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A14298	Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.; Naturall and artificial directions for health	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1612 (1612)	STC 24615; ESTC S106222	54,245	162

is crept into the humour of melancholy Some of extreame sorrow haue turned mad famishing themselues to death some imagined themselues to be Vrinals of glasse expecting when they shold be broken through some accident some thought that they were become Owles and therefore feared to be seene abroad in the day time Among these sorrowfull sots I cannot but remember a Gentleman of Venice with whom I was familiarly acquainted at the Citie of Noua-palma in Italie about nine yeares past This Gentleman by reason of crosses hauing fallen into a sorrowfull discontentment began to scorne all of his rancke and grinding the world as it were into oatmeale would eyther be aut Caesar aut nihil eyther a Monarch or a Mole-catcher And to this end he studyed by what meanes hee might aspire to the Empire At the last hauing wearied his braine with the losse of many a nights sleepe to his bodyes annoyance hee imparted his mind vnto me whereupon to put him out of dumps by degrees I aduised him to leaue off his solitary walkes and to betake himselfe to reading or to some outward exercise thereby to banish away his inward thoughts or rather doating Dreames This counsell of mine hee accordingly followed for a time but at length he fell into his wonted phantasies and persisted so strongly therein that hee wrote very learned letters and pathetical vnto the Electours for his aduancement into the throne Emperiall very earnestly soliciting me to become his Agent in the businesse What is the reason that men imagine such impossible and vaine things When God with-drawes his Spirit from the sinfull Sonnes of Adam then the world the flesh and the Diuell glad of such aduantage and opportunitie doe mutually conspire against them diuersly seduce their brittle thoughts and wils Some they possesse with imaginations according to the course of the liues which they lead Others imagine of sorrow discontentment such strange matters that not onely the spirit is assayled as I haue written but also the body is assaulted that it becomes vnprofitable vnto al seemly actions And that so violently that it procures and prefers Death it selfe Now since you haue discoursed of naturall and Melancholicke Sorrowes tell mee what harme hapneth by the other sorrow which wee terme mourning This latter kinde of sorrow being accidentall chanceth to our conceit by Desteny which is no other then the will of God the Father limitting the end of all things by measure number and waight not blind-foldly as the Poets fained of Fortune but necessarily and prouidently Vpon the death of some deare neare friend our mindes are deeply touched that we manifest the effects therof in our very outward countenance and apparrel by reason of the weaknesse of flesh and bloud which can in no wise brooke a sodaine or violent alteration but commonly such mourning is short and momentarie according to that Maxime of the Philosophers nullum violentum est perpetuum No violent thing can last long which likewise may be confirmed by the obseruation of our outward habits Impletur lachrimis egrediturque dolor The more teares wee shed the lesse is our sorrow for teares cause wearinesse wearinesse procures sleepe and sleepe asswageth sorrow new obiects also comming in by processe of time to affect the Patient Neuerthelesse for all this neque mihi cornea fabra est my heart is not so rigorous and hard as to condemne vtterly our mourning vse when we haue lost our dearest friends nay I commend it highly so that it be accomplished with moderation and accompanied with Hymnes and Psalmes to GOD for the honour of his mercy with charitable Epitaphes for the memorial● of the deceaseds honesty and with cheereful almes-giuing for a monument of Christian charitie But what is the reason that some were black and some white at the funerall of their friends The morall is this that the blacke betokeneth the corruption of the body The white signifieth the soules freedome out of the bodies prison Happy is that soule which can contemne the frailety of the flesh loathing to deface the handie-worke of God Happy I say and fraught with true magnanimitie is that spirit which can make profitable vse of his visitation not grudging not murmuring not mourning out of measure These restoratiues I ministred to my selfe at the death of my deare Wife who of late was sodainly stricken dead with lightning as I haue shewed at large in my worke called the Spirit of Detraction coniured and conuicted And because I am fallen at this present into a mourning veine I will reiterate my Christian farewell wishing that the same might become a precedent to an afflicted spirit in the like case Adieu thou Seruant of Christ thou Patterne of Pietie Adieu thou Map of Gods miracles Adieu my Ioy my Loue my Comfort Adieu and rest thee hence-forth among the Heauenly Roses rest in peace for euer free from the thornes of malice Adieu againe and againe Adieu deare wife for a while and welcome sweet Iesus my Sauiour