So that they esteeme more of a Page of the one or a pok-bearer of the other then of any Sholer whatsoever except my Lord Bishop or Mr. Parson this frowning of our Greats hath moved many poore soules flee first to Dowy and then to Rome and from thence post to hell having receaued the marke of the beast that is a bull of his holynesse to passe Scot-free at Purgatorie not being able to procure the favourable presence or gratious asistance of any noble for his furtherance in studyes and advancement in degrees in the countrie wherein hee was borne O what a shame it is to see a great Man without Letters Hee is like a faire house without plenishing a goodlie ship without furnishing to persue or defend a Herauldry without honour beeing lesse reall than his title His vertue is that hee was his fathers sonne and all the expectation of him is to get an other No man is kept in ignorarance more both of himselfe and men for hee heareth nothing but flatterie and vnderstandeth nothing but folly thus hee liveth till his Tombe bee made ready and then is a graue statue to posteritie Thus it is expedient to passe two or three houres after dinner for the well both of the bodie and minde that you may know this the better and so belieue it the rather Consider with mee alittle the passions of the minde such as joye sadnesse choler and feare Of the Passions of the minde Although wee bee often deceived in the decerning of good and evill following ofter the applause of the sense than the judgment of reason neverthelesse wee seeke alwayes that which wee thinke be good and fleeth that which we apprehend to bee evill Hence it is that wee are moved by diverse passions vnruled according to the apprehension of good or evill either present or absent the which passions according to the consideration of the object either enlargeth or draweth in the heart in the moving thereof they moue also the spirits and naturall heate so that the colour of the face is suddainly changed From the opinion of present good ariseth joye and of the good to come desire vnto the which choler doth adjoyne the selfe which is a desire of revenge from the apprehension of present evill commeth sadnesse and of the evill future feare Ioy comes of the heart inlarging the selfe sweetly for to imbrace the object that is agreable to it in the which dilatation it sendeth foorth aboundance of the naturall heate with the blood and the spirits a great portion whereof comes to the face when one laugheth by the which the face swels vp in such sort that the brow becomes tight and cleare the eyes bright the cheecks red An other part is sent through the members of the body Cupiditie or desire and choler doeth dilate or inlarge the heart also that through the desire of the thing it loueth this for to seâ—d quickly the spirits with the blood from the centre of the body within to the habite of the same without for the fortifying of the members that they may reveng the wrong wee haue received Sadnesse greife or melancholy in the contrare doth in such sort shoote vp or draw together the heart that it fadeth and faileth This hindreth the great generation of the spirits as also the distribution of these few that are ingendred whereby the vitall facultie is weakened and also the rest of the whole bodie shirps Feare causeth retire on a suddaintie the spirits to the heart from the rest of the bodie hence the face becommeth pale the extremities grow colde with a trembling through all the voyce is stopped the heart leapeth as it were that by reason of the great multitude of the blood and spirits whereby it is almost smothered so that it cannot move freelie Amongst all the passions of the mind â—oy is the most wholesome because it giveth such contentment to the spirit that the body is participant by a simpathy The reasonable passions are called affections but the sensuall are termed perturbations the passions ought to bee moderated for Plato writeth in his dialogue called Carmides that the most dangerous diseases proceede from the perturbation of the spirit because the mynde having an absolute authority over the body doth moue change and alter it in a moment as it pleaseth Wee should then affection the objects in so far as reason will permite for excessible joyes doe so disperse the blood with the spirits through the whole body from the centre to the extremities that the heart is wholly destitute of his naturall heate from whence commeth first a sounding and by and by death of excessible joy the Poete Phillippides the wise Chilon Diagoras of Rhode suddenly dyed And suddaine feare chassing the blood and spirites to the heart their fortresse frequently causeth death by the suffocation of the naturall heate Canon 8. About the sixt houre the stomack requiring returne to meate let your supper consist rather of rost meate than sodden because it nurisheth more in lesse bounds it is lighter and hath fewer excrements it should neither be too sore rosted for then it is saplesse nor yet halfe rosted for the superfluous humiditie is not