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A14301	The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24619; ESTC S111506	55,728	158

Effects and Fruites of this admirable Dyet THe Effect of this New-found Dyet is singular great and the Fruites inestimable For thereby Old Age which is held to be an incurable sicknesse and a tedious misery becomes fresh greene liuely sprightfull and flourishing Now after long Experience which a man hath learned in the World hee is able to iudge by comparing his present estate with the Vanities of his fore-passed manner of liuing of the Causes why GOD sent him into the World and by what meanes hee may thence forwards recouer and redeeme the idle time which hee hath spent to the glory of God and the safeguard of his Soule which but for the great mercy of his Sauiour hee hath foolishly forfeited Then he cannot but contemne earthly thoughts and with a braue resolution scorne to fixe his Minde on things which like a Dreame will passe away suddainly remembring that saying in the Gospell O Foole this night will I take away thy Soule and then whose shall those goods be which thou hast prepared and heaped together Then hee will acutely see that there is no cause for him to ioyne Fie●d to Field Farme to Farme or Lordship to Lordship For if he obserue this Dyet hee needes not bee at such former charge for Gut-worke or to please his sensuall Pa●a●e as hee hath beene at to the hazard of his Health and more of his Soule He will find that a very final reuenew will s●●●ice him and that now hee shall be the better able to distribute the ouer-p●us to his Christian Neighbours or bestow the same on some monuments for the honour of his Redeemer who gaue him the grace and power to leaue off his former superfluities and noysome Varieties Then he shall perceiue that ten yeares redeemed and conferred in this order of life will better him more then 20. yeares in such irregular vame courses as he before had fruitlessely consumed Then seeing himselfe at more ease and contentment in spirit with a well composed nature without rashnesse or inperate Passions hee may accommodate his Minde to Prayers to the seruice of God and to doe workes of Charity For no extrauagant businesse can fall out to interpose betwixt him and Heauenly cogitations as he vsed to haue when hee dealt about matters of worldly profit But perhaps some will say who will pine himselfe and loose so many dainty morcels to enioy a few yeares longer then our fore-Fathers Heu non est tanto dig●a dolore salus To these I answere that the addition of a few yeares more to a man that begins to leaue off sinne and to bee borne a new man Regenerated vnto God through Christ ought to be dearer then all the delicate cheare of the World which cannot come to passe while the Body is heauy and pressed downe with a load of fat and grosse Humours For of all the meate which a man eates let him consider how little of it turnes to nourishment or Chyle within the Body and how much goes to excrements to superfluous Blood and to those humours which one day and in processe of time will cause some grieuous sicknesse if not mortall and hee will iudge my Counsell for Sobriety to be from God and sent from Heauen in these latter dayes to assist him in his Christian Progresse to Saluation At first is all the difficulty and hardest labour by reason of the contrary custome and for that the Stomacke is stretched out at large and as the French man sayth as Hollow as Saint Benets Boote But this difficulty is quickly taken away if euery day by leas●re he with-draw and diminish somewhat of his vsuall Dyet vntill such time as hee comes to the stinted measure And after that the Stomacke is once contracted and made narrower then there is no more difficulty nor trouble but that hee may easily continue his Sober Dyes because that small Quantity doth answere and well agree with Nature and the capacity of the Stomacke onely the danger is that after the Dyet is accustomed it must be continued still for Alteration is somewhat dangerous The like examp ewe see in them who in Lent do at the first finde it grieuous to abstayne from their Breake-fast or Supper but after a few dayes they make nothing of it no more then those doe who are commaunded by their Physitians to refraine from some kinde of accustomed meate which giues ill nourishment to some dangerous disease although it bee very pleasing to their Appetite In like manner doe not wee often see that some of our Land souldiers hauing beene long at Sea and there limitted in time of scarcity to a set quantity of slender Victualls doe fall into Fluxes and languishing sickenesses if suddainly at their first Landing they breake that limited and set measure And how comes that to passe But because the Stomacke hath beene kept for many dayes more straightned narrower and more contracted whereby their suddaine falling into a larger Dyet without regard had to that violent oppression of nature which ought not to bee so altered but by degrees is the chiefe cause of their Fluxe● Therefore men of experience will take heede at their Landing of this excesse and