Sorrel Orange Lemmon Apples Goosberies Currans Prunes pickled Cucumbers as boiled Veale and Green-sauce rost Veal and Orange holled Mutton with Verjuce and its own juce rost Mutton and Lemmon or Cucumbers green Geese and Goosberries Stubble goose and Apples Pigg and Currants Pork and Green-sauce boiled Chickens with Goosberries or Sorrel-sops Calves feet stewed with Currans and Prunes and your meat thus cook'd is both food and Physick Take a lawful freedome and please your self with these fruits Citrons Pomegranats Limes Oranges Lemmons Quince Pearmains Pippins red Cherries Mulberies Grapes Damsins Bullaces Prunellaes Respass Currans Barberies Strawberries they cool and quench thirst contemperate and aswage Choler and give a great refreshment to the parched spirits Eat sallads of Lettuce Sorrel Purslane Spinage and Violet leaves they are medicamental aliment Butter milk Whey and Sider allays preternatural heat checks the effrenation of raging Choler and are like water to fire Refuse the fat and brown outside of meat also the crust of bread Butter and Oyle adds fuel to the fire Sugar and Honey hath alliance and friendship with Choller being soon assimilated and converted into its nature Mustard Salt and Spices exasperates Cholet and makes it more fierce and biting Vinegar checks it Avoid wine spirits and strong liquors they agitate Choller and rouzeth up a sleeping enemy Fast not but satisfie the stomack when it vellicates and calls for meat biting Choller must have something to feed on or it will prey upon the body Cherish and indulge sleep it cools and moistens but let it not exceed in length which puts nature by her due times for necessary evacuations Use little and gentle exercise be not laborious or toyling but take your ease avoid violent motion it fires the spirits and enrageth choler Frequent Venus is most pernicious Cold bathes is profitable and refresheth much by cooling the blood allaying the spirits concentring them Bannish anger immoderate care peevishness and fretting which discomposeth the spirits heats and wasts them angments Choller dryes the body and hastens old age Refrain Tobacco as an injurious custome it exasperates Choler by heating drying and evatuating dulcid Phlegme which contemperates bridles and checks the fury of acrid sharp bilious humors Melancholy Complexion THe Melancholy person naturally so from the first principles is cold and dry but a Melancholy temperament acquired by Education Customes and Accidents by Degeneration and admixture of other humors adust is hot and dry which make the signs and symptoms of Melancholy to be different and various and a difference is to be made in dyet and customs The common symptoms are a pale black or high Sanguine colour given to be watchful sad solitary and suddain laughter a flow pulse troublesome sleeps and dreams Cold Melancholy hath milde symptomes if hot and adust the effects are more churlish and furious For cold Melancholly let the dyet be hot and moist for the hot Melancholy person let dyet be cooling and moist in both let their meats be of light digestion affording good nutriment and not windy as Mutton Lamb Veal Capon Chicken Partridge Phesant c. Abstain from Venison Bull-beef or Ox hanged Beef or long salted Goats-flesh Hare Bacon Goose Duck Swan Crane Heron Bittor and most water fowl Peacock Quaile Blackbirds Pidgeon Red Herrings salt Cod Ling Sturgeon pickled Scalloâ—s and salt Fish dryed Meats fryed or broiled old Cheese Beanes Pease Cabbage Coleworts Rye Bread and all meats hard of digestion or windy Capers Broom buds and Sampire are good sauce they open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Mustard and Vinegar bad and all sower sauces they make Melancholy more contumacious and fixed Spices not good if the person be hot they cause adustion Use Borrage Bugloss Endive Succory Baume Fumiterry Lettuce Marigold flowers Violets Clove-giliflowers Saffron they alter and qualifie the humor and chear the spirits Use Barly brothes with Prunes Raisins and Currans If Melancholy be adust and your body hot and costive eat Pippins Permains Cherries Respass Strawberries and such like fruits to cool and moisten Drink Whey Sider and small White-wines Refuse black wines and stale Beer Keep the body soluble your head will be more free from pain fumes and heaviness Cherish sleep it refresheth the spirits pacifieth a troubled minde and banisheth cares Fly idleness the Nurse of Melancholy exercise often and follow business or recreations Walk in the green fields Orchard Gardens Parks by Rivers and variety of places Change of Air is very good Avoid solitariness and keep merry company Frequent Musick sports and Games Recreate the spirits with sweet fragrant and delightful smells Moderate Venus good Banish all passions as much as in you lies fear greif dispaire revenge desire jealousie emulation and such like Opus est te animo valere ut corpore possis Cicer. Tobacco hurtful espicially if Melancholy be adust and a hot body it heats and exhausts humidity makes Melancholly more contumacious Give not your self to much study nor night watchings they both dry the body and make humors adust two great enemies to a Melancholy person Hygistic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the various discrasyes or passions of Mind THe Soul and Body are so linked and conjoyned as Partners