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A67477	Health's new store-house opened offering to familiar use such supplies as are most wanting and really needful to humane frailty. By health's student.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing W683A; ESTC R219279	14,204	35

yet are they in aid of both by strengthening appetite and disgesture by rectifying and quickening all the natural faculties by opening and clearing all the most secret passages of the Body and either speedily d●scharging the Distemper or laying a sure foundation for farther help besides by their benign qualities and true Humane Temperature they are the most acceptable Food of the spirit the joy of the Heart and delight of Life and as the genuine heat of the Sun brought into the inward parts such and no other are their heat and comfort And through whose variety and specifique vertues hardly any distemper can befall but there is amongst them for fit relief even in all distresses and occasions and that with such safety and innocency that although they have been frequently used by the weakest both of men women and Children in their most weak and sickly estates yet never any thing but good was ever received from them so as these arrive happily to take place of all burning drying and impure helpers so much complain'd of in former times yea and warn'd against though little regarded as in these and the like sensible expressions I advise the healthy much more the weak to beware of those burning liquors which beguile the unadvised World chiefly in times of mirth and refreshment The Life of man or his Spirit is in the Blood which Blood is mild and quickly dryed up with violent heat Such as the Blood is such are the Spirits for they issue from the Blood it self and such as the Spirits are such is the temper or distemper of the Brain and Heart and such as the Brain is well or ill disposed so also are the virtues of Imagination Understanding and Memory Proper and true humanized helps to Diet and Physick such as these are therefore of more moment then can suddenly and cursorily be imagined For as another learned one saith The Meat and Drink which we Diet on or at least the better part is terminated into humours and at last into Spirits by whose efficacy the Flesh Nerves Bones and all parts of the body are nourished and augmented and do by the never-tyred work of supply repair decaying nature Of so great use are Spirits to the body and so exceedingly beneficial are al kindly means wch increase and improve them The truth is in that warfare which is maintained all our life-long twixt health and sicknesse the main Agents in our defence are our natural Spirits yea so material unto life have the wisest ever deemed them that they have assigned them to be like little indiscernable Chains 'To unite and fasten the Soul to the Body and which dissolving the dissolution of the whole Fabrick soon followeth Which office and effect of Spirits whoever duly weighs will soon perceive that as nothing is or can be of greater importance to mans health than the plenteous contribution of Genuine and Benign Spirits so also that the true Improving Virtue of all things taken into the Body dependeth upon their version to the true Humane Temperature Which being the peculiar qualification and proper work of those Moderate Spirits with which this little Store-house is furnished renders them most kindly and powerful assistants to Humane Frailty and an improvement of the Art of Health of great importance and not to be despised Having thus exprest sufficient to induce a belief that they are such an assistance to mans Nature as is really wanting needfull and effectual for supply of the daily wast and expence of Spirit for heightning and rectifying of Diet Medicine and Refreshment and for relief in all necessities and extremities Take a view of them in their particular Titles Vertues and Uses as followeth And as They are alwayes to be had at the Star in the Postern-Street joyning to little Moor-fields viz.   l. s. d. 1. Amicus Vitae Good in all Surfets Colds Agues c. at the Pint. 00-01-00 2. Sarguis Vitae In all Distempers of Stomach and Bowels at 00-02-00 3. Ad●utrix Vitae To procure Appetite and Digesture A pleasing Cordial 00-02 00 4. Vis Vitae For Dropsie Scurvy Spleen Wind Gravel 00-03-00 5. Succus Vitae For Convulsion Passie Falling-sicknesse c. 00-05-04 6. La● Vitae For Rickets Wormes Green-sicknesse Mother-Fits 00-05-04 7. Ra●●ix Vitae In Coughs Shortness of Breath Passions of the Heart Vomitings Looseness Gripings c. 00-06-00 8. Nutrix Vitae For Consumptions Defluxions a great strengthner 00-08-00 9. Salus Vitae For all Cases Infections Pestilential or Dangerous 00-08-00 10. Medulla Vitae For Wastings and all Weaknesses 00-12-00 11. Deliciae Vitae Against Sadness Melancholly a great Reviver 01-00-00 12. Stella Vitae Not so milde in Swounings and all Extremities 00-12-00 13. Ignis Vitae Very high in Lethargies Dulnesse of sight c. 00-16-00 There are also divers others AS Spirits of Oranges Lemons Cinamon Cloves Rosemary Angelica Mint Saffron Bawm Clary Wormwood Mace Nutmegs c. the vertues and uses whereof are so generally known as needs no information All extracted with such special regard to the true humane Temperature as renders them of singular use in all conditions especially to such whose weaker Constitutions require Mild and Gentle Helpers being called Spirits not for their Heat but from their sublime Purity and Vivacity which are more Spiritual Qualities and through which their Operations are not forcible and violent but like Benign Influences quiet secret sure and most effectual So ye have here a large variety of powerful Assistances to humane Frailty with whose virtues who ever throughly acquaint themselves may easily and pleasantly recrute their continual expence of Spirits and in their familiar use and strength and vigour to their usual diet solace and recreate themselves with real advantage to their healths and supply all sudden exigencies without fear of after-inconveniences Those now who know not by sad experience the difficulty of gaining credit to truths of this kind might well suppose enough had already been expressed to perswade at least a tast and tryal of these if not a fair and clear acceptation But so great a prejudice against new Discoveries remains upon the minds of the most by abuse of Deveivers That what hath been said in their behalf will hardly prevail for such a reliance upon their use as their virtues really deserve Therefore to silence all opposers and to obtain their chearful embracement take here the sure testimony of some instances of their happy victories and successes in divers remarkable cases and conflicts Wherein though the Studier and Producer of them have much to say for daily benefits to himself and relations too numerous to recount yet knowing whoever duly weighs the other instances will easily conclude They must needs have been most serviceable where they have been most employed he refers wholly to their other performances and cures else where The first of which shall be of a Child about four years old that had long time been extream ill through a Feverish Distemper The Parents using

