receive the prejudice then others But fragrant smells refresh and chear the vital Spirits and are very wholsome breathing forth the vertue of those things from whence they do proceed Be not late abroad nor very early before Sun rising and after setting the Aire is not so good being infested with noxious vapours until the radient influence of the Sun dispells and purifies and those whose custome it is to be often aproad at such times are most frequently molested with Rheumes Rheumatic diseases which their declining years will more evidently manifest the prejudice Likewise in moist foggy dark weather t is better being within then abroad and if it be a cool season good fires fragrant fumes are then both pleasant very wholesom Be frequent abroad in the fields when a clear sky invites you forth and let the fresh Aire fan you with its sweet breath but more especially in the morning the Aire is softer and more pleasant then your bed and sure I am far more wholsome Temperie Coeli corpusque Animusque juvatur Ovid Meat and Drink Esteem temperance and regularity in eating and drinking as a great preservative of health not a Lessian dyet to pine and enseeble the body but moderate in quantity proportionable to the stomack agreeable in the first and second qualities seasonable as to times and order The contrary irregular practice hath destroyed and shortned the lives of many Plures gula quam gladius For quantity your own stomack must measure to you what is convenient which is a certain rule of proportion if you observe not to eat to a satiety and fullness but desist with an appetite being refreshed light and cheerfull not dulled heavy and indisposed to operation and action either of mind or body A set quantity or measure of meat and drink cannot be prescribed as a general rule and observation for all to follow in regard of the variety and great difference of persons in Constitution age strength of nature condition of life and infirmities that what is convenient for one is too much for another and too little for a third the strong and healthy cannot conforme to the sickly weak and infirme in quantity nor the labouring man to the sedentary and studious or the idle therefore every stomack is to be its own judge and every one ought to moderate themselves by the cautions before mentioned Indulge not to the cravings of an irrationall sensitive appetite but allow such a supply of daily food as will support and maintain bodily strength and not over-load it thereby the spirits will be vigorous and active humors attenuated and abated Crudities and obstructions prevented many infirmities checkt and kept under the senses long preserved in their integrity the stomack clean the appetite sharp and digestion good But by the surplusage and over-charge the stomachical ferment is overlaid and its incisive penetrative faculty obtunded the appetite and digestion abated the stomack nauseating fluctuating and belching with crudities from whence Gripes Fluxes and Feavers the spirits clogged dull and somnolent by their indisposition and inactivity humors subside degenerate incrassate obstructs from whence various symptomes and depraved effects throughout the body debilitating and decaying the fenses enervating and stealing away the strength of the body by defrauding it of good nutriment hastning old age and shortning Life In Winter you may eate more freely the ambient external cold compresseth and unites the spirits drives them to the center and fortifyes the stomack but in Summer the spirits are dilated exhausted and drawn forth by the external heat opening the pores wherefore the appetite is not so sharp nor digestion so quick And the Rule is true though heate be not the principal cause of concoction yet it is a necessary agent excitor and cooperator For the quality of dyet make choice of such for the most part as is commended to you convenient for that constitution you are of as you will finde prescribed in the several temperaments following But withal observe what is most agreeing and disagreeing to your peculiar nature and individual propriety what is most desired by your stomack and best digested is a good guide in the choice of meate and drink Paulo peior sed suavior cibus potus meliori at ingrato praferendus Change your dyet according to the seasons of the year the variation of your temperament and inclination to this or that distemper in Winter more meate and less drink in summer less meate and more liquids in hot weather a cooling diet in cold weather that which is warme and heating in summer meats boiled in winter rosted a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist diet a cold and moist body a hot and dry diet temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodies are rectified and reduced by their contraries and dissimilar The more simple and single your diet is the better and more wholesome but if your stomack must have variety let it be at several meals and so you may please your pallate without prejudice accustome not your self to delicacies and compound dishes the heterogenity of their nature begets a discordant sermentation in the stomack troubling concoction from whence eructations nauseous belchings and offensive risings in the throat Quo simplicior vict us ratio eo melior Aphor. Of all meat flesh affords the most nourishment and the strongest If your diet sometimes be not so good and proper for you in the quality make amends â—n the quantity and eat the lesse Of all sauces a good stomack is the best but â—f you must have other let it be acide sharp or biting Accustome strong stomacks to strong meats the