cause one to make water well the roote dried in powder therof drunken in water and hony prouoketh vomite if they be moderately eaten they bring good blood tempered with hony and annointe the eies that helpeth a disease called Epinictidas which troubleth men with strange sightes in the nightes the best of this fruit is which beareth the best seedes the sauour of that is not holsome mellons citrons pompons and this kinde of pepons or great apples be much vsed in England and are more common than profitable because they vse to eate them raw English men being borne in a temperate region inclining to colde may not without hurt eate rawe herbs rootes and frutes plentifull as many men which be borne far in the South partes of the world which bee most hote of stomacke therefore let them eate these fruites boiled or baked with hony and pepper and fennell seedes or such like there be an other hote kind of bitter cucumers which do purge Ioh. What is garlike Hum. Garlike is very hote and drie in the fourth degree it troubleth the stomacke it is hurtfull to the eies and head it encreaseth drienesse but it will prouoke vrine and is good to be laied vppon the biting of a snake or adder it is good for the emeroids applied to the sore place being first stamped if it be sodden the stinke is taken from it but the vertue remaineth to be eaten against the coughes and paines in the lungs it cutteth and consumeth corrupt fleugme and bringeth sleepe It is not good for hote men nor women with childe or nurces giuing milke to children but Galen calleth it the common peoples treacle if sanguine men do eate much of it it will make them to haue red faces but it is a speciall remedy against poison Ioh. What is onions Hum. They doe make thin the blood and bring sleepe they be not good for chollericke men the long onion is more vehementer than the round and the red more than the white the drie more than the greene and the rawe more vehementer than the sodden or preserued in salt although they doe cause steepe very painefull and
helped very much with this Methridatū drunken with stilled waters palsies sickenesses in the midriffe the liuer reines and bladder be cleansed therby it prouoketh the menstrual termes in womē being drunk with posset ale If Isop or Germander bee sodden in the said ale it is excellent against the pestilence or poison if it be drunke but a little quantitie thereof according to the disease strength or age of the person It is very good against the stone or for womē which haue a new disease peraccidents called the gréene sicknes there is nothing better against the biting of a mad dogge than to drinke of this and to annoint the wound If it be giuen in drinke to any sicke bodie a little before the accesse or comming of the olde fittes of quotidians tercians or quarteins so that it be drunke with wine temperately warmed This Methridatum is a medicine of no small price Democrates hath a goodly composition of it an other excellent composition is of Cleopatre as Galen writeth An other and the most excellent is the description of Andromachus phisition vnto king Nero but the chief father of this act was king Mithridatus the noble king of Ponthus after whose name it is called Ioh. Indeed this is an excellent medicine but I pray thee where shall I buy it Hum. The blind fellow Iohn doe eate many a flie and the plaine meaning man is oft deceyued There is no trust in some of the Apothecaries for although the vsurpation of quid pro quo is tollerable for their Succidanes yet to abuse their simples or compounds it is not onely theft to rob simple men but also murther to kill the hurtlesse Ioh. Of late time we haue beene so afflicted with sundrie sickenesses and strange diseases that in many places we could get no physitions to helpe vs and when men be sodainly sicke 200. miles from London Cambridge or Oxford it is too late for the patient to sende for helpe being infected with the pestilence I pray thee tel me some good regiment for me my family if it please God that it may take place Hum. I shall be glad forasmuch as thou hast taken paines to heare me all this while to teach thée a pretie regiment for the pestilence Ioh. Reade it faire and softly and I will take my pen and write it Hum. Certainly the occasion of this most feareful sicknesse commeth many waies as the change of the aire from a good vnto an euill qualitie taking his venemous effect of the vital spirits which