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A69834	Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...; Technē iatrikē. English	Galen.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7517; Wing G159; ESTC R22670	55,815	130

which keeps his Court in the Spleen Thus you see how Elements Complexions and Humors are subservient the one to other even as the Spirit Soul and Body are if we may reason a minore ad ma●u● in the Microcosm 5. Me●b●●s or Limbs are Simple or Compound Principal or Subservient First Simple Members are 1. Bones 2. Cartilages 3. Ligaments 4. Veins 5. Arteries 6. Nerves 7. Tendons 8. Panides 9. Fat 10. Flesh 11. Skin Secondly Compound Members are 1. Head 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Lungs 5. Legs 6. Arms 7. Hands Thirdly Principal Members are 1. Brain 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Testicles Fourthly Members Subservient are 1. Nerves to carry the Animal Spirit 2. Arteries to carry the Vital Spirit 3. Veins to carry the Natural Spirit 4. Spermatick Vessels to carry the Procreative Spirit 6. Vertues are that whereby these act the Body and they are Vital Natural and Animal I forbear writing of them there being a Treatise of them Astrologo Physically handled by me already at the latter end of my Ephemeris for 1651. 7. Operations of these upon the Body of man are First The Animal Vertue causeth 1. Imagination Apprehension Fancy Opinion Consent c. in the two former Ventricles of the Brain 2. Judgment Esteem Reason Resolution Disposing Discerning in the middle Ventricle of the Brain 3. Calling to mind what is to come Remembrance of what is past in the hinder Ventricle of the Brain Secondly The Vital Vertue moveth 1. Joy Hope Mirth Singing by dilating the Heart 2. Sadness Sorrow Fear Sighing c. by compressing the Heart Thirdly The Natural Vertue 1. Altereth Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood and Humors Blood into Flesh 2. Joyneth formeth ingendreth encreaseth and nourisheth the Body of Man And now you see what Galen intends by a Healthful Body namely such a one where all these keep a good and orderly decorum CHAP. 5. Of a Body Vnhealtbful 1. A Body is simply unhealthful which is born mutilated by Nature as wanting some Members or some Operations or sences that is not perfect in respect of those Seven Natural things before mentioned as that cannot See Hear or Smel or is a Fool c. 2. According to time a Body is unhealthful that is at present sick in Body or distemper'd in mind or his Body broken or bruised in any part of it whether internal or external that hath an accidental distemper in any of the seven Natural things This is so cleer it needs no Comment CHAP. 6. Of a Body Neutral THis as we told you before carries a threefold signification 1. As things partake of either extremety swerving from the Rules of Healthfulness 2. As they partake of both of them together equally 3. As somtimes the one exceeds somtimes the other in resp●ect of time 1. Taken in the first Sence it is an exquisite medium between healthful and unhealthful Bodies And that First Naturally or Simply as many people are born of unhealthful or sickly Constitutions so that the Nativity as a cause produceth such an effect in every age Secondly According to time when the Body is neither perfectly in Health nor yet sick such a one as the proverb saith Is neither sick enough to lie in Bed nor well enough to follow his Imployment 2. Taken in the Second Sence A Neutral Body is such a Body as partakes of diverse contrary qualities either in one part of the Body or in diverse when there is an opposition between them and this concerns either the Formation of the Body or the Endowments of the mind or temperature of the parts when one contrary appears healthful the other unhealthful and this also 1. As it appears generally in al the ages of the Life 2. As it appears but particularly at some certain times 3. Taken in the third Sence it is when the ages of a mans Life Differ in respect of Health and Sickness as a man may be healthful in his Childhood and unhealthful in his youth and the contrary viz. sickly in his infancy and healthful in Youth c. Culpepers Comment The First of these needs no explanation the other two are somthing Obscure as in the second Galen saith a man may partake of contrary qualities in the formation of the Body Viz. A man may have a H●ad too big and feet as much too little a man may have a Nose exceeding the common bigness and Eyes as much less than the common proportion and the like 2. In the Endowments of mind as thus A man may have a very good Apprehension yet a bad Memory a man may have very good Judgment in ordering a Battel and yet be a Coward 3. In the temperature of the parts the Liver may be ●oo hot and yet the Brain too cold you may understand the rest by these examples which are sufficient to explain Galens meaning To the third When the Ages of a mans Life differ in respect of health and sickness saith