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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

IN Sadness the Heat and Spirits retire and by their sudden surrounding and possession of the Heart all at once do many times cause suffocation They being likewise by uniting encreased do violently consume the moisture of the Body and so beget drowth and leanness Hence saith Solomon A joyful heart causeth good Health but a sorrowful mind drieth the Bones like the moth in a Garment or a worm in the Tree so is sadness to the Heart It likewise takes away Appetite over-heats the Heart and Lungs decays the complexion unfits us for our Business and employments and shortens our daies The Remedies are diverse as the cause is only in general consider that what is without thy power to help ought not to afflict thee for 't is utterly vain if it be within thy power then greive not but help thy self Thou art likewise to fortifie thy self against all accidents before they come by frequent reading and rightly understanding the Scriptures and other Religious and * Moral Writings that are full fraught with good Instructions to arm thy mind against the day of need that so when affliction comes thou mayest be provided for it for our Sadness is generally falsly grounded upon mistake and mis-apprehension wch may by this means be prevented Without this Help thou shalt be hardly able in the day of thy streight to take good advice though it given thee In the Scriptures and other good Books thou shalt find sound advice that will enable thee to bear the Ingratitude of a Friend the loss of nearest Friends of goods or office a Repulse in thy desire of preferment and all other casual accidents with which the World is replete and which do frequently befall us Another Remedy there is and that is to give our Sadness vent for so it spends it self and the sooner forsakes us whereas cooped up and stifled it takes deeper hold upon us For that purpose discover the causes and take the advice of a Bosome Friend restrain not thy tears but give them way and it will ease thee If Pain begets thy grief take thy Liberty to Cry and Roar neither should thy Freinds restrain thee for that if it do not totally remedy yet will it revell and somewhat divert thy pain But lastly If Distemper of Body be the cause of thy Sadness and thy very Temperature dispose thee thereunto Then avoid all things that be noyous in sight smelling hearing and embrace all things that are Honest and Delectable Fly Darkness much Watching and business of mind over much Venery the use of things in excess Hot and Dry often or violent Purgations immoderate Exercise Thirst and Abstinence dry Winds and very Cold Meats of Hard Digestion such as are very Dry and Salt that are Old Tough or Clammy Cheese Hares flesh Venison Salt-Fish Wine and Spice except very seldom and in small quantities Prepare now and then when Sadness most oppresses thee one of these following drinks which upon long experience I have found very recreative and quickning the Spirits Rec. Waters of Carduus and Wood-sorrel of each 4. Ounces Syrup of Violets 2. Ounces and a half The best Canary 3. Ounces Spirit of Vitrioll 12. drops Mix them and drink it at thrice at ten in the fore-noone and four in the afternoon Take a large sound Pippin and cut out the Core and in its place put a little Saffron viz. Three grains dryed and beaten very fine cover it with the Top and rost it to Pap then put to it half a pint of Claret Wine damasked sweeten it well with fine Sugar and make Lambs-wooll and so drink it Take the first of these when thou artCostive the last when thou art loose or goest orderly to stool But in this case it is expedient that thou take further advice of thy Physician Of Joy THere is no great Fear of the Immoderation of this Passion the present condition of the World hardly affords cause for it and man hath generally lost his Chearfulness with his Innocency 'T is now in Fits and Flushes not solid and constant The effects of it are very good for by Dilating and sending forth the Spirits to the outward parts it enlivens them and keeps them fresh and active it Beautifies the Complexion it fattens the Body by assisting the Distribution of Nourishment to every part 'T is that doubtless which God intended should be the Portion of every man he therefore made the World so full of delightful objects for every sense and plentifully furnished it in every place with all things necessary for the solace and contentation of Mankind But we unhappily have distracted our own Lives and multiplyed the occasions of Hatred Oppression Jealousy difficulty of gaining a very competency doubts of loosing endeavours of supplanting one another Envying Law-Suits Wars and a thousand other Engines we have contrived to destroy our Contentment and multiply our sorrows and afflictions Insomuch that very Wise and good men have much ado to preserve that chearfulnes which is the reward and Recompence