the Sea nor the fish upon the land nor your nature continue long in an unnatural way against her self Are you composed of natural principles and will you not live conformable to what you are do you not live by natures assistance and natural means and do you think to continue long in a Counter-motion against the nature of your Composition they that invert natures course preposterously promiscuously in congruously using the necessary conservatives of life not onely are deprived of their benefit but also receive a positive hurt disordering the constant regular motions in the body and discomposing the harmonious and sociable temperaments of the parts There is a rule therefore method measure and season in all the requisite supports and auxiliary helps belonging and necessary unto life or lawful actions and customes whatsoever which duely observed are of much advantage for the preservation of the body in its true natural state vigour and prolongation of being but other wise a methodically and inordinately used disturbs natures course uniformity and regularity of operations raiseth unnatural motions commotions and cessations introduceth disorders and disjoynes the frame of nature accelerates and hastens the dissolution of the body The Impediments of long Life AN infirme and weak constitution from the Wombe derived from tender imbecile and infirm parents Irregular and unfit tractation of Infants whose tender bodies are soon discomposed and disordered by bad Nurses their erronious customes and the ill proprieties of their milk Noxious and intemperate Aire Irregular eating and drinking Immoderate and unseasonable exercise motion or labour Too much or unfit rest Sleeping and waking in extreams Immoderate Venus Undue excretion and retention of Excrements Inordinate passions and perturbations of mind All unnecessary and bad customes Hygiastic Precautions and Rules for the preservation of Health and prolongation of life Of Aire AIre is so necessary to life that without it we cannot subsist which surrounding us about and being continually suckt and drawn in must needs affect the body with its conditions and properties and by observation you may finde the body by the various constitutions and changes in the air to be variously affected well and ill disposed of which infirme parts are most sensible that they prognosticate before an alteration come the minde also by the mediation of the spirits is drawn into consent and hath its dispositions and variations when the Aire is close thick and moist the spirits are more dull heavy and indisposed but at the appearance of the Sun and a serene sky the spirits are unfettered vigorous and active the minde more cheerful airy and pleasant The Spirits are of an aetherial nature and therefore do much sympathize with the present constitution and change of air for of the air drawn in by the motion of the vital parts are the vital spirits augmented supplied continually by the peculiar ferment and operation of the heart therefore the pureness of the aire makes much for the purity of the spirits A gross impure and noisome aire obtunds and deads the spirits makes a slow pulse obstructs the pores and hinders ventilation generates superfluous humors and causeth putrefaction A serene sweet thin Aire perfumes and purifies an unwholsome body cherisheth the heart makes a lively pulse and much encreaseth the vital spirits rarifies and volatizeth a gross coagulate blood opens the pores for transpiration of putrid and offensive vapours acuates and sharpens the appetite and helps digestion The best aire and most agreeable to temperate bodies is in temperate climates for heat cold wet and dry not subject to sudden and violent changes as in some parts of America and other Countries very frequent not gross and turbulent infected with putrid vapours and noxious exhalations from stinking ditches Lakes Boggs Carrions Dunghills Sinks and Vaults for which causes great Cities and the adjacent places are not so healthful nor the people so long liv'd Change of Aire somtimes is very necessary for the conservation of health the recovery of it declining and lost for temperate bodies by an intemperate aire shall gradually and in time become intemperate intemperate bodies by the contrary intemperate Aire shall be reduced to temperature at least shall conduce much and be very Auxiliary for the reduction Therefore bodies declining from exact temperature are best preserved in that Aire opposite to their declensions as Cholerick hot and dry bodies in a moist and coole aire Phlegmatick cold and moist bodies in a dry and warme Aire It is not therefore of small moment in what place you live and more especially such who labour of or are more subject to any pectoral infirmity for the Lungs being of so tender a substance and porous continually drinking in the aire is most apt to receive impressions from it according to the qualities it is pregnant with and infested and many diseases of the breast arise from this sole cause and many exasperated by it and continued hence it is Asthmatick Phthisical and Consumptive persons shall not be cured in some places but may have cure in another Be cloathed according to the Clemency season and temperature of the Aire your age and habit of body leane and thin bodies pervious