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A67477 Health's new store-house opened offering to familiar use such supplies as are most wanting and really needful to humane frailty. By health's student. Walwyn, William, 1600-1681. 1661 (1661) Wing W683A; ESTC R219279 14,204 35

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yet are they in aid of both by strengthening appetite and disgesture by rectifying and quickening all the natural faculties by opening and clearing all the most secret passages of the Body and either speedily d●scharging the Distemper or laying a sure foundation for farther help besides by their benign qualities and true Humane Temperature they are the most acceptable Food of the spirit the joy of the Heart and delight of Life and as the genuine heat of the Sun brought into the inward parts such and no other are their heat and comfort And through whose variety and specifique vertues hardly any distemper can befall but there is amongst them for fit relief even in all distresses and occasions and that with such safety and innocency that although they have been frequently used by the weakest both of men women and Children in their most weak and sickly estates yet never any thing but good was ever received from them so as these arrive happily to take place of all burning drying and impure helpers so much complain'd of in former times yea and warn'd against though little regarded as in these and the like sensible expressions I advise the healthy much more the weak to beware of those burning liquors which beguile the unadvised World chiefly in times of mirth and refreshment The Life of man or his Spirit is in the Blood which Blood is mild and quickly dryed up with violent heat Such as the Blood is such are the Spirits for they issue from the Blood it self and such as the Spirits are such is the temper or distemper of the Brain and Heart and such as the Brain is well or ill disposed so also are the virtues of Imagination Understanding and Memory Proper and true humanized helps to Diet and Physick such as these are therefore of more moment then can suddenly and cursorily be imagined For as another learned one saith The Meat and Drink which we Diet on or at least the better part is terminated into humours and at last into Spirits by whose efficacy the Flesh Nerves Bones and all parts of the body are nourished and augmented and do by the never-tyred work of supply repair decaying nature Of so great use are Spirits to the body and so exceedingly beneficial are al kindly means wch increase and improve them The truth is in that warfare which is maintained all our life-long twixt health and sicknesse the main Agents in our defence are our natural Spirits yea so material unto life have the wisest ever deemed them that they have assigned them to be like little indiscernable Chains 'To unite and fasten the Soul to the Body and which dissolving the dissolution of the whole Fabrick soon followeth Which office and effect of Spirits whoever duly weighs will soon perceive that as nothing is or can be of greater importance to mans health than the plenteous contribution of Genuine and Benign Spirits so also that the true Improving Virtue of all things taken into the Body dependeth upon their version to the true Humane Temperature Which being the peculiar qualification and proper work of those Moderate Spirits with which this little Store-house is furnished renders them most kindly and powerful assistants to Humane Frailty and an improvement of the Art of Health of great importance and not to be despised Having thus exprest sufficient to induce a belief that they are such an assistance to mans Nature as is really wanting needfull and effectual for supply of the daily wast and expence of Spirit for heightning and rectifying of Diet Medicine and Refreshment and for relief in all necessities and extremities Take a view of them in their particular Titles Vertues and Uses as followeth And as They are alwayes to be had at the Star in the Postern-Street joyning to little Moor-fields viz.   l. s. d. 1. Amicus Vitae Good in all Surfets Colds Agues c. at the Pint. 00-01-00 2. Sarguis Vitae In all Distempers of Stomach and Bowels at 00-02-00 3. Ad●utrix Vitae To procure Appetite and Digesture A pleasing Cordial 00-02 00 4. Vis Vitae For Dropsie Scurvy Spleen Wind Gravel 00-03-00 5. Succus Vitae For Convulsion Passie Falling-sicknesse c. 00-05-04 6. La● Vitae For Rickets Wormes Green-sicknesse Mother-Fits 00-05-04 7. Ra●●ix Vitae In Coughs Shortness of Breath Passions of the Heart Vomitings Looseness Gripings c. 00-06-00 8. Nutrix Vitae For Consumptions Defluxions a great strengthner 00-08-00 9. Salus Vitae For all Cases Infections Pestilential or Dangerous 00-08-00 10. Medulla Vitae For Wastings and all Weaknesses 00-12-00 11. Deliciae Vitae Against Sadness Melancholly a great Reviver 01-00-00 12. Stella Vitae Not so milde in Swounings and all Extremities 00-12-00 13. Ignis Vitae Very high in Lethargies Dulnesse of sight c. 00-16-00 There are also divers others AS Spirits of Oranges Lemons Cinamon Cloves Rosemary Angelica Mint Saffron Bawm Clary Wormwood Mace Nutmegs c. the vertues and uses whereof are so generally known as needs no information All extracted with such special regard to the true humane Temperature as renders them of singular use in all conditions especially to such whose weaker Constitutions require Mild and Gentle Helpers being called Spirits not for their Heat but from their sublime Purity and Vivacity which are more Spiritual Qualities and through which their Operations are not forcible and violent but like Benign Influences quiet secret sure and most effectual So ye have here a large variety of powerful Assistances to humane Frailty with whose virtues who ever throughly acquaint themselves may easily and pleasantly recrute their continual expence of Spirits and in their familiar use and strength and vigour to their usual diet solace and recreate themselves with real advantage to their healths and supply all sudden exigencies without fear of after-inconveniences Those now who know not by sad experience the difficulty of gaining credit to truths of this kind might well suppose enough had already been expressed to perswade at least a tast and tryal of these if not a fair and clear acceptation But so great a prejudice against new Discoveries remains upon the minds of the most by abuse of Deveivers That what hath been said in their behalf will hardly prevail for such a reliance upon their use as their virtues really deserve Therefore to silence all opposers and to obtain their chearful embracement take here the sure testimony of some instances of their happy victories and successes in divers remarkable cases and conflicts Wherein though the Studier and Producer of them have much to say for daily benefits to himself and relations too numerous to recount yet knowing whoever duly weighs the other instances will easily conclude They must needs have been most serviceable where they have been most employed he refers wholly to their other performances and cures else where The first of which shall be of a Child about four years old that had long time been extream ill through a Feverish Distemper The Parents using