meats but also the humours and the reason of all which is because in all the time of sleepe the animall faculty is at rest but the naturall is in the stronger action by reason of the regresse of the heat into the inner parts and therefore it is that the best concoction is made in sleepe Moreover by the returne of the heat into the inner parts the vitall faculty is much strengthned because the heart is then abundantly supplied with blood for breeding of spirit The three principall faculties are greatly holpen refreshed by sleepe From whence it appeareth how sleepe maketh much for the three principall faculties of the body for by it the braine is moistned the animall spirits quieted and refreshed the stomacke and liver for concoction and the heart for ingendring of spirit fortified and assisted Now for the order of sleepe wherein as I have said foure things are to be observed And first concerning the time for sleeping and waking wee must follow the course of Nature that is to wake in the day and sleepe in the night Dies enim vigilie nox somno dicata est Why the night is most convenient for sleepe For the Sun by his radiant beames illuminating our Hemisphere openeth the pores of the body and dilateth the humours and spirits from the Center to the circumferent parts which to waking and necessary actions doth excite and naturally prouoke But on the contrary when the Sunne departeth from our Hemisphere all things are coarctated and the spirits returne into the bowels and inmost parts of the body which naturally invite to sleepe Wherefore if we pervert the order of Nature as to sleepe in the day and wake in the night we violently resist the motion of Nature for sleepe draweth the naturall heat inward and the heat of the day draweth it outward so that there is made as it were a fight and combat with Nature to the ruine of the body Yet such as by reason of a weake and sickly disposition of body doe take vnquiet or little rest in the night or are otherwise by extraordinary and necessary occasions hindred may well sleepe in the morning adprimam partem diei that is till nine of the clocke but to sleepe afterwards is not so wholesome especially at afternoones as shall be hereafter shewed But why the night is most conuenient for sleepe two other reasons also may bee well assigned The first is the naturall moisture and silence of the night which for sleepe is very conducible The other is the sufficiencie of time not onely for the full and absolute concoction of the meats but also of superfluous humours which the night doth afford and that by reason of the regresse of the heat and spirits into the inward and digestive parts They therefore that against nature vitiously use the night for the day and the day for the night tanquam noctuae are here justly to be reproued and so are also students Vntimely was chings most pernitious to Students to whom vntimely watchings are most pernicious that with night studies macerate themselves exhaust their spirits and acquire a poore weake melancholicke state of body For all parts of the body especially the chiefest being wearied and weakned with labour in the day the night approching desire rest and therefore then if by study and untimely watching they are deprived of their refreshing and the spirits retracted from the stomacke and principall parts weaknesse must needs follow and a bad concoction and the body consequently repleted with crude putride and vaporous humours Wherefore I advise Students that must of necessity sometimes watch and study by night that they doe it not till after their first sleepe for in that space the concoctions of the stomack and liver are most commonly effected and the wearied parts in some measure refreshed Wherefore here by the way I advise all men especially such as are charged with publicke businesse of importance that they carefully observe to goe to their bed with a quiet and free mind Three things necessary to quiet sleepe for that the sleepe may bee peaceable and comfortable three things are necessary a temperate braine a sweet vapour and a quiet mind If therefore ye desire peaceable and comfortable rest live soberly eschew crudity and embrace tranquility of mind But if honest occasions besides an ill disposition of body shall occasion watching in the beginning of the night let thy supper bee slender and make a mends by sleeping so much the longer in the morning But I wish such as tender their healths especially Students not to addict themselues to morning sleepe but by all meanes to shunne and avoid the occasion thereof for he that sleepes in the morning when he ought to arise and stirre his body that all parts may the better expurge their exerements detained in sleepe The great discommodity of morning sleep by sleeping in the morning hinders their expulsion which occasioning obstructions and noy some vapours greatly offend the head dull the senses and is very pernicious to the whole body Here some may desire to know whether it bee altogether vnwholesome to sleepe after dinner Whereunto I answer that sleeping at noones is condemned as most hurtfull to the body because