may drink more freely then others or if thirst importunes you at any time to satisfie with a moderate draught is better then to forbear Accustome youth and strong stomacks to small drink but stronger drink and wine to the infirm and aged it cheers the spirits quickens the appetite and helps digestion For corpulent gross and fat bodies thin hungry abstersive penetracting wines For lean thin bodies black red and yellow wines sweet full bodied and fragrant are more fit and agreeable For Drink whether it be wholesomer warmed then cold is much controverted some stifly contending for the one and some for the other I shall rather chuse the middle way with limitation and distinction then impose it upon all as a rule to be observed under the penalty of forfeiting their health the observation of the one or the other There are three sorts of persons one cannot drink cold Beer the other cannot drink warm the third either You that cannot drink cold Beer to you it is hurtful cools the stomack and checks it much therefore keep to warm drink as a wholesome custome you that cannot drink warm Beer that is findes no refreshment nor thirst satisfied by it you may drink it cold nor is it injurious to you you that are indifferent and can drink either drink yours cold when you cannot have it warmed That warm Drink is no bad custome but agreeable to nature in the generalitie first because it comes the nearest to the natural temper of the body and similia similibus conservantur every thing is preserved by its like and destroyed by its contrary Secondly heat though I do not hold it the principal agent in digestion yet it does excite is auxiliary and a necessary concomitant of a good digestion ut signum causa Thirdly Omne frigus per se pro viribus distruit Cold in its own nature and according to the graduation of its power extinguisheth natural heat and is destructive but per accidens and as it is in gradu remisso it may comtemperate allay and refresh where heat abounds and is exalted Therefore as there is varietie of Pallates and Stomacks likeing and agreeing best with such kind of meats and drinks which to others are utterly disgustful disagreeing and injurious though good in themselves so is it in Drink warmed or cold what one finds a benefit in the other receives a prejudice at least does not fâ—nd that satisfaction and refreshment under such a quallification because of the various tempers particular appetitions and idiosyncratical proprieties of several bodies one thing will not agree with all Therefore he that cannot drink warm let him take it cold and it is well to him but he that drinks it warm does better Which is to be understood in Winter when the extremity of cold hath congelated and fixed the spirits of the Liquor in a torpid inactivitie but by a gentle warmth are unfettered volatile and brisk whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the stomacks fermenting heat being so prepared then to be made so by it Motion and Rest EXercise often in the morning chiefly with an emptie stomack alwayes and after excremental evacuation if you can procure it Exercise rowseth dull inactive spirits gives ventilation opens obstructions by the motion attenuation and penetration of the subtile spirits agitates and volatiseth feculent fixed subsiding humours concocts and abates superfluous moisture increaseth natural heat promotes concoction distribution and conveyance of aliment through the narrow Channels and passages unto the several parts of the body procures excremental evacuations strengthens all the Members and preserves Nature in her vigour Vary exercise according to the condition of your body and season of the year the stronger and Phlegmatic bodies in cold weather admit of stronger and swifter motions Choleric bodies weak and the Summer season more mild and gentle Be not violent in exercise nor continue it longer beyond a pleasure but desist with refreshment not a lassitude and weariness Put on some loose garment until your body be cool and setled in its natural heat and temper the pores being opened by exercise the cold is more apt to enter from whence a greater prejudice then you could expect benefit from your labour Fly idleness and a sedentarie life for want of due action and motion the body like standing waters degenerates corrupts and decayes Ignavia corpus hebetat labor firmat Sleep and Watching MOderate sleep refresheth the spirits increaseth natural heat helps concoction gives strength to the body pacifies anger and calmes the spirits gives a relaxation to a troubled mind Immoderate sleep dulls the spirits injurious to a good wit and memory fills the head with superfluous moisture and clouds the brain retains excrements beyond their due time to be voided and infects the body with their noxious fumes and vapours an enemy to beauty Turpis qui alto sole semisomnis jacet Cujus vigilia medio die incipit Sen. Go early to sleep not with a full stomack and early from sleep that you may rise refreshed freshed lively and active not dulled and stupid When you lay by your Clothes lay aside also your business care and thoughts and let not a wandring phansie prevent your rest Let your bed be soft but not to sink in which suckes from the body exhausts and impaires strength a Quile upon a Featherbed is both easie and wholesome Avoid day sleeps as a bad