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The Buckler of bodilie health whereby health may bee defended, and sickesse repelled: consecrate by the au[thor] the vse of his cou[...] [...]shing from his heart (though it were to his hurt) to see the fruites of his labour on the constant wellfare of all his countrie-men. By Mr. Iohn Makluire, Doctor in Medicine.
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by that extraordinarie appetite whereby men are carryed yea rather forced to eate more meate in that season than in the Summer this appetite proceedeth from the greater heate of the stomack then than at any other tyme. The other meane whereby the body is replenished is the envyroning cold whereby dissipation of these three substances to wit the airy humide and solide is hindered as also the excretion of the vapours by the small holes or pores of the body It is therefore needâ—ull to helpe nature and light her of this burhen by drawing of blood or phlebotomy and purging And because the reward of Physitians in this countrey being frequently My Lord GOD reward you hath made Physitians to bee scarse and no wonder for how shall his L. liue vpon this rent is it not to content my Lord with the poore folks almes who get often GOD helpe you they differ in forme but not in matter this scarsitie constraineth the Gentlemen to commit themselues to bee handled by ignorants who least they should deale with them as that Chirurgeon of Iedburgh dealt with his patients who forced all them of whom hee drew blood their wound vnder-cotting to returne to haue it healed and being asked the reason of this of his little boy hee answered that for making of the wound by opening of the veine hee gote a Weather but for curing of the same a Kow that every one may vnderstand for his owne well I will insist a little on phlebotomie and purging Of Phlebotomie PHLEBOTOMIE then is an evacuaâ—ion of the vitious humors abounding in the body mixed with the blood by the opening of a veine This is either vrged by the present disease which admittes no delay or it is voluntare for the preveening of the imminent when the present danger doeth presse it maye bee at any time of the yeere or any houre in the daye or night without exception and that in diverse places of the bodye as the nature of the disease shall require when it is by election or voluntarie for preveennig of future diseases the most fitte tyme of the yeere is the Spring in the latter end of March or the beginning of Aprile and the most proper houre in the daye is the morning an houre or more after you are awake hauing made a cleane Ship fore and est as the Sea-men saye the most accommodate place is the veine basilike or lever veine the Chirurgian hauing rubbed it with his hand or a drye cloth before for the gathering of the bloode thither then having tyed it let him make the incision beneath the place where it meeteth with the veine Cephalicke about two fingers breadth hauing marked the place before and anoynted it with a litle oyle holding the veine fast lest it should slyde with the thumbe of the left hand if the incision bee made with the right hand and leaning the hand wherewith hee openeth the veine on the arme of the patient that it may bee stable and giuing him who is bled a battoun in his hand for to stirre his fingers to that effect the bloode may issue the better and hauing drawne such a measure as the nature force and age of the person may well suffer slacking the band let him laye vpon the wound a little peece of linnen cloath dipped in water and tyed softly by a band of linnen till all danger of new bleeding bee past keeping still the arme all that daye free from all motion Blood may bee taken in greater measure of sanguineans and bilious than of melancholious and phlegmaticks of young men than of old and of men than women Except it bee of such who by often sacrificing to Bacchus their head takes now and then a giddie startling their tongue a tedious tratling their taile a vile wauering These monsters of nature shame of their sex crosse of their husband and disgrace of kin friend and allyance should bee bledde in both the leggs and armes and in the croppe of the tongue by a crosse sneck to that end it may bee made slower for talking and stiffer for drinking least continuing in this wicked mood they make their husbands Cuckolds their bairnes bastards and beggars themselves whoores and theeues Iustly many are molested with such beasts who glames at the turde for the twelfe pence sticken in it the corruption of our tyme being such that Tome the tinklers sonne metamorphosed in a Gentlman sutes mistresse Marie my Lords daughter and Sir Iohn my Lords second speares out for Sandie the Souters fourtie thousand mark Iennie This Tom aiming at vanitïe rather than vertue comes to honours or hornes by his wife and Sir Iohn looking to geare more than to grace is often perplexed while the trash is wasted by a Masie Fae or a Maly Dae I wonder that their vnequall conjunctions doe not fill the countrie with monsters lyke Muiets which is begotten betuixt a Mare and an Asse Of Loch-leachs Some vse Loch-leaches when they cannot haue the vse of drawing of blood These little beastes are not to be applyed presently after they come out of the water but they must bee keept foure and twentie houres in a vessell full of faire water that they may spue out this while the filthie mudde drosse is within them They should bee gripped with a whyte â—innen cloath for the bare hand cankers them The place to the which they are to bee applyed should be smeered over with blood to that end they may enter the sooner and when yee would haue them to fall sprinkle a little Aloes or salt on them if yee would them to draw more then they are able to containe cut off their taile while they are yet hanging and if the bleeding ' stanch not after they are fallen apply with a band of cloath or wooll brunt and beatten to pouder There bee other Loch-leaches or blood-suckers not spoken of here such bee gold greedie inventors of new impositions faith lesse victuall forestallers and treacherous quarrells and processe hatchers who bereauing by these meanes his innocent brother of his goods the entertainers of his life may bee tearmed rather man slayars than blood suckers These vnlyke to the former does sucke the best blood but like the former in others for they never of them selues fall from that sucking till they bee not able to containe any more if ye sprinkle them with the sharpe pouder of Aloes that is with justice then they fall and if you continue to persue them by the same you shall find them as the former by salt so they by it are forced to spue out the vndigested blood of the poore and cut mee the taile from them that is make them quyte of wyfe and barnes in whose person they feare the curse of the great judge These grinders of the face of the poore shall never make an end of sucking These as vnworthie to bee thought or spoken of by any good Christian I leaue to bee handled yea justly to bee hanged by the Iustice heire and if
