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A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

the first Of other two the last of each are worst But yet those daies I grant and all the rest Haue in some cases iust impediment As first if nature be with cold opprest Or if the Region I le or Continent Do scorch or freize if stomacke meat detest If Baths or Venus late you did frequent Nor old nor yong nor drinkers great are fit No● in long sickenesse nor in raging fit Or in this case if you will venture bleeding The quantity must then be most exceeding ●hen you to bleed intend you must prepare ●…me needfull things both after and before ●arme water and sweet oyle both needfull are ●…d wine the fainting spirit to restore ●…e binding clothes of linnen and beware ●…at all the morning you do sleepe no more ●…me gentle motion helpeth after bleeding ●…d on light meates a spare and temperate feeding ●o bleed doth cheere the pensiue and remoue ●he raging suries bred by burning loue ●ake your incision large and not too deepe ●hat bloud haue speedy issue with the fume ●o that from sinewes you all hurt do keepe ●or may you as I toucht before presume 〈◊〉 sixe ensuing houres at all to sleepe ●est some slight bruise in sleepe cause an apostume ●ate not of milke nor ought of milk compounded Nor let your brain with much drink be confounded ●ate no cold meats for such the strength impaires ●nd shun all misty and v●…holesome aires Besides the former rules for such as pleases Of letting bloud to take more obseruation Know in beginning of all sharpe diseases 'T is counted best to make euacuation To● old to● yong both letting bloud displeases By yeares and sicknesse make your computation First in the Spring for quantity you shall Of bloud take twise as much as in the Fall In Spring and Summer let the right arme blood The Fall and Winter for the left are good The Heart and Liuer Spring Summers bleeding The Fall and Winter hand and foot doth mend One veine cut in the hand doth help exceeding Vnto the spleene voyce brest and intrailes lend And swages griefes that in the heart are breeding But here the Salerne Schoole doth make an end And here I cease to write but will not cease To wish you hue in health and die in peace And ye our Physicke rules that friendly read God grant that Physicke you may neuer need FINIS De valetudine conseruanda OR ●HE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVLL MAN Collected out of HENRICVS RONSOVIVS which he wrought for the vse of his Sonnes And now published for the helpe of all those that desire their owne HEALTHS By S. H. LONDON Printed by William Stansby for the Widow Helmes 1617. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull SIR EDWARD PIT Knight of Keere Court one of his MAIESTIES Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Worcester c. And to the right Worshipfull SIR IAMES PIT his Sonne AMongst all the parts of physick Right Worshipfull I suppose there is none to be preferd before that part which preserueth health and preuenteth sicknesse for as Tully saith Health is the most perfect state of mans body in this life and the only end and intention whereunto the Physician diuerteth all his doings which state to continue and to enioy is much better then to hazzard the recouery of a sicknesse that by ill dyet is taken as it is better to stand fast ●hen to fall and rise againe and better to ●…epe still a Fortresse or a Castle then when we haue suffered the Enemy to enter to rescue it againe for as the Poet saith Aegrius eijcitur quam non admittitur hospes And because as Cornelius Celsus saith that all medicines do in a manner hurt the stomack and be of euill nutriment And therefore Aesclipiades did endeuour most to cure his Patients by dyet which dyet Right Worshipfull I haue here described and published to the view of the world and haue sheltered it vnder the title of your Name praying you to accept the same with a willing minde considering that I haue no better thing to present you with And as that Persian Monarch did dayne to receiue from a poore man a handfull of cold water so your Worship will accept this poore labor which I now present you with which shall encourage me hereafter to present you with some other labours of more worth In the meane while I humbly take my leaue cōmitting both you and all yours vnto the protection of the Almightie Your Worships most obseruant S. H. THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVL MAN CHAP. I. The causes of corruption and destruction of our humane bodies THAT we may come to our purpose the first and chiefest cause of corruption and destruction of our Bodies of old Age Death and all other miseries which doe happen vnto vs in this life is the fall of our first Parents and the reliques of Sinne remayning in our corrupt Nature as the Apostle doth witnesse in the eighth Chapter of the Romans Corpus nostrum morti destinatum est propter pcccatum For euen as death is the last of all euills which may afflict vs in this life euen so by the name of Death we endure in this life all miseries and afflictions Heere-hence come our errours which leade vs by our blinde will and through the perswasion of the Deuill driue vs to commit all wickednesse and euill wherby we accumulate