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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14295	Naturall and artificial directions for health deriued from the best philosophers, as well moderne, as auncient. By William Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24612; ESTC S105370	29,116	96

if a man forceth to suppresse hee is in daunger of the cholick or stone What colour of vrine is most commendable That vrine is most laudable which is of colour somewhat red and yealow like gold answering in proportion to the liquor which you drink Teach mee to prognosticate by vrines White vrine signifieth rawnesse and indigestion in the stomack Red vrine betokeneth heat Thick vrine and like to puddle sheweth sicknesse or excessiue labour If white or red grauell appeare in the bottome of your vrinal it threatneth the stone in the reines In briefe black or greene coloured vrine declareth death most commonly to ensue Chap. 6. Of fasting Is moderate fasting good Moderate fasting as to omit a dinner or a supper once a weeke is wonderfull commodious for them that are not cholerick or melancholick but full of raw humours This Antonie the Emperour knew very well when he accustomed to drink naught saue one cup full of wine with a little pepper after he had surfeted Of the commodities of fasting I haue written more largely in my second booke of the Golden Groue Shew mee a way to preserue my lyfe if perhaps I be constrayned to straggle in deserts Take licoras or Tobacco now then chew it you shall satisfie both thirst and hunger Or else mixe some suet with one pound of violets and you shall preserue your life thereby ten dayes Or to conclude take a peece of allome and rowle it in your mouth when you waxe hungrie By this meanes vou may liue as some write a whole fortnight without sustenaunce Chap. 7. Of venerie What is the vse of venerie Moderate venerie is very expedient for preseruation of health It openeth the pores maketh the body light exhilarateth the heart and wit and mitigateth anger and fury When is it best to vse carnall copulation It is best to vse carnall copulation in winter and in spring time whē nature is desirous and at night when the stomack is full and the body somewhat warme that sleepe immediatly after it may lenifie the lassitude caused through the action thereof What be the incōueniences of immoder at venerie Immoderat venerie weakneth strēgth hurteth the braine extinguisheth radicall moisture hasteneth on old age death Sperme or seed of generation is the one y comforter of nature which wilfully shed or lost harmeth a man more then if he should bleed fortie times so much Teach me how wiuelesse batchelers and husbandlesse maidens should driue away their vncleane dre tming of venerie at nights First they must refraine from wine and venereous imaginations and not vse to lye in soft downe beddes Secondly they must addict themselues to read the Bible and morall Philosophie Thirdly they must exercise often their bodies Lastly if none of these preuayle let them vse the seede of Agnus castus in English Park seede and they shall feele a straunge effect to follow The fift Section Of infirmities and death Chap. 1. What be the causes of infirmities THe causes of hot infirmities be sixe The first are the motions of the minde as loue anger feare and such like The second the motions of the body as immoderate carnall copulation vehement labours strayning hard riding The third long standing or sitting in the sunne or by the fire The fourth cause of infirmities is the vse of hot things as meates drinks and medicines vntimely vsed The fift closing or stopping of the pores which hapneth by immoderat anoynting bathing or otherwise thickning the skinne so that the holes whereby the sweat fumes doe passe out be stopped The sixt putrefaction of humoures by distemperature of meats and long watchings What be the causes of cold infirmities The causes of cold infirmities be eight The first is the cold aire The second is too much repletion The third is want of good meate The fourth is the vse of cold things The fift is too much quietnesse The sixt is opening of the pores The seauenth is oppilation in the veines or arteries The eight is vnseasonable exercise What is the chiefest cause of death The chiefest and vnauoydable cause of our deathes is the contrarietie of the elements where of our bodies be compounded For the qualitie which is predominant ouer the temperature or mediocritie beginneth to impugne and fight with his contrarie which is more weake vntill it see the vtter dissolution of the same Chap. 2. Of the wicked motions of the minde VVhat is loue Loue is an affection whereby the minde lusteth after that which is either good indeed or else that which seemeth vnto it to be so What is the cause of loue The cause of loue among fooles is beautie but among good men the vertues of the minde are the principles of loue for they are euerlasting and when all other things as beautie and riches do decay yet they become more fresh more sweet and inestimable then before Hence is it that wee are counselled to chuse wiues not by our eies but by our eares that is not by prying into their fairenesse of bodies but by inward contemplating of their honest deedes and good huswiueries Ordinarilie the most beautifull and goodlie sort of men and such as are decked with bodilie giftes are most deformed and vicious in their soules There is alwaies a great combat betwixt chastitie and beautie so that wee seldome see faire women to be honest matrons the reason is because they preferre the phantasticall pleasures of their bodily senses before the true and right noble vertues of the minde What is anger Anger is a vehement affection because it seeth things fall out contrarie and crosse-like to reason Why doe some looke red when they be angrie Some when they are angry become red because their bloud ascendeth vp into the head and these are not so much to be doubted Why doe some looke pale Men waxe pale when they are angrie because the bloud is retired vnto the hart wherby they become full of heart and verie daungerous What is sorrow Sorrow is an affection of the minde whereby it is oppressed with some present euill and languisheth by little and little except it finde some hope or other to remedie the griefe thereof What is the effect of sorrow Sorrow stifleth vp the purer faculties of the soule causeth a man to fall into a consumption and to be weary of the world yea and of himselfe What is feare Feare is a griefe which the minde coceiueth of some euill that may chaunce vnto it Why doe fearefull men looke pale The reason why fearefull men looke pale and wanne is because nature draweth away that heate which is in the face and outward partes to relieue and comfort the hart which is welnigh stifled and stopped vp What is enuie Enuie is a griefe arising of other mens felicitie It maketh a mā to looke leane swart hollow eyed and sicklie Doe these affections hurt the soule as well as the bodie Yea doubtlesse For if the bodie be replenished with these diseases the soule can not be