of each others ill and wellfare that the one is not affected but the other is drawn into consent mutually acting enjoying and suffering untill death seperates and breaks the bands of union assunder Hence it is a diseased body makes a heavy drooping mind and a wounded disturbed or estless mind makes a youthful healthy body to decay and languish Who therefore desires the health and wellfare of the body must Procure ease rest and tranquility of mind Siue Animo Corpus nec sine corpore Animus bene valere potest SHun Melancholy and sadness as very dangerous and destructive occasioning and producing variety of diseases suffocates and choaks the spirits retards their motion and agility of operation imprisons and cloggs them in their Stations darkens their purity and light debilitating all the faculties of the body their cheif operator being indisposed and disabled fixeth humors incrassates and begets obstructions and debilitates the Speen alienates and subtracts its ferment from the stomack which decayes both appetite and digestion procures scorbute Hypochondriac Melancholy pains and tumors of the Spleen Dropsies Jaundice c. A great Enemy to beauty soon changeth florid blooming youth into a pale withering countenance and makes the whole body to languish and decay Mirth subtiliates purifies and chears the spirits puts them upon activity that before were torpid dull and heavy and excites them to operation and duty in the several faculties volatizeth rarifies and attenuates gross feculent obstructing humors preserves youth vigour and beauty makes the body plump and fat by expanding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment Whose wholsome effects are much the same with those of exercise and may well supply when that is wanting Dum fata sinunt Vivite laeti Sen. ANger is the beginning
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
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
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
have a stool else the Faeces are hardned the body heated the stomack molested the appetite not so good the head heavy dull and sometimes pained some grosser matter which should go away by seige is brought by the Urinarie passage occasioning obstructions all which are very injurious and destructive to health Seasonable and moderate Venus alleviates nature and helps concoction Immoderate exhausts the strength by effusion of spirits exsiccates and dries the body hurts the brain and nerves causeth tremblings dulls the sight debilitates all the faculties hastens old age and shortens life Cibovel potu repletis superfluè evacuatis five exercitatis coitus interdicitur Tempus optimum est mane post dormias Hyeme vere frequentius permittitur aestate parcissimè Juvines sanguinei pituitosi liberalius parcius Melancholici parcissimè biliosi Senes emaciati Mares plus quam faeminas laedit qui erecti solent Hygiastic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the several constitutions of bodies with their diagnostic signes THE Sanguine is moderately hot and moist hath a lively pulse vigorous actions of colour fresh or rosie for habite of body soft fleshy or moderately fat of a pleasant mind and good disposition except casualties and infirmities alter to the contrary The Sanguine constitution being the best and most temperate ought to be preserved in that state from degeneration and intemperate declensions which is performed by a due observance of diet Air Exercise and Rest Sleep and Watching voiding and retaining of excrements and passions of the mind for any of these irregular unsutable or unnatural of continuance will alter and change the best tempered body into some other constitution of intemperature answerable to their causes as the intemperate Air of a hot climate or season not regarded violent exercise nightwatchings c. Introduceth a depraved alteration and degeneration of the blood For the quality of your diet let it be temperate for temperate bodies must use temperate meats and distempered bodies their contraries therefore keep within this latitude generally and for the most part from meats temperate to meats hot cold dry or moist in the first degree inclusive those will sute well with your temperament Such are Mutton Cow-beife or Heifer Pork Veale Lamb Rabbit Capon Hen Pullet Turky Phesant Partridge Carrots Turnips Skirrits Sparagus For quantity times and order in eating and drinking for Aire Exercise and Sleep consonant and most agreeable to this constitution are to be sought in the general Hygiastick Rules before mentioned which are most proper and applicable to this complexion as being the common standard to measure others by and how far others vary from this temperament by so much are they to be accounted intemperate and do therefore require some particular Rules differing from the general because intemperate constitutions and temperate are not be governed by the same strictness of law but must have some allowance and exceptions which shall be observed in the particular constitutions following Phlegmatick Constitution THe Phlegmatick person is more cool and moist not so lively quick sharp and acute as the sanguine for habit of body corpulent fat or fleshy the Veines small and hid a slow pulse prone to sleep and ease by cold things prejudiced by hot things benefitted incident to cold and Phlegmatick distempers