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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	heat_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,349	5	10.6043	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50438	The method and means of enjoying health, vigour, and long life adapting peculiar courses for different constitutions, ages, abilities, valetudinary states, individual proprieties, habituated customs, and passions of mind : suting preservatives and correctives to every person for attainment thereof / by Everard Maynwaringe, M.D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1683 (1683)	Wing M1498; ESTC R31212	85,718	240

each other and conducing to the general design of the whole in a compleat order and exquisite method of contrivance promoting and moving one another in their distinct Offices Now if one Wheel goes too fast too slow or stops the rest that depend upon that motion also are disordered and move irregularly So is it in the Body of Man If the Stomach be clogged and the digestion sluggish the supply from thence will not come in due time to the other faculties to operate upon and if the Chyliferous matter sent from the Stomach be not well transmuted and qualified the rest of the digestive faculties cannot so well perform their task because the alimentary matter is not transmitted to them proper and sutable but imperfect aliene and degenerate Most men experimentally and sensibly know that meat and drink transgressing either in quantity or quality or unseasonably taken does abate and injure a good Stomach and depraves the digestion which defect redounds to the detriment of the whole and all the body suffers by it and every faculty in time will share in the prejudice So that of necessity there must be rules observed and bounds set in the use of these things without which mans body is soon put out of frame and the regular Oeconomy thereof discomposed and disordered To prove and illustrate this farther by instance fresh Air is necessary to ventilate the body and chear the spirits of man and he that is pent up within doors is deprived of that great enlivener and refresher of Nature but on the contrary he that is exposed abroad to the night Air is as much damaged as the other and both prove injurious and destructive So that although the open Air be good and necessary for the healthful being of Man yet not at all times not in any condition and upon any terms but sutable and convenient with the state of our bodies as Nature hath appointed for you and not otherwise So likewise for Exercise and Rest Method and Rule is to be observed for if there be not seasons allotted and a moderation used in these they both are destructive though in a contrary way and by different mediums To sleep when you should wake or wake when you should sleep are both injurious and impairing of health to invert the order of Nature by sleeping in the day and watching in the night is incongruous and unsutable with your bodies because it crosseth the designment of Nature When the Sun riseth the spirits of Men are then most apt and fit for Action are then most lively brisk and chearful in their functions but when the Sun sets and the Air is cloathed with darkness the spirits then begin to droop grow more dull and heavy incline to rest retirement and a cessation Now to spur up and rouze the spirits when they naturally would be taking their ease and respite or laying a clog upon them by your sluggishness and somnolent postures when Nature calls upon them for action by darting the glittering light through the Air with which they are affected and raised up these are great injuries and affronts to Nature in acting counter to her commands and institutions for which you must suffer the penalty and that is the forfeiting your health for this unnatural disobedience and these irrational courses These Precautions and Rules I will assure you are not our inventions to curb your darling inclinations and restrain you of your just liberty but they are the Institutions and Law of Nature enjoyned to be observed for your own preservation and well being and as bounds set to check your extravagant pernicious actions and all for the tuition and safety of your life and health and to preserve the regular harmony through the whole course of Nature And although it be an old saying as foolish as common Qui Medicè vivit miserè vivit He that lives strictly by rule lives miserably yet I must affirm the contrary grounded upon pure reason and the preceding discourse that he which does not observe the injunctions the due method and regular course of Nature does both shorten his life and takes away much of the pleasure of it by procuring an uncomfortable and unhealthy body I know Every of you would live long but especially in health you would fain continue and prolong your youth your beauty and ability of parts you are frighted at the thoughts of a wrinkled face or a restless bed an unwholsom diseased body and a decripid loathsom old Age But yet you will not avoid these evils that you so much fear you will not take the pains to prevent them and secure your self you rather take more pains and undergo more trouble to procure them than there can be in avoiding them nay you lose the true pleasure of your life to purchase these Inconveniencies But what those things are which so warily and chiefly you are to observe wherein consists your health and well-being have now been hinted but generally the due method course and cautions you are to take in the use of them particularly shall be handled in their due place and order following SECT V. The choice of Air and Places of Abode Shewing the benefits and injuries that arise from different Air. AIR 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 find your Body by the various constitutions and changes in the Air to be variously affected well and ill disposed of which infirm parts are most sensible that they prognosticate before an alteration come The mind also by the mediation of the spirits is drawn into consent and hath its dispositions and variations from thence When the Air is close thick and moist the spirits are more dull heavy and indisposed but at the appearance of the Sun and a serene Skie the Spirits are unfettered vigorous and active the mind more chearful airy and pleasant The Spirits are of an aetherial Nature and therefore do much sympathize with the present constitution and change of Air for from the Air drawn in by the motion of the vital parts are the vital spirits ventilated and the blood volatized therefore the pureness of the Air makes much for the purity of the spirits and mass of blood A gross impure and noysom Air 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 Air perfumes and purifies an unwholsome body cherisheth the heart makes a lively pulse and much enliveneth 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 Air 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

