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death_n	body_n	flesh_n	spirit_n	5,367	5	5.2461	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16629	A vvatch-man for the pest Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent contagion, at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous cittie of London. Collected out of the best authors, mixed with auncient experience, and moulded into a new and most plaine method; by Steven Bradvvell of London, Physition. 1625.	Bradwell, Stephen.	1625 (1625)	STC 3537; ESTC S115636	43,552	66

As meat of hard digestion to a weake stomach for that denyeth nourishment meate of easie concoction to a strong stomach for that putresies in the stomach and so corrupts the bloud hot spices and inflaming drinkes to a hot constitution c. these breed many diseases in the purest aire and in a contagious they easily make way for the Plague Therefore we are to be carefull what we eat or drinke And our Care must be two fold first to refuse things noysome secondly to choose things wholsome In refusing things noysome take these rules Beware of piercing and attenuating things for they are heating and by opening the body they expose it to the corruption of the Aire On the contrary also thicke and slimie things are stopping breeding crudities and putrefaction by reason of that crassitude moysture and accidentall heat which is in them Sweet and fatty things likewise are to be avoyded because they easily turne to choller and so kindle hot feavors Very moyst meates as wee see they are hardly kept sweet in hot weather so by the heat of the stomach they easily turne to putrefaction especially to hot and chollericke constitutions But of all things those that are both moyst and hot especially wherin the moyst is predominant are most dangerous because they are as it were the very seed of putrefaction Cold mixed with moyst is not so ill because not so apt presently to putrefie but wheresoever the moyst is stronger the blood is made watrish and weaker and therefore not so nourishing as Nature needs it Also meats of hard digestion melancholicke salt and windie are to be eschewed Beware of all things that are hot and enflaming Much vse of very sharpe things are very hurtfull Shunne also all things that increase much blood for the body must be kept low in contagious times Also all things that are loathsome to the pallat or stomach must be reiected for that which nature abhorreth dissipateth the Spirits Having thus taught by their Qualitie in generall what meates and drinkes are to be forborne Now I will more particularly reckon vp such as are most commonly known and vsed being most to be avoyded in times of Infection And first for your Bread Be carefull that it be not mustie nor mouldie neither eat it hot nor before it be a day olde It is best for them that can haue Ouens at home not to send their bread to other houses to be baked nor to receiue any continually from the hand of common Bakers that serue to many severall houses Very salt and long powdered Beefe though never so much watered afterward to get out the salt is not good yea all that watering and moystening makes it worse Also Bacon and Porke especially boyled the Hare especially when he is olde Venison both of fallow and red Deere that liue in a corrupted aire are vnwholsome not alone for the reason that some giue of their liuing alwayes in the open aire and much running heating their bodies therein which makes them apt to be corrupted by the contagion but also in regard of the manner of killing them which is by hunting them to death for in that action they poyson their flesh very much by tyring their bodies and weakening their spirits to the death and by the infinite working of the passion of feare in them which how apt that is to poyson any body I shall shew in his place Foules that liue in fens or waters are all naught as the Goose Ducke Mallard Teale Hearon c. Meats made of the Inwards of Beasts are not good as Puddings Tripes Chitterlings Kidneys Livers Lights Milts c. Of Fishes such as liue in standing Pooles and Ponds especially in muddy waters are very evill as Carps Eeles Lampreys and such like for they corrupt the humors and breed obstructions Salt-fish and Sea fish sharpen the humors Oysters Cockles Muskles Peruinckles are hurtfull Grisly fish as Mayds Thornbacke and such like are to be avoyded Egges of Geese Ducks Pigeons c. are to be reiected Milke because it is of all meates most easie of digestion soone corrupteth in the stomach and therefore is disallowed So is Creame because it makes grosse blood Likewise Cheese because it is stopping And