driven out by the force of the fire Heere I can not passe by a great vncleannesse of Noble mens cooks who after that they haue sweeped the pot with the one end of their aprone and the plat with the other they draw off my Lords meate with the whole dirtie as it is and for to make place to a new speet placeth the same vnder the droppings of the vnrosted meate interlarding their owne grease amongst these droppings and yet the cooke dare not bee reproved for he in his kitchin is like the devill in hell curses is the very dialect of his calling hee is never good Christian vntill a hizzing pot of aile hath slaicked him like water cast on a fire-brand and for that time hee is silent his best facultie is at the dresser where hee seemeth to haue great skill in military discipline while hee placeth in the fore-front meates more strong and hardy and the more cold and cowardly in the reare as quaking tarts and quivering custards and such milk-sope dishes which escape many tymes the fury of encounter and when the second course is gone vp downe hee goeth vnto the celler where hee drinks and sleeps till foure of the clocke in the after-noone and then returneth againe to his regiment Canon 9. After supper it is expedient to walke a little softly for the procuring of the discent of the meate to the ground of the stomack this walke ought to be in pleasant fields free of all vnwholesome vapor which may procure vomite by the virulencie or the filthinesse of the smell and seeing this after supper doth permitte mee to visite the fields and take the air come foorth yee also who loue your health and consider the same with mee Of the Aire Such as the aire is such are our spirits our
liver Purpie cooleth much quencheth thirst holdeth downe Venus tempereth the teeth being out of stile by the vse of soure things Kaill ingendereth evill blood troubleth the stomack and the sight and moveth strange dreames Spinards â—ouseth the belly and moisteth the body but they are windie Bourrage and buglosse purifieth the blood and keepeth the belly open their â—â—owrs are good in a sallad for to refresh the spirits and rejoyce the heart Artichocks heateth the blood and provoketh Venus to battell they are good for the stomack and giveth appetite Cresson is of qualitie hote and dry provoketh vrine and is eaten ordinarly raw in sallads Menth fortifieth the stomack and helpeth the appetite Cerefole and Finkle is good for the sight augmenteth the seede and ingendereth milk to Nurses Parsley is agreeable to the stomack and profitable to the neares because it is diuretick Sauge helpeth appetite and digesteth crudities out of the stomack Hysope purgeth the lights from the flegme by the subtilitie of it thyme doth the same Rayfords taken after meate helpeth digestion but before meate they lift vp the meate in the stomack Neeps are windie of little nurishment and engendreth wormes in little bairnes little are better than the great they should bee eaten with pepper Carrets are worse than they Sybouse Onyons Leeks are agreable to pituitous and flegmatick persons but noysome to cholerians and to these who are subject to a sore head But I think wee haue eaten long enengh without a drink let vs now goe to it Of drinke in generall Drink as I think and so thinks the drunkard is no lesse worthie of consideration for the health than meate There bee sundrie sorts of drinke vsed among vs. as wine ale and beere for no man drinketh water with his will Drinke should bee answerable in proportion to our meate for if wee drinke more than serves to syne downe the meat and mixe it there downe the meat will swimme aboue and so shall not digest drink may bee taken more larglie with dry solide meat than with liquid humide They who haue a hote liver and a weake head subject to distillations should abstaine from strong drinke chiefly after their meat but these whose liver is temperate and head strong may take a lick of the best quale Deus creavit after their fruite quia post crudum merum It is not good to drink with a naked stomack for presently it runneth through the body to the nerues whom it debilitateth and maketh the body the more subject to cold diseases as the goute paralyse trembling and such like It is also troublesome to the digestion to drinke betweene mealles for it hindereth the same as water in a pot stayeth the boyling of it because while the concoction is making in the stomack the mouth of it is closed hence is it that men much subject to companionry and so to extraordinary drinking findeth their meate still rowing vp and downe some for their ease are forced to cast it It is not good to drink when bed-time draweth neere for readily it moveth the theume to fall downe except it were of water after too much wine eiat supper or before and that to hinder distillations It followeth to speake in particulare of drink and first of wine as best Of Wine Wine is verie profitable for the vse of man it stirreth vp the naturall heate and fortifyeth it and so procureth the appetite helpeth the digestion ingenders