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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19070	The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke.	Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607.	1636 (1636)	STC 5484; ESTC S108449	215,466	364

I say of five parts of the earth those two which lye about the Poles within the circle Articus and Antarticus through extremity of cold are inhabitable as of old time hath beene thought howbeit now certaine Ilands are discovered within the circle Articke and found to be inhabited The third and greatest part which lyeth in the middes betweene the two Tropickes by reason of the continuall course of the Sunne over it and the direct casting of the Sunne beames upon it named Torrida Zona as burned or parched with overmuch heat hath likewise beene thought inhabitable yet now found otherwise considering the greatest part of Africk well inhabited and no small portion of Asia with sundry Ilands adjoyning doe lye within this compasse yet by the judgement of Orontius a man very expert in Cosmography right under the Equinoctiall is most temperate and pleasant habitation for so he sayth Torrida inprimis quanquam assidua Solis irradiatione arescere videatur sub ipso tamen aequatore faelicissima a●ris temperatura c●teras omnes antecellit The other two parts onely of which the one lyeth Northward betweene the circle Articke and the Tropicke of Can●er the other Southward betweene the circle Antartick and the Tropicke of Cap●icorne are counted temperate and habitable regions because they are tempered with heate on the South-side and cold on the Northside Howbeit these parts also about the middest of them are most temperate For toward their utmost bounds they are distempered with heate or cold according to the Zones next adjoyned Now in the temperate Zone Northward lyeth our countrey of Brittaine After Appianus England within the eight Clime called Dia Ripheon and Scotland in the ninth called Dia Darvas or after Orontius whose judgement I rather allow England in the ninth Clyme and Scotland in the eleventh for the old division of the earth according to the latitude into seven Climates Orontius utterly rejecteth and thinketh the famous universitie and City of Paris in France to be placed about the end of the eight Clime because the latitude of the earth or elevation of the pole Articke for both are one in effect is there 48 degrees and 40 minutes The same reason doe I make for England because the pole Articke is exalted at London 51 degrees and 46 minutes and at Oxford 51 degrees and 50 minutes that therefore England should bee the ninth Clime because the distance of parallels from the Equator is after Orontius in the ninth Clinie all one with our elevation England then lyeth in the temperate Zone Northward and the ninth Climate having on the South-East side France on the North-East Norwey on the South-West Spaine on the West Ireland on the North Scotland Now concerning the temperature of the ayre in England whether it bee in a meane or doe exceed the meane in heat cold dryth or moysture shall best bee perceived by comparison of other countries Hippocrates in the end of his third booke of Prenotions setteth downe three Countries for example of temperate or untemperate aire in heate or cold that is Libya Delos and Scythia Libya or Affricke as over hot Scythia or Tartaria as over cold and the Iland Delos of Greece as meane temperate betwixt both The like comparison is made of Aristotle in the 7. booke and 7. Chapter of his Politikes Those nations saith he which inhabite cold countries are couragious but they have little wit and cunning Wherefore they live in more libertie and hardly receive good governance of the weale publike neither can they well rule their borderers And such as dwell in Asia excell in wit and art but they want audacitie for which cause they live in subjection to others But the Graecians as they have a Countrey in a meane betweene both so have they both qualities For they are both valiant and witty Whereby it commeth to passe that they live at liberty and have good government and such a state as may rule all other Hereunto I will adde the judgement of Galen that famous Physitian written in the second booke de San. tu and 7. Chapter which may be as an interpretation of Hippocrates and Aristotle The best temperature of body saith hee is as a rule of Polycletus such as in our situation being very temperate you may see many But in France Scythia Egypt or Arabia a man may not so much as dreame of any like And of our Countrey which hath no small latitude that part which lieth in the middest is most temperate as the Countrey of Hippocrates for that there VVinter Summer hath a meane temperature and at the Spring and fall of the leafe much better So that Greece by the judgment of these men is most temperate and France distempered with cold by the opinion of Galen And if France exceed the meane in cold then is not England in a perfect temperature but more declining to cold because it is three degrees and ten minutes farther North comparing Oxford and Paris together in the elevation of the Pole Artick Howbeit Iulius Caesar in the fift book of his commentaries thinketh the ayre to bee more temperate in Britaine in those places where he was than in France and the cold lesser And Polidorus Virgilius in his Chronicle of England seemeth to bee of the same minde The countrey saith he is at all times of the yeare most temperate and no extremitie of weather so that diseases be rare and therefore lesse use of Physick than elsewhere And many men all abroad doe live a hundred and ten years and some a hundred and twenty yet he thinketh the aire for the most part to be cloudy and rainy which also is confirmed by Cornelius Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola saying The ayre of Brittain is foule with often stormes and clouds without extremitie of cold But to reconcile these sayings of ancient authors I thinke that England may bee called temperate in heate in respect of Spaine and temperate in cold in respect of Norwey yet to be reckoned cold notwithstanding moist because it declineth from the mids of the temperate Zone Northward And this is the cause why Englishmen doe eate more and digest faster than the inhabitants of hotter countries videlicet the coldnesse of aire enclosing our bodies about And therefore wee provide that our tables may be more plentifully furnished oftentimes than theirs of other nations Which provision though it proceed chiefly of that plenty which our country yeeldeth is yet notwithstanding noted by forraine nations as of Hadrianus Barlandus in a dialogue between the Inholder and the traveller saying in this manner Ego curavero ut Anglice hoc est opulentissime pariter ac lautissime discumbant Thus much touching the situation temperature of Englād Now concerning the order of the booke Hippocrates in the sixt booke of his Epidemies setteth downe this sentence Labor Cibus Potio Somnus Venus omnia mediocri● as a short summe or forme of a mans whole life touching diet By the which words

