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nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77586	Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B.	Brooke, Humphrey, 1617-1693.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4905; Thomason E1404_1; ESTC R209490	46,267	289

concerns them also That they should be old when they are young that they may be young when they are expected to be old Some other inobservancies there are prejudicial to Health that somewhat concern this point which I shall only touch upon as being naked in the cold Aire and going into the Water when we are hot and Sweaty by doing whereof many healthful Persons dispose themselves to Agues and Consumptions 2. The ventring too suddenly before the Pores are closed into the cold Aire after Bathing and Sweating in Hot-Houses Cradles or Sweating-Chairs by which not only the benefit hoped for is lost but our Infirmities are doubled upon us by begetting an inequality of Heat and Cold in the Inward and Outward Parts whence arise those Shuddrings and Aguish Rigors that usually follow thereupon And so I have done with Aire the first of the non-Naturals as we call them that is of which the body is not compounded though by them it be preserved Of Meat and Drink OUr Bodies being in a continual though insensible Consumption would in a short time decay were it not that Reparation is made by the use of Meats and Drinks By the first the Solid Parts are refected by the last the Humid For the better performance whereof God hath endowed every Creature with an Appetetive Faculty distinguisht according to the Objects forementioned into Hunger and Thirst Hunger is caused by a sharp and Fermenting juyce remaining in the Stomack especially in the upper Orifice the most sensitive part thereof by the penetrative Quality whereof the Meat ingested is also digested fermented and concocted and so made fit for separation and Distribution When this juyce a visible Specimen whereof is the Runnet in a Calfs Stomack is either wasted as after very long Fastings or is dulled by Repletion or intermixture with other Humors so that the force thereof cannot be felt or when the Mind is over-intent and distracted so that it can give no ear to its Impulsions Then does the Appetite flagg and decay as on the contrary when this juyce is over-abundant and extreamly acide there follows a continual Importunity from the Stomack an unsatisfiable Appetite which being most eminent in Dogs is therefore called Appetitus Caninus the Dog-like Appetite but appears sometimes in Men as every one can Instance Thirst is a Desire of that which is Cold and Moist for though many Stomacks are satisfied with Hot Drink yet is it through a Customary aberration from Nature inasmuch as we see that all Creatures except Man are desirous of and use that Drink only which is cold and in man the use of Hot Drinks is not so much attributable to his Natural Appetite as to his having been indulged therein by his Physitian or himself in respect of some other Weaknes and Infirmity of his Body This Thirst doth vanish when the Mouth of the Stomack is bedewed with Humors that are Phlegmatick Watery or Insipide As it is increased when those Humors are consumed and the Stomack dry and parcht either through its own or any of its Neighbours Indisposition or yet when the Coats thereof are lin'd with a Salt Hot or sharp Humor These Things premised of which I shall make use hereafter I return to the Considerations of those things that are Aliment viz. which being eaten or drunk are altered by our Naturall Heat and so prepared by the several Parts destined thereunto as at length to be Converted into the Habit of the Body it Self In Meats and Drinks there are six particulars to be considered viz. 1. Substance 2. Quality 3. Quantity 4. Custom 5. Time 6. Order For the two first I purpose not to insist upon them viz. their Substance and Quality what yield Good what Bad juyce and apt to putrefaction which are easy which hard to be digested what are Hot Cold Moyst Dry Causing or Freeing from obstructions neither intend I to treat of every Meat and Drink particularly both of these having been already performed in English by Dr. Venner in his Via Recta ad Vitam longam from whence those that are inquisitive that way may receive satisfaction Unwilling I am now to exspaciate in so large a Field which I shall rather reserve to a time-of more Leasure My Intention being at present to consider only these Particulars relating to Meats Drinks viz. The Quantity Time Order and Custom The greatest and most dangerous Errors being committed with Reference