which are to be understood if customs casualties or infirmities induce not the contrary Meats agreeable and convenient for this temperament are such as be temperate and such as be hot in the first and second degree not over moist but potencially drying if heat be wanting as young Beef powdered Mutton Venison Hare Turkey Hen Capon Pidgeon Turtle Black-birds Feldifars small Birds sowced Puffins Artichoaks Parsnips Potatoes pickled Oysters Anchovies Also Bacon Haberdine old Ling salt Cod pickled Herrings or dryed pickled scallops and such like savory seasoned meats this temperament will admit of if the stomack be strong enough to digest them And for the more security take a glass of Sack after Refuse Lambe Kid fresh Pork Pig Goose Duck and water Fowl being over moist and clogging a Phlegmatick stomack But if your appetite much desires any of these let them be down roasted also Eeles Lampreys fresh Herrings Makarel Lobster fresh Salmon Barbel fresh Sturgeon Tench are injurious and most fresh fish yet less prejudicial if you drink wine with them Let your dyet be warm meats oftener roast then boyled Butter Oyle and Honey is very wholsome Mustard Salt and Spices are good for your use especially with meats of slow digestion and that abound with much moisture Refuse Milk and milk meats Curds new Cheese Butter milk and Whey Olives Capers Broom-buds Sampire are good sauce also Garlick Onions Leeks in broths seasonings or sawces for a rellish but not raw Refrain cold hearbs and sallads as Lettice Purslan Violet leaves except Sorrel which although cold yet a dryer and sharpner of the appetite but use Mint Sage Rosmary Time Marjerome Parsley Pennyroyal and such hot hearbs Abstain from raw fruits Apples Pears Plumms Cucumbers Mellons Pumpions c. But you may eat Walnuts Filbirds Almonds blanched Chestnuts fiftick nuts Dates Figs Raisins Drink strong bear more frequently then small and sometimes Sack Not French wine if you be Rheumatick Indulge not your self in lying long in bed or afternoon sleeps too much rest and ease they dull the spirits increase flegm and superfluous moisture Frequent exercise and moderate abstinence in meat and drink are great preservatives of your health Chuse a warm air and dry soil remote from Waters the best place for your abode Hot Baths are profitable seasonable and moderate Venus a friend the former cherisheth the spirits opens obstructions and dryes up superfluous moisture the latter sufcitates and raiseth the spirits alleviates and helps Concoction If the smoaking of Tobacco be good for any the Phlegmatick may best challenge the use of it Cholerick Constitution THe Cholerick person is hot and dry eager and precipitate in action froward hasty and angry lean of body and slender the Veines bigg a hard pulse and quick of colour pale swarthy or yellowish the hair crisp or curled propense to waking and short sleeps subject to Tertain Fevers Ad venerem proclivior cito satiatus Use a cool and moistning diet most frequently boyled meats rather then rost or baked but fryed or broiled meats never Eat brothes often made with cooling hearbs Rice-milk Cock-broth or Barly broths with Rasins Currants and Prunes For flesh chuse young tender and jucy temperate or cooling as young Beef Veal Motton Lamb Kid Pork Conies Green-geese Turky Capon Chickens Observe fish days as good dyet and then you may eate fresh Salmon Sturgeon Lobster fresh Herrings Crabs Prauns fresh God Conger Thornback Soles Plaise Whiring Smelt Perwincle Oisters Pike Trout Tench and all fresh fish Eeles not excepted which are very unwholsome to others Milk and milk meats are pleasant and good as Custard White-pots new Cheese fresh Cheese and Cream For your sauces use Verjuce Vinegar
of madness which fires the spirits raiseth an intestine tomult and disturbance agitates and inrageth Choler and exasperates Cholerick diseases raiseth hystericall apoplectic and epileptic fits in those subject to them causeth tremblings of the nerves palpitations of the heart discomposeth and disorders the whole body but more especially infirm parts are made sensible of the prejudice and Cholerick lean bodies Maximum remedium irae est dilatio Dis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet qui facta rependet Consilio Claud. FEar suddenly surprizing enervates and chaseth the spirits to and fro from their residency and faculties sometimes compressing and driving them to the heart causing violent palpitations and suffocation or scattring them from the fountain of life into the external parts making a dissolution even to exanimation A long predmeditated and constant fear in a remisse degree produceth the same effects with Melancholly Plura sunt quae nos terrent quam quae Premunt saepius opinione quam relaboramus LOve desire being inordinate and impetuous seldom goes alone but is attended with fear anger Melancholy dispaire one or more for its consorts with which the minde is racked and torn and variously affected as the several passions acts their parts by turns notwithstanding difficulties and sufferings the soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal deserts her own mansion and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying never at home but as a prisoner and prisoners are but bad house keepers the body needs must languish and decay when the soul thus delights and strives