for euer What is Feare Feare is a griefe which the minde conceiueth of some euill that may chance vnto it Why doe fearefull men looke pale The reason why fearefull men looke pale and wanne is because nature draweth away that heat which is in the face and outward parts to relieue and comfort the heart which is welnigh stifled and stopped vp How many sorts of fearefull persons are there There be two sorts of fearefull persons the one Naturally fearefull the other Accidentally fearefull Among those which are naturally fearefull I range children who are subiect to this passion by reason of the sodaine commotion of the humours and of the bloud descending into the sensitiue organs be-dazeling their sights with a false suffusion Likewise I place aged people in the number of the most naturally fearefull which by the meanes of their ouer-spent naturall moisture and wasted braines doe againe play the babies and as the Latinists say repuerascunt and as the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thirdly I account Women by nature fearefull whose sexe as the weaker vessels is much defectiue and impotent in courage euer doubtfull and distrustfull almost of their owne shadowes Fourthly superstitious persons as Papists who by reason of their naturall fragilitie doe forge a thousand phantasies in their braines To these I adde the melancholicke as a kinde of humourous darke spirits which because they shoot inwardly abhorring outward obiects doe feare the very noise of reeds and fall of leaues Now it is time that I discourse somewhat of that feare which is Accidentall no lesse penetrating into the mindes of men then that which is Naturall and chiefly when God doth manifestly cooperate and worke together with it whereof no mortall man can well declare the solide and true cause The first Accidentall feare is that which befalles to multitudes at once yea euen to a whole campe of hardic souldiours which kinde of feare is termed Panick etymologized of Pan because he being Bacchus his Lieutenant in the

of Cider either pressed from Peares or from sweet Apples such Cider therefore as is sweet because of his sweetnesse which commeth of temperate heat heateth in a meane and indifferent manner but cooleth least of all and againe it is the most nourishing of all Ciders and the most profitable to be vsed of such as haue cold and dry stomacks and on the contrarie but smally profiting them which haue a hot stomack whether it be more or lesse or stomacks that are full of humidity very tender and queasie and subiect vnto chollerick vomits so that in such complexions as are hot and chollerick it is needfull as with wine so with Cider to mixe water in a sufficient quantitie with sweet Cider when they take it to drinke especially when such persons haue anie ague withall or and if it be the hot time of Sommer fore-seene that hee that shall then drinke it thus be not subiect to the paynes of the belly or collicke because that sweet Cider pressed new from sweet apples is windy by nature as are also the sweet apples themselues This is the cause why Phisitions counsell and aduise that sweet apples should be rosted in the ashes for them that shall eate them that so their great moystnes and watrishnes which are the originall fountaine of windinesse may be concocted by the meanes of the heate of the fire Of Flesh. CHAP. 5. What Flesh is best to be eaten BEfore your bee resolued if this I must declare vnto you the sorts of flesh and the natures of it There be two sorts of flesh the one foure-footed and the other that of Fowle Among those that be foure-footed some are young some are of middle age others are old the young are moyst and doe commonly cause excrements and loosenes in the belly old flesh is dry of small nourishment and of hard digestion therefore I take that flesh to be best which is of middle age if not to the tast yet at the least to nourish soundly and profitably according to the French Prouerbe Hee that loues young flesh and old fish loues contrary to reason Qui veut ieune chair et vi eux poisson Se troue repugner a raison Certainely that of the male doth far excell the flesh of the female as for example the Oxe flesh is better then the Cowes flesh a fat Wether is better then a fat Ewe but this is to be vnderstood of those males which are gelt for I cannot deny but Bull beefe and Ramme mutton is far worse then the flesh of the Cow and the Ewe and to them which obserue dyet I must needs say that all flesh whatsoeuer be it Beefe Mutton or other that is bred on dry places or mountainous where ther is any reasonable pasture is alwaies better and more wholsome then that which is bred in valleyes or on low and marshie grounds where there grow bulrushes and other weeds and hearbs cold moist and of little substance To conclude this flesh of foure-footed beasts I haue found that Mutton Beefe Kid Lambe Veale Pigges and Rabbets are meats easie to be digested and doe engender good bloud whereas on the contrary I finde that Martlemasse Beefe Bacon Venison together with the kidneyes liuers and the entrals of beasts doe breede raw humours in the stomack and fl●xes In like manner fat meate is fulsome and takes away a mans stomack Among fowle