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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17162	A newe booke entituled the gouernement of healthe wherein is vttered manye notable rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a dialogue, for the better vnderstanding of thunlearned. Wherunto is added a sufferain regiment against the pestilence. By VVilliam Bulleyn.; Government of health	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1558 (1558)	STC 4039; ESTC S109502	76,166	274

neither obserue tyme place age state no● cōdicion thinke theim thinges of small profite but onely the● respecte is to their disease the● loue not longe study in phisicke and are greatly deceyued because they would builde withou● foundacion and haue the frute● before thei haue planted y e trees These mennes cures be but b● chaunce medly One Sirus bega● this whiche receyued certayn rules of Asclepiades The chief ●este secte of Phisitions called Dogmatici These be the wyse mē●hiche sette not the carte before ●e horse nor the rootes of the ●ees vpwarde They dooe pru●ently consider the chaunge of ●ans nature y e dwellyng place ●e alteration of y e ayre the time 〈◊〉 the yeare the custome of peo●●e the maners of diseases the ●shion of mens diete And this ●ey will prous by trewe argu●entes and reasons and will be ●ry careful for their patientes ●he disciples of those mē be the ●st scollers therfore I counsell ●ee Ihon to loue wel Hippocrates ●e prince of Phisicions whiche ●gan the best maner to geue ru●s to all the louers of phisicke ●f this writeth Gallen much lau●●g Hippocrates his followers ●d in these daies Leonhardus Futchius Matheolus c. ¶ Iohn SEinge thou hast spooken of sondrie partes of Phisicions I praye thee what partes be there of phisicke ¶ Humfrey TRuly there be fyue thinges to be noted in phisicke as v. principall partes as Gallen saith in lib. de Elementis The first is to consider the nature of mans bodie The seconde is to kepe the bodie in health and to defende it from sickenes and infirmities The thirde is to knowe all the causes rules and sedes wherof the sicknes doth growe The .iiii is Crises or iudgemēt of the disease of thinges present past to come The fifth is the beste and moste excellēt for it sheweth the maner of healing dietinge fasshion order waye to helpe the sicke bodie preserue the same as longe as man doth remayne in the state of lyfe ¶ Iohn THou hast spoken of the partes of phisicke what is the forme maner or distribucion thereof ¶ Humfrey IT is distributed in thre formes one is natural another vnnatural y e .iii. agaīst nature The first is by those things wherof y e bodie is cōpact cōstituted or made as Gallen saith in his .iii. boke of his Tēpramentis Cap. 4. The secōd is called not natural as meates or thinges to preserue the bodie in health they be not called vnnaturall because they be againste the body but because the rasshe ●akynge or glotonus vsinge of ●hem may bryng many thinges ●o the vtter destruction of the bodie The thirde bee thinges against nature whiche doeth corrupt the bodie or poisone nature wherof Gallen writeth ¶ Iohn NOwe thou hast taughte me short rules of the partes formes phisicall I pray the shewe me some pretie rules of the complexions of men and that I may aptelie knowe theim with their properties elementes temperamentes and humors ¶ Humfrey VPon my lute some time to recreate my selfe I ioyne with my simple armonie manie playne verses Among all other one smal songe of the foure complexions wilte thou heare it take that chaire and sitte downe and I will teache thee my song ¶ Iohn I thanke thee ¶ Humfrey The bodies where heat moister dwel Be sanguen folkes as Galen tell With visage faire chekes rose ruddy The slepes is much dreames be bluddy Puls great and full with digestion fine Pleasauntlie concocting fleshe and wyne Excremētes aboūdant with anger short ●aughing very much and finding sport Drine grose with couler read Pleasaunt folkes at bord and bead Where cold w t moistur preuaileth much Fleumatike folkes be alway suche Fatues softnes here plaine and ryght Narrowe vaines and coller whyt Dull of wyt no hart to bold Pules very slowe disgestion cold Sleping ouer much vryne grose pale Spittell whit thick thus endes the tale Coller is hoot and drie as fyre ●enis of limmes and puffed with yre Costisse belles with litte slepe Dreames of fier or woundes depe Sallowe coulered or tawnie read Feding on salt meates crustes of bread Voyce sharpe and quickenes of wit Vryne yellowe and saltnes of spit Pulses swyft and very strong Cruell countenance not anger long Melancoly is