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A47787	The temperate man, or, The right way of preserving life and health, together with soundness of the senses, judgment and memory unto extream old age in three treatises / the first written by the learned Leonardus Lessius, the second by Lodowich Cornaro, a noble gentleman of Venice, the third by a famous Italian; faithfully Englished.; Hygiasticon. English. 1678	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornarus, Ludwig.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1181; ESTC R32465	69,139	222

or because there was not a due space of time left for the perfect concoction of food doth imperfectly digest then that Chylus or juice which it makes of the meats so taken is said to be Crude that is raw or to have Crudity in it which brings many inconveniences First it fills the brain and bowels with many phlegmatick and bilious excrements Secondly it breeds many obstructions in the narrow passages of the bowels Thirdly it corrupts the temper of the whole body Lastly it stuffes the veins with putrid humors whereof proceed very grievous diseases 32. These things might be largely demonstrated but the thing is manifest enough of it self especially the first and the second point I will only therefore explain the third and fourth When the Chylus is crude or malignantly concocted by the stomach and rather corrupted than digested for so Aristotle calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a corruption not a concoction there cannot be bred good blood in the store-house of the Liver out of this kind of Chylus but only that which is bad and vicious For as Physicians affirm The second concoction cannot amend the first Now then from corrupt blood there cannot be made good nourishment in the body but of necessity the whole temper of the body is corrupted and so becomes subject to diseases For the third concoction which is made in the small pores of the body where the blood is assimilated to every part which it is to nourish and lastly disposed to the receiving of the form thereof cannot mend the second By this means the temper of the body through these Crudities is by little and little altered and marred and made subject to many inconveniences Again the crudity of the Chylus is a cause that the veins through the whole body are replenished with impure and foul blood and such as is mingled with many evil humors which in tract of time do by little and little putrifie and at last upon occasion of Labor Heat Cold Winds and the like are set on fire breaking out into great and perilous diseases whereby an innumerable company of men do perish even in the flower of their age These inconveniences a sober course of Diet prevents by taking away the Cruditities which are the cause of all For when there is no more taken in than the stomach can well concoct and afterwards sufficient space of time is allowed thereunto Crudities cannot arise but the Chylus is made good and agreeable to Nature And from good Chylus good blood is bred And from good blood there followeth good nourishment and good temper in and throughout the whole body By this means also the putrefaction of the humors in the veins is avoided as likewise obstructions in the inward parts and those superfluous excrements which do so often vex and molest the head and inward parts and joynts of the body So that a good constitution of the body and health is hereby preserved for they consist in these two things to wit the due proportion and symmetry of the humors both in respect of their quantity and quality and in a certain spongy kind of disposition throughout the whole body having no let nor impediment by obstructions so that the spirits and blood have their free passage and recourse through all parts Nor doth Sobriety only prevent the Crudity of humors and the evil consequences arising thereupon but it doth also consume the superfluous humors and that much more safely and effectually than bodily exercise doth as the famous Doctor Viringus doth learnedly shew in his Fifth Book concerning Fasting chap. 3 4 5. For Labor doth confusedly stir the body and alwaies exerciseth some parts more than other and most commonly only some few parts alone and that ofttimes with a great perturbation in the humors with much heat and hazard of sickness especially of Fevers Pleurisies and several kinds of Distillations upon sundry parts which breed much grief and pain But Abstinence pierceth far more inwardly even unto the very entrals and to all the joynts and knittings in the body and doth with ease and equality make a general evacuation For it extenuates that which is overthickened it opens that which is closed it consumes those things that are superfluous it unlocks the passages of the spirits and makes the spirits themselves the more clear and that without disturbance of the humors without fluxes and pains without heating the body and without hazard of diseases without expense of time or loss and neglect of better imployments Notwithstanding it must needs be granted That Exercise if it be used in due time and do not exceed measure is very profitable and to many necessary Yet ordinarily to such as lead temperate and sober