custome chiefly fat and corpulent bodies but if your spirits be tired with much business and care or by reason of old age debilitie of nature extream hot weather labour or the like that dissipates the spirits then a moderate sleep restores the spirits and is a good refreshment but rather take it sitting then lying down Night watching and late sitting up tires and wastes the animal spirits by keeping them too long upon duty debilitates nature changeth the fresh flower of youth heats the body dryes and exasperates Choler in time extinguisheth natural heat breeds Rhumes and Crudities most injurious to thin leane bodies Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Evacuation and Retention UNder this Head is comprised excretions by Stool Urine monethly Purgations Venus by the Pores pallate Nose and Ears of which the former are of the greatest concernment and special care to be had of them Excremental evacuations are various proceeding from the several concoctions conveyed out by several Channels and Vents which duly evacuated are no small helps to the conservation of health and are the effects of a temperate and regular body The retention of them beyond due time argue distemperature of parts or irregular living and brings much detriment to the body by their noxious Fumes and putrid Vapours that might infect corrupt and disturb the body Immoderate evacuations causeth weakness debilitie of nature by exhaustion and procures several diseases Cachexies Consumptions Dropsies c. To keep the body soluble is very good that at least once a day you may not miss to
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
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
have a stool else the Faeces are hardned the body heated the stomack molested the appetite not so good the head heavy dull and sometimes pained some grosser matter which should go away by seige is brought by the Urinarie passage occasioning obstructions all which are very injurious and destructive to health Seasonable and moderate Venus alleviates nature and helps concoction Immoderate exhausts the strength by effusion of spirits exsiccates and dries the body hurts the brain and nerves causeth tremblings dulls the sight debilitates all the faculties hastens old age and shortens life Cibovel potu repletis superfluè evacuatis five exercitatis coitus interdicitur Tempus optimum est mane post dormias Hyeme vere frequentius permittitur aestate parcissimè Juvines sanguinei pituitosi liberalius parcius Melancholici parcissimè biliosi Senes emaciati Mares plus quam faeminas laedit qui erecti solent Hygiastic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the several constitutions of bodies with their diagnostic signes THE Sanguine is moderately hot and moist hath a lively pulse vigorous actions of colour fresh or rosie for habite of body soft fleshy or moderately fat of a pleasant mind and good disposition except casualties and infirmities alter to the contrary The Sanguine constitution being the best and most temperate ought to be preserved in that state from degeneration and intemperate declensions which is performed by a due observance of diet Air Exercise and Rest Sleep and Watching voiding and retaining of excrements and passions of the mind for any of these irregular unsutable or unnatural of continuance will alter and change the best tempered body into some other constitution of intemperature answerable to their causes as the intemperate Air of a hot climate or season not regarded violent exercise nightwatchings c. Introduceth a depraved alteration and degeneration of the blood For the quality of your diet let it be temperate for temperate bodies must use temperate meats and distempered bodies their contraries therefore keep within this latitude generally and for the most part from meats temperate to meats hot cold dry or moist in the first degree inclusive those will sute well with your temperament Such are Mutton Cow-beife or Heifer Pork Veale Lamb Rabbit Capon Hen Pullet Turky Phesant Partridge Carrots Turnips Skirrits Sparagus For quantity times and order in eating and drinking for Aire Exercise and Sleep consonant and most agreeable to this constitution are to be sought in the general Hygiastick Rules before mentioned which are most proper and applicable to this complexion as being the common standard to measure others by and how far others vary from this temperament by so much are they to be accounted intemperate and do therefore require some particular Rules differing from the general because intemperate constitutions and temperate are not be governed by the same strictness of law but must have some allowance and exceptions which shall be observed in the particular constitutions following Phlegmatick Constitution THe Phlegmatick person is more cool and moist not so lively quick sharp and acute as the sanguine for habit of body corpulent fat or fleshy the Veines small and hid a slow pulse prone to sleep and ease by cold things prejudiced by hot things benefitted incident to cold and Phlegmatick distempers which are to be understood if customs casualties or infirmities induce not the contrary Meats agreeable and convenient for this temperament are such as be temperate and such as be hot in the first and second degree not over moist but potencially drying if heat be wanting