and heape vp the iust wrath and indignation of God to afflict vs with euery kinde of disease miserie and calamitie Another cause of diseases destruction and deprauation of our bodies is the sinister and maleuolent influence of the celestiall Planets and the infelicitie of our temperaments for as in euery thing there are certayne naturall properties which God from euerlasting hath endued with naturall effects so euery effect and vertue is incited in our bodies from Heauen which God created not only in a certayne order and greatnesse that we should discerne the Yeeres Dayes and Moneths but that there should be signes also from whence wee might take certayne Arguments of things to come For the inferior bodies doe depend vpon the Superior and are contayned in a certayne mutuall knowledge amongst themselues for the Superior doth infuse a certayne secret force and vertue into the Inferior bodies by which the humours of our bodies are changed increased and diminished according to the placing and qualitie of the Starres and this is more cleerely and euidently taught vs by daily experience the Mistris of all things then that it needeth farther demonstration If no man will giue credit to our wordes let him consider the Moone which doth challenge vnto her selfe the chiefe dominion in Humours and they shall well perceiue their error Seeing then it is manifest that the humours of our bodies are gouerned by the Superior bodies And of the euill humours of our bodies to grow Diseases and from disease death therefore not vnworthily of death and the cause of other diseases to

depend in some part vpon the celestiall bodies is declared Besides this there are two other kindes of causes that doe change and destroy our bodies which doe grow from the superior Planets One kinde is that that is ingendred with vs and is therefore said to be Interne necessarie and ineuitable and they are in number three that is Drynesse which by the course of Age bringeth to death a daily wasting of substance or the great varietie and mobilitie of the matter in our bodies and the abundance of excrements Another kinde of them are which happen outward and therefore are called Externe of which the reason is said to be twofold for some of them are which doth not change or affect our bodies of necessitie for although when these things happen their hurt may be by vs auoyded notwithstanding there are some of them that our life may be safe without them They are such things which doe bruise hurt and wound our bodies which for the most part hapneth by some outward force as in the warres and other cases of Fortune as either being drowned or made away with poyson There are other things also which are said of necessitie to alter Mans body which although we may auoide particularly yet generally we cannot when we cannot liue without them These things I say doe destroy and ouerthrow the temperature constitution and naturall health of man if they be not rightly vsed as necessity and the state of the body requireth And those are those sixe things which are called not naturall which we will consider in particular which sixe things are placed in our power and election and they are of sixe kindes 1. The first is Ayre Water and Fire 2. The second is Meate and Drinke and all those things which are giuen the body for nourishment 3. The third is Motion and Rest both of the whole body as of euery part thereof 4. The fourth is Sleepe and Watchfulnesse 5. The fifth is Excretion or Expulsion of excrements or retention vnder which is contayned the opening of a veine Purgation Vomit auoyding of Urin Sweate Bathing the act of Generation and such like 6 The sixth are the Symptoms Perturbations Affections or Accidents of the minde such as are Feare Anger Sorrow Ioy and such like of which we will speak more afterwards These things being duely and rightly vsed doe conserue man in good health but vsed contrarily they destroy for as health doth consist in a meane and a mediocritie so also in a meane vse of things necessary it is conserued CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health I Haue declared vnto you the chiefe causes through which the diuers mutations destructions and corruptions of our bodies doe arise Now on the contrarie I will declare vnto you also those things which if we vse them in right order and manner doe contayne the safetie of life restore health lost and diminish some kindes of diseases and expell them For this thing it is first needfull and requisite that you know certainely and be sure of that although the celestiall bodies doe exercise a certayne force and admirable vertue in the affaires of Man yet notwithstanding GOD Almightie the Worke-man and Creator of all Nature and Humane things being the Lord of Life and Death who hath the gouernement of all Inferior bodies that cannot be remoued but that he doth gouerne and rule the influence of all Stars and Planets and remoue the course and efficacy of them and likewise doth moderate all inclinations that grow from the Planets and oftentimes according to his great goodnesse doth turn away diseases and change them into better sometimes also according to his secret and iust iudgement for our sinnes to exasperate and turne them into worse For the diuine Maiestie