lives and follow their studies being much given to the imployments of the mind there is no great need of long walks or other long continued exercises whereby much time is wasted and lost but it is sufficient if only for the space of a quarter or half an hour before meals they use to swing or to toss a Bar Stool or some such like heavy thing or taking in each hand a weight of Two or Three pounds they strike and swing their arms about them the one after the other as if they fought with a shadow These are Exercises which many grave and worthy men even Cardinals themselves do use and that not undecently in their Chambers And there is no other which I know that doth more stir all the muscles of the breast and of the back nor more rid the joynts of superfluous humors than these forenamed Exercises do CHAP. VI. Of Two other Commodities which it brings to the Body 33. THe second Commodity is That a sober Diet doth not only preserve from those diseases which are bred by crudities and inward corruptions of the humors but it doth also arm and fortifie against outward causes For they who have their bodies free and untainted and the humors well tempered are not so easily hurt by Heat Cold Labor and the like inconveniences as other men are who are full of ill humors and if at any time they be prejudiced by these outward inconveniences they are much sooner and easilier cured The self-same comes to pass in wounds bruises puttings out of joynt and breaking of bones in regard that there is either no flux at all of ill humors or at least very little to that part that is affected Now the flux of humors doth very much hinder the cure and causeth pain and inflamations Our Author doth confirm this by a notable proof in himself num 11. Furthermore a sober Diet doth arm and fortifie against the Plague for the venome thereof is much better resisted if the body be clear and free Whereupon Socrates by his Frugality and Temperance brought to pass that he himself was never sick of the Plague which oftimes greatly wasted the City of Athens where he lived as Laertius writeth libro

Two or Three days together For so they will both be easilier born and with much more benefit For the first day the first region as the Physicians term it is to be purged that is the Bowels The second day the Liver and the third day the Veins in which lies the great drain of ill humors For they who do not live temperately do every day add some crude humor which being sucked in by the veins as by a spunge is afterwards dispersed through the whole body 28. So that after Two or Three years space there is ofttimes such a mass of ill humors gathered in the body as a vessel big enough to hold Two hundred ounces would scarce serve to receive them in Now these humors in tract of time do corrupt and putrifie and cast a man upon mortal infirmities and are the very true ground why most men die so much before their time For almost all that die before old age die by this means those only excepted who are slain by outward violences as by fire sword wild beasts water or the like as also those who die of the stone of poyson of the plague or some such other infection And questionless there be many who with store and plenty of all things in their own houses die and perish through this abundance of malignant humors in their bodies who had they been condemned to the Gallies and there kept at bisket and water might have lived long and with good health This danger therefore may in great part be remedied by purging seasonably at least twice every year For so it will come to pass that neither the quantity of the ill humors will be very great nor be much putrified being evacuated and kept under by this purging at every half years end I have known many who by this means have prolonged their lives to extream old age and scarce all their lives long been oppressed with any great sickness CHAP. V. Of the Commodities which a sober diet brings to the body and first That it freeth almost from all diseases 29. NOw follows the third of those things which we propounded to wit The explication of those Commodities which a sober life brings both to soul and body The first Benefit therefore is That it doth free a man and preserve him from almost all manner of diseases For it rids away catarrhs coughs wheazings dizzinesses and pains of the head and stomach it drives away Apoplexies Lethargies Falling-sickness and other ill affections of the brain it cures the Gout in the feet and in the hands the Sciatica and those diseases that grow in the joynts It likewise prevents Crudity the mother of all diseases In a word it so tempers the humors and maintains them in an equal proportion that they offend not any way either in quantity or quality Now where there is an agreeable proportionableness amongst the humors there is no matter for sickness to work upon inasmuch as the ground of health lies in this That the humors be rightly and proportionably tempered in the body And this both Reason and Experience doth confirm For we see that those who keep them to a sober course of diet are very seldom or rather never molested with diseases and if at any time they happen to be oppressed with sickness they do bear it much better