also Whey because it is opening and not nourishing Of Fruits all such as are Worme-eaten are to be accounted corrupted and naught All sweete and luscious fruits as Cherries Plums greene Figs sweete Grapes Black-berries c. Also Melons Pompions Pomcitrons c. Forbeare generally all Summer fruits because they breed crudities and grosse humors Among the rest also Beanes and Pease are accounted vnfit meats Roots such as are watrish are to be refrained so also is Garlicke for all it is called the Poore-mans Triacle because it openeth and heateth too much therefore it is seldome fit in these times Hearbs that are hot are not to be vsed but with good advise and tempering them with such as are cooling And beware of Cabages Coleworts Lettice and Rocket and all moyst and cold hearbs for they breed obstructions and crudities Let not your Sauces be sweet for such increase choller nor too full of taste for that whets the appetite beyond the desire of nature provokes to too liberall feeding Among other sauces Mustard is chiefly to be forbidden because it openeth and discusseth Beware of hot Spices vse them sparingly and then well allayed with cooling things Pottage and Broths are no fit food for these times because if they be thicke and strong they nourish too fast or if they be thin and not nourishing they fill the body with moysture more then needs For Manardus li. 5. epist 3. saith The body ought rather to be dried then moystened Some haue from strangers taken vp a foolish tricke of eating Mushroms or Toadstooles But let them now be warned to cast them away for the best Authors hold the best of them at all times in a degree venomous and therefore in time of Pestilence much more dangerous Now for the manner of dressing your meat briefly obserue that baked meats because their vapours are restrained within their coffins are not so well purified by the fire as meats otherwise cooked therefore they are suspected to haue in them a degree of venom especially if the meat haue beene kept any long while in the infected Aire much more if it be Venison for the reasons before-named But if any be earnestly desirous of Baked meats let them first take heed they be not too full of taste and gluttonous and also let the pie or pastie be opened as soone as it comes out of the Oven and so let it breath it selfe till it be cold Also sowsed and pickled meats are not good neither are boyled meats so good as rosted Of Drinkes Beere or Ale that is new strong heady and fuming also bitter fl●t dead or fusty are to be avoyded Likewise such as are sophisticated

Animall faculties Overmuch Watching also and want of Sleepe dries vp the good humors and sets them in a heat and which is most dangerous weakens the Naturall Forces Therefore obserue due Times for Sleepe Goe to bed betimes and rise betimes for that is holsomest Sleepe not vpon meate or after dinner especially if you haue fed any thing liberally and by no meanes giue way to sleepe at such times lying along but if you must needs take such repose sit in a Chaire vpright and doe but take him napping let not such a sleepe be aboue halfe an houre long for a little yeelding satisfieth and by further indulgence the head will grow the more dull and drowsie I counsell therefore rather to yeeld a little in this aforesayd manner then by striving too much against it to make the head ake But let some friend or servant within the time limited awake you gently not sodainly to make you fright or start for that would disturbe those spirits and humors which your nap had setled The night is the naturall time for Sleepe But let it be two houres at the soonest after Supper if you must sup that the stomach may haue made some good progresse in Concoction before Sleepe make holiday with the Functions of Nature And then Sleepe not aboue fiue or six houres at the most Let the Chamber wherein you lie be conveniently warme the dores and windows close shut to keepe out the evill aire of the night and before-hand perfumed to expell the Pestilent Sleepe not without dores neither sit nor lie vpon the ground or grasse in the fields or garden plots for the nearer the earth the more deadly is the Aire and the immediate stroke of the cold ground is very dangerous The sixt and last Poynt is the Passions of the Minde All kindes of Passions if they be vehement doe offer violence to the Spirits Yea though they be of the better and more naturall sort As Ioy and Laughter if they be vnbridled and too profuse doe exceedingly enervate and resolue both the Spirits and Body in so much as the breast and sides are pained the breath is streightened and many times the Soule it