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A07669	The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.	Moore, Philip, fl. 1564-1573.	1564 (1564)	STC 18059.5; ESTC S110028	57,968	162

if it be naturall it is leste in quātitie of all humours And it is to bee noted that nature hath appoincted a member in mannes bodie commonlie called the Splene or Milt whiche draweth frō the blood this blacke and yearthlie humoure leste if it should flowe with the bloode in the vaines it would make the colour of the whole bodie blacke as it chaunceth in the blacke Iaundise wherin Melancholie floweth all ouer the bodie with blood in the vaines The splene therfore is ordained by nature to drawe awaie the dregges and thicke residence of the blood The vse and propertie of the Melancholie in mannes body is to nourishe the Splene and to helpe the acciōs and operacions of the stomack for it causeth the stomack to comprehende well in it self meates that are receiued and to retein and kepe them vntill thei be fully digested The colour of natural Melancholie is blacke like yearth it is cold and drie in operacion and sowre in taste These ar the qualities and quantities whiche are naturallie conteined in the humours of mannes bodie But if it so chaunce that any of these humours doe alter by any meanes in quātitie colour substance taste or place then thei cause sicknes little or moche accordyng to the excesse or decrease or malignaunt qualities of the humors declining frō his natural state which for breuitie I let passe ¶ The .vii. Chapiter ¶ Of the complexions of mannes bodie THe auncient Phisicions doe saie that a cōplexion or temperament is nothyng els but a mixture of the fower elementes that is Fire Aire Water and Yearth and thei make .ix. sondrie kindes of complexions one that is temperate and eight that be not temperate whereof fower be simple that is hote or colde or moiste or drie And .iiij. bee compounde that is hote and moiste or colde and moiste hote and drie or cold and drie But soche men as write accordyng to the capacitie or vnderstandyng of the reader thei do sate that a complexion is a mixture of the fower humours in mānes bodie that is Blood Flegme Choler and Melācholie And thei make but fower sondrie complexions according to the nomber of those humoures whiche doctrine of theirs although it be farre inferiour to the other yet it is not vnprofitable but worthie to bée marked of all menne for thereby thei maie haue cause to consider that somme humoure doth abounde more in some one manne then in an other whereby the qualities and disposicions of diuers men are altered It is necessarie therefore for hym that would knowe of what complexion hym selfe or anye other persone is to obserue and marke as well the inward qualities and disposicions of the minde as also the outwarde signes of the body accordinge to the preceptes here nexte insuyng The bodye wherin bloud or ayer hath dominion and preheminen● doth abounde on heate and moisture and it is counted Sanguine of complexion it may be knowen by these signes Mirth iesting familiaritie delight in pastimes Liberalitie and fréenes of harte Simplicitie and meane witte Seldome angrie Pulse great and swifte and full Fleshines of members without fat Prones to carnall luste Largenes and fulnes of the vaines arreries Aboundaunce of ordure and vrine swette without euill sauoure Aptnes to bleding at the nose and flures of bloud and diseases thereof Colour of the face and bodie ruddie mixed with whyte and redde Often dreaminges of bloud and redd thinges without feare Desire of wyne good digestion Vrine reddishe and often grosse Reddishe heare in great abūdaunce The bodie wherin fle●●e or water hath preheminence doth abounde in colde and moisture and it is called ●h●eginatike of complexiō whiche maye be knowē by these signes Forgetfulnes Dulnes of witte sense in learning Slouthfulnesse and hoa●inesse in mouinge Ouermuche stepines Colours of the face bodye white sallow pale or leady Much fatnes without sound fleshe The pulse small slowe seldome softe Reumatike full of spittle swete white and thicke Much moistor comming out at the nose and mouthe Digestiō slowe and weake Appetite of soure sharpe meates Smothe shynne without hears Cowardlines feare Vrine whitish pale thin Swette whitish vnsauery Dreames of waters snow rain c. Whitish hears Delighte in hote things hurt ensuing cold things Vaines smal little apering The bodie wherin Cho●er or Fire hath dominiō doeth abound in heate and drines and is named Cholerike of complexion and it maie be knowen by these signes