be eaten by the weaker and tender stomachs without hurt being of a good kind and in their prime The old white Pease are hard in digestion and windy but if they be of a good sort that will boil soft and mealy are then very acceptable to many and not hurtful moderately eaten they are a strong food and very good for strong stomachs SECT XI Of Roots Herbs and Flowers for food Their Qualities and right use CArrots yield a moist cooling and temperate nourishment light of digestion and are very wholesom Turneps are hot and moist affording much nourishment and easily concocted being of a good kind sweet and not strong in tast are then agreeable with most stomachs soluble to the belly and wholesom food Parsneps are temperate in heat and not so moist as the Turnep or Carrot but give a good strong nourishment to the Body and are convenient for all that love them Potato is something like to the Parsnep in qualities but excels it in nourishing and strengthning the body are wholesom and agreeable to all Constitutions Raddish is hot and moist excites the appetite but affords little nutriment and is difficult in digestion not to be commended except to such as are troubled with gravel in the Kidneys it is something diuretick and cleansing those parts Sparagus being pleasant in the mouth and light of digestion is accounted a dainty Dish and reputed a cleanser of the Reins and wholesom but since it makes the urine of those that eat it to have a strong savour I much suspect its goodness and have reason to believe this ill scent to arise from a corrupt transmutation of the Sparagus and not a pre-existing matter sent forth to advantage Artechocks are temperately hot and dry very nourishing and not unwholesom for the weaker sort being soon digested and become restaurative Cabbage and Colewort are temperate loosening something windy and not easy of digestion but those who are lovers of them and have good stomachs finding no trouble in digestion nor belching afterwards may eat thereof and please themselves but tender stomachs had better forbear Coleflower although it hath some affinity with the Cabbage yet it is more wholesom pleasanter in tast lighter of digestion more nutritive and no way hurting the body Spinage is cold and moist and may be eaten in sallad boiled or with broth good for hot costive bodies but not convenient for cold phlegmatick and waterish Constitutions Sage is hot and dry affording no nourishment but gives a relish and very wholsome good for the Head and Nerves and may well be used in the Kitchen when it is proper Lettuce is cold and moist yet not offensive to the stomach nor hurtful to the body it allays the heat and acrimony of cholerick humours and disposeth to sleep such as are too vigilant and have hot dry brains it may profitably be used at convenient times by such bodies as require it in hot seasons of the year and by hot Constitutions Parsley is hot and dry diuretick and opening gives no nourishment but seasons and recommends meat to those that love its tast and is not unwholesom Rosemary is hot and dry and yields no nourishment but is good for the Head and Nerves and all cold Diseases of the Brain and may well be used in the Kitchen when there is occasion Purslane is cold and moist to be eaten in sallad by cholerick stomachs and hot dry Bodies to allay the intemperature of the bloud and better it is if it be pickled than not Burrage and Bugloss are temperately hot and moist cordial and cheering the spirits good for hypochondriack and melancholy persons hurtful to none the custom therefore of putting these into a glass of Wine is very good Sorrell is cold and dry very wholesom for the body and agreeable to the stomach by its pleasant tartness it cools the bloud contemporates choler and allays feavourish heat Sorrel and Lettuce together make a good Sallad Burnet is hot and dry and by its restrictive quality does strengthen the stomach it cheers the heart and drives away melancholy being put into a glass of Wine makes it relish well and increaseth the vertue of the liquor Succory is cooling drying opening and cleansing an excellent Hepatic Herb very good for those that are troubled with obstructions and heat of the Liver to be used in Broths or otherwise in Medicine Spear-Mint is hot and dry in the second degree it is a great strengthner of a weak nauseating stomach or subject to vomiting it is pleasant in smell and tast refreshing the Brain and comforting the Heart invites the appetite and helps digestion correcting the crudities that flat and depress the stomach Clary is hot and dry accounted a strengthner of the back and good to stop spermatick issuing used by some for that purpose to be fryed with Eggs but i never found any considerable effects nor do I recommend it in such Cases Tansy is hot and dry bitter in tast but very acceptable to the stomach and abstersive it is very wholesom in food or physick and therefore that Dish called a Tansie is to be esteemed as a choice dainty but the juice of this Herb is not to be wanting in it Marygold-Flowers are moderately hot and dry they chear the spirits and comfort the Heart are very wholesom and agreeable to all bodies but chiefly beneficial for melancholick and drooping spirits to be used in broth or stewed meats to which they make an addition for goodness Pennyroyall is hot and dry in the third degree it cleanseth and strengthens the stomach expels Wind provokes Urine and a great opener of obstructions it is a strong savory Herb but pleasant and very wholesom especially for cold phlegmatick and crude waterish bodies Violet-leaves are cold and moist good for hot and costive Bodies to cool and loosen the Belly and may be used in Sallad Broth or otherwise Thyme is hot and dry pleasant in smell and tast it helps a weak stomach and gives a good relish to meat or broth which a good Cook knows very well Savory is hot and dry in the third degree of a strong penetrating but fragrant scent and of a biting tast it attenuates opens and discusseth corrects a crude watery stomach gives a good season to meat or pottage as its name imports Marjerome is delightful in smell and tast no less pleasing to the stomach and profitable for a weak head very wholesom for the body and hurtful to none I have now given a short but useful account of the virtues and qualities of the most and chiefest Herbs used in Cookery whereby every one may appoint or make choice of such to be used in dressing their meat as their nature and condition of body does most require and refuse those that although good and wholesom in themselves yet not proper and fit for some persons in such a state of body And although much more might have been said in the medicinal use of some of them yet this is