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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

pere Ennius seicha tant les bouteilles Qu'il fut geine de goutte et douleurs nompareilles More would I inueigh against the Lapithes of our age had not I of late taxed them in my first Circle of the Spirit of Detraction Shew me a way to make olde wine to be new out of hand Take bitter Almonds and Melilot of each an ounce of Licorice three ounces of the flowers of Alexander as much of Aloes perepatick two ounces bray them all and tye them together in a linnen cloath and so sinke them in the wine At what time are VVine and Beere readie to turne and change About the middest of Iune when the Sun enters into the Tropicke of Cancer and somwhat before the Dogge dayes begin wine and Beere are apt to become eager and corrupt and likewise when the Southerne winde blowes whether it be in Sommer time or Winter when it is great raine lightning thunder or earthquakes then are wine and Beere subiect to turne Shew me how to keepe wine and Beere without turning Aboue all things haue a speciall regard that you lay your vessels in vaulted sellers and then cast into your said vessels either Roach Allome done into powder or the ashes of Oaken wood or beaten Pepper or else put into your vessels so corrupted a good quantity of Cowes milke somewhat salted or if none of these serue draw the drinke into an other vessell that is sweet and vntainted vsing a composition of the foresaid remedies intermingling it foure or fiue times a day for the space of a sennight Is wine hurtfull to sicke folkes Hypocrates writeth that to giue wine or milke to them that be sicke of agues or head-aches is to giue them poyson yet neuerthelesse it doth agree with some kind of diseases as for example it is permitted to them that be troubled with dropsies with ill dispositions of the body and with the rawnesse and weaknesse of the stomack to be briefe wine is an excellent restoratiue for olde age which of it selfe is a great and troublesome sicknesse and for this cause some Phisitians aduised olde men to drinke wine in the middest of Sommer I meane to vse Bacchus for their Phisitian twenty dayes before and twenty dayes after the dogge dayes to the end that in the heat and siccity of that fierie starre their lungs should be ouerflowne but howsoeuer wine reuiueth feeble spirits and maketh the heart light specially of an olde man according to the Italian saying A vecchio infunde lolio ne la lampada quasi estincta Vnto an olde man it infuseth oyle in his decayed lampe Of diet drinks as well for them that be sicke as in health CHAP. 3. Shew me how to correct the malicious vapours of wines FOr the correction of medicinable wine you must put and infuse Burrage Buglos and Pimpernell in your wine for the space of foure and twenty houres before you drink of it Some vse to temper the force of wine by putting a toste in it Some take the leaues of Isop wel powned made fast in a fine cloath and put into new wine against the diseases of the lungs shortnesse of the breath and the cough which they call Isop wine some take dry Roses Anise and hony together with one pound of the leaues and seed of Betony one pound of Fenell seede and a little Saffron these ingredients they put in twenty quarts of new wine and after foure moneths are past they change the wine into a new vessell this kinde of wine is very expedient to be drunk for the clearing of the eye-sight for Pleurisies and for the coroborating of the stomack Others make wine of Wormewood for the paine of the stomack and liuer and for the wormes of the guts which wine is made after this manner eight drams of Worme-wood stamp them and straine them and so cast them into three pints of wine Shew me how to make Ipocras and wine of Scene Common Ipocras is made after this manner take nine pound of the best white wine or Claret that you can get an ounce and a halfe of Cinamon one pound of Suger three drams of Ginger and two scruples of Nutmegs beat all these somewhat grosly then let them soake three daies in the said wine and afterward straine it and vse it for the heating and comforting of a colde and a weake stomack but if you feare sicknesse prepare wine of Scene after this manner take an ounce of the leaues of Scene well mundified halfe a dram of Cinamon seeth them in a quart of white wine with a soft fire till it come to a pint afterwards put a little Suger vnto it and in three daies after it hath beene steeped and so continuing you may straine it and vse it by taking of three spoonfuls in the morning and three spoonfuls when you goe to bed vntill your body be sufficiently purged Shew mee a diet drinke against Melancholie Take two ounces of the leaues of Scene of Fumitory greene Hops and Borrage of each a pound seeth them to the third part in faire water with a soft fire or else till two gallons come to one gallon straine them and sweeten them with Suger or hony and after a sennight you may drink thereof euery morning a draught fasting and so before supper one houre Shew me a diet drinke against the consumption Take two gallons of small Ale halfe a pound of blancht Almonds a quarter of a pound of Annise seeds three or foure stickes of Licoras sliced or bruised one pound of Red Roses Isop and Parsley bruise and straine what is to be bruised and strained after you haue let them boile to one gallon and when it is ready adde vnto it a quart of Malmesie and drinke thereof morning and euening two houres before you eate this drinke preserueth a man from the cough makes a man of a strong