Rashenes in all thinges quicke witte Subtilitie prodigalitie Irefulnesse boldenesse and hardinesse Desire of reuengement sharpelie Hearines and roughnes Drines and leanesse of the bodie Heare redde Aburne and curled Coloure of the eyes and face yelowe like the iaundise The pulse great swifte and harde The vrine like fine golde in colour or like fire Impatiente with hunger or thirste Drynes of the tunge and roughnes Little filthe in the nose and little spittle Sone very angrie and sone appeased Watching very longe and often Dreaminges of battaill murder fire bloudshed Delight in colde thinges Quicke and strong of digestion Swifte and light of bodie ▪ Often ●nawyng in the mouthe of the stomacke and costiuenes in middellage The bodie wherin Melancholie or yearth hath dominiō doth abounde in coldnesse and drinesse and is named melancholie of complexion it may be knowen by these signes Grauitie and simplicitie Euill disposition so that often thei kill themselues Enuie couetousnes nigardnesse fearfulnesse sorowe weping ▪ kepīg secret cōs●● solitarie wittie constant in opinion Slowe to anger Harde to please after anger Leanesse and roughnesse of the whole bodie Blacknesse or s●artnesse of the face and skinne Heare blacke and plain Pulse slowe little and harde Vrine subc●●ine grenish or 〈…〉 bright and 〈…〉 swearing Oftentimes blacke 〈…〉 dreames of death grauce and soche like Content with small sleping Impatiente of cold By these signes and qualities before rehersed eche man may learne to know of what complexion he is of if he wil diligently cōsider the same And note that it shalbe sufficient to iudge his cōplexiō to be according with y ● humour to which for the moste part his qualities and outwarde signes be agreing and inclining Although all the properties prescribed to the humour doe not agree with him For the disposition of the mynde and also the state of the bodie are oftentimes altered and chaunged from their naturall course sometime to better and some time to worse according to the good or euill education of the partie As among ●●anie this one example doth declare whiche is written of auncient and credible Historiographiers There was sometime in Grece a man which was named Zopirus who by beholding of a mans face could knowe his complexion and iudge his condicions This man beholding Socrates an excellent Philosopher iudged him to be prodigall and vnchast Whiche iudgement whē Socrates familiar frendes had heard thei lawghed Zopirus to scorne because they knewe Socrates to bee moste centinent and

aboue the water and is hote and moiste Then cometh in the fire whiche is the highest the lightest element being hote drie Of these foure elementes according to the sentence of Hipocrates Galene and all other phisitions of that secte nature hath framed and made eche mans bodie So that euery mans body is compact and doth consiste of the foure Elementes whiche are so mixed together by nature that none of them doth remaine simple and pure in mannes body And therefore we oughte not to thinke that pure fyre or water ayre or earth should be conteined in mans body if that he bée made thereof because the elementes are not vnmixed in any liuing creature but like as in a medicine made of waxe pitch rosyn and tallowe when thei are melted together there appeareth neither ware nor pitche nor rosyn nor yet tallowe but a thing cōpounded of their substaūce whiche retaineth their qualities and yet is like none of them Euen so in mans body whiche consisteth of the foure elementes being cōmixed by nature in his generation none of the elementes is to be séen or perceiued simplie and seperatly but there appereth euidently a substaunce commixed and made of the elementes whiche substaunce retaineth in it the qualities of theim and yet is like none of thē It shal be sufficient therfore for him that is not so muche addicte to his senses that he will beleue nothyng but that whiche he ma● see féele or perceine with outwarde senses When he seeth in the body any mēber that is colde and drie and harde as bones gristles or suche like he maye consider that the substaunce of yearth is there where he findeth his qualities as likewise when he seeth bloud moiste and liquid he may perceiue that y e element of water is ther. The great heate that is in a liuing body may put him in minde of the element of fyre Like as also the breath of man may sone persuade him y t the element of ayre is in mans body This example I haue brought furth only to cause a deper consideration of the coniunctiō of the foure elemētes in man 〈◊〉 which although it can not be