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A81875	A treasure of health By Castor Durante Da Gualdo, physician and citizen of Rome. Wherein is shewn how to preserve health, and prolong life. Also the nature of all sorts of meats and drinks, with the way to prevent all hurt that attends the use of either of them. Translated out of Italian into English, by John Chamberlayne, Gent. Imprimatur, April 5. 1686. Rob. Midgley.; De bonitate et vitio alimentorum centuria. English	Durante, Castore, 1529-1590.; Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.	1686 (1686)	Wing D2682B; ESTC R202251	103,967	242

care that none come into the Chambers th● strewed for if there be a great many with the● Breath they re-heat the Room Besides this l● the Chamber be full of odoriferous Fruits as swe●● smelling Apples Pears Quinces Citrons and Li●mons But if the Air should be too cold yo● must avoid the Wind chiefly the Northern a● not go out of the House before Sun-rising a● strew your Chamber with hot Herbs as Mint Peniroyal Sage Hysop Laurel Rosemary Marjora●● or else make a decoction of these Herbs with Clove● Cinamon Mace and such like and sprinkle t● Chamber therewith and perfume it also wi●● some aromatical Smells as Incense Mastick ●●namon Ladanum a Gum made of the fat D●● that is gathered from the Leaves of Lada N●●megs rine of Citrons Myrrh Amber Lignum ●loes Musk and the sweet smelling Gum call'd St●rax putting these things on lighted Charcoal 〈◊〉 else mix these Perfumes with liquid Storax setti●● it a little while over the Coals These aromati●● Odours have the vertue to open the Pores wh●● they are stopt attenuate the gross Humours a●● is good against the cold and moist Vapours of t●● Body This Perfume may be made another w●● if you take of all these things to wit Half ounce or six drams of Roses one dram of A●ber of Musk half a scruple of Behen Album Sparling Poppy or red Behen ana two scrupl● of the Flowers of Nymphea or River-Lillies thr● drams of Ladanum one dram of Mastick Incen●● ana two Drams pound these not too small and set them over t●● Coals Besides this to correct the bad quality of the Air and to attenuate and dissolve the gross and slimy Humours of the Body let there be always burning in the Chamber a good Fire of some Odoriferous Wood as Lawrel Rosemary Cypress Juniper Oak Pine Firr the Latrix or Larch-Tree Turpentine and Tamarisk Moreover Night and Day smell to a Ball of Pomander composed of these following several Ingredients Take of Saffron one Dram and a half of the Oriental Amber half a Scruple of Musk half a Dram of Storax Calamita the Gum which proceeds from a sweet Cane in the Indies and of Lawrel ana one Scruple these are altogether dissolved in Malmsey and thereof is made a round Ball. One thing is worthy your Observation and Remembrance that is that the Air in hot and moist Countries as for Example in Rome c. is very destructive to the Health the Air of the Vineyards is also little wholesom unless when the Northern or Western Wind blows Of Seasons those are the best which keeping their proper temperature are equally either cold or hot but the changeable and incertain Weather is the worst of all I must not likewise omit to tell you that in the Summer when the South Wind blows as in those places which stand towards the North are the least wholsome as in the Winter the Northern Wind blowing those which look towards the South If you desire to know the quality of the Air and disposition of the Weather at Night in the open Air put a dry Sponge and if in the Morning you find it dry you may assure your self the Air is dry if wet then conclude the Air is moist and damp The like Experiment may be tryed ●ith new Bread which being exposed to the Nocturnal Air as the former if in the Morning you find it mouldy the Air is corrupted and putrefied but if the Air be hot and dry the Bread will remain withou● any change The malignity of the Cold may b● corrected by artificially causing a good and swee● Breath viz. by keeping in your Mouth Treacle Mithridate also the Confection called Alcarmes a term of the Arabian Physicians whereby they meant a Cordial made of certain little Scarle● Worms of which also is Crimson made rubbing the Teeth with this Antidote which yet becomes better by the addition of Zedoary a Roo● like Ginger growing in the East-Indies an● chewing therewith Angelica and this Dentifrice or Medicine to cleanse the Teeth may be made if you take of Rosemary one Dram of Myrrh Mastick Bole-armoniack Dragons-Blood Burnt-Allom ana half a Dram of Cinnamon one Dram and a half Rose Vinegar Mastick-water ana three Ounces half a pound of Rain-water of Honey three Ounces boyl these together over a gentle fire to the end that they may be well scummed afterwards add thereto Bezoar a kind of Precious Stone very Cordial being an excellent Antidote to expel Poyson by the Arabick Doctors it is called Badzahar i. e. Alexipharmacon a Remedy for Poison and as a● Unguent keep it in a glass Bottle Of this take a spoonful every Morning fasting holding it in your Mouth and rubbing your Gums therewith the which must b● afterwards w●ll washed and cleansed with Wa●●● distilled in a hot Bath of white Salt and Roch-Allom ana three Ounces and thereto may be added a little ●●stick-water With this wash the Teeth for these things cleanse the Mouth cause good Breath f●sten loose Teeth flesh the Gums heal the putrefied Flesh and make the Teeth white Besides all this there is great heed to be taken in the choice of a House see whether the Place and the Air be good or bad wholesom or unwholsom to dwell in The House therefore which you take let it be seated in the highest place of the City therein chuse your Apartment at least one pair of stairs high and let it be very light and so placed that it may always receive the Wind in the Summer and the Sun in the Winter and have Windows on all sides that is East West North and South if it may be to the end that no one Air may remain there long which otherwise would putrefie and corrupt and furthermore you ought to avoid not only lying in a Ground-Chamber but also tarrying there long for the highest are the most wholsom where you breath the thinnest and purest Air then you receive this benefit that dwelling in the highest and most open place of the House preserves and repairs the radical Moisture of the Body and hinders Old Age but to be in a dark lower Room or under the Ground is very naught for Life is maintained by the open Air and by Light but in the shade a Man grows mouldy and corrupted I must furthermore advertise you that of Animals Herbs Fruit Corn and Wine those are to be chosen that grow in high Ground free from ill smells putrefied by the Wind and receive a temperate and sufficient warm●h of the Sun where there be no stinking Lakes and Dung-hills to molest them for there the Fruits remain a long while uncorrupted and this is ●he only place whereon a man may securely fix to dwell in 'T is also commodious to have a Country House whereto you may sometimes repair for as the Country provides Food and Victuals for the City and the City consumes it so humane Life by sometimes dwelling in the Country is prolonged but by the Idleness of the