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A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

dry Yet doth it good if thereto you enure it Against a surfet vomiting to try Is remedy but some cannot endure it Yet some so much themselues found helpe thereby They go to sea a purpose to procure it ● Foure seasons of the yeare there are in all The Summer and the Winter Spring and Fall In euery one of these the rule of reason Bids keepe good diet suiting euery season ●…e spring is moist of temper good and warme ●hen best it is to bathe to sweate and purge ●hen may one ope a veine in either arme 〈◊〉 boyling bloud or feare of agues vrge ●hen Venus recreation doth no harme ●et may too much thereof turne to a scourge ●n Summers heat when choller hath dominion ●oole meates and moist are best in some opinion ●he Fall is like the Spring but endeth colder With Wines and Spice the Winter may be bolder Now if perhaps some haue desire to know The number of our bones our teeth our veines This verse ensuing plainly doth it shew To him that doth obserue it taketh paines The teeth thrise ten and two twise eight arow Eleu'n score bones saue one in vs remaines For veines that all may vaine in vs appeare A veine we haue for each day in the yeare All these are like in number and connexion The difference growes in bignesse and complexion Foure humors raigne within our bodies wholly And these compared to foure Elements The Sanguine Choller Flegme and Melancholy The latter two are heauie dull of sence Th' other two are more Iouiall quicke and Iolly And may be likened thus without offence Like ayre both warme and moist is Sanguine clea●… Like fire doth Choler hot and drie appeare Like water cold and moist is Flegmatique The Melancholy cold drie earth is like Complexions cannot vertue breed or vice Yet may they vnto both giue inclination The Sanguine game-some is and nothing nice Loue Wine and Women and all recreation Likes pleasant tales and news playes cards dice Fit for all company and euery fashion Though bold not apt to take offence not irefull But bountifull and kinde and looking cheerefull Inclining to be fat and prone to laughter Loues mirth Musick cares not what comes after ●…rpe Choller is an humour most pernitious 〈◊〉 violent and fierce and full of fire 〈◊〉 quicke conceit and therewithall ambitious ●…ir thoughts to greater fortunes still aspire ●…ud bountifull ynough yet oft malicious ●…ight bold speaker and as bold a lyar 〈◊〉 little cause to anger great enclin'd ●…ch eating still yet euer looking pin'd 〈◊〉 yonger yeares they vse to grow apace 〈◊〉 Elder hairie on their brest and face ●he Flegmatique are most of no great growth ●…clining to be rather fat and square Giuen much vnto their ease to rest and sloth Content in knowledge to take little share To put themselues to any paine most loth So dead their spirits so dull their sences are Still either sitting like to folke that dreame Or else still spitting to auoid the flegme One qualitie doth yet these harmes repaire That for the most part Flegmatique are faire The Melancholly from the rest doe varie Both sport and ease and company refusing Exceeding studious euer solitary Inclining pensiue still to be and musing A secret hate to others apt to carry Most constant in his choise tho long a chusing Extreme in loue sometime yet seldome lustfull Suspitious in his nature and mistrustfull A wary wit a hand much giuen to sparing A heauy looke a spirit little daring Now though we giue these humors seuerall names Yet all men are of all participant But all haue not in quantitie the same For some in some are more predominant The colour shewes from whence it lightly came Or whether they haue bloud too much or want The watrie Flegmatique are faire and white The Sanguine Roses ioyn'd to Lillies bright The Chollerick more red the Melancholly Alluding to their name are swart and colly ●f Sanguine humor doe too much abound These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe The face wil swell the cheekes grow red and round With staring eyes the pulse beate soft and breefe The veines exceed the belly will be bound The temples and the fore-head full of griefe Vnquiet sleepes that so strange dreames will make To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake Besides the moisture of the mouth and spittle Will taste too sweet and seeme the throat to tickle If Choler doe exceed as may sometimes Your eares will ring and make you to be wakefull Your tongue will seeme all rough and oftentimes Cause vomits vnaccustomed and hatefull Great thirst your excrements are full of slime The stomack squeamish sustenance vngratefull Your appetite will seeme in nought delighting Your heart still grieued with