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A91851	The universal body of physick in five books; comprehending the several treatises of nature, of diseases and their causes, of symptomes, of the preservation of health, and of cures. Written in Latine by that famous and learned doctor Laz. Riverius, counsellour and physician to the present King of France, and professor in the Vniversity of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by VVilliam Carr practitioner in physick.; Institutiones medicae. English	Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.; Carr, William.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1567A; ESTC R230160	400,707	430

and supper From these words of Galen a threefold reason may be gathered First in rest the body is not moved nor tossed up and down so that the meat may lye aptly in the stomach not fluctuating nor stirred from place to place which helps concoction because concoction requires rest Secondly in sleep the animal spirits keeping holiday the vital and natural become more strong and lively which much helps forward the concoction Thirdly the time being double between dinner and supper the nourishment also ought to be double Fourthly to these reasons Galen adds the example of the wrestlers who eat much flesh at supper but at dinner onely bread To Galens the following reasons may be added Fifthly the coldness of the night promotes concoction For this like the winter renders the stomach and belly more strong driving the heat inward whereby to perfect the concoction Sixthly it is proved that in sleep the heat runs to the center by the authority of Hipp. 1. Epid. Sect. 4. who saith that a man waking is hotter about the exteriour parts and colder about the inner parts but in those that sleep it is quite contrary which appears also by the pulse and breath which are stronger sleeping then waking On the contrary that dinner ought to be larger is proved by the following reasons and authorities The authorities are taken from Actuarius and Avicen who advise to divide our meat into three parts two whereof must be eaten at dinner and the third at supper To which may be added the verses of the Salern schoole which are in English thus At supper if you fill with meat Your stomach your pain will be great If you desire a quiet night Make a supper short and light Their authorities are settled upon strong reasons First between dinner and supper there are but seven or eight hours at most between supper and dinner about sixteen But if sleep were advantageous for concoction it would be perfected about the middle of the night and hunger would immediately succeed But on the contrary when a man rises out of his bed in the morning he is less hungry then before supper which makes it clear that concoction is more slowly performed in sleep then in waking Secondly sleep after dinner in those that are not accustomed to it causes the appetite not to be so quick at the hour of supper and a sensible oppression of the stomach by meat which shews that concoction is most imperfect in sleep For if sleep helped concoction it would be alike profitable to all Thirdly those that wake are most hungry whence Hipp. 6. Epid. Sect. 4. Aph. 20. calls it greedy watchfulness So those that watch beyond their custome till late at night sooner perceive hunger so those that press out wine and oyle because they are perpetually awake they eat much and often Fourthly if sleep did promote concoction a man ought then to sleep presently after meals because the meat being then more solid requires the greatest heat of the stomach and because the first hours work is hardest but this is all performed waking otherwise the stomach would be much opprest Fifthly those who have a weak stomach and a bad digesttion are more disturbed by night after the first sleep then by day in the afternoon which argues that in sleep concoction is difficult Sixthly Celsus adviseth that in the long dayes it is better to sleep at noon before meat for no other reason doubtless but because sleep retards concoction Seventhly in sleep the heat runs to its fountains but the other parts are left destitute more then in waking and when a man is awake the heat is more equally diffused through the whole body and therefore there is less heat in the stomach when a man sleeps then when he wakes Eightly in the daytime the heat of the sun advantageth concoction For the sun as Arist affirmes 2. Phys 2. is the fountain of life And therefore concoction in the day hath a double heat which that which is done by night wants Ninthly the situation of the stomach in those that are awake makes more to the furtherance of concoction because an upright posture causes the meat to descend more easily to the bottom of the stomach which is more fleshy but in those that ly it onely touches the sides thereof so that the mouth of the stomach cannot shut as it should do And therefore sleeping at noon hurts less in a posture of sitting then lying Tenthly the flegme which in the day-time is expelled at the nostrilles and throat in the night flows down into the stomach and retards the concoction which inconvenience molests not those that wake Lastly experience confirmes this for a truth for there are very few men who will not ingenuously confess that they find themselves better after a light then great supper And Cardan testifies that he did aske many men that lived to a hundred years who told him that they used very slender suppers To these we may adde the example of Telephus the Grammarian related by Galen 5. of preserving health who lived almost to a hundred years His words are these He eat raw hony mixed with rice pottage about the third hour of the day about the seventeenth he dined using salads first then river fish or birds In the evening he contented himself onely with bread sopped in wine We therefore convicted by the force of these latter reasons and much more by daily experience do believe that suppers ought to be more sparing then dinners yet we grant as in the theorems is mentioned that those who are in perfect health and have a strong stomach may either eat as much or more at supper then at dinner so that the whole quantity of both meals do not exceed moderation for they have a good concoction both night and day And here may be repeated the sentence of Celsus that a man in perfect health need not ty himself to any laws Nay if a man of a weaker constitution useth but little aliment and take a less quantity at dinner he may doubtless make a better meal at supper Whereby the whole quantity of meat which is taken in one day may suffice for the nourishment of the whole body But if we consider the custome of men now a dayes who eat their fill at dinner certainly they would be very much oppressed should they eat largly at supper And then the mentioned verses of the Salern school are verified But this rule is chiefly to be understood of those who are subject to fluxes and catarrhs for by night the flegmy humor flows from the brain into the stomach and disturbs the concoction On the contrary if you eat but little meat at supper the pituitous humor is consumed by the natural heat and is not so easily increased again as in those that sup largly because from the abundance of meat many vapours do arise from the stomach to the head And those that are so affected after a light supper sleep quietly but if they