reduce their Stomackes by little and little to receiue in such meate and that in smal quan●ity at the first as shall not offend them after wards They will content themselues with Broathes and weake meates for the first three or foure dayes or if they feare such Fluxes as they haue reason for it they will take the iuice of ground Iuy or the Broath of Rice or the Syrup of Poppy foure or fiue mornings after their Landing yea and perhaps they will Physicke themselues with Rheubarbe aswell to purge themselues of that taint which they got a Ship-board as to strengthen their Stomackes Or else they will swallow two or three dayes together but not without a Preparatiue or Glister before hand those which the Arabiaens call the Blessed Pi's of Aloes which are compounded of Aloes Mirrh and Saffron the which likewise beeing infused in some Liquor to be taken in times of Pestience or Calentures are found miraculous Or if they feare the Scuruy a Disease sprung from Oppilations in the Stomacke and now a dayes too common d ee seize on them they will not negle●t in time to take the iuyce of Lemons Turneps or else the Sa●t of Scuruy-grasse or the iuyce it selfe in some pleasing Liquour But to returne where I haue digressed admit that this Dyet were somewhat grieuous at the first let them consider how they are forced other-whiles to endure a more grieuous Pennance at their Physitians hands when they must take most loathsome Medicines whereat Nature trembles to thinke of as our finest Gentle-women for the Greene-sicknesse are constrayned to take Powder of Steele c. whereas the troublesomnesse of our Dyet is recompeneed with wonderfull great commodities and singular fruite For a Temperate Dyet makes the Body Light Pure Healthfull preserues it from diseases and stinking corruption

darken the Mind which is the great Eye or Light of the Body And this is the cause that when the one is grieued th' other is grieued and when th' one is merry th' other is so too Therefore it is a thing to bee wished that they were kept both in an equall proportion and symmetry with conuenient nourishments recreations exercise and aboue all with spirituall food Yea and other whiles if need require the Mistresse must correct her rebellions Seruant that the Image of our great Creator bee not quite defaced But to returne to the Subiect wee haue in hand the Body of Man is the most temperate of all other mortall Creatures and therefore it may bee rightly termed the Golden Rule measure and square whereby the Excesse of all other things may be obserued and their different Faculties discerned And for this cause in respect of our humane Bodies the fours Elements are noted to be Hot Cold Moist and Dry Here hence we gather that the Flesh of Fowle is hot and dry and that the Food of Fish is cold moist fit to engender flegme Betwixt these as the Meane are Earthly Creatures placed and among these Mans Body hath the preheminence as the best tempered vnder the Cope of Heauen The which also varies according to the Climate Sunt Homines alij variant vt Climata munds For our Northerne Nations are of a Colder constitution then theirs that liue within the Tropickes or neere vnto them And therefore the Ancient Phylosophers would not allow a temperate Body but with in a temperate Country Neyther is this temper so constant in our temperate countries but the inequaltity of the Soyle and S●ituation controules this temper For we haue Spring and Summer weather in places at the same instant within a mile or two distant As for Example in Dales and at the foote of Hils we fee●e it warme whereas wee cannot endure long to stay on the Neighbouring Mountaynes by reason of Snow or furious Winds which likewise other-throw or hinder the growth of Plantes and Corne sixe or seauen weekes later then such as we finde in the bottom or lowest descent The same alteration I haue seene in the Alpes and Pyrenae●n Mountaynes where I could be hold ripe Grapes and a fourishing Haruest in the Vallies and Trauailing but a League higher vp towards the top of the Mountaynes I might see nothing but horrid Rockes Hayle Snow and Windes in that impetuous manner that there a man would take September to be Ianuary Moreouer this change crosseth our Temper i● respect of Age for Youth is more hot and moyst then more setled yeares And that Dyet which might be properly accommodated to olde men perhaps would weaken or statue the younger sort How then shall we be able to finde out this Golden meane and Temper in mans Body when we are subiect to so many mutations Do not we perceiue the very Beasts and vnreasonable creatures to go beyond vs in some of our noblest Organs Do they not excell vs in the fiue sences viz. The Boare in hearing the Ounce in seeing the Ape in tasting the Vultur in smelling and the Spider in touching as these ancient Verses imply Nos Aper auditu Lynx visu Simia gustu Un tur ●doratu p●aecellit Aranea tactu This cannot bee denied in those Creatures but because I am an ill Huntes-man I will continue my conuersation with men amongst which there is much diuersity for their seueral parts Here stands a man with a most temperate Braine