it over-moistneth the braine The discommodities of sleeping at noones and filleth the head full with vaporous superfluities And the reason why it filleth the head with superfluous moisture is because the night hath sufficiently moistned it as that it needeth not to be moistned againe by sleepe in the day but ought rather to be dryed by watchings and motions of the body And from hence it is that sleeping at noones causeth heavinesse of the head dulnesse of wit distillations defluxions of humours lethargies and other cold diseases of the braine and palsies by relaxing the sinewes Moreover it hurteth the eyes spoileth the colour puffeth up the Spleene with winde maketh the body unlusty and prepareth it for Fevers and Impostumes Yet notwithstanding all these hurts which are incident to them that will needs sleepe in the day time Sleeping at noones not to be prohibited at all times nor to all bodies sleeping at noones is not alwayes nor to all bodies to be prohibited so as it be admitted with the cautions hereafter assigned For if the night shall be unquiet or without sleepe or the body wearied with extraordinary labour or the spirits exhausted and the strengths dejected by immoderate and excessive heat as it oftentimes chanceth in the hot seasons of the yeare it is not amisse to sleepe at noones for by it the spirits are collected into the inner parts the mind freed of cogitation and the whole body consequently very much refreshed Moreover such as are leane and of an hot and dry temperature of body may well sleepe at noones because it greatly refresheth their bodies by recalling their soone vanishing spirits And that it is lawfull at any time of the yeare for old men to sleepe a nap at
miserable and life not to bee preserved Whether drying and warming of the bed Pelueignito a little before the entring thereinto bee expedient and necessary And what is to bee done after the sleepe for the health of the body before wee betake our selves to our ordinary and necessary businesse SOme Captious Scoffing and Caitiffe-sordian-like Momus will perhaps suppose these two Quaeres to bee idle and supersluous but I lightly regarding His obliquity doe for the good of them to whom I write this Treatise follow my method and adde them as an Appendix to this Section To the former therefore I answer that for Students for the Aged and all such as are weake by nature and that lead a tender and delicate course of life the custome of warming the bed is for two reasons very expedient and necessary in the cold moist seasons of the yeare The first is that the Body upon putting off the garments may not on a sodaine be affected with the externall cold The second is because the interiour heat is comforted by the externall the concoction holpen and all superfluous moysture the better consumed But I approve not this custome to such as are healthfull and strong because it will debilitate their Bodies and make them over nice and effeminate It remaineth therefore that it is only convenient for Students for the Aged and all such as are weake and tender by nature To the second I answer that after you have taken sufficient and competent rest it is good before you arise out of your Bed that you gently rub and stroake downward your breasts and sides but your necke shoulders backe armes hand-wrists pin-bones Frications thighes and legges more strongly with your owne hand or with an hot linnen cloath doubled and heated for the purpose or cause them to be rubbed because it quickeneth the Blood and strengtheneth the parts by exciting the naturall heate When you are risen and before also extend and stretch out your armes legges and whole body that the animall spirits may bee dilated to the exteriour parts and the limbes by that meanes corroborated then walke a little up and downe that the superfluities which shall bee in the stomacke and other parts may the more speedily descend and bee avoyded and bee very diligent to excrete the Vrine and depose the excrements of the Belly and let not with lesse diligence the superfluities of the nose by exsufflation and of the breast by expectoration bee purged forth for nothing is more hurtfull to the Body then the retention of the excrements That done wash and plunge your eies in cold water for that not onely cleanseth away the filth but also cleareth and preserveth the sight And let the mouth bee cleansed with cold water and a little vinegar added thereto and the gummes and teeth rubbed with a Sage leafe or two dipped therein or washed and cleansed with the infusion aforeshewed and after rub the teeth hard with a course dry cloath for this purifieth the breath and preserveth the teeth from corruption Then let your head bee well combed that the pores may bee opened to avoide such vapours as yet by sleepe are not consumed And in the cold and moyst seasons of the yeare let the head also be well rubbed with a course linnen cloath somwhat heated for therby the naturall heat is excited the pores opened vaporous and rheumaticke superfluities discussed and difflated Rubbings of the head and necke mornings with an hot cloath very effectuall