Galen which is no more than thus to give you one example A Childs Body or any part thereof may be too hot by reason of sucking a Chollerick Woman in youth either the whol Body or the same part of it may be too cold imagine the Liver Brain or the like it may be too hot in Manhood too cold in Age or the contrary to these Thus much for Bodies we come now to unfold the Signs CHAP. 7. Of SIGNS OF these some indicate present health others proclaim health to come a third sort put us in mind of health past In the same manner likewise some unhealthful Signs shew present Sickness others give fair warning that sickness is coming other indications call to our remembrance the sickness past Imagine the like by Neutrals some shew a present Neutral condition foreshew it coming call it to mind being past and shew a disposition as well healthful as sickly The use of the First and Second of these is admirable the last is not so absolutely useful And thus have we shewed you what Signs are we come to treat of them particularly CHAP. 8. Signs of a very good Constitution OF these some are deduced from the Reason or Essential Cause thereof or from necessary consequen which follow such operations and cases of which the first are called Essential the othe● Accidental Such as are Essentially of good Constitution are such in whose Bodies heat coldness driness and moisture are equally tempered the Instruments of the Bodie are composed in every part of due bigness number place and Formation Culpeper I shall here for the benefit of yong Students intermix my Comment with the Text Whereas Galen saith a good Constitution consists of heat cold driness and moisture equally tempered you must not imagine they are so all over the Body but according to place for the Heart is and should be hotter than the Brain c. but each part exceeds not its due proportion in these the Brain is not hotter colder drier nor moister than it should be judg so by the Heart

somtimes another help Therefore seeing in these very intentions some causes are Healthful we will make some repetition of what belongs to our purpose when the Air is temperate to a Body of the best Constitution a moderate quantity both of meat and drink sleeping and watch motion and rest c. is convenient but when the Air is distemper'd you must vary the rest accordingly that so the Body may neither shake for cold nor sweat for heat as for motion when your body begins to be weary leave off exercise the quantity of food is known by the perfectness of digestion and the excrements avoided ought to be according to the quantity of the food taken in for a good Nature appetites no more than it concocts and the contrary shews a failing in Nature also Nature when it is strong is able to set bounds to sleep and when the Body needs no more the man wakes there is no failing in the Excrements of Urine Dung c. and if you consider this but well you may easily see such a man is not easily moved by affections of the mind viz. Anger sadness fury fear envy c. for these alter the Body from its natural state Culpeper Although what Galen here saith be plain and as true as plain yet for the Benefit of yong Students I shall explain him a little in his six things not Natural for indeed the right course of preserving health consists principally in the right use of these They are as we told you 1. Air 2. Meat and Drink 3. Sleeping and Watching 4. Excrements of the Body 5. Exercise and Rest. 6. Affections of the Mind Of all these in Order and that so plain that a Child may understand it that can but reade his Pater-noster The first part consists in Air in which consider 1. Its Temperature 2. Its Difference 3. Its Quality 4. Its Scituation 5. How it alters our Bodies 6. Its Utility or Profit First Air for its Temperature 1. Considered in it self is cold and moist but not so moist as cold for it produceth the coldest effects to mortals viz. Snow and Ice and is indeed the coldest Element 2. Considered by accident as it participates of the reflective Beams of the Sun it is hot and moist and at some times far hotter and far moister than at other some and so we are here to consider it Secondly The Differences of Air are two 1. Good and Temperate 2. Evil and Intemperate Thirdly The Quality of the Air is altered two waies and it must then you will confess alter the Body as many 1. By the Region as it is well or evil tempered and that 's the reason Agues are so rife in Fenny Countries 2. By the wind and so 1. The East Wind is hot and dry attractive blasting 2. West Wind cold and moist expulsive 3. South Wind hot and moist putrefactive 4. The North Wind cold and dry retentive Fourthly Scituation of the place alters the Air For 1. Stony ground is cold and dry 2. Sandy ground hot and dry 3. Fenny ground cold and moist 4. Woody and fat Land hot and moist Fifthly The Body of man may be altered by the Air three waies 1. By the Quality of the Air which alters the Body in respect of Region Wind and Scituation of place 