restraine pantodidactos extravagant spirit more ignorant than the Oxe or Asse while hee knoweth not his owne cribbe within the borders of his profession showing whatsoever his vocation bee Mr. Perkins superscription of his bookes Minister verbies hoc vnum age that medicine flourishing in this Kingdome not only my old Lord Doctor but also young Master Doctor may liue by the labour of his hands destitute of other lands In IO AN. MAKLVIREVM siue lyradem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AOnidum pater est idem est Asclepii Apollo Illius inventum est ars metrica medica Verum Asclepiadis citharamque Paeonis artem Musarum vt famulis tradidit Aoniam â—ieridum nato simul atque Epidaurii alumno Phoebus avus Lyradae donat vtramque lyram Macte lyrâ vtrâvis canones dignate modosque Tradere Paeonios ludere Aonios Ludebat G. Sibbaldus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Authoris nomen Mak. hoc est filius Lure id est esca PErge salutiferam sic impertirier escam Iure salutiferae diceris filius escae In Libri inscriptionem MIlitia est quicquid mortales degimus aevi Quà m fit opus clypci nemo negabit ope Mysticus est Mystae Medicae hîc Maklurius artis Porrigit ingenii nobile deig na sui Qnisquis amas sanam quoque sano in corpore mentem Sanus si es sanum qui tueatur habes In Zoilum TEntas Maklurii incassum discerpere nomen Livide praeclarum iam super astra volat Pat. Sandaeus Author ad Censorem CVM tua non edas carpismea dogmata Censor Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Candidus imperti meliora vel vtere nostris Aut alios nostro mitte labore frui The Contents of this Booke THE naturall causes of death Pag. 1 The vse of meate drink sleepe c. 3 Of phlebotomie or drawing of blood 6 A remedie for drunken cummers 8 Of Lochleaches Blood-suckers and wicked men Blood-drinkers 9 Of purges for the body 10 Of purges for the purse 18 Of vomiting 19 The inconvenients of long sleeping 23 Meanes for expelling the whole excrements of the body 24 The tyme terme and other circumstances of exercising 26 TOBACCO 30 Dinner tyme and meates in generall 38 A remedie for growne greasie bellyes 39 Of bread 41. Of flesh 42. Fowles 45 Of Egges and milk 46 Herbes for eating 51 Drink in generall 53. Wyne 54 Beere 55. Water 46 What should be done after dinner 57 Passions of the mynde 59 Supper tyme. 62 The Cookes good parts 63 After supper what and the Aire 64 The praises of night drunkards and vaine Rorers Pag. 6â— Bed tyme and sleepe 6â— Procreation with the circumstances 7â— Complexions 7â— Sanguineans and their dyet 7â— Cholericks dyet 7â— Melancholicks dyet 7â— Flegmaticks dyet 8â— Age in generall 8â— Bairnes meate 8â— Youths meate 8â— Middle-age dyet 8â— Old mens meate 8â— The carelesse care of a young lasse for old man 8â— The seasons 9â— The dyet of the spring 9â— Of the summer 9â— Of the harvest 9â— Of the winter 10â— A regiment for women with childe 10â— For women brought to bed 10â— For the child 11â— For the Nurse 11â— Of waining the babe 12â— Greedie misers godlesse heires 12â— Bairnes diseases 12â— The markes of both true and false conception 12â— FINIS THE BVCKLER OF HEALTH GOD the Creator made man with a soule immortall and a body subject to death being composed of foure elements of contrary quali 〈…〉 s which doth combate still amongst 〈…〉 emselues the stronger stryving to sub 〈…〉 e the weaker hence commeth many 〈…〉 eases and in end destruction Moreo 〈…〉 r our lyfe is sustained by two pillars 〈◊〉 wit by the naturall heate which is 〈◊〉 chiefe instrument of the soule and the 〈…〉 bred moist or sappe of the body which 〈◊〉 the nurishment or foode of this heate 〈◊〉 is the oyle in the lampe of the light 〈…〉 ich humour failing the heate must needs 〈…〉 rish but so it is this humour can not still last because the naturall heate doth dayly destroy it and although there be dayly reparation made by the heate and the blood that proceeds from the heart by the arters to all the members of the body yet the sappie or humide substance that is dissolved is much purer than that which by reparation doth succeede to it for our naturall heate being dayly weakned is not able to make vp her losses by as good as it hath loste as wyne the more water bee mixed is the weaker so our naturall heate and inbred sappie substance is dayly weakned by the apposition of new aliment or foode having still some thing vnlike the former Adde to these that the dissolution of the body is continuall the reparation but by litle and litle after many alterations heere yee see that the naturall heate devouring this our naturall in-bred sappe doth destroy the selfe in end And although that these things doe impose a necessitie of death to man neverthelesse hee may not only prolong his life considering heere the second causes only but also preveene sicknesse and keepâ— himselfe in health and that by the righâ— and moderate vse of these outward circumstances in themselues indifferent and â—o good if rightly and circumspectly vsed â—ut evill if not These are the aire