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A47787	The temperate man, or, The right way of preserving life and health, together with soundness of the senses, judgment and memory unto extream old age in three treatises / the first written by the learned Leonardus Lessius, the second by Lodowich Cornaro, a noble gentleman of Venice, the third by a famous Italian; faithfully Englished.; Hygiasticon. English. 1678	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornarus, Ludwig.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1181; ESTC R32465	69,139	222

Two or Three days together For so they will both be easilier born and with much more benefit For the first day the first region as the Physicians term it is to be purged that is the Bowels The second day the Liver and the third day the Veins in which lies the great drain of ill humors For they who do not live temperately do every day add some crude humor which being sucked in by the veins as by a spunge is afterwards dispersed through the whole body 28. So that after Two or Three years space there is ofttimes such a mass of ill humors gathered in the body as a vessel big enough to hold Two hundred ounces would scarce serve to receive them in Now these humors in tract of time do corrupt and putrifie and cast a man upon mortal infirmities and are the very true ground why most men die so much before their time For almost all that die before old age die by this means those only excepted who are slain by outward violences as by fire sword wild beasts water or the like as also those who die of the stone of poyson of the plague or some such other infection And questionless there be many who with store and plenty of all things in their own houses die and perish through this abundance of malignant humors in their bodies who had they been condemned to the Gallies and there kept at bisket and water might have lived long and with good health This danger therefore may in great part be remedied by purging seasonably at least twice every year For so it will come to pass that neither the quantity of the ill humors will be very great nor be much putrified being evacuated and kept under by this purging at every half years end I have known many who by this means have prolonged their lives to extream old age and scarce all their lives long been oppressed with any great sickness CHAP. V. Of the Commodities which a sober diet brings to the body and first That it freeth almost from all diseases 29. NOw follows the third of those things which we propounded to wit The explication of those Commodities which a sober life brings both to soul and body The first Benefit therefore is That it doth free a man and preserve him from almost all manner of diseases For it rids away catarrhs coughs wheazings dizzinesses and pains of the head and stomach it drives away Apoplexies Lethargies Falling-sickness and other ill affections of the brain it cures the Gout in the feet and in the hands the Sciatica and those diseases that grow in the joynts It likewise prevents Crudity the mother of all diseases In a word it so tempers the humors and maintains them in an equal proportion that they offend not any way either in quantity or quality Now where there is an agreeable proportionableness amongst the humors there is no matter for sickness to work upon inasmuch as the ground of health lies in this That the humors be rightly and proportionably tempered in the body And this both Reason and Experience doth confirm For we see that those who keep them to a sober course of diet are very seldom or rather never molested with diseases and if at any time they happen to be oppressed with sickness they do bear it much better and sooner recover than those others whose bodies are full fraught with ill humors bred through the intemperance of Gluttony I know very many who although they be weak by natural constitution and well grown in years and continually busied in imployments of the mind nevertheless by the help of this Temperance they live in health and have passed the greatest part of their lives which have been many years long without any notable sickness The self same is to be made good by the examples of the Holy Fathers and Monks of old who lived very long healthy and chearful in the height of spare diet 30. The reason hereof is For that almost all the diseases with which men are ordinarily vexed have their beginning and birth from Repletion that is to say from mens taking more of meat and drink than Nature requires and then the stomach can perfectly concoct In proof whereof we see that almost all diseases are cured by Evacuation For blood is taken away either by opening a vein or by cupping-glasses leaches or otherwise that Nature may be lightened The great overflowing of humors in the bowels and throughout the whole body is abated and drained by Purgings and other Medicines Abstinence and a very spare diet is prescribed All which ways of cure do plainly shew that the disease was bred by Repletion For contraries are cured by contraries Whereupon Hippocrates Sect. 2. Aphor. 