incontinent with all spéede corrupteth the spirituall blood And sodenly as it were an vnmercifull fire it quickly consumeth the whole bodie ouen vnto death vnlesse the wholsome medicine doe preuent and come to the heart before the pestilent humor And because it is a very strong sicknes it is requisite to haue a strong curing medicine For weake things will not preuail against so strong a matter Therfore I pray you note these six sayings as aire diet sléepe or watch quietnes or trouble and finally medicine First walk not in stinking mists nor by corrupt marrish ground nor in extreme hot weather but in fair cleare aire vpon high ground in swéet fields or gardens hauing fire in your chāber with swéet perfumes of the smoke of Olibanum or Beniamen Frankensence being cold weather And in hote weather roses willow branches sprinkled with vineger often shifting the chamber is wholsom fléeing the South winde Secondly diet moderate eating meate of good digestion as all that haue pure white flesh both of beasts and foules good bread of wheate partly leauened Eate no raw hearbs purslein Lettise yong Lettish or sorrel except with vineger Drinke of cleare thin wine not chaunged and vse often times vineger with your meates and mingle not fish and flesh together in your stomacke to drinke a tisant of barly water rose water sorrell water betwene meals is good eight spoonfuls at once Thirdly beware you sléepe not at noone it bringeth many sicknesses and giueth place to the pestilence and abateth memory For as the marigold is spred by the day and closed by the night euen so is man of nature disposed although through custome otherwise altered vnto great domage and hurt of body Eight hours sléepe suffiseth well to nature but euery complexion hath his proper qualities to sléepe vpon the right side is best euill vpon the left and worse vpon the backe Fourthly vse moderate exercise and labor for the euacuation of the excrements as swift going vp hilles stretching forth armes and legges lifting weightes not verie ponderous for by labour the first and second digestion is made perfite and the bodie strengthened and this is a mightie defence agaynst the pestilence and many mo infirmities wheras through idlenesse be engendered all diseases both of the soule and bodie whereof man is compounded made Fifthly aboue all earthly thinges mirth is most excellent and the best companion of life putter away of all diseases the contrarie in plague time bringeth on the pestilence through painefull melancholie which maketh the body heauy earthly Company musicke honest gaming or any other vertuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heauinesse of mind Sixtly medicine the partie being chaunged in nature and condition trembling or burning vomiting with extreame paine in the day colde in the night and strange imaginations c. Apt to sléepe when these signes doe appeare giue him medicine before xij houres or else it will be his death Take therefore with all spéed sorrel one handful stamped with Rew Enulacampana Oringe rindes Citron seedes the great thistlerootes Geneper berries walnuts cleane picked of each one ounce stampe them all together then take pure sharpe vineger a quarter of a pynt as much buglesse water as much white wine and temper your sayde receytes with these licours Then put in two ounces of pure Methridatum and romachi which is an excellent triacle and two drams weight of the powder of pure Bolearmein mingle them all togither in a verie close vessell and giue the pacient a spoonefull or more next his heart and etfsoones asmuch more let them that take this not sléepe during twētie hours or else take pure triacle and setwel mingled in posset ale made with white wine wherein sorrel hath boyled a good draught and let an expert Chirurgion let the pacient bloud vpon the middle veine called Mediana or the heart veine Basilica a good quantitie according to the strength and age of the pacient except women with childe and children For the retaining the said bloud would all turne to venom and incurable poison And note this that blood bee lette vpon the same side that the sore doth appeare If any appeare for many causes and sléep not viij houres after and vse this most excellent pill oftentimes Take pure aloes epatik and myrre well washed in cleane water or rose water of each 2. drams and one dram of the powder