continuall byting The pulse beate hard and swift all hot extreme Your spittle sowre of fire-worke oft you dreame If Flegme aboundance haue due limits past These signes are heere set downe will plainely she●… The mouth will seeme to you quite out of tast And apt with moysture still to ouer-flow Your sides will seeme all sore downe to the wast Your meate wax loathsome your digestion slow Your head and stomacke both in so ill taking One seeming euer griping t'other aking With empty veines the pulse beate slow and soft In sleepe of Seas and riuers dreaming oft But if that dangerous humor ouer-raigne Of Melancholy sometime making mad These tokens then will be appearing plaine The pulse beate hard the colour darke and bad The water thin a weake fantasticke braine False grounded ioy or else perpetuall sad Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions Presenting to the thoughts ill apparitions Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming His eare the left especiall euer burning ●…inst these seuerall humors ouerflowing 〈◊〉 seuerall kinds of Physicke may be good 〈◊〉 diet drinke hot baths whence sweat is growing ●…th purging vomiting and letting bloud ●…ich taken in due time not ouerflowing ●…ch malladies infection is withstood ●…e last of these is best if skill and reason ●…spect age strength quantity and season ●f seuenty from seuenteene if bloud abound ●he opening of a veine is healthfull found Of Bleeding many profits grow and great The spirits and senses are renewed thereby Tho these men slowly by the strength of meat But these with wine restor'd are by and by By bleeding to the marrow commeth heat It maketh cleane your braine relieues your eye It mends your appetite restoreth sleepe Correcting humours that do waking keepe All inward parts and senses also clearing It mends the voyce touch smell tast hearing Three speciall Months September April May There are in which 't is good to ope a veine In these 3 Months the Moone beares greatest swa●… Then old or yong that store of bloud containe May bleed now though some older wizards say Some dayes are ill in these I hold it vaine September April May haue dayes a peece That bleeding do forbid and eating Geese And those are they forsooth of May

hauing ●…ke Sage and Primrose Lauender and Cresses ●ith Walwort that doth grow twixt lime and stone ●…r he that of these hearbes the iuyce expresses ●…d mix with powder of a Castor-stone ●ay breed their ease whom palsy much oppresses ●r if this breed not helpe then looke for none ● Rew is a noble hearbe to giue it right ●o chew it fasting it will purge the sight ●ne quality thereof yet blame I must ●t makes men chaste and women fils with lust Faire Ladies if these Physicke rules be true That Rew hath such strange qualities as these Eate little Rew lest your good husband REW And breed betweene you both a shrew'd disease Rew whets the wit and more to pleasure you In water boyld it rids the roome of fleas I would not to you Ladies Onyons praise Saue that they make one faire Aesclapius saies Yet taking them requires some good direction They are not good alike for each complexion If vnto Choller men be much inclin'd 'T is thought that Onyons are not good for those But if a man be flegmatique by kind It does his stomacke good as some suppose For Oyntment iuyce of Onyons is assign'd To heads whose haire fals faster then it growes If Onyons cannot helpe in such mishap A man must get him a Gregorian cap. And if your hound by hap should bite his master With Hony Rew and Onyons make a plaster The seed of Mustard is the smallest graine And yet the force thereof is very great It hath a present power to purge the braine It adds vnto the stomacke force and heat All poison it expels and it is plaine With suger 't is a passing sauce for meate She that hath hap a husband bad to bury And is therefore in heart not sad but merry Yet if in shew good manners shee will keepe Onyons and Mustard-seed will make her weepe ●hough Violets smell sweete Nettles offensiue ●et each in seuerall kind much good procures ●he first doth purge the heauy head and pensiue ●ecouers surfets falling sickenesse cures ●ho Nettles stinke yet make they recompence ●f your belly by the Collicke paine endures Against the Collicke Nettle-seed and hony Is Physick better none is had for money It breedeth sleepe staies vomits fleams doth soften It helpes him of the Gowte that eates it often Cleane Hysop is an hearbe to purge and clense Raw flegmes and hurtfull humors from the brest The same vnto the lungs great comfort lends With hony boyl'd but farre aboue the rest It giues good colour and complexion mends And is therefore with women in request With Hony mixt Cinquefoyle cures the Canker