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A14298	Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.; Naturall and artificial directions for health	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1612 (1612)	STC 24615; ESTC S106222	54,245	162

Indian war with Art and politick stratagems almost beyond wit surprized them with great feare and wonder Secondly malefactours terrified with the guilt of their euill consciences doe imagine a world of feares And no meruaile seeing that all creatures serue to reuenge sinne committed against the Creator Offenso Creatore offenditur nobiscum omnis creatura Somtimes this Accidentall feare proceedes of sicknesse sometimes it comes by a false suggestion or alarum as that feare wherewith a Gentleman of Padua was possessed when his youthfull haire in one night conuerted into gray and hoarie onely by a false report that hee should be put to death the next day after What is Enuie Enuie is a griefe arising of other mens felicitie It maketh a man to looke leane swart hollow eyed and sickly Doe these affections hurt the soule as well as the body Yea doubtlesse For if the body be replenished with these diseases the soule cannot be whole nor sound And euen as vices cause disorders and diseases both in the body and soule so likewise they cause the one to destroy the other whereas there should be an vnitie and harmony not onely of the corporall qualities among themselues and so of the spirituall among themselues but also of their ioint qualities one with another And no meruaile seeing that God hath sowed and planted the seeds and sparks of affections to moue vs not onely into our soules but also into our bodies How doe the temperature of the bodily affections and the soules affections agree together There is great concord betwixt the bodies qualities and the soules affections insomuch that as our bodies are compacted of the elemental qualities namely of moysture drinesse heat cold So among the soules affections are some moist some dry some hot some are cold This we might see by instance made The affection of mirth is hot moist whereas sorrow is cold and dry The one is proper to young men and the other to olde men who are cold and dry Why is there so great a diuersitie among men There be diuers reasons alledged of this by men of diuers professions First the Diuines say that originall sinne and temptation of wicked spirits make men vicious faith and grace make them righteous and holy Politicians and Statesmen holde that bad company and ill education cause men to be ill disposed the Astronomer hee saith that they which are borne vnder Iupiter shall be wise and fortunate vnder Mars souldiers vnder Venus adulterers vnder Mercury Merchants or very couetous vnder Taurus industrious vnder Libra iust men vnder Aries wise Counsellors vnder Aquarius fishers S. Augustine on the 63. Psalme tels of a Mathematician who said that it was not a mans owne will which made a leacher but Venus a murtherer Mars not his owne proper will made him iust but Iupiter The naturall Philosopher auerreth that they who excell in imagination are fit to be Linguists Artizans Poets and Painters the meanes to descry whether they be imaginatiue or no is thus if he be well conceited of himselfe if hee loues to goe richly attired and oftentimes looketh in a looking glasse if hee playes well at Chesse Cards and Dice c. They that excell in vnderstanding are fit to be Iudges they who haue the faculty of memorie wil proue good Atturnies and practicioners in Law and Physick Physitians hold that men be diuersly affected according to the diet which they vse as Venison Conies and hares-Hares-flesh make men melancholick and consequently enuious and froward those meates which ingender good bloud make men of a sanguine complexion and free hearted Excesse of meat make men riotous and drunkards Of the Age of Man CHAP. 3. Into how many ages is mans life diuided MAns life by the computation of Astrologers is diuided into seauen ages ouer euery one of which one of the seauen planets is predominant The first age is called infancie which continueth the space of seauen yeares And then the Moone raigneth as appeareth by the moyst constitutions of children agreeing well with the influence of that planet The second age named childhood lasteth seauen yeares more and endeth in the fourteenth of our life Ouer this age Mercurie which is the second sphere ruleth for then children are vnconstant tractable and soone enclined to learne The third age endureth eight yeares and is termed the strippling age It beginneth at the fourteenth yeare and continueth vntill the end of the two and twentieth During which