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A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

proceed to the Physike of the minde for as the perturbations of the minde doe follow the passions of the bodie as wee may see and behold in drunkards as Horace saith nam corpus onustum Hesternis vitijs animum quoque praegrauat ipsum Atque affligit humi aiuinae particulam aurae So on the other side the body is affected from the passions of the minde and is said therewith to consent as is manifest in the affects of loue and sorow And seeing therfore the passions of the minde and bodie are so conioined and linked together with a naturall band we must as Auicen saith haue a diligent care to our minde if we desire to auoid diseases which also Galen held before him saying that wee must abstaine from the intemperance and deformity of all the passions and affections of the mind anger and sorrow furiousnesse and feare enuy and thought do alienate and bring a man from the vse of reason and do greatly transforme him from the state and order that is according to nature for moderate mirth helpeth very much to accomplish all the offices and functions of the minde to further and make excellent the concoction As on the contrary sorrow and heauinesse is the greatest hinderance and let to it beware therefore of heauinesse and desperation for as Salomon saith Spiritus tristis exiccat ossa cor laetum exhilerat mentem Therefore giue your selues to honest mirth and Christianlike ioy for as Auicen saith the often vse of mirth disposeth a man to be merry and thereof commeth no small profit but commodities very many Sorrow also is so great an Enemie to nature and bodily health that to resist the malice and the violence thereof remedies as well out of the holy Scripture as examples out of moral Philosophie are needful Also there be certayne herbs fruits and spices that haue the propertie to resist melancholy and to comfort the liuely spirits Such are simples that do comfort the heart and spirits as for example the beholding of fayre shewes and things that are beautifull the hearing of melodious musicke smelling of sweet sauours and fragrant odors such as in the Summer the smell of Rose-water and in Winter with the smell of Lignum Aloes which doth comfort the heart and the brayne and all the other senses very much But beware of too hot and sharpe sauours for they send vapours to the brayne The tasting as that which is confected of Sugar and the iuyce of Pomegranates of Quinces or some other of like temperature being not harmefull neither exceeding in the excesse of any qualitie CHAP. IX Of Ioy. IOy or gladnesse of heart doth prolong the life it maketh the body fat that is growne leane with care and trouble And looke what effect hapneth by sorrow the same hapneth by suddaine ioy And Valerius Maximus reporteth that a Woman of Rome dyed with suddayne ioy This being considered we must auoyd such extraordinarie gladnesse and suddayne ioy And we must remember that there is nothing in this world can reioyce vs so much but that some occasion or other may cause the same to be displeasant vnto vs. CHAP. X. Of Venus or the act of generation NOw that I haue spoken of Labour Meate Drinke and Sleepe it now resteth that I speake somewhat of the act of Generation which delectation must be well measured by a meane for if it doe exceed and be vsed intemperately it doth resolue the spirits and naturall heate about measure and dryeth vp the radicall moysture and so dangerous diseases happen to man sooner then otherwise by nature they would Therefore seeing in the act of Generation there is so great resolution of Spirits the excesse thereof is carefully to be auoyded neuerthelesse great regard must bee had of custome The commodities that come by moderate evacuation are great for it procureth appetite to meate and helpeth digestion it maketh the body more light and nimble it purgeth flegme it quickneth the minde it refresheth the wit reneweth the senses and driueth away sadnesse madnesse anger melancholy finally it doth deliuer vs altogether from leacherous imaginations and nightly pollutions which although some men suppose that there is no offence thereby because of the abundance of nature yet let vs consider what is said in Deuter. cap. 23. If there be amongst you any that is vncleane by that which commeth from him by night he shall goe out of the Hoast and shall not enter into the Hoast but for this matter let euery man vse all honest and lawfull meanes to suppresse the violent force and fury of his burning lust Also if a man will abstayne from meates that be hot and windie and the drinking of sweet headie wines and auoyd the imaginations of Venus and such like he shall not easily be much assailed and tempted with the desire of any carnall appetite likewise if he earnestly apply himselfe to the study of the holy Scriptures and morall Phylosophie banishing idlenesse and flie the company of beautiful and amorous Women he shal easily auoyd the desire of lustfull concupiscence Moreouer there be also other meanes to ouer-come carnall