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A14298	Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.; Naturall and artificial directions for health	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1612 (1612)	STC 24615; ESTC S106222	54,245	162

Indian war with Art and politick stratagems almost beyond wit surprized them with great feare and wonder Secondly malefactours terrified with the guilt of their euill consciences doe imagine a world of feares And no meruaile seeing that all creatures serue to reuenge sinne committed against the Creator Offenso Creatore offenditur nobiscum omnis creatura Somtimes this Accidentall feare proceedes of sicknesse sometimes it comes by a false suggestion or alarum as that feare wherewith a Gentleman of Padua was possessed when his youthfull haire in one night conuerted into gray and hoarie onely by a false report that hee should be put to death the next day after What is Enuie Enuie is a griefe arising of other mens felicitie It maketh a man to looke leane swart hollow eyed and sickly Doe these affections hurt the soule as well as the body Yea doubtlesse For if the body be replenished with these diseases the soule cannot be whole nor sound And euen as vices cause disorders and diseases both in the body and soule so likewise they cause the one to destroy the other whereas there should be an vnitie and harmony not onely of the corporall qualities among themselues and so of the spirituall among themselues but also of their ioint qualities one with another And no meruaile seeing that God hath sowed and planted the seeds and sparks of affections to moue vs not onely into our soules but also into our bodies How doe the temperature of the bodily affections and the soules affections agree together There is great concord betwixt the bodies qualities and the soules affections insomuch that as our bodies are compacted of the elemental qualities namely of moysture drinesse heat cold So among the soules affections are some moist some dry some hot some are cold This we might see by instance made The affection of mirth is hot moist whereas sorrow is cold and dry The one is proper to young men and the other to olde men who are cold and dry Why is there so great a diuersitie among men There be diuers reasons alledged of this by men of diuers professions First the Diuines say that originall sinne and temptation of wicked spirits make men vicious faith and grace make them righteous and holy Politicians and Statesmen holde that bad company and ill education cause men to be ill disposed the Astronomer hee saith that they which are borne vnder Iupiter shall be wise and fortunate vnder Mars souldiers vnder Venus adulterers vnder Mercury Merchants or very couetous vnder Taurus industrious vnder Libra iust men vnder Aries wise Counsellors vnder Aquarius fishers S. Augustine on the 63. Psalme tels of a Mathematician who said that it was not a mans owne will which made a leacher but Venus a murtherer Mars not his owne proper will made him iust but Iupiter The naturall Philosopher auerreth that they who excell in imagination are fit to be Linguists Artizans Poets and Painters the meanes to descry whether they be imaginatiue or no is thus if he be well conceited of himselfe if hee loues to goe richly attired and oftentimes looketh in a looking glasse if hee playes well at Chesse Cards and Dice c. They that excell in vnderstanding are fit to be Iudges they who haue the faculty of memorie wil proue good Atturnies and practicioners in Law and Physick Physitians hold that men be diuersly affected according to the diet which they vse as Venison Conies and Hares-flesh make men melancholick and consequently enuious and froward those meates which ingender good bloud make men of a sanguine complexion and free hearted Excesse of meat make men riotous and drunkards Of the Age of Man CHAP. 3. Into how many ages is mans life diuided MAns life by the computation of Astrologers is diuided into seauen ages ouer euery one of which one of the seauen planets is predominant The first age is called infancie which continueth the space of seauen yeares And then the Moone raigneth as appeareth by the moyst constitutions of children agreeing well with the influence of that planet The second age named childhood lasteth seauen yeares more and endeth in the fourteenth of our life Ouer this age Mercurie which is the second sphere ruleth for then children are vnconstant tractable and soone enclined to learne The third age endureth eight yeares and is termed the strippling age It beginneth at the fourteenth yeare and continueth vntill the end of the two and twentieth During which time gouerneth the planet Venus For then we are prone to prodigality gluttonie drunkennes lechery sundry kinds of vices The fourth age contayneth twelue yeares till a man be foure and thirtie and then is he named a young man Of this age the Sunne is chiefe Lord. Now a man is wittie well aduised magnanimous and come to know himselfe The fift age is called mans age and hath sixteene yeares for the continuance thereof subiect to Mars for now a man is cholerick and couetous The sixt age hath twelue yeares that is from fiftie till threescore and two This age is termed although improperly olde age of which Iupiter is master a planet significant of equity temperance and religion The seauenth and last by order of these ages continueth full 18. yeares ending at fourscore to which few attaine This age by the meanes of that planet Saturne which is melancholick most slow of all other causeth man to be drooping decrepit froward cold and melancholick Why did men liue longer before the floud then they doe now The principall reason why men in those dayes liued longer then we do is because they had not then any of the causes which ingender in vs so many maladies whence consequently ensueth death Their liues were vpholden by the course of the heauens with the qualities of the planets stars being at that time farre more glorious and gracious then now There were not so many meteors comets and ecclipses past from whence now diuers innumerable circumuolutions proceed We must also vnderstand that our first Parents were created of God himselfe without any other instrumentall meanes And againe the earth in those dayes was of greater efficacie to bring foorth necessaries for mans vse then it is in this crooked and outworne age The soyle was then gay trim and fresh whereas now by reason of the inundation which tooke away the fatnesse thereof it is barren saltish and vnsauorie To conclude they knew the hidden vertues of hearbs and stones vsing great continence in their dyets and behauiours They were ignorant of our delicate inuentions and multiplied compounds They knew not our dainty cates our marchpanes nor our superfluous slibber sauces They were no quaffers of wine or Ale nor were they troubled with so many cares and vaine glorious pompes Tell me the certaine time wherein man must of necessitie die To die once is a common thing to al men For that was ordained as a punishment of God for our fore-parents when they transgressed his commandement with longing