hereunto First then for Quantity or how much ought to be eaten Here there is not so much need to prescribe the Bounds and shew what are the Limits of Temperance as effectually to perswade to the observance of those Limits A word therefore first as to that and what Argument can be more efficatious then an Enumeration of the Benefits that ariseth from Sobriety and Temperance and of the discommodities that are the Natural Effects of the contrary I shall reckon them up in two ranks and then let every man make his choise The Benefits of Temperance 1. Freedom from almost all Sicknesses 2. Length of Life and Death without pain 3. It armeth us against outward Accidents 4. It mitigateth incurable Diseases 5. Maintains the Senses in their Integrity and Vigeur 6. It moderates our Passions and Affections and renders them easily commendable 7. It preserves the Memory sharpens the Wit and Vnderstanding 8. It Allays the Heat of Lust The Inconveniences of Intemperance 1. It brings upon us almost all Diseases 2. It shortens our Days and makes us dy in Agonies 3. It exposeth us to innumerable accidents of extream prejudice 4. It takes part with Diseases and makes them incurable 5. It dulls stupifies and decays the Senses 6. It subjects us to our Passions and makes them irresistable 7. It drowns the Memory dulls the Wit and Vnderstanding 8. It furiously provokes us to Lust These experimental Events who can deny since almost every man carries about him and within him a convinceing argument thereof Whence is the Multitude of Physicians but from the frequency and Multitude of Diseases and whence that frequency and Multitude but from Excess This is generally confessed but the practice still continued the understanding assents but the Affections over-rule the present delight we take in those delicious Cates Condiments and inticing Sawces that are before us over-sways our judgments In this case Venter non habet Aures the Belly hath no Eares All our Senses are at a stand save that of our Tast so earnest are we in digging our Graves with our Teeth so greedy after Diseases which by excess insensibly steal upon us and then in the midst of our Aches and Intemperance we repent and call to mind the unhappy cause thereof I shall desire therefore that before hand besides the former these 2 Arguments be coned 1. That Nourishment and Growth consists not in the Abundance we eat but in the due competency A man may hinder his Nourishment and prevent his Growth as

the Excrements 182 Excrements of the Belly 189 Their proportion to the Aliment 191 Excrements of the Brain 217 Of the Ears and Nostrils 218 Commodity of Exercise 143 Exercise when to be forborn 159 What best for the Fat and Lean. 160 When best ibid. Places bad for Exercise 161 Violent Exercise bad 162 Drinking cold beer after Exercise bad 165 Also drinking Sack and strong waters 166 Kinds of Exercise 167 F. Errors in Feeding 104 Cautions about Feeding Respect in Feeding to the nature of meats 114 To the Constitution of the Person 115 To the season of the Year 116 Best times of Feeding 118 Order of Feeding 139 Of Feasting 110 Of Frications 171 H. Health what it is 15 By the orderly use of what things Health is preserved 21 Of Hunger I. Intemperance 85 It hinders nourishment and growth 90 Of Joy 251 Effects of Joy 252 Incommodities of Incontinency 187 L. Of Love 236 Three kinds of Love 236 Godlike ibid. Humane 237 Conjugall 238 Of Looseness 192 Of Lust 238 M. Of Motion and Rest 143 Of Meat and Drink 77 Due quantity of Meat 84 Drink against Melancholy 249 P. Whether Physick be necessary for the preserving of Health 44 Cautions in using Physicall Helps 47 Whether customary Physick be to be continued 49 Physick worse for the Healthful 51 Of the Passions 220 R. Commodities of Rest 176 S. Discommodities of a sitting Life 144 Of Sleep and Wakefulness 174 Cause of Sleep ibid. Evils of immoderate Sleep 176 Long Sleeps for whom best 178 Sleep after Dinner 180 Form of lying in Sleep 181 Of Sweat 210 When Sweating to be avoided 211 When to be provoked 212 Helps to Sweat 214 Why Sleep causes Sweat 215 Long and Violent Sweating bad 216 What Smels best 70 Of Spitting 217 Of Sadness 243 Remedies against Sadness 244 Larger Supper 127 T. The Bounds of Temperance 100 Gaeatest pleasure in Temperance 95 1. Rule of of Temperance 102 2. Rule of Temperance 103 Of Thirst 80 V. Of the Vrin 193 Divination by Vrin a deceit 194 A Conservatory of HEALTH IT is as much the Duty of a Physitian to endeavour the Preserving of Health as the restoring it and so much the more carefull he ought to be by how much the more neglectfull People are of themselves