weaker to lighter of digestion very light meats in strong stomacks are soon digested but withall parched and corrupted and turn to a bitter and cholerick juce solid hard meats in weak stomacks lye long and heavy and passe away crude and indigested Meats in respect of their facility and difficulty in digestion are tearmed heavy and light Heavy meats be such as are more dry hard solid and dense grosse course and tough or over moist slimy and cold requiring a longer time in fermentation volatization and digestion before they be fit to passe off the stomack And they are either so in their nature as all old flesh bull beef and oxe brawn pork venison hare goose duck swan crane bitter heron and most water fowle Eeles lobster lampreys tench stockfish beanes pease when they be something old brown bread barly and Rye bread also some parts are of harder digestion then other as brains hearts livers except of tame fowl birds and some very young flesh milts kidneys skin Meat made heavy or made worse then in their own nature by preparation keeping and dressing as dryed fryed and broiled meats meats long salted and kept as bacon hangâ—d beef and long powdered old ling salt cod haberdine pickled herrings red herrings pickled scallops sturgion salt salmon old cheese hard eggs
the Sea nor the fish upon the land nor your nature continue long in an unnatural way against her self Are you composed of natural principles and will you not live conformable to what you are do you not live by natures assistance and natural means and do you think to continue long in a Counter-motion against the nature of your Composition they that invert natures course preposterously promiscuously in congruously using the necessary conservatives of life not onely are deprived of their benefit but also receive a positive hurt disordering the constant regular motions in the body and discomposing the harmonious and sociable temperaments of the parts There is a rule therefore method measure and season in all the requisite supports and auxiliary helps belonging and necessary unto life or lawful actions and customes whatsoever which duely observed are of much advantage for the preservation of the body in its true natural state vigour and prolongation of being but other wise a methodically and inordinately used disturbs natures course uniformity and regularity of operations raiseth unnatural motions commotions and cessations introduceth disorders and disjoynes the frame of nature accelerates and hastens the dissolution of the body The Impediments of long Life AN infirme and weak constitution from the Wombe derived from tender imbecile and infirm parents Irregular and unfit tractation of Infants whose tender bodies are soon discomposed and disordered by bad Nurses their erronious customes and the ill proprieties of their milk Noxious and intemperate Aire Irregular eating and drinking Immoderate and unseasonable exercise motion or labour Too much or unfit rest Sleeping and waking in extreams Immoderate Venus Undue excretion and retention of Excrements Inordinate passions and perturbations of mind All unnecessary and bad customes Hygiastic Precautions and Rules for the preservation of Health and prolongation of life Of Aire AIre is so necessary to life that without it we cannot subsist which surrounding us about and being continually suckt and drawn in must needs affect the body with its conditions and properties and by observation you may finde the body by the various constitutions and changes in the air to be variously affected well and ill disposed of which infirme parts are most sensible that they prognosticate before an alteration come the minde also by the mediation of the spirits is drawn into consent and hath its dispositions and variations when the Aire is close thick and moist the spirits are more dull heavy and indisposed but at the appearance of the Sun and a serene sky the spirits are unfettered vigorous and active the minde more cheerful airy and pleasant The Spirits are of an aetherial nature and therefore do much sympathize with the present constitution and change of air for of the air drawn in by the motion of the vital parts are the vital spirits augmented supplied continually by the peculiar ferment and operation of the heart therefore the pureness of the aire makes much for the purity of the spirits A gross impure and noisome aire obtunds and deads the spirits makes a slow pulse obstructs the pores and hinders ventilation generates superfluous humors and causeth putrefaction A serene sweet thin Aire perfumes and purifies an unwholsome body cherisheth the heart makes a lively pulse and much encreaseth the vital spirits rarifies and volatizeth a gross coagulate blood opens the pores for transpiration of putrid and offensive vapours acuates and sharpens the appetite and helps digestion The best aire and most agreeable to temperate bodies is in temperate climates for heat cold wet and dry not subject to sudden and violent changes as in some parts of America and other Countries very frequent not gross and turbulent infected with putrid vapours and noxious exhalations from stinking ditches Lakes Boggs Carrions Dunghills Sinks and Vaults for which causes great Cities and the adjacent places are not so healthful nor the people so long liv'd Change of Aire somtimes is very necessary for the conservation of health the recovery of it declining and lost for temperate bodies by an intemperate aire shall gradually and in time become intemperate intemperate bodies by the contrary intemperate Aire shall be reduced to temperature at least shall conduce much and