to run away For a check to the impetuousness of this inordinate effection and immoderate desire take these considerations to calm allay and regulate your passion First that you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affections and lay out more in expectation then the income of your desire obtained can possibly make a return that it is far greater in non habendo then it will be in fruendo it will be much less when you have then it seems to be now you have it not Secondly that the Delirium and fervency of your desire does not hasten the accompishment of your aymes but rather retards or frustrates for the extremity and strength of passion debilitates and suppresseth reason the cheif contriver and manager of your design puts you upon inconsiderate immature and rash attempts and makes you more unfit incapable and unable to effect your purpose for passion is alwayes spurring but reason hath its stops and pauses keeps due times for onsets and progress Thirdly that prudent and vigorous action not innane hungry volition or thirsty desire though never so great must or can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes Fourthly that the ardency and heighth of desire will not imbetter sweeten or add to the heighth of your injoyment when obtained but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem for what thing soever you purchase and are mistaken and deceived in you will not vallue at that rate you first prized it but at the worth you now finde it Vehement lofty desires screws you up to such a heighth of expectation mountain high but you must descend into fruition that 's in the valley and when you find your self in a bottom and your Sails not so filled and puft as formerly by the fresh gailes and blasts of a strong desire your top-sails then begin to flap and flag when you come into the still calm of fruition and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lower amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of injoyment for in appearance it was great when at a distance seemingly but now you are come nearer it is much less and inconfiderable really and what swelled you full in the prosecution of attaining will not fill you now with satisfaction but prove aery when you grasp it and soon emptied in injoyment Thirdly that statutum est it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing desired which to a rational creature is sufficient without other arguments to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire and curb the violence of an impetuous affection but not to cowardise daunt or stop a laudible active prosecution to attain a noble vertuous and lawful end with a moderate submissive desire quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit Sen. Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum Serò recusat ferre quod subiit jugum CAre immoderate and constant denies the animal spirits their due times for refreshment rest and ease disables them from duty and the true performance of their Offices being weary and tired for want of respite heats the spirits and dryes the radical moisture which changeth a fresh countenance into paleness and pines the body most injurious to thin lean and Cholerick bodies Si diis Curae es quid tua cura potest Revenge jealousie and envy are the Ulcers of the mind continually lancinating corroding or inflaming introducing a secret consumption wasting the spirits and radical moisture and infeebling all the faculties Multis se injuriis objicit dum una dolet Sen. That you may the better know and rightly understand how the passions of the mind redound and reflect upon the body to the decay and rune of it and abbreviating life First consider that the body without the soul â—s dead and moves not at all by vertue of the â—oules conjunction with it informing and assuming it the body acts with various motions and opperations and according to the activity â—f the soul organical aptitude and fitness of the â—ody is the exquisiteness and perfection of their â—perations the Soul then is agent the body assive receiving the influx vertue and power â—rom the Soul who is Rectrix and Gubernatrix â—o whom the rule and government belongs it 〈◊〉 evident therefore since the body cannot act â—ny thing of it self for its conservation withâ—ut the energy and assistance from the Soul whose care is the regulating and moderating the body in all actions external and internal then the distractions inactivity wandrings and neglects of the soul does tend to the subversion of the due order and government and consequently the ruine and dissolution of the body which requires a constant supply of daily reparation and regular tuition for its support and maintenance Now the Soul transported by passion from its genuine Crasis of placidness and tranquility and reduced into a turbulent unquiet and distempered state is that condition of incapacity and unfitness for the government for that time being and many damages arise thereby as in each passion particularly is enumerated In a threefold manner the Soul is put besides it self in the regularity of rectory and is incurious of the welfare of the body First the Soul is either carried away by some delightful object as for some thing vehemently desired deserting as it were the body to follow after that thing
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