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A25287	The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.	A. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2B; ESTC R222542	90,076	270

be Light as Fire and Aire because these delight to move upward the other two are heavy viz. the Earth and Water because they incline downward The two first as Fire and Aire are called Active the two latter are accounted passive Because the first by reason of their innate and active heat doe act upon and as it were incubat upon the other as that Divine Philosopher in his Genes gives us an Account The Spirit of God moved upon the face and superficies of the Water in which the Earth the Womb of all things lay obscure From the Composition of these come all mixed Bodies and from the variety of mixtion comes the variety of Temperament CHAP. II. Of Temperaments A Temperament which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is defined to be a due Proportion of the four first Qualities of the Elements Avieenna defineth a Temperament to be a Quality brought forth and arising from a proportion of mixed Elements it is a proportionable mixture of hot cold moist and dry And th●● Agreement springs from the four fi●● Bodies of the World and according to this proportion Temperaments in Bodies receive their Denom●nations There is a double Temperament one absolute and to temperated 〈…〉 the other ad Justitiam in singulis generibus the first is that wherein there is an even and equal proportion of mixed Elements neither more of hot than cold neither of moist than dry The Temperament ad Justitiam is that which hath not an exact Evenness o● parity of Contraries but that due ●ediocrity which it ought to have ac●●rding ●o its own Nature or is convenient to its kind or species So that the Aequality of Mixtion is not received according to an Arithmetical but Geometrical proportion and from hence arise the temperaments in Bodies and their Denominations Hence it is that one man is said to be sanguine because the Element of Aire doth most abound in that man and another is Melancholly because he abounds in Temperament with the Earthy Faeces which we call Melancholy and so of the rest Flegmatick or Cholerick Hence also arise the temper of the parts which constitute mans Body For Example a Membrane is dryer than a Vein a Tendon than a Membrane and a Bone than both From hence arise that variety of temperaments with respect to the several Ages of men and therefore Pythagoras divided Mans Life into four Ages and compared the whole course thereo● to the four Seasons of the year Childhood to the Spring in which time al● things grow and sprout out by reaso● of the abundance of plenty of Moysture and Youth to the Summer because of the Vigour and Strength tha● men enjoy at that Age and Man'● state or constant Age to Autumn fo● that then after all the dangers of fore● past Life the Gift of Discretion an● Wit acquire a Ripeness like as th● Fruits of the Earth enjoy at that Season As also the temperament of the seaso● of the Year the Spring according t● Hypocrates is hot and moist but it i● the Opinion of all men that the Sprin● is temperate the Summer hot and dry the Autumn cold and moist and the Winter cold and dry And from hence also arise the temperature of the Blood The Blood as Temperature of the Blood Galen affirms is most temperate in that it is neither hot nor moist but temperate as it is in its first composure None of the four first qualities exceeds The temperature of Flegm other by any manifest excess Flegm as that which is of a waterish nature is cold and moist Even as Choler being The temperature of Choler of a fiery temper is hot and dry but Melancholly assimilated to each is Temperature of Melancholly cold and dry And so much may serve to be spoken to Temperaments CHAP. III. Of Parts THe next thing to be handled in the part of Physiologia is a Part what it is A Part is defined to be being largely taken whatsoever maketh to the Constitution of a Humane Body There are many Division of parts but the chiefest of all is into containing and contained The Parts containing are the solid parts which are sustained by themselves and they are divided into Similar and Dissimilar And the Similar are again divided into Spermatick and Sanguine The Dissimilar parts are those which are not compounded from part of that same Nature but from other differing species or otherwise they are call'd Instrumental because they are the Instrument of the Faculties and Functions Organical parts are divided into Animal Vital and Natural and these are divided into Principal and Ministring Those parts are called principal which have the Gubernation of the rest and they ministring which are subservient and ministers to the rest CHAP. IV. Of Humours THere are fluid parts which are