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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63801	Monthly observations for the preserving of health with a long and comfortable life, in this our pilgrimage on earth; but more particularly for the spring and summer seasons. By Phylotheus Phystologus. With allowance.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3186A; ESTC R219418	27,306	103

against griping pains of the Bowels helps Concoction disburthening the Stomoch of superfluous Juces and cleanseth the vessels which are generally stopt and furred by Intemperance either in Meats or Drinks for all Gruels and Pottages do naturally prevent fumes and vapours by carrying the offending windy matter into the Bowels causing it to pass away with case its proper way neither shall those whether Young or Old that often eat this Gruel be subject to shortness of Breath or other ill habits of the Stomach and Breast and if Children do eat frequently of it in quantities it will prevent those evil sharp windy Juces that falls into their Joynts which do cause the Disease called the Rickets it hath also a powerful opperation against the Scurvy and Dropsie by opening the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen begets appetite it cheers and comforts the Spirits it is in every respect friendly to Nature and assists her in all her Opperations for as most distempers are contracted by excess and Inordinate living so on the other side nothing hath so much power not only to prevent Diseases but also to throw them off when they have invaded Nature neither can the best of of Medicines prove Effectual when disorders and the same intemperance in Meats Drinks Beds and Exercises are continued that was the original of the Diseases it is also very profitable to Woman in Child-Bed the frequent use thereof would prevent those feavorish indispositions vapours windy fuming Humors that most are subject to in that conditions which is for the most part occasioned by their ill conduct and by their hot thick compounded Spoon-Meats but I do not call them h●● from the firy heat they are tenged with in their preparation which also is injurious to Nature if not cool before it be taken into the Body it being a contrary heat both to the natural heat of the food and Stomach too but from the innate heat the ingrediences of those Spoon-meats are endued with also those Gruels are very profitable for all Children especially those that suck for many Womens Milk is defective besides Milk naturally furs the passages and stomach and often heats the Blood whence Feavers and indispositions proceeds which generally is attributed to the breeding of Teeth but many are mistaken now this Gruel does cool and cleanse all the passages and refresh the Spirit and thin the Blood. Of moyst Airs WHen the Fountains of water in the upper Chambers of Nature are stirred or awakened by the motions of the Elements and Celestial Configurations all things presently become dewy or fill'd with humidity for heat and moisture naturally opens all Bodies exerting their inward qualities and makes them defusive whether they be Good or Evil and renders them capable to mixt or incorporate with the Air for so great is the power and efficacy of this Element of Water that all or most productions are attributed thereunto as that whereby they are Generated Nourished and increased so that it seems a prime natural cause of all things that grow in the Earth and when it obtains the Goverment or Dominion over the other Elements it opens the Gates of nature then all properties do breathe or send forth their innate qualities intermingling with the Air of that place which if it happens to be low morish fenny Ground near Lakes Ponds Jakes Close Towns or great Citties as London where various sorts of Filth and Uncleanness are heaped up then the Air is fill'd with foul fulsome vapours of pernicious qualities but on the other side when the Air is humid if the Ground be dry or amongst Gardens Corn Fields open Heaths Running Rivers or where Springs trickle down from the Breasts of a rising Plain or Hills where Hedges and Trees do not stand too thick all such places do naturally exhale pleasant and fragrant Smells which Impregnating the Air renders it both delightful and wholsome Hence it appears that Water is the great Menstrum of the World the opener of all bodies and the aawakener of Qualities making all things penetrable whence Motion vegetation doth arise so that when Water and Air are incorporated the latter is rarified and it becomes more penetrating moystening digesting and cooling for when the sweet dews of Heaven are withheld all things are lockt up in the hot harsh astringent Chamber which threatens all things with death the Air becoming Sultry and Sulpherous which consumes the radical moisture in all Creatures and so renders them not only more unfit for Labour or Exercise but also more subject to Diseases then in moyst Seasons making them droughty hot and feavorish by stopping up the pores which frets all the inwards parts both of Men and Beasts and parches up the Earth but where Water and Air do kindly embrace or inbibe each other that place or Climate gains a brisk spiritous refreshing property that it sucks in on all parts of the Body for the pure natural and Animal Spirits in man are not altogether a terrene thing or Body nourrished only by gross Alement received through the Organs by the Concoction of Meats and Drinks only but draw in a more refined nourishment like spunges at every pore of the Body from the thin vapours that encompass and penetrate it on all sides for the Air being plentifully endued with a salnitral vertue does furnish and refresh Nature with a curious brisk Airy Spirit and for that reason Rain Water being Impregnated with a greater quantity of that Good vertue does naturally advance Vegetations beyond all other sorts enriching the Earth and making it hollow or Plumplike a ferment or leven whereas other Waters bind and close-up the Pores thereof but still the moyst Air of Woods are not commendable as to health because such places do naturally attract Humidity and retain it so as it became thick hot and sulpherous because the Sun Wind c. has not free passage to refine it but all Airs by or near Springs or running-Water are more commendable in the Summer then in the Winter and wonderfully refreshes the natural Spirits and therefore Imployments or Exercises near unto or on the Waters are both pleasant and healthful so that its a very vain Apprehension in many People so much to fear the dwelling near Rivers tho possibly the same may not agree with all Constitutions And as moyst Airs are most wholsome and healthful in hot Seasons of the Year The like is to be understood of our Homogenial Water-Gruel and other Pottages tho the contrary is practised by most Gruels and Pottages being mostly eaten in Winter but they are far more agreeable in Summer or hot Seasons for our Winters are for the most part cold and moyst which does naturally drive the heat more central which does strengthen the Stomach and digestive faculty that Nature can the better dispose and digest stronger fatter harder drier Foods and Drinks then in Summer or hot Weather besides Airs then are cold humid and dewy which do powerfully penetrate the Body and the