That eates out inward parts with cruell ranker But mixt with wine it helpes a grieued side And staies the vomit and the laske beside Ellecompane strengthens each inward part A little loosenesse is thereby prouoken It swageth griefe of minde it cheeres the heart Allaieth wrath and makes a man faire spoken And drunke with Rew in wine it doth impart Great help to those that haue their bellies broken Let them that vnto choller much incline Drinke Penny-royall steeped in their wine And some affirme that they haue found by tryall The paine of Gowt is cur'd by Penny-royall To tell all Cresses vertues long it were But diuers patients vnto that are debter It helpes the teeth it giues to bald men haire With Hony mixt it Ring worms kils and Tetter But let not women that would children beare Feed much thereof for they to fast were better An hearbe there is takes of the Swallowes name And by the Swallowes gets no little fame For Pliny writes ●ho some thereof make doubt It helpes yong Swallowes eyes when they are out ●reene Willow though in scorne it oft is vs'd ●et some are there in it not scornefull parts ●t killeth wormes the iuice in eares infus'd With Vineger the barke destroyeth warts But at one quality I much haue mus'd That addes and bates much of his good deserts For writers old and new both ours and forren Affirme the seed make women chast and barren Take Saffron if your heat make glad you will But not too much for that the heart may kill Greene Leekes are good as some Physicians say Yet would I choose how er'e I them beleeue To weare Leekes rather on Saint Dauids day Then eate the Leeke vpon Saint Dauids Eue The bleeding at the nose Leekes iuice will stay And women bearing children much releeue * Blacke Pepper beaten grosse you good shall finde If cold your stomacke be or full of winde White Pepper helps the cough and fleame it riddeth And Agues fit to come it oft forbiddeth Our hearing is a choyce and dainty sense And hard to men yet soone it may be mard These are the things that breed it most offence To sleepe on stomacke full and drinking hard Blowes fals and noyse and fasting violence Great heate and sodaine cooling afterward All these as is by sundry proofes appearing Breed tingling in our eares and hurt our hearing Then thinke it good aduice not idle talke That after Supper bids vs stand or walke You heard before what is for hearing naught Now shall you see what hurtfull is for sight Wine women Bathes by art to nature wrought Leekes Onions Garlicke Mustard-seed fire and light Smoake bruises dust Pepper to powder brought Beanes Lentiles strains Wind Tears Phoebus bright And all sharpe things our eye-sight do molest Yet watching hurts them more then all the rest * Of Fennell Veruin Kellidon Roses Rew Is water made that will the sight renew 〈◊〉 in your teeth you hap to be tormented 〈◊〉 meane some little wormes therein do breed ●hich paine if heed be tane may be preuented ●y keeping cleane your teeth when as you feed ●urne Frankincense a gum not euill sented ●…t Henbane vnto this and Onyon seed ●nd in a Tunnell to the Tooth that 's hollow ●onuey the smoake thereof and ease shall follow ● By Nuts Oyle Eeles and cold in head ●y Apples and raw fruits is hoarsenesse bred To shew you how to shun raw running Rheumes Exceed not much in meate in drinke and sleepe For all excesse is cause of hurtfull fumes Eate warme broth warme striue in your breath to keep Vse exercise that vapours ill consumes In Northern winds abroad do neuer peepe If Fistula do rise in any part And so procure your danger and your smart Take Arsenicke Brimstone mixt with Lime and Sope And make a tent and then of cure there 's hope If so your head doe paine you oft with aking Faire water or small beere drinke then or neuer So may you scape the burning fits and shaking That wonted are to company the Feuer * If with much heate your head be ill in aking To rub your head and temples full perseuer And make a bath of Morrell boyled warme And it shall keepe your head from further harme * A Flix dangerous euill is and common In it shun cold much drinke and straine of women To fast in Summer doth the body