selfe is ready to depart So also Care Suspition Enuie Iealousie and such like vnquietnesses doe ouer-heat the Spirits and drie vp and consume the good humors But there be foure Passions more violent then the rest viz. Immoderate Ioy Sorrow Anger and Feare Immoderate Ioy by suddaine and violent dilatation of the heart le ts the Spirits fly forth so abundantly that naturall heat is left naked and so is sodainly extinguished If it breake forth into laughter the danger is as I haue alreadie said It is recorded of Chrysippus that onely vpon seeing an Asse eate figs he fell into such an vnmeasurable laughter that he fell downe and died And Zeuxis that excellent Paynter who made a most curious beautifull picture of the Spartan Helen vpon the sight of a very ill favor'd old woman burst out into such an vnmeasurable laughter that he laughed himselfe to death But somtimes this Immoderate Ioy killeth before it venteth it selfe in laughter For so Sophocles the Tragedian receiving a wonderfull applause of the people for the last Tragedy he writ was so over-ioyed at it that he fell downe and died presently And it is recorded of one Rhodius Diagoras who when he saw his three sonnes all at one time crowned with victory at the Olympian games ranne to meet them and while he embraced them in his armes and they set their garlands on his head he was so overcome with Ioy that he fell downe dead in the midst of them and so turned their Triumphs into a Funerall Sorrow on the other side afflicts the heart disturbs the faculties melts the brayne vitiates the humors and so weakens all the principall parts consumes the nourishments of the Spirits and naturall heate and somtimes brings sodaine death As Adrastus King of the Argiues being told of the death of his Sonne was taken with so sodain a Sorrow that he fell downe and died presently And so Iulia the daughter of Iulius Caesar and wife of Pompey when she heard the newes of her Husbands death fell downe also suddainly and died Anger is so furious a Passion that it worketh wonderfully vpon the spirits and faculties disturbing them exceedingly as appeareth by the shaking and tossing of the body too and fro the fiery sparkling of the eyes the colour comming and going now red now pale so that the humors appeare to be inflamed especially choller and the spirits hurried this way and that way somtime haled outward and presently driven inward againe By which violent motions an vnnaturall heat in the spirits and corruption in the humors are ingendred Hereupon many times follow Burning and cholericke Feavors Pulseys Iaundis Pleurisies and all kinds of Inflamations violent bleeding at the nose which can hardly be stanched and somtime death it selfe Nerva the Emperour being highly displeased with one Regulus fell into such a fury against him that he was stricken therewith into a Feavor whereof he died shortly after Wencestaus King of Bohemia in a furious anger conceived against his Cup bearer would needs kill him presently with his owne hand but in the endevour he was stricken with a Palsey whereof he died in few dayes after Valentinianus the Emperour in a great rage would needs destroy the whole Countrey of Sarmatia but he breathed forth his menaces with such vnbridled fury that he burst out into bleeding and died In the yeare of our Lord 1623. A poore olde Man in the North part of Devonshire dwelling in a part of a little Village called Little Poderidge came to the house of Sr Thomas Monck where I at that time was and standing at the Buttery dore to receiue some Beere which together with other victualls was every day given very liberally to all the poore thereabouts because the Butler did not presently fill his tanckerd the olde Man fell into such a furious rage against her that with the very Passion he presently fell downe was taken vp dead was with much adoe by me recovered to life and sense but never spake more and died within two dayes after Feare also gathers the Spirits to the heart and dissolues the Brayne making the humors thereof to shed and slide downe into the externall parts causing a chilnesse and shaking over all the body It abuseth the Phantasie and Senses brings a Lethargie vpon the organs of motion and depriues the heart of all spirit and vigour somtimes also it makes a Mans Will for him and vnkindly bequeaths his estate to Death As Cassander the Sonne of Antipater vpon sight of Alexanders statue fell into such a terror and trembling that he could hardly shift himselfe out of the place and had much adoe to recover his spirits againe I could relate a story of one who receiving but a slight wound in the arme in