time gouerneth the planet Venus For then we are prone to prodigality gluttonie drunkennes lechery sundry kinds of vices The fourth age contayneth twelue yeares till a man be foure and thirtie and then is he named a young man Of this age the Sunne is chiefe Lord. Now a man is wittie well aduised magnanimous and come to know himselfe The fift age is called mans age and hath sixteene yeares for the continuance thereof subiect to Mars for now a man is cholerick and couetous The sixt age hath twelue yeares that is from fiftie till threescore and two This age is termed although improperly olde age of which Iupiter is master a planet significant of equity temperance and religion The seauenth and last by order of these ages continueth full 18. yeares ending at fourscore to which few attaine This age by the meanes of that planet Saturne which is melancholick most slow of all other causeth man to be drooping decrepit froward cold and melancholick Why did men liue longer before the floud then they doe now The principall reason why men in those dayes liued longer then we do is because they had not then any of the causes which ingender in vs so many maladies whence consequently ensueth death Their liues were vpholden by the course of the heauens with the qualities of the planets stars being at that time farre more glorious and gracious then now There were not so many meteors comets and ecclipses past from whence now diuers innumerable circumuolutions proceed We must also vnderstand that our first Parents were created of God himselfe without any other instrumentall meanes And againe the earth in those dayes was of greater efficacie to bring foorth necessaries for mans vse then it is in this crooked and outworne age The soyle was then gay trim and fresh whereas now by reason of the inundation which tooke away the fatnesse thereof it is barren saltish and vnsauorie To conclude they knew the hidden vertues of hearbs and stones vsing great continence in their dyets and behauiours They were ignorant of our delicate inuentions and multiplied compounds They knew not our dainty cates our marchpanes nor our superfluous slibber sauces They were no quaffers of wine or Ale nor were they troubled with so many cares and vaine glorious pompes Tell me the certaine time wherein man must of necessitie die To die once is a common thing to al men For that was ordained as a punishment of God for our fore-parents when they transgressed his commandement with longing

stomack Red vrine betokeneth heat Thicke vrine and like to puddle sheweth sicknesse or excessiue labour If white or red grauell appeare in the bottome of your vrinall it threatneth the stone in the raines In briefe blacke or greene coloured vrine declareth death most commonly to ensue Of Fasting CHAP. 3. Is moderate fasting good MOderate fasting as to omit a dinner or a supper once a weeke is wonderfull commodious for them that are not cholericke or melancholicke but full of raw humours This Anthony the Emperour knew very well when he accustomed to drinke nought saue one cup full of wine with a little pepper after he had surfetted Of the commodities of Fasting I haue written more largely in my second booke of the Golden Groue and now of late in my first Circle of The Spirit of Detraction coniured and conuicted Shew me a way to preserue my life if perhaps I be constrained to straggle in Deserts Take Licoras or Tobacco now and then chew it and you shall satisfie both thirst and hunger or else mixe some suet with one pound of Violets and you shall preserue your life thereby ten dayes Or to conclude take a peece of allome roule it in your mouth when you waxe hungry By this meanes you may liue as some write a whole fortnight without sustenance Of Venerie CHAP. 4. What is the vse of Venery MOderate Venerie is very expedient for preseruation of health It openeth the pores maketh the body light exhilerateth the heart and wit and mitigateth anger fury When is the best vse of carnall copulation It is best to vse carnal copulation in Winter and in Spring time when nature is desirous without the help of Arts dregs and at night when the stomacke is full and the body somewhat warme that sleepe immediately after it may lenifie the lassitude caused through the action therof In Sommer in Iune and Iuly when the spettle thickens on the ground it cannot be good VVhat be the inconueniences of immoderate Venerie Immoderate venerie weakeneth strength hurts the braine extinguisheth radicall moysture and hastneth on old age and death Sperme or seede of generation is the onely comforter of nature which wilfully shed or lost harmeth a man more then if hee should bleed forty