This is indeed a charge that we are not so much obliged to by Gain as by Conscience For there are few or none that come to the Physitian to keep themselves wel but only when they are forc't thither by the importunity of Sickness It becomes us therefore who have the Charge of Bodies to send our Councell abroad and though that may be a means to lessen our Practice yet will it much quiet our Minds in the discharge of a necessary part of our duty It is much easier to prevent Diseases then expell them It may be done with small care and less expence our Diseases cost us dear not only in the Cure but in the purchase being for the most part the off-springs of Intemperance Incontinency Disorder and other very costly Vices Temperance therefore brings a double Commodity with it the preserving of Health and the Saving of Expence all which notwithstanding so indulgent is the generality of Mankind to their appetites and the present enjoyment of their loose and inordinate desires that they utterly cast off the consideration of events and consequences never duly prizing Health till they have lost it preferring a sickly wearish and momentany Delight before a full perfectly contentfull durable A customary saying they have That he lives miserably who lives Physically and that they who observe Rules look palest are most frequently sick and in Physick of Lean and consumed Bodies whereas the good Fellow that regards not what he eats or how much he drinks is usually plump and Ruddy seldome sick though happily they live not so long yet are their lives more pleasurable which makes good amends for the shortness For better is a short life and Happy then a long and Dolorous And therefore let us say they give the Reins to our Appetites let us loose no time Let us eat and drink and if we die to morrow let us have our penny worths out to day For to what end are all delicious things given us if not to enjoy Thus pleads the Intemperate As if he were born for his Belly and all the noble Faculties of his Soul the exquisite operations of his Senses and other Habiliments of his Body ought to be subservient thereunto As if he lived to Eat and did not eat to Live making that the main end of his Creation which is but an unavoidable Consequent occasioned by Necessity for Preservation Eating and drinking and other sensuall pleasures are indeed below the Dignity of the Soul In which Beasts are our Equals and for the doing whereof it was necessary to furnish us with parts of exactest Sense for the incitation of Desire and Appetite least otherwise wee should neglect those operations needfull for preserving the Individuall and Kind out of a contempt to the Homeliness of the Works themsleves or out of a more earnest intention upon more excellent worthy Actions But besides all this They consider not those frequent Headaches Catarrhes Qualms Gripings Swimmings in the Head Dimness in the Eys flushing Heats Dropsies Gouts Palsies and other more irksome and ignominious Diseases they that indulge their Appetites and Desires are overtaken withall besides the decay of Memory slackness of Understanding loss of Time and Reputation All which God Almighty both to deterr and punish us hath made the inseparable Concomitants of Intemperance and Incontinency that whom the foreknowledge thereof will not affright the sting and punishment may justly Recompence and happily Reclaim Others there are who avoiding the extremities of those Vices Pride themselvs therein and think they are carefull enough and do in that as much as is needfull for the preservation of Health These are affrighted with the variety and multiplicity of Rules and Cautions which they say Physitians have purposely invented to make their very Healths Tributary unto them that scrupulosity in Diet and Order keeps the Mind too intent thereupon and hinders the enjoyment of Health by the fears of Sickness unto wch the very imagination enclines us upon every Default and omission of what is prescribed To these I shall say that I intend the reducing them not so much to what Art directs as Nature from whose ordinary safe prescripts the generality of Mankind are swerved and thereupon faln into many strange and complicate Diseases which except in Countries of equall Luxury and Intemperance with our own are not to this day so much as heard of Mine shall not be Rules of Niceness but Necessity such as every Mans Reason shall approve and Experience confirm I intend no burdens or Fetters no Farrago of Recipes with which the Understanding is rather distracted then directed but to revive those unhappily exploded Rules of Temperance and due Order in