corpora rarae texturae and whose skin are loose and lax may wear thicker cloathing because such are more perspirable do magis emittere transpirare and are also more penetrable and subject to injury of the Aire Fat and fleshy people and whose bodies are solid firm and hard are more impenetrable and impervious and may wear thinner Garments Infants and children lately cherished in the stove of the wombe being of tender soft bodies and porous are easily exposed to the prejudice of the Aire Vigorous youth and middle age being accustomed to all weathers whose spirits abounding do strongly resist and keep out the assaults and injuries of an offensive Aire may best indure hardship Old age whose natural heate is abated and spirits exhausted stands in need of good defensatives against external cold and to cherish internal heat Observe the seasons and changes of the Aire and be then most careful for at such times you are in most danger to exchange health for sickness hence it is that Spring and Autumne abounds most with diseases the Air then assuming new qualities opposite to its former constitution sets new impressions upon our bodies which occasions the various aestuations and turgid fermenting of humours producing divers symptomes according to the variety of their nature the organical difference office and constitution of the several parts The Sun being risen and the aire clear open your Chamber-windowes that the fresh Aire may perfume your Room and the close Aire and inclosed vapours may go forth Bad smells and putrid vapours being drawn in with the Aire are very injurious to the Lungs and vital parts contaminating the spirits and impressing upon the ferment of those parts their tetrid nature are oftentimes the original of a Consumption and if the Lungs be weak and infirme are more apt to
tosted cheese tosted bread especially if it be scorched crusts pye crust bread not well baked unleavened meats over baked hard and dry long kept meats rosted dry or scorched Light meats and of quicker digestion be such as are more soft and tender rare as it is opposed to density therefore sooner penetrated by the stomachicall ferment succulent volatile soon fermenting and yeilding to digestion As young tender flesh veal young mutton lamb kid pullet capon chicken conies turky pheasant patridge plover woodcock snite heath cocks railes small birds whiting smelt bister flownder soles plaise thornback maids turbut shrimps prawnes trout carp pike bream perch roches daces loches â—ere eggs milk wheat bread white light and well baked also oaten bread well made and these may be divided into two sorts that â—s meats very light as rere eggs sucking rabbits chickens whitings and meats indifferent light as mutton lambe veale Very light meats are soon digested apt to be corrupted breeds tender and effeminate bodies soft and loose flesh easily lost solid strong meats are slower in digestion not easily corrupted slow in distribution makes strong bodies firm hard flesh and durable Use not meats that hath any quality in extreame as very salt very hot sower binding or the like but keep to those that are mode rate Let your bread be of wheat leavened wel kneaded and baked light and white which you may eat new but not hot nor staler then two days old and chuse the crumb rather then the crust Seasonings of meat are used either as preservatives to keep them from putrefaction and decay or as correctives to alter and change some ill quality and promote digestion or for delight to gratify the pallate as sugar salt vinegar mustard peper cloves and other spices Meat moderately salted having time to digest ferment volatize and aâ—â—er the crude qualities is better and wholesomer then fresh 〈◊〉 but to eat salt at the table is not so good if the condition of the meat be such as to allow 〈◊〉 praevious digestion and seasoning Salt is grateful to the pallate and stomack excites the appetite concocts crude flegmatick matter that lies upon the stomack hinders putrefaction and is abstersive but immoderately used corrodes and frets causeth itching and breakings out very bad for thin lean bodyes it heats and dryes the blood and radical moisture Sugar in a temperate clean body moderately used nouâ—sheth and is good but in a soul body is soon corrupted degenerates and makes the body more impure turns to choler and inflames cholerick hot bodies The freequent and immoderate use in any obtunds and abates the appetite causeth putrid humors and makes an unwholesome body Vinegar and sower juces as of lemmon verjuce and the like procure appetite and help the stomack in digestion of grosser meats but the immoderate and frequent use cooles dries constringeth and bindes the body hurtful to the nerves and nervous parts very bad for women and those that are subject to the Gout Asthmaes and stoppings in the breast or in other parts and for lean dry bodies Mustard quickens the appetite warmes the stomack dries up superfluous moisture helps the stomack in digesting hard meats opens stoppings in the breast and head Mace ginger nutmeg peper and cloves they help a cold stomack comfort the heart and brain refresh the spirits by their aromatical odour are grateful upon the pallate and very acceptable to phlegmatick cold bodies In the use of the forementioned I shall give this