HEALTHS NEW STORE-HOUSE OPENED Offering to Familiar Use Such Supplies AS ARE Most wanting and Really needful to Humane Frailty By HEALTH'S Student LONDON Printed by Jane Clowes and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head-Alley over against the Royal Exchange in Corn-hill 1661. To the Reader IS it uncivil to advise a Reader possibly it i● And to little purpose to perswade an unbia●s'd e●tertainment of these friendly Aydes It being the unhappine●s of most times to put off the acceptance of ●ew Di●coveries till 't is too late and to lea●e the benefit to be en●●red by the next Generation Jealou●ie e●vy fear of l●ss being of ● too strong for Truth a●d if these were not or could be silent yet Wi●●-it-Self i● apt to d●oll away their use A Scoff is a leight thing but often sadly paid ●●r the Min● highly 〈◊〉 da●●ing to stoop to the embrace of what it hath 〈◊〉 despi●ed though it would save its li●e ●o c●o●e is every evil followed ●●th its o●● punishment A me●ry heart therefore joyn'd with Prudence co●●iders ●ri●●●●y be●ore it ●udges thinks thr●●e before i● sped●s and though apt to jest yet is most watchfull against in●ury to any thing deeming due ch●●k● ●s bondage Why should it be Imagin'd amid'st so much weakness that nothing's wanting or that things more pertinent cannot be supplyed Or why things proposed in nature of friendly and powerfull assistance should not be so indeed These are tendered to familiar use such as the weakest Women and smallest Children may safely take In such a case as this then what cause is there of suspicion but to tast and try and so put all past all dispute Which may be done also without Charge so confident is the present keeper of the Store-house which now stands always open for entertainment of the Ingenious and to make good its Title Read on therefore without scruple and be satisfied with the reality of its provisions and of the Integrity of The Servant of your health W. W. HEALTHS NEW Store-House Opened THough the youngest and the strongest days of life are the times to lay in for and to secure a long-lasting and healthfull Constitution and the times of health to provide against the frequent assaults of sickness and distemper yet to most of either Sex the voyce of Experience seldome seems better then a mockery Tell them of their daily wast and expence of spirit of their continual generating within them the seeds of sickness discases they hear you not they are for this Gamesom sport and t'other wild and violent Exercise and if taken ill do as others use to do recover with difficulty with losse of blood and Spirits boast of danger escaped little or nothing regarding how deeply their nature is thereby wounded and so remain as unapt for counsel as before And yet as it is the surest way to eternal bliss to remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth so is it the most certain way to the happiness of this Life which rests very much in mans health and chea●fulness to give diligent heed betimes to those advices wch respect the well ordering of the Body both as to Diet Physick and Refreshment and to endeavour after so much skill at least as to be able to distinguish between pure and impure proper and improper unto man who being of Creatures next unto the Angels both in his intellects and constitution ought to aim at so effectual and so refined a Diet that the faculties of his Soul may be accommodated with so exquisite a Spirit and so clear a Body that there may be a perfect Harmony in the whole Man And as these Considerations are most needful i● time of Youth in which the most are apt to set light by all things which most concern them so are they not to be neglected by those of riper years who commonly are so much wedded to their customary wayes that if they keep themselves but any thing hearty and free from pain deem their Diet good and themselves Well enough though they are either sad and melancholy fearful superstitious fretful passionate covetous violent and revengeful All which may proceed and doth commonly from the impropriety of Spirits in what they feed on or use for helps and might be otherwise without difficulty to the much more comfort of themselves and their relations Nor are the Elder sort unconcerned herein it being too much from that scrupulosity which dwells in them and their distrust of all new Discoveries which makes the younger sort so unapt to give ear or credit to Counsels of this nature What say they have we lived to these years and do we not know what 's good for our selves and this too though they a●e full of infirmities of which by new Aids they might be discharged forgetting also that no mere man was ever yet too old to learn But hence it is That although both Diet and Physick in their best and largest forces do but weakly perform their offices the first of Sustentation the other of Restoration and that mans health which is so great a part of his happiness is so weakly defended that the strongest are soon brought upon their knees whil'st the weak and sickly in their first illness the time which makes or marrs the cure betaking themselves to dull putrid and burning helpers for want of what 's safe and kindly instead of help betray themselves to further mischief Yet all Tenders of farther improvement either to Diet or Physick or other Ayde though never so needful pretious and effectual are hardly and sowerly entertained and under such regardlesnesse as if there were nothing but delusion in men or an impossibility of adding any advancement to the imperfit Art of Health Through which unpreparednesse aversnesse and indisposition to receive with gladnesse and gratitude the productions of the studious it is That although the defects in Physick Diet c. are so manifest that the most Skilful professe they believe the far better part lies undiscovered yet to make any considerable supplies it sufficeth not by Study Labour and Industry to produce things excellent and necessary except all possible means be likewise used to make their virtues and effects publickly and throughly understood and that in such sort as to convince all scrupulous gainsayers These and such like are the causes of the present Opening of this new Store-house of Health the close keeping thereof being of little more advantage then a Candle set under a Bushel The new Aids therein presented are in an allowed and Physical sense Spiritual untainted friendly and powerful as being proposed for an immediate assistance unto that natural spirit of man by which the Soul is united to the Body and which maintained in its right estate and condition sustaineth all its infirmities so as this a●d is proportioned for supply of those Forces and Powers which both Diet and Physick hath hitherto but faintly furnished for though properly they are neither Physick nor Diet