For beside that it is hard of digestion as common experience proveth it must needs breed ill iuice in the body considering the want of motion and grosse feeding thereof for which cause wee use commonly to drinke strong wine with brawne to helpe digestion And we eat it before other meats that it may lye lowest in the stomacke where digestion is strongest and we eat it in the cold time of the yeare when wee are best able to digest grosse meats as Hip. saith Ventres hyeme ac vere natura calidissimi somni longissimi VVhich use of England is confirmed in Schol. Sal. on this wise Est caro porcina sine vino peior ovina Si tribuis vina tunc est cibus medicina Which is to be understood as Arnoldus affirmeth in his commentarie upon the same especially of rosting pigs and brawne For young pigs commonly called rosting pigges though they be commonly eaten and accounted light meat yet they are not very wholesome by reason of their overmuch moisture and they breed in our bodies much superfluous humors wherefore they need good wine as well as brawne the one because it is over hard and grosse the other because it is over moist and slimy But physicke teacheth the cooke that flesh which is inclined to drienesse should be sodden the flesh which is inclined to moisture should be wel rosted Wherefore porke pig veale and lambe is better rosted than boyled Yet if a man be costive and would saine be soluble let him make po●age with fresh porke and none other herbe but Mercurie and by eating thereof as I have often proved hee shall be easily loosed As for Bacon is in no wise commended as wholesome especially for students or such as have feeble stomackes But for laboring men it is convenient according to the Latine proverb Crassa crassis conveniunt For the country woman when her sicke husband would eat no fat bacon thought he was past all eating for when the Physitian advised her to dresse him a chicken What master Doctor sayd shee doe you thinke hee will eat of a chicken when as he will eat no bacon as yellow as the gold noble And indeed in such kinde of men it forceth not much how wholesome meat be so it fill the belly and keepe strength For as the Poet Virgil writeth Labor improbus vincit omnia Yet a gamond of bacon well dressed is a good shooing horn to pull down a cup of wine But all sorts of swines flesh were and are abhominable to the Iewes because it was forbidden by God to be eaten of them as being unclean In so much that seven brethren and their mother were most cruelly put to death because they would not eat swines flesh But it is lawfull for the faithfull to eat all kinde of meat And although swine be uncleane beasts yet their flesh maketh cleane nourishment as Galen thinketh CHAP. 133. Of Goats flesh GOates flesh either of male or female is dispraised of Galen Quia praeter succum vitiosum acrimoniam etiam habet Yet kid is commended of him next unto porke But Avicen and the sect of the Arabians prefer kid flesh before all other flesh because it is more temperate and breedeth purer bloud as being in a meane betweene hot and cold subtill and grosse So that it can cause none inflammation nor repletion And is therefore a good meat for those that have weake stomackes and use meane exercise But it is not convenient for labourers because great labors would soone resolve the iuice engendered thereof Isaak Iudaeus maketh foure differences in age as well of goats as of other kindes of beasts That is to say Lactens adolescens Iuvenis decrepitus And hee most commendeth sucking Kids For this rule is generall that flesh of a drie complexion is better neere calving time than farder from it Wherefore Kids and calves be better than Goats and Oxen because their drinesse is abated with the moisture of their youngnesse But flesh of beasts of moist complexion is better and more wholesome in age than in youth for a great part of their over much moysture is dried away as they doe increase increase in age wherefore weathers of a yere old are lesse clammy and more wholesom than sucking lambs And likewise porkes of a yeare or two old are better than young pigs But generally all beasts and birds that be in the fourth age before mentioned that is decrepiti are tough and unwholesome For most true is that English proverb yong flesh and old fish doth men best feed Againe generally Castrati sunt meliores CHAP. 134. Of Hare HAre flesh beside that it is hard of digestion maketh grosse and melancholy bloud and is one of the foure kindes of flesh which breed melancholy mentioned before in the chapter of biefe wherefore it is not for the goodnesse of the flesh that this silly beast is so often chased with hounds and hunters but for pastime Yet thus much I will say to the commendation of hares for the defence of the hunters toile that no one beast be it never so great is profitable to so many so divers uses in Physicke as the hare parts therof as Math. sheweth For the liver of the hare dried and made in powder is good for those that be liver sick and the whole hare skin and all put in an earthen pot close stopped and baked in an oven so drie that it may be made into powder beeing given in white wine is wonderfull good for the stone as well in the raines as in the bladder The gaule of the hare mingled with sugar doth take away Flewmes of the eyes and helpeth dimnesse of sight The kidnies of the hare eaten raw especially while they are hot doe marvellously helpe those that have the stone and beeing boyled they are of like force The stones of the Hare are wholesome to bee eaten of them that have griefes of the bladder The bloud of the Hare while it is warme boyled with barly meale and eaten helpeth the flixe presently The dung of the Hare is good for the same purpose The haires of the Hare burned and applyed doe stanch bloud but chiefly the haires that grow under the belly pulled off while the Hare is alive and put into the nostrilles doe stop bleeding at the nose The ancle bone of the foot of an Hare is good against the crampe This much touching medicine Now concerning diet Rasis that famous Arabian saith that Hares flesh being rosted is wholesome for them that have any kinde of f●ix But our use is to rost the hinder parts and to boyle the fore parts or to bake the whole But howsoever it be used Galen saith that Caro leporum sanguinem quidem gignit crassiorem sed melioris succi quam bubula ovilla The opinion which some hold that every hare should bee of both kindes that is male