meate â—rink sleeping waking motion and rest â—he excretion of the excrements of the â—ody and the passions of the minde all which are so necessarie to the lyfe of man â—hat it can not last long without the vse of â—he same for the continual dissolution of the â—ody requireth a reparation by meate Then â—eepe is needfull for the disgestion and â—estitution of the spirits waking for the â—xercises and functions of the spirits and â—he stirring vp of the naturall heate and â—est is necessare for the refreshing of both â—ody and spirites wearied and seing naâ—ure can not turne all her meate in good â—ubstance the excretion of the superfluiâ—es was needfull The passions of the â—ynde by reason of the objects that are â—ffered good or evill can not also bee â—shewed for the moderation then of these â—ircumstances remarke these few Canons â—ollowing Canon 1. It is expedient for the preserving of â—ealth and preveening of diseases that eâ—ery one whose age and force doth permite should everie yeare draw blood and purge and that in the spring because the body replenished with humors doth readily at that tyme fall in diverse diseases while as the naturall heate revived by the approching of the sunne towards 〈◊〉 doth attempt the expulsion of these humors out of the body from the which enterprise of nature ariseth a conflict if nature haue the victory man escapeth but if shee succumbe man dyeth that nature doth thus attempt the expulsion of these humors it is knowne by these intercutanean diseases as are itch pustuls byles vlcers and such like which wee see commonly in the Spring to fall out The body in the winter by two meanes is replenished with humors the one is
So that they esteeme more of a Page of the one or a pok-bearer of the other then of any Sholer whatsoever except my Lord Bishop or Mr. Parson this frowning of our Greats hath moved many poore soules flee first to Dowy and then to Rome and from thence post to hell having receaued the marke of the beast that is a bull of his holynesse to passe Scot-free at Purgatorie not being able to procure the favourable presence or gratious asistance of any noble for his furtherance in studyes and advancement in degrees in the countrie wherein hee was borne O what a shame it is to see a great Man without Letters Hee is like a faire house without plenishing a goodlie ship without furnishing to persue or defend a Herauldry without honour beeing lesse reall than his title His vertue is that hee was his fathers sonne and all the expectation of him is to get an other No man is kept in ignorarance more both of himselfe and men for hee heareth nothing but flatterie and vnderstandeth nothing but folly thus hee liveth till his Tombe bee made ready and then is a graue statue to posteritie Thus it is expedient to passe two or three houres after dinner for the well both of the bodie and minde that you may know this the better and so belieue it the rather Consider with mee alittle the passions of the minde such as joye sadnesse choler and feare Of the Passions of the minde Although wee bee often deceived in the decerning of good and evill following ofter the applause of the sense than the judgment of reason neverthelesse wee seeke alwayes that which wee thinke be good and fleeth that which we apprehend to bee evill Hence it is that wee are moved by diverse passions vnruled according to the apprehension of good or evill either present or absent the which passions according to the consideration of the object either enlargeth or draweth in the heart in the moving thereof they moue also the spirits and naturall heate so that the colour of the face is suddainly changed From the opinion of present good ariseth joye and of the good to come desire vnto the which choler doth adjoyne the selfe which is a desire of revenge from the apprehension of present evill commeth sadnesse and of the evill future feare Ioy comes of the heart inlarging the selfe sweetly for to imbrace the object that is agreable to it in the which dilatation it sendeth foorth aboundance of the naturall heate with the blood and the spirits a great portion whereof comes to the face when one laugheth by the which the face swels vp in such sort that the brow becomes tight and cleare the eyes bright the cheecks red An other part is sent through the members of the body Cupiditie or desire and choler doeth dilate or inlarge the heart also that through the desire of the thing it loueth this for to seâ—d quickly the spirits with the blood from the centre of the body within to the habite of the same without for the fortifying of the members that they may reveng the wrong wee haue received Sadnesse greife or melancholy in the contrare doth in such sort shoote vp or draw together the heart that it fadeth and faileth This hindreth the great generation of the spirits as also the distribution of these few that are ingendred whereby the vitall facultie is weakened and also the rest of the whole bodie shirps Feare causeth retire on a suddaintie the spirits to the