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A14298	Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.; Naturall and artificial directions for health	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1612 (1612)	STC 24615; ESTC S106222	54,245	162

APPROVED Directions for Health both Naturall and Artificiall Deriued from the best Physitians as well moderne as auncient Teaching how euery Man should keepe his body and mind in health and sicke how hee may safely restore it himselfe Diuided into 6. Sections 1. Ayre Fire and Water 2. Meate drinke with nourishment 3. Sleepe Earely rising and Dreames 4. Auoidance of excrements by purga 5. The Soules qualities and affections 6. Quarterly monethly and daily Diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the Authour The fourth Edition LONDON Printed by T. S. for Roger Iackson and are to be solde at his Shop neere the Conduit in Fleetestreete 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE MY GRATIOVS MOTHER in Law the Lady Lettice VVife to the valerous and Heroicall Knight Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Duputie of his Maiesties Kingdom● of Ireland MADAME it hath euer beene a customary fashion among Students to chuse out some noble Personage eminent for vertue vnder the glory of whose name their Bookes might walke vp and downe on the worlds Theater secured from that spitefull Spirit of Detraction whose blustering blasts of Blasphemie I lately endeuoured to coniure and conuict After the like manner to be somwhat in the fashion loe here I submit before your eyes of Grace this saplesse Worke of mine that the starry influence of your auncient loue may reflect vpon the darkest parts therof where perhaps the distance of Climate with-holds your directest beames I know your Ladyship is stored with far more precious presents onely Dutie herein seemes to free me from Presumption in dedicating the blossomes of my youthfull Studies to One who is as wise as I am mindfull as fauourable as I am faithfull and euer will continue At your Ladiships command WILLIAM VAVGHAN A Table declaring the Contents of the Sections and Chapters of this Booke The first Section Chiefe causes and Rules for preseruation of man health Chapter 1. OF Ayres for pleasure health and profit Fol. 1 Chapter 2. Of Waters with their kindes 9 Chapter 3. Of Fire and what kinde is best 12 The second Section Food and nourishment what 's good and bad Chapter 1. OF Bread and Drinke of all kindes Fol. 13 Chapter 2. Of Wines of all kindes and how to choose the best 19 Chapter 3. Of Dyet drinkes for the sicke and healthy 28 Chapter 4. Of Cyder and Perry with the vse thereof 31 Chapter 5. Of Flesh and which is best and how to preserue it sweet 33 Chapter 6. Of Fish of all sorts and which is best 40 Chapter 7. Of Milke Butter Cheese and Egges 44 Chapter 8. Of Sauces best and most sauory 49 Chapter 9. Of Hearbes with their vses 54 Chapter 10. Of common Fruits with their vses 56 The third Section Sleepe Earely rising and Dreames Chapter 1. OF Sleepe with the commodities and discommodities thereof Fol. 58 Chapter 2. Of Early rising 60 Chapter 3. Of Dreames 61 The fourth Section Euacuations Chapter 1. OF Exercise and which is best Fol. 64 Chapter 2. Of Vrines 67 Chapter 3. Of Fasting 68 Chapter 4. Of Venery 69 Chapter 5. Of Bathes 70 Chapter 6. Of Excrements and Bloud letting 72 Chapter 7. Of Purgations with the vse of Tobacco 74 Chapter 8. Of Vomits 82 Chapter 9. Of common sicknesses 84 The fift Section Infirmities and death Chapter 1. OF the causes of hot infirmities and of cold Fol. 87 Chapter 2. Of the wicked motions of the minde 89 Chapter 3. Of the age of man and how his life is deuided 112 Chapter 4. Of the foure Humours 121 The sixt Section Restauration of Health Chapter 1. OF the foure parts of the Yeare Fol. 123 Chapter 2. Of Monethly Dyet 129 Chapter 3. Of medicines and meanes to prolong life 138 Chapter 4. Of Mirth and the effects thereof 141 Chapter 5. Of daily Dyet 143 FINIS NATVRALL AND ARTIFICIAL DIRECTIONS FOR HEALTH The first Section What be the causes of the preseruation of Mans health CHAP. I. THE causes of the preseruation of mans health be foure The first Aire Fire and Water The second meate and drinke and such as we vse for nourishment The third mirth exercise and tranquillity of the body The fourth auoydance of excrements vnder which Phlebotomie purgations vomits vrine sweat bathes carnall copulation and such like are contained temperately What is Ayre Aire naturally by it selfe is an element hot and moist whereupon the whole constitution of our liues dependeth The attraction of this naturall body is so necessarie vnto vs that if any one of the instruments of our bodies be stopt we cannot choose but forthwith be strangled In respect whereof the choosing of a good ayre must for the preseruation of health obtaine the chiefest place Which is the best ayre That which is a mans natiue soyle and Countries ayre is best This by the Philosophers is approued in this principle Euery mans naturall place preserueth him which is placed in it And by the Poet confirmed Sweet is the smell