good blood purifies the troubled openeth the passages giues good colour cleanseth the braine sharpeneth the witte makes the spirits subtile and rejoyceth the heart of man as sayeth the Psalmist if so be it be taken moderatly Wine is of fiue fold difference the first is taken from the colour so it is either whyte or red yallow or tannie and black the second from the taste as it is either sweet sowre or of any austere taste the third of the smell being of a sweet heavie or no smell the fourth from the consistance being either subtile or grosse the fifth from the age as it is old or new Of all wine the red and thicke wine is meetest for the ingendring of blood next blackish grosse and sweet wine to them succeeds whyte and thick or grosse wine in substance and austere in taste last of all whyte thin small wine Wine as it is agreeable to phlegmaticks so it is hurtfull to bilious hote natures over old and too new wine should be eshewed the one because too hote the other because no heate at all The second drink is beere which as it nourisheth more so is of a grosser substance and harder digestion than the wine if it bee but new made or troubled it causeth obstructions and swellings it troubleth the head moveth the colick gravell and difficultie of pissing specially if it bee byting if it bee too old and very sharpe it hurts the stomack and nerves and ingenders evill blood wherefore it is best that is well sodden purified and cleare and of a middle age Of Water Although that water bee the most simple sorte of drink and the most common yet because of least worth it is put behinde Galen proues good water by three senses by the sight being cleare and cleane by the mouth that hath no strange taste and so not bitter nor sowre nor salt but almost without taste by the nose that it hath no smell adding thereto that it must be light in the bellie suddainly changed that is soone hote soone cold and that it doth not passe through sulphureous mynes or suchlyke There bee fiue sorts of water to wit of raine fountaine river well and stank Raine water although according to the weight it bee lightest yet it is not the best being made of the vapours which doeth proceed from the earth whereof some be of the rivers others of loches stanks gutters standing waters and of the sea as also of the exhalations of pestilent places and of dead bodies Fountaine water is best of all next river water last Well water the worst of all is stank water river water is the better it stand till it settle fountaine water the better it looke to the East and Well water that the Well bee not too often covered but that it get the aire sometimes Canon 6. After meate abstaine from all vehement motion or exercise all curious disputs or carefull meditations discoursing of some good purpose procuring laughter joy and mirth whereby the spirit may be revived and the digestion helped If the great men of the country knew what good these sort of discourses did for the health of the body and the recreating of the spirit they would with greater avidity drink in in their young and tender yeares letters for the better fashioning of their manners and forming of their minde And also cary a greater respect to Schollers then they doe and not studie only to be well versed in Arcadia for the intertaining of Ladies or in the rowting of the tolbuith for commoning with Lawers
restraine pantodidactos extravagant spirit more ignorant than the Oxe or Asse while hee knoweth not his owne cribbe within the borders of his profession showing whatsoever his vocation bee Mr. Perkins superscription of his bookes Minister verbies hoc vnum age that medicine flourishing in this Kingdome not only my old Lord Doctor but also young Master Doctor may liue by the labour of his hands destitute of other lands In IO AN. MAKLVIREVM siue lyradem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AOnidum pater est idem est Asclepii Apollo Illius inventum est ars metrica medica Verum Asclepiadis citharamque Paeonis artem Musarum vt famulis tradidit Aoniam â—ieridum nato simul atque Epidaurii alumno Phoebus avus Lyradae donat vtramque lyram Macte lyrâ vtrâvis canones dignate modosque Tradere Paeonios ludere Aonios Ludebat G. Sibbaldus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Authoris nomen Mak. hoc est filius Lure id est esca PErge salutiferam sic impertirier escam Iure salutiferae diceris filius escae In Libri inscriptionem MIlitia est quicquid mortales degimus aevi Quà m fit opus clypci nemo negabit ope Mysticus est Mystae Medicae hîc Maklurius artis Porrigit ingenii nobile deig na sui Qnisquis amas sanam quoque sano in corpore mentem Sanus si es sanum qui tueatur habes In Zoilum TEntas Maklurii incassum discerpere nomen Livide praeclarum iam super astra volat Pat. Sandaeus Author ad Censorem CVM tua non edas carpismea dogmata Censor Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Candidus imperti meliora vel vtere nostris Aut alios nostro mitte labore frui The Contents of this Booke THE naturall causes of death Pag. 1 The