against rheums and cold infirmities of the sinewes and consequently the braine and animall spirits exceedingly comforted Of this therefore as also of rubbing the necke in like manner I wish Students and all such as are subject to rheumes palsies and such like affects of the sinewes to have a speciall care All which being done for the body let not your better part passe neglected but before you betake your selfe to your studie or such business as your place shall require consecrate halfe an houre at the least unto Almightie GOD by pouring forth your thankefull soule unto him for his gracious protecting you from infinite dangers and calamities that might have bin befallen you untill this present time with a true confession of your sinnes with an hearty and unfained repentance for them and with a sincere and setled purpose and determination for the amendment of your life in that poore and uncertaine pittance of time that shall remaine wherein besides your never enough thankefulnesse for blessings received let the remembrance of your sinnes bee bitter unto you and cast not away your Soule by fashioning your selfe after this Pharisaicall and most sinfull time but be holy upright uncorrupt mercifull peaceable to shut up all in a word labour by all meanes to have alwayes a cleare conscience towards God and towards man and never forget that all your actions how secret soever or pharasaically cloaked shall in that great and fearfull day of accompts be revealed Wherefore in all your actions remember your end and ever blesse God and beginne the day with a morning sacrifice to him and then he will blesse the day vnto you and direct all your actions to the glory of his most sacred name the good of your country and preservation of your owne soules and bodies O Exercise and Rest SECT 2. Why ought Students and all such as are studious of health and that lead a generous course of life to have speciall regard of exercise and of avoiding immoderate rest And as touching exercise that it may bee rightly used how many things ought to be observed therein EXercise is so necessary to the preservation of health in Students and all such as live a restfull and generous life as that without it they cannot be long healthfull and without sicknesse The commodities of exercise and the discommodities of immoderate rest for by exercise and moderate motions the naturall heat is encreased the spirits excited and dilated the concoction and distribution holpen the humours attenuated the expulsion of all excrements furthered the whole body strengthned and youth prolonged Of the contrary by immoderate and sluggish rest the naturall heat is extinguished the concoction of the meats and distribution to the parts hindred the humours corrupted the excrements retained the whole body dulled and effeminated infinite diseases occasioned and old age hastned and all by reason of crudities and great store of noysome humours thereby ingendred and therefore idlenesse and immoderate rest is not unworthily ranked among the causes of cold diseases And this is found true by dayly experience in agresticke men and all such as lead a laborious course of life who for the more part live longer and in better health and strength then they that live in bodily rest or enjoy a generous state of living Wherefore it is very behoveable for Students and all such as lead not a laborious course of life to support by exercise and voluntary motions their health and not by being too indulgent of their
VIAE RECTAE AD VITAM LONGAM PARS SECVNDA VVherein the true vse of Sleepe Exercise Excretions and Perturbations is with their effects discussed and applied to euery age constitution of body and time of yeare BY TO VENNER Doctor of Physicke in Bathe LONDON Printed by GEORGE ELD for GEORGE WINDER and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans Church yard in Fleet-street 1623. TO THE MOST EXCELLENT ILLVSTRIOVS AND Mighty Prince CHARLES Prince of Wales c. RIGHT Noble and most Illustrious Prince Your gracious acceptance of my Via recta ad vitam longam formerly consecrated vnto you induced me not a little to hastâ—n the perfiting of the same with the addition of a second Part which I now likewise commend to your Highnesse patronage being a worke in regard of the subject most befitting your Majesty who is the chiefest hope and future health of Great-Britaines Monarchy If these my Labours that I may testifie my loyall and gratefull heart to your Maiesty shall any way further your health and prosperity of body I have my ayme and contentment For without health Quid potest in hac vita esse gratum quid jucundum Non honor non divitiae imperfect a quidem sunt omnia corporis bona nisi secunda jungantur valetudine Health therefore is the Summum bonum in this life quia vitam maximè jucundam reddit foelicem Wherefore that it may be obtained and enjoyed Non tantummodo orandum sed enixè laborandum est Thus referring both this Worke and myselfe to your Highnesse protection with my daily prayers unto God for your Majesties safety and happy continuance of life to the exceeding great comfort of all true hearted