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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

depend in some part vpon the celestiall bodies is declared Besides this there are two other kindes of causes that doe change and destroy our bodies which doe grow from the superior Planets One kinde is that that is ingendred with vs and is therefore said to be Interne necessarie and ineuitable and they are in number three that is Drynesse which by the course of Age bringeth to death a daily wasting of substance or the great varietie and mobilitie of the matter in our bodies and the abundance of excrements Another kinde of them are which happen outward and therefore are called Externe of which the reason is said to be twofold for some of them are which doth not change or affect our bodies of necessitie for although when these things happen their hurt may be by vs auoyded notwithstanding there are some of them that our life may be safe without them They are such things which doe bruise hurt and wound our bodies which for the most part hapneth by some outward force as in the warres and other cases of Fortune as either being drowned or made away with poyson There are other things also which are said of necessitie to alter Mans body which although we may auoide particularly yet generally we cannot when we cannot liue without them These things I say doe destroy and ouerthrow the temperature constitution and naturall health of man if they be not rightly vsed as necessity and the state of the body requireth And those are those sixe things which are called not naturall which we will consider in particular which sixe things are placed in our power and election and they are of sixe kindes 1. The first is Ayre Water and Fire 2. The second is Meate and Drinke and all those things which are giuen the body for nourishment 3. The third is Motion and Rest both of the whole body as of euery part thereof 4. The fourth is Sleepe and Watchfulnesse 5. The fifth is Excretion or Expulsion of excrements or retention vnder which is contayned the opening of a veine Purgation Vomit auoyding of Urin Sweate Bathing the act of Generation and such like 6 The sixth are the Symptoms Perturbations Affections or Accidents of the minde such as are Feare Anger Sorrow Ioy and such like of which we will speak more afterwards These things being duely and rightly vsed doe conserue man in good health but vsed contrarily they destroy for as health doth consist in a meane and a mediocritie so also in a meane vse of things necessary it is conserued CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health I Haue declared vnto you the chiefe causes through which the diuers mutations destructions and corruptions of our bodies doe arise Now on the contrarie I will declare vnto you also those things which if we vse them in right order and manner doe contayne the safetie of life restore health lost and diminish some kindes of diseases and expell them For this thing it is first needfull and requisite that you know certainely and be sure of that although the celestiall bodies doe exercise a certayne force and admirable vertue in the affaires of Man yet notwithstanding GOD Almightie the Worke-man and Creator of all Nature and Humane things being the Lord of Life and Death who hath the gouernement of all Inferior bodies that cannot be remoued but that he doth gouerne and rule the influence of all Stars and Planets and remoue the course and efficacy of them and likewise doth moderate all inclinations that grow from the Planets and oftentimes according to his great goodnesse doth turn away diseases and change them into better sometimes also according to his secret and iust iudgement for our sinnes to exasperate and turne them into worse For the diuine Maiestie is not in the Starres which the God-head hath framed for the profit and conseruation of mankinde neither is it inclosed within a certayne fatall necessitie as it were shut vp in prison but doth worke freely and as the chiefe cause doth gouerne and moderate all other causes This therefore eternall God the most louing Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which proroged the life of King Hazechias for fifteene yeeres is humbly to be prayed vnto daily that he would bestow vpon vs also a long and a safe life with a right constitution as well of body as strength of minde and to preserue the same for rightly is it said Astra valent aliquid plus pia vota valent Astra regunt mundum sed regit astra Deus Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse piorum Next when for our sinnes our bodies are affected with often and diuers kindes of diseases we must carefully striue that we gouerne the inclinations and wandering motions of our mindes and that we vse a bridle to our outward members and that we doe not only flye wickednesse but that we auoide the occasions also thereof It becommeth you my deare Sonnes to vse this diligence in the gouernement of your life and manners and chiefly to embrace true Religion and due obedience and loue to your Parents which if you shall doe God will in like manner as he hath promised in the Decalogue giue vnto you happinesse and long life for as S. Paul saith truely in the 1. of Tim. 4. Pietas ad omnia vtilis est c. Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things which hath the promise of the life present and of that that is to come the which in some manner was vnderstood by an Ethnick Zoroaster King of the Bactrians where he saith Qui mentem ardenum ad opus pietatis intenderit labile corpus seruabit and Cicero saith Pietatem esse matrem fundamentum omnium virtutum That Godlinesse is the mother and foundation of all vertues Secondly when it is said that the Starres be the working causes of destruction and mutation and the causes of diuers diseases in our bodies and whereas the obseruation of the celestiall effects is not forbidden I will that you take this care that as well the yeerly directions as the figures of your natiuity be obserued which I haue diligently and exactly computated I leaue to euery one of you which notwithstanding you shall examine without all superstition and shall be aduised by the iudgement of the learned Astrologians and Physicians that you may the better auoid the euill foreseene and the good things shall be brought to their wished euent for that is true which some doe affirme that coelum esse fatalem picturam in coel●sti tabula and very well was it said by Hipp. and Galen the Princes of Physicians that the Arte of physicke without the supportation of the Heauens to be oftentimes in vaine yea also oftentimes to be hurtfull This obseruation doth profit very much for the preseruation of the health and for the preuention of diseases therefore you must regard the more your naturall inclination with the greater vigilancy that you may bee the better able to gouerne your