heart from the rest of the bodie hence the face becommeth pale the extremities grow colde with a trembling through all the voyce is stopped the heart leapeth as it were that by reason of the great multitude of the blood and spirits whereby it is almost smothered so that it cannot move freelie Amongst all the passions of the mind â—oy is the most wholesome because it giveth such contentment to the spirit that the body is participant by a simpathy The reasonable passions are called affections but the sensuall are termed perturbations the passions ought to bee moderated for Plato writeth in his dialogue called Carmides that the most dangerous diseases proceede from the perturbation of the spirit because the mynde having an absolute authority over the body doth moue change and alter it in a moment as it pleaseth Wee should then affection the objects in so far as reason will permite for excessible joyes doe so disperse the blood with the spirits through the whole body from the centre to the extremities that the heart is wholly destitute of his naturall heate from whence commeth first a sounding and by and by death of excessible joy the Poete Phillippides the wise Chilon Diagoras of Rhode suddenly dyed And suddaine feare chassing the blood and spirites to the heart their fortresse frequently causeth death by the suffocation of the naturall heate Canon 8. About the sixt houre the stomack requiring returne to meate let your supper consist rather of rost meate than sodden because it nurisheth more in lesse bounds it is lighter and hath fewer excrements it should neither be too sore rosted for then it is saplesse nor yet halfe rosted for the superfluous humiditie is not driven out by the force of the fire Heere I can not passe by a great vncleannesse of Noble mens cooks who after that they haue sweeped the pot with the one end of their aprone and the plat with the other they draw off my Lords meate with the whole dirtie as it is and for to make place to a new speet placeth the same vnder the droppings of the vnrosted meate interlarding their owne grease amongst these droppings and yet the cooke dare not bee reproved for he in his kitchin is like the devill in hell curses is the very dialect of his calling hee is never good Christian vntill a hizzing pot of aile hath slaicked him like water cast on a fire-brand and for that time hee is silent his best facultie is at the dresser where hee seemeth to haue great skill in military discipline while hee placeth in the fore-front meates more strong and hardy and the more cold and cowardly in the reare as quaking tarts and quivering custards and such milk-sope dishes which escape many tymes the fury of encounter and when the second course is gone vp downe hee goeth vnto the celler where hee drinks and sleeps till foure of the clocke in the after-noone and then returneth againe to his regiment Canon 9. After supper it is expedient to walke a little softly for the procuring of the discent of the meate to the ground of the stomack this walke ought to be in pleasant fields free of all vnwholesome vapor which may procure vomite by the virulencie or the filthinesse of the smell and seeing this after supper doth permitte mee to visite the fields and take the air come foorth yee also who loue your health and consider the same with mee Of the Aire Such as the aire is such are our spirits our
the child the knittings breaking they readilie are brought to bed before tyme. For this end let them haue a care to keepe a moderat dyet in all things vsing good and nourishing meats being more sparing in the first moneth then afterward because the menstruous blood doeth then abound not imployed either for grouth or nourishing of their birth as yet it is better to take often and little rather than too much at once they should flee all meats of a bytting facultie also all windie all procuring either the fluxe of their water or of their flowers as capirs oynions garlik safrane and strong wine they should vse little drinke least the ligaments become slâ—brie shunning darknesse solitarinesse and melancholie The first moneth should bee quyetly past over without motion The second a soft gentle walking is good The third a little quicker The fourth fifth and sixth admitte greater exercise and stronger motion The seventh eight and till halfe of the nynth requires some greater rest and quyetnesse than the former among these the eight as most dangerous would bee quyetest and most carefullie keeped from the middle of the nynth till their birth a more quicke motion and frequent exercise is properest for the furthering of the same They should shun the companie of men the first moneth for feare of a new conception afterward they may bee more bold also all passions of the minde because by chasing the blood inward they choke the child which often falleth out in great wrath or sadnesse Too long sleepe is not evill from the which they should awake quietlie They should keepe themselues from excessiue cold or heat and from the North and