Britaines I in all dutifull obedience most humbly rest At your Highnesse service and command To VENNER TO THE TRVLY GENEROVS AND Religious READERS Health and Counsell GEnerous and religious Readers to you haue I heretofore written my Viam rectam ad vitam longam not to Rusticks or men of vile and rusticke quality who savour onely of the earth and respect nothing lesse then the welfare of their Bodies nor to any prophane or seeming religious Patron of wicked and dishonest persons But to you I say that are religious and truly generous that maintaine your blood and reputations by your noble and vertuous lives have I written that Dieteticall Treatise and now in regard of your benigne Acceptance thereof lightly esteeming the obliquity of some that are wise onely by inheritance or that are of a detracting spirit have perfected the same with a Second part for the preseruation of your lives and health which if yee will in any measure obserue Vos enim arctissimis regulis non obstringo I nothing doubt but yee shall to Gods glory your owne comfort and good of your Countrey live a long happy and healthy life But because it may happen inregard of the great infirmity of Nature in these last times that yee may have some conflicts with sicknesse I will give you my advice therein lest being sicke and seeking remedy by Physicke yee fall as the old saying is from Charybdis into Sylla from one evill into another as bad if not worse When yee are visited with Sicknesse yee must consider that it is a symptome of your sinne and therefore first by humble confession and a penitent heart make peace betwixt God and your Conscience and then send for the Physician But for what Physician not for the Mountebanke that deludes you with impostures nor for the audacious Surgeon that will take away your life I meane your blood upon every light occasion nor for the arrogant and too too dishonest Apothecary that against conscience against the lawes and against laudable and ancient customes exercises Physicke and growes insolent with the Title of a Physician nor for any other such ignorant Empericke Qui And abatarum morè clausis oculis cum aegrotorum morbis pugnat facirque per mortes experimenta applying without any true respect had of the temperature age sex or time of yeare one and the same remedy unto every one as though every man had one and the same nature and state of body or did labour in one and the same disease But send for such a Physician as is Phylosophically learned that is honest religious that deales faithfully and discreetly with the sicke and that regards more the curing of the sicknesse then the reward such an one so often as yee haue occasion send for loue and entertaine kindly for hee will pray vnto the Lord that he would prosper that which hee giveth for your ease and remedy I cannot but here taxe some Physicians I wish there were no such Spurii amongst us more base and inhumane then the basest Mechanicks who Canino more abide not men of their owne ranke and quality but hate and detract them and yet these great Worthies A Note of baseness if not also of insufficiency out of what humour judge yee not onely Fidler-like hang after the heeles of great men to bee set a worke and insinuate with Gentlewomen working vpon their light credulent nature telling them That their skill for curing their infirmities transcends other men but also become collogue with base and unworthy people to have their alarum of praise Among Physicians these I suppose are they that respect their owne gaine more then the glory of God or the good of the Patient and therefore very worthy to bee exploded Ex Medicorum albo What shall I say of some Divines who Salva sanctiorum reverentia besides the cure of Soules take upon them the cure of bodies because the Ocean of sacred Theologie is not sufficient for their swelling braines and perhaps puffed up with Quintessences Quid illis cum Medicina Let them looke to the Charge that Saint PAVL giueth unto them Verely 2 Tim. c. 4. v. 1 2.5 I wonder how they can bee insensible of the great burthen of Soules that lye upon them for which in the great and terrible day of accompts they must give accompt and then when not onely the actions of all men Exech 28.8 but also the very secret motions and intentions of the heart shall bee made manifest what will these halfe-curing Physicians of Soules and bodies doe when they shall bee questioned not so much for how many bodies they haue cured perhaps for how many they have sent packing to Sheol by their importune and preposterous physicke as for how many Soules they have cured and purged from the filth of sinno and iniquity by their diligent ministery of the sacred Word and converted unto God But as for Women that with much temerity take upon them to give and prescribe medicines and the same not of the meanest ranke neither as though Physicke the most mysticall and noblest of all Arts were subject to their shallow and precipitate apprehension reverence to those Gentlewomen that binde up Lazarus soares and refresh them with the fragments that fall from