and sooner recover than those others whose bodies are full fraught with ill humors bred through the intemperance of Gluttony I know very many who although they be weak by natural constitution and well grown in years and continually busied in imployments of the mind nevertheless by the help of this Temperance they live in health and have passed the greatest part of their lives which have been many years long without any notable sickness The self same is to be made good by the examples of the Holy Fathers and Monks of old who lived very long healthy and chearful in the height of spare diet 30. The reason hereof is For that almost all the diseases with which men are ordinarily vexed have their beginning and birth from Repletion that is to say from mens taking more of meat and drink than Nature requires and then the stomach can perfectly concoct In proof whereof we see that almost all diseases are cured by Evacuation For blood is taken away either by opening a vein or by cupping-glasses leaches or otherwise that Nature may be lightened The great overflowing of humors in the bowels and throughout the whole body is abated and drained by Purgings and other Medicines Abstinence and a very spare diet is prescribed All which ways of cure do plainly shew that the disease was bred by Repletion For contraries are cured by contraries Whereupon Hippocrates Sect. 2. Aphor. 22. saith Whatever diseases are bred by Repletion are cured by Evacuation and those that are bred through Evacuation by Repletion But diseases by Evacuation happen seldom and scarcely otherwise than upon dearths sieges sea-voyages and the like chances In which cases the adust humor which the heat through want of food hath bred and kindled is first to be removed and after that the body by little and little is to be nourished and strengthened the measure of food being increased by degrees The self-same course is likewise to be held for the repair of Nature when upon great sicknesses the Evacuations have been many whereby the strength hath been much impaired Since therefore almost all diseases proceed from this ground to wit That more food is taken into the body than Nature requires it will follow That he who follows the just measure shall be free from almost all diseases Which thing is also intimated in that famous saying of Hippocrates l. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sect 4. The Rule of health is to eat without fulness and to be diligent in labor Whereby he makes the true course of preserving health to consist in spareness of food and exercise of the body 31. The self-same is confirmed by that which Physicians affirm That Crudities are the Nursery of all those diseases wherewith men are ordinarily vexed Whereupon Galen in his first Book concerning meats of good and evil juice or nourishment saith No man shall be oppressed by sickness who keeps himself warily from falling into Crudities And in respect of these Crudities the common saying is That more are killed by surfets than by the sword And the holy Scripture saith Ecclus. 37. Many have perished by surfets but he that is temperate should prolong his life And a little before Be not greedy upon every dainty and pour not thy self out upon every meat for in many meats there will be sickness Now a sober course of Diet doth prevent these Crudities and thereby cuts away the ground of diseases That which we call Crudities is the imperfect concoction of Food For when the stomach either through the over-great quantity of meats or for their refractory quality or for the variety of them taken at the same time

the Brain they cause Frenzies and Madness If a tart Humor replenish the tunicles of the Stomach it breeds a continual Hunger and Ravening If there be store of boiling blood in the body it incites continually to Lust especially if together with it there be any flatulent or windy matter The reason is Because the Affections of the mind follow as is well known in Philosophy the apprehensions of the Phansie Now the apprehension of the Phansie is conformable to the disposition of the Body and to the Humors that are predominant therein And hence it comes to pass that Cholerick persons dream of fires burning wars and slaughter Melancholy men of darkness funerals sepulchres hobgoblins runnings away pits and such sad and doleful matters The Phlegmatick dream of rains lakes rivers inundations drownings shipwracks The Sanguine of flyings courses banquets songs and love-matters Now Dreams are nothing else but the apprehensions of the Phansie when the Senses are asleep Whereupon it follows that as in sleep so also in waking the Phansie doth for the most part apprehend things answerable to the Humor and Quality then prevalent and especially upon the first presentment of the object till it be corrected and otherwise directed by reason So then the excess of these Humors doth pervert the natural condition and apprehension of the Phansie For Choler inasmuch as it is extream bitter and contrary to Nature causeth a man to apprehend other mens words or deeds or any thing that displeaseth him as if it were intended against him with despight and injury And because this Humor is fiery and impetuous it makes the