South wind for both the one and the other doe moue a distillation from wheÌ„ce a cough the which hastneth their birth before the tyme flying alwayes the noyse of thunder guns of great belles and the like and because that women with child either hath lost all appetite or are troubled with an inordinate as a desire to eate strange things as also with a paine in the stomack gnawof the heart great spitting short breath sore head swelling in the legges and an vniversall heavinesse thorow the whole body proceeding from the suppression of their flowers yet there be some so full of blood who hath them the first moneths others all the tyme least these and the like by weakning of the mother doe precipitate both mother and bairne in hazard of death it is better to purge these vitious humors than to suffer such manifest dangers The properest tyme for purging according to Hipp. is from the fourth moneth to the seveneh for the child saith Galen is tyed to the matrix of the mother as the fruites are to the trees the fruites new budded out haue the stalk so tender that little shaking will make them fall but being with tyme more firmely tyed to they are not so shortly broken till the tyme of their maturitie where they fall off themselfe without helpe so women with child are in lesse danger the fourth fift and six moneths then the first and the last Women with child should not be bled except in a great necessitie least the bairne by bleeding frustrate of his foode bee forced to breake foorth before the tyme to looke for meate yet there bee some women who are so full of blood that except you draw blood of them they will chocke the child in their belly of such blood may bee taken once or twise Women with child should cast away their buistes which they vse to keepe them small about the middle and that so soone as they find their bellie to swell for they hinder the grouth of the child and constraineth it often to come foorth before the tyme. Whosoever hath of custome to parte with child through the moistnesse of their bairne-bed let them weare about their neck the Eagle stone called by the Greekes Aetites applying this plaster over the belly and the loines R. Gallarum nucum cupress sanguin drac balaust myrtill rosar an drag 1 ss mastic myrrh an drag 11 thuris hypocistid acaciae gummi arab bol armen an drag 1. camphor scrup ss ladan vnc ss terebinth venet 11 picis navalis vuc 11 cerae q. s. fiat emplastrum secundum artem extendatur super alutam ad praefatum vsum If the passage of the belly bee stopped as often it falleth out the last moneths the trypes being straitted by the matrix let them vse broth of barley malves beetes and mircurial Of their governement the tyme of their birth and after the same There bee three things required to a naturall birth the first a-like fordwardnesse both in the mother and the child so the child requiring more meate than the mother can afford and greater libertie to take the aire hee tares with his hands and feete his thinne membranous sheettes the matrix againe wearied of its burden doth contract the selfe for the expelling of it Now if any of these bee inlacking their birth is not without danger for if the whole action be imposed on the mother as it falleth when the child is dead or verie weake it is with great paine which sometymes bringeth death and if the child get all the businesse to doe by reason of the mothers weaknesse it is of no lesse hazard The second is a due forme which Hipp. describeth in his first booke de morbis mulierum and in his booke de natura pueri in these words A childe saith hee if the birth be naturall commeth foorth head-long and he giveth the reason in an other place of this because the parts aboue the middle are heavier than beneath it Moreover if the feete come first foorth they in stretching of themselues should stoppe the passage to the rest of the body so the custome of the Ancients was as reporteth Plinius in seven bookes of his naturall history and is now also to carie the dead with their feete formest because that death is contrarie to life The third thing required is that it bee quicke easie and without great paine or many symptomes The tyme of birth Nature saith Arist. hath set downe a certaime terme and tyme of birth almost to all the creatures only man hath diverse tymes so the doue hath her mouthly birth the bitch keepeth still foure moneth the mare nine moneth the Elephant two yeare only woman changeth having for terme the 7 8. 9. or 10 moneths the first is the seventh before which no childe can bee liuely the next is the eight in the which according to Hipp. and other Physitians are not liuely the nynth is the mostnaturall and best of all the tenth and eleventh in the first dayes are liuelie also although that birth doth not fall often foorth in them Now that women be not troubled before the tyme remarke heere the signes of birth approaching these are a paine from the navell to the secret parts going about to the loynes or small of the back a discent of the bairn-bed causing a