depend in some part vpon the celestiall bodies is declared Besides this there are two other kindes of causes that doe change and destroy our bodies which doe grow from the superior Planets One kinde is that that is ingendred with vs and is therefore said to be Interne necessarie and ineuitable and they are in number three that is Drynesse which by the course of Age bringeth to death a daily wasting of substance or the great varietie and mobilitie of the matter in our bodies and the abundance of excrements Another kinde of them are which happen outward and therefore are called Externe of which the reason is said to be twofold for some of them are which doth not change or affect our bodies of necessitie for although when these things happen their hurt may be by vs auoyded notwithstanding there are some of them that our life may be safe without them They are such things which doe bruise hurt and wound our bodies which for the most part hapneth by some outward force as in the warres and other cases of Fortune as either being drowned or made away with poyson There are other things also which are said of necessitie to alter Mans body which although we may auoide particularly yet generally we cannot when we cannot liue without them These things I say doe destroy and ouerthrow the temperature constitution and naturall health of man if they be not rightly vsed as necessity and the state of the body requireth And those are those sixe things which are called not naturall which we will consider in particular which sixe things are placed in our power and election and they are of sixe kindes 1. The first is Ayre Water and Fire 2. The second is Meate and Drinke and all those things which are giuen the body for nourishment 3. The third is Motion and Rest both of the whole body as of euery part thereof 4. The fourth is Sleepe and Watchfulnesse 5. The fifth is Excretion or Expulsion of excrements or retention vnder which is contayned the opening of a veine Purgation Vomit auoyding of Urin Sweate Bathing the act of Generation and such like 6 The sixth are the Symptoms Perturbations Affections or Accidents of the minde such as are Feare Anger Sorrow Ioy and such like of which we will speak more afterwards These things being duely and rightly vsed doe conserue man in good health but vsed contrarily they destroy for as health doth consist in a meane and a mediocritie so also in a meane vse of things necessary it is conserued CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health I Haue declared vnto you the chiefe causes through which the diuers mutations destructions and corruptions of our bodies doe arise Now on the contrarie I will declare vnto you also those things which if we vse them in right order and manner doe contayne the safetie of life restore health lost and diminish some kindes of diseases and expell them For this thing it is first needfull and requisite that you know certainely and be sure of that although the celestiall bodies doe exercise a certayne force and admirable vertue in the affaires of Man yet notwithstanding GOD Almightie the Worke-man and Creator of all Nature and Humane things being the Lord of Life and Death who hath the gouernement of all Inferior bodies that cannot be remoued but that he doth gouerne and rule the influence of all Stars and Planets and remoue the course and efficacy of them and likewise doth moderate all inclinations that grow from the Planets and oftentimes according to his great goodnesse doth turn away diseases and change them into better sometimes also according to his secret and iust iudgement for our sinnes to exasperate and turne them into worse For the diuine Maiestie is not in the Starres which the God-head hath framed for the profit and conseruation of mankinde neither is it inclosed within a certayne fatall necessitie as it were shut vp in prison but doth worke freely and as the chiefe cause doth gouerne and moderate all other causes This therefore eternall God the most louing Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which proroged the life of King Hazechias for fifteene yeeres is humbly to be prayed vnto daily that he would bestow vpon vs also a long and a safe life with a right constitution as well of body as strength of minde and to preserue the same for rightly is it said Astra valent aliquid plus pia vota valent Astra regunt mundum sed regit astra Deus Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse piorum Next when for our sinnes our bodies are affected with often and diuers kindes of diseases we must carefully striue that we gouerne the inclinations and wandering motions of our mindes and that we vse a bridle to our outward members and that we doe not only flye wickednesse but that we auoide the occasions also thereof It becommeth you my deare Sonnes to vse this diligence in the gouernement of your life and manners and chiefly to embrace true Religion and due obedience and loue to your Parents which if you shall doe God will in like manner as he hath promised in the Decalogue giue vnto you happinesse and long life for as S. Paul saith truely in the 1. of Tim. 4. Pietas ad omnia vtilis est c. Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things which hath the promise of the life present and of that that is to come the which in some manner was vnderstood by an Ethnick Zoroaster King of the Bactrians where he saith Qui mentem ardenum ad opus pietatis intenderit labile corpus seruabit and Cicero saith Pietatem esse matrem fundamentum omnium virtutum That Godlinesse is the mother and foundation of all vertues Secondly when it is said that the Starres be the working causes of destruction and mutation and the causes of diuers diseases in our bodies and whereas the obseruation of the celestiall effects is not forbidden I will that you take this care that as well the yeerly directions as the figures of your natiuity be obserued which I haue diligently and exactly computated I leaue to euery one of you which notwithstanding you shall examine without all superstition and shall be aduised by the iudgement of the learned Astrologians and Physicians that you may the better auoid the euill foreseene and the good things shall be brought to their wished euent for that is true which some doe affirme that coelum esse fatalem picturam in coel●sti tabula and very well was it said by Hipp. and Galen the Princes of Physicians that the Arte of physicke without the supportation of the Heauens to be oftentimes in vaine yea also oftentimes to be hurtfull This obseruation doth profit very much for the preseruation of the health and for the preuention of diseases therefore you must regard the more your naturall inclination with the greater vigilancy that you may bee the better able to gouerne your

rather corrupted then digested and they make hot and stinking vapours to ascend vp to the braynes thus I suppose I haue spoken enough of meate and drinke I will now end with the counsell of Cornelius Celsus which saith that a healthfull man shall not binde himselfe to the rules of physick or dyet but a man whose stomack is feeble there ought to be a greater regard that the meate be such as that either in qualitie or quantitie nature be not rebuked or to much oppressed CHAP. VI. Of Exercise and Labour BEcause a great part of health doth consist in ● fit and conuenient exercise of the body as Auicen Hippocrates and Galen doe witnesse it is therefore needfull to haue a diligent and carefull consideration thereunto labour then or exercise is a vehement mouing the end whereof is the alteration of the breath or winde of man of exercise doe proceed many commodities And especially three the first is hardnesse and strength of the members whereby labour shall the lesse grieue and the body be more strengthned to endure labour And that exercise or labour doth strengthen the body as Galen witnesseth in his booke de Sanitate tuenda It is proued by experience in labourers who for the most part be stronger then men that liue at ease and can endure greater toyle as may be obserued in the example of Milo Crotoniatos who by the vse of carrying a Calfe euery day certayne furlongs was able to carry the same being a Bull. The second commoditie of labour is the increase of heate whereby hapneth the more alteration of things to be digested also more quick alteration and better nourishment The third is more violence of the breath or winde whereby the pores are cleansed and the excrements of the body naturally expelled These things are so necessary to the preseruation of health that without them no man may long be without sicknesse for as the flowing water doth not lightly corrupt but that which standeth still euen so bodies exercised are for the most part more helthfull and such as be idle more subiect to sicknesse according to the saying of the Poer Ouid Cernis vt ignauum corrumpant otia corpus Vt capiunt vitium ni moucantur aquae The which thing also Cornelius Celsus affirmeth where he saith Slothfulnesse dulleth the body it is strengthned by labour the one doth make vs soone old the other doth make vs long yong Notwithstanding in exercise ought foure things to be considered that is to say the Time the things preceding the Qualitie and the quantitie of exercise As concerning the time conuenient to exercise in there ought foure things to be diligently considered first the time the things preceding the quality and the quantity of exercise First as concerning the time that the stomacke and bowels be ouer-burdened and the meate not digested or the humors crude or rawe lest thereby perill might follow by their conueyance into all the members Galen doth say that the time most fit for exercise is when both the first and second digestion is fulfilled as well in the stomacke as in the veines and that a desire of eating doth draw neere for if the exercise be sooner or later the bodie shall eyther be filled with raw and crude humors or else yellow choller shall be encreased The knowledge of this time is well known by the