THE BVCKLER OF BODILIE HEALTH Whereby Health may bee defended and sicknesse repelled consecrate by the Au 〈…〉 the vse of his Cou 〈…〉 〈…〉 shing from his heart though it were to his hurt to see the fruites of his labour on the constant wellfare of all his Countrie-men By Mr. IOHN MAKLUIRE Doctor in Medicine EDINBVRGH Printed by Iohn Wreittoun 1630. TO THE MOST NOBLE WORTHIE AND GENEROVS LORDS MY L. CHANCELLER PRESIDENT and the rest of the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable privie Counsell MY LORDS THE Philosophers who haue seriously by contemplation considered the nature of man haue learned into the schoole of veritie that he is the chiefe of all creatures vnder the Sunne seing all things in this theater to be made for his vse the Heaven the elements and all that doth depend of them appointed for his service Moreover they found such perfection in his fabricke so great miracles in his works that they could not find any thing in all this vniverse to whom they should licken him well except the world it selfe so they haue called him Microcosme or little world being as Plutarch sayeth the abridgment of the whole globe For it is certaine that GOD in the creation made all things before man and when hee was going about to make him hee made an reflexion of his divinitie and tooke a view of all his workes that he might print in this his last worke the quintessence all other with the beams of his owne image as man surpasseth the rest of the creatures in dignitie so the Magistrates private men but amongst the Magistrates of this Kingdome your LL. keepe the first ranke both by place and worth for in maintaining of peace and banishing of troubles in advancing and approving of the good and suppressing the evill your LL. haue given an cleare manifestation of both prudencie and vigilancie I knowing how your LL. did affect these who study to the well of the publick haue made bold to publish this smal work with your L names in the frontispice of it as most due to you nam vestri interest ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat Truely if the smyling brightnesse of your LL. sweetly shinning countenance had not glansed on my dazled eyes should haue beene forced with Diogenes in the day light with a candle to looke for a man festered with the milke of letters and now become a father and favourer of all such whose emolument depends from the advancement of vertuous studies Your LL. presence at the entrie Will preserue it from the virulent byting of viperous invyers and so shall incourage me to imploy the small talent the Lord hath imparted to me to your LL. service and the vse of the publick as your LL. Most humble servant I. Macluire D. M. TO THE TRVELY NOBILITATE HONORABLE AND GENEROVS GENTLEMAN IAMES MONTGOMERY ESQVIER SONNE TO MY LORD VISCOVNT OF the Airds in the Kingdome of IRELAND Health Right Honorable and worthie Sir HAving after a long calculation found out tyme of my conception almost doubting of the father as few honest women doe I knew in end the childe belonged by right to you which yet honest woman like I present to you willing it should carie your name in the fore-front Reject it not Sir either by reason of the vnlawfuluesse of the tyme being now eleven yeeres past since my first conception where others take but eleven months at the most the first lineaments being drawne and carefully yee fatherly vnder the cover of your wings by heate till it tooke lyfe hatched in the Vniversitie of St. Androws eleven yeares since or because of the vnlikenesse of the birth which doth not resemble you the father yet it is no wonder Sir it being babe like toothlesse tonguelesse sightlesse noselesse yea wholly senslesse and so vnable to bite againe the backbytter or make answere to the Critick babler to flee the Viper in the way â—r smell a farre of the sclanderous Censurer whose throate is become an open sepulcher You Sir the father having with the proportion of the members the sharpnesse of the senses and sweete harmony of these outward decorments that inward ornament of all to wit these eminent faculties of the soule which kithes in your conception graue and solideratiocination and memorie furnished from former observations with a copious matter to all sorte of wholesome discourse so that in-bred naturall wisedome and painfull acquired learning hath made you Sir absit verbo invidia justly to be thought by me who scarcely seeth any thing clearely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a just dimension of all things required in a noble generous mynd and a properly proportioned person Receaue therefore this silly babe Sir and let the perfections which are in you supplie the defects that are in it maintaine it by your authoritie from the vnchristen yea vncharitable railing tongues and ryving hands of all Waspe-like searchers of poysoun amongst hony flowers divel-like by invy hinderers never authors or furtherers of any good enterprise aiming at the well of the publick but them I regarde not laugh you Sir and let them lightly it receaue you it let them reject it to you Sir only being consecrate I doe offer it as a sure badge of my constant desire out of ardent affection Sir to liue and die Your most affectioned servant IOHN Makluire Doctor in Medicine TO THE READER REceaue gentle Reader this little treatile with that mynd it is presented which is humble without alledged pride and sincere without affected fard only desirous to serue GOD for which end I was formed and the countrie to which end I was called least now I should be idle while the Sunne of knowledge is eclipsed by the clowds of ignorance which hath bred such an apprehension of supposed weaknesse in the mynds of many when this science is inclosed in the person of a young professor that old ignorant ruffians practised Man-slayers are repute only worthie Physitians whose best cure hath beene vpon their owne purse if they haue bene but a by-stander in some desperate recoverie they are sclandered with it though guiltlesse and this hath bred their reputation to whom if once yee send your vrine yee must resolue to be sick howsoever for they will never leaue examining of it till they haue shaked it in a disease Of such our countrie and citie is filled for none from the Preacher to the cobler or the Lady to the landres but all doctorate deceavers by this the sorcerer venteth his divelrie the seminarie Priest his Poperie To you be it said my Lords of his Majesties Counsell and Session and on you be laide the blood of thâ—se poore ignorant innocents dayly precipitate to their graue By this neglect GOD is bereft of his servants and the King of his subjects helpe this my Lords and let not this old science commanded of GOD followed by Kings and Princes imbraced of all and renowmed by all over all secund to none divinitie except decay amongst you and