as young Beef powdered Mutton Venison Hare Turkey Hen Capon Pidgeon Turtle Black-birds Feldifars small Birds sowced Puffins Artichoaks Parsnips Potatoes pickled Oysters Anchovies Also Bacon Haberdine old Ling salt Cod pickled Herrings or dryed pickled scallops and such like savory seasoned meats this temperament will admit of if the stomack be strong enough to digest them And for the more security take a glass of Sack after Refuse Lambe Kid fresh Pork Pig Goose Duck and water Fowl being over moist and clogging a Phlegmatick stomack But if your appetite much desires any of these let them be down roasted also Eeles Lampreys fresh Herrings Makarel Lobster fresh Salmon Barbel fresh Sturgeon Tench are injurious and most fresh fish yet less prejudicial if you drink wine with them Let your dyet be warm meats oftener roast then boyled Butter Oyle and Honey is very wholsome Mustard Salt and Spices are good for your use especially with meats of slow digestion and that abound with much moisture Refuse Milk and milk meats Curds new Cheese Butter milk and Whey Olives Capers Broom-buds Sampire are good sauce also Garlick Onions Leeks in broths seasonings or sawces for a rellish but not raw Refrain cold hearbs and sallads as Lettice Purslan Violet leaves except Sorrel which although cold yet a dryer and sharpner of the appetite but use Mint Sage Rosmary Time Marjerome Parsley Pennyroyal and such hot hearbs Abstain from raw fruits Apples Pears Plumms Cucumbers Mellons Pumpions c. But you may eat Walnuts Filbirds Almonds blanched Chestnuts fiftick nuts Dates Figs Raisins Drink strong bear more frequently then small and sometimes Sack Not French wine if you be Rheumatick Indulge not your self in lying long in bed or afternoon sleeps too much rest and ease they dull the spirits increase flegm and superfluous moisture Frequent exercise and moderate abstinence in meat and drink are great preservatives of your health Chuse a warm air and dry soil remote from Waters the best place for your abode Hot Baths are profitable seasonable and moderate Venus a friend the former cherisheth the spirits opens obstructions and dryes up superfluous moisture the latter sufcitates and raiseth the spirits alleviates and helps Concoction If the smoaking of Tobacco be good for any the Phlegmatick may best challenge the use of it Cholerick Constitution THe Cholerick person is hot and dry eager and precipitate in action froward hasty and angry lean of body and slender the Veines bigg a hard pulse and quick of colour pale swarthy or yellowish the hair crisp or curled propense to waking and short sleeps subject to Tertain Fevers Ad venerem proclivior cito satiatus Use a cool and moistning diet most frequently boyled meats rather then rost or baked but fryed or broiled meats never Eat brothes often made with cooling hearbs Rice-milk Cock-broth or Barly broths with Rasins Currants and Prunes For flesh chuse young tender and jucy temperate or cooling as young Beef Veal Motton Lamb Kid Pork Conies Green-geese Turky Capon Chickens Observe fish days as good dyet and then you may eate fresh Salmon Sturgeon Lobster fresh Herrings Crabs Prauns fresh God Conger Thornback Soles Plaise Whiring Smelt Perwincle Oisters Pike Trout Tench and all fresh fish Eeles not excepted which are very unwholsome to others Milk and milk meats are pleasant and good as Custard White-pots new Cheese fresh Cheese and Cream For your sauces use Verjuce Vinegar
Sorrel Orange Lemmon Apples Goosberies Currans Prunes pickled Cucumbers as boiled Veale and Green-sauce rost Veal and Orange holled Mutton with Verjuce and its own juce rost Mutton and Lemmon or Cucumbers green Geese and Goosberries Stubble goose and Apples Pigg and Currants Pork and Green-sauce boiled Chickens with Goosberries or Sorrel-sops Calves feet stewed with Currans and Prunes and your meat thus cook'd is both food and Physick Take a lawful freedome and please your self with these fruits Citrons Pomegranats Limes Oranges Lemmons Quince Pearmains Pippins red Cherries Mulberies Grapes Damsins Bullaces Prunellaes Respass Currans Barberies Strawberries they cool and quench thirst contemperate and aswage Choler and give a great refreshment to the parched spirits Eat sallads of Lettuce Sorrel Purslane Spinage and Violet leaves they are medicamental aliment Butter milk Whey and Sider allays preternatural heat checks the effrenation of raging Choler and are like water to fire Refuse the fat and brown outside of meat also the crust of bread Butter and Oyle adds fuel to the fire Sugar and Honey hath alliance and friendship with Choller being soon assimilated and converted into its nature Mustard Salt and Spices exasperates Cholet and makes it more fierce and biting Vinegar checks it Avoid wine spirits and strong liquors they agitate Choller and rouzeth up a sleeping enemy Fast not but satisfie the stomack when it vellicates and calls for meat biting Choller must have something to feed on or it will prey upon the body Cherish and indulge sleep it cools and moistens but let it not exceed in length which puts nature by her due times for necessary evacuations Use little and gentle exercise be not laborious or toyling but take your ease avoid violent motion it fires the spirits and enrageth choler Frequent Venus is most pernicious Cold bathes is profitable and