is not in the Starres which the God-head hath framed for the profit and conseruation of mankinde neither is it inclosed within a certayne fatall necessitie as it were shut vp in prison but doth worke freely and as the chiefe cause doth gouerne and moderate all other causes This therefore eternall God the most louing Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which proroged the life of King Hazechias for fifteene yeeres is humbly to be prayed vnto daily that he would bestow vpon vs also a long and a safe life with a right constitution as well of body as strength of minde and to preserue the same for rightly is it said Astra valent aliquid plus pia vota valent Astra regunt mundum sed regit astra Deus Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse piorum Next when for our sinnes our bodies are affected with often and diuers kindes of diseases we must carefully striue that we gouerne the inclinations and wandering motions of our mindes and that we vse a bridle to our outward members and that we doe not only flye wickednesse but that we auoide the occasions also thereof It becommeth you my deare Sonnes to vse this diligence in the gouernement of your life and manners and chiefly to embrace true Religion and due obedience and loue to your Parents which if you shall doe God will in like manner as he hath promised in the Decalogue giue vnto you happinesse and long life for as S. Paul saith truely in the 1. of Tim. 4. Pietas ad omnia vtilis est c. Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things which hath the promise of the life present and of that that is to come the which in some manner was vnderstood by an Ethnick Zoroaster King of the Bactrians where he saith Qui mentem ardenum ad opus pietatis intenderit labile corpus seruabit and Cicero saith Pietatem esse matrem fundamentum omnium virtutum That Godlinesse is the mother and foundation of all vertues Secondly when it is said that the Starres be the working causes of destruction and mutation and the causes of diuers diseases in our bodies and whereas the obseruation of the celestiall effects is not forbidden I will that you take this care that as well the yeerly directions as the figures of your natiuity be obserued which I haue diligently and exactly computated I leaue to euery one of you which notwithstanding you shall examine without all superstition and shall be aduised by the iudgement of the learned Astrologians and Physicians that you may the better auoid the euill foreseene and the good things shall be brought to their wished euent for that is true which some doe affirme that coelum esse fatalem picturam in coel●sti tabula and very well was it said by Hipp. and Galen the Princes of Physicians that the Arte of physicke without the supportation of the Heauens to be oftentimes in vaine yea also oftentimes to be hurtfull This obseruation doth profit very much for the preseruation of the health and for the preuention of diseases therefore you must regard the more your naturall inclination with the greater vigilancy that you may bee the better able to gouerne your

a Smaragd a Saphire or a Draconites which you shall beare for an ornament for in stones as also in hearbes there is great efficacie and vertue but they are not altogether perceiued by vs hold sometime in your mouth eyther a Hyacinth or a Crystall or a Granat or pure Gold or Siluer or else sometimes pure Suger-candy For Aristotle doth affirme and so doth Albertus Magnus that a Smaragd worne about the necke is good against the Falling-sicknes for surely the vertue of an hearbe is great but much more the vertue of a precious stone which is very likely that they are endued with occult and hidden vertues Feede onely twice a day when yee are at mans age neuerthelesse to those that are subiect to choler it is lawfull to feede often beginne alwayes your dinner and supper with the more liquid meates sometimes with drinkes In the time betweene dinner and supper abstain altogether from cups vnlesse necessitie or custome doe require the same notwithstanding the same custome being so vicious must be by little and little changed I would not that you should obserue a certaine houre eyther for dinners or suppers as I haue sufficiently told you before lest that daily custome should be altered into nature and after this intermission of this custome of nature hurt may follow for custome doth imitate nature and that which is accustomable the very same thing is now become naturall Take your meate in the hotte time of Summer in cold places but in the Winter let there bee a bright fire and take it in hotte places your parlours or chambers being first purged and ayred with suffumigations which I would not haue you to enter before the suffumigation be plainely extinct lest you draw the fume by reason of the odour And seeing one and the same order of diet doth not promiscuously agree with al men take your meat in order as is before said and sometimes also intermit the vse of meats for a whole day together because through hunger the faults of the stomack which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or surfetting or by any other meanes may be depelled and remoued By this meanes also your bodies shal be better accustomed to endure and suffer