there another with a sound Liuer some are long breathed some excell in the Temper of their Hearts and in many of these wee might behold Actions which tend vnto Vnity as to their Center But in generall of late yeares wee degenerate from that which by our Baptisme we vowed to be as in like manner wee haue crackt our Braines shortned our breathing faculties corrupted our Liuer inframed our Blood and all with excesse of varieties of meates and drinkes We p●ate of the Holy Ghost of the Temple of God but let euery man examine his owne conscience whether it bee possible that such a sanctified Guest could remaine in such an impure Body which hath receiued into it so great store of Victualls and the choysest which the Ayre Earth and Sea could yeelde and of the strongest Wines euen vnto vomiting If after this inquisition wee finde that the Spirit of God requires an vndefiled and purer seate to lodge in then let vs sweep cleane and do our best to purifie and prepare our Bodies to be tolerably meete to entertayne this sacred Messenger for if hee knockes at the doore of our hearts and we slight his Call it is to bee feared hee will returne no more to such a nasty Roome where the Master of the house neglects his dearest Land-Lord To reduce the World vnto a better Temper the Body as well as the Minde I had recourse to many Cures I read Marsilius Ficinus his Worke concerning a Heauenly Body here on Earth but there meeting with nothing but distractions at the last I lighted on two Treatises the one Published by Lodouico Cornario an Italian and th' other by Lessius of Bruxels a learned Iesuite out of whose Precepts I collected this admirable Dyet which whosoeuer hath the power to practise hee shall quickly apprehend the difference betwixt a Table furnished with variety of meates whose nature in digestion are contrary the one to th' other and betwixt that simple Cheere which conrented our Sauiour here on Earth with his Disciples By the former spring all our sicknesses By this latter of Sobriety we stint Concupiscence and after one quarter of a yeare our Bodies being accustomed to a set measure of meat and drinke wee shall confesse that saying of the Heath'nish Phylosopher to iumpe aright with a reformed Christian Turpe est homini non nosse mensuram ventres sui It is a shamefull thing for an vnderstanding man not to know the measure of his owne Belly To wind vp this my Preparatiue in a word when I had compared Lessius his obseruations with Daniels and his three Companions Dyet and how by reason of their slender fare being but Pulse they were in better state then those that fed on dainties I concluded this new found dyet to be acceptable to Gods spirit and if it awaites on Faith it will serue for a Christians Purification before Glorification The second SECTION The Description of a New found and cheape Diet to preserue the Body and Minde from all s●cknesses and Passions and how a man shall find out the true Proportion what will content a reasonable Creature BY the former Discourse it is apparant that the Well-being and Health of Mans Body consists in obseruing the Golden Meane which is Temperance in our Dyet that is cating and drinking no more then the Stomacke can well digest and that thereby the functions of the Minde bee not hindered nor made obscure by the excessiue Quantity For this reason and because

Worme-wood water or Manus Christi or Ginger-bread will quickely restore the cowardly Stomacke But if the Midriffe rise or any winde which our Dyet will speedily chase away Vineger Scilliticke or Sea Onion will keepe it downe Afterwards if they chance to breake this Dyet if it be but for a meale or two I wish them to fast the next meale after although it were more commendable Esu●ire inter epulas to rise vp with an Appetite For the Stone if Walter Caries Quintessence of Goates Blood which in his Farewell to Physicke he cals the Hammer for the Stone may not be gotten let the Party take Goates Blood and vse it after the Arabian manner That is dried in the O●en and drunke in some Liquour More Medicines I could lay downe for this and other sicknesses but that I doubt our Practitioners of Physicke would indite me for intiusion into their Profession albeit I thinke they will bee more offended with me for the Publishing of this Dietary Cure then for any other Quarrell For I make no question but the same will both preuent and heale more Diseases then all their Recipes grounded but vpon coniecturall Prognostickes for the most part like vnto our Almanackes Me thinkes if it were nothing else but for the auoyding of Physitians Fees and Ap●th●caries Bils that were a motiue sufficient to enduce vs to liue soberly Whereto might bee added the shortning of our dayes which their Drugges doe cause besides the poysoned relicks which they leaue behind them in the Body For we must vnderstand that all Purgations specially Electuaries soluble haue some venemous quality in them and likewise that the good humours aswell as the bad are exhausted by them to the future decay of health and the treacherous wasting of the Oyle of Life The like fatall inconuenience comes by Blood