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A17165	The gouernment of health: a treatise written by William Bullein, for the especiall good and healthfull preseruation of mans bodie from all noysome diseases, proceeding by the excesse of euill diet, and other infirmities of nature: full of excellent medicines, and wise counsels, for conseruation of health, in men, women, and children. Both pleasant and profitable to the industrious reader	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1595 (1595)	STC 4042; ESTC S107022	73,365	190

good collours And this haue I proued it helpeth crampes and sickenesse in the sinewes being drunke in wyne sodden with sage it helpeth the splene the liuer and raines and will clense the secret termes of women and augmenteth naturall seede Ioh. What is ginger Hum. It is hot in the third degree and moist in the end of the first if it be vncollered White and not rotten it is verie good most chiefly if it be conserued and greene as Mesua saith it maketh warme a colde stomacke and consumeth windes helpeth euill disgestion and maketh meate goe easely downe into the stomacke Ioh. What is Setwall Hum. Hot and drie in the second degree and is good if the pouder thereof be drunke is most of effect against the pestilence except Methridatum It is good against poison winde chollericke and colde passions of the heart and doeth restraine vomites The weight of eight graines doth suffice to be drunke in ale or wine vpon an empty stomacke Iohn What is sinamon Humf. Dioscorides saieth there bee many kindes of sinamon but generally their vertue is this to helpe dropsies windes or stopping of the liuer and is hote and drie in the third degree Iohn What is Cassia Fistula Seneca and Rewbarb Humfrey Cassia Fistula if the cane be heauie and the Cassia within blacke and shining that is good Cassia if this bee drawen newe out of the cane halfe an ounce or more at one time and mingled with suger and eaten of a fasting stomacke in the morning it hath power to purge choller to cleanse the raines of the backe it will fret and consume the stone it purgeth very easily and is pleasant in taking and may bee taken of children weake women and sicke men in the time of their feuers the accesse of their fittes excepted Reubarbe doeth purge yellow choler by himselfe two or three drammes may be taken or a little more so that there be a dram of Spikenard or Sinamon put vnto it In Summer to drinke it with whey in Winter with white wine but the cleane yellowe rubarbe sliced and put into infusion al the night with whey white wine or endiue water and streyne it in the morning doth greatly purge the blood and liuer thrée or foure drams with Spikenard a dram or more Séeny Alexandria if it be sodden in the broath of a cocke or a henne doeth purge the bloud and melancholie verie gentlie and comfort the heart One ounce of the cleane small leaues of séeny without cods or stalkes halfe a quarter of one ounce of ginger twelue cloues finkle séede two drammes or else two drams of Sinamon tartar halfe a dram beaten al together in powder these do purge the head mightily to be taken before supper the weight of one dram in a little white wine Ioh. I would bee glad to learne the vertue of Aloes Hum. There be two kinds of Aloes one is named Succo trina which is like a liuer cleare brittle bitter coloured betwéene red and yellow this is best for medicines A little of this being tempered with Rose water being put vnto the eies helpeth the dropping and watery eyes Also it is put in many excellent medicines laxatiue as saffron myrrhe aloes mingled together In the forme of pilles is the most excellent medicine against the pestilence as it is written in this booke folowing Honie and aloes mingled togither doe take away the markes of stripes and also doth mundifie sores vlcers it doeth cleanse the abundance of choler fleugme from the stomacke It is not good to be taken in Winter for Auicen doeth forbid it but in the spring time or haruest the powder thereof The weight of a french crown mingled with the water of honie or mead and so drunke in the morning it doth cleanse both choler and fleugme There is another grosse aloes which is good for horse tempred with ale and ministred aswell to other great beasts as horses the weight of half an ounce and thus much haue I sayd of aloes but if aloes be cleane washed it is the wholsomer many vnwashed aloes wil cause emerodes Ioh. Is the saffron that groweth in England as good as that that come from the other side of the sea Hum. Our English hony saffron is b●tter than any that commeth from any other strange or forrein land