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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

dry Yet doth it good if thereto you enure it Against a surfet vomiting to try Is remedy but some cannot endure it Yet some so much themselues found helpe thereby They go to sea a purpose to procure it ● Foure seasons of the yeare there are in all The Summer and the Winter Spring and Fall In euery one of these the rule of reason Bids keepe good diet suiting euery season ●…e spring is moist of temper good and warme ●hen best it is to bathe to sweate and purge ●hen may one ope a veine in either arme 〈◊〉 boyling bloud or feare of agues vrge ●hen Venus recreation doth no harme ●et may too much thereof turne to a scourge ●n Summers heat when choller hath dominion ●oole meates and moist are best in some opinion ●he Fall is like the Spring but endeth colder With Wines and Spice the Winter may be bolder Now if perhaps some haue desire to know The number of our bones our teeth our veines This verse ensuing plainly doth it shew To him that doth obserue it taketh paines The teeth thrise ten and two twise eight arow Eleu'n score bones saue one in vs remaines For veines that all may vaine in vs appeare A veine we haue for each day in the yeare All these are like in number and connexion The difference growes in bignesse and complexion Foure humors raigne within our bodies wholly And these compared to foure Elements The Sanguine Choller Flegme and Melancholy The latter two are heauie dull of sence Th' other two are more Iouiall quicke and Iolly And may be likened thus without offence Like ayre both warme and moist is Sanguine clea●… Like fire doth Choler hot and drie appeare Like water cold and moist is Flegmatique The Melancholy cold drie earth is like Complexions cannot vertue breed or vice Yet may they vnto both giue inclination The Sanguine game-some is and nothing nice Loue Wine and Women and all recreation Likes pleasant tales and news playes cards dice Fit for all company and euery fashion Though bold not apt to take offence not irefull But bountifull and kinde and looking cheerefull Inclining to be fat and prone to laughter Loues mirth Musick cares not what comes after ●…rpe Choller is an humour most pernitious 〈◊〉 violent and fierce and full of fire 〈◊〉 quicke conceit and therewithall ambitious ●…ir thoughts to greater fortunes still aspire ●…ud bountifull ynough yet oft malicious ●…ight bold speaker and as bold a lyar 〈◊〉 little cause to anger great enclin'd ●…ch eating still yet euer looking pin'd 〈◊〉 yonger yeares they vse to grow apace 〈◊〉 Elder hairie on their brest and face ●he Flegmatique are most of no great growth ●…clining to be rather fat and square Giuen much vnto their ease to rest and sloth Content in knowledge to take little share To put themselues to any paine most loth So dead their spirits so dull their sences are Still either sitting like to folke that dreame Or else still spitting to auoid the flegme One qualitie doth yet these harmes repaire That for the most part Flegmatique are faire The Melancholly from the rest doe varie Both sport and ease and company refusing Exceeding studious euer solitary Inclining pensiue still to be and musing A secret hate to others apt to carry Most constant in his choise tho long a chusing Extreme in loue sometime yet seldome lustfull Suspitious in his nature and mistrustfull A wary wit a hand much giuen to sparing A heauy looke a spirit little daring Now though we giue these humors seuerall names Yet all men are of all participant But all haue not in quantitie the same For some in some are more predominant The colour shewes from whence it lightly came Or whether they haue bloud too much or want The watrie Flegmatique are faire and white The Sanguine Roses ioyn'd to Lillies bright The Chollerick more red the Melancholly Alluding to their name are swart and colly ●f Sanguine humor doe too much abound These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe The face wil swell the cheekes grow red and round With staring eyes the pulse beate soft and breefe The veines exceed the belly will be bound The temples and the fore-head full of griefe Vnquiet sleepes that so strange dreames will make To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake Besides the moisture of the mouth and spittle Will taste too sweet and seeme the throat to tickle If Choler doe exceed as may sometimes Your eares will ring and make you to be wakefull Your tongue will seeme all rough and oftentimes Cause vomits vnaccustomed and hatefull Great thirst your excrements are full of slime The stomack squeamish sustenance vngratefull Your appetite will seeme in nought