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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50458	Vita sana & longa the preservation of health and prolongation of life proposed and proved : in the due observance of remarkable præcautions, and daily practicable rules, relating to body and mind, compendiously abstracted from the institutions and law of nature / by E. Maynwaringe ...	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1669 (1669)	Wing M1519; ESTC R41734	56,870	172

rarifies and volatizeth a gross coagulate blood opens the pores for transpiration of putrid and offensive vapours acuates and sharpens the Appetite and helps digestion The best Air and most agreeable to temperate bodies is in temperate Climates for heat cold wet and dry not subject to sudden and violent changes as in some parts of America and other Countries very frequent not gross and turbulent infected with putrid vapours and noxious exhalations from stinking Ditches Lakes Boggs Carrions Dunghills Sinks and Vaults for which causes great Cities and the adjacent places are not so healthful nor the people so long liv'd Change of Air sometimes is very necessary for the conservation of health and the recovery of it declining and lost for temperate bodies by an intemperate Air shall gradually and in time become intemperate intemperate bodies by the contrary intemperate Air shall be reduced to temperature at least shall conduce much and be very Auxiliary for the reduction Therefore bodies declining from exact temperature are best preserved in that Air opposite to their declensions as cholerick hot and dry bodies in a moist and cool Air Phlegmatick cold and moist bodies in a dry and warm Air. It is not therefore of small moment in what place you live and more especially such who labour of or are more subject to any pectoral infirmity for the Lungs being of so tender a substance and porous continually drinking in the Air is most apt to receive impressions from it according to the properties it is pregnant with and infested and many diseases of the breast arise from this sole cause and many exasperated by it and continued hence it is Asthmatick Phthisical and Consumptive persons shall not be cured in some places but may have cure in another Be cloathed according to the clemency season and temperature of the Air your Age and habit of body lean thin bodies and pervious corpora rarae texturae and whose skin are loose and lax may wear thicker cloathing because such are more perspirable do magis emittere transpirare and are also more penetrable and subject to injury of the Air. Fat and fleshy people and whose bodies are solid firm and hard are more impenetrable and impervious and may wear thinner Garments Infants and Children lately cherished in the stove of the Womb being of tender soft bodies are easily exposed to the prejudice of the Air. Vigorous youth and middle Age being accustomed to all weathers whose spirits abounding do strongly resist and keep out the assaults and injuries of an offensive Air may best indure hardship Old Age whose natural heat is abated and spirits exhausted stands in need of good defensatives against external cold and to cherish internal heat Observe the seasons and changes of the Air and be then most careful for at such times you are in most danger to exchange health for sickness hence it is that Spring and Autum abounds most with Diseases the Air then assuming new properties opposite to its former constitution sets new impressions upon our bodies which occasions the various aestuations and turgid fermenting of humours producing divers symptoms according to the variety of their nature the organical difference office and constitution of the several parts The Sun being risen and the Air clear open your Chamber-windows that the fresh Air may perfume your Room and the close Air and inclosed Vapours may go forth Bad smells and putrid vapours being drawn in with the Air are very injurious to the Lungs and vital parts contaminating the spirits and impressing upon the Crasis of those parts their tetrid nature are oftentimes the original of a Consumption and if the Lungs be weak and infirm are more apt to receive the prejudice then others But fragrant smells refresh and chear the vital spirits and are very wholsom breathing forth the vertue of those things from whence they do proceed Be not late abroad nor very early before Sun rising and after setting the Air is not so good being infested with noxious vapours until the radient influence of the Sun dispells and purifies and those whose custom it is to be often abroad at such times are most frequently molested with Rheums and Rheumatick Diseases which their declining years will more evidently manifest the prejudice Likewise in moist foggy dark weather 't is better being within then abroad and if it be a cool season good fires and fragrant fumes are then both pleasant and very wholsom Be frequent abroad in the Fields when a clear Skie invites you forth and let the fresh Air fan you with its sweet breath but more especially in the morning the Air is softer and more pleasant then your Bed and sure I am far more wholsom Temperie Coeli corpusque Animusque juvatur Ovid. In the choice of places to live in and abide The choice of places to inhabit these things are to be considered principally First The Climate that it be temperate and suting with the nature of the person for some persons may agree well with one Climate which another cannot cold and moist bodies agree best with a warm and dry Air hot and dry bodies with a moist and cooler Air. Secondly The scituation of the place and soyl is to be noted for as much as low wet and marrish Lands is not so wholsom to inhabit as gravelly Plains and dry high-land Countreys Thirdly In relation to Countrey and City regard is to be had and here the Countrey does prevail over the City for Health and is to be accounted the best place of abode The continual smoke and anoyances that are inseparable from great Cities make those places to abound more with infirm people Fourthly The Waters that supply a place do make it better or worse to live in as they are good or bad Water being of so constant and general use is much to be regarded though little taken notice of and procures many diseases from the variety of its nature being impregnated variously f●om the Earth it passeth through or accidents that happen to change it from its natural properties by the admixture of any filth carrion or what else shall fall into it and therefore River Waters that lie open to such injuries are much to be suspected of unwholsomness And this is a great procurer of the Scurvy in many places as Pliny relates that Caesars Army by drinking of bad Water but a few dayes had the symptoms of that Disease The commendations of a place in rea●on to health and long life are these A ●●mperate Air Best place of abode dry serene and clear Champion or high Lands a gravelly dry soyl watered with pure good Springs remote from the Sea Lakes or Marshes not frequented with unwholsom Winds and stormy blasts So considerable is the Climate and Air in relation to our Being that it not only changeth and altereth our bodies but also our minds are wrought upon by it in as much as the wit inclinations and manners of a people are different upon this score

