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A51992 Letters to a sick friend containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M. Marlow, John, 1648-1695. 1682 (1682) Wing M691A; ESTC R217455 44,444 169

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LETTERS TO A Sick Friend CONTAINING SUCH OBSERVATIONS AS MAY Render the Use of Remedies Effectual towards The Removal of SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH By J. M. LONDON Printed by J. A. for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1682. The PUBLISHERS EPISTLE TO THE READER THese ingenuous and excellent Letters being sent me at several times and upon particular Occasions from the City of London into the Countrey I thought them very well deserving to be exposed to publick View as containing most necessary Observations tending to Health and long Life with the Way to render Remedies Effectual A Theme I do not remember I ever saw in Print before The Subject is Great and Noble and the Style is smooth and pleasant and accommodate to the Genius of this Age And I am of Opinion that if the Divine and Physical Intimations given in these Letters were improved to Practice the Vse of Remedies would very seldom fail of success and most men might arrive unto a very great Age and their passage through this World would be much more Easie and Comfortable than which nothing can be more desirable I heartily wish they may be as Delightful and Vseful to thee in Print as they were to me and some others in Manuscript and then I am recompenced for the Publication and shall more easily obtain the Authors Pardon for thus Reading them aloud to the whole World T. C. LETTERS TO A Sick Friend TENDING TO HEALTH LETTER I. SIR I Received yours dated the thirteenth instant wherein you give me an account of the loss of your Health and also request me to give you such prudential Observations as may tend towards your Recovery Sir you know my Service is alwayes at your Beck but I must take leave to tell you that I cannot serve you better in such a deplorable Distemper as yours is than to perswade you to take the Advice of your able and Learned Physician whose Prescriptions have so often been attended with success Need I use Arguments to perswade a wise man to endeavour to restore his Health Sir your Health is highly valuable upon a publick as well as upon a private account it being subservient unto the good of Communities as well as of particular persons A whole Fleet hath been disabled for two Months by the Indisposition of the Admiral and two Towns lost by the Governour falling ill in the time of the Sieges Accidents of Health sometimes become Accidents of State and the pulse of the Government sometimes beats high or low with that of the Governor Health is that which makes all our Delights delightfull A sound Mind in a sound Body consummates the perfection of Humane Nature The Health of the Body conduceth unto the Harmony of the Soul and the Harmony of the Soul preserves the Health of the Body It preserves the Faculties of the Mind in strength and vigor clears the Understanding makes the Wit acute and the Memory retentive Without Health the most delicious Dainties will not please the Pallate the most fragrant Odors will not delight the Smell the most harmonious Melodies will not gratifie the Ear the most beautiful Object will not please the Eye nor the softest Down ease the Bones When mens flesh upon them is in pain it makes their Souls within them to mourn Health is that which is of most Comfortable Importance next unto the Salvation of the Souls of men especially when we consider what a multitude of Distempers the mortal Bodies of men are exposed unto Some Physicians have found two hundred in that small and tender part the Eye Our bodies are like a Curious Instrument of a thousand strings and it 's very wonderful if one or more of those strings be not out of tune It were a great favour if it were the pleasure of Heaven to give men a constant frame of Health during their pilgrimage and might very deservedly be reckoned amongst the Catalogue of our Mercies to have our bodies like the Jews bodies in the Wilderness little worn or impaired by pining sicknesses If the Woman in the Gospel had spent all her substance upon any thing but the inestimable Jewel of her Health she had not gone out of our Saviours presence without a Reprehension If men did but consider the wonderfull composure of their bodies the situation of the parts the circulation of the blood the several Meanders of the Veins and Nerves and the curious distribution of our Aliment into Flesh and Blood they would then admire that every Obstruction did not stop their breath and that the least Inflamation did not send them out of the World as in a fiery Chariot and that the least Degree of putrefaction did not crumble them into their first Original so that instead of wondering they live no more in health they would think it strange they live one hour in ease All our good things may be reduced into those of the Mind of the Body and of Fortune which three if enjoyed render a man as happy as Solomon in all his Glory He that hath Health to enjoy his Riches Grace to preserve his Health and the hope of Glory to remunerate his Grace needs no more When a healthy Constitution and a holy Disposition joyn hand in hand they compleat our Happiness Health without Religion is but like a Down Pillow to a Restless Head which the best Chamberlain cannot make easie And Riches without Health is but like Meat without a Stomach which the best Cook cannot make relishing Restauration to health is a Kind of Resurrection and it 's called by St. James a Raising up When the Organs of our bodies are untuned and our Spirits are wasted by Sickness our Souls cannot act with Vivacity our teeming Invention becomes barren our soaring Fancy droops and hangs the wing and the remembrance of things pass away as water through a Sieve Mens parts and abilities being according unto the number activity and orderly motion of their Spirits and they are more or less pure and regular according unto the Healthy Complexion of the Blood and Humors When the golden Bole is broken and the sound of the Grinding is low and the Pitcher is broken at the Fountain and the Wheel broken at the Cestern then the Sun and the Moon and the Stars will be darkned Were it possible for a man to stand upon one of the Battlements of Heaven and with one glance of his Eye to behold all the Wounds and Diseases all the Groans and Complaints of Dying Mortals how would Health and Ease be prized by such a one But Health is never so much prized as when it brings Letters of Recommendation from Sickness But Sir that your Pulse may beat harmoniously and your Blood circulate regularly to extream old Age is the Wish of Your intirely affectionate Friend J. M. LETTER II. SIR I Received yours dated the tenth instant wherein you give me an account of your reception of the last