But to thy question of saffron it hath vertue either in bread or pottage to make the heart glad it warmeth the body it preserueth from drūkennes drunke in ale or wine prouoketh acts venerous iuduceth sléepe purgeth vrine Myrre aloes saffron make an excellent pill against the pestilence 2. peny weight of saffron pouder rosted with the yolk of an egge very hard the said yolke beaten in powder 12 graines drinke in mornings is good against the pestilence saffron planten and iuory sodden The decoction drinke helpeth the yellow iaundeys it is drie in the first degrée and hath vertue to restraine Ioh. We plaine men in the country dwel farre from great cities our wiues and children be often sick and at deaths doore wee can not tell what shift to make wee haue no acquaintance with the apothecaries cōmonly we send for aqua vitae or malmesey whatsoeuer our diseases be these be our common medicines or else we send for a box of triacle and when these medicins faile vs we cause a great posset to be made and drink vp the drink thinkest thou these medicines to be good Hum. For lacke of medicine God helpeth the people oftentimes by myracle or else a great number of men should perish But because the almightie God hath couered the whole face of the earth with many precious simples whereof rich co●positions bee made therefore bee neither so rude nor barbarous to thinke these medicines good that thou hast rehearsed for all diseases although not hurtfull to some but because many doe receyue more mischiefe than medicine in counterfeite triacles I shall rehearse vnto thee what Valerius Cordus and others doe write vpon the vertue of the precious triacle called Methridatum Ioh. I would be glad to heare of that precious triacle and his vertues Hum. This excellent triacle Methridatum is next in qualitie and vertue to Theriaca and so differ but little but onely Theriacha is a little hotter and stronger against venom of snakes adders and serpents It helpeth all paines of the head of men or women if it be come of cold most chiefly of melācholie and feare It helpeth megrime falling sicknes and all paines of the forehead dropping of eyes It helpeth toothake paines of the mouth chéekes if it be put in maner of a plaister or else annoint the pained place It helpeth paines of the throte called Squinancie and also cough appoplexia and passion of the lunges and manie grieuous dolors and pains within the bodie drunke with the decoction of the flowers of Pomgranats or Plantine it helpeth and stoppeth flixes in the Ilias and long guts winds or collicke The extention or cramps be

mightie men It maketh men like to monsters with countinaunces like vnto burning coales It dishonoureth noble men and beggereth poore men and generally killeth as many as be slaine in cruell battelles the more it is to be lamented Ioh. What is beere or ale Hum. Ale doth engendre grosse humors in the body but if it be made of good barly mualt and of wholsone water and verie well sodden and stand fiue or sixe daies vntill it be cleare It is verie wholesome especially for hot cholericke folkes hauing hote burning feuers But if Ale bee very sweete and not well sodden in the brewing it bringeth inflammation of winde and choller into the belly If it be very sower it fretteth and nippeth the guts and is euill for the eies To them that be verie flegmaticke ale is verie grosse but to temperat bodies it encreaseth bloud It is partely laxatiue and prouoketh vrine Cleane brewed beere if it be not very strong brewed with good hops clenseth the body from corruption and is very wholsome for the liuer it is an vsuall or common drinke in most places of England which indeede is hurt and made worse with many rotten hops or hoppes dried like dust which commeth from beyond the sea But although there commeth manie good hoppes from thence yet it is knowen that the goodly stilles and fruitfull grounds of England do bring forth to mans vse as good hops as groweth in any place of this world as by proofe I know in many places of the countrey of Suffolke Whereas they brewe their beere with the hoppes that groweth vpon their owne grounds And thus to conclude of ale and beere they haue no such vertue nor goodnes as wyne hath and the sur fetes which be taken of them through drunkennes be worse then the surfetes taken of wyne Knowe this that to drinke ale or beere of an empty stomacke moderatly hurteth not but dooeth good But if one be fasting hungry or empty and drinke much wine it will hurt the sinewes and bringeth crampe sharpe agues and palsies as Auicen Auerois and Rasis saie Ioh. What is bread Hum. The best Bread is made