caution that young stomacks and strong healthy bodies which need not a spur to their appetite nor a help to digestion that they frequent not the use of these seasonings and sauces but reserve them for age deficiency of stomack and other infirmities for if you accustome your self to them in youth and strength to please your pallate and intice your stomack there being no need when the condition of your body does require them you shall not finde that benefit and assistance from them which otherwise you might have expected and received had you forborn the use of them when it was not necessary When you come to Meate leave your care and business but bring in your friend and be as merry as you can mirth and good company is a great help to a dull stomack both for appetite and digestion Eate not presently after exercise and when you are hot but forbear until the spirits be retired and setled in their stations Eat not hastily but chew your meat well t is a good preparation for concoction and your stomack will more easily and sooner digest it but if it be half chewed the stomack musthave the labour to chew it over again with its incisive ferment Liquid meats soluble and lighter of digestion eate first the more solid last and that which hath any astriction Drink a little and oft at meat to macerate and digest especially if your meat be dry and solid and to help distribution of aliment but great draughts causeth fluctuations To stand or walk softly after meat is good the stomack then being distended is not compressed of any part which sitting does not so well avoid but hasty motion opens the orifice of the stomack precipitates and vitiates digestion Forbear reading writing study or serious cogitations for two hours after meat else you draw off from the stomack abate the strength of digestion and injure the brain Omit a meale sometimes it acuates and sharpens the stomack concocts crudities and makes the next meale relish better Eate no late suppers nor variety at once a good stomack may endure it for a while but the weaker is more sensible of the injury the best is prejudiced in time Keep a sufficient distance between your times of eating that you charge not the stomack with a new supply before the former be distributed and passed away and in keeping such a distance your stomack will be very fit and ready to receive the next meale the former being wrought off perfectly no semidigested crude matter remaining to commix with the next food and that is one cheif cause of crudities and a foule stomack when a new load is cast in before the former be gon off which begets much excrements not much aliment clogs the body and procures diseases The stomack that is empty receives closeth and embraceth food with delight will be eager and sharp in digestion and the body will attract and suck the aliment strongly each part as it passeth along will perform its office readily and sufficiently which they will not do if often cloyed with depraved and indigested aliment but slowly and with reluctancy for although they do not act by reason yet they have a natural instinct or endowment to discern their proper and fit object Drink for necessity not for bad fellowship especially soon after meate which hinders the due fermentation of the stomack and washeth down before digestion be finished but after the first concoction if you have a hot stomack a dry or costive body you
of madness which fires the spirits raiseth an intestine tomult and disturbance agitates and inrageth Choler and exasperates Cholerick diseases raiseth hystericall apoplectic and epileptic fits in those subject to them causeth tremblings of the nerves palpitations of the heart discomposeth and disorders the whole body but more especially infirm parts are made sensible of the prejudice and Cholerick lean bodies Maximum remedium irae est dilatio Dis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet qui facta rependet Consilio Claud. FEar suddenly surprizing enervates and chaseth the spirits to and fro from their residency and faculties sometimes compressing and driving them to the heart causing violent palpitations and suffocation or scattring them from the fountain of life into the external parts making a dissolution even to exanimation A long predmeditated and constant fear in a remisse degree produceth the same effects with Melancholly Plura sunt quae nos terrent quam quae Premunt saepius opinione quam relaboramus LOve desire being inordinate and impetuous seldom goes alone but is attended with fear anger Melancholy dispaire one or more for its consorts with which the minde is racked and torn and variously affected as the several passions acts their parts by turns notwithstanding difficulties and sufferings the soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal deserts her own mansion and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying never at home but as a prisoner and prisoners are but bad house keepers the body needs must languish and decay when the soul thus delights and strives to run away For a check to the impetuousness of this inordinate effection and immoderate desire take these considerations to calm allay and regulate your passion First that you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affections and lay out more in