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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

the means of sleep for sleep serves to both these ends And then besides that sleep of theirs is very short and such as they could easily forbear but when by weariness and custom they are inclined thereunto Some of them indeed sleep a good while but those use to abate as much of their nights rest as they take out thus in the day dividing as it were into two parts the rest and sleep that is due to their bodies But indeed generally it is more agreeable to health to forbear all sleep after meat at noon according to the commonly received opinion of Physicians 11. The second Rule is If so be thou take so much meat and drink as thou afterwards findest a certain kind of dulness heaviness and slothful weariness whereas before thou wast quick and lightsome it is a sign that thou hast exceeded the fitting measure except this come to pass through present sickness or the reliques of some former disease For meat and drink ought to refresh the strength and powers of the body and to make them more chearful and no ways to burden or oppress them They therefore who find their constitution to be such as they feel oppression after their meals ought to make abatement of their daily allowance having first used good and diligent consideration whether this inconvenience arise from the abundance of their meat or of their drink or of both together and when they have found out where the error lies it is by degrees to be amended till the matter be brought to that pass that there be no more feeling of any such inconvenience 12. Many there be who are much deceived in this case who although they eat and drink liberally and use nourishing meats yet nevertheless complain of continual weakness and faintness and that they perswade themselves comes from the want of nourishment and spirits whereupon they seek out meats of much nourishment and provide breakfasts betimes in the morning lest Nature should faint for want of its due sustenance But as I said they are miserably beguiled in this opinion and do hereby add a surcharge to their bodies which are in truth already overburdened with ill juice and moisture For this weakness which they complain of proceeds not from defect of nutriment but from the abundance of ill humors as both the constitution of their bodies and the swelling of their bellies in particular do evidently shew Now these ill humors do cloy up the muscles and the nerves through which the spirits have their course and passage whereby it comes to pass that the animal spirits from which as from the most general and immediate instrument of the soul all the vigor of the body in sense and motion is derived cannot freely take their course nor govern and order the body 〈◊〉 they ought And hence comes that weakness and lumpishness of the body and that dulness of the senses the animal spirits being as it were intercepted in their passage by this excess of humors Daily experience shews this to be true in divers bodies abounding with ill humors and vicious moistures which in the morning are faint and dull through the superfluities of moisture remaining in them upon their former nights supper sleep But when these moistures are consumed by abstinence and the purgations of the head they become more chearful and active and this vigor goes on still increasing till night come albeit they take little or nothing at all at noon But in case they eat whilest these moistures remain unconcocted in the body especially if it be in any great quantity or moist food the indisposition is renewed and they presently return to their former misery Wherefore if a man desire to be always quick apt and ready to motion and to every other use of his senses these humors are to be lessened by abatement of diet so that the spirits may have their free passage through all parts of the body and the mind may find them always ready to every motion and service in the body 13. the third Rule is We must not pass immediately from a disordered kind of life to a strict and precise course but it is to be done by little and little by small abatements subtracting from that excessive quantity whereunto we have been accustomed until at last we come to that just measure which doth not at all oppress the body nor offend and hinder the operations of the mind This is a common Tenet amongst Physicians For all sudden changes if they be any thing remarkable do prejudice Nature in regard that Custom gets almost the force and quality of Nature it self Wherefore it cannot but be very dangerous to be driven off forcibly from that which a man hath been long used unto and to be put upon the contrary For as that which is against Nature so likewise that which is against long and inveterate Custom is very grievous to be undergone whilest the strength and power of Custom remains on foot We must therefore break off old usages by degrees and not all at once going backward step by step as we grew on towards them and so the alteration being not much perceived in the progress will be less difficult in performance 14. The fourth Rule is That albeit there cannot be any one determinate quantity set for all in respect of the great difference of ages strength and other dispositions in men as also in respect of the great diversity in the nature and quality of several kinds of food yet notwithstanding generally for them who are stept in years and for those who are of weak complexions it seems twelve thirteen or fourteen ounces of food a day should be enough accounting into this proportion bread flesh egges and all other kind of victuals And as many or but a few more ounces of drink would suffice This is to be understood of those who use but little