cold and very drye As here in ryme his signes will trye Heare playne and veray thyn A leane wretche with hardnes of skyn Coller whitlie or like to leade Muche watthe and dreames of dreade And stif in folyshe fantasie Disgestion slowe and long angrie Feareful of minde with watrie spitle Seldome laughing and puls litle Vryne waterie and very thyn The colde earth to hym is kyn ¶ Iohn THis is a good song and I wil learne it for though it seme not verye pleasaūt yet I perceiue it is profitable Now thou hast spoken of the singes of the .iiii. complexions I pray the teache me shortlie howe to knowe the elementes ¶ Humfrey THey be y e foure beginners vnmingled and vntempored frō whose mixtures euerye corporall thynge hath his substaunce ¶ Iohn What be y e partes I pray the tel me ▪ ¶ Humfrey FOure the one is earth the heuiest matter grossest whiche is colde and drie and melancoly And the other is water whiche is lighter moste subtil then the earth of nature is colde moist and flegmatike Then is ayre more purer and lighter then water and if it bee not altered with any other straunge cause it is hote and moiste and sanguen Then fyer is moste lyghte pure and cleare a clarifier and a clenser of all the other elemētes whē they are corrupted and is of his owne nature hoot drie and collericke And of these foure Elementes both man beaste fysshe foule herbe stone mettall haue their propre workyng not of one of the Elementes alone but of al some more and some lesse accordyng to their natures Hippocrates saieth after the soule is gone from the bodie the body doeth returne to the first matter wherof it was made And to cōclude all thinges that be made vpon earth shal returne vnto the earth againe in tyme. ¶ Iohn VVhy might not men beastes fyshe or foule herbe or tree be of one element aswell as of foure I praye you tell me ¶ Humfrey NOo for Aristotel sayth Deus et natura nihil agunt frustra God nature hathe doone nothinge in vaine And if any thing vpon the earth sencible were of one element no sickenesse coulde hurte it nor disease corrupt it but euery thing liuing vppon the earth seing it hath had beginninge it must nedes haue ending to whō these foure complexiōs doeth belonge if they do greatly abounde or disminish or withdrawe their vertues with quantities or qualities ¶ Iohn MAy a man see anye of the Elementes ¶ Humfrey THe thing whiche men do see be none of y e foure Elemēts not earth but earthie not water

but waterie not ayre but airie not fire but firie But the things whiche man do fele be the foure Elementes as earth aire fier water And these be y e vttermost simples of complexions diuersly specially alone of theim selues or mingled with other takinge sundrie and diuers effectes maners condicions formes qualities both in man and beast and euery liuing thinge sensible and insensible ¶ Iohn VVhat is the cōplexions of the foure quarters of the yeare and names of the signes ¶ Humfrey THe spryng time when bloud doth increase Sommer whē read coller doeth rewle Heruest when coller aduste or melancoly doth reigne Wynter when fleme doth abounde in full strengthe It is called wynter from the .xii. day of December vnto the tenth daie of Marche This season is colde moiste it is called spring time frō the .xii. day of Marche and endeth about the .xii. day of Iune Sōmer beginneth about the .xii. day of Iune and endeth about the .xii. day of Septēber Autumne or Heruest beginneth about the .xiii. daie of September and endeth about the .xi. daie of December Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces be winter signes Aries Taurus and Gemini be signes for the springe Cancer Leo and virgo beo the signes for Sōmer Libra Scorpio and Sagitari be the signes for Haruest And y e sunne goeth through all these .xii. signes in xii monethes And the Moone goeth .xii. times through eche of the forsayde signes ones in the yeare and do take sondry effectes in man beates and frutes in the sayd signes hote or cold moist or drye ¶ Iohn VVhat bee the complexions of medicines ¶ Humfrey THose thynges that ouercommeth and gouerne the bodye as purgacions expulciues c. These be called medicines and those thinges that norysheth and augmenteth the bodye be called meates For the complexions of meates medicines be knowen by their tastes as coldnes hootnes moistnes Drynes bitternes saltnes swetenes fatnes sharpenes stiptick and clammy And because thy requeste is to haue prescribed vnto thee but only a litle gouernement of health I wyll showe vnto thee another of my litle songs in plain metre howe thou shalt knowe meates and medicines by their tastes ¶ Iohn THat