hunger and fasting eyther in iourneyes or wars Let your suppers bee more larger then your dinners vnlesse nightly diseases or some distillations doe afflict you After meat taken neither labor in body nor mind must be vsed and wash the face and mouth with cold water cleanse the teeth either with Iuory or of a Harts horn or some picker of pure siluer or gold After your banquets passe an houre or two in pleasant talkes or walke yee very gently and soberly neither vse much watchings long in the night but the space of two houres goe to your bed but if honest busines doe require you to watch then sleepe afterwards so much the longer that your sleep may well recompence your former watchings Before that you goe to your bed gently smooth down your head armes and shoulders the backe and all the bodie with a gentle and soft rubbing vnlesse you meane to do it in the morning to moue distribution whose time is best to be done in the morning In the Winter sitting by the fire put off your garments and drie your feete by the sire neuerthelesse auoid the heate and the smoake because it is very hurtfull both to the lungs and the eyes In the Winter time warme well your garments at the fire and warme the linings of the same for it helpeth concoction and remoueth all humiditie and moysture But my father did not allow of this custome warning men of strength and those that are borne for the Common-wealth not to accustome themselues to such kind of softnesse which doe weaken our bodies Also when you put off your garments to goe to bed then put away all your waighty cogitations and lay them aside whether they 〈◊〉 publike or priuate for when all your members be free from all cares you shal● then sleepe the quieter concoction and the other naturall actions shall best bee performed But in the morning when you rise againe resume to your selues your forme dayes thoughts and cares for this precep my Father had often in his mouth there fore I deliuer it vnto you as the mo●… worthy of your obseruation Certayne precepts against Heate and Drynesse EUen as cold is hurtfull to trauailers so is heat also for thereby trauailers be offended for it hapneth by the want of moysture and aboundant heate for when too much heat doth infest trauailers they doe thereby often-times grow into sicknesse and the natural moysture strength is dissolued Therefore my aduice is first when you trauell not to vse much vociferation or talke for thereby is wont to be drawne thirst and drynesse against which detayne in the mouth crystall corall siluer sugar-candy or a flint-stone that lyeth in cold water the Iulep of Roses an● Violets with cold water in like mann●… new stick of lickoras taken fresh out of the earth and chawed or the drinking of water quencheth the thirst also new ligs doe mitigate thirstinesse and coole the heate Pine kernels the leaues of Purslane held in the mouth Straw-berries Peares Pruines Cherries the seedes of Quinces seedes of Lettuce and cucumbers doe very well diminish thirst What Age is and what difference in Age. IN Age there are fiue parts or differences first child-hood from our birth to fifteene yeeres and is hot and moyst The second adolescence from fifteene to fiue and twentie a meane and perfect temperature then youth from fiue and twentie to fiue and thirtie and is hot and drie then middle age or mans state from fiue and thirty to forty nine declining to cold and drie from nine and forty the end of ●he life all cold and dry in all this course ●f the life there is a continuall change of 〈◊〉 body but especially euery seuenth ●…re is called Annus criticus the yeere of ●…ment In which time we are in greatest danger touching life and death Therefore I would aduise you to haue regard to the change of those times and to vse all meanes to preserue the shortnesse of life as much as may be FINIS

THE ENGLISH MANS DOCTOR OR The Schoole of Salerne OR ●YSICALL OBSERVA●…ON FOR THE PERfect p●…sreuing of the bodie of Man in continuall Health ●…ereunto 〈◊〉 adioyned Precepts for the p●…seruation of Health Written by ●…NRICVS RONSOVIVS for 〈◊〉 priuate vse of his Sons And now p●…ed for all those that desire to 〈◊〉 their bodies in 〈◊〉 health LONDON 〈◊〉 by William Stansby f●… the Widdow Helme● 〈◊〉 are to be sold at her Shoope in Sa●… Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-streete 1617. THE PRINTER TO the Reader REader the care that I haue of thy health appeares in bestowing these Physicall rules vpon thee neither needest thou bee ashamed to take lessons out of this Schoole for our best ●octors scorne not to reade the instructions It is a little Academie where euery man may be a Graduate and proceed Doctor in the ordering of his owne bodie It is a Garden where all things grow that are necessarie for thy health This medicinall Tree grew first in Salerne from thence it was remoued and hath borne fruit and blossomes along time in England It is now replanted in a wholesome ground and new earth cast about it by the hand of a cunning Gardiner to keepe it still in flourishing Much good husbandry is bestowed vpon it yet whatsoeuer the cost bee thou reapest the sweetnesse of it for a small value It came to me by chance as a Jewell that is found whereof notwithstandi●…● am not couetous but part the Treasu●…●…mongst