sustained by the help of the other parts such as are the Humours and Spirits The Humours are either Alimentary or Excrementitious the Alimentary humour is that that is dedicated for the nourishing of the solid parts which do draw their Original from a Commixtion of the four Elements But the Excrementitious are the superfluous Liquors unusefull and unfit to Nutrition and these are distinguished into Primary and Secondary The Primary are those which pass with the Chyle into the Liver being put on by the power of the Native heat in every part of the Body are distributed by the Veins to Nutrition And of these primary hu●ors there be four Blood Chole● Melancholy and Flegm which be mixed ●ll together in the Veins This fo●●-fold mixture of humours is call'd the Mass of Blood by reason that the blood doth abound in that Mass The name of Blood is sometimes taken largely for the whole mass of Blood but properly it signifies the more benign and purer part of it generally the Blood is accepted for the whole bloody mass well tempered which from an equal mixtion of the four contrary humours and so there ariseth a harmony from a just and decent proportion of humours but if it be co●sidered by it self as pure and since 〈…〉 is hot and moist in temperature 〈…〉 Nature it resembleth Aire and not as by Reason of this tempeature but also in consistence colour savour and use it is discerned from other humours Blood is of such a mediocrous consistence that while it is retain'd within the bounds of Nature it appear not thicker nor thinner it is of a red colour a sweet taste it mightily nourisheth the musculous parts as often a● it exceedeth above the rest it maketh men fleshy flourishing fair pleasan● and merry But Alimentary bile is the thinne● part of the bloody mass partaking o● a fiery Nature by temperament hot and dry of a yellow or a pale yellow to taste bitter men in whom it abounds are cholerick lean hardy quick soon angry But the Excrementitious is drawn forth to the bladder of Gall and that it might stir up the Ejection of the Excrements and that it might

gently cleanse off the Flegm and hindrances adhering to the Intestines Alimentary Melancholly is the thic●●● Melancholly what part of the mass of Blood by na●ure Earthy in Temperament cold and dry in colour black in taste soure men in whom it abounds are sad thoughtfull morose severe constant the more solid parts of the body dry The Excrementitious is carried to the Spleen where the Alimentary part which yet remains being the more benign Juice the rest is separated when it is press'd into the stomach by the Vas breve that it may stirre up Appetite to meat and doth endeavour to retain the Meats there till they be concocted The Alimentary Flegm is the more thin part of the bloody mass of a waterish Nature in temperament cold and moist in colour white in savour sweet men in whom this abounds be dull sleepy gross fat they are clear and soft administring Aliment to the Brain and other cold moist parts Excrementitious Flegm is a serous or a wheyish superfluity which is separated from the blood and is transmitted to the Bladder by the Ureters where it is call'd Urin. Here follow the Signs of a Sanguine person HE hath a flourishing and a Rose-colour in his face as it were with an equal mixture of white and red by reason of the skin lying outmost of a red because of the Blood spread underneath the skin In manners he is courteous gentle easie to be spoken to of a lovely Countenance and a smooth forehead seldom angry but taking all things in good part for as is the nature of humours so is the disposition of manners their Dreams are pleasant they are troubled with Diseases arising from the Blood as frequent Flegms many sanguine Pustils breaking through the skin much bleeding they delight in the use of cold and dry things and are affected with hot and moist Signs of a Cholerick Person CHolerick men are of a pale or a yellowish colour of a lean slender rough habit of Body with fair Veins and large Arteries a strong and quick Pulse their Skin being touched feels hot dry hard rough and harsh with a pricking and acrid Exhalation which breaths forth of their whole body they cast forth much Choler by Stool Vomit and Urine they are of a quick and nimble wit stout hardy and sharp Vindicating of Injuries received liberal even to prodigality and somewhat desirous of Glory their sleep is light and that from which they are quickly awaked their Dreams are fiery burning quick and full of fury they are delighted with meats and drink that are somewhat more cold and moist and are subject to burning and Tertian Feavers the Phrensie Jaundise Inflamation and other Cholerick Pustils The Signs of a Phlegmatick Person THose in whom Phlegm hath the dominion are of a whitish coloured face and sometimes livid and swollen with