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

dry Yet doth it good if thereto you enure it Against a surfet vomiting to try Is remedy but some cannot endure it Yet some so much themselues found helpe thereby They go to sea a purpose to procure it ● Foure seasons of the yeare there are in all The Summer and the Winter Spring and Fall In euery one of these the rule of reason Bids keepe good diet suiting euery season ●…e spring is moist of temper good and warme ●hen best it is to bathe to sweate and purge ●hen may one ope a veine in either arme 〈◊〉 boyling bloud or feare of agues vrge ●hen Venus recreation doth no harme ●et may too much thereof turne to a scourge ●n Summers heat when choller hath dominion ●oole meates and moist are best in some opinion ●he Fall is like the Spring but endeth colder With Wines and Spice the Winter may be bolder Now if perhaps some haue desire to know The number of our bones our teeth our veines This verse ensuing plainly doth it shew To him that doth obserue it taketh paines The teeth thrise ten and two twise eight arow Eleu'n score bones saue one in vs remaines For veines that all may vaine in vs appeare A veine we haue for each day in the yeare All these are like in number and connexion The difference growes in bignesse and complexion Foure humors raigne within our bodies wholly And these compared to foure Elements The Sanguine Choller Flegme and Melancholy The latter two are heauie dull of sence Th' other two are more Iouiall quicke and Iolly And may be likened thus without offence Like ayre both warme and moist is Sanguine clea●… Like fire doth Choler hot and drie appeare Like water cold and moist is Flegmatique The Melancholy cold drie earth is like Complexions cannot vertue breed or vice Yet may they vnto both giue inclination The Sanguine game-some is and nothing nice Loue Wine and Women and all recreation Likes pleasant tales and news playes cards dice Fit for all company and euery fashion Though bold not apt to take offence not irefull But bountifull and kinde and looking cheerefull Inclining to be fat and prone to laughter Loues mirth Musick cares not what comes after ●…rpe Choller is an humour most pernitious 〈◊〉 violent and fierce and full of fire 〈◊〉 quicke conceit and therewithall ambitious ●…ir thoughts to greater fortunes still aspire ●…ud bountifull ynough yet oft malicious ●…ight bold speaker and as bold a lyar 〈◊〉 little cause to anger great enclin'd ●…ch eating still yet euer looking pin'd 〈◊〉 yonger yeares they vse to grow apace 〈◊〉 Elder hairie on their brest and face ●he Flegmatique are most of no great growth ●…clining to be rather fat and square Giuen much vnto their ease to rest and sloth Content in knowledge to take little share To put themselues to any paine most loth So dead their spirits so dull their sences are Still either sitting like to folke that dreame Or else still spitting to auoid the flegme One qualitie doth yet these harmes repaire That for the most part Flegmatique are faire The Melancholly from the rest doe varie Both sport and ease and company refusing Exceeding studious euer solitary Inclining pensiue still to be and musing A secret hate to others apt to carry Most constant in his choise tho long a chusing Extreme in loue sometime yet seldome lustfull Suspitious in his nature and mistrustfull A wary wit a hand much giuen to sparing A heauy looke a spirit little daring Now though we giue these humors seuerall names Yet all men are of all participant But all haue not in quantitie the same For some in some are more predominant The colour shewes from whence it lightly came Or whether they haue bloud too much or want The watrie Flegmatique are faire and white The Sanguine Roses ioyn'd to Lillies bright The Chollerick more red the Melancholly Alluding to their name are swart and colly ●f Sanguine humor doe too much abound These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe The face wil swell the cheekes grow red and round With staring eyes the pulse beate soft and breefe The veines exceed the belly will be bound The temples and the fore-head full of griefe Vnquiet sleepes that so strange dreames will make To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake Besides the moisture of the mouth and spittle Will taste too sweet and seeme the throat to tickle If Choler doe exceed as may sometimes Your eares will ring and make you to be wakefull Your tongue will seeme all rough and oftentimes Cause vomits vnaccustomed and hatefull Great thirst your excrements are full of slime The stomack squeamish sustenance vngratefull Your appetite will seeme in nought delighting Your heart still grieued with continuall byting The pulse beate hard and swift all hot extreme Your spittle sowre of fire-worke oft you dreame If Flegme aboundance haue due limits past These signes are heere set downe will plainely she●… The mouth will seeme to you quite out of tast And apt with moysture still to ouer-flow Your sides will seeme all sore downe to the wast Your meate wax loathsome your digestion slow Your head and stomacke both in so ill taking One seeming euer griping t'other aking With empty veines the pulse beate slow and soft In sleepe of Seas and riuers dreaming oft But if that dangerous humor ouer-raigne Of Melancholy sometime making mad These tokens then will be appearing plaine The pulse beate hard the colour darke and bad The water thin a weake fantasticke braine False grounded ioy or else perpetuall sad Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions Presenting to the thoughts ill apparitions Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming His eare the left especiall euer burning ●…inst these seuerall humors ouerflowing 〈◊〉 seuerall kinds of Physicke may be good 〈◊〉 diet drinke hot baths whence sweat is growing ●…th purging vomiting and letting bloud ●…ich taken in due time not ouerflowing ●…ch malladies infection is withstood ●…e last of these is best if skill and reason ●…spect age strength quantity and season ●f seuenty from seuenteene if bloud abound ●he opening of a veine is healthfull found Of Bleeding many profits grow and great The spirits and senses are renewed thereby Tho these men slowly by the strength of meat But these with wine restor'd are by and by By bleeding to the marrow commeth heat It maketh cleane your braine relieues your eye It mends your appetite restoreth sleepe Correcting humours that do waking keepe All inward parts and senses also clearing It mends the voyce touch smell tast hearing Three speciall Months September April May There are in which 't is good to ope a veine In these 3 Months the Moone beares greatest swa●… Then old or yong that store of bloud containe May bleed now though some older wizards say Some dayes are ill in these I hold it vaine September April May haue dayes a peece That bleeding do forbid and eating Geese And those are they forsooth of May