constitution and cureth the consumption Of Cider and Perry CHAP. 4. What is Cyder MOnsieur Libault in his third booke of his mayson rustique writeth that Cyder most commonly is sowre yet notwithstanding whether it were made such by reason of the sowernesse of the Apples or become such by reason of the space of time in as much as it is very watry and somewhat earthie as also very subtile and pearcing and yet therewithall somewhat astringent and corroboratiue becommeth singular good to coole a hot liuer and stomack to temper the heate of boyling and collerick blood to stay collerick and adust vomiting to asswage thirst to cut and make thinne grosse and slimy humours whether hot or colde but chiefely the hot Such drinke falleth out to be very good and conuenient and to serue well in place of wine for such as haue any ague for such are subiect to a hot liuer and hot bloud for such as are scabbed or itchy for such are rheumatick vpon occasion of hot humours and it needeth not that it should be tempered with water VVhat is the vse of Perry Perry is a sweet kind

set Now is the proper time to take Physick either by Pilles or Gargarismes for the head by vomites purgations or electuaries for the stomack or by glisters for the bowels or by bloud-letting for the Pleurisie or by sweats for the itch In October This moneth hath great affinitie with March so that whatsoeuer is good in the one is good in the other Arme your body soundly with pleasant wines or spiced drinks against the ensuing Winter Arme your minde with study for now this temperate time inuites thee to read without impediments either of violent colde or of violent heat In Nouember In this season the humor of Bloud decreaseth and black melancholy endeuours to domineere in our bodies which varies like the time Let thy body be well cloathed for feare of the nipping weather Now you may aduenture to eate salt meates powdred Beefe and Mustard In the morning it auailes much to eate a hote loafe buttred and seasoned with Suger and Cinamon which also serues as an excellent receipt to preuent the cough Now you may safely drinke a pipe of Tobacco fasting if you feare theumes In December In this colde Moneth imitate the Spanish Diet. In the morning breake your fast with a bit of Marnelad or Sucket with a draught of Aqua vitae Vse Pepper in your meats And what other spice you please for the seasoning of your Cates. Now you must eate more and drinke the lesse Eate roasted Apples or Wardens to close vp the mouth of your stomack after meales Or else now and then drinke off a Cup of good Claret wine with a roasted Apple in it For the body being benummed and as it were made senselesse with frost and shauing windes had need to be refreshed and cherished with such comfortable allurements For this cause it fell out by discreet tradition that the twelue dayes were allowed vs to feast in that our bodies might enioy the fruit of our trauaile that a forced sanguine complexion by reason of such cheerefull prouocations might downe waigh the naturall melancholick power But for all this let vs not forget our Christian duties in spending wastfully that which might benefit vs a farre longer terme like vnto swinish Epicures whose thoughts intend on their present prouender of whom Saint Paul wrote Edamus Bibamus ludamus cras moriemur Let vs eate drinke and play for to morrow we shall die And as another of late verified Dulcia dum fas est fugitiuae gaudia vitae Carpe volubilibus labitur annus equis Of medicines and meanes to prolong Life CHAP. 3. Shew me certaine remedies to prolong life TO liue for euer and to become immortall here on earth is a thing impossible but to prolong a mans life free from sicknesses and to keepe the humours of the body in a temperate state I verily beleeue it may be done first by Gods permission by obseruing a good dyet and sometimes by vsing of some Treacle Methridate or such like in the Spring time and Autumne Shew me a Syrup against hot diseases and to preserue health For the preseruing of a mans health free from hot diseases vse this sirup fasting take of cleere fountaine water two quarts put into it the roots of Smallage Borrage Buglosse Endiue and Parsley of each three ounces of good Tobacco leafe halfe a pound seeth them with a soft fire vntill they come to one quart and then put vnto them two pound of Suger and mingle it with a pint of good white wine vinegar and if you please to adde some iuyce of Lemonds thereto it will proue a rare help against grosse choler flegme it will scoure and open obstructions and opilations about the Spleene liuer and raines Shew me preseruatiues against cold diseases Doctor Steuens water is an excellent preseruatiue to prolong life and against cold diseases and is made after this manner take a gallon of gascoigne wine then take ginger gallingall Cammomill Sinnamon nutmegs graines cloues mace anise-seede carraway-seed of each of them a drachme then take sage mints red roses tyme pellitory of the wall wild marioram rosemary penny-mountaine otherwise wilde tyme cammomill Lauender of euery of them one handfull then bruise the spices small bruise the hearbs and put all into the wine and let it stand twelue houres stirring it diuers times then distill it in a limbeck and keepe the first pint of the water for that is the best and then will come a second water which is not so good as the first The vertues of this water are these it comforteth the spirits it preserueth the youth of man it helpeth old gouts the toothach the palsie and all diseases proceeding of cold it causeth barren women