ease and rest infringe their strengths and subvert their state of body But moderate rest and in convenient time observed hath also its commodities for when the body is tired through over much labour and strength faileth and naturall moisture decayeth then rest for a time recovereth strength reviveth the spirits and refresheth the limbes So the mind wearied with cares and studies hath need of remission and relaxation without which gratefull vicissitude the vigor neither of mind nor body can long be preserved according to that of the Poet Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Now that exercise may be rightly used for the health of the body Three things to bee observed in exercise three things are to bee observed therein The Place the Time and the Measure The place where exercise is to be used doth chiefly concerne the ayre which must be cleare and pure not vaporous or putride which as in habitation so also in exercise is greatly to be regarded for the pores and passages of the body being open by exercise the ambient ayre cannot but enter in and be also by reason of the violence of breathing vehemently drawne to the heart which if it shall be grosse vaporours or impure cannot but very greatly offend the head breed rheumes annoy the heart and corrupt the whole body wherefore it is not good to exercise but in a good and wholesome ayre Now for the time fit for exercise Hip. teacheth us plainly in three words Labores cibum praecedant The fittest time for exercise Let exercise be used before meat The time then most convenient for exercise must needs be when both the first and second digestion is complete and that the time approcheth to eate againe But from the exercise to the eating there must alwayes intercede a little time of rest as halfe an houre or thereabout especially it the exercise be any thing violent that the spirits and limbes may be refreshed and the humours in the body quieted and setled Before exercise this caution must alwayes very carefully be observed A caution alwayes carefully to be observed before exercise that the excrements of the belly and bladder be expulsed that none of them by the violence of heat kindled by exercise be drawne into the habite of the body whereby the bloud may be corrupted and very perilous obstructions occasioned Wherefore it is not good to exercise before the meate pre-assumed be well concocted and the excrements of the belly and bladder carefully deposed I will not here restraine any to certaine houres of the day for exercise but as their occasions shall give leave so as it be done according to these three rules that is After the excrements are avoided In a wholesome ayre and before meat Whereunto I will adde a fourth And not in the fervent heat of the day Ne duplici calore afficiatur corpus that the body be not at once affected with the outward heat of the ayre and the inward heat of the body raised by exercise wherefore in exercise let the fitnesse of time be alwayes observed The discommodities of untimely exercise For untimely exercise doth greatly hurt the body as to exercise immediately after meale or before the meat be concocted for thereby the naturall heat is drawne from the inward parts to the outward the concoction consequently marred and the whole body repleted with crude and noysome superfluities Hence proceed obstructions impostumes scabs and oftentimes ulcers as is to be seene in divers that unadvisedly labour or exercise immediately after meat or before it be sufficiently concocted VValking after meat very profitable Yet to rise up after meat to stand and to walke softly is very good for by this meanes the meates doe sooner descend to the bottome of the stomacke and the naturall heat is also somwhat stirred vp whereupon doth follow the speedier and better concoction Wherefore I cannot but very greatly commend walking after dinner in the Summer season in a cold arbour and after supper in the temperate and hot seasons of the yeare in open plaine fields or in sweet meadowes nigh to pleasant rivers for the digestion is not onely holpen thereby but the spirits are also delighted the whole body refreshed and the fumes arising from the stomacke discussed And if your state of body be such as that you cannot walke after meale yet stand at least according to the old verse Post pastum stabis passu mollive meabis To conclude this point I doe here therefore counsell all students and such as live generously to labour neither in body nor mind immediately after meat for as of the body so also of the mind ought the exercises to be seasonable for untimely studies doe soone weaken the strengths both of body and mind but to spend an houre in gentle walkings and pleasant discourse And thus much concerning the time convenient for exercise Now I come to the measure of exercise The measure of exercise 1. how long we should exercise a meane wherein as in all other things is best which by two notes may chiefly be discerned The first is by the bursting forth of sweat and hot vapours the other by the wearinesse of the limbes for when the skinne shall be wet with swear it shall be good to desist from exercise lest by proceeding therein