of their Vertue I wish I could here propose Remedies Some I have but the World is not able to bear and must yet longer by its Miseries and sufferings be chastised into Repentance and Amendment These Passions are the Principal that have Influence upon the body others have not or very little I shall therefore pass them over with this generall Caution relating to them all that as we expect to keep them in due subjection and not to become Slaves to our Affections let us lead a Temperate and Continent Life for all Disorder and Excess especially in Meat Drink Venery makes us their Slaves and gives them heat and spirit to Lord it over us and renders us impotent to withstand their Temptations and Assaults And so I have done desiring that what I have said may be fairly accepted and Interpreted by all as intended for every mans good and is but a preparatory to much more that I have in my Thoughts Beseeching Almighty God to give his blessing to it that it may prove effectual at least in some measure to preserve every man and woman in Health and Vertue FINIS Health what it is Bonum constat ex Integris By the orderly use of what things Health is preserved Of Custom Customs how to be altered Cautions in using Physical Helps Whether Customary Physicking is to be continued Physick worst for the Healthful Which the best Aire in general Which to each Particular Helps against Bad Aire Of sharp Aires Corruption of Aire Change of Aires by winds What Smells best Of Native Aires Sudden alterations Cautions about Aire Of Hunger Of Thirst Of Quantity in Meats Arguments against Intemperance Much feeding hinders nourishment growth 1. Digestion 2. Growth or Augmentation Greatest Pleasure in Temperance Plutar. Praecep Sanit The Bounds of Temperance 1 Rule of Temperance 2. Rule of Temperance Error in Feeding 2. Error 1. Caution Of Feasting True end of Feasting 2. Caution Respect had to the Nature of Meats To the Constitution of the Person To the Season Times of Feeding Best Time when Hungry No Break-fasts Large Supper best Rules for drinking Order of Feeding The Commodities of Exercise Discommodities of a Sitting Life Caution to Women and Maids History Pro. 31. When Exercise is to be forborn Exercise for the Fat and Lean. Exercise when Best When Bad. Place bad for exercise Violent Exercise bad Drinking cold Drink after Excercise bad Drinking Sack and hot Spirits bad Kinds of Labor Cause of Sleep Commodities of Rest * Sleeping The Evils of Immoderate Sleep Large Sleep best for whom Sleep after Dinner Form of Lying The benefits of Continency The incommodities of Incontinency Of the Excrements of the Belly It s proportion to the Aliment Of Looseness Divination by Urin a deceit When to be avoided When to be used Caution Helps to Sweat Why Sleep causes Sweat Too long violent Bad. Of Spitting Excrements of the Brain * Chewing In the Ears and Nostrils Its incommodities Remedies against Anger Three kinds of Love God-like 2. Humane 3. Conjugall Caution concerning the third Of Lust Of Dotage Evils of Sadness Pro. 17. 22. Remedies against Sadness * Cha●on of Humane Wisdom Seneca Plutarchs Morals and Lives 1. Drink againsh Melancholly 2. Drink against Melancholly Effects of Joy

Saffron and Milk of Posset drink with a few Camomill Flowers boiled in it either of them drank hot and close covering thereupon or if need require it with a scruple of Gascoignes Powder in either of them which Sweat being gently continued for about an Hour care is to be taken that thou beest rubbed well with warm clothes and shifted with fresh and well aired Linning and that about half an Hour after thou drink a draught of hot and comfortable Broth Cawdle or other Supping and so by degrees enure thy self to the aire and Customary way of Life This timely and carefully performed may save thee many a sharp and irksome sickness Provided alwaies that thou then beest not costive for so sweating will harden the Excrements and evaporate the moisture thereof into the Body Before thou sweat therefore if thy belly have been fast open it either by some gentle Lenitive or loosening Clyster They that have dry hard skins and therefore difficultly sweat should be bathed or at least fomented with a Decoction of Warm Water with Hot and mollifying Hearbs boiled therein that through the skin so relaxed the Sweat may have the easier passage The Help of Bottles with a Decoction of Sudorifick Hearbs as Camomil Penny-Royal Rosemary Mother of Time Hyssop c. is very assistant in this case encreasing the heat by degrees as by putting in less Heated Bottles first and half an Hour after the more Heated Sleep that stops other Fluxes causes Sweat because the Heat and Spirits first moving inward do there gather force which so encreased works upon the moisture and evaporates it by Sweat Sweat is not to be over-long or over-violent for it impairs the Body too much better it is to Sweat twice or thrice for that's Natures way who never expels the whole