to conceiue it cureth the cold dropsie the stone in the bladder and the raines of the backe it healeth the canker comforteth the stomacke and prolongeth a mans life Take but a spoonfull of it once in seauen dayes for it is very hot in operation Doctor Steuens who vsed this water liued one hundred yeares wanting two The sublimated wine of M. Gallus Physitian to the Emperour Charles the fift of that name is most admirable for the vse thereof caused him to liue sixscore and nine yeares without any disease which I thinke to be better then Doctor Steuens water it is made in this sort Take of Cubebs Cinnamon Cloues Mace Ginger Nutmegs Galingall three ounces of Rubarbe halfe an ounce of Angelica two drachmes of Mastick foure drachmes and of Sage one pound and two ounces steepe these in two pound and sixe ounces of Aqua vitae which was sixe times distilled then distill them altogether This wine comforteth the braine and memory expelleth Melancholy breaketh the stone prouoketh appetite reuiueth weake spirits and causeth a man to waxe young and lustie It may be taken twise euery weeke and not aboue one spoonfull at each time and that but in a cup of drinke fasting Of Mirth CHAP. 4. What is the principall naturall meanes to prolong life MIrth which is a motion of the minde whereby it taketh delight and stayeth it selfe in that good which is offered vnto it What are the effects of Mirth Mirth enlargeth the heart and disperseth much naturall heat with the bloud of which it sendeth a good portion to the face especially if the mirth be so great that it stirreth a man to laughter Mirth I say maketh the forehead smooth and cleere causeth the eyes to glister and the cheekes to become ruddy Wherefore did God giue affections vnto men God afforded Mirth and such like vnto men that thereby they might be induced to seeke after his diuine Maiestie in whom alone they should finde all mirth and comfort What mirth doe the common people loue best Ignorant men doe delight in corporall and outward things which moue their bodily senses As in beholding of faire women pleasant Gardens rich attires or else in eating or drinking What mirth doe wise men like Wise men receiue pleasure by contemplation which is proper to the minde

and spirit This Aristotle approued when as hee placed the end and soueraigne Good in contemplation Shew me a way to make the heart merry You must vse to carrie about you a sweet Pomander and to haue alwayes in your Chamber some good perfumes Or you may wash your face and hands with sweet waters for nothing in the world can so exhilarate and purifie the spirits as good odours Of daily Diet. CHAP. 5. Declare vnto me a daily Diet whereby I may liue in health and not trouble my selfe in Physicke I Will first of all in the morning when you are about to rise vp stretch your selfe strongly for thereby the animall heat is somewhat forced into the outward parts the memory is quickned and the body is strengthened Secondarily rub and chafe your body with the palmes of your hands or with a course linnen cloath the breast back and belly gently but the armes thighes and legs roughly till they seeme ruddy and warme 3. Euacuate your selfe 4. Put on your apparell which in the Sommer time must be for the most part silke or buffe made of Buckes skinne for it resisteth vermine and contagious ayres in Winter your vpper garment must be of Cotton or Frizeadow 5. When you haue apparrelled your selfe handsomly combe your head softly and easily with an Iuorie combe for nothing recreateth the memory more 6. Pick and rub your teeth and because I would not haue you to bestow much cost in making dentrifrices for them I will aduertise you by foure rules of importance how to keepe your teeth white and vncorrupt and also to haue a sweet breath First wash well your mouth when you haue eaten your meat secondly sleepe with your mouth somewhat open Thirdly spet out in the morning that which like the scum of a pot is gathered together that night in the throat then take a linnen cloath and rub your teeth well within and without to take away the fumosity of the meat and yellownesse of the teeth For it is that which putrifieth them and infecteth the breath But least perhaps your teeth become loose and filthy I will shew you a water farre better than pouders which shall fasten them scoure the mouth make sound the gummes and cause the flesh to grow againe if it were fallen away Take halfe a glassefull of vinegar and as much of the water of the Mastick tree if it may easily be got of Rosemary Mirh Mastick bole Armoniack Dragons hearbe roach Allome of each of them an ounce of fine Cinnamon halfe an ounce of Fountaine water three glasse fuls mingle all well together and let it boile with a small fire adding to it halfe a pound of hony and taking away the scum then put in a little Benguine and when it hath sodden a quarter of an houre take it from the fire and keep it in a cleane bottle and wash your teeth therewithall as well before meate as after if you holde some of it in your mouth a little while it doth much good to the head and sweetneth the breath I take this water to be better then a thousand of their dentifrices 7. Wash your face eies eares and hands with Fountaine water I haue knowne diuers Students which vsed to bath their eyes onely in Well water twise a day whereby they preserued their eye-sight free from all passions and bloud-sheds and sharpned their memories meruailously You may sometimes bath your eies in Rose water Fennel water or Eye-bright water if you please but I know for certainty that you need not