2. By the substance of the Air which 1. Being gross thick or cloudy makes fat Bodies and dull Wits 2. Being pure and cleer makes nimble Bodies and quick Wits 3. By snddain change of Air for when sickly people go out of a bad Air into a good they find themselves the worse for the present because Nature abhors all suddain changes Sixthly The profit and operations of the Air upon the Body of man are these 1. It helps to engender both Vital and Animal Spirit 2. It cools the Heart by Inspiration 3. It is the Author of Life Diseases and Death to mortal men and women Meat and Drink was noted to be the second part to be handled in which consider 1. Their Quantity 2. Their Quality 3. Custom 4. Order 5. Time 6. Age First The Quantity of Food must be considered 1. According to the substance of the meat whether hard or easie of Digestion 2. According to the Quality of the Food whether hot cold dry or moist in temper and in each whether they be moderate or immoderate 3. According to the Complexion of the Eater of which we shewed you plentifully before Secondly The Quality of the Food is to be considered 1. As it is good or evil 2. As it is hot cold dry or moist in Operation and in all these whether it be temperately meanly or extreamly so 3. As they nourish much or little 4. As they make Juyce thick or thin watry or gross mean or temperate Thirdly As for Custom in eating and drinking 1. It must be well regarded 2. It is like another Nature 3. It makes bad meats to some better than good meats 4. Such meats as please the Pallats of the Eaters best are usually soonest digested but not alwaies 5. If Custom be bad and must be best do it 1. By degrees 2. In time of health if possible Fourthly In treating of the order of eating and drinking I shall take them apart and so speak of them severally For Meat 1. If the Body be bound eat first such Meats as mollifie if loose such as are astringent 2. Slippery meats eaten first are subject to draw down others indigested 3. Restrictive meats eaten first are subject to hinder such from digestion as are eaten afterwards and thereby cause them to putrefie in the Stomach 4. If you consider the two former Aphorisms you may easily find the reason of the first For Drink 1. Accustom your Body to drink as little as may be between Meals 2. Drink not at all at meals before you have eaten somthing 3. Drink the smallest Beer first and the strongest afterwards and this though it be contrary to the Opinion of all Galenists yet it is synonimous so the truth it self and therefore a Cup of Wine drunk after Meals is wholsom for Ancient People and such as are in a Consumption 4. Drink often at Meals whether you be a thirst or not for that 1. helps digestion 2. mingles the meat in the Stomach 3. helps it to pass its Chyle Fifthly Time of eating regard 1. The Time of the yeer for Winter requires more Meat though less Drink than Summer because the Stomach is then hottest 2. Time of the day and as neer as you can keep the same time of eating Sixthly As for Age 1. Children should 1. Eat meats moderately hot and moist because their Natural temper is so let our Physitians in their Rachites prate their pleasure 2. Let them eat often 3. Let them drink no Wine 2. Yong Men 1. May eat cool Herbs 2. Must eat meats colder moister and of grosser substance 3. Drink but little Wine 4. Use all things in respect of Diet according to Complexion Exercise and Custom 3. Old

I am now come to my last point Affections of the Mind and they are but two Content and Discontent In Content consider 1. What it is 2. Its Effects 3. Its Differences First By Content I mean such affections as are pleasing to the Nature of Man as Hope Joy Lové Mirth c. Secondly By their Effects 1. They dilate the Heart and Arteries 2. They distribute both Vital and Natural Spirit throughout the Body 3. They comfort and strengthen not only the parts of the Body but also the Mind and that in all their actions Thirdly Their Differences are two and no more 1. Moderation which comforts both Body and Mind 2. Immoderation which hurts both Body and Mind First By Discontent I mean such affections as disturb the Body as Anger Hatred Fear for things to come Care for things past Sorrow Grief of Mind c. Secondly The Effects of it are 1. They devert the Vital heat from the Circumference to the Center thereby consuming the Vital Spirits drying the Body and causing Leanness 2. They are forerunners of Evil 3. They are Destroyers Overthrowers and Murderers both of Body and Mind 4. They hasten old Age and death by consuming Radical Moisture Thus much for my Comment upon this Chapter which if it light into the Hands of a wise man I have written enough if of a Fool too much Chap. 86. Of Venereals THe Opinion of Epicurus was that it was Unhealthful for man to come to the School of Venus but indeed and in truth the Exercise is beneficial if a due interval of time be observed And this you may know if the man find himself the better and not the worse after