vse of meate drink sleepe c. 3 Of phlebotomie or drawing of blood 6 A remedie for drunken cummers 8 Of Lochleaches Blood-suckers and wicked men Blood-drinkers 9 Of purges for the body 10 Of purges for the purse 18 Of vomiting 19 The inconvenients of long sleeping 23 Meanes for expelling the whole excrements of the body 24 The tyme terme and other circumstances of exercising 26 TOBACCO 30 Dinner tyme and meates in generall 38 A remedie for growne greasie bellyes 39 Of bread 41. Of flesh 42. Fowles 45 Of Egges and milk 46 Herbes for eating 51 Drink in generall 53. Wyne 54 Beere 55. Water 46 What should be done after dinner 57 Passions of the mynde 59 Supper tyme. 62 The Cookes good parts 63 After supper what and the Aire 64 The praises of night drunkards and vaine Rorers Pag. 6â— Bed tyme and sleepe 6â— Procreation with the circumstances 7â— Complexions 7â— Sanguineans and their dyet 7â— Cholericks dyet 7â— Melancholicks dyet 7â— Flegmaticks dyet 8â— Age in generall 8â— Bairnes meate 8â— Youths meate 8â— Middle-age dyet 8â— Old mens meate 8â— The carelesse care of a young lasse for old man 8â— The seasons 9â— The dyet of the spring 9â— Of the summer 9â— Of the harvest 9â— Of the winter 10â— A regiment for women with childe 10â— For women brought to bed 10â— For the child 11â— For the Nurse 11â— Of waining the babe 12â— Greedie misers godlesse heires 12â— Bairnes diseases 12â— The markes of both true and false conception 12â— FINIS THE BVCKLER OF HEALTH GOD the Creator made man with a soule immortall and a body subject to death being composed of foure elements of contrary quali 〈…〉 s which doth combate still amongst 〈…〉 emselues the stronger stryving to sub 〈…〉 e the weaker hence commeth many 〈…〉 eases and in end destruction Moreo 〈…〉 r our lyfe is sustained by two pillars 〈◊〉 wit by the naturall heate which is 〈◊〉 chiefe instrument of the soule and the 〈…〉 bred moist or sappe of the body which 〈◊〉 the nurishment or foode of this heate 〈◊〉 is the oyle in the lampe of the light 〈…〉 ich humour failing the heate must needs 〈…〉 rish but so it is this humour can not still last because the naturall heate doth dayly destroy it and although there be dayly reparation made by the heate and the blood that proceeds from the heart by the arters to all the members of the body yet the sappie or humide substance that is dissolved is much purer than that which by reparation doth succeede to it for our naturall heate being dayly weakned is not able to make vp her losses by as good as it hath loste as wyne the more water bee mixed is the weaker so our naturall heate and inbred sappie substance is dayly weakned by the apposition of new aliment or foode having still some thing vnlike the former Adde to these that the dissolution of the body is continuall the reparation but by litle and litle after many alterations heere yee see that the naturall heate devouring this our naturall in-bred sappe doth destroy the selfe in end And although that these things doe impose a necessitie of death to man neverthelesse hee may not only prolong his life considering heere the second causes only but also preveene sicknesse and keepâ— himselfe in health and that by the righâ— and moderate vse of these outward circumstances in themselues indifferent and â—o good if rightly and circumspectly vsed â—ut evill if not These are the aire meate â—rink sleeping waking motion and rest â—he excretion of the excrements of the â—ody and the passions of the minde all which are so necessarie to the lyfe of man â—hat it can not last long without the vse of â—he same for the continual dissolution of the â—ody requireth a reparation by meate Then â—eepe is needfull for the disgestion and â—estitution of the spirits waking for the â—xercises and functions of the spirits and â—he stirring vp of the naturall heate and â—est is necessare for the refreshing of both â—ody and spirites wearied and seing naâ—ure can not turne all her meate in good â—ubstance the excretion of the superfluiâ—es was needfull The passions of the â—ynde by reason of the objects that are â—ffered good or evill can not also bee â—shewed for the moderation then of these â—ircumstances remarke these few Canons â—ollowing Canon 1. It is expedient for the preserving of â—ealth and preveening of diseases that eâ—ery one whose age and force doth permite should everie yeare draw blood and purge and that in the spring because the body replenished with humors doth readily at that tyme fall in diverse diseases while as the naturall heate revived by the approching of the sunne towards 〈◊〉 doth attempt the expulsion of these humors out of the body from the which enterprise of nature ariseth a conflict if nature haue the victory man escapeth but if shee succumbe man dyeth that nature doth thus attempt the expulsion of these humors it is knowne by these intercutanean diseases as are itch pustuls byles vlcers and such like which wee see commonly in the Spring to fall out The body in the winter by two meanes is replenished with humors the one is