be very Auxiliary for the reduction Therefore bodies declining from exact temperature are best preserved in that Aire opposite to their declensions as Cholerick hot and dry bodies in a moist and coole aire Phlegmatick cold and moist bodies in a dry and warme Aire It is not therefore of small moment in what place you live and more especially such who labour of or are more subject to any pectoral infirmity for the Lungs being of so tender a substance and porous continually drinking in the aire is most apt to receive impressions from it according to the qualities it is pregnant with and infested and many diseases of the breast arise from this sole cause and many exasperated by it and continued hence it is Asthmatick Phthisical and Consumptive persons shall not be cured in some places but may have cure in another Be cloathed according to the Clemency season and temperature of the Aire your age and habit of body leane and thin bodies pervious corpora rarae texturae and whose skin are loose and lax may wear thicker cloathing because such are more perspirable do magis emittere transpirare and are also more penetrable and subject to injury of the Aire Fat and fleshy people and whose bodies are solid firm and hard are more impenetrable and impervious and may wear thinner Garments Infants and children lately cherished in the stove of the wombe being of tender soft bodies and porous are easily exposed to the prejudice of the Aire Vigorous youth and middle age being accustomed to all weathers whose spirits abounding do strongly resist and keep out the assaults and injuries of an offensive Aire may best indure hardship Old age whose natural heate is abated and spirits exhausted stands in need of good defensatives against external cold and to cherish internal heat Observe the seasons and changes of the Aire and be then most careful for at such times you are in most danger to exchange health for sickness hence it is that Spring and Autumne abounds most with diseases the Air then assuming new qualities opposite to its former constitution sets new impressions upon our bodies which occasions the various aestuations and turgid fermenting of humours producing divers symptomes according to the variety of their nature the organical difference office and constitution of the several parts The Sun being risen and the aire clear open your Chamber-windowes that the fresh Aire may perfume your Room and the close Aire and inclosed vapours may go forth Bad smells and putrid vapours being drawn in with the Aire are very injurious to the Lungs and vital parts contaminating the spirits and impressing upon the ferment of those parts their tetrid nature are oftentimes the original of a Consumption and if the Lungs be weak and infirme are more apt to
those necessary mutual performances without regard to their former friendship or their future conjunct preservation The body now begins to sinck with its own weight and press towards the Earth the natural place from whence it came That aetherian spirit which before had boyed it up and took delight to sport it to and fro is now ready to let it fall and groues downwards to leave it whether it must goe The wonted pleasures of their partnership and society is now disgusted and rejected food now hath lost its relish and is become unsavory sleep which before was pleasant as a holy day in the fruition of rest and ease is now composed of nothing but troublesome unquier dreams linked together with some fighing intervals to measure out the weary night by Exercise and sporting reereations is now accounted druggery and laborious toyling unwilling is the soul to move her yokfellow farther then the enforcing law of nature and necessity commands and urgeth their joynt operations which before were duly and unanimously performed are now ceased abated or depraved by the retraction reluctance and indisposed sadness of the soul to act the wonted vigorous emanations of the soul and her radiant influence upon the spirits is now suspended subducted and called back These ministring attending spirits and cheifest agents which at a beck were alwaies ready agile and active in the execution of her commands now want commands to stir and warrants to act by but in a torpid and somnolent disposition unfit for action and the exquisite performance of their duties and in a sympathizing compliance with the soul the excitrix and rectrix of their motions are ready to resign their offices and give over working that what they now do is faintly and remissely performed with much deficiency depravation When the soul is pleased and merry the spirits dance and are cheirfull at their work but when she droops and mourns the spirits are dull heavy and tired the functions weakly and insufficiently executed From the preceeding discourse may easily be collected that the distempers and alienations of the soul from her genuine crasis of serenity and quietude is of great disadvantage to health impressing upon the body various preternatural effects forming the Ideas and charracters of diseases upon the spirits and by them communicated conveighed and propagated in the body likewise the morbific seeds secret characters of diseases which lay dead and inactive are by the aeconomical disturbance and perturbations of minde awakened moved and stirred up to hostility and action which otherwise would have layen dormant as by greif fear or anger hysterical passions swoonings epilepsies c. Are often procured and it is evident and commonly observed by infirme and diseased people how passion agravates and heighthens their distempers and acccording to the temper