we count the Capon the yong Pigeon the Partridge the Woodcocke the Peacocke and the Turkie cocke to be meates of an excellent temperature and fit to continue the body in health and contrariwise that Hares Duckes Geese young Goselings onely excepted and Swans doe dispose the body to Melancholy Shew me a way to preserue flesh and fowle sound and sweet for one month notwithstanding the contagiousnesse of the weather Master Plat whose authoritie not onely in this but in all other matters I greatly allow of counselleth Huswiues to make a strong brine so as the water be ouer-glutted with salt and being scalding hot to perboyle their mutton veale venison fowle or such like and then to hang them vp in a conuenient place with this vsage they will last a sufficient space without any bad or ouersaltish tast some haue holpen tainted venison by lapping the same in a course thin cloth couering it first with salt and then burying it a yard deepe in the ground What is the use of our common meates Yong mutton boyled and eaten with opening and cordiall hearbs is the most nourishing meate of all and hurteth none but only flegmatick persons and those which are troubled with the dropsy Yong beefe bredde vp in fruitfull pasture and other whiles wrought at plow being powdred with salt foure and twenty houres and exquisitly sodden is naturall meat for men of strong constitutions It nourisheth excedingly and stoppeth the fluxe of yellow choler Howbeit Martlemas beefe so commonly called is not laudable for it ingendereth melancholick diseases and the stone Veale yong and tender sodden with yong pullets or capons and smallage is very nutritiue and wholesome for all seasons ages and constitutions The leane of a yong fatte Hog eaten moderately with spices and hot things doth surpasse all manner of meate except Veale for nourishment it keepeth the paunch slipperie and prouoketh vrine but it hurteth them that be subiect to the Gout and Sciatica and annoyeth old men and idle persons A young Pig is restoratiue if it be flayed and made in a ielly To be short Bacon may be eaten with other flesh to prouoke appetite and to break flegme coagulated and thickned in the stomacke The hinder part of a young Kid roasted is a meate soone digested and therefore very wholesome for sicke and weake folkes It is more fit for young and hot constitutions then for old men or flegmatick persons Young fallow Deere very well chased hangd vp vntill it be tender and in roasting being throughly basted with oyle or wel larded is very good for them that be troubled with the rheume or palsy Yet notwithstanding it hurteth leane folkes and olde men it disposeth the body to agues and causeth fearefull dreames Some say that venison being eaten in the morning prolongeth life but eaten at night it bringeth sodaine death The hornes of Deere being long and slender are remedies against poysoned potions and so are the bones that grow in their hearts Hare and Conies flesh perboyled and then rosted with sweet hearbs Cloues and other spices consumeth all corrupt humours and flegme in the stomack and maketh a man to looke amiably according to the prouerb He hath swallowed vp a Hare But it is vnwholesome for lazie and melancholick men What is your opinion of Fowle A fat Capon is more nutritiue then any other kind of fowle It encreaseth venerie and helpeth the weaknesse of the braine But vnlesse a man after the eating of it vse extraordinarie exercise it will doe him more hurt then good As for chickens they are fitter to be eaten of sicke men then of

his purpose frustrate and hopelesse he fell into a frantick humour one morning among the rest in the Church of Saint Marke casting himselfe through the Guard endeuoured to murther the Duke but this amourous foole as God would haue it was resisted and led into prison The matter was examined very straightly and at the last it was found that Loue had made him mad The wise Senate vpon graue deliberation dismissed him committing his cure to that famous Physitian Pracastorius who at that time dwelt in Venice This learned man vndertaking his charge and cure disguised a Courtizan like the Gallants mistresse to lye with him a whole night and to yeeld him his amorous contentment vntill he was weary Then hee caused him to be well couered with clothes till he fell into a sweat His phantasie and lust being thus partly pleasured hee proceeded to other remedies to purge him of his melancholicke humours so that at length he restored him to his former state I write not this to the intent it should serue for a precedent the same being diameter-wise repugnant to our Makers Commandement but because our Physitians should counsell the youthfull amorous to marry rather then to burne in vnlawfull desires and the amorous marryed to content himselfe with the wife of his youth giuing her due beneuolence and satisfying his burning lust vpon her body whom God had ioyned with him for that purpose for surely by this carnall copulation the vaporous fumes of the seede are taken away from the Patient which doe infect his braine and lead him into melancholy By how much the more and longer they continue in the body so much the more thoughts doe they engender which at last