expectation then the income of your desire obtained can possibly make a return that it is far greater in non habendo then it will be in fruendo it will be much less when you have then it seems to be now you have it not Secondly that the Delirium and fervency of your desire does not hasten the accompishment of your aymes but rather retards or frustrates for the extremity and strength of passion debilitates and suppresseth reason the cheif contriver and manager of your design puts you upon inconsiderate immature and rash attempts and makes you more unfit incapable and unable to effect your purpose for passion is alwayes spurring but reason hath its stops and pauses keeps due times for onsets and progress Thirdly that prudent and vigorous action not innane hungry volition or thirsty desire though never so great must or can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes Fourthly that the ardency and heighth of desire will not imbetter sweeten or add to the heighth of your injoyment when obtained but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem for what thing soever you purchase and are mistaken and deceived in you will not vallue at that rate you first prized it but at the worth you now finde it Vehement lofty desires screws you up to such a heighth of expectation mountain high but you must descend into fruition that 's in the valley and when you find your self in a bottom and your Sails not so filled and puft as formerly by the fresh gailes and blasts of a strong desire your top-sails then begin to flap and flag when you come into the still calm of fruition and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lower amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of injoyment for in appearance it was great when at a distance seemingly but now you are come nearer it is much less and inconfiderable really and what swelled you full in the prosecution of attaining will not fill you now with satisfaction but prove aery when you grasp it and soon emptied in injoyment Thirdly that statutum est it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing desired which to a rational creature is sufficient without other arguments to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire and curb the violence of an impetuous affection but not to cowardise daunt or stop a laudible active prosecution to attain a noble vertuous and lawful end with a moderate submissive desire quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit Sen. Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum Serò recusat ferre quod subiit jugum CAre immoderate and constant denies the animal spirits their due times for refreshment rest and ease disables them from duty and the true performance of their Offices being weary and tired for want of respite heats the spirits and dryes the radical moisture which changeth a fresh countenance into paleness and pines the body most injurious to thin lean and Cholerick bodies Si diis Curae es quid tua cura potest Revenge jealousie and envy are the Ulcers of the mind continually lancinating corroding or inflaming introducing a secret consumption wasting the spirits and radical moisture and infeebling all the faculties Multis se injuriis objicit dum una dolet Sen. That you may the better know and rightly understand how the passions of the mind redound and reflect upon the body to the decay and rune of it and abbreviating life First consider that the body without the soul â—s dead and moves not at all by vertue of the â—oules conjunction with it informing and assuming it the body acts with various motions and opperations and according to the activity â—f the soul organical aptitude and fitness of the â—ody is the exquisiteness and perfection of their â—perations the Soul then is agent the body assive receiving the influx vertue and power â—rom the Soul who is Rectrix and Gubernatrix â—o whom the rule and government belongs it 〈◊〉 evident therefore since the body cannot act â—ny thing of it self for its conservation withâ—ut the energy and assistance from the Soul whose care is the regulating and moderating the body in all actions external and internal then the distractions inactivity wandrings and neglects of the soul does tend to the subversion of the due order and government and consequently the ruine and dissolution of the body which requires a constant supply of daily reparation and regular tuition for its support and maintenance Now the Soul transported by passion from its genuine Crasis of placidness and tranquility and reduced into a turbulent unquiet and distempered state is that condition of incapacity and unfitness for the government for that time being and many damages arise thereby as in each passion particularly is enumerated In a threefold manner the Soul is put besides it self in the regularity of rectory and is incurious of the welfare of the body First the Soul is either carried away by some delightful object as for some thing vehemently desired deserting as it were the body to follow after that thing