The discommoditie of immoderate exercise not onely the spirits and good humours be exhausted but also the fat annexed to Liver Reines and Intestines whereby the naturall heat of those parts is preserved bee melted or at least caused to putrifie by meanes whereof if sudden death ensue not as oftentimes it doth the concoction is weakned and the body become sickly withered and imparient of cold And when the agilitie of the limbes shall beginne to faile it shall be good to desist lest over-much wearinesse and feeblenesse should ensue Here therefore it is to be advertised how great and laborious exercises doe evilly dispose the body and subvert the state thereof and that the best and most profitable exercises for them that are sound and healthfull are walking bowling Et parvae pilae ludus the racket and such like easie exercises For it is certaine that for such as are health full it is sufficient by exercise to encrease the naturall heat to excite the spirits and expell the excrements which the aforesaid exercises doe well effect without any great trouble or lassitude of the body Wherefore the true measure of exercise is not to be overwearied therewith nor too suddenly to sweat and raise the spirits But a measure in exercise cannot rightly be limited without respect had to the constitution and state of body because the phlegmaticke Phlegmaticke and grosse bodies need oftner and stronger exercise then other and all such as are of a full state of body require more often and more laborious exercise then others for exciting the naturall heat discussing the superfluous moisture and abating the grossenesse of the body for
which being retained and not liberally excreted doe greatly annoy and affect those parts Wherefore the excrements of the braine must daily bee avoyded through the mouth by spetting and excreation through the nose by exsufflation and also somtimes by sternutation especially in the mornings and those of the breast by coughing expectorated And thus much for excretions Of Perturbations or Passions of the minde SECT 4. Seeing that the Passions of the minde are inevitable secundum naturam nobis succrescant why are they reputed as morbificall causes and hurtfull to the Body I Will nothere stand to discourse of the objects of Perturbations nor how the sensitive facultie is the fountaine of them nor how they are the naturall motions of the heart and that by meanes of the spirits which are the primary instruments of the soul as things altogether impertinent for this place but how they are to bee reputed as morbificall causes and hurtfull to the body Animi passiones dum intra modum consistunt neque animam à consuetis naturali moderatione virtute dimovent non animi perturbationes sed actus jure dicentur and in this respect they are said to be inevitable secundam naturam nobis succrescere to bee naturall utiliter à natura dari These Passions Cicero Leves perturbationes optimè dixit Verum cum modum excesserunt hominis decentem harmoniam elegantiam ac modum naturali debitum mutaverint tunc quidem animi passiones seu perturbationes jure optimo dicendae sunt vitandae ut corpori animae noxiae The Passions therefore of the minde are not to bee reputed hurtfull or numbred among the causes of sicknesse but when they shall exceed and bee imoderate and so become perturbations indeed for then they alter the body weaken and overthrow the faculties thereof I will instance in some Immoderate joy Immoderate joy relaxeth the heart and causeth such an effusion of the spirit as that oftentimes ensue fickness and great debility of the body sowndings and as wee read of some pusillanimicke or faint hearted persons Sadnesse and feare death it selfe Sadnes and Feare of the contrary do streiten the heart weaken the spirits and naturall heate and cause them to bee contracted to the heart by meanes whereof the digestion of the meats and distribution is hindred and the remote parts left destitute of heate and from hence proceedeth that vacillation or trembling of the limbes in them that are affected with feare Moreover sadness and feare in continuance dry the body resolve the strengths presse the heart and induce melancholicke sicknesses by exciccating the blood and spirits neere the heart Here some may demaund that if trembling of the limbs proceed from the defect of heat in the parts and if feare draw the heate and spirits inward especially to the heart why the heart doth tremble in theÌ„ that are affected with feare Whereunto it may bee answered that although fear force the heat spirits inward yet it compels them not to the heart strong and lively but weakened abated Nam in metuentibus crassescunt spiritus sanguis fiuntque imbecilliores frigore and that by reason of the imagination which is earnestly bent and troubled in preventing and withstanding the imminent mischiefe and peril And from hence it is that the heart is not onely streitned and doth tremble in feare but also that many swound die and are exanimated with sodaine fear the heat and spirits being extinguished by overmuch blood conglobated in the heart Dum enim anima timore concutitur ut vitae