of Countries soile Also a good Aire may be knowne both by his substance as when it is open pure and cleane free from all filthy dunghils noysome channels Nut trees Figge trees Coleworts Hemlocks Mines and Forges for these haue a contrary quality vnto the animall spirit and make men to fall into consumptions and by his qualities as extremity of colde heat and moysture What is the cause that the Aire changeth so oft The Aire receiues sundry alterations not onely according to the sundry aspects of the starres and of the heauenly planets but also by reason of the diuersities of Countries and of the particular situations of some places as well vpon the water as vpon the land Doe but marke how feauers rheumes plagues are ingendred by reason of troubled aire and of low marshie grounds And on the contrarie how our health is continued refreshed and recouered in drie or sandie Countries What shall a man doe if the Aire be either too hot too cold or too corrupt He must vse cold things to keepe away the heat and hot things to expell the cold He must adde dry things to moyst and moyst to dry To depart thence into another place were not amisse For oftentimes it is seene that sicke folkes doe recoure their former health onely by change of aire But if the aire be corrupt and that a man cannot remoue thence very quickly hee must artificially rectifie it by perfuming his Chamber with Iuniper Rosemary Bay tree or vvith wood of Aloes and then by sprinkling vineger here and there in his chamber In briefe a man in such cases must get him a Nosegay composed of Roses Violets Maioram Marigold and such like And when hee goeth abroad he must hold in his mouth eyther the pill of an Orenge or a peece of the root of Angelica Likewise he must haue an especiall regard that his Chamber be at least once a day neatly swept Our Mariners lately returned from their East Indian voyage confesse that their onely remedy against the Callentura the Scuruie and other

diseases at sea is the iuyce of ●emons At my being in Hungarie I saw the fiery Feauer a disease infectious in that Country cured onely by salt niter prepared with sulphur and giuen in water as drinke to the patient a thing very strange that fire should quench fire Shew me particularly how the Aire may be corrected for the recouerie of sicke folkes according to the diuersities of places times and seasons Art may moderate all this by accommodating the Aire in respect of the sick For if it be in Sommer that the Aire be too hot and sultrie as the vulgar say and that the patient is affected with some ague or with some other burning disease hee must be placed in some lower roome or some coole chamber where the heat of the Sunne comes not so forcibly In Winter time let fire correct the raw and cold aire specially for them that be afflicted with cold sicknesses For such a close warme roome must be prepared secured from winds where a good fire may be made Aduise me how I should build mee an house for pleasure health and profit First you must choose out a fine soile which hath water and wood annexed vnto it and forecast in your minde whether the prospect too and fro be decent and pleasant to the eye For I am of this opinion that if the eye be not satisfied the minde cannot be pleased if the minde be not pleased nature doth abhorre and if nature doth abhorre death at last must consequently follow Next you must marke whether the ayre which compasseth the situation of your house be of a pure substance and that shortly after the Sunne is vp groweth warme and contrarily groweth cold after the Sunne is set Thirdly you must make your foundation vpon a grauell ground mixt with clay vpon a hill or a hils side Fourthly looke that your windowes be Northward or Eastward Lastly when your house is finished you must prepare a Garden replenished with sundry kindes of hearbs and flowers wherein you may recreate and solace your selfe at times conuenient Doth the nature of places alter the quality of the Aire Yea doubtlesse Either by reason of marshes as I said before which commonly are corrupted with rotten vapours and exhalations or else of Churchyards subiect likewise to the same mutations we see by experience that the aire which compasseth vs about doth change his temperature As also when it becomes eyther excessiuely hot or colde dry or moist we doe finde our selues in much trauell and alteration Doth the nature of the time of the yeare alter the Ayre The like mutations doth the aire inferre vnto vs in the foure seasons of the yeare according to the course of the Sunne for in the Spring time the Aire is neerer vnto his owne nature to wi● reasonably hot and moist in Sommer further heated by the Sunne it becomes hot and dry in Haruest colde and dry in Winter colde and moist And not onely the Sunne in the foure seasons of the yeare brings such alterations in the aire but likewise the Moone in her foure quarters causeth foure differences for the first seauenth day from the new Moone vntill the next seauenth day is like the Spring time being hot and moist The second seauenth day vntill the full of the Moone is like Sommer The