will turne to folly or madnesse What is Iealousie Iealousie is a doubtfull quandarie of the minde for that the soule suspects a corriuall or copartner in the thing beloued Our ignorance in discerning spirits and the discording tunes of our soules affections occasion this strange breach or suspicious scruple in our Consciences Wherefore yee husbands beginne betimes to admonish your Wiues of the soules saluation Let no day escape without prayers and thanksgiuing vnto the Lord. Ioyne together as true yoak-fellowes in Gods seruice daily prostrating your selues before his omniscient presence least Sathan creepe into your carelesse hearts and minister iust cause of Iealousie vnto you If the head gets in the whole body followes If the head be well the body can hardly be distempered so if Husbands doe their duties towards GOD their Wiues will imitate them in time and conforme their liues according to the square of vnitie O noble vnitie which shapest this indiuiduall vnion betwixt man and wife not onely in their bodies constitutions but in their soules coniunctions firme stable neuer to be remoued Bone of my bone flesh of my flesh Tu nostra de carne caro de sanguine sanguis sumptaque de nostris ossibus ossa geris As Adam spake to Euah Away therefore yee iealous Italists with your golden lockes with your artificiall chaines with your straight mewings If Pasip●ac cannot haue the company of a man she will yeeld her body to a wanton Bull. If Ariostoes Queene be restrayned one way shee will satisfie her appetite another way with a deformed dwarfe Qui era tanto dotto per mettre la Regina sotto There is no locke nor chaine comparable vnto the feare of the Lord whose wrath is a consuming fire The very thought of Hels torments terrifies the conscience more then all the worldly deuises of flesh and bloud What is Anger Anger is a vehement affection because it sees things fal out contrary crosselike to reason Why doe some looke red and others pale when they be angry Some when they are angry become red because their bloud ascendeth vp into the head and these are not so much to be doubted Others wax pale when they are angry because the bloud is retyred vnto the heart whereby they become full of heart very dangerous What is Choler Choler is a fiery passion of the minde because it seeth all things fall out contrary to reason or wit there are two sorts of Choler abounding in euery man the one open the other hidden wherof this latter is more dangerous From both of them being terrible ebullitions motions of the spirit all the body the bloud and humous become heated and chafed insomuch that they grow to be sulphureous kindeling of fiery feuers pleurisies gall in the stomacke yealow iaundises tumours Erisipelaes itch and innumerable other maladies as well externall as internall whose chiefest and specifique cure consisteth that Christian Vertue Patience as for other Phisicke to coole the violence thereof I leaue to greater Clerkes What is sorrow Sorrow is an affection of the mind whereby it is oppressed with some present euill and languisheth by little and little except it finde some hope or other to remedy the griefe thereof What is the effect of Sorrow Sorrow stifleth vp the purer faculties of the soule causeth a man to fall into a Consumption and to be weary of the world yea and of himselfe How many kindes of Sorrowes are there There be two kindes of sorrowes the one deepe and heauy the other short and temporarie The former is properly termed Sorrow the latter Mourning VVhat be the causes of both these kindes Their causes are outward and inward The outward are grieuances which happen vpon diuers occasions eyther for the losse which Husbands receiue by reason of their Wiues deaths or by reason of some deare friends death which in nature wee loue extreamely or else by reason of the shipwracke or discredit of our name fame and goods To these outward causes I adioyne the depraued dyet of the melancholicke which engender melancholicke humours as those euill weedes and seeds which our Farmers gather among their corne grinding the same with the rest into bread or malt Out of these corrupt seeds malignant vapours arise vp into the head which intoxicate the braine whirling about the imaginatiue facultie straying vp and downe along the memorie and eclipsing the light of the vnderstanding The inward causes spring from melancholick or burnt bloud contained within an inflamed braine and there-hence tainting the veines and whole body Of this blacke and enraged bloud which originally proceeded from the diuersities of vapours or exhalations there grow diuersities or diuers sorts of Sorrowes which diuersly work vpon the functions of the imagination For if it be true that the soule is in the bloud and dispersed through euery part of the same as God is wholy in the world and wholy in euery part of the same then surely must it follow that the variety of the bloud doth change and diuersifie the vnderstanding and also that the actes of the vnderstanding soule doth change the humours of the body so that out of these diuersities of tainted humours there are ingendred strange and wandring phantasies caused by reason of such blacke bloud smoake and sweat which