exercise of body and are altogether addicted to study and other offices and imployments of the mind Verily Lodowick Cornaro whose Treatise touching a Sober life we have hereunto annexed approves greatly this measure having stinted himself thereat when he was thirty six years old and kept it constantly as long as he lived and that was indeed very long and with perfect health The holy Fathers likewise that lived in the deserts albeit they fed only upon bread and drank nothing but water exceeded not this proportion establishing it as it were by Law every where in their Monasteries For so Cassianus writes in his second Collation of Abbat Moyses chap. 19. Where Abbat Moyses being demanded what was the best measure of temperance answered on this wise We know there hath oft times much discourse been amongst our Ancestors touching this matter For examining the several manners of Abstinence used by divers to wit of those who passed their lives only with pulse or altogether with herbs or fruits they did prefer before them all the Refection by Bread alone The most equal measure whereof they

Original Humidity in which Life chiesly consists is wasted together with the inbred heat For whilest the Humidity or Moisture wasteth the heat founded therein doth equally abate and the moisture being spent the heat is joyntly extinguished as we see it comes to pass in Lamps After this manner do most of them die who have observed an exact Rule of diet unless perchance they die by means of outward violence For having prevented evil Humors by their good diet there is no inward cause in them whereby their Temper should be violently overthrown nor their Natural Heat oppressed And therefore it will needs follow that they must live till the Original Moisture together with the Heat that is founded thereupon be so consumed as it is not sufficient to retain the soul any longer in the body And in the like manner would a mans death be if God should withdraw his conservation of the Natural Heat although the Radical Humor should remain or on the other side if the Radical Humor should by divine operation be in an instant consumed 41. The Fifth Commodity of a sober Diet is That it makes the body Lightsome Agil Fresh and Expedite to all the motions appertaining thereunto For Heaviness Oppression of Nature and Dulness proceed from the abundance of Humors which do stop up the way of the spirits and cloy the joynts and fill them too full of moisture so that the excess of Humors being taken away by means of Diet the cause of that Heaviness Sloth and Dulness is taken away and the passages of the spirits are made free And moreover by means of the self-same Diet it comes to pass that the Concoction is perfect and so good blood is bred out of which abundance of pure spirits are made in which all the vigor and agility of the body mainly consisteth CHAP. VIII That it maintains the Senses in their integrity and vigor 42. WE have found Five Commodities which Sobriety brings to the Body Let us now see the Benefits which it affords to the Mind and they may likewise be well reduced to Five The First is That it ministreth soundness and vigor to the outward Senses For the Sense of Seeing is chiefly deaded in old men by reason that the Optick Nerves are cloyed with superfluous humors and vapors whereby it comes to pass that the Animal spirits which serve to the sight are either darkned or not afforded in such abundance as is needful for quick and clear discerning of things This impediment is taken away or much diminished by the Sobriety of meat and drink and by abstinence from those things which replenish the head with fumes such as are all fat things and especially Butter if it be taken in a good quantity strong wines and thick beer or such as are compounded with those herbs that fly up into the Head 43. The Sense of Hearing is likewise hindered by the flux of crude and superfluous humors out of the Brain into the Organ of hearing or into the Nerve that serves unto it for by this means it comes to pass that a man grows deaf or thick of hearing in that part where this flux of humors is Now this flux is very easily prevented and driven away by the Sobriety of diet And as it may be taken away by help of Physick after it hath befallen a man in case it be not let go on too long so as it take root so likewise it may be taken away by means of Diet especially if together therewith some Topical Medicines to be used 44. The Sense of Tasting is chiefly marred by ill humors that infect the Organ thereof As if cholerick tart or salt humors possess the tongue and throat whether it be that they come out of the Head or out of the Stomach whose inward tunicle is continued with these Organs all things will relish bitter tart and salt This indisposition is taken away by good Diet by means whereof it is further brought about that the most ordinary meats yea and dry bread it self do better taste and relish a sober man and yield him greater pleasure than the greatest dainties that can be do to those who are given to Gluttony For the evil juices that did infect the stomach and the Organ of the Taste and which bred a loathing and offence being removed and cleared the Appetite returneth of it self and the pure relish and natural delight in meats is felt In like manner good Diet conserveth the Senses of Smelling and Touching 45. Nevertheless I grant that by long age the vigor of the Senses and especially of the Eyes and Ears is much abated and almost extinct in regard that the Temper of the Organs as also of the other parts is by little and little dissolved the Radical Humor and the Native Heat being by degrees consumed and dried up whereupon the Temper becomes more dry than is proportionable to the operations of the Senses and