being the cheifest part of my Study and most delightful of late years And having approved in practice what in reason they promised at the veiw enticing to experiments I may with confidence commend to your use being a witness to all that belongs to them made choice of their Druggs saw their due preparation and Composition and not only a spectator but an agent sometimes where the strictest care and nicest curiosity is required being the best recreation I know or can desire For my part I desire no other weapons to oppose any Herculean disease where the capacity of the subject will endure the contest and be conformable to the commands of such a discipline I shall require to be observed The Patient must bear a part or no good to be expected there must be a conspiration consent and agreement between the Physician the Patient and the Medicine against the disease or the design will fail The Physician cannot oure without a good Medicine the Medicine cannot cure except prudently appointed by the Physitian in fit Doses at due times with the requisite circumstances and yet neither shall prevaile if the patient be disobedient intemperate and careless For if by good medicine you prevaile against your disease get ground one day and lose it the next or soon after by an unfit improper ordering your self the labour is in vain as by too often experience we finde it in practise with peevish unruly imprudent patients who thinke the taking of the physick is sufficient let themselves live at the old rate and customes which first occasioned the disease You must not therefore expect these medicines to take that effect as is promised declared in the enumeration of their vertues appropriate use if you by an irrigular course and daily common practise in eating drinking sleeping passions of minde rest and motion or other customes whatever improper and unfit for the condition of your body and distemper act with a Counter motion and repugnancy to the efficacy and vertue of the Medicine and also cherish indulge and strengthen the disease Therefore remember that a duty is required incumbent upon you and impute not your miscarriages improper unseasonable insufficient use of the means to the deficiency of the Medicine and that you make a difference between a chronic inveterate radicated disease to which you are propense by hereditary nature constitution or constant bad customes and a slight accidental infirmity The former requiring a more serious prosecution continuance and repetition of Medicines if you have been many moneths perhaps years contracting a disease you may well allow some days for a parting And that these Medicines may not receive a prejudice in their reputation undeservedly and for want of knowledge in the proper choice and use of them especially in such cases and persons where a subordinate use of Medicines is required for the eradicating of a contumacious and chronic disease such I say who desire a methodical and exact course in the use of these Medicines more at large and peculiar for their complicated diseases and condition of body then what is exprest and provided for in this book I shall upon their application to me whether by letter if far distant or otherwise give them my advice and directions in the choice and use of any Medicine or Medicines as their particular case requires according to the true account and relation I shall receive of their infirmities at my dwelling next to the Blew-Bore on Ludgate-hill London OF Life Health and Sickness AFter the praevious disposition of formation and effiguration of seminal matter in the wombe by the innate spirits thereof the chief actors in vegetation having prepared fabricated and made ready for animation the Soul then exerts her power animates and gives life and as supreme moderator and governor disposeth and orders all for future conservation and perfection of operation The seminal Spirits which before were chief and principal in preparation and fabrication of this mansion are now after the souls assuming the Government but instrumental and subordinate immediately acting by vertue and power from the soul received neither can the one act without the other the soul cannot act the body in its operations but mediately by the intervening Spirits there is so great a distance between the spirituality of a soul and the corporiety of bodies but the Spirits being of the most refined subtile volatized material substance are the fittest Intermedium of conjunction conveyance and commerce between the Soul and body nor can the spirits act their parts in any Vital operation but by the energy command and power derived from the soul These spirits have their residence in every part of the body as principal assistants and excitors to the performance of the office and duty belonging to the several parts and are the approximate immediate agents of the soul and they are preserved maintained and supplied by the additional spirits extracted from the bodyly aliment daily received There is also a ferment or transmutative quality peculiar to each part or office for concoction resulting from the particular nature property and temper of each part being the author of alteration and transmutation by vertue whereof the food received is digested volatized and receiving various impressions according to the disposition of the ferment of each part by which it passeth until it be fit for assimilation into the substance of the body In the vigour and rectitude of these ferments and the aforesaid spirits consists the sanity and integrity of each member in its office but the diminution alienation and depravation of either vitiates and imbecillitates the parts indisposeth and incapacitates them to their office and duties from whence various morbifick effects are produced answerable to their several causes and the variety of organical parts in their principal or ministerial functions These Spirits and ferments are preserved and maintained in their natural purity and vigour by a temperate sweet Air wholsom and regular dyet seasonable sleeping and waking moderate and constant exercise due evacuations and retentions tranquillity and ease of minde But these irregular unnatural disproportionate or unsutable in matter manner times or order destroyes the regular oeconomy and peaceable Government of the body raiseth discords introduceth and begets morbifick causes abbreviates and shortens life Of which particularly hereafter This I have premised as a ground work for the superstructure intended and for your preparation and clearer apprehension of what shall be delivered in the following discourse knowing upon what bases it is founded The life of man consists in the Conjunction of soul and body mutually embracing each other with the bands of Love and desire of continued Union until the incapacity and unfitness of the body by its ruinous and decayed condition or other impediments and deficiency enforceth the soul to desertion and departure Spiritual and Corporeal substance are now knit and interwoven one with another by an extraordinary curious artifice and contrivance so that you can not say