lust mentioned in Galen as to anoynt the reynes with some cooling oyntment made of waxe oyle of Roses and the iuyce of some cooling herb as House-leeke Lettuce Purslane Nightshade or plates of Lead applyed vpon the reynes or else Agnus castus or to eate daily the seede thereof or the seede of Rue or the herbs themselues Also Arnoldus giueth counsell If thou wilt quench the heat of lust anoynt the genitories with the iuyce of Rue or Persly or drinke the iuyce of those herbs Also to smell oftentimes to Camphire is good for the same purpose to sit vpon the very cold eart 〈◊〉 or a cold stone also to plunge the members in cold water or in strong vineger therewith to wash the reynes of the backe and about the lower part of the belly And to end this discourse of Venery flie idlenesse the greatest occasion of lechery for as the Poet saith with which I wil end Otia si tollas periere cupidinis arcus Contemptaeque iacent sine luce faces CHAP. XI Certayne precepts for dyet to be obserued euery day HItherto wee haue spoken of those things and their lawfull vse which things if they be not rightly vsed they do alter and change the body and ouerthrow the naturall state thereof I will now deliuer certayne precepts of the order of dyet to be kept for euery day weekes moneths and yeeres and first I will begin with the dyet for euery day In the beginning when you arise from the bed extend forth all your members for by this meanes the animal spirits are drawne to the outward members the braine is made subtill the body strengthened Then rubbe the whole body somewhat with the palmes the brest back and belly gently but the armes legs with the hands either with warme linnen next the head is to be scrubbed frō the fore part to

manners and the euents of which we are admonished by Astrologers which wee fore-know wee may the more easier beare Auoid and decline them more wisely that you may seeme to passe them ouer prouidently and discreetly without griefe or tediousnesse for free-will and election is left to vs so farforth that by the help of God a minde supported may be able to resist the allurements of the Flesh and th● Deuill to rule and gouerne the affections and if some great calamitie against an● man may be presaged and declared by th● Starres we may be able to flye and auoid it notwithstanding in which matter ● would that you should regard the couns●… of honestie for if we may flye and auoi● the perill that hangeth ouer our heads without shame we shall not refuse it for better is it with honestie to die quickly then with shame to liue long therefore we must thinke that Reason and the best Intellect to be gouerned by the Heauens neither is the libertie of the minde and our actions restrayned to the necessitie of the Starres Hitherto in generall we haue briefly declared by what meanes we may defend vs from euills and diseases of euery kind and to defend vs from the other destructions of our bodies which diligence if the children of God shall diligently inuocate him they shall happily auoid them Now that we may follow our purpose I will entreat of those things which in some manner resteth in our industrie of which if we vse them rightly and lawfully we shall nourish health and conserue it but otherwise we shall ouerthrow and destroy it CHAP. III. Speciall precepts of preseruing Health THat we may begin from the definition Health is a constitution of the body in which wee are neither tormented with griefes nor hindred in the actions of our life for if the body shall decline from that constitution it is sicknesse to perserue health according to Rasis in Almansore is in motion and rest meate drinke neither to obserue a iust measure in superfluities and expulsions the house and other places wherein we liue to be made sweet with odors according as reason requireth and agreeing with the time and to meet with euill accidents before they take their increase and to refraine voluptuousnesse and delightfull pleasures and to conserue custome Cicero saith That health is preserued with the knowledge of a mans owne body as well in those things which are wont to profit as hurt for in those things in which consisteth conseruation from them corruption springeth for as conseruation is made by the like thing so curation is made by its contrary a little otherwise saith Isidore where he saith Eam esse integritatem corporis temperantiam naturae ex calido humido in quibus cum illa consistit Sequitur qui plurimum calidi humidi habent hos maximè esse longaeuos qui verò contrariae sunt naturae frigidi sirci hos citius senescere mori For as healthfull men are gouerned by the foure Humours so the infirme are hurt and when humours encrease more then of equitie they should they bring forth sicknesse so those that are by nature onely grosse do sooner die then thinner bodies for they haue little bloud and spirits But as the conseruation of health doth consist in the order of euery thing being lawfully vsed the iust qualitie quantitie and time being obserued we haue spoken of Now of the ayre that doth incompasse our bodies we will speake of CHAP. IIII. Of