my Country-men The Auth●… the paines is to me vnknowne and I p●… this Childe of his into the open world wit●out his consent Bring it vp therefore we●… I beseech thee and hope as I doe that he will not bee angry finding this a Traueller abroad when by this trauell so many of his own Countrey are so manifoldly benefited Farewell Ad Librum GO Booke and like a Merchant new 〈◊〉 Tell in how strange a traffick thou hast 〈◊〉 Vpon the Countrey which the Sea-god saues And loues so deare he bindes it round with w●… Cast Anchor thou and impost pay to him Whose Swans vpon the brest of ISIS swim But to the people that doe loue to buy It skills not for how much each nouelty Proclaime an open Mart and sell good cheape What thou by trauell and much cost dost reape Bid the gay Courtier and coy Lady come The Lawyer Townsman and the countrie groome 'T is ware for all yet thus much let them know There are no drugs heere fetcht from Mex●…o Nor gold from India nor that stinking smoake Which English gallants buy themselues to choake Nor silkes of Turkie nor of Barbary Those luscious Canes where our rich Sug●rs lie Nor those hot drinkes that make our wits to dance The wilde Canaries nor those Grapes of France ●…ich make vs clip our English nor those wares 〈◊〉 fertile Belgia whose wombe compares ●…th all the world for fruite tho now with scarres ●…r body be all ore defac'd by warres 〈◊〉 tell them what thou bringst exceeds the wealth ●f al these Countries for thou bringst them health In Librum WIt Learning Order Elegance of Phrase Health and the Art to lengthen out our daie Philosophie Physicke and Poesie And that skill which death loues not Surgery Walkes to refresh vs Ayres most sweete and cleare A thriftie Table and the wholesom'st cheare All sorts of graine all sorts of flesh of fish Of Fowle and last of all of fruits a seuer all dish Good Breakefasts Dinners Suppers after-meales The hearbe for Sallads and the hearbe that heales Physicions Counsell Pothecaries pils Without the summing vp of costly bils Wines that the braine shall ne're intoxicate Strong Ale and Beere at a more easier rate Then Water from the Fountaine clothes nor deere For the foure seuerall quarters of the yeere Meates both for Protestant and Puritan With meanes sufficient to maintaine a man If all these things thou want'st no farther looke All this and more then this lyes in this Booke In Laudem Operis THe Gods vpon a time in counsell sitting To rule the world what creature was most fitting At length from God to God this sentence ran ●o forme a creature like themselves called Man ●…ng made the world was giuen him built so rarely 〈◊〉 workman can come neere it hung so fairely ●hat the Gods viewing it were ●uer-ioyed 〈◊〉 grieu'd that it should one day be d●stroyed ●ardens had Man to walke in set with trees ●hat still were bearing But neglecting these 〈◊〉 long'd for fruits vnlawfull ●ell to riots 〈…〉 bodie by ill dyets ●pent what was 〈◊〉 him like a prodigall heyre And had of earth of hell or heauen no care ●or which the earth was curst and brought forth w●…ds ●oyson euen lurking in our fairest s●…ds 〈◊〉 heauen was hid and did in darkenesse m●…ne ●hilst hell kept fires continuall that should burne 〈◊〉 very soule if still it w●nt ●…ry And giue it torments that should neuer die 〈…〉 How blest is 〈◊〉 the Deities Built up the Schoole of Health to make him wise THE SALERNE Schoole THe Salerne Schoole doth by these lines impa●… All health to Englands King and doth aduise From care his head to keepe from wrath his heart Drinke not much wine sup light and soone arise When meat is gone long sitting breedeth smart And after-noone still waking keepe your eyes When mou'd you find your selfe to Natures Ne●… Forbeare them not for that much danger breeds Vse three Physicions still first Doctor Quiet Next Doctor Merry-man and Doctor Dyet Rise carely in the morne and straight remember With water cold to wash your hands and eyes In gentle fashion retching enery member And to refresh your braine when as you rise In heat in cold in Iuly and December Both comb your head and rub your teeth likewis●… If bled you haue keep coole if bath'd keepe warm●… If din'd to stand or walke will do no harme Three things preserue the sight Grasse Glasse foūtain●… At Ene'n springs at morning visit mountains 〈◊〉 R. be in the month their iudgements erre ●…at thinke that sleepe in after-noone is good 〈◊〉 R. be not therein some men there are ●…at thinke a little nap breeds no ill bloud ●…t if you shall herein exceed too farre 〈◊〉 hurts your health it cannot be with stood ●ong sleepe at after-noones by stirring sumes ●reeds Slouth and Agues Aking heads and Rheumes ●he morsture bred in Brest in Iawes and Nose Are eal'd Catars or Tysique or the Pose Great harmes haue growne maladies exceeding By keeping in a little blast of wind So Cramps Dropsies Collickes haue their breeding And Mazed Brames for want of vent behind Besides we finde in stories worth the reading A certaine Remane Emperour was so kind Claudius by name he made a Proclamation A Scape to be no losse of reputation Great suppers do the stomacke much offend Sup light if quiet you to sleepe intend To keepe good dyet you should neuer feed Vntill you finde your stomacke cleane and void Of former eaten meate