but generally the body is to be accounted in a better or worse state and condition as the humor issuing is better better or worse thin sharp bloody or fowle smelling strong or stincking much in quantity declare the body to be cacochymical and foul the humors depraved and degenerate and require the issue to be continued but the matter issuing white resonable thick sweet little in quantity and not sharp causing pain nor inflamation about the place are good signes and shew soundness of body the humors to be in their natural condition amicable and friendly to the body and permit an Issue to be closed up but let due purgation immediately succeed and a spare dyet BELLUM NECESSARIUM SIVE MEDICUS BELLIGERANS The Military or Practical Physician reviewing his ARMORY Furnished with Medicinal Armature and Weapons offensive and defensive Anatomically fitted and appropriate To the Head Capital Pills Cephalic essence Lungs Pectoral Electuary Balsamic Extract Heart Cordial Tincture Bezoardic Confection Stomack Stomack Pills Digestive Elixir Spleen Mesentery and Liver Cachectic Fills Scorbute Tincture Hydropic Pills Hydropic Powder Guts Aperitive Powder Retentive Powdex Reins and Bladder Nephritic Extract Nephritic Powder Dysuretic Powder Genital Parts Restaurative Essence Hysterical Pills Expulsive Powder Restringent powder Joynts Arthritic Pills Skin Cosmetic Water Powder of Saturn Miscellaneous Italick Pills Neapolitan Pills Haematic Powder Febrific Elixir Sarcotic Pills Sudorific Pills Sympathetic powder Issue Cerecloth The Vertues use and Doses of each Medicine For the Head THE Capital Pills are appointed for infirmities of the brain and nerves and evacuates noxious humours that molest and hinder the exercise of the rational faculty or obstruct and impedite the free operation of the sensitive whereby the animal spirits are alleviated the ventricles of the brain and organs for sence freed from obstructions Conducing much to the cure of infirmities afflicting the head and nerves as lethargies apoplexy and soporiferous diseases Convulsions epilepsy palsies vertigoes tremors pains of the head rhumes dul sight or hearing Take them after your first sleep or halfe the dose when you go to bed the rest at 5 or 6 of the clock next morning in so doing you will not be called up before your due time to rise When you are up drink some warm posset-drink and walk about the house Eat at noon thus do 3 or 4 dayes together for they operate gently The Dose for men and women is 5 or 6 Pills for 14 years old 4 Pills The Cephalic essence is specifickly appropriate to the head effectually resisting the infirmities thereof and strengthening the brain and nerves of special use for such as are cataleptick epileptick apoplectick paralytick that have a cold or moist braâ—n sunject to rhumes Convulsions remblings or weakness of the nerves vertigoes paines of the head it strengthens a weak memory weak eyes amends dull hearing if the defect be not organicall It quickens and raiseth the spirits in somnolent drowzy persons makes them more acute and vigilant and roborates the animal faculty To be taken after the Capitall Pills if both be used Take it in the morning fasting thus Drop it upon fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point then drink a draught of what liquor is most agreeable and proper for you eat an hour after and go abroad Also you may apply it to the nose profitably Whereby the vertue is received into the head The Dose for men and women is 2â— drops for children and infants so many drops as they are years old If under a year old only apply it to the nose as aforesaid and also to the temples Shake the bottle when you use it For the Lungs THe infirmities most incident to the Lungs are 1. A thin sharp rheum irritating and provoking the Lungs to expulsion by coughing which oftentimes procures an exulceration and spitting of bloud and from hence a Consumption may insue 2ly A grosse indigested flegm stopping the vessels of the Lungs and pipes for respiration causing difficulty of breathing wheezing and coughing which is called an Asthma 3ly A Consumption or Ulcer of the Lungs which in the beginning not so easy to be discovered but to be known by these signs An obtuse or heavy pain in the breast short breath frequent coughing and destillation upon the Lungs In time is made more manifest by spitting of purulent matter an ulcerous and more sharp pain in the breast a putrid Feaver the cough more vehement imbecillity and weaknesse of all the faculties c. For the infirmities aforesaid the Medicines following are effectual and peculiarly appointed The Pectoral electuary stayes defluctions of sharp thin rheums that invade the Lungs Mitigates their acidity and saltness which indangers Corrosion spitting of bloud and a Consumption checks the violence of coughing and easeth the breast it helps a dry cough loosens flegm and helps expectoration procures rest and respite from coughing in the night To be taken at any time the quantity of a nutmeg or more but chiefly at night and morning in bed The Balsamic extract is most effectual in restoring weak decayed Consumptive or ulcerated Lungs purifies and clenseth the breast from putrid matter that causeth the breath to stink or be ill savoured defends the Lungs from tetrid maligne vapours internally generated or externally received inducing a vitious depraved constitution of the Lungs or promoting a Consumption roborates and strengthens the Lungs firmly resisting an haereditary Phthisical consumptive disposition subject to some