all the passages and pores are stopped up with cold Phlegm which is most of all other things contrary to the functions of the mind For as old men by the inward temper of their bodies grow dry and cold in excess so likewise they become full of moisture by reason of excrementitial humors so that old Age is nothing else but a cold drie temper proceeding from the consumption of the Radical Humor and the Native Heat to which there must needs be conjoyned great store of cold Phlegm dispersed through the whole body CHAP. IX That it mitigates the Passions and Affections 46. THe Second Commodity which a sober Diet brings to the Soul of a man is That it doth very much abate and diminish the Affections and Passions and especially those of Anger and Melancholy taking away from them their excess and inordinate violence The self-same it works upon those Affections which are conservant about the taste and touch of delectable things so that in this regard it ought to be highly prized For it is in truth a shameful thing not to be able to master Choler to be subject to Melancholy and to sower cares of the Phansie to be enthralled to Gluttony and Slave to the Belly to be hurried on with violence to eating and drinking and poured out as it were to the exercise of lust and concupiscence Nor is it only shameful and contrary to Vertue to be thus disposed but also very prejudicial in regard of Health and full of opprobry in respect of good men But Sobriety with much ease remedies all these mischiefs partly subtracting and partly correcting the Humors of the body which are the causes of them For that the Humors are the causes of such Passions is both a received ground amongst all Physicians and Philosophers and manifest by experience 47. Inasmuch as we see those who are full of Cholerick Humors to be very Angry and Rash and those who abound with Melancholy to be alwaies troubled with griefs and fears And if these Humors be set on fire in

Sobriety doth bring with it the good things belonging to both parts of a man I did not think it misbeseeming my profession to write this fiort Treatise in the commendation thereof and withal to shew and declare by what way and means we might come to the just scantling and measure thereof I have annexed a Treatise tending to the same purpose of a Venetian Gentleman Lodowick Cornaro a man of great eminency and of a sharp judgment who having learned by experience of many years the great vertue and power that is in Sobriety did at last by writing notably make declaration thereof Both these Treatises my Reverend Lord I have thought fit to dedicate unto your name and to send forth into the world under your patronage For to whom can a Treatise of Sobriety be more fitly dedicated than to such a one as hath so stoutly and constantly followed Sobriety as by the help thereof to preserve himself vigorous and cheerful unto near upon Seventy years of his age You are he that can sit a hungry in the midst of daily feasts enjoyned to be made unto the Gentry that pass by solitary Campinia and whilest others fill their bellies and satisfie their appetites you contract both into narrow bounds and limits Besides this there are sundry other causes which deserve this testimony of my venerable respect towards your Lordship to wit that zeal wherewith you do so industriously promote the cause of your Religion which is so exceedingly beneficial to the whole Church and to our Belgia and together herewith that singular wisdom of yours in Government through means whereof you have for so many years space safely conserved your noble Hospital in that desert where it stands in the midst of many tumults of wars and shocks of armies in great licentiousness of military discipline and almost daily inrodes of both sides unto it by means whereof you have further not only recovered it out of those great debts wherewith it was formerly burdened but have moreover adorned it with beautiful structures and a high Tower for the setling of a Monastery therein And that I may pass over your other vertues whereof Sobriety the mother of all vertues is the true cause in you this dedication seems due to you in particular in regard of that ancient friendship which for above forty years space I have had with your brother Father George Colibrant a learned man and of noted holiness exceedingly addicted to sobriety prayer mortification of the flesh and zeal touching the soul by whose example and wholesome admonitions many Centuries of excellent young men have in sundry places given themselves unto holy Religion The conjunction that we likewise have with your other brother John Colibrant a man of great uprightness whose every where approved integrity far excells rich patrimonies makes this work belong to you I could relate many other things appertaining to your own and your friends commendation but I make spare of them that I may not offend your modesty which doth not willingly hear such matters Receive therefore Right Reverend Lord this small gift a testimony of our affection towards you and yours and be not wanting to the recommendation of that excellency of holy Sobriety which you have made proof of in your self and we make declaration of in this Treatise to all men but especially to Gods servants that they may by this means come to serve God more perfectly and sweetly in this life and obtain greater glory in heaven Now I beseech the Divine Goodness to prosper all your holy designs to its own glory and the salvation of men and after that you shall have been adorned with all manner of vertue to renew your long and happy Old age with the blessed Youth of Eternity From Lovain Gal. Jul. 1613. Your Reverend Fatherships servant in Christ LEONARD LESSIUS The Approbation of JOHN VIRINGUS Doctor of