consulat sanguinem spiritus custodiae gratia repentè ad interiora ad cor praecipuè quod corporis quasi princeps est invocat contrahit Anger stirreth up the natural heat Anger breedeth choler and inflameth the blood and spirits And here it is to be observed that though Anger be reputed a morbificall cause and hurtfull to the bodie yet not alwaies and alike to all bodies for to phlegmaticke bodies it is sometimes very necessary to the preservation of their health because the naturall heat being therewith stirred up and encreased doth the better concoct discusse and consume their crude and moist superfluities The like may bee also said of other perturbations whence it is manifest Animi passiones posse mutare corpus affectus ejusdem contrarietate sanare ob id utiliter à natura dari But Anger to all other especially to hot and dry bodies is very hurtfull because it vehemently heateth the Bodie drieth it and resolveth the strengths Wherefore seeing that the affections and perturbations of the minde are of such force for the overthrowing of the health and welfare of the Bodie I advise all such Salubre consilium as are respective of their health to bridle all irrationall motions of the minde by the reason and understanding and labour by all meanes to obserue a mediocritie in their passion wherein consisteth the tranquility both of minde and body which of this life is the chiefest happinesse To conclude this Section and to adde a period to this worke among all the affections of the minde beware chiefly of sadnesse for it dryeth the bones and embrace moderate joy for both body and mind are bettered therby and that your joy may be joy indeed strive without halting to enjoy with all the joy of a good conscience by living soberly uprightly and godly in this present world Non enim habemus hîc manentem civitatem For wee have here no continuing place of abode but we seeke one to come whose maker and builder is GOD who as Peter saith 1 Cap. 2.9 Hath called us out of darkenesse into his marvelous light and destinated us to eternity FINIS THE TABLE A. ANger the effects thereof Page 29. B. Belly naturally soluble greatly availeable to health Page 26. E. Exercise why must Students have a special regard thereof Page 17. The commodities of exercise Page 17. Three things to bee observed in exercise Page 19. The fittest time for exercise Page 19. A caution to bee observed before exercise Page 19. The discommodities of untimely exercise Page 20. The measure of exercise 1 how long we should exercise Page 21. The discommodities of immoderate exercise Page 21. Phlegmaticke grosse bodies need oftner and stronger exercise then other Page 22. To leane and cholericke bodies easie and light exercise is convenient Page 23. The time of the yeare ought to bee repected in exercise Page 23. A caution to be observed after exercise Page 24. Excrements why doth the health of the body much consist in the due and daily avoyding of them Page 2â— F. Feare the effects therof Page 28. Frication the necessity and utility thereof Page 24. I. Ioy if immoderate the effects thereof Page 28. Ioy that it may bee ioy indeed Page 30. P. Passions or perturbations of the minde seeing they are inevitable secundum naturam nobis succrescant why are they reputed as morbificall causes and hurtful to the body Page 27. Mediocrity in the Passion best Page 30. S. Sadness the effects thereof 28 most hurtfull of all affections Page â—0 Sleepe that it may be taken for the health of the body how many things ought such as are studious of their health to observe therein Page 2. Sleepe the commodities thereof Page 1. The three principall faculties of the body are greatly holpen and refreshed by sleepe Page 2. The night why most convenient for sleepe ibidem Three things necessary to quiet sleepe Page 4. The great discommodity of morning sleepe Page 4. Sleeping at noones the discommodities thereof Page 5 Sleeping at noones not to bee prohibited at all times nor to all bodies Page 5 Sleeping at noones hurtfull to all corpulent bodies Page 6. Five conditions to bee observed in sleeping at noones Page 6. What place most convenient for sleepe Page 7 The head and necke in sleep must carefully be defended from cold Page 7. What positure of the body is best in sleepe Page 8 VVhether sleeping upright upon the backe or groveling upon the belly be altogether unwholsome Page 8. To sleepe upon the belly when and for what bodies profitable Page 9. Whether it be expedient to sleep with the mouth a little open Page 9 How long wee should sleep Page 10. Why doe cholericke and melancholicke bodies require longer sleep then the phlegmaticke Page 12 Little sleep best for phlegmaticke and grosse bodies Page 13. Why must the sanguine bee very wary of immoderate sleep Page 13. The discommodities of immoderate sleepe Page 13. What is to be done upon the sleep for the health of the body Page 14. R Rubbings of the head and necke mornings very effectuall against theumes and cold infirmities of the sinews Page 16. W. Watchings if immoderate the hurts thereof Page 13. Vntimely watchings most pernicious to students Page 3. FINIS