22. saith Whatever diseases are bred by Repletion are cured by Evacuation and those that are bred through Evacuation by Repletion But diseases by Evacuation happen seldom and scarcely otherwise than upon dearths sieges sea-voyages and the like chances In which cases the adust humor which the heat through want of food hath bred and kindled is first to be removed and after that the body by little and little is to be nourished and strengthened the measure of food being increased by degrees The self-same course is likewise to be held for the repair of Nature when upon great sicknesses the Evacuations have been many whereby the strength hath been much impaired Since therefore almost all diseases proceed from this ground to wit That more food is taken into the body than Nature requires it will follow That he who follows the just measure shall be free from almost all diseases Which thing is also intimated in that famous saying of Hippocrates l. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sect 4. The Rule of health is to eat without fulness and to be diligent in labor Whereby he makes the true course of preserving health to consist in spareness of food and exercise of the body 31. The self-same is confirmed by that which Physicians affirm That Crudities are the Nursery of all those diseases wherewith men are ordinarily vexed Whereupon Galen in his first Book concerning meats of good and evil juice or nourishment saith No man shall be oppressed by sickness who keeps himself warily from falling into Crudities And in respect of these Crudities the common saying is That more are killed by surfets than by the sword And the holy Scripture saith Ecclus. 37. Many have perished by surfets but he that is temperate should prolong his life And a little before Be not greedy upon every dainty and pour not thy self out upon every meat for in many meats there will be sickness Now a sober course of Diet doth prevent these Crudities and thereby cuts away the ground of diseases That which we call Crudities is the imperfect concoction of Food For when the stomach either through the over-great quantity of meats or for their refractory quality or for the variety of them taken at the same time

2. de vitis Philosophorum 34. The third Commodity of a sober Diet is That although it doth not cure such diseases as are incurable in their own nature yet it doth so much mitigate and allay them as they are easily born and do not much hinder the functions of the mind This is seen by daily experience for many there be who have ulcers in their Lungs hardness of the Liver or Spleen the Stone in the Reins or in the bladder old dry Itches and inveterate distempers in their Bowels swellings in the Guts waterish Ruptures and divers other kinds of Burstnesses who yet notwithstanding by the help of good Diet only prolong their lives a great while and are alwaies chearful and expedite to the affairs and businesses of the mind For as these diseases are very much exasperated by over-eating so that they do very much afflict Nature and in a short space overthrow it so by a sober course of life they are marvellously allayed and mitigated insomuch as very little inconvenience is felt by them nor do they much shorten the ordinary race of mens lives CHAP. VII That it makes men to live long and in the end to die without pain 35. THe fourth Commodity is That it brings not only health but long life to the followers thereof and leads them on to extream old Age so that when they are to pass out of this world their departure is without any great pain or grief inasmuch as they die by a meer resolution Both these things are manifest in Reason and in Experience For as for old Age it is evident That holy men in the Deserts and Monasteries of old lived very long albeit they led most strict lives and almost utterly destitute of all bodily conveniences which thing ought chiefly to be attributed to their sober Diet. So Paul the first Hermite prolonged his life to almost 115 years of which he lived about a hundred in the desert maintaining himself the first Forty of them with a few Dates and a draught of water and the remainder with half a loaf of bread which a Raven daily brought him as S. Jerom writes in his Life S. Antony lived 105 years whereof Ninety he spent in the desert sustaining his body with bread and water only saving that at the very last he added a few herbs as Athanasius testifieth Paphnutius exceeded Ninety years eating bread only as is gathered out of Cassian Collat. 3. chap. 1. S. Hilarion although he was of a weak nature and alwaies intent upon divine affairs yet lived Eighty four years whereof he passed almost Seventy in the desert with wonderful abstinence and rigor in his diet and other ordering of his body as S. Jerom writes James the Hermite a Persian born lived partly in the desert and partly in a Monasterie 104 years upon a most spare diet as Theodorets Religious History in Julian makes mention And Julian himself surnamed Saba that is to say Old man refreshed himself only once a week contenting himself with barley-bread salt and water as Theodoret in the same place recounts Macarius whose Homilies are extant passed about Ninety years whereof he spent Threescore in the desert in continual fastings Arsenius the master of the Emperor Arcadius lived 120 years that is Sixty five in the world and the other Fifty five in the desert with admirable abstinence Simeon Stylites lived 109 years whereof he passed Eighty one on a Pillar and Ten in a Monastery But this mans abstinence and labors seem to exceed humane nature Romualdus an Italian lived 120 years whereof he spent a whole Hundred in Religion with exceeding abstinence and most strict courses