Physick and Professor THe Hygiasticon of the Reverend Father Leonardus Lessius a Divine of the Society of Jesus is learned pious and profitable For it is squared out according to the Physicians rules and is entire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It whets the vigor of the mind and leads to Old age Out of his love to the Commonwealth and publick good he was desirous to make that common which he had learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 regno I hold this Work to be most worthy of praise and so will every sober man that without spite and envy read it think and will he nill he judg of it as I do So I censure Joannes Walterius Viringus Doctor and Professor of Physick The Approbation of GERARD de VILEERS Doctor of Physick and Ordinary Professor I Have diligently read and weighed the most learned book of the Reverend Father Leonard Lessius and I judge the doctrin contained therein agreeable to the Physicians rules and most convenient to that end for which it was written by the Authors and therefore most profitable for Religious persons and for all those that are given to the employments of the mind Gerard de Vileers Doctor of Physick and Ordinary Professor The Approbation of FRANCIS SASSEN Doctor of Physick IN asmuch as all diseases except distempers without matter some instrumentary and those which arise from emptiness which are but few are caused either from abundance of humours or from ill nourishment and it is Galens determination in his 4. book 4. chapter concerning the preservation of Health that all they who have thick and slimy humours in the prime veins as most part of the Europeans and especially those that are more Northernly have do exceedingly well comport a spare diet And thirdly inasmuch as by testimony of the self same Galen the condition of the soul follow the temper of the body and so consequently the body being clear from all superfluous excrements the operations of the mind are more vigorous These precepts will not only be avoidable for the preservation of them that be in health and for the recovery of them that be sickly but which is the learned Authors main intent exceedingly conduce to the maintenance of the Senses Judgment and Memory in their soundness until extream Old age FRANCIS SASSEN Doctor of Physick The Contents of all the Chapters in LESSIUS his Hygiasticon CHAP. I. THe occasion and scope of this work pag. 1. II. What is meant by a Sober Life and what is the fit Measure of meat and drink 9 III. Seven Rules for the finding out of the right Measure 19 IV. Answer is made unto certain Doubts and Objections 46 V. Of the Commodities which a Sober Diet brings to the Body and first That it freeth almost from all diseases 60 VI. Of two other commodities which it brings to the Body 71 VII That it makes men to live long and in the end to die without pain 74 VIII That it maintains the Senses in their integrity and vigor 89 IX That it mitigates the Passion and Affections 93 X. That it preserveth the Memory 101 XI

by little and little that offence is diminished and divers do in the end find such benefit by Abstinence as that they choose willingly ever after to forbear Break-fast The self-same do many prove in forbearing of Suppers And in like manner after that men have a while forced themselves they find no pain in abstaining from divers kinds of meats to which their appetites did formerly lead them with great violence It is therefore altogether untrue which is commonly objected That a sober Diet doth torment a man with continual hunger 63. Secondly I answer Suppose there were some trouble in such kind of diet and that it should dure long which yet in truth is not so yet ought we to consider the many profits and benefits which it brings in recompense of this small trouble to wit That a sober Diet expels diseases preserves the body agil healthful pure and clean from noisomness and filthiness causeth long life breeds quiet sleep makes ordinary fare equal in sweetness to the greatest dainties and moreover keeps the Senses sound and the Memory fresh and adds perspicacity to the Wit and clearness and aptness for the receiving of divine Illuminations And further quits the Passions drives away Wrath and Melancholy and breaks the fury of Lust In a word replenisheth both soul and body with exceeding good things so that it may well be termed the mother of Health of Chearfulness of Wisdom and in sum of all Vertues 64. And on the contrary a disordered life repays that small and fading pleasure which it affords to the throat with an innumerable company of mischiefs For it oppresseth the belly with the weight thereof it destroys health it makes the body to become noisome ill-sented filthy and full fraught with muck and excrements it inflames Lust and inthrals the mind to passions it dulls the Senses weakens the Memory obscures the Wit and Understanding and in sum makes the Mind become lumpish and unapt for performance of the functions proper thereunto such as are Learning Prayer Meditation and all other excellent and lofty matters whereby is brought about that there can be little progress made either in knowledg of good things or in holiness of life or in the exercise and performance of good works And what a goodly Benefit is it for the injoyment whereof we undergo all this loss and damage Nothing but a short delight of the throat for a minutes space which is only felt whilst the meat is in chewing and going down into the belly which in its own nature is very base and contemptible being no other than that which is common with us together with the beasts and such as doth affect only a very small portion of the body to wit the tongue the palate and the throat For this it is that we pull upon our selves all these