third day the Moone decreasing is correspondent vnto the Autumne And the fourth and last quarter is like the Winter Euen so againe the morning is hot moist like the Spring time noone is compared to Sommer the Euening to Autumne and the night to the Winter What sicknesses doth the Aire cause The aire causeth sicknesses according to the variety of the climate In colde Countries I meane from the fiftieth degree to the Pole Northward or Southward few sicknesses abound except they happen through excesse or distemperature of diet or vnwholesomnesse of the aire as aboue written In hot Countries specially betweene the both Tropickes the aire is more intemperate and pestilent Here-hence spring plagues Callenturaes and Lues Venerea insomuch as a certaine Writer affirmeth by experience that an Europaean can hardly liue in Aethiopia or vnder the Equinoctiall line aboue fiue yeares whereas on the contrary wee heare that men liue in Swethland in the North parts of Ireland and in other colde places where the aire is pure and Notherly till they attaine to a hundred or sixe score yeares Of Water CHAP. 2. What is water WAter is an Element colde and moyst and doth not nourish but helpe digestion How many kindes of waters be there To discerne good waters from bad you must learne that there be foure differences of waters namely Raine water Riuer water fountaine water and stange water By Raine water I meane all that falls from the Region of the aire vpon the earth in forme of water And this is either sweet when if falls without a storme or else troublesome when it falls with stormes and tempests Is not Snow water as good as Raine water Snow waters albeit they be counted among those waters which are light as hauing beene sublimed purified and as it were distilled yet notwithstanding they be not so good For they ingender feauers and morphewes What is the nature of fountaine water Fountaine water is the best water for preseruation of health But you must obserue of what side it springs for if it comes from the East it excels the rest as well in moisture and thinnesse of substance as in pleasant smel and it doth moderately comfort the spirits Contrariwise those fountaines which spring out of rockes towards the North and which haue the Sunne backward are of a hard digestion and nothing so pure as the other Whether water being drunke doth nourish And whether the same be wholesome for sicke persons Surely water cannot nourish because of it selfe it is of no substance to fortifie or encrease the vitall faculties For which cause the wisest Phisitians aduised men to drinke it honied which they called Oximell Hodromel or with wine or with suger or with white wine vinegar Being drunke alone it neuer quencheth the drowth nor heat of the lungs but rather hindereth the spetting vp of phlegme Yet notwithstanding at meales in Sommer time it may be drunke of hot complexioned people rather to helpe digestion then to nourish the body How shall I know good water By the clearenesse of it That water is best which runneth from an higher to a lower ground and that water which runneth vpon clay is better clarified then that which goeth vpon the stone VVhen is water wholesomest In Sommer time it is most wholesome yet notwithstanding seldome to be drunke But if at any time you be compelled to drinke it see first that you seeth your water gently for by seething the grosse substance of it is taken away How shall I reuiue waters that begin to putrifie This is performed by the addition of some small proportion of the oyle of Sulphur or else of Aqua vitae well rectified incorporating

them both together Of Fire CHAP. 3. VVhat is fire FIre is an element hot and dry which dissolueth the malicious vapours of the aire stirreth vp naturall heat in mans body and expelleth cold What kinde of fire is best That fire is best which is made of dry and sweet wood For wet and greene wood is discommodious and so are all coales except chark-coales because they make the head heauie and dry vp naturall moysture Turfes likewise are very dangerous because they stop the windpipes and make the skinne yellow In Germany they vse Stoues which questionlesse cannot but dull the spirits and offend the purer faculties There may be a kinde of fewell made of the cinders of coales or olde burnt sea-coale or stone-coale incorporated with Sawiers dust and Cow-dung which being formed in balls and dried in the winde will burne very cleare Are not sweatings and hot-houses wholesome No because they exhaust the good humours together with the bad But in Spring time they may be vsed against the itch and small Pockes The second Section concerning foode Of bread and drinke CHAP. 1. VVhat is the vse of bread BRead made of pure wheat flowre well boulted from all branne and finely moulded and baked comforteth strengtheneth the heart maketh a man fat and preserueth health It must not be aboue two or three dayes olde at most for then it waxeth hard to be concocted Aboue all things it is fit that it be firmented with sower leauen for certainely this leauening though it puffe vp the paste yet notwithstanding it maketh the