pere Ennius seicha tant les bouteilles Qu'il fut geine de goutte et douleurs nompareilles More would I inueigh against the Lapithes of our age had not I of late taxed them in my first Circle of the Spirit of Detraction Shew me a way to make olde wine to be new out of hand Take bitter Almonds and Melilot of each an ounce of Licorice three ounces of the flowers of Alexander as much of Aloes perepatick two ounces bray them all and tye them together in a linnen cloath and so sinke them in the wine At what time are VVine and Beere readie to turne and change About the middest of Iune when the Sun enters into the Tropicke of Cancer and somwhat before the Dogge dayes begin wine and Beere are apt to become eager and corrupt and likewise when the Southerne winde blowes whether it be in Sommer time or Winter when it is great raine lightning thunder or earthquakes then are wine and Beere subiect to turne Shew me how to keepe wine and Beere without turning Aboue all things haue a speciall regard that you lay your vessels in vaulted sellers and then cast into your said vessels either Roach Allome done into powder or the ashes of Oaken wood or beaten Pepper or else put into your vessels so corrupted a good quantity of Cowes milke somewhat salted or if none of these serue draw the drinke into an other vessell that is sweet and vntainted vsing a composition of the foresaid remedies intermingling it foure or fiue times a day for the space of a sennight Is wine hurtfull to sicke folkes Hypocrates writeth that to giue wine or milke to them that be sicke of agues or head-aches is to giue them poyson yet neuerthelesse it doth agree with some kind of diseases as for example it is permitted to them that be troubled with dropsies with ill dispositions of the body and with the rawnesse and weaknesse of the stomack to be briefe wine is an excellent restoratiue for olde age which of it selfe is a great and troublesome sicknesse and for this cause some Phisitians aduised olde men to drinke wine in the middest of Sommer I meane to vse Bacchus for their Phisitian twenty dayes before and twenty dayes after the dogge dayes to the end that in the heat and siccity of that fierie starre their lungs should be ouerflowne but howsoeuer wine reuiueth feeble spirits and maketh the heart light specially of an olde man according to the Italian saying A vecchio infunde lolio ne la lampada quasi estincta Vnto an olde man it infuseth oyle in his decayed lampe Of diet drinks as well for them that be sicke as in health CHAP. 3. Shew me how to correct the malicious vapours of wines FOr the correction of medicinable wine you must put and infuse Burrage Buglos and Pimpernell in your wine for the space of foure and twenty houres before you drink of it Some vse to temper the force of wine by putting a toste in it Some take the leaues of Isop wel powned made fast in a fine cloath and put into new wine against the diseases of the lungs shortnesse of the breath and the cough which they call Isop wine some take dry Roses Anise and hony together with one pound of the leaues and seed of Betony one pound of Fenell seede and a little Saffron these ingredients they put in twenty quarts of new wine and after foure moneths are past they change the wine into a new vessell this kinde of wine is very expedient to be drunk for the clearing of the eye-sight for Pleurisies and for the coroborating of the stomack Others make wine of Wormewood for the paine of the stomack and liuer and for the wormes of the guts which wine is made after this manner eight drams of Worme-wood stamp them and straine them and so cast them into three pints of wine Shew me how to make Ipocras and wine of Scene Common Ipocras is made after this manner take nine pound of the best white wine or Claret that you can get an ounce and a halfe of Cinamon one pound of Suger three drams of Ginger and two scruples of Nutmegs beat all these somewhat grosly then let them soake three daies in the said wine and afterward straine it and vse it for the heating and comforting of a colde and a weake stomack but if you feare sicknesse prepare wine of Scene after this manner take an ounce of the leaues of Scene well mundified halfe a dram of Cinamon seeth them in a quart of white wine with a soft fire till it come to a pint afterwards put a little Suger vnto it and in three daies after it hath beene steeped and so continuing you may straine it and vse it by taking of three spoonfuls in the morning and three spoonfuls when you goe to bed vntill your body be sufficiently purged Shew mee a diet drinke against Melancholie Take two ounces of the leaues of Scene of Fumitory greene Hops and Borrage of each a pound seeth them to the third part in faire water with a soft fire or else till two gallons come to one gallon straine them and sweeten them with Suger or hony and after a sennight you may drink thereof euery morning a draught fasting and so before supper one houre Shew me a diet drinke against the consumption Take two gallons of small Ale halfe a pound of blancht Almonds a quarter of a pound of Annise seeds three or foure stickes of Licoras sliced or bruised one pound of Red Roses Isop and Parsley bruise and straine what is to be bruised and strained after you haue let them boile to one gallon and when it is ready adde vnto it a quart of Malmesie and drinke thereof morning and euening two houres before you eate this drinke preserueth a man from the cough makes a man of a strong constitution and cureth the consumption Of Cider and Perry CHAP. 4. What is Cyder MOnsieur Libault in his third booke of his mayson rustique writeth that Cyder most commonly is sowre yet notwithstanding whether it were made such by reason of the sowernesse of the Apples or become such by reason of the space of time in as much as it is very watry and somewhat earthie as also very subtile and pearcing and yet therewithall somewhat astringent and corroboratiue becommeth singular good to coole a hot liuer and stomack to temper the heate of boyling and collerick blood to stay collerick and adust vomiting to asswage thirst to cut and make thinne grosse and slimy humours whether hot or colde but chiefely the hot Such drinke falleth out to be very good and conuenient and to serue well in place of wine for such as haue any ague for such are subiect to a hot liuer and hot bloud for such as are scabbed or itchy for such are rheumatick vpon occasion of hot humours and it needeth not that it should be tempered with water VVhat is the vse of Perry Perry is a sweet kind