of saffron mingled with a little swéete wine tempered in a very small vessell vpon the coles vntill it be partlie thicke or els incorporate altogither in a morter then roll them vp in small round pils vse to swallow half a dram of these pils two times a wéeke in the pestileÌ„ce time a mornings thrée hours before meate Another medicine tormentill gentian setwell of each one dram spikenarde drams 2. nasticke drams 3. bole armin drams 8. giue 2. drams to the patient or any that feare the plague in the water of Scabeas or Carduus Benedictus then drinke the broath of a chicken or pure wine to ripe the sore rost a great onion take out the core put in triacle and warme apply it to the place thrée or four times renued warme and oyle Oliue blacke sope sowre leauen lillie rootes of each like quantitie boyled together put in the inice of Rew and make a plaister this will breake the said sore Capons grease yolkes of egs swines grease barlie floure inséede in powder incorporated together wil make a good healing playster Emplastrum diachilon magnum descriptione filij Zacharia doth resolue and quench the hot vlcer But in the time of the plague trust not vrines FINIS The Epilogue HEre I haue presented vnto thee gentle reader a simple Gouernment of health beseeching thee most heartily for to accept it as an argument of my good will as one vnfeynedly that greatly doe couet the good estate and happie health of mankinde which by dayly casualties surfets and age do decay and fall into many grieuous and painfull sicknesses For which cause although perhaps I cannot in all points answer to thy request in this little Regiment yet I shall desire thee to accept mee among the fellowship of the botchers which do helpe to repaire things that fall into ruine or decay Euen so bee the practitioners of phisicke no makers of men but when men doe decay through sicknesse then the counsell of the Phisition and the vertue of medicin is not to bee refused but most louingly to bee embraced as a chiefe friend in the time of aduersitie if thou readest this little booke and obserue it I trust it will pay as much as it doth promise And because I am a yong man I would not presume to take such a matter in hand although the wordes bee fewe but did consiliate and gather things together which of my selfe I haue practised and also read and noted in the workes of Hippocrates Galen Auicen Plinie Haliabas Auenzoer Rasis Dioscorides Leonhardus Futchius Conradus Gesnerus c. And thus I leaue thee to the companie of this my little booke wishing thee health and all them that shall reade it William Bullein Codrus Mydas Cap. 3â— Nestor Galen Arganton The Epicure desireth to liue altogither in bellie cheere Haeliogabalus court fit for belly gods The iust ceward of belly gods The fruites of inordinate banquets Uarietie of opinions among men An obiection against physicke God the authour of physicke The inestimable goodnes of God ordained hearbes for the health of man Salomon Eccle. 36. The praise and excellencie of phisicke Moises Adam Iesus Sirack cap. 38. Diodoro Test. Ouid. Meramor Chiron centaurus Podalirius Machaon Hippocrates Gallenuâ— Hippocrates in lib. de fla A definicion of physicke Hippocrates in primo Aphoris Theoricha Herodot Emperic Philinus Serapion Apolonii Methodici Asclepiades Dogmatici Hippocrates Galen de elemen de temp de facul Phisicke deuided into fiue partes Gal. lib â— de temp cap 4. Gal. in lib. 2 The 〈◊〉 methâ— The description of sanguine persons The description of the fleugmatike persons The description of the cholericks The description of Melancholie Hippocrates de Element Auic in cauteca The description of the .iiii. Elements Galen in li. 8. 〈◊〉 Hippocrates in lib. de na Ereaturs are compounded of more elements then one Elements felt and not seene Hippocrat in lib. de Natura humana Winter Spring Summer Haruest Auic in pâ—â— can Meates and medicine be knowne bâ—â—asting Colde Moist Salt Auic in pri â—ract â—antico Gal. lib. 1. cap. 2. lib. 2. cap. 3. lib. 4. cap. vlt. Sim. Med. Gal. lib. 5. Aphor. commen 9. An earnest briefe exhortation for the bringing vp of youth Galen in lib. Simp. The best time to prouide for age The foure humours naturall and vnnaturall are described Auicen in lib. can Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Arist. de Gene. Auicen Whether this be true let the married iudge Euery thing bringing his apparell with him sauing man A definition of members A part is called by the name of the whole and not the whole