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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

diseases at sea is the iuyce of ●emons At my being in Hungarie I saw the fiery Feauer a disease infectious in that Country cured onely by salt niter prepared with sulphur and giuen in water as drinke to the patient a thing very strange that fire should quench fire Shew me particularly how the Aire may be corrected for the recouerie of sicke folkes according to the diuersities of places times and seasons Art may moderate all this by accommodating the Aire in respect of the sick For if it be in Sommer that the Aire be too hot and sultrie as the vulgar say and that the patient is affected with some ague or with some other burning disease hee must be placed in some lower roome or some coole chamber where the heat of the Sunne comes not so forcibly In Winter time let fire correct the raw and cold aire specially for them that be afflicted with cold sicknesses For such a close warme roome must be prepared secured from winds where a good fire may be made Aduise me how I should build mee an house for pleasure health and profit First you must choose out a fine soile which hath water and wood annexed vnto it and forecast in your minde whether the prospect too and fro be decent and pleasant to the eye For I am of this opinion that if the eye be not satisfied the minde cannot be pleased if the minde be not pleased nature doth abhorre and if nature doth abhorre death at last must consequently follow Next you must marke whether the ayre which compasseth the situation of your house be of a pure substance and that shortly after the Sunne is vp groweth warme and contrarily groweth cold after the Sunne is set Thirdly you must make your foundation vpon a grauell ground mixt with clay vpon a hill or a hils side Fourthly looke that your windowes be Northward or Eastward Lastly when your house is finished you must prepare a Garden replenished with sundry kindes of hearbs and flowers wherein you may recreate and solace your selfe at times conuenient Doth the nature of places alter the quality of the Aire Yea doubtlesse Either by reason of marshes as I said before which commonly are corrupted with rotten vapours and exhalations or else of Churchyards subiect likewise to the same mutations we see by experience that the aire which compasseth vs about doth change his temperature As also when it becomes eyther excessiuely hot or colde dry or moist we doe finde our selues in much trauell and alteration Doth the nature of the time of the yeare alter the Ayre The like mutations doth the aire inferre vnto vs in the foure seasons of the yeare according to the course of the Sunne for in the Spring time the Aire is neerer vnto his owne nature to wi● reasonably hot and moist in Sommer further heated by the Sunne it becomes hot and dry in Haruest colde and dry in Winter colde and moist And not onely the Sunne in the foure seasons of the yeare brings such alterations in the aire but likewise the Moone in her foure quarters causeth foure differences for the first seauenth day from the new Moone vntill the next seauenth day is like the Spring time being hot and moist The second seauenth day vntill the full of the Moone is like Sommer The third day the Moone decreasing is correspondent vnto the Autumne And the fourth and last quarter is like the Winter Euen so againe the morning is hot moist like the Spring time noone is compared to Sommer the Euening to Autumne and the night to the Winter What sicknesses doth the Aire cause The aire causeth sicknesses according to the variety of the climate In colde Countries I meane from the fiftieth degree to the Pole Northward or Southward few sicknesses abound except they happen through excesse or distemperature of diet or vnwholesomnesse of the aire as aboue written In hot Countries specially betweene the both Tropickes the aire is more intemperate and pestilent Here-hence spring plagues Callenturaes and Lues Venerea insomuch as a certaine Writer affirmeth by experience that an Europaean can hardly liue in Aethiopia or vnder the Equinoctiall line aboue fiue yeares whereas on the contrary wee heare that men liue in Swethland in the North parts of Ireland and in other colde places where the aire is pure and Notherly till they attaine to a hundred or sixe score yeares Of Water CHAP. 2. What is water WAter is an Element colde and moyst and doth not nourish but helpe digestion How many kindes of waters be there To discerne good waters from bad you must learne that there be foure differences of waters namely Raine water Riuer water fountaine water and stange water By Raine water I meane all that falls from the Region of the aire vpon the earth in forme of water And this is either sweet when if falls without a storme or else troublesome when it falls with stormes and tempests Is not Snow water as good as Raine water Snow waters albeit they be counted among those waters which are light as hauing beene sublimed purified and as it were distilled yet notwithstanding they be not so good For they ingender feauers and morphewes What is the nature of fountaine water Fountaine water is the best water for preseruation of health But you must obserue of what side it springs for if it comes from the East it excels the rest as well in moisture and thinnesse of substance as in pleasant smel and it doth moderately comfort the spirits Contrariwise those fountaines which spring out of rockes towards the North and which haue the Sunne backward are of a hard digestion and nothing so pure as the other Whether water being drunke doth nourish And whether the same be wholesome for sicke persons Surely water cannot nourish because of it selfe it is of no substance to fortifie or encrease the vitall faculties For which cause the wisest Phisitians aduised men to drinke it honied which they called Oximell Hodromel or with wine or with suger or with white wine vinegar Being drunke alone it neuer quencheth the drowth nor heat of the lungs but rather hindereth the spetting vp of phlegme Yet notwithstanding at meales in Sommer time it may be drunke of hot complexioned people rather to helpe digestion then to nourish the body How shall I know good water By the clearenesse of it That water is best which runneth from an higher to a lower ground and that water which runneth vpon clay is better clarified then that which goeth vpon the stone VVhen is water wholesomest In Sommer time it is most wholesome yet notwithstanding seldome to be drunke But if at any time you be compelled to drinke it see first that you seeth your water gently for by seething the grosse substance of it is taken away How shall I reuiue waters that begin to putrifie This is performed by the addition of some small proportion of the oyle of Sulphur or else of Aqua vitae well rectified incorporating