the ayre THe ayre by it selfe is hot and moyst and the attraction thereof is so necessary vnto all liuing creatures that if the wayes of respiration bee intercepted and occluded they presently die and all of vs haue experience that the constitution of the bodie is often changed eyther by the temperature or distemperature of the ayre therefore we must prouide with all our study to chuse the best ayre as much as may be For that is the best ayre which to euerie one is natiue for as the Philosopher saith Vniuscuiusque locus naturalis sui est locati conseruantius besides a temperate ayre pure cleare and thinne which lyeth open and is free from stinkes infection or putrifaction is to be chosen And on the contrary that ayre is most bad and hurtfull which is troublesome cloudie impure stinking showrie putride close which neither wind nor Sunne doth penetrate nor purge in like manner that is good ayre which taketh neither venenosity nor other malign● qualitie through the standing waters which in the Summer time are corrupte● with a pestilent ayre or with the vapour o● exhalations or infected with foeculent excretions so that ayre is most maliciou● which springeth from dunghills sincke●… and other pestiferous places which dot● oppresse the heart and make a difficultie 〈◊〉 breathing which is ouer hot or ouer cold for an hot ayre dissolueth the spirits it generateth thirst it diminisheth the vitall faculties and hindereth digestion A cold ayre doth ingender the Asthma and Catarrhes and as this impure ayre doth vitiat the vitall spirits so must wee be carefull by all meanes to beware of it so then we must draw an ayre that is pure and temperate for except a good ayre be drawne in daily whereby our naturall heat may be ventilated tempered and cooled our health must needes bee troubled and endangered of which it appeareth where it is said Satius esse sub dio versari quam Cubiculis vndique clausis immorari It behooueth also for vs to obserue this thing that in cold seasons it shall be fit to vse an hotte ayre or fire for hot things in a cold time moyst in a drie and drie in a moist aire is chiefely fitting and agreeing also in daily diseases we see it is sometimes very profitable to change the ayre for sometimes change of ayre and place doth recouer health that is lost But whereas the ayre oftentimes is mooued and changed with the windes and odors for the winde is no other thing then the aire moued with the stirring and prouoking of vapours of which and of sweete smells it shall not be amisse somewhat to speake of Of windes and sweete smelling sauours THe North-wind of al other is accounted the best and wholesomest and the East doth challenge to it selfe the next place and what winde soeuer doth moderately coole doth drie and make cleere our habitations therefore it must be towards the North and East for the temperature of the ayre and the wind for too much wind is hurtfull very much to the sence both of the lungs the eyes and eares but that which attaineth to odoraments and sweet smells it is manifest as it were the ayre to bee nourished by the spirits but most quickly by odors the braine and heart is strengthened and the minde refreshed which refreshment the body also doth feele the pleasure and recreation A naughtie stinking ayre is corrected and amended by odoraments and suffumigations but there is a very great difference

for look what ayre we draw in such and the like spirits goe out from vs. Odors and smells that are oner-hot are not by me approued because it filleth the head and ingendreth the catarrh for the temperature it selfe of the braine being a meane betweene hot and cold doth chiefly reioyce in things that are temperate and on the other side it is much offended and hurt by the contrary therefore sometimes those odors are to be mixed and changed as if cold doth raigne let the odors decline to heat and if heat doth beare sway then frame that they may be of cold operation Of Roses therefore Violets and Myrtels Campher Sanders and Rose-water which are cold things on the other side of Cinamon Citron rynds Orenge peeles Aloes Amber Muske which are hot of which you may vse at your pleasure Odors are not only drawne by the nostrills but there must bee application to the brest and stomacke Treacle Mithridate Frankincence Amber Angelica and such like which are thought to haue vertue against venome no lesse comfort to recreate your spirits ariseth out of gardens where-hence ariseth sweete smells and sauours also to vse sweete smelling hearbes flowers and rushes at the time of the yeere conuenient to the constitution and state of the bodie and to cast about the court and in the chambers the leaues of Withies of Roses Violets Vine-leaues Origanum wilde Time Time Lauender Myrtils Quinces Peares the flowers of Orenges Pomegranates and other such like and also to sprinkle the chamber with Rose-water or the water of the flowres of Orenges and other like also to euaporate the place with vineger and sometimes also in your chambers to burne perfumes fragrant and sweet smelling What sweete smells fumes or