of cleane sweete wheate which groweth in claie ground and maketh but little branne when it is ground light leauened meanely salted and the bread to be baked in an ouen not extremely hot for burning of the bread nor les then meane h●t for causing the bread to be heauie and rawe the lighter the bread is and the more full of holes it is the wholsomer as Auerrois and Rasis saieth And also bread must neither be eaten new baked nor verie stale or old for the one causeth drinesse thirst and smoking into the head troubling the braines and eies through the heate thereof The other drieth the body and bringeth melancholy humours hurting memory The best bread is that which is of a day olde and the loues or manchets may neither be great nor little but meane for the fier in small loues drieth vp the moistnes or vertue of the bread and in great loues it leaueth rawnesse and grosnesse Reade Galen in the properties of bread Sodden bread which be called simnels or cracknelles bee verie vnwholsome and hurteth many one Rie bread is windy and hurtfull to manie therefore it shoulde be well salted and baked with Annis seedes and commonly crustes of bread be verie drie and burneth they doe engender melancholy humours Therefore in great mens houses the bread is chipped and largelye pared and ordynarily is made in brewesse and sosse for dogges which will helpe to feede a great number of poore people but that many be more affectionate to dogges then men Barly bread doth clense coole and make the body leane Ioh. What is rise Hum. There be many opinions in the vertue thereof but I shall stay my selfe with the iudgement of Auicen Rise saith he is hot and drie and hath vertue to stop the belly it doth nourish much if it bee sodden with milke but it ought to be steeped in water a whole night before if blanched Almondes be stamped and with Rosewater streined into them and sodden with cowes milke it is verie nutrimentall Ioh. What be almondes Hum. The bitter Almondes be hotter then the sweete Almondes Drie Almondes be hurtfull the milke of moist Almonds wherein burning steele is quenched stoppeth the flix To eate almondes before meate preserueth against drunkenes Walnuts be wholsome when they be new to bee eaten after fish for they hinder engendring of fleugme Simeon Sethi saith they are hote in the first and drie in the second degree not wholsome before meate Plinie speaking of Metridatis the great king that Pompius found of his owne hand writing that two nuttes and two figges and twenty rewe leaues stamped together with a little salt and eaten fasting doth defend a man both from poison and pestilence that daie Filberdes and hazle nuttes be hard of disgestion ill before meate hurtfull to the head and lunges if they be rosted and eaten with a little pepper they will helpe the running and distillation of rumes Chesnuttes if they bee rosted and eaten with a little hony fasting they helpe the cough if they be eaten raw although they greatly nourrish the brdy yet they be hurtfull for the splene and fill the belly full of winde Nutmegges be very good for colde persons comforteth the sight and memory as Auicen saieth but without doubt Nutmegges doe combust or burne sanguine men and drie vp their bloud and thus much haue I spoken shortly of the vertue of nuttes Ioh. What be cloues galangell and Pepper Hum. They be hote and drie and as Rasis saieth doe comfort colde stomackes and make sweete breath and is good in the meates of them that haue ill disgestion Blacke pepper is hoter then long pepper and doth mightily warme the bodie the grosser it is eaten with fish or frute the better it prouoketh vrine it is hot and drie in the fourth degree therefore they doe erre that saie pepper is hot in the mouth and colde in the stomacke Although pepper be good to them that vse it well yet vnto artificiall women that haue more beastlines then beuty and cannot be content with their natural complexions but would faine be fayre they eate pepper dried corne and drinke vineger with such like bagage to drie vp their bloud and this is the verie cause that a great number though not all fall into weakenes greene sickenesse slinking breathes and oftentimes sodaine death Iohn What is sweete Callamus odoratus Hum. An excellent sweete roote and profitable for men if the poticaries keepe it not vntill it bee rotten it is hote and drie in the beginning to the mides of the second degree it hath power to clense to dry to waste al winds within the body without hurt Galen doth greatly commend the sauour of it They that drinke of this roote sodden in wine shall haue remedie of the white morphew and recouer