families Opens obstructions stoppings in the breast from Crude viscous phlegm stuffing the pipes of the Lungs and vessels for respiration helps old coughs asthmatic wheezings difficult short and faint breathing from indisposition decay or imbecillity of the vital parts and restores their vigour and natural ability Attenuates maturates and concocts tough raw flegm and facilitates expectoration retracts a confluence of crude humors flowing in upon the Lungs by the arteria venosa causing oppilatious short breath and Pertinacious coughing Is both a preservative and curative medicine for persons Consumptive inclining or disposed thereto by any Pectoral infirmity The Dose is half a dram for Man or Woman For 14 years old a scruple or 24 grains Take it night and morning in bed if it be for putrid or ulcerated Lungs you must continue the use of it 3 weeks or a month observing due order and dyet if for lesser infirmities a shorter time will effect the intention It confines you not to the house more then the tendernesse of your own body and the coldness of weather prohibits you to go abroad Rowl it in Sugar-Candy or fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point and swallow it For the Heart THe Cordial Tincture is appointed for fainting fits it cheers the heart releives the vital spirits opressed cherisheth decayed nature in weak and antient persons comforts and warmes a cold stomack helps digestion expells winde and Melancholly vapours from the Spleen very good for palpitations of the heart or oppression at the stomack
Sorrel Orange Lemmon Apples Goosberies Currans Prunes pickled Cucumbers as boiled Veale and Green-sauce rost Veal and Orange holled Mutton with Verjuce and its own juce rost Mutton and Lemmon or Cucumbers green Geese and Goosberries Stubble goose and Apples Pigg and Currants Pork and Green-sauce boiled Chickens with Goosberries or Sorrel-sops Calves feet stewed with Currans and Prunes and your meat thus cook'd is both food and Physick Take a lawful freedome and please your self with these fruits Citrons Pomegranats Limes Oranges Lemmons Quince Pearmains Pippins red Cherries Mulberies Grapes Damsins Bullaces Prunellaes Respass Currans Barberies Strawberries they cool and quench thirst contemperate and aswage Choler and give a great refreshment to the parched spirits Eat sallads of Lettuce Sorrel Purslane Spinage and Violet leaves they are medicamental aliment Butter milk Whey and Sider allays preternatural heat checks the effrenation of raging Choler and are like water to fire Refuse the fat and brown outside of meat also the crust of bread Butter and Oyle adds fuel to the fire Sugar and Honey hath alliance and friendship with Choller being soon assimilated and converted into its nature Mustard Salt and Spices exasperates Cholet and makes it more fierce and biting Vinegar checks it Avoid wine spirits and strong liquors they agitate Choller and rouzeth up a sleeping enemy Fast not but satisfie the stomack when it vellicates and calls for meat biting Choller must have something to feed on or it will prey upon the body Cherish and indulge sleep it cools and moistens but let it not exceed in length which puts nature by her due times for necessary evacuations Use little and gentle exercise be not laborious or toyling but take your ease avoid violent motion it fires the spirits and enrageth choler Frequent Venus is most pernicious Cold bathes is profitable and refresheth much by cooling the blood allaying the spirits concentring them Bannish anger immoderate care peevishness and fretting which discomposeth the spirits heats and wasts them angments Choller dryes the body and hastens old age Refrain Tobacco as an injurious custome it exasperates Choler by heating drying and evatuating dulcid Phlegme which contemperates bridles and checks the fury of acrid sharp bilious humors Melancholy Complexion THe Melancholy person naturally so from the first principles is cold and dry but a Melancholy temperament acquired by Education Customes and Accidents by Degeneration and admixture of other humors adust is hot and dry which make the signs and symptoms of Melancholy to be different and various and a difference is to be made in dyet and customs The common symptoms are a pale black or high Sanguine colour given to be watchful sad solitary and suddain laughter a flow pulse troublesome sleeps and dreams Cold Melancholy hath milde symptomes if hot and adust the effects are more churlish and furious For cold Melancholly let the dyet be hot and moist for the hot Melancholy person let dyet be cooling and moist in both let their meats be of light digestion affording good nutriment and not windy as Mutton Lamb Veal Capon Chicken Partridge Phesant c. Abstain from Venison Bull-beef or Ox hanged Beef or long salted Goats-flesh Hare Bacon Goose Duck Swan Crane Heron Bittor and most water fowl Peacock Quaile Blackbirds Pidgeon Red Herrings salt Cod Ling Sturgeon pickled Scalloâ—s and salt Fish dryed Meats fryed or broiled old Cheese Beanes Pease Cabbage Coleworts Rye Bread and all meats hard of digestion or windy Capers Broom buds and Sampire are good sauce they open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Mustard and Vinegar bad and all sower sauces they make Melancholy more contumacious and