mischiefs and through the desire of this it is that the following of Temperance seems such a difficult business For were there no pleasure in taking meat and drink there would be no grief in forbearing them Intemperance then hath no other piece of goodness in it than only a base momentany delight and pleasing of the throat What a height of misery and indignity then must it needs be for a man to inthral himself to the slavery thereof and for this cause to indanger so many inconveniences and prejudices what a deal of wormwood and gall doth Gluttony pour in after the small sweet and pleasure which it hath afforded 65. These things ought to be disigently considered and weighed by wise men and especially by Church-men and such as set themselves apart to the service of God whose profession is to attend continually upon divino mysteries and the functions of the mind For if we carefully ponder these things it will not be possible but that we should make choice of Sobriety and find it pleasant and easie and on the contrary intemperance will appear and prove full of horror and detestation unto us we shall be ashamed of our delicacy and blush at the feeble and base tempers of our minds that are so captivated to the service of Gluttony that we slavishly obey the Tyrannical Rule of it not being able to resist the most base and transitory allurements thereof What can be more vile and undecent for a man than to be a slave to his belly And what greater madness than to renounce and quit our interest in all those excellent benefits which Sobriety brings both to Soul and Body for a little tickling delight in the throat and to expose our selves to the lash of all those evils both of Soul and Body wherewith Intemperance scourgeth her followers Oh the wretched condition of mankind that is subject to so great vanity blinded with so much darkness and beset with so many errors whose mind is deluded in his judgment and choice by a vain appearance of delectable good as it useth to be in dreams 66. And thus much shall suffice to have spoken touching Sobriety as it is the soveraign means and instrument for preservation of bodily health and vigor of mind in and unto long old age and as it is a procurer of the most excellent good that can be to both parts of a man bringing abundance both of Temporal and Spiritual Benefits to the exercisers thereof I heartily beseech God that the things thus written may prove to the good of many and will conclude in the words of S. Peter exhorting all men to Sobriety 1 Pet. 5. 6. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist stedfast in the faith For Sobriety is not only available for the overcoming of the temptations of the Flesh to which the greatest part of the world are subject but absolutely for all other likewise and is helpful to every kind of vertue as is plain and evident by what we have formerly in this Treatise proved A TREATISE of Temperance and Sobriety Written by LVD CORN ARVS Translated into English by Mr. GEORGE HERBERT HAving observed in my time many of my friends of excellent wit and noble disposition overthrown and undone by Intemperance who if they had lived would have been an ornament to the world and a comfort to their friends I thought fit to discover in a short Treatise that Intemperance was not such an evil but it might easily be remedied which I undertake the more willingly because divers worthy young men have obliged me unto it For when they saw their parents and kindred snatcht away in the midst of their days and me contrariwise at the age of Eighty and one strong and lusty they had a great desire to know the way of my life and how I came to be so Wherefore that I may satisfie their honest desire and withal help many others who will take this into consideration I will declare the causes which moved me to forsake Intemperance and live a sober life expressing also the means which I

man run beside himself to see such a ransacking of all the Elements by Fishers and Fowlers and Hunters such a turmoiling of the world by Cooks and Comfit-makers and Tavern-keepers and a numberless many of such needless occupations such a hazarding of mens lives on Sea and Land by heat cold and a thousand other dangers and difficulties and all forsooth in procuring dainties for the satisfaction of a greedy Maw and sensless Belly that within a very short while after must of necessity make a banquet of it self to worms What an endless maze of error what an intolerable hell of torments and afflictions hath this wicked Gluttony brought the world unto And yet wretched men that we are we have no mind to get out of it but like silly Animals led by the chaps go on all day long digging our Graves with our Teeth till at last we bring the Earth over our heads much before we otherwise need to have done And yet there was a certain odd fellow once in the world I would there were not too many of the same mind now adays Philoxenus by name that seriously wisht he might have a swallow as long and as large as the Cranes the better to injoy the full relish of his licorish morsels Long after him I read of another of the same fraternity Apitius I trow that set all his happiness in good chear but little credit I am sure he hath got by the means no more than Maximinus for all he was an Emperor by his using every meal to stuff into his paunch thirty pounds of flesh beside bread and wine to boot But Get a deserves in my opinion the Monarchy of Gluttons as he had of the Romans His feasts went always according to the letters of the Alphabet as when P's turn came he would haye Plovers Partridges Peacocks and the like and so in all the rest his table was always furnished with meats whose names began with one and the same letter But what do I raking up this