of their mindes will their bodily infirmities be agravated or abated I shall conclude this subject with three corollaryes being the Epitome of what hath been asserted and aimed at 1. There is no perturbation or passion of mind whether little or great but it works a real effect in the body more or less according to the nature and strength of the passion and by how much the more suddain great often and longer duration the passion is by so much are the impressions and effects worse more durable and indeleable You cannot be angry or envious or Melancholly or give way to any such passion but you cherish and feeed an enemy that preys upon your life and you may be assured that passion makes as great nay greater alteration within the body then the change of your countenance appears to outward view which is not a little although but the shadow or reflections of the inward distemper and disorder and were it possible by any perspective to see the alteration and discomposure within made by a passionate minde the prospect would be strange and much different from that placidness and tranquility of an indisturbed quiet soul 2. Strong and vehement passions or affections of the mind to intent upon this or that object whether desiderable or formidable and to be avoided alienates suspends draws of the wonted vigour influence and preservative power of the soul due to the body whereby the functions and operations are not duly and sufficiently performed but intempestively remissly and weakly nor is the dammage onely privative but also introduceth and impresseth upon the spirits a morbific idea which is ens reale seminale producing this or that effect according to the nature and property of the Idea received and aptitude of the recipient subject Phansies and Idea's are let in naked but they strait are invested and cloathed in the body have a real existence and are entia realia though at first conception but entia rationis as the longing of a pregnant woman being but the Idea of a thing in her minde begets various and real distempers in her body if not soon satisfyed and sometimes charactrized upon the Embryo in the Wombe Likewise a good stomack is taken off its meat suddenly by the comming of some unwelcome bad news the appetite is gone now the soul is disquieted and the Body really affected and altered let this sad tidings be contradicted and the Soul satisfied of the truth to the contrary it sets a new impression upon the spirits they strait are cheered lively and active the stomack calls for meat and drink and the faculties restored to their wonted operations Whereby it appears the two passions of joy and grief as they are opposite in their objects so are their effects wrought in the body as far distant and different 3. A cogitative or contemplative person to intent alwayes or unseasonably employing the mind seriously and eagerly either in real or fictious matters fabricating Idea's upon the spirits disturbs and hinders other necessary offices and opperations conservative of being enervates and weakens their performance in duty impares health and hastens old age but those that live most incurious and void of studious thoughts and serious cogitations preserve the strength of nature and integrity of all the faculties protract the verduce and beauty of youth much longer from declensions and decay for by how much the rational faculty is over busie and imtempestively exercised drawing the full vigour of the soul into the exercise of that faculty and robbing other inferiour functions of their necessary influential supply and emanative power from the soul by so much the other faculties are impoverished and abated their executions more languid and depraved and therefore it is a close Students life disposeth and inclines to many infirmities enervates and debilitates nature abbreviates and shortens its course 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fieri non potest ut animo malè affecto Non etiam unà laboret corpus parcè bibe frugaliter ede utere exercitio rarò venere diluculo surge tranquillo sis animo tempestivè fac omnia immodice nihil Ars brevis vitam trahit longam Of
but generally the body is to be accounted in a better or worse state and condition as the humor issuing is better better or worse thin sharp bloody or fowle smelling strong or stincking much in quantity declare the body to be cacochymical and foul the humors depraved and degenerate and require the issue to be continued but the matter issuing white resonable thick sweet little in quantity and not sharp causing pain nor inflamation about the place are good signes and shew soundness of body the humors to be in their natural condition amicable and friendly to the body and permit an Issue to be closed up but let due purgation immediately succeed and a spare dyet BELLUM NECESSARIUM SIVE MEDICUS BELLIGERANS The Military or Practical Physician reviewing his ARMORY Furnished with Medicinal Armature and Weapons offensive and defensive Anatomically fitted and appropriate To the Head Capital Pills Cephalic essence Lungs Pectoral Electuary Balsamic Extract Heart Cordial Tincture Bezoardic Confection Stomack Stomack Pills Digestive Elixir Spleen Mesentery and Liver Cachectic Fills Scorbute Tincture Hydropic Pills Hydropic Powder Guts Aperitive Powder Retentive Powdex Reins and Bladder Nephritic Extract Nephritic Powder Dysuretic Powder Genital Parts Restaurative Essence Hysterical Pills Expulsive Powder Restringent powder Joynts Arthritic Pills Skin Cosmetic Water Powder of Saturn Miscellaneous Italick Pills Neapolitan Pills Haematic Powder Febrific Elixir Sarcotic