the Act. As for the time to such business Let not the Body be too full nor too empty too hot nor too cold too dry nor too moist and if you must err in in one of these err as little as you can And because usually errors are in such case let the Body be rather hot than cold full than empty moist than dry Before you come to the School of Venus go to the School of Mars namely Exercise your Body before you take councel of the under sheet and so exercise it that you do not tire it If your Constitution be good you need not fear the Exercise of your Constitution can be otherwaies If there be deficiency in your Body it is no wonder if you reade it in your Child We have given you notice how you may know the deficiencies of your own Body and we have spoken of them severally in other Works of ours If the Temperature of the Body differ from Health the effects of the same Temperature must differ as much from the desired end and in that take a few Rules to help your selves Hot Bodies desire hot Nourishments cold Bodies cold Nourishments dry Bodies dry Nourishments and moist Bodies moist Nourishments and the reason is because every like is maitained by his like Therefore Whereas Motion want of Nourishment Watching a Loosness and Discontent dry the Body and procure Diseases thence coming the contrary to these moisten the Body for likes rejoyce in their likes and keep the Bodies in their Temperature and this we speak concerning Bodies Healthful The inequality of these is the breach of Health in the Body of man the way to correct which we have spoken of before only somthing we shall now ad If the Body be offended by much Idleness we ought to correct it by Exercise but this is to be done by degrees for Nature abhors all sudden change Understand the like by a Body weakned by too much Exercise as also by other things not natural which we spake of in the last Chapter Also it may so come to pass that the Stomach may be colder than it ought to be and yet the Brain at the same time hotter than its due temper in such a case you must remedy them both with Medicines proper for them Do the like by other parts of the Bodie when they are hotter colder drier or moister than they ought to be Culpeper By what means to do this you have before in my Comment Chap. 87. Of Healthful Causes of the Instrumental Parts AS concerning Healthful Causes of the Instrumental parts of the Body some consist in want of error in Formation others in want of error in Magnitude Number and Scituation In Formation many errors happen both in the fashion of the part and if there be any Cavity in it when it differs from the Golden Mean in the Passage Mouth Roughness or Smooth●ess these if they differ but little from what naturally they ought to be may deserve the appellation of Healthful but if much they may safely be called Unhealthful but if the difference be so great that the part cannot perform its operation it may truly be said to be sick Also difference must be made in the Quantity of the Defect as also in the Number whether one or mo●● or how many of the parts be deficient as also what the Scituation of the deficient part is The Differences then of these are four 1. Such whose Instrumental parts are in a due Decorum 2. Such as differ but little from it and therefore may also be called Healthful 3. Such as differ more and therefore are Unhealthful 4. Such as differ most and therefore are sick As for such Members as offend in Figure or fashion viz. such as are crooked or the like while the Child is yet yong and tender they may be reduced to their Natural habit by binding or such like means but when once the Child is grown up and the parts hardened 't is impossible to reduce them and indeed all errors in the Body are easier to be amended whilst the Body grows than afterwards for then according to the Opinion of most Phyfitians there is no place left for Remedy As for such Members as exceed their due proportion in bigness may be reduced by resting and convenient binding of them also Members may be encreased by motion and moderate rubbing for that calls the Blood to the place All defective parts which have their Original through Blood are not impossible to be corrected or restored but such parts of the Body as are Spermatical or have their Original by Seed are either altogether impossible to be restored or very neer the point although a callous matter grow in their places which performs the same office they did In all these Nature is the Work-woman and the Physitian but her Servant Also somtimes two or three Vices may accompany one and the same Part as in him that we told you before that had a smal and round Stomach and neer the Diaphragma for in him both Magnitude Formation and Scituation were depraved and the greatest Artificialness in the world could never bring this to a natural habit for if his Stomach were never so little full difficulty of breathing followed therefore his only Remedy was to take little meat and drink at a time and