carrion Let them rot in their corruption lie more covered over with Infamy then with Earth Only to give the world notice who have been the great Masters of this worthy Science of filling the belly and following good chear I have been inforced to make this remembrance of some of their goodly opinions and pranks Which let who so will be their partner in for my part I solemnly avow that I find no greater misery than to victual the Camp as the Proverb is cramming in lustily over night and to be bound next morning to rise early and to go about serious business Oh what a piece of Purgatory is it to feel within a mans self those Qualmes those Gripings those Swimmings and those Flushing heats that follow upon over eating And what a shame if our foreheads were not of brass and our-friends before whom we act them infected with the same disease would it be to stand yawning stretching and perbreaking the crudities of the former days surfet On the contrary what a happiness do I prove when after a sober pittance I find sound and quiet sleep all night long and at peep of day get up as fresh as the morning it self full of vigor and activity both in Mind and Body for all manner of affairs Let who will take his pleasure in the fulness of delicates I desire my part may be in this happy injoyment of my self although it should be with the abatement of much more content than any dainties can afford When I was last at Messina my Lord Antony Doria told me that he was acquainted in Spain with an old man who had lived above a hundred years One day having invited him home and entertained him sumptuously as his Lordships manner is the good old man instead of thanks told him My Lord had I been accustomed to these kind of meals in my youth I had never come to this age which you see nor been able to preserve that health and strength both of Mind and Body which you make shew so much to admire in m. See now here 's a proof even in our Age That the length and happiness of mens lives in the old world was chiefly caused by the means of Blessed Temperance But what need more word in a matter as evident as the Sun at noon-day to all but those whose Brains are sunk down into the Quagmire of their Bellies I 'le make an end with that which cannot be denied nor deluded nor resisted so plain is the truth and so great is the authority of the Argument and this it is Peruse all Histories of whatever times and people and you shall always find the haters of a Sober Life and Spare Diet to have been sworn enemies against virtue and goodness Witness Claudius Caligula Heliogabalus Clodius the Tragedian Vitellius Verus Tiberius and the like And on the contrary the friends and followers of Sobriety and Frugality to have been men of divine spirits and most heroical performances for the benefit of mankind Such as were Augustus Alexander Severus Paulus Aemilius Epaminondas Socrates and all the rest who are registred for excellent in the lists of Princes Soldiers and Philosophers A spare diet then is better than a splendid and sumptuous let the Sardanapaluses of our age prattle what they list Nature and Reason and Experience and the Example of all vertuous persons prove it to be so He that goes about to perswade me otherwise shall lose his labor though he had his tongue and brain furnished with all the Sophistry and Eloquence that ever Greece and Italy could joyntly have afforded FINIS * Qui medicè vivit miserè vivit That this subject is not un befitting a Divine The Measure is different according to the diversity of constitutions and ages What is every ones due measure Whether Students in Colledges or those that live in Monasteries c. ought to trouble themselves about this measure * Crudo aliquo fructu * Plethoram * Cacochymiam * Apophlegmatismos * In duobus paximaciis * Absque ullo obsonio That this measure may suffice ordinarily even those that are healthy and strong Panada * Esculenta potulenta * Menestris Hurtful meats are to be avoided * Nebula * Asthmata * Brassica * Humoris viscosi Panada a very convenient food for the aged c. Variety of dishes prejudicial to health * Qul ultra sitim famemque sedandā appetentiam producerent Whether this measure or stint ought not to be altered Whether the daily measure or stint ought to be taken at one or at more refections * Saplentia in sicco residet non in paludibus lacunis * Lux sicca anima sapientissima Another help to preserve health * Dolores ischiadicos * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crudity the mother of diseases * Non plures gladio quàm cecidere gula Health consisteth in two things * Vectis agitatio * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A sober Diet armeth against outward causes and accidents It mitigateth incurable diseases * Scirrho * Enterocele Hydrocele aliisque herniae generibus * In Columna Homicides and blasphemous persons do not live long seeing Neither luxurious persons * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Mancipata est It brings quiet dissolution Mans life compard to a Lamp It makes the body agil and expedite for all imployments The Commodities of the Mind by a sober Diet. It affords vigor to the Senses * Topica quaedam * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Ex Hypochondriis * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Coryzas This is a Benefit of greatest moment * Sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus Why the Appetite is deceitful * Bulimia * Mangonia * Chameunia * Non est tanto digna dolore solus The discommodities of Intemperance * Mangerà più chi manco mangia Ed è contrario Chi più onangia manco mangia Il senso è Poco vive chi treppo sparechia * Fa più pro quel ' che si lascia sul ' tondo che quel ' che si mette nel ventre * Cresses or wild Mint