Morbifick matter at one Sweating Thus much as to the Preservative by Sweating Of other Excrements THey that spit much want exercise for that is the best way to spend the matter thereof for to stop it begets pains in the Head and endangers many diseases of the Brain besides that it may afterwards take another course as upon the Lungs in the Spine or on the Reins whereas exercise safely breaths it out through the Body If the Humors and Viscosities remain in the Brain and Head and descend not they are to be provoked down by the Nose or Mouth either by Sneezing or the * Mastication of those things which are of Subtile Parts and so open and clear the passages as Tobacco Rosemary Bettony Seeds of Thlapsi Crosses c. are very good so are their fumes but then they must not be brought into a Custom but used only as the necessity requires The Foulnesses in the Ears and thick wax that by Time grows there ought to be prevented by often cleansing them taking first into them the fume of Camomil and Penny-royal boiled in Ale and afterwards of hot Viniger which done clense them with thy Earpicker carefully for fear of hurting the Tympanum and Provoking Coughs After Meats and in the Mornings Wash and Rub the Teeth thy Eyes Ears and Nostrils thy Hands likewise and Face with Cold water even in Winter Comb thy Head well that thou mayest make way for the Egression of Vapors which will otherwise fill thy brain In the observation of these small Matters how much doth Health consist I am in these things but thy Remembrancer Of the Affections or Passions of the Mind OF these I purpose breifly to treat not as a Natural Philosopher but Physician and so to consider not their Essences or Causes but Effects and how their Regulation conduces to the Conservation of Health Their power is doubtless very great upon us as being of force not only to hurry us into diseases but to bring upon us sudden death Their Steers-man is Reason which assisted with the Devine Spirit manifested in the Holy Scriptures is able to keep down the Surges of our Passions and is by Almighty God given us to be as a Check or Bridle to prevent or restrain all their Extravagances so that although there be great force in our Passions yet are we not involuntarily and without the power of Resistance overcome by them but yield unto them cowardly and unworthily for want of making use of that Reason by which we might Restrain them Our Affections indeed are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unreasonable but yet they also are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} under our own power and command one principal work that man hath to do in the world is to moderate them And though some Passions as also Vices have through Custom and an habituall commitment become Usurpers upon reason and over-rulers thereof insomuch that it becomes a most difficult thing for Reason to reassume its Empire and keep them in due subjection This however is attributable not to their Nature but our own default and is decreed as a punishment of our first yielding thereunto 'T is just in God to harden his Heart who first hardens his own the penalty is appropriated to the offence From whence we may collect that Vice is a Punishment 2. 'T is observable that there is a mutual influence from the Body upon the Mind and from the Mind upon the Body not necessitating but inclining 'T is clear in the several effects the Passions produce in the Body which I shall presently speak of and 't is as clear that Anger Sadness Joy c. in their Immoderation I mean are more easily produced in those that are under the Violence of a Feavour or other Sicknesse or pain or yet of depraved and unequal Constitutions then in them that are in Health and of Sound Complexion That therefore thou mayest be Vertuous keep thy self in good Health that thou mayst be in good Health keep thy self Vertuous and Regulate thy Passions Passions are not bad of themselves but in their excesses or defects for by their assistance we more easily attain good and Laudable Ends there are some things against which they are well and by injunction imployed Be Angry and sin not saith the Apostle and our Saviour drove the Money-Changers out of the Temple our Love and Hatred our Fear Sadness and Rejoycing have all of them proper objects about which they may and ought to be employed 'T is to be more then man to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} wholy indolent and void of Passion we are required only to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} well to manage moderate them Of Anger IN its excess the incommodities are many and evil as Feavours Phrensies and Madness Trembling Palsies Apoplexies Decay of Appetite and want of rest paleness as when fear is conjoyned and the Spirits called in sometimes Redness of the Face and Eyes when the Spirits are sent out as in desire of Revenge which is also accompanied with an Ebullition of the blood stamping bending