iudged by outward senses yet is it certainly to be credited that euery member in mans body be it neuer so smal doth consiste of the foure elemētes And therfore the aunciēt Phisitions defineth an element saiyng it to be the lest and moste simple portion of that thinge which it doth constitute and make The cause why the knowledge of y e elemētes is both mete and necessary as well for him that is studious to preserue helth as for the Phisition is that eche of thē may vnderstande that health doth consiste in a naturall temperature of heate colde drynes and moisture And contrariwyse that disease chaunce to the body by distempure of the said foure qualities of the elemētes for nature hath geuē to euery member of the body in the time of generation a moste mete apt temperaturefrom whiche if any member doe decline in heate colde drynes or moisture there followeth some disease in that member whiche is consequent to the qualitie abounding or waunti●● ¶ The. iiii Chapiter ❧ Of the difference of partes in mans bodie THough the partes of mās body be mani in nombre yet thei at comprehended in a fewe diuisions Note therfore that there be some partes of the body that be called in Latine Simdares partes that is to sate soche partes as being deuided eche pece is like the whole parte may well be called by the same denomination and name As for example the least peace of fleshe is to be called fleshe as the whole member from whiche it was seperate And these following be commonly called Similari or like partes that is fleshe bones sinues gristles filmes ligamēts vaines arteries and suche like Some other partes in the body be called in Latine Instrumentales or dissimilares partes that is instrumentalles and vnlyke partes and s●che members are compoūded and doe consiste of the saied similarie and like partes As the head the hande the foote and such other members that are compact of bones sinues flesh vaynes other aforenamed Note also that of instrumentall members there be two sortes whereof they that bee of the firste sorte be called principall members And they are foure in nombre that is to saye the brayne the harte the liuer and the stones And these are called principal mēbers because without the three first no man may liue And without the last the generatiō of mankinde should cease ▪ All other instrumentarie members besides these foure are lesse principall and are to be coumpted of the second sorte Note moreouer that to y ● aforesaid foure principall members there he foure ministers or hādmaydes that is senues arteries vaines and sparmatike vessels whereof senues serueth for the brayne Arteries for the harte vaynes serue for the lyuer and sparmatike vessels for the stones Thus muche haue I spoken for the generall difference of members in mans body As for the knowledge of special or particular differences of eche parte of euery member I referre the Reader to bookes of Anatomies ¶ The. v. Chapiter ❧ Of the offices and powers of members in mans body THe facultie vertue or power y ● nature hath graffed in any mēber is the cause from whence the action doing or working ▪ of that member procedeth springeth It behoueth vs therefore firste to serche out what faculties there be in the body that thereby the operations of members may appeare Note that there be three diuerse faculties or powers whiche doe gouerne the whole body of mā And they be called in Latin Animalis facultas vitalis naturalis that is the animal power the vitall and the naturall power And these three faculties be engraffed doe proceade from the thre first principal members that we haue made me●●●● of in the former chapiter that is from the braine the harte and the liuer from whiche members all other partes of the body receiue their force and vertue For in the braine consisteth the facultie and power animall whiche is deriued sent from thēse by synowes that syring there into al partes of the bodie g●uing sense and mouing throughout the bodie and increasing wit And therfore it is to bee noted that there be three sundrie actions or operations that proceade from this facultie into diuerse partes of the body The first action whereof the power animall is cause is outward sense and that is done 〈◊〉 maner of wayes that to by seing hearing smelling tasting and feling The second action is volūtarie mouing of any mēber wherby a man may moue any member of his body when he will and state it at his pleasure as the mouing of the legge the arme the head the tounge and suche like The thirde action is inwarde sense and wit or vnderstanding and it is called in Latine Princeps It