Vdalricus the Paduan Bishop a man of wonderful abstinence lived 105 years as Paul Bernriedensis witnesseth in the Life of Gregory the Seventh which our Gretzer brought to light some few years ago Francis of Pole lived till he was above Ninety years old using marvellous abstinence for he made but one repast a day after sun-set and that of bread and water very seldom using any of those kinds of food which belong to Lent S. Martin lived Eighty six years S. Epiphanius almost a Hundred and fifteen S. Jerom about an Hundred S. Augustine Seventy six S. Remigius Seventy four in his Bishoprick Venerable Bede lived from Seven years old till he was Ninety two in a Religious Order It would be too long to recount all the Examples that might be brought out of Histories and the Lives of the Saints to the confirmation of this matter I omit very many in our times who by means of a sober course of Life and Diet have extended their lives with health until Eighty Ninety and Ninety five years space or upwards There are also Monasteries of women in which upon a most spare diet they live to Eighty or Ninety years so that those of Sixty and Seventy years old are scarce accounted amongst the Aged 36. Nor can it be well said That these whom we have recounted lived to so great ages by the supernatural gift of God and not by the power of Nature Inasmuch as this long life was not the reward of some few but of very many and almost of all those who followed that precise course of Sobriety and were not cut off by some outward chance or violence Wherefore S. John the Evangelist who alone amongst the Apostles escaped violent death lived Sixty eight years after the Ascention of our Lord so that it is very probable he arrived to the age of a Hundred years And S. Simeon was a Hundred and twenty years old when he was martyred S. Dennis the Areopagite lived till he was above an hundred years old S. James the younger saw Ninety six having continually attended prayer and fasting and alwaies abstained from flesh and wine 37. Besides this Priviledge belongs not only to Saints but also to others For the Brachmans amongst the Indians live exceeding long by reason of their spare diet And amongst the Tunks the Religious professors of their Mahometical superstition who are very much given to abstinence and austerity Josephus in his Second Book of the Wars of the Jews chap. 7. writes That the Essenes were men of long lives so that many of them lived till they were a Hundred years old through the simplicity of the diet which they used and their well-ordered course of living for there was nothing but bread and some one kind of gruel or pap set before them at their meals Democritus and Hippocrates prolonged their lives to a Hundred and five years Plato passed Eighty Last of all when the Scripture saith in Ecclus. 37. 30. He that is temperate adds to his life it speaks generally of all those that follow abstinence and not of Saints only Nevertheless I grant indeed That wicked men and in particular Homicides and Blasphemers do not for the most part live long albeit they be temperate in their diets for the divine vengeance persecuteth them And yet these commonly

man run beside himself to see such a ransacking of all the Elements by Fishers and Fowlers and Hunters such a turmoiling of the world by Cooks and Comfit-makers and Tavern-keepers and a numberless many of such needless occupations such a hazarding of mens lives on Sea and Land by heat cold and a thousand other dangers and difficulties and all forsooth in procuring dainties for the satisfaction of a greedy Maw and sensless Belly that within a very short while after must of necessity make a banquet of it self to worms What an endless maze of error what an intolerable hell of torments and afflictions hath this wicked Gluttony brought the world unto And yet wretched men that we are we have no mind to get out of it but like silly Animals led by the chaps go on all day long digging our Graves with our Teeth till at last we bring the Earth over our heads much before we otherwise need to have done And yet there was a certain odd fellow once in the world I would there were not too many of the same mind now adays Philoxenus by name that seriously wisht he might have a swallow as long and as large as the Cranes the better to injoy the full relish of his licorish morsels Long after him I read of another of the same fraternity Apitius I trow that set all his happiness in good chear but little credit I am sure he hath got by the means no more than Maximinus for all he was an Emperor by his using every meal to stuff into his paunch thirty pounds of flesh beside bread and wine to boot But Get a deserves in my opinion the Monarchy of Gluttons as he had of the Romans His feasts went always according to the letters of the Alphabet as when P's turn came he would haye Plovers Partridges Peacocks and the like and so in all the rest his table was always furnished with meats whose names began with one and the same letter But what do I raking up this carrion Let them rot in their corruption lie more covered over with Infamy then with Earth Only to give the world notice who have been the great Masters of this worthy Science of filling the belly and following good chear I have been inforced to make this remembrance of some of their goodly opinions and pranks Which let who so will be their partner in for my part