colour of the Vrine for that which is like vnto cleare water sheweth that the Iuyce which commeth from the stomacke is crude raw in the veines that which is wel coloured neither too high or too low sheweth that the second digestion is performed perfectly where the colour is very high or red it declareth the concoction is too much Wherefore when the Vrine appeareth in a temperate colour neither too red nor too pale but as it were gilt then should we begin our exercise CHAP. VII Of Sleepe and Watch. THe commodities of moderate sleepe doe appeare by this that naturall heate which is busied about the matter whereof proceedeth nourishment is comforted in the places of digestion and so the digestion is made better and more perfect by sleepe the body is fatter and the minde more quiet the humors more temperate But by much watch all things happen the cleane contrary The moderation of sleepe must be measured by health and sicknesse by age time emptinesse or fulnesse of the bodie and by naturall complexions as first to a man in health hauing no weaknesse of nature and a perfect digesture of the meat he eateth a little sleepe is sufficient but to them which haue weak stomakes the sleep may be the longer In like manner temperance is required both in youth and age at all seasons winter and Summer The body being full of ill humors very little sleepe is sufficient except the humors be crude and raw for then sleepe is necessary which digesteth them better then labour In like manner where the bodie is long empty by long sicknes or abstinence sleep comforteth nature as well in the principal mēbers as in al the other As for the length of sleep al Authors do agree that to strong bodies seuen houres in the night is sufficient and to those that are weaker eight houres is enough at the most Plato in Timaeo saith When the world shutteth vp her eye we should also close vp our eyes the eye of the world is the Sunne therefore sleepe is not long to be deserred after the Sunne setting neither presently after supper can sleepe be wholesome for as Galen saith in lib. Aphorismorum à cibis ad som num conuersis caput impletur Moreouer immoderate sleepe maketh the bodie apt to Palsies Apoplexies Falling-sicknesse Rhumes and Apostumes also it maketh a dull wit and a slow bodie and vnapt to honest exercise as also immoderate watch drieth too much the bodie and doth weakē the Animal powers hindreth digestion and maketh the body apt to cōsumptions Wherefore in these two things as well as all other a diligent care is to be vsed the moderation is best coniected for it is hard perfectly to know it by the sensible lightnesse of all the bodie especially of the braine the browes and the eyes the passage downe of the meat from the stomake the will to make Vrine and to goe to the stoole contrariwise heauines in the bodie and also in the eyes sauour of the mean before eaten doth signifie that the sleepe was not sufficient They that are in health must first sleepe on the right side because the meate may come to the liuer which is to the stomack as a fire vnder the pot and thereby is digested To them which haue but weake digestion it is good to sleepe prostrate on their bellies or to haue their pare hands on their stomackes and to lye vpright on the backe is to bee vtterly abhorred CHAP. VIII Of Accidents and Affections of the minde THose things being alreadie declared by the which the health of the body is to be preserued I will now

a Smaragd a Saphire or a Draconites which you shall beare for an ornament for in stones as also in hearbes there is great efficacie and vertue but they are not altogether perceiued by vs hold sometime in your mouth eyther a Hyacinth or a Crystall or a Granat or pure Gold or Siluer or else sometimes pure Suger-candy For Aristotle doth affirme and so doth Albertus Magnus that a Smaragd worne about the necke is good against the Falling-sicknes for surely the vertue of an hearbe is great but much more the vertue of a precious stone which is very likely that they are endued with occult and hidden vertues Feede onely twice a day when yee are at mans age neuerthelesse to those that are subiect to choler it is lawfull to feede often beginne alwayes your dinner and supper with the more liquid meates sometimes with drinkes In the time betweene dinner and supper abstain altogether from cups vnlesse necessitie or custome doe require the same notwithstanding the same custome being so vicious must be by little and little changed I would not that you should obserue a certaine houre eyther for dinners or suppers as I haue sufficiently told you before lest that daily custome should be altered into nature and after this intermission of this custome of nature hurt may