by the part What Annothomie is Foure things considered in the bodie of man Example Dropsy Helping the Emorodes Thereaca is an excellent triacle Use to eat Caâ—ers and take Pillule Iude Haly oâ— pillule de lapide Lazule Miracle helpeth but no medicine in this case Time for all things Hippo. in â— Affor 3. Aristot. in pri prob 56. Auic in 2. pri doct 2. cap. 6. Galen in lib. de flobothomia Rasis in 4. alman cap. 14. Rasis in 4. allmen cap. 14. The middle â—eyâ—e Hip. in 3. pri doct 2. cap. Vsurpation in medicine is euill In the morning is best to let bloud euill toward night Rasis in 4. alman cap. 15. Meates and medicines greeth not except pilsâ— before supper Time to purge Digges Kenningham Vomits and their profits Hip. Sent. in 4. Aphoris Custome of vomit weakneth the stomacke Auicen in 4. Pri. cap. 13. Of bathes and their properties The discommoditie of common hote houses To vse oyntments after bathings is good To bathe vpon an empty stomacke is perilous Of neesing Of suppositers Boxing doth much good to the bodye I will speake more of Glisters in my booke of healthful medicines Many practitioners of actes venerous Beasts and birdes vse frictions and â—â—nning them selues The profit which coÌ„meth in washing the handes with cold water Hot water is holsome to wash hands in Frication is holsom for the body Combing the head Cutting of haire and paring of nayles be comly for men A consideration to be had in eating and drinking A cause why the soule departeth from the body To eate both fish and flesh together hurteth the flegmatick Galen Hippocrates To féede of diuerse sorts of meats corrupteth the bodie Eccle. 27. A good diet prolongeth life What kinde of meates doe cause good blood What hurt commeth of an emptie stomacke when ye go to bed An order of dieting Galen me trite The Melancholie The Sanguine An order for the dieting of such as bee sicke of sharpe feners Of syrops and drinkes As the complexion is so man requireth The .iii. doctrine The .vii. chap. Moderat walk after meat â—rofiteth Galen in 6. de accedenti morbo i. cap. Auice in 13 theo 3. tract 3. cap. To helpe disgestion by diuers waies Hipo. in secundo Prim. doc 3. ca. 6 Haec signa declarant Note which
bloud letting will then engender perillous palsies as verie excellent Phisitions haue well declared And after one be infected with the pestilence xxiiii houres before hee haue receyued medicine or bloud letting miracle helpeth him but truly no medicine hath vertue to doe it Ioh. This same figure although it appeareth in many bookes yet verie fewe do vnderstand it in all points such be the secrete workes of nature And whereas thou hast well spoken of some veynes and apt medicines for the body I woulde faine see the true forme and shape of the bones Hum. Oh Iohn it were a long time to shewe the singular members with compounds as Galen doth in his booke of the partes and bones It requireth onely one worke but I haue taken in hand to teach thee but a Gouernment of health notwithstanding at thy request I will briefly rehearse the number of the bones no lesse true than newe which is the verie timber or postes whereupon our fraile flesh is builded beginning in our mothers wombes and ending in earth the mother of all things And as the noble prince Auicen affirmeth the number of all the bones be two hundred fourty and foure beside Sasamina Os laude Ioh. Thou hast spoken of the opening of veynes and medicins conuenient to cleanse the bloud with the number of bones but thou hast not spoken of conuenient time when to let blood nor of the state or age of them whose veynes should be opened Therefore I would be glad to learne not onely time of bloud-letting but also of purging the belly vomits bathings neesings and rubbing of the bodie c. Hum. Euery thing hath his time conuenient and must bee done with sober discretion and not with rash ignorance which killeth an infinite number Therefore the cause must be knowne and the time obserued as Galen writeth in the Commentarie of the Afforismes of Hippocrates manie bodies be extinguished by suddē death in whom is extreme fulnesse or aboundance For aboundance of blood or any other humor sayth Aristotle is the cause of many sickenesses and those men that vse much gluttonie in Winter shall bee apt to receyue manie diseases in the Spring time Therefore when the bodie hath extreme heat fulnes of veynes flushing with sodain rednesse in the face grosse and red vrine