bread light and sauourie which otherwise would be heauie and very hard to be digested As for raw corne and vnprepared it is noisome vnto the strongest labourer euen vnto the stoutest mower Let men therefore take heed how they eate it eyther of wantonnesse or of appetite What is Rie Bread Rie bread well sifted not made of entire meale and new-baked is in Sommer time highly commended specially in the beginning of meate for it keepeth the belly loose and for this cause it is so vsed at the tables of Princes it must not be eaten but in small quantity rather for diet and health sake then to satisfie hunger VVhat is barley Bread The auncient Romanes vtterly forbad the vse thereof for it makes men cowardly and fearefull by reason that it doth not nourish but weaken the body yet notwithstanding some Phisitians were of opinion that it helps them that be diseased of the gout by force of a cleansing faculty which it hath How is wheaten bread and pastery to be vsed in Phisicke Bisket crust or tosted bread being eaten dry with a fasting stomack staieth stoppeth and drieth all distillations Rheumes and humours fallen or gathered in any part of the body some say that it causeth far people to be leane but certainly experience teacheth that it be taken after all other meat it drieth a moyst body and hindreth fatnesse and all diseases exceeding from moysture because it keepeth the meate from being too suddainly and quickly conueied into all the parts of the body Toasted bread steept in white wine with Cinamon Hony or Suger prouokes a good appetite and a liuely spirit vnto a man which is naturally sluggish drowsie or weake and for pastrie it is rather gluttonous than healthie not easie to digest fitter to be taken at the end of meales to preuent the Gout or the Dropsie VVhat is the vse of Beere Beere which is made of good Malt well brewed not too new nor too stale nourisheth the body causeth a good colour and quickly passeth out of the body In Sommer it auaileth a man much and is no lesse wholesome to our constitutions then wine Besides the nutritiue faculty which it hath by the malt it receiueth likewise a certaine property of medicine by the Hop What is the vse of Ale Ale made of barley malt and good water doth make a man strong but now a daies few Brewers doe brew it as they ought for they adde slimie and heauie baggage vnto it thinking thereby to please tosse-pots and to encrease the vigour of it How shall I discerne good Ale from bad Good Ale ought to be fresh and cleare of colour It must not be tilted for then the best quality is spent It must neither looke muddie nor yet carrie a taile with it Shew me a wholesome diet drinke The most precious and wholesome ordinarie drinke as well for them that be in health as for sicke and impotent persons is made after this manner Take halfe a pound of barley foure measures of water halfe an ounce of Licoras and two drachmes of the seede of Violets two drachmes of Parsley seed three ounces of red Roses an ounce and a halfe of Hysopand Sage three ounces of figges and raisins well pickt Seeth them all together in an earthen vessel so long till they decrease two fingers breadth by seething then put the potte in cold water straine the ingredients through a cloth Shew me a speedy drincke for trauellers when they want Beere or Ale at their Inne Let them take a quart of fayre water and put thereto fiue or sixe spoonfuls of good wine vinegar or of Aqua Composita a small quantitie of Sugar and some Borrage or a branch of Rosemary Let them be brued well out of one pot into another and then their drincke is ready What shall poore men drincke when Malt is extreame deere They must gather the toppes of Heath whereof the vsuall brushes are made and dry them and keepe them from moulding Then they may at all times brue a cheape drincke for themselues therewith Which kinde of drinke is very wholesome as well for the Liuer as the Spleene but much the more pleasant if they put a little Licoras vnto it There is another sort of drinke of Water and Vineger proportionably mingled together which in Summer they may vse How shall I helpe Beere or Ale which begin to be sowre or dead Put a handfull or two of Oatmeale or else of ground Malt into the barrell of Beere or Ale stirie the same well together and so make it reuiue a fresh Or else if you please bury your drinke vnder the ground in the earth for the space of foure and twenty houres Or else put into the vessell the rootes of Iroes Bay berries Organy or Isop Teach me a way to make beere or Ale to become stale within two or three dayes This is performed if you bury your Beere or Ale being filled into pots in a shady place somewhat deepe in the ground What is Meath Meath is made of honey and water boyled both together This kind of drinke is good for them which enioy their health but very hurtfull for them who are afflicted with the strangury or colick Braggot doth farre surpasse it in wholsomnesse What is Meatheglin Meatheglin is made of honey water and hearbs If it be staile it is passing good Of Wine CHAP. 2. What is the property of wine VVIne temperately taken refresheth