refresheth much by cooling the blood allaying the spirits concentring them Bannish anger immoderate care peevishness and fretting which discomposeth the spirits heats and wasts them angments Choller dryes the body and hastens old age Refrain Tobacco as an injurious custome it exasperates Choler by heating drying and evatuating dulcid Phlegme which contemperates bridles and checks the fury of acrid sharp bilious humors Melancholy Complexion THe Melancholy person naturally so from the first principles is cold and dry but a Melancholy temperament acquired by Education Customes and Accidents by Degeneration and admixture of other humors adust is hot and dry which make the signs and symptoms of Melancholy to be different and various and a difference is to be made in dyet and customs The common symptoms are a pale black or high Sanguine colour given to be watchful sad solitary and suddain laughter a flow pulse troublesome sleeps and dreams Cold Melancholy hath milde symptomes if hot and adust the effects are more churlish and furious For cold Melancholly let the dyet be hot and moist for the hot Melancholy person let dyet be cooling and moist in both let their meats be of light digestion affording good nutriment and not windy as Mutton Lamb Veal Capon Chicken Partridge Phesant c. Abstain from Venison Bull-beef or Ox hanged Beef or long salted Goats-flesh Hare Bacon Goose Duck Swan Crane Heron Bittor and most water fowl Peacock Quaile Blackbirds Pidgeon Red Herrings salt Cod Ling Sturgeon pickled Scalloâ—s and salt Fish dryed Meats fryed or broiled old Cheese Beanes Pease Cabbage Coleworts Rye Bread and all meats hard of digestion or windy Capers Broom buds and Sampire are good sauce they open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Mustard and Vinegar bad and all sower sauces they make Melancholy more contumacious and fixed Spices not good if the person be hot they cause adustion Use Borrage Bugloss Endive Succory Baume Fumiterry Lettuce Marigold flowers Violets Clove-giliflowers Saffron they alter and qualifie the humor and chear the spirits Use Barly brothes with Prunes Raisins and Currans If Melancholy be adust and your body hot and costive eat Pippins Permains Cherries Respass Strawberries and such like fruits to cool and moisten Drink Whey Sider and small White-wines Refuse black wines and stale Beer Keep the body soluble your head will be more free from pain fumes and heaviness Cherish sleep it refresheth the spirits pacifieth a troubled minde and banisheth cares Fly idleness the Nurse of Melancholy exercise often and follow business or recreations Walk in the green fields Orchard Gardens Parks by Rivers and variety of places Change of Air is very good Avoid solitariness and keep merry company Frequent Musick sports and Games Recreate the spirits with sweet fragrant and delightful smells Moderate Venus good Banish all passions as much as in you lies fear greif dispaire revenge desire jealousie emulation and such like Opus est te animo valere ut corpore possis Cicer. Tobacco hurtful espicially if Melancholy be adust and a hot body it heats and exhausts humidity makes Melancholly more contumacious Give not your self to much study nor night watchings they both dry the body and make humors adust two great enemies to a Melancholy person Hygistic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the various discrasyes or passions of Mind THe Soul and Body are so linked and conjoyned as Partners of each others ill and wellfare that the one is not affected but the other is drawn into consent mutually acting enjoying and suffering untill death seperates and breaks the bands of union assunder Hence it is a diseased body makes a heavy drooping mind and a wounded disturbed or estless mind makes a youthful healthy body to decay and languish Who therefore desires the health and wellfare of the body must Procure ease rest and tranquility of mind Siue Animo Corpus nec sine corpore Animus bene valere potest SHun Melancholy and sadness as very dangerous and destructive occasioning and producing variety of diseases suffocates and choaks the spirits retards their motion and agility of operation imprisons and cloggs them in their Stations darkens their purity and light debilitating all the faculties of the body their cheif operator being indisposed and disabled fixeth humors incrassates and begets obstructions and debilitates the Speen alienates and subtracts its ferment from the stomack which decayes both appetite and digestion procures scorbute Hypochondriac Melancholy pains and tumors of the Spleen Dropsies Jaundice c. A great Enemy to beauty soon changeth florid blooming youth into a pale withering countenance and makes the whole body to languish and decay Mirth subtiliates purifies and chears the spirits puts them upon activity that before were torpid dull and heavy and excites them to operation and duty in the several faculties volatizeth rarifies and attenuates gross feculent obstructing humors preserves youth vigour and beauty makes the body plump and fat by expanding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment Whose wholsome effects are much the same with those of exercise and may well supply when that is wanting Dum fata sinunt Vivite laeti Sen. ANger is the beginning
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