and such burning heate in the night that let the sleepe c then it is tyme to euacuate the bodie with some purgation bloud letting or abstinence as the strength and age of the patient will serue For manie diseases be helped by discrete bloud letting as Plurises hot Feuers Frensies Repletion or Surfets taken with ouermuch eating or drinking as Galen sayeth The letting of bloud dryeth vppe the superfluous moysture of the bellie helpeth memorie purgeth the bladder quieteth y e braine warmeth the marrow openeth the organs of hearing helpeth digestion induceth sleepe c. Unto this agréeth Rasis saying it helpeth greatly against Leprosie Squinances Appoplexes Pestilences c. But olde men children or women with childe ought not to be let bloud nor also those people that dwell in colde regions may not be let bloud because the bloud is the chief warmer of nature The people that dwell in hot regions if they be letten bloud it will dry their bodies for blood is the chiefe moister of nature Therefore is the heate of Sommer and the coldnesse of Winter forbidden to open veynes or let bloud except for a stripe or sudden chaunce as Rasis sayth the spring of the yeare is the chiefe time to let bloud in the right arme or right foote in the veyne called Mediana Which veyne must bee opened aswell at other times in the beginning of sicknesses as hot feuers and plurisies c. as Basilica should bee opened in the middle or toward the ende of a sickenesse Purgations ought to bee ministred with great discretion and not rashly to be taken for euerie trifle as thou hast heard me speake of bloud letting So obserue the selfe same rules in purgation as time person qualitie or quantitie For Hippocrates sayeth without doubt it is needfull to purge the superfluitie of the bodie As if bloud doe abound to take things to purge blood If fleugme be superfluous then take things to cleanse his superfluitie If choler bée too ardent hote vse things to extinguish If melancholy be too extreme then taste things to bring him into a meane And not to purge one humour with the medicines of an other but to take them in due order and aptnes For the said humors as Valarius Cordus Mesue and Nicholas teach the maner of making of the most excellent purgations with their quantities And as in blood letting sléepe must bee auoyded for viii or xii houres after them so when your purgations be taken aire is to be auoided and to be kept close for ii or thrée daies or more as the malice of the disease or power of the purgations be the counsaile of Rasis must bee followed which sayth oftentimes to take Purgations or laxatiue medicines doeth make the bodie weake and apt to the Feuer ethicke and specially in verie leane or weake persons they that bee verie fat haue small guts and veynes purgations bee verie noisome vnto them But strong bodies hauing large vessels may sustaine purgations without any hurt but strong purgations either in pils or potions if they any thing do excéede be verie hurtfull therefore the doces or quantities may not excéede And also they must bee made as pleasant as Art can doe them vnlesse they offend the stomacke Hippocrates giueth counsell that men should not mingle medicins with meate but to take them thrée or foure hours before meat or else so long after Unlesse they bee pils called Antecibum which may bée taken at the beginning of supper or else Pilli chochi a little before sléepe two hours after supper The best time of purgations is in the spring time as the doctors doth affirme the apt dayes and signes are commonly knowne in the English Almanacks calculated into English As in the writings of master Leonard Digges and of William Kenningham a learned student both in Astronomie and Phisicke with manie mo good men that taketh paynes to profite the common wealth There is another maner of purging of the bodie by vomit for it clenseth from the midriffe vpward if they haue large brests and be cholericke persons It is good against dropsies leprosies better in summer than in winter as Hippocrates saith and wholsomer one houre before supper than at any other time and not to be vsed as a custome for the custome of vomits hurteth greatly the head and eies and maketh the stomack so féeble that it will scant beare anie meates or drinkes but eftsoones cast them vp again They which haue narrowe throtes and breastes and long neckes vomits be neither apt nor good for them And Auicen saith that vomits