torches I am wont to vse I will heere set downe that hauing a care to the temperature and state of the body you may vse also A description of an odoriferous water TAke an equall weight of Rose-water with the best white wine Rose-viniger the fourth part Suger-candie a third part dissolue it in those things some adde a little Saffron with this water wash the hands and face the ioynts and eyes and therewith cleanse the teeth and besprinkle the rest of the clothes CHAP. V. Of Meates and Drinks IN meate and drinke wee must consider these sixe things first the Substance then the Quantitie third the Qualitie fourth Custome fift the Time and lastly Order We must also vnderstand that it is best and most wholesome to vse meates that be simple for meates that be simple are most wholesome and profitable but many and sundrie sorts of meates are very vnhealthfull and hurtfull to our bodies our elders which liued very long and without sicknesse were wont to eate at one meale flesh only and at another bread only yet would I not wish you my sonnes to accustome your selues to one only meate especially if you be yong for Galen expounding the Aphorisme of Hipp. saith That such things as wee haue of long time beene vsed to although they bee not of the best nourishment they are not so dangerous as other things which are farre better whereunto we haue not beene accustomed wee must therefore now and then alter our diet and vse to eate such meates as before wee vsed not neither must we bind our selues to any one kinde lest we be driuen at any time to change our custome and so wee fall sicke presently thereupon Cornelius Celsus a good Physicion giueth counsell that such as bee in health should vse their ordinarie fore and plaine vsuall diet and to forbeare much varietie of meats is best and wholesomest because the stomack set a work too too much laboureth greatly in the digesture of sundry meates at one time It is thought good to mixe moist with drie things cold with hot and hot with cold and those meats which are in the meane or mediocritie of all excesse to be most commendable of which sort is bread made of cleane corne sufficiently leauened and moderately baked Also the flesh of Hens and Capons Phesants Partriges Woodcocks yong Pigeons Blackbirds Thrushes Turtles and such like small birds In like manner Fishes bred amongst rocks and stones or about the sea side and such as in taste are neither vnpleasant and vnsauourie nor yet clammie and vnctious of the which we will speake particularly hereafter Now in meats nothing so well encreaseth good bloud as when they are well digested for thereby is ended more easily the second concoction which is in the veines and liuer and also admitteth the third digestion which is in the particular members parts which be nourished Also there bee some meats betweene whom there is but small difference of digestion as is betweene a Henne and a sucking Calfe a Chicken and a Kid the flesh of an old Calfe and a yong Bullock in such respects as these where the difference is so small it skilleth not greatly if they which be somewhat hard to digest be eaten before that which is of lighter digestion And this I suppose was the opinion of Galen for heauie meats and such as bee slow of digestion require a stronger and greater power digestiue therfore meats of easie digestion are first to be taken before those which doe differ so far from them in easinesse of concoction And also you must take heede of crude and raw meates and that the same be both throughly boyled or rosted but in any wise beware of stuffing of your selues too much with meate and drinke nor to irritate and prouoke your appetite with delicious sawces for meates excessiuely eaten although they be of good nourishment commonly they doe ingender crudities lasks and vomits Againe to take lesse then necessitie and nature doth require is the cause why the body is not nourished but weakned and made vnable to doe his businesse for euen as repletum hindreth nourishment and hurteth nature so all sorts of too much abstinence causeth vomits hurteth the stomack resolueth the powers of the body and increaseth ill humours And euen as an ill dyet bringeth heauinesse to the body and dulnesse to the senses so a good dyet refresheth the spirits and reuiueth the minde making it more able and actiue to know and practise vertues operations Of Drinke COncerning drinke at meales it would not be taken before something hath beene eaten at the beginning the drink would be strongest and so towards the end more small if it be Ale or Beere And if it be Wine more and more allayed with Water and the best Physicians hold the drinke would rather be mixt with the meate by sundrie small draughts then with one great draught at the end of the meale for the mixture tempereth well the meate without hindrance A great draught drowneth the meate and hurteth naturall heate that then worketh in concoction and with the weight driueth downe the meate ouer-hastily Hot wines and sweet or cōfectioned with spices or very strong Ale or Beere is not good at meales for thereby the meate is