is my chiefe desire I wyll beare thee saye on ¶ Humfrey COlde quencheth the collers pride Moist humecteth y t whiche is dried The flowing moister be proffe I trie Is wasted of humors hote and drie The subtill fode that is persing quicke The clammy meates maketh it thicke Bitter thinges clense and wypith ofte And expelslem and maketh softe Salt drieth and resolueth fleme tough Fat norisheth and make subtil inough Stiptick or rough taste on the tonge Bindeth and cōfouteth appetite long Swete things in clensing is very good ●t desolueth much norisheth blod These things wel vsed nature wilplease But abusing thē beastly brīgeth disease ¶ Iohn ●N good faithe me thinke thou sayest 〈◊〉 wel for there apere perfit reasons in ●hese thy prety rules Nowe thou hast declared vnto mee the signes of complexions of men with the waye and ●pte knowledge of meates by theyr astes I would fayne learne shortelye ●he tempramentis and complexions of mankynde ¶ Humfrey THere was neuer no discrete nor wyse phisiciō that either feared God or pitied mankynde or loued his own honestie wold take in hande either to prescribe diet or to minister medicine to any body before be well did consider and wysely weye with him selfe the temprament mixture or complexion of mankinde Fyrste whether he were hoote or colde moist or drie fat or leane or indifferent betwene them bothe Tempored by health or distempored by sickenesse as the extremities of hootnes coldnes moistnes and drienes Therefore Iohn these thinges may not bee forgottē you must note also the foure ages of mankinde fyrst the tender state of childrē which beginneth at the birth and so cōtinueth vntill fiftene yeares next after their said byrth Their tempramentes or complexions bee hoote and moiste very like vnto the seede wherof they be procea●ed then next vnto childhode or innocent age Youth which is the seconde part of life beginneth to ●eigne his temprament or complexion hathe rather more fyrie ●eate then perfite naturall heat and this second age continueth or tenne yeares as Galen saieth ●ell in this two firste states of yfe let al natural fathers mo●ers bring vp their youth sette GOD before their eyes for they ●aue no small charge committed ●nto theim that muste geue ac●mpte to God howe they haue brought vp their children they 〈◊〉 in these yeares do spare cor●●ction truely be greuous enemies vnto their children and at laste shalbe recompensed with shame when they shall se misfortune and wretchednes fall vpon the frutes of their owne seedes For mē haue smal profit of their corne whiche bee choked ouercome with thistels bryeres and brakes whiche were not weeded in time muche lesse of their children whiche haue receaued neyther correction nor honest learnyng in due season If y e kepers of gardeins be careful ouer their late sowē sedes tender herbes whiche are in daunger to bee destroied of euerye froste What shoulde good fathers mothers do for their children whose tender and youthfull yeares bee caried away ouercōmed of euery foolishe fantasie and it is no me●●uayle But this shall suffise for the wyse and smally profite the fooles but to my matter whiche I toke in hande I will returne vnto the thirde age of mankynd which is called the lusty state of ●yfe and beginneth at .xxv. yeres and continueth vnto xxxv This age is hoote and drie and verye collericke as Galene saieth This parte of life is subiect to manye burnyng and extreme feuers ●oote vlcers therfore it is necessary to knowe this temprament or cōplexion which is called collericke as plainely may appeare by age strength diet vrine c. This is the beste tyme for mankynde to trauell in with godlye exercise in science arte and profitable trauelles in his vocatiō puttinge in practise the vertues whiche he hath learned in youth for this is the sommer parte of life wherin all goodlye frutes 〈◊〉 florishe in euery good ocupaciō ▪ This is the very heruest to ga● the precious corne and frute 〈◊〉 their labours againste the colde stormes cloudie daies of their aged wynter wherein the bodie shalbe weake and the eies sygh● decaye and the handes trimble and therfore it is not comelye 〈◊〉 see the state of age without rest whiche in the tyme of youth di● honestly trauell For there is 〈◊〉 grace geuen to many creature● vnreasonable bothe beastes and foules to make prouision before hande what is then to be required of men reasonable as foloweth in these verses THe bird in time her nest can make The bee will buyld his house ful 〈◊〉 The Crane with stone in fote wil wake The Cony will carue vnder the myne The Squirel in trees her nuts can kepe Against colde winter