apprehension to be swift and violent and drives a man on to a speedy repulse and revenge of the evil which he conceiveth done towards him The Melancholick Humor is heavy cold and dry lumpish sower swart in colour and very hurtful to the heart And so it causeth that the Phansie apprehends all things as having enmity bringing sorrow and full of darkness Now by reason of the cold and heaviness therein it comes to pass that this Humor doth not incite a man to the repulse of evil as Choler doth which is light and active but on the contrary it casts a man into fears flight and delays Phlegm is cold and moist whereby it comes to pass that the apprehension is slow and dull to every thing without any vigor acrimony or alacrity So that Choler makes a man angry rash hasty bold earnest quarrelsome peevish angry at every thing a swearer a curser a clamorer and a brawler And hence arise so many injuries fightings wounds and slaughters as are rife amongst men For even those things which are committed upon drunkenness do for the most part come from the fury of Choler set on fire and augmented by the wine Melancholy makes men sad faint-hearted timorous solitary thoughtful and inclining to despair And as Choler whilst it boils doth for a short space pervert the right judgment of the mind so Melancholy perverts it almost alwaies especially if it be that kind which possesseth the brain or sends up foul vapors from the Hypochondriacal parts into the Head and Heart Phlegm makes men slow feeble sleepy fearful forgetful and in a word altogether unfit for matters of worth For albeit this Humor be not so hurtful to the Body as Choler and Melancholy it is nevertheless exceeding contrary to the functions of the Mind inasmuch as by the coldness thereof it dulls the vigor of the spirits and by the moistness thereof it cloyes the brain and stops up the passages of the spirits 48. Now a Sober Diet doth in great part remedy all these evils For by the continuance thereof the evil Humors are by little and little abated Nature either consuming or driving them out and especially if there be adjoyned some little help by means of purging Medicines Furthermore the temper of the body is corrected inasmuch as there is a supply of pure and well-tempered a supply of pure and well-tempered blood which is neither mixed with Crudities nor corrupted by superfluous Humors nor exceeding in any hurtful quality And hereupon we see those men that are accustomed to Sobriety to be calm affable courteous chearful tractable and moderate in all things For the benign juice or nourishment which Nature works upon causeth benign affections and manners and the malignant juice such as Choler and Melancholy breed if they exceed either in Quantity or Quality causeth fierceness and wildness in the affections and manners Wherein it is also very considerable That evil Humors do not only excite and stir up passions and set them on work but again by a certain Sympathy that is between them are themselves also set on fire and strengthened by the passions and being thus kindled and strengthened they add new force and strength to the passions augmenting and confirming them This is evident in the Cholerick Humor which when it is abundant stirs up wrath by means of the apprehension of the Phansie which it hath corrupted And on the other side the commotion of Anger by a certain kind of Sympathy sets on fire the spirits and the cholerick humor and then again the cholerick humor being inflamed causeth the Phansie to apprehend the matter more strongly and vehemently so that the injury seems much greater than it did before And hereupon the commotion of Anger it self is increased and fortified And so it ofttimes happens that men run out from Anger into Madness if so be the Phansie dwell long upon imagination of the injury It is therefore the best counsel that can be given to perswade a man to turn away his thoughts from the injuries that he conceives to have received inasmuch as the thinking upon them is prejudicial not only to the Mind but also to the Body In like manner the Melancholick Humor by means of the Phansie stirs up grief although there be no true ground for it and grief thus set on work by a certain kind of Sympathy straitens the heart and hinders the Dilatation thereof whereby the melancholick humor becomes adust and more malignant in regard that the sooty fumes cannot be dispersed And being thus become more malignant it multiplies the affection of grief and ofttimes thrusteth on to despair and to deadly resolutions CHAP. X. That it preserveth the Memory 49. THe Third Commodity arising to the Soul from a sober Diet is The preservation of the Memory For Memory is above all things most hurt by a cold humor possessing the Brain which commonly useth most to molest intemperate persons and those who are stricken in age For this humor both stops up the narrow passages of the spirits and benumbs the spirits themselves making them sluggish whereby the apprehensions of the mind become slow languid and inconstant and ofttimes they do so fail a man in the midst of his discourse as himself knows not what it was he said nor about what he was speaking but is fain to ask the standers by concerning the