Pills Sudorific Pills Sympathetic powder Issue Cerecloth The Vertues use and Doses of each Medicine For the Head THE Capital Pills are appointed for infirmities of the brain and nerves and evacuates noxious humours that molest and hinder the exercise of the rational faculty or obstruct and impedite the free operation of the sensitive whereby the animal spirits are alleviated the ventricles of the brain and organs for sence freed from obstructions Conducing much to the cure of infirmities afflicting the head and nerves as lethargies apoplexy and soporiferous diseases Convulsions epilepsy palsies vertigoes tremors pains of the head rhumes dul sight or hearing Take them after your first sleep or halfe the dose when you go to bed the rest at 5 or 6 of the clock next morning in so doing you will not be called up before your due time to rise When you are up drink some warm posset-drink and walk about the house Eat at noon thus do 3 or 4 dayes together for they operate gently The Dose for men and women is 5 or 6 Pills for 14 years old 4 Pills The Cephalic essence is specifickly appropriate to the head effectually resisting the infirmities thereof and strengthening the brain and nerves of special use for such as are cataleptick epileptick apoplectick paralytick that have a cold or moist braâ—n sunject to rhumes Convulsions remblings or weakness of the nerves vertigoes paines of the head it strengthens a weak memory weak eyes amends dull hearing if the defect be not organicall It quickens and raiseth the spirits in somnolent drowzy persons makes them more acute and vigilant and roborates the animal faculty To be taken after the Capitall Pills if both be used Take it in the morning fasting thus Drop it upon fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point then drink a draught of what liquor is most agreeable and proper for you eat an hour after and go abroad Also you may apply it to the nose profitably Whereby the vertue is received into the head The Dose for men and women is 2â— drops for children and infants so many drops as they are years old If under a year old only apply it to the nose as aforesaid and also to the temples Shake the bottle when you use it For the Lungs THe infirmities most incident to the Lungs are 1. A thin sharp rheum irritating and provoking the Lungs to expulsion by coughing which oftentimes procures an exulceration and spitting of bloud and from hence a Consumption may insue 2ly A grosse indigested flegm stopping the vessels of the Lungs and pipes for respiration causing difficulty of breathing wheezing and coughing which is called an Asthma 3ly A Consumption or Ulcer of the Lungs which in the beginning not so easy to be discovered but to be known by these signs An obtuse or heavy pain in the breast short breath frequent coughing and destillation upon the Lungs In time is made more manifest by spitting of purulent matter an ulcerous and more sharp pain in the breast a putrid Feaver the cough more vehement imbecillity and weaknesse of all the faculties c. For the infirmities aforesaid the Medicines following are effectual and peculiarly appointed The Pectoral electuary stayes defluctions of sharp thin rheums that invade the Lungs Mitigates their acidity and saltness which indangers Corrosion spitting of bloud and a Consumption checks the violence of coughing and easeth the breast it helps a dry cough loosens flegm and helps expectoration procures rest and respite from coughing in the night To be taken at any time the quantity of a nutmeg or more but chiefly at night and morning in bed The Balsamic extract is most effectual in restoring weak decayed Consumptive or ulcerated Lungs purifies and clenseth the breast from putrid matter that causeth the breath to stink or be ill savoured defends the Lungs from tetrid maligne vapours internally generated or externally received inducing a vitious depraved constitution of the Lungs or promoting a Consumption roborates and strengthens the Lungs firmly resisting an haereditary Phthisical consumptive disposition subject to some families Opens obstructions stoppings in the breast from Crude viscous phlegm stuffing the pipes of the Lungs and vessels for respiration helps old coughs asthmatic wheezings difficult short and faint breathing from indisposition decay or imbecillity of the vital parts and restores their vigour and natural ability Attenuates maturates and concocts tough raw flegm and facilitates expectoration retracts a confluence of crude humors flowing in upon the Lungs by the arteria venosa causing oppilatious short breath and Pertinacious coughing Is both a preservative and curative medicine for persons Consumptive inclining or disposed thereto by any Pectoral infirmity The Dose is half a dram for Man or Woman For 14 years old a scruple or 24 grains Take it night and morning in bed if it be for putrid or ulcerated Lungs you must continue the use of it 3 weeks or a month observing due order and dyet if for lesser infirmities a shorter time will effect the intention It confines you not to the house more then the tendernesse of your own body and the coldness of weather prohibits you to go abroad Rowl it in Sugar-Candy or fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point and swallow it For the Heart THe Cordial Tincture is appointed for fainting fits it cheers the heart releives the vital spirits opressed cherisheth decayed nature in weak and antient persons comforts and warmes a cold stomack helps digestion expells winde and Melancholly vapours from the Spleen very good for palpitations of the heart or oppression at the stomack