their body-fat soft and cold to touch they are molested with phlegmatick diseases as Oedomatous Tumours the Dropsie Quotidian Fevers falling away of the Hairs and Catarrhes falling down upon the Lungs and the aspera Arteria or the Weasen they are of a slow capacity dull slothfull drowsie they do dream of Rains Snowes Floods Swimming and such like that they often imagine themselves overwhelmed with waters they vomit up much watery and Phlegmatick matter or otherwise spit and evacuate it and have a soft and moist tongue And they are troubled with a dog-like hunger if it at any time should happen that their insipid Phlegm become acid and they are slow of digestion by reason of which they have great store of cold and phlegmatick humours which if they be carried down into the windings of the Cholick Gut they cause murmuring and noyse and sometimes the Cholick for much wind is easily caused of such like phlegmatick Excrements wrought upon by a small and weak heat such as Phlegmatick persons have which by its na-natural lightness is diversly carried through the turnings of the Guts and distends and swells them up and while it strives for passage out it causeth murmurings and noyses in the Belly like wind breaking through narrow passages The Signs of a melancholick Person THe face of a melancholick person is swart their countenance cloudy and often cruel their aspect is sad and froward frequent Schirrhous or hard Swellings Tumors of the Spleen Haemorrhoids Varices or swollen Veins Quartane Fevers whether continual or intermitting Quintane Sextane and Septimane Fevers and to conclude all such wandring Fevers or Agues set upon them but when it haphappens the melancholly humour is sharpened either by adustion or commixture of Choler then Tetters the black Morphew the Cancer simple and ulcerated the leprous and filthy Scab sending forth certain scaly and bran-like Excrescences being vulgarly called Saint Menis his Evil and the Leprosie it self invades them they have small Veins and Arteries because Coldness hath Dominion over them whose property is to streighten as the quality of heat is to dilate but if at any time their Veins seem big their largeness is not by reason of the laudable blood contained in them but from much windiness by occasion whereof it is somewhat difficult to let them blood not onely because that when the Vein is opened the blood flowes slowly forth by reason of the cold slowness of the humours but much the rather for that the Vein doth not receive the impression of the Lancet sliding this way and that way by reason of the windiness contained in it and because that the harsh driness of the upper skin resists the edge of the Instrument Their bodies seem cold and hard to the touch and they are troubled with terrible Dreams for they are observed to seem to see in the Night Devils Serpents dark Dens and Caves Sepulchers dead Corpses and many other such things full of horror by reason of a black vapour diversly moving and disturbing the brain which also we see happens to those who fear the water by reason of the biting of a mad Dog You shall find them froward fraudulent parsimonious and covetous even to baseness slow speakers fearfull sad complainers carefull ingenious lovers of solitariness Man-haters obstinate maintainers of Opinions once conceived slow to anger but angered not to be pacified But when Melancholly hath exceeded Natures and its own bounds then by reason of putrefaction and inflammation all things appear full of extreme fury and madness so that often they cast themselves head-long down from some high place or are otherwise guilty of their own death with fear of which notwithstanding they are terrified But we must note Changes of the Native temperament do often happen in the course of a mans Life so that he which awhile agone was sanguine may now be cholerick melancholick or phlegmatick not truely by the changing o● the blood into such humours but b● the mutation of Diet and the cours● or Vocation of Life for none of a sanguine Complexion but will prove cholerick if he eat hot and dry meats a● all like things are cherished