times as much Teach me how wiuelesse batchelers and husbandlesse maides should driue away their vncleane dreaming of venery at nights First they must refraine from wine and venerous imaginations and not vse to lye in soft down beds Secondly they must addict themselues to read the Bible and morall Philosophy Thirdly they must exercise often their bodies Lastly if none of these preuaile let them vse the seed of Agnus castus in English Parke seed and they shall feele a strange effect to follow Of Bathes CHAP. 5. What is the vse of Bathes COld and naturall bathes are greatly expedient for men subiect to rheumes dropsies and gouts Neither can I easily expresse in words how much good cold bathes doe bring vnto them that vse them howbeit with this caueat I commend bathes to wit that no man distempered through Venery Gluttony watching fasting or through violent exercise presume to enter into them Is bathing of the head wholsome You shall finde it wonderfull expedient if you bath your head foure times in the yeare and that with hot lee made of ashes After which you must cause one presently to poure two or three gallons of cold fountaine water vpon your head Then let your head be dryed with cold towels Which sodaine pouring downe of cold water although it doth mightily terrifie you yet neuertheles it is very good for therby the naturall heate is stirred within the body baldnesse is kept backe and the memory is quickned In like manner washing of hands often doth much auaile the eye-sight How shall a man bathe himselfe in Winter time when waters be frozen In Winter time this kinde of artificiall bathing is very expedient and wholsome Take two pound of Turpentine foure ounces of the iuyce of Wormwood and wild mallowes one ounce of fresh butter one drachme of saffron mingle them and seeth them a pretty while and being hot wet foure linnen clothes in it and therewith bath your selfe Or els make a bath after this manner take of Fumitory and Enula Campana leaues Sage Fetherfue Rosemary Wormwood of each a handfull or two seeth them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft and put as much as a walnut of Allome and a little brimstone in powder and therewith bath the places of your body affected He that vseth these bathes in times conuenient shall liue healthfully for by them superfluous excrements are extracted in sweat Of Excrements and Bloud-letting CHAP. 6. VVhat be Excrements OF excrements some be necessary and some superfluous those be necessarie which spring of superfluous bloud and that notwithstanding can nourish when nourishment failes as seede sperme milke and fat Those be superfluous which doe not proceed from bloud nor can nourish but rather separated from the bloud as not able to nourish and these are either moist or earthy moist as black melancholy sweat vrine matter of the nose spettle c Earthy or dry excrements as nailes cornes and such like Aristotle reckoneth the marrow in the bodie the marrow among the excrements 2 Libr. de generat animal cap. 6. But I take it to be a nourishment because the bones are nourished by it euen as the body is nourished by bloud What thinke you of bloud-letting Bloud is the very essence of life which diminished the spirits must consequently be dissolued In consideration whereof I counsell them that vse any moderate exercise not in any case to be let bloud least that corrupt water succeede in the place of the pure bloud But if they abound with bloud or their bloud be putrified and burnt if other medicines auaile not this law of mine must needes be infringed Shew mee a way to discerne the effects of bloud-letting If the bloud which is let out appeare red of colour and white water flow with it then the body is sound if bubbling bloud issue the stomack is diseased if greene the heart is grieued Of Purgations CHAP. 7. What is the vse of Purgations PVrgations as sometime they be very necessarie so often taking of them is most dangerous He that vseth exquisite Purgations and especially electuaries soluble shall quickly waxe old and gray-headed All Purgations a few simples onely excepted haue poysoned effects Besides nature aboue measure is compelled by Purgations and the vitall powers are diminished In respect of which reasons let euery man take heede of those butchering Surgeons and bloud-sucking Empiricks who rogueing vp and downe Countries doe murther many Innocents vnder pretext of Phisick Hee that obserueth a good dyet and moderately exerciseth his body needeth no Phisick Moist and delicate viandes eaten in the beginning of meales doe sufficiently loose the belly Sweet wines performe the very same Also the leaues of Scene sodden in water with