delighting Your heart still grieued with continuall byting The pulse beate hard and swift all hot extreme Your spittle sowre of fire-worke oft you dreame If Flegme aboundance haue due limits past These signes are heere set downe will plainely she●… The mouth will seeme to you quite out of tast And apt with moysture still to ouer-flow Your sides will seeme all sore downe to the wast Your meate wax loathsome your digestion slow Your head and stomacke both in so ill taking One seeming euer griping t'other aking With empty veines the pulse beate slow and soft In sleepe of Seas and riuers dreaming oft But if that dangerous humor ouer-raigne Of Melancholy sometime making mad These tokens then will be appearing plaine The pulse beate hard the colour darke and bad The water thin a weake fantasticke braine False grounded ioy or else perpetuall sad Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions Presenting to the thoughts ill apparitions Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming His eare the left especiall euer burning ●…inst these seuerall humors ouerflowing 〈◊〉 seuerall kinds of Physicke may be good 〈◊〉 diet drinke hot baths whence sweat is growing ●…th purging vomiting and letting bloud ●…ich taken in due time not ouerflowing ●…ch malladies infection is withstood ●…e last of these is best if skill and reason ●…spect age strength quantity and season ●f seuenty from seuenteene if bloud abound ●he opening of a veine is healthfull found Of Bleeding many profits grow and great The spirits and senses are renewed thereby Tho these men slowly by the strength of meat But these with wine restor'd are by and by By bleeding to the marrow commeth heat It maketh cleane your braine relieues your eye It mends your appetite restoreth sleepe Correcting humours that do waking keepe All inward parts and senses also clearing It mends the voyce touch smell tast hearing Three speciall Months September April May There are in which 't is good to ope a veine In these 3 Months the Moone beares greatest swa●… Then old or yong that store of bloud containe May bleed now though some older wizards say Some dayes are ill in these I hold it vaine September April May haue dayes a peece That bleeding do forbid and eating Geese And those are they forsooth of May

the hinder part very lightly After you are risen I will that you defend with all care and diligence your head necke and feete from all cold in the morning for there is no doubt but in the morning and euening the cold doth offend more then it doth about noone tide by reason of the weaknes of the Sunne-beames Put on your clothes neate and cleane in the Summer season first wash with cleane pure water before described but in the Winter season sit somewhat by the fire not made with turfe or stinking coale but with oake or other wood that burneth cleare for our bodies are somewhat affected with our clothes and as strength is encreased by the vse of meat and drinke and our life defended and preserued euen so our garments doe conserue the heate of our bodies and doe driue away colds so that as diet and apparel may seeme alike so in eyther of them a like diligence is to be preferred In the Summer-time I chiefly comme●… garments of Harts-skinnes and Calues-skinnes for the Hart is a creature of long life and resisteth poyson and Serpents therfore I my selfe vse garments of the like sort for the winter season also neuertheles lined with good linnen Next I doe iudge it not to bee much amisse to vse garments of Silke or Bombace or of purple also of Martyn or Wolfe-skinnes or made of Fox skinnes I suppose to be good for the winter notwithstanding in the time of Pestilence apparell of Silke and skinnes is condemned because it doth easily admit and receiue the contagious ayre and doth retain it long After the body is wel clothed kembe your head wel with an Iuory comb from the forehead to the back-part drawing the comb some forty times at the least then wash al the instruments of the sences as the eies the ears the nostrils the month the tongue the teeth and all the face with cold water and the eyes are not only to be washed but being open plainly immerg'd and the gumme and foulnes of the eie-lids that do there stick to remoue somtimes also to besprinkle the water with rose-water or Fenel-water also rub the neek wel with a linnen napkin somwhat coorse for these things doe confirme the whole body it maketh the minde more cheerefull conserueth the sight In this place it pleaseth me to adioyne some dentifrices or clensers of teeth waters not only to make the teeth white but also to conserue them with some medicines also to conserue the sight A pouder to preserue the whitenesse