and preserved by the use of their like and co●traries are destroyed by their contr●ries and weary his body by viole● Exercises and continual labour An● if there be a suppression of choleri● Excrements which before did freel● flow either by Nature Will or Art b● whosoever seeds upon meats gener●ting gross blood as Beef Veniso● Hare old Cheese and all salt meats without all doubt sliding from his N●ture will fall into a melancholy te●per especially if to that manner Diet he shall have avocation full cares turmoils miseries strong a● much study carefull thoughts and fea● and also if he sit much wanting Ex●cise for so the inward heat as it w● defrauded of its nourishments fai● and growes dull whereupon gross a● drossie humours abound is gone out of the belly shall stuffe his panch with more Who presently after meat runs into violent Exercises who inhabit cold and moist places who lead their life at ease in all idleness and lastly who suffer a suppression of the phlegmatick humour accustomely evacuated by Vomit Cough or blowing the Nose or any other way either by Nature or Art Certainly it is very convenient to know these things that we may discern if we at the present be phlegmatick melancholick or of any other temper whether he be such by Nature or Necessity Of Spirits IN order of Nature that that offers it self to the next hand is concerning Spirits A Spirit consider as a part of a man and that which enters our Constitution is defined to be an aiery thin and clear substance the seat of the native heat the Vehiculum of the Faculties and Instrument of the out-going Functions and of these there be two sorts one is the In-nate and the other is the In-flowing Spirit The In-nate Spirit is that which is put into every Similar part by the Principles of Generation and that which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the Foundation of the Humidum radicale The In-flowing Spirit is that which breaks forth from elsewhere and nourisheth and preserveth the Faculty and innate heat carrying it every where to the acting the Functions Of this In-flowing Spirit there be three kinds Animal Vital and Natural The first is the Animal Spirit an● that which is begotten from the Vital Spirit and the inspired Aire int● the Ventricle of the Brain and distributed by the motive and sensitiv● Nerves giving sence and motion to th● whole Body The Vital Spirit is that which is begotten in the left bosome of the heart and the prepared Aire in the Lungs whence it is distributed to all the part● by the Arteries The Natural Spirit which goes forth from the Liver by the Veins with the Blood is poured forth into the Extream parts of the Body the Author of Generation Nutrition and Increase Of the Faculties A Faculty it is the Innate power of the Soul used to the performance of Actions and it is defined by Galen to be the Effecting Cause of Actions and therefore is call'd a Faculty Quod quae facit facere possit So that is understood by the Name of a Faculty which hath a power to doe and these Faculties are stated to be Animal Vital and Natural And that is the Animal Faculty which is onely proper to the Animal and for that cause it is so called That is Vital which the Vital begets in the heart and is sent forth from thence by the Arteries for the preservation of Life whence also it receives the Name of Vital The Natural Faculty is that which is in the Liver and sends Aliment to all the parts of the Body by the Veins Of Actions AN Action proceeds from a Faculty call'd in Latine a Function and therefore also they call it an Operation And as an Action so also a Function is three-fold Animal Vital and Natural But Action is defined by Galen to be of two sorts Animal and Natural From the Animal they are call'd Anamae Actiones but from the Animale Actiones Animi CHAP. V. Of Things not Natural THese Res non Naturales are s● call'd because they are not o● the number of those which enter into the Constitution or Composu● of mans Body as the Elements Humors and the rest which have been briefly mentioned already There are six thing which are Res non Naturales The ambient Aire Meat and Drink Sleep and Watching Motion and Quiet Excretion and Retention and Perturbation of the Mind in the right use of which doth consist the pr●●ervation of Health And to this purpose that Aire is to be Aire chosen which is neither thick nor rimy nor cloudy neither neer to standing Pools or Rivers but thin and serene neither too hot nor too cold neither too dry nor too moist neither infected with the ill Gales of Lakes common Sewers Sinks nor the filthy breath that is exhaled from dead Carkases nor corrupted by putrifying Dungs or any thing that sends forth filthy fumes neither that which is sent forth by windes out of the Mountains into the Vales and Caves and shut up in other hollow places but pure and thin Of Meats THat Food is to be chosen which is Of Meat of good Juice easie of Concoction that hath not much Excrementitious matter but Food of an ill Juice is to be rejected the particulars of which you will hear more hereafter upon treating of the Scurvy Those are call'd Foods of good Juice which are neither too hot nor too cold dry or moist but ●emperate neither too glutinous nor too thin but of a Medium because they beget good Blood that is neither too thick nor too thin The Quantity of Food must be measured Quantity by the Ability of the Concoctive Faculty and of whole Natures Ability to distribute that which is requisite to the nourishment to every part and therefore the