desired and coveted extending her power and strength out of the body to lay hold if possibly to obtain and bring within the Sphere and Circle of her enjoyment Or secondly the Soul is in fury and disquiete within by the apprehension of some thing assaulting and disturbing it to which the Soul hath a contrarietie and antipathy against as in the passions of fear hatred revenge anger and the disquietude and disturbance is continued by representations of their Causes in the phantasie which still present themselves to the soul by way of a fresh assault which feeds the passion and continues the distemper Or thirdly the Soul is languishing heavy and inactive altogether indisposed to the government and tuition of the body and perhaps desirous to be discharged and shake it off being weary of the burthen taking no delight in their partnership and society as in melancholy despair and grief In all which cases you shall find the body to suffer great prejudice and detriment But first you must consider how and by what means or instrument the Soul does act in the body the Soul acts not immediately but mediately by the spirits which are the Souls approximate and chief instruments in bodily actions and motions and are appointed their several Sations Offices and Duties peculiar to the several works as Concoction Separation Distribution Excretion Retention Assimilation Sensation c. Now it will manifestly appear how the body is damaged and consequently the life abbreviated In the first Case when the Soul alienates her self wanders away with a vehement desire to procure and obtain any thing most agreeable and delightful at least so seeming the Soul as it were contracts it self and unites all her force stands at full bent after this beloved dischargeth all her thoughts upon it and spends her strength in desire and longing untill at last she pines away with a tedious and starving expectation In the interim the aeconomy and government of her own mansion the body is neglected the spirits at least a good part are enticed away and called of from their proper and peculiar works and duty perhaps to enlarge and increase the vigour of some other faculty more immediately subservient and attending the Souls new design and business preferred far before a good concoction due excretion nutrition seasonable rest or what else and those spirits remaining which have the burthen of these duties incumbent on them have so small and inconsiderable support and supply of influence from the Soul to direct and back them in their performance that the functions are executed so weakly and depravedly to the great prejudice and damage of the body Concoction now is not so good nor the appetite so quick the Stomack calls not for a new supply as yet not being well discharged and quit of yesterdayes provision the Stomack now is weary of dressing and preparing long Dinners for the body Lenten and fasting dayes are its vacation from trouble and best contented when least to do Separation now is not so good the excrementitious and nutritious part walk hand in hand together and pass without contradiction or due examination the watch now is not so strict at the Ports and privy passages to discern what is fit to pass this way and what the other and what to reject and keep out but promiscuously receives what presents it self Distribution now is not so good aliment tires by the way wanting spirits to convey and bring it to its journeys end and exercise to jog it on through the angust Meanders and more difficult passages Sanguification is now degenerate and vitiate the preceding requisites and fit praevious disposition being wanting Membrification or assimilation is now changed for Cachectic and a depraved habit Excretion and evacuation of what is superfluous and and unfit longer to be retained in the body is not sent away in due time but stayes for a pass the governess is now taken up with other matters neglects due orders and commands to the expulsive faculty for their emission Necessary and wholesome Customes are now neglected and disregarded the Soul too oft is wandring and gadding abroad and best when she is from home but neglects the airing of her Cottage and perfuming it with fresh aetherian breath The Soul is now alwayes restless and disturbed nor shall the sences her attendants take their due repose but keeps an unqiet house at midnight In the second Case the regular and due order of government in the body is subverted and changed when the Soul in the forementioned passions of fear anger hatred or revenge is disturbed and a arum'd by the assault approach or appearance of some evill or injury the Soul then summons the spirits together from theiâ— common duties and calls them to her aid and assistance for security from danger to repulse the violence offered or revenge the injury hurrying them here and there from one part to another in a tumultuous manner if the assault be suddain and surprizing sometimes inward to support the heart to give courage and resolution which by their suddain concourse and confluence to the Center causeth great palpitations and sometimes suffocation or else commanding them to the out-works into the external parts to repell the invasion and violence of the evil presenting or approaching or to revenge the quarrel the hands and arms then receive a double or trebble strength the Muscles being full and distended with agile spirits for their activity and strength in motion the eyes then are staring full and stretcht fourth with a croude of inflamed spirits darting fourth their fury and spending their strength upon the adversary and object of their trouble the tongue then is swelled with spirits and bigg words that wanting a larger room for vent tumbles out broken and imperfect speeches and scarce can utter whole words The Leggs and Feet then have an Auxiliary supply and double portion of spirits conveighed in to their sinews to increase their agility and strength to come on or off but in the mean time the heart perhaps is almost fainting so long being deprived off and deserted by those lively vigorous spirits which did inhabit and quarter there for its Life-guard protection and support are now called off their Guard and common duties imployed in Forreign parts commanded here and there as the emergent occasion presents it self to the governess of this Microcosme In the third Case mentioned the due order government and necessary execution of offices and duties belonging to the welfare and maintenance of the body and preservation of life is neglected and weakly performed When the soul being darkned and overspread with a cloud of sadness betakes her self to a sullen incurious recumbency and retiredness willing to resign and cast off the government and tuition of the body and as a burthen which she delights not now to bear about begins to loose her hold who before had embraced and clipt so close suspending the vertue of her energy and vigorous emanations but now acting faintly and coldly
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
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