I solemnly avow that I find no greater misery than to victual the Camp as the Proverb is cramming in lustily over night and to be bound next morning to rise early and to go about serious business Oh what a piece of Purgatory is it to feel within a mans self those Qualmes those Gripings those Swimmings and those Flushing heats that follow upon over eating And what a shame if our foreheads were not of brass and our-friends before whom we act them infected with the same disease would it be to stand yawning stretching and perbreaking the crudities of the former days surfet On the contrary what a happiness do I prove when after a sober pittance I find sound and quiet sleep all night long and at peep of day get up as fresh as the morning it self full of vigor and activity both in Mind and Body for all manner of affairs Let who will take his pleasure in the fulness of delicates I desire my part may be in this happy injoyment of my self although it should be with the abatement of much more content than any dainties can afford When I was last at Messina my Lord Antony Doria told me that he was acquainted in Spain with an old man who had lived above a hundred years One day having invited him home and entertained him sumptuously as his Lordships manner is the good old man instead of thanks told him My Lord had I been accustomed to these kind of meals in my youth I had never come to this age which you see nor been able to preserve that health and strength both of Mind and Body which you make shew so much to admire in m. See now here 's a proof even in our Age That the length and happiness of mens lives in the old world was chiefly caused by the means of Blessed Temperance But what need more word in a matter as evident as the Sun at noon-day to all but those whose Brains are sunk down into the Quagmire of their Bellies I 'le make an end with that which cannot be denied nor deluded nor resisted so plain is the truth and so great is the authority of the Argument and this it is Peruse all Histories of whatever times and people and you shall always find the haters of a Sober Life and Spare Diet to have been sworn enemies against virtue and goodness Witness Claudius Caligula Heliogabalus Clodius the Tragedian Vitellius Verus Tiberius and the like And on the contrary the friends and followers of Sobriety and Frugality to have been men of divine spirits and most heroical performances for the benefit of mankind Such as were Augustus Alexander Severus Paulus Aemilius Epaminondas Socrates and all the rest who are registred for excellent in the lists of Princes Soldiers and Philosophers A spare diet then is better than a splendid and sumptuous let the Sardanapaluses of our age prattle what they list Nature and Reason and Experience and the Example of all vertuous persons prove it to be so He that goes about to perswade me otherwise shall lose his labor though he had his tongue and brain furnished with all the Sophistry and Eloquence that ever Greece and Italy could joyntly have afforded FINIS * Qui medicè vivit miserè vivit That this subject is not un befitting a Divine The Measure is different according to the diversity of constitutions and ages What is every ones due measure Whether Students in Colledges or those that live in Monasteries c. ought to trouble themselves about this measure * Crudo aliquo fructu * Plethoram * Cacochymiam * Apophlegmatismos * In duobus paximaciis * Absque ullo obsonio That this measure may suffice ordinarily even those that are healthy and strong Panada * Esculenta potulenta * Menestris Hurtful meats are to be avoided * Nebula * Asthmata * Brassica * Humoris viscosi Panada a very convenient food for the aged c. Variety of dishes prejudicial to health * Qul ultra sitim famemque sedandā appetentiam producerent Whether this measure or stint ought not to be altered Whether the daily measure or stint ought to be taken at one or at more refections * Saplentia in sicco residet non in paludibus lacunis * Lux sicca anima sapientissima Another help to preserve health * Dolores ischiadicos * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crudity the mother of diseases * Non plures gladio quàm cecidere gula Health consisteth in two things * Vectis agitatio * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A sober Diet armeth against outward causes and accidents It mitigateth incurable diseases * Scirrho * Enterocele Hydrocele aliisque herniae generibus * In Columna Homicides and blasphemous persons do not live long seeing Neither luxurious persons * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Mancipata est It brings quiet dissolution Mans life compard to a Lamp It makes the body agil and expedite for all imployments The Commodities of the Mind by a sober Diet. It affords vigor to the Senses * Topica quaedam * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Ex Hypochondriis * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Coryzas This is a Benefit of greatest moment * Sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus Why the Appetite is deceitful * Bulimia * Mangonia * Chameunia * Non est tanto digna dolore solus The discommodities of Intemperance * Mangerà più chi manco mangia Ed è contrario Chi più onangia manco mangia Il senso è Poco vive chi treppo sparechia * Fa più pro quel ' che si lascia sul ' tondo che quel ' che si mette nel ventre * Cresses or wild Mint