quantity must not abound the power of the native heat and to this end it must be well chewed and ground by the teeth that being swallowed into the stomach the first shop of Nature it may be the easier concocted The Time of taking Food must not Time be before the fore-received Food be cast out by the power of the Expulsive Faculty into the Guts out of the Stomach The Drink must be Beer well boy'ld The drink made of Barley-malt or mixed with Oats it must not be red nor white neither sharp or soure but well boyl'd if Beer and clear and pure of good odour The Quantity of Drink must answer Quantity of drink the Quality of the received Food for if the Food be more solid and dry the Drink may be more liberal where the meats are more moist the Drink must be the less Much swashing of the stomach with The Time drink at Meals is disapproved as unwholsom and yet it must not be too sparing because that will not quench the thirst which is to be regarded As to the Time of Drink as Hunger doth admonish us when to eat so Thirst

a little before Meals and chiefly for them that have hot dry Stomachs or are subject to Obstructions of the Stomach or Mesaraick Veins and of the Liver and Reins for it wonderfully refreshes a hot and dry Stomach but it is no way good to drink White-wine or Rhenish at Meals or soon after meals onely it may be allowed to them that are afflicted with much astrictness of the Stomach for being drunk too soon after Meats they disturb the Meats and too much hasten their passage from the Stomach before they be concocted and by that means they pass into the Bowels undigested whence it cometh to pass that the body doth greatly abound with flatuous Crudity White and Rhenish Wine are very pernicious for such as be Rheumatick and subject to fluxion and distillation of humours to the Lungs Breast Joynts or any other parts of the Body and for lean Constitutions and therefore let this serve for a Caution to such as be subject to the Gout or any Rheumatismes that in stead hereof they drink Milk or Water Claret-wine is in Temperature and Nature very neer to these but of an astringent faculty which is clearly discovered by the astringent savour thereof it greatly strengtheneth the Stomach breedeth good humours stirreth and quickeneth the Appetite quencheth Thirst it greatly helpeth Concoction exhilarateth the Heart it is very profitable for them of a hot Constitution that have hot stomachs and are young but it greatly offendeth a moist and cold Constitution that aboundeth with raw and crude humours and is subject to distillations from the head and this chiefly if it be taken immoderately This Wine is chiefly to be taken with meat for then it puts forth and proves profitable in the fore-recited properties and above all this Wine is most hurtfull in regard of the rheumatick Nature of it the most pernicious to Gouty and rheumatick persons But being with moderation taken at Meals it is for temperate bodyes being pure and quick Wine not much inferior to the Regal Wines of France for it rectifieth the Stomach and comforteth it it is acceptable to the heart and breedeth good blood it is deemed the best of all Wines for Cholerick Bodyes and for Phlegmatick the worst It is not good to drink this Wine between Meals but in the middle of the Meal take a draught or two and if you please you may dulcifie it with a little Sugar and this will make it the more acceptable to the Stomach and comfortable to the Heart and by observation of these you may expect a quickening of the spirits a pleasant Cheerfulness of mind there being a good Concoction of Meats consequently a healthfull state of Body That high and rich Nectar called by the Name of Sack which so richly abounds with that most excellent Vegetable Sulphur for which cause it is in high estimation with all those Northern parts of the World is deemed to be hot in the third degree and of thin parts and therefore it doth more vehemently and quickly heat the Body The over and unseasonable use of this Wine doth over-heat the Liver exsicccate the radical moysture inflame the blood and is hurtfull to bodyes of a hot and dry temperature but the moderate use to them to whom it is agreeable it helpeth the Stomach to digest furthereth the distribution of the Meats to all the parts of the body concocteth the crude and consumeth the Excremental humours and in summe it mightily strengtheneth all the powers and faculties of Body and Mind It is most sit for Old Age weak Stomachs cold Constitutions abounding with crude humours cold Countreys and cold and moyst seasons of the year it is chiefly to be drunken after meats of a gross substance and such as consist of an Excrementitious moisture as Pork-Flesh Fish c. And though there is a difference even among Sacks yet what is spoken of one may indifferently be applyed