And for long life we find that in some Countreys the people are longer lived by much then in other and this from the wholsomness of the place and purity of the Air therefore the choice of places to live in is of great concernment and much to be regarded by those whose Fortunes permits them to pitch in any place for the advantages of health and long life SECT V. Preservation of Health in the choice of Meats and Regular Eating THat which properly may be called Food or Aliment is of that nature as may fitly be transmuted and changed into the substance of the body which receives it so that what ever will not be reduced and subdued by the digestions for such a transmutation and assimilation is not proper nor convenient food for that body because the intention of eating is to repair the loss that Nature sustains daily and if food will not be converted into the substance of the body it answers not that intention and is frustraneous so that every meat which enters mans body is not aliment does not nourish but that which yeelds obedience to the digestions and is assimilated And that which may be accounted proper food for the species mankind may be unfit for some individuums this or that man as common experience shews the reason of this is from the peculiar properties of mens bodies that differ Idiosyn Crasia else the choice of Meats need not to be insisted on In regular eating you are to consider First The substance and quality of the food Secondly The fit quantity and proportion Thirdly Convenient and due times for eating Concerning the first That every one may be something instructed in the election of meats this or that most proper and sutable take these observations for a general guide First Paulo peior sed suavior cibus potus meliori at ingrato praeferendus Try by your Pallate eat no meats that does displease the Gust for a common food Secondly Examine your Stomach whether such meats do not oppress or rise in the Stomach and cause a trouble or is long in passing off and flatulent If any such symptom as these do follow and not upon other meats then such food is not convenient because it puts a difficulty upon the Stomach to digest the consequents of which are bad Thirdly Inquire into the constitution or condition of your body and have some respect to that in the election of meats for Phlegmatick cold bodies and cholerick hot and dry bodies will not well be dieted both alike but as commonly they have different inclinations to meats so Nature hath appointed and is furnished with variety to sute such several bodies and appetitions Therefore make choice of such for the most part as is commended to you suting commonly and convenient for that constitution you are of as you will find prescribed in the several Constitutions or Conditions of body following Now by these three Rules every one may make a good choice of meats in a state of health and reasonably instruct himself for the preservation thereof Next the quantity is to be considered that you do not exceed such a proportion as is agreeable to your Nature for a due supply and not overcharge the body And here I must commend to you temperance and moderation in eating as a great preservative of Health not a Lessian diet to pine and enfeeble the body not so precise but a moderate allowance proportionable to the strength and ability of the Stomach to digest considering also other conditions of body and manner of life whether active and laborious or sedentary and idle Plures gula quam gladius The contrary irregular practice hath destroyed the lives of many Some may think the more plentifully they eat the better they shall thrive in body be more nourished and the stronger for it but it will not prove so a little well digested and assimilated shall maintain the body in a stronger and more vigorous condition then being glutted with superfluity most of which is turned to excrementitious not alimentary juyce and must be cast out else sickness soon after will follow For quantity your own stomach must measure to you what is convenient which is a certain rule of proportion if you observe not to eat to a satiety and fulness but desist with an appetite being refreshed light and chearful not dulled heavy and indisposed to operation and action either of mind or body A set quantity or measure of meat or drink cannot be prescribed as a general rule and observation for all to follow in regard of the variety and great difference of persons in Constitution Age strength of Nature condition of Life and infirmities that what is convenient for one is too much for another and too little for a third the strong and healthy cannot conform to the sickly weak and infirm in quantity nor the labouring man to the sedentary and studious or the idle therefore every stomach is to be its own judge and every one ought to moderate themselves by the cautions before mentioned Indulge not the cravings of an irrational sensitive appetite but allow such a supply of daily food as will support and maintain bodily strength Quicquid plus ingeritur gravat naturam non juvat and not over-load it thereby the spirits will be vigorous and active humors attenuated and abated crudities and obstructions prevented many infirmities checkt and kept under the senses long preserved in their integrity the stomach clean the appetite sharp and digestion good But by the surplusage and over-charge the stomachical ferment is over-laid and its incisive penetrative faculty obtunded the appetite and digestion abated the stomach nauseating fluctuating and belching with crudities from whence Gripes Fluxes and Feavers the spirits clogged dull and somnolent by their indisposition and inactivity humors subside degenerate incrassate obstruct from whence various symptoms and depraved effects throughout the body debilitating and decaying the senses Noxa etsi ad tempus fortasse delitescit temporis tamen successu sese exerit enervating and stealing away the strength of the body by defrauding it of good nutriment hastning old age and shortning life In Winter you may eat more freely but in Summer the spirits are dilated exhausted and drawn forth by the external heat opening the pores wherefore the appetite is not so sharp nor digestion so quick And the Rule is true though heat be not the principal cause of concoction yet it is a necessary Agent Excitor and Cooperator Change your dyet according to the seasons of the year the variation of your body and inclination to this or that distemper in Winter more meat and less drink in Summer less meat and more liquids in Summer meats oftner boiled in Winter roasted a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist diet a cold and moist body a hot and dry dyet temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodies are rectified and reduced