Cholericke humour is hot and fiery bitter and like vnto the flower of wine It serueth not onely to cleanse the guts of filth but also to make the Liuer hot and to hinder the bloud from putrifaction What is the Melancholicke humour The Melancholick humour is black earthly resembling the lees of bloud and hath the Spleene for a seat assigned vnto it Howbeit Physitians say that there be three kindes of melancholy the first proceedeth from the annoyed braine the second commeth when as the whole constituion of the body is melancholicke the third springeth from the bowels but chiefly from the Spleen and liuer Shew me a diet for melancholicke men First they must haue lightsome chambers and them often perfumed Secondly they must eate young and good meat and beware of Beefe Porke Hare wilde beasts Thirdly let them vse Borrage and Buglosse in their drinke Fourthly Musicke is meet for them Fiftly they must alwayes keepe their bellies loose and soluble Of the restauration of health The sixt Section Of the foure parts of the yeare CHAP. 1. What is the nature of Spring time THe Spring time beginneth when the Sunne entereth into the signe of Aries which is the tenth day of March. At this time the daies and nights are of equall length the cold weather is diminished the pores of the earth being closed and congealed with cold are opened the fields waxe greene hearbes and flowers doe bud beasts rut the birds chirp and to be briefe all liuing Creatures doe recouer their former vigour in the beginning of the spring Now a man must eate lesse and drink somwhat the more The best meates to be eaten are Veale Kid yong Mutton Chickens dry fowle potched egges figs raisins and other sweet meate and because the Spring is a temperate season it requires temperature in all things Vse competent Phlebotomy purgation or such like Venery will doe no great harme As the Sunne by steps and degrees makes his power manifest abroad so within our bodyes hee workes strange and meruailous effects after his cloudy absence Sweet meat must haue soure sauce after our gurmundise and gluttonous fare let vs now likewise imitate these degrees and by little and little weane our bodies from such luxurious cheer Wee see Nurses annoint their teates with Wormwood iuyce to terrifie and withdraw their froward Children from their auncient sustenance so in like manner let vs in this season beginne to sequester our wanton wils being the bodies rulers from persisting in their former lauishnesse for which purpose I aduise the temperate to abstaine from immoderate drinking of wine from immoderate spiced meate specially towards the midst of this season and if they be cholericke hot and dry of constitutions I aduise them to coole themselues now and then with waters of Endiue and Succory or with fountaine water together with a little Comfits to expell inflamation and windie pestilent humours In any case let them which regard their health take heede of salt Herrings and slimy Fish as a meate fitter for labourers then for tender natures Or if their longing wantonnesse be such that they must needs eate them let them exercise or omit their next meale whereby those ill humours may be spent or digested which were caused by reason of the vnwholsome nutriment For assuredly the bloud of idle people will be quickly tainted and corrupted so that the bad excrements will break out into itch tetters the small pockes or meazels or else they will descend from the head into the eyes teeth or lungs and there engender a fearefull cough In old persons these brackish viscous and salt humours will congeale and harden into the stone of the bladder or reines What is the nature of Summer Summer begins when the Sunne entereth the Signe of Cancer which is the twelfth day of Iune In this time Choler is predominant heat encreaseth the windes are silent the sea calme fruits doe ripen and Bees doe make honey Now a man must drinke largely eate little and that sodden for rost meate is dry It is dangerous taking of Physicke and specially in the Dog dayes To heale wounds is very difficult and perillous All these inconueniences happen because of the dog dayes to last for the space of those fortie dayes wherein that Constellation called the Dog meeting with the Sunne in our Meridian doubleth his heate by whose burning influence Frenzies the Pestilence Calenturaes and other hot cholericke sicknesses are bred in our bodies What is the nature of Autumne Autumne beginneth when the Sunne entreth the first degree of Libra which is the thirteenth day of September Then it is Equinoctiall Meteors are seene the times doe alter the Ayre waxeth cold the leaues doe fall corne is reaped the earth loseth her beautie and melancholy is engendered For which cause such things as breede Melancholy are to be auoyded as Feare Care Beanes olde Cheese salt Beefe broath of Coleworts and such like You may safely eate Mutton Lambe Pigges and young pullets Take heede of the morning and euening cold What is the nature of Winter Winter beginneth when the Sunne entereth the Signe of Capricorne which is commonly the twelfth day of December Now the dayes are shortned and the nights prolonged Windes are sharpe Snow and sodaine inundations of waters arise the Earth is congealed with frost and Ice and all liuing creatures doe quiuer with colde Therefore a man must vse warme and dry meates for the cheerefull vertues of the body are now weakened by the colde ayre and the naturall heate is driuen into the inward parts of the body to comfort and maintaine the vitall Spirits VVee must expell the colde ayre with warme drinkes wines braggot metheglin malmesie and such like and aboue all with warme clothes which I wish to be of wooll rather then of any other stuffes In this season wee may feede liberally on strong meates as Beefe barren Does gelt Goats and on spiced or baked meates for whose better digestion and to shut the orifice or mouth of the stomacke some vse to eate Comfits of Anise-seedes presently after meales some other hauing weake stomackes take digestiue pouders made of sweet Fenell seedes Coriander seed Corrall prepared a little masticke Sinnamon and Rose suger within the conserues of Roses Others againe content themselues with a pouder composed of Rose Suger Annise-seede Sage and a crust of fine bread whereof they take a spoonefull in a cup of drinke At nights be sure to keep your selfe warme and specially your head and feet In this case I cannot but commend the Dutchmens prouidence aboue our owne who continually in colde weather weare furres about their necks and couer their feete with wollen sockes Now Wardens Apples and Peares may be vsed with wine or with salt for swelling or with comfits for windinesse To vse carnall copulation is expedient if the weather be moist and not very cold Astronomers auerre that if the first day of December be foule and tempestuous it will not be calme thirty dayes after