letting The eight SECTION Speciall Remedies against Sea sicknesses the Scuruy and against the annoyances of snow Frosts and cold Winds Wherein the cause of my Lord Baltimores Disasters in New-found Land this last Winter is debated THe Disasters which hapned to my Lord Baltimore and his Colony the last Winter at Feriland in our New-land Plantation by reason of the Scuruy haue mooued mee to inserte some more specifique Remedies against that Disease which not onely in those Climates beares dominion but likewise heere in England although hooded with other Titles yet commonly sprung of the same causes For sometimes the Scuruy is ingendred of outward Causes and sometimes from within the Body or from both And therefore they that dwell neere the Sea-side where the North-east Windes rage are most subiect to this infirmity Before the sayd Lord euer beganne his Plantation he cannot deny but I aduised him to erect his Habitation in the bottome of the Bay at Aquafort two leagues distant from that Place which for ought I heare is not much to be discommended and more into the Land where my people had wintred two yeares before and found no such inconuenience Nay his Lordship himselfe suspected the place sor●● his Letters hee complayned that vnlesse hee might be beholding to me for the assignment of both those places out of my Grant he was in a manner disheartned to plante on that Coast by reason of the Easterly Windes which with the Mountaynes of Ice floating from Estotiland and other Northerne Countries towards New-found land rendred that Easterly shore exceeding cold Yet notwithstanding his Lordship beeing perswaded by some which had more experience in the gainefull Trade of Fishing then in the Scituation of a commodious Seate for the Wintring of his new Inhabitants bestowed all his charge of building at Fertland the coldest harbour of the Land where those furious Windes and Icy Mountaynes doe play and beate the greatest part of the Yeare Whereas if hee had built eyther at Aquafort or in the Westerly part in the Bay of Placentia which hath aboue 50. miles ouer-land betwixt it and that Easterne shore his enterprize had suceeeded most luckily And so this of Fertland might haue serued well for his profit in the Fishing and also for a pleasant Summer dwelling Sir Francis Tanfield vnder the right honourable the Lord Vicount Faulkland continued two yeares but three leagues more Southward at Renooz and did well enough in which place likewise my Colony remayned one Winter without any such mortall accidents But all Winters I confesse are not alike in that Country no more then they are here with vs in Europe Yea and here too in the same paralell the season differs Who will imagine that wee in Wales haue lesse Snow and Frosts then London and Essex And yet by experience wee finde it so whereof the very cause proceeds from the Easterne windes whose rigorous force before they arriue ouer land into our Westerne parts cannot but be much broken and abated Besides these Winds snows and Fr●sts the Scuruy is ingendred by earing of those meates which are of corrupted iuice raw cold salted or of ill nourishment which breede grosse blood and melancholly Among which I reckon Bacon Fish Beanes Pease c. And among Drinkes I ranke all strong liquors whatsoeuer specially if they be taken in Frosty weather when the Stomacke ouer abounds with heate and consequently at that time most subiect to infiamations which when the Th●●● comes will certainely breake out into some dangerous disease Do but obserue how the Sap of Plants and Hearbes in Frosty seasons descends downe to the Roote as to the last refuge and helpe in Nature The which Plants if we should refresh with Chalke or Lime well may they flourish for a little while but their Fruite and themselues are of no continuance The like I may say of such as by strong liquors doe conceiue that they fortisie and comfort their stomackes in cold weather when as indeed they get but a sparkling heate like a blast that will quickly extinguish From hence arise the Scuruy Catarrhes Rhumes Coughs Feuers c. But leauing these Causes I will proceed to the Cure of this fatall sicknesse which now a dayes prooues a stumbling stone to the wisest Physitians by reason of the manifold symptomes and infirmities which accompany it able to deceiue Aesculapius himselfe First let the party that feares or suspects himselfe tainted change or ayre his apparrell putting on cleane shifts and linnen Secondly let him sleepe in boorded Roomes and if hee bee able to haue his Chamber Wainscotted or well dryed of those dampish sauours which stone or earthen walls are wont to euaporate and breath out Thirdly let him beate and burne one Acre of Land round about his dwelling Fourthly let him eate those meats which are tender light of digestiō that will not be soone corrupted chiefly fresh meats with dited sauce but moderately and without excesse Fiftly let him often vse the expressions of Currans Prunes or Reasins or Diaprunis or some of these in broath made with Manna Cassia Tama●ind or Seene For these will loosen the Belly by their moysture and slippery faculty whose