as long as you vse good Fountaine water Moreouer least you by olde age or some other meanes doe waxe dimme of sight I will declare vnto you the best and safest remedy which I know and this it is take of the distilled waters of Verueine Bettony and Fennell one ounce and a halfe then take one ounce of white wine one drachme of Tutia if you may easily come by it two drachmes of Sugarcandy one drachme of Aloes Epaticke two drachmes of womans milke and one scruple of Camphire beat those to powder which are to be beaten and infuse them together for foure and twenty houres and then straine them and so vse it when you list Or if you abhorre Artificiall meanes to cleare your sight suggested by the spirit of incredulity that a Decipe might be inserted in stead of a Recipe hold fast on natures documents and follow these plaine rules to preuent sore eyes First keepe your belly alwaies soluble Secondly abstaine from winde dust smoake fire sorrow watching from eating of Mustard Beanes Onions Garlick Leekes and grosse meates from wine bibbing or strong drink and reading of small printed letters Thirdly sleepe not after meales presently Fourthly vse to regard greene or yellow colours Fiftly holde not downe your head too much Sixtly touch them not with your hands specially vnwasht Lastly keepe your feete cleane and dry 8 When you haue finished these say your morning prayers and desire God to blesse you to preserue you from all dangers and to direct you in all your actions For the feare of God as it is written is the beginning of wisedome and without his protection whatsoeuer you take in hand shall fall to ruine Therefore see that you be mindfull of him and remember that to that intent you were borne to wit to set forth his glory and most holy name 9 Goe about your businesse circumspectly and endeauour to banish all cares and cogitations which are the onely baites of wickednesse Defraud no man of his right for what measure you giue vnto your neighbour that measure shal you receiue And finally imprint this saying deeply in your mind A man is but a Steward of his owne goods whereof God one day will demaund an account 10 Eate three meales a day vntill you come to the age of 40 yeares as your breakfast dinner and supper yet that betweene breakfast and dinner there be the space of foure houres and betwixt dinner and supper seauen houres the breakfast must be lesse then the dinner and the dinner somewhat lesse then supper In the beginning of meales eate such meates as wil make the belly soluble and let grosse meates be the last Content your selfe with one kinde of meat for diuersities hurt the body by reason that meates are not all of one quality Some are easily digested others againe are heauy and will lie a long time vpon the stomack Also the eating of sundry sorts of meate require often pots of drinke which hinder concoction like as wee see often putting of water into the meat-pot to hinder it from seething Our stomack is our bodies kitchin which being distempered how can we liue in temperate order drink not aboue foure times and that moderately at each meale least the belly-god hale you at length captiue into his prison house of gurmundise where you shall be afflicted with as many diseases as you haue deuoured dishes of sundry sorts The cups whereof you drinke should be of siluer gold or siluer and guilt or Venice glasse or of Chinaes mould and those without couers that the breath may not be restrained within Labour not either your minde or body presently after meales rather sit a while and discourse of some pleasant matters when you haue ended your confabulations wash your face and mouth with colde waters then goe to your chamber and make cleane your teeth with your tooth-picker which should be either of Iuory siluer or gold Watch not too long after supper but depart within two houres to bed But if necessity compell you to watch longer then ordinarie then be sure to augment your sleepe the next morning that you may recompence Nature which otherwise through your watching would not a little be empaired 12 Put off your cloathes in Winter by the fire side and cause your bed to be heated with a warming pan vnlesse your pretence be to harden your members and to apply your selfe vnto militarie discipline This outward heating doth wonderfully comfort the inward heat it helpeth concoction and consumeth moisture 13 Remember before you rest to chew downe a dozen graines of Mastick either alone or in the conserues of Roses for it will preserue your body from bad humours 14 Pray feruently to God before you sleepe to inspire you with his grace to defend you from all perils and subtilties of wicked fiends and from their spirituall temptations and to prosper you in all your affaires and then lay aside your cares and businesse as well publick as priuate for that night in so doing you shall sleepe more quietly 15 Make water at least once and cast it out but in the morning make water in an vrinall that by looking on it you may gesse somewhat of the state of your body by noting the quantity and colour sleepe first on your right side with your mouth open and let your night cap be somwhat thick quilted haue a hole in the top through which the vapour may goe out 16 In the morning remember your affaires and if you be troubled with rheumes as soone as you haue risen vse diatrion piperion Pellitory of Spaine Tobacco snuft vp into the nostrils or eate white Pepper now and then and you shall be holpen FINIS Gentle Reader for Chap. 8. in Page 54. put Chap. 9. And Chap. 9. in Page 56. make it Chap. 10. and so adieu