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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08178	The olde mans dietarie A worke no lesse learned then necessary for the preseruation of olde persons in perfect health and soundnesse. Englished out of Latine, and now first published by Thomas Newton.	Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1586 (1586)	STC 18513; ESTC S110157	16,675	50

THE Olde mans Dietarie A worke no lesse learned then necessary for the preseruation of Olde persons in perfect health and soundnesse Englished out of Latine and now first published by Thomas Newton Imprinted at London for Edward White dwelling at the little North-doore of Sainct Paules Church at the signe of the Gun 1586. To the right Worshipfull Maister Thomas Egerton Esquier Sollicitor vnto her most excellent Maiestie WERE it not Sir that your rare curtesie and singular affabilitie is by sufficient proof daylie tryall generallie to the world already knowen and in many a place to many a mans comfort both felt and tasted I should haue bene at this time much abashed thus boldy to prefix your Worshipfull name in the forhead of this poore Pamphlet Wherein I haue not ambitiously hunted after any blaunched termes or picked phrases neither to confesse the trueth doth this Argument either allow or require it But my purpose was with as much perspicuitie as I could to deliuer the meaning of myne Author which I trust in some reasonable measure and according to such proportion and pittance of skill as the Lorde hath endued mee withall I haue faithfully performed Accept it I beseech you as the gift of a poore Chesshyre-man the Countrey where your worship was also bred and borne and as an earnest penny of that vnfayned loyaltie which I duetifullie beare vnto you Assuring your self that although many things farre better in valewe and much finer for handeling might haue bene presented vnto you yet with a more syncere good will and vowed hart could not any thing haue beene possibly vnto you offered As knoweth the Almightie vnto whose good protection I doe with my humble prayer commende you At Little Jlford in Essex the viij of Ianuarie 1586. Your Worships poore Countreyman euer in the Lord to commaund Thomas Newton ¶ To the friendly Reader THE godlie trauailes and learned paines takē by sundry our Coūtreymen to acquaint the noble Art of Phisicke with our vsuall phrase and to inuest it with English attyer occasioned mee at the first to translate out of Latine into English a learned worke of Doctor Gratarolus and to publish the same in the yeere 1574. vnder the title of A Direction for the health of Magistrates Studients c. Which being of the wise learned not altogether misliked J hoping for the like good successe was afterwards easily entreated by a worshipfull Gentleman my very friend eft soones to tread the like path and to translate Leuinus Lemnius his notable worke De Crasi which first came abroad vnder the title of The Touchstone of Complexions in the yeere 1576. Since which tyme I haue not greatly dealt in any workes of this excellent Arte otherwise then for myne owne priuate studie wherein I haue found both ease and delight Jt may not seeme straunge to haue Phisicke bookes in English neither ought any man in my opinion to be thereat discontented The very fathers of Phisicke Hippocrates and Galene with others beeing Grecians wrate their workes in the Greeke tongue which to them was the mother tongue as the English is now to vs. The Romaines wrate in Latine beeing their proper language and the Arabians as Auicen in the Arabicke speech and others of other Countreis in the language that there was vsuall And wee cannot without the note of more then sauage ingratitude but confesse and acknowledge the great benefite and furtheraunce that wee still enioye by the painfull pennes and English treatises of many our owne Countreymen aswel in Phisicke as Chyrurgerie As namely of that worthy Knight Sir Thomas Eliot of Master Doctor Turner of Maister D. Record of Maister D. Phaer of Maister D. Cunningham of Maister D. Bulleyn of Maister D. Caldwell of Maister D. Iohnson of Maister D. Iones of Maister D. Boord Maister Traheron Maister Bright Maister Barowe Maister Securis Maister Lyte Maister Carye Maister Coxe Maister Hill Maister Gale Maister Baker Maister Banister Maister Hall Maister Clowes Maister Moore Maister Paynell M. Vicars M. Hester M. Basebridge and some others whose works J either haue not yet seene or at this present come not to remembrance If therfore herein I haue incurred blame which I trust with all indifferent vnaffectionate persons I haue not yet should it bee to mee some mitigation of griefe to march in rancke with so worthie excellent and painfull men If it be obiected that this studie sitteth not with my profession surely I therein rest resolute that Diuinitie as Ladie and Maistresse refuseth not nay of duetie claymeth chalengeth the seruice of all the other Artes and Sciences so as I thinke the surliest and waywardest Areopagite will not denye Howsoeuer it is thy curteous construction and friendly acceptance shall effectually satisfie my desire and throughly counteruaile my trauaile Farewell Thomas Newton ❧ The Old mans Dietarie VEry aptlie and truelie is Phisicke defined by Hippocrates where he saieth That it is the addition of those thinges which lacke and are too little and the withdrawing or subtraction of things which doe abound and are too much For seeing it hath pleased the Almightie Creatour in such constitution to create and make the bodie of Man that what through continuall wearing away and passibilitie of substaunce it minutely and hourely wasteth and decaieth what through outward qualmes accidents and causes externallie beetyding it is soone altered chaūged and quickly transposed it had therefore neede to bee supported guided and directed by the aduice of the learned and expert Phisition who as a wise Counsellor and prouident Maister may by his skill and knowledge bee able to recouer this losse recure this decay and in due time to repayre and restore in conuenient qualitie and quantitie the essence and substance thereof through daylie and continuall wearing forespent and miscaried But for so much as there is great diuersitie in Bodies aswell by their temperature proper naturall as also through their diuers trades and kindes of life accidentall and casuall wherby either more or lesse according to the constitutions of their bodies they bee subiect to inconuenient alteration yet as it were by a certaine necessarie and ineuitable lawe of nature there is ioyned vnto them a third kinde of bodie which is that in Old men the which also in it selfe greatly differeth and is vnlike and therefore the prouident foresight and circumspect care about the same must not bee small For this Age now standeth at receipt bearing carying and sustayning all the misusages faultes follies disdietes and disorders of forepassed Ages and so now by this reason of it selfe is weake feeble and vnweldie to all actions of the bodie And for this cause a special care for wholesome Diet must bee had in this Age rather then in any other For thereby the body now stowping doating and tottering with yeres is kept and conserued in lustie strong and healthie plight with the perfect and sound vse of the Senses euen till the very last cast of