to all though some commend Sherry-sack as most profitable to the Stomach to further and help the Concoctions and confirm the Habit of the whole body and of all Wines they esteem this the best at meals for the Aged persons of a cold and phlegmatick Constitution but yet such as are of a hot lean and cholerick temper and Constitution must forbear it Canary Sack so called because it comes from the Canary Islands differeth from Sherry in Sweetness as also in Colour and Consistence it is less Penetrative and more Nutritive Canary is an excellent Wine to be taken at Meals for its pleasant taste refreshing odour and comforting the Stomach it is best for cold Constitutions old bodies and weakened by labour it must be ●autiously used for it is a Wine which if liberally taken it will quickly inflame and therefore warily to be used by hot and cholerick Bodies Malmsey is a Wine in Operation very hot and being sweet it nourisheth very much and therefore it is commended for old cold and weak and decayed Bodies but is very hurtfull f●r such as be hot because it is very easily converted into Choler it is judged by some to kil● Worms by a certain hidden Property however it is a very convenient thing to give any Medicine for the killing of Worms as that by whose sweetness the Worms will be induced t● prey upon the Remedy Mu●kadel is very much like Malmsey wherefore in defect of that this may be used it is als● an excellent Wine for all old cold bodyes b● such as are of a hot temperature must forbea● this Wine Bastard is in vertue not much unlike Muskadel and may be used instead of that thoug● there is the same Inferiority in this to Muskadel as in Muskadel to Malmsey and the ●s● of this is likewise hurtfull to hot and youn● bodies Alicant Raspy or Tent it is made of the Juic● of Mulberries c. it is of a gross Nature notwithstanding it is quickly concocted into blood and is therefore fit for lean and thin bodies whose humours are too fluxible For person● that are weak and wasted and consumed by sicknesses and that need much nourishment and that is easie of Concoction but for gros● bodies and such as are subject to Obstruction it will quickly prove nauseous and hurtfull Wine of Orleance is stronger than any other French Wine and in taste very pleasant it is in goodness scarcely inferiour to Muskadel it is hurtfull to such as have weak Brains hot Livers and such as are of a cholerick Constitution for it doth speedily over-heat the Liver and annoy the head but there is not a better Wine for cold and flegmatick Constitutions and those that have weak Stomachs for it comforts the Stomach helps the Concoction vivifies the Spirit because it contains a generous heat in it self and it also furthereth the distribution of the Meats and through the mediocrity of its substance procureth a good Nutrition to them that be of a hot and cholerick temperature and also to them that be young it is very hurtfull but very proprofitable

to the phlegmatick and aged persons Greek Wine is of a blackish red colour and is of a temperate nature sweeter and hotter than Claret yet accompanyed with a pleasing sharpness it breedeth good blood reviveth the Spirits strengtheneth the Liver and comfor●eth the Stomach cheereth the heart it is most profitable for those that be weak and aged Red Wine is of an astringent faculty of a sharp austere taste and it is chiefly good for Physical uses to stop fluxes of the Belly and Cholerick Vomitings There are also other French Wines for pleasantness of Taste and Mediocrity of strength substance colour and taste do for most bodies at meat excell most other wines which are in use familiar to the Kings and Peers of France they notably comfort the Stomach further Concoction and the Distribution of Meats and hurt not the head with vaporous fumes they are very convenient for every Age Constitution and Season and indeed as they are so they deserv● the name of Regal Wines Also there is a great difference in Wines by reason of their Age for wines that are New are unwholsom and the more new the more unwholsom for they being new and unfermented by which the Sulphur of the wine is set at liberty they are as yet of gross and Excremental substance have in themselves little heat fo● that cause they do not help but much hinder th● Concoction and Distribution they cause Cholick Torments and breed Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins but in process of tim● these superfluities and rawness are by Fermentation overcome and the thick is become thin the dull quick and lively and that that was heterogeneous to our nature is become most agr●eable to our Constitution Though you are to observe that all VVine● have not the same time of continuance for thos● wines that are less rich with sulphurous spirits will not la●t so long as those that are as