follow for custome doth imitate nature and that which is accustomable the very same thing is now become naturall Take your meate in the hotte time of Summer in cold places but in the Winter let there bee a bright fire and take it in hotte places your parlours or chambers being first purged and ayred with suffumigations which I would not haue you to enter before the suffumigation be plainely extinct lest you draw the fume by reason of the odour And seeing one and the same order of diet doth not promiscuously agree with al men take your meat in order as is before said and sometimes also intermit the vse of meats for a whole day together because through hunger the faults of the stomack which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or surfetting or by any other meanes may be depelled and remoued By this meanes also your bodies shal be better accustomed to endure and suffer hunger and fasting eyther in iourneyes or wars Let your suppers bee more larger then your dinners vnlesse nightly diseases or some distillations doe afflict you After meat taken neither labor in body nor mind must be vsed and wash the face and mouth with cold water cleanse the teeth either with Iuory or of a Harts horn or some picker of pure siluer or gold After your banquets passe an houre or two in pleasant talkes or walke yee very gently and soberly neither vse much watchings long in the night but the space of two houres goe to your bed but if honest busines doe require you to watch then sleepe afterwards so much the longer that your sleep may well recompence your former watchings Before that you goe to your bed gently smooth down your head armes and shoulders the backe and all the bodie with a gentle and soft rubbing vnlesse you meane to do it in the morning to moue distribution whose time is best to be done in the morning In the Winter sitting by the fire put off your garments and drie your feete by the sire neuerthelesse auoid the heate and the smoake because it is very hurtfull both to the lungs and the eyes In the Winter time warme well your garments at the fire and warme the linings of the same for it helpeth concoction and remoueth all humiditie and moysture But my father did not allow of this custome warning men of strength and those that are borne for the Common-wealth not to accustome themselues to such kind of softnesse which doe weaken our bodies Also when you put off your garments to goe to bed then put away all your waighty cogitations and lay them aside whether they 〈◊〉 publike or priuate for when all your members be free from all cares you shal● then sleepe the quieter concoction and the other naturall actions shall best bee performed But in the morning when you rise againe resume to your selues your forme dayes thoughts and cares for this precep my Father had often in his mouth there fore I deliuer it vnto you as the mo●… worthy of your obseruation Certayne precepts against Heate and Drynesse EUen as cold is hurtfull to trauailers so is heat also for thereby trauailers be offended for it hapneth by the want of moysture and aboundant heate for when too much heat doth infest trauailers they doe thereby often-times grow into sicknesse and the natural moysture strength is dissolued Therefore my aduice is first when you trauell not to vse much vociferation or talke for thereby is wont to be drawne thirst and drynesse against which detayne in the mouth crystall corall siluer sugar-candy or a flint-stone that lyeth in cold water the Iulep of Roses an● Violets with cold water in like mann●… new stick of lickoras taken fresh out of the earth and chawed or the drinking of water quencheth the thirst also new ligs doe mitigate thirstinesse and coole the heate Pine kernels the leaues of Purslane held in the mouth Straw-berries Peares Pruines Cherries the seedes of Quinces seedes of Lettuce and cucumbers doe very well diminish thirst What Age is and what difference in Age. IN Age there are fiue parts or differences first child-hood from our birth to fifteene yeeres and is hot and moyst The second adolescence from fifteene to fiue and twentie a meane and perfect temperature then youth from fiue and twentie to fiue and thirtie and is hot and drie then middle age or mans state from fiue and thirty to forty nine declining to cold and drie from nine and forty the end of ●he life all cold and dry in all this course ●f the life there is a continuall change of 〈◊〉 body but especially euery seuenth ●…re is called Annus criticus the yeere of ●…ment In which time we are in greatest danger touching life and death Therefore I would aduise you to haue regard to the change of those times and to vse all meanes to preserue the shortnesse of life as much as may be FINIS