Meats and Drinks ought not to be taken together that are of a contrary Nature in themselves or disagreeable to any Mans particular Constitution because such Foods do secretly yet powerfully wound simple Nature with many Diseases and Infirmities before she is aware or can arm her self against their Assaults but let them be simple in their kind agreeable to the Complection and as near as may be equal in their parts which will breed good Blood and pure brisk Spirits and they always make the Body Lightsome and Agile 9. Forbear the frequent eating of Flesh and Fish without distinction and regard had to the Season and to their Cleanness or Unclaenness at that time and to the manner of their being killed after they are taken whether it be a Wound which may cause the free Evacuation of the original Properties of Saturn and Mars which is seldom done especially in Fish and Fowles but the same are for the most part Suffocated or Strangled or Die themselves whereby the pure Spirits and sweet Vertues by the Agony the poor Creatures are at the departure of their dear Lives are fixt or overcome for the orginal Venoms in which al Life consists are then so terribly agitated that they immediately suffocate and swallow up the pure Spirits and sweet Oyle if there be not a Wound made whereby those raging Poysons may freely pass away in the vehicle of the Blood for this reason experience shews that all Flesh as of Fowles or Fish or the like that are Strangled will not eat so Sweet and Pleasent as others that have a Wound made and Bleed plentifully but will have a stronger and grosser Taste and Smell nor will it breed so good Blood or Nourishment as the other but the best of them is much inferior to that of Vegatations which are more easily and more friendly obtained 10. Let your ordinary Drinks be mild and friendly to Nature neither Strong Stale Hard or Sour nor yet too new nor such as most of the small or nine Shilling Beer is that is Brewed in London viz. that runs off those Grains that the strong Ale and Beer has drawn forth all the sweet Qualities and good Vertues and there remains only a Sharp Sour Astringent Stinking Quality behind which the hot Water or Liquour extracts and then to give it a Taste they Boyle it Lustily with the Hops that have been boyled several hours in the strong Beer which have drawn forth all wholsome qualities and there are no better Vertues Extracted from them then the Water or Liquor did from the Graines and tho they do put some Ale amongst this small Beer to help it or to hide the ill Taste or Qualities but when such Drinks come into the Stomach those Sharp Sour Stinking Properties cannot be hid from Nature nor their pernicious opperations the frequent use of such Drinks do hurt the Blood and Generate the Scurvy and many other Diseases that are breed by improper and unnatural Drinks especially taken in too great quanties for it not only heats the Blood when strong but it keeps it as it were in a continual firment precipitating People into Feavors Dropsies Griping pangs of the Bowels and it also contracts the Vessels of the Stomach and Passages dulling the Appetite by weakening the Natural heat as woofull experience doth daily testifie to the great ruin of the Body Soul Estate and Reputation and many times Starving a Wife and poor innocent Children Of all Drinks Water hath the first place even as Bread of Foods the Creator of all beeings having endued this Element with many secret and admirable Vertues it being pure and clean in its own Nature and the chiefe thing by which all Exterial things are Purified Purged and Cleansed and tho Weak as Water be a vulgar Proverb yet I must tell you that Water is more strong sublime then most imagin for it contains a most Ravishing and Excellent Spirituous Balsamick Vertue whence proceeds that pure sweet refreshing quality whereby it hath power by its innate Vertue to digest and purifie all sorts of Foods Likewise in Preparations it is so innocent and friendly that it dissipates the gross flegmatick Bodies and preserves and keeps living the more essential spiritous parts it is not only the most plentiful and truly pleasant of all Drinks but supplies with its friendly Moysture and relieves Thirst beyond all other Liquors or Juces it is simple and endued with such equallity that it insinuates its Virtues into all parts of the Body in an insensible way it makes no noise nor causes any Tumults in the Brain nor awakens any Inequallity in the Body but imparts its meek Life as it were in Silence and may deserve the Name of Concord a thing that God and his Hand-Maid Nature have befriended with all the united Vertues both in the Vegitable and Animal Kingdoms it being the Radix of all moist Nourishment which mixt or incorporated with any kind of Juces renders them fit and profitable for Mankind The best and most agreeable sorts of Water for common use and Drinking are Rain River and Spring but especially the two first because they are not only impregnated with the sweet Influences of the Celestials and airry motions of the Elements but their running through and upon the Surface of the Earth does thereby draw forth a saline Vertue of a mild opening Quality which renders it more Homogenial then pump-Pump-Water or such as stand without motion and altho it be our custom to drink Beer Ale Wine and other strong Liquors yet it would be very beneficial and Profitable to most People to accustom themselves to the drinking of a Pint or half a Pint at Night a little before going to Bed and likewise in the Morning it is good to cool wash and refresh Nature it is also good for some Complexions to drink after Meals especially for those that are subject to Fumes and Vapours if Bread be tosted hard and put into it letting it stand a quarter of an hour and then drunk off there being no sort of Drink made by Art so friendly and capable to digest and cleanse the Passages from Obstructions as Water and I am confident if People use themselves every Morning to drink half a Pint a Pint or a Quart of good Water such as each Person shall find most agreeable because Waters have various opperations on several Constitutions they would find as much Benefit if not more then by going to the various Wells so much cried up for their Vertues 11. Bad Air does further and increase all Distempers for that being an Element which we continually Suck and Feed on when it is corrupt conveys unwho some fumes into the Body impairs the Longs those Bellows of Life and infects the whole Mass of Blood therefore proper and good Airs are of great benefit to Health I say Proper as well as Good for every sort of Air tho in its self good is not healthfull for some People because there is as great a