VVhite wine Rhenish and Claret for these in six o● seven months according to the smallness of the● attain to the height of their goodness and d● begin to decline after a year and lose much ● their goodness and this is proportionable to th● smallness of them but those stronger sorts o● wine which abound with a sat Sulphur as Sack Muskadel Malmsey decay not till they be tw● or three years old for these by reason of their strong heat do reserve their prefect Vigour for a long time and as these wines are unwholsome whilest they are new so are they also if they be too old for when they have passed four or five years they are unwholsome because they over-heat much for they acquire the more heat the older they are and in summe such wines are to be shunned except onely for Medicine because they alter the bodies over-much that drink them and therefore not fit for Aliments such wines hurt the sinews hinder procreation because they dry too much they disturb the understanding and because they abound with tart and vehement fumes they affect the membranes of the Brain with cruel pains Take heed therefore of wines over-old or over-new and the Newness of wine is to be considered according to the Nature of the wines for white and Rhenish wine may be used sooner than those other more fat and sulphur●ous wines and therefore Galen saith that Muste or New wine hath no other use but to move the belly which if it want that faculty it is to the body extreamly ill and hurtfull You are to observe five things in exhibiting of wine The first is That you give it not to Children for it will not agree to their hot and moist Constitution they would thereby be over-hot and their heads fill'd with vapours whence would follow many Evils The Second is That it be not given to Youths from fourteen years to twenty five for wine is very repugnant to them because it doth out of measure heat their hot and fiery Natures i● would stir them up to enormous and Evil Action The third is That it be very moderately given to young men as for instance from Twenty five to Thirty five for otherwise it will dispose them to wrath and unlawfull desires du● the Wit and destroy the Memory The Fourth is That it may be given more liberally to men in their Manhood as fro● Thirty five to Fifty years of Age But whe● they are past Forty years they may begin t● drink and refresh themselves with wine with th● proceding Caution of Moderation and especially if they be not of a hot Constitution but if so let them abstain from the hotter sort of Wines and above all from the often use of them fo● the head and sinews will be much offended by them The fifth is that it be given with more liberality to old men and these may drink the stronger sort of Wines and this chiefly whe● they are in the latter part of old Age as fro● Sixty to the end of Life There accrue four excellent Commodities by using moderately pure Wine The first is because it greatly correcteth the Coldness of Old Age and produceth a bette● temperament of heat and increase of heat The second is because it expelleth Fatness an● resisteth Melancholy The third is it makes them in old Age slee● well which is many times wanting by reaso● of the drieness of the Brain and fewness of Vapours The fourth is because it removeth Obstructions and cheereth their Old Age and preserveth their humidum radicale These VVines specially the Canary Rhenish and VVhite are of excellent use when they are made Medicinales by the admixtion of such things as are appropriate to any distemper as Wormwood-wine for the Stomach Betony or Rosemary-wine for the Head or other Cephalick things according as the Distemper of the sick shall indicate as Viper-wine for malignant Diseases or opening Obstructions And in like manner wine may be made Medicinable for all the parts of the body and here I shall give you an excellent Medicinal VVine Take the Roots of Angelica one ounce Sassafras half an ounce Mace one dram the flowers of Rosemary Bettony Cowslip Borrage Bugloss of each two drammes Saffron a penny-weight tops of Tamarisk one handfull Roman Wormwood two drammes Put these into two quarts of White or Rhenish Wine the Roots being first bruised and all tyed up in a fine Rag and after they have stood two dayes five or six Spoon-fulls may be taken for pains in the Head Stomach or Back pains or stitches in the Sides pains of the Liver or Obstructions of the Spleen And this may be taken Morning and Evening it is also good against the Scurvy and al● foeminine Obstructions Of the STONE IT often-times happens that our Bodies ar● even a Quarry of Stones but not such a● might make to the building of the Aedifice● or structure of the Fabrick of our Body b● rather to the ruine of the whole for there is n● part of our Body wherein Stones may not b● generated for they are generated in the