fixed Spices not good if the person be hot they cause adustion Use Borrage Bugloss Endive Succory Baume Fumiterry Lettuce Marigold flowers Violets Clove-giliflowers Saffron they alter and qualifie the humor and chear the spirits Use Barly brothes with Prunes Raisins and Currans If Melancholy be adust and your body hot and costive eat Pippins Permains Cherries Respass Strawberries and such like fruits to cool and moisten Drink Whey Sider and small White-wines Refuse black wines and stale Beer Keep the body soluble your head will be more free from pain fumes and heaviness Cherish sleep it refresheth the spirits pacifieth a troubled minde and banisheth cares Fly idleness the Nurse of Melancholy exercise often and follow business or recreations Walk in the green fields Orchard Gardens Parks by Rivers and variety of places Change of Air is very good Avoid solitariness and keep merry company Frequent Musick sports and Games Recreate the spirits with sweet fragrant and delightful smells Moderate Venus good Banish all passions as much as in you lies fear greif dispaire revenge desire jealousie emulation and such like Opus est te animo valere ut corpore possis Cicer. Tobacco hurtful espicially if Melancholy be adust and a hot body it heats and exhausts humidity makes Melancholly more contumacious Give not your self to much study nor night watchings they both dry the body and make humors adust two great enemies to a Melancholy person Hygistic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the various discrasyes or passions of Mind THe Soul and Body are so linked and conjoyned as Partners of each others ill and wellfare that the one is not affected but the other is drawn into consent mutually acting enjoying and suffering untill death seperates and breaks the bands of union assunder Hence it is a diseased body makes a heavy drooping mind and a wounded disturbed or estless mind makes a youthful healthy body to decay and languish Who therefore desires the health and wellfare of the body must Procure ease rest and tranquility of mind Siue Animo Corpus nec sine corpore Animus bene valere potest SHun Melancholy and sadness as very dangerous and destructive occasioning and producing variety of diseases suffocates and choaks the spirits retards their motion and agility of operation imprisons and cloggs them in their Stations darkens their purity and light debilitating all the faculties of the body their cheif operator being indisposed and disabled fixeth humors incrassates and begets obstructions and debilitates the Speen alienates and subtracts its ferment from the stomack which decayes both appetite and digestion procures scorbute Hypochondriac Melancholy pains and tumors of the Spleen Dropsies Jaundice c. A great Enemy to beauty soon changeth florid blooming youth into a pale withering countenance and makes the whole body to languish and decay Mirth subtiliates purifies and chears the spirits puts them upon activity that before were torpid dull and heavy and excites them to operation and duty in the several faculties volatizeth rarifies and attenuates gross feculent obstructing humors preserves youth vigour and beauty makes the body plump and fat by expanding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment Whose wholsome effects are much the same with those of exercise and may well supply when that is wanting Dum fata sinunt Vivite laeti Sen. ANger is the beginning
through Crudities and indigested matter To be taken at any time night or day when any the aforesaid occasions require The full Dose is a spoonful for twelve years old half a spoonfull and so proportionably to younger The Bezoardic Confection is a Soveraign Antidote against the Plague and all contagious Feavers it powerfully expells poysons breaths out all putrid matter and malignity received by unwholsome Airs or otherwise generated in the body effectuall in the Small-Pox Measels Spotted-feavers to bring forth their Malignity to the skinn and to prevent returning inwards removes oppressions at the heart and any surfeit or over-charging of the stomack by intemperate eating or drinking of excellent use in all suddaine Sicknesses in young or old to defend the heart and vitalls until the distemper manifest it self Necessary to carry with you in Travel Take it on a knifs point or dissolve it in Posset-drink as oft as occasion requires The full Dose is the quantity of a Chesnut for fourteen years old as much as a Nutmeg for seven years old the bigness of a Hasel-nut And so proportionably to younger For the Stomack THe Stomack not performing its office rightly in Chylification either by its own weakness or otherwise impedited layes the foundation of many diseases and therefore is primely to be fortyfied and assisted when any dificiency appears for error in the first concoction is not amended in the following digestions of other parts from whence various preternatural affects disseminated in divers parts of the body owning their rise and spring from this fountain The symptoms of an ill affected stomack are fulness heaviness or opression loss of appetite slow digestion or depraved nauseousness or vomitting hicket or belching thirst heat or burning For which the following Medicines are appointed The Stomack Pills cleanseth the first region of the body downwards from abounding Choller and Phlegm evacuates and unloads an opressed stomack from humors and indigested matter that corrupts good nutriment dulls the appetite and hinders digestion by their abstersive faculty removes viscous Phlegm impacted in the tunicles of the stomack a receptacle for inflation and wind Prevents diarrhaeas lienterial and dysenterial Fluxes gripings and pains in the stomack and bowels from sharp biting Choller or flatulent crudity by taking away their causes And leaving a greateful astriction upon the stomack which promotes concoction Destroyes Worms and prevents their breeding by carrying away putrid matter whereof they are generated Takes away bitter eructations and nauseous belchings vellications and gripes in the stomack from bilious acrid humors makes the stomack clean and fit for the reception of wholsome food and then you may expect good nutriment Take them after your first sleep or earely in the morning when you are up Drink some warme Posset eat at noon You may go abroad if the weather be warm and the condition of your body will safely permit But otherwise keep house You may take them three or four dayes together they work gently The Dose for Men and Women is five or six Pills For the age fourteen 4 Pills The Digestive Elixir By its incisive and attenuating quality is very auxiliary to the stomacks ferment deficient and decayed or obtunded and overlayed with crudityes corrects the imbecillity and indisposition of the superior orifice of the stomack and causeth the stomack to close with more delight and satisfaction upon its object Prevents nauseousness flarulent belchings nidorous and unsavory risings in the stomack from indigestion and putrid fermentation Kills Worms in the stomack and Guts And amends a strong offensive breath By its saline quality excites and quickens a dull appetite and procures good digestion By its Balsamic amaritude is healing and grateful to a watrish crude raw stomack By its aromatic vertue cherisheth and refresheth a weak tender stomack But if the stomack be very foul stuffed and clogged with gross Phlegmatick humors then first clense downward with the stomack Pills or upwards by vomit if hot Cholerick adust humors fluctuate heate and broyl upon the stomack afterward strengthen with the use of this Elixir and you will finde a great alteration both for appetite and digestion the stomack much alleviated disburthened and cheerful in the performance of its office Drop it in a little fine powdred Sugar and take it upon a knives point in the morning fasting you may drink after it Wine Beer or other good Liquor most agreeable to your stomack eat an hour after and go abroad you may take it likewise at four of Clock in the afternoon The Dose for men and Women is sixteen drops for the age fourteen ten drops for eight years old six drops and so proportionably to younger Continue the use of it a fortnight together Shake the bottle when you use it Medicines appropriate to the Spleen Mesentery and Liver THe Cachectic Pills are effectuall against the defects and infirmities of the Spleen mesentery Liver and Gall from whence arise a Cachectic or ill habit of body Dropsies Scurvy Hypochondriac Melancholy Jaundice black and yellow obstructions and pains in the several parts named various praeternatural febrific aestuations and fermentations crudityes and coagulations in those parts primarily affected from thence dessused and disperced into the mass of blood which being thereby vitiated and impure produceth various external Symptomes pallid and livid discolourations scorbute spots and desaedations of the skin Tumors and Ulcers These Pills evacuate and clense gently by which the fore named parts are exonerated and notably restored to their pristine vigour and due performance of their office but by strong purgatives debilitated They penetrate into the second and third digestion removing obstructions and attenuating viscous coagulations which obtund the spirits in their motion and activity stop the conveyance of nutriment and corrupting it hindering the communication of parts necessarily subordinate and subservient one to the other in their offices and duties and retaining excrements of the several digestions which ought duly to be seperated and sent forth from whence the ill effects that ensue are numerous They are prevalent in prevention and composing unnatural fermentations and turgid ebullitions in the bloud and humors from whence Erratic pains and various disquietudes They imbibe and drink up by their alkalizate quality sharp and acide humors which cause erosions and torsions of the bowells stimulating and provoking Fluxes and sharp pricking pains in several parts They depurate and renovate the bloud from scorbutic degeneration and exotic mixture by which the spirits recover strength and vigour which before were alienated torpid and inactive the organs for nutrition disburthened and releived and made fit to performe and execute their several offices and functions The Dose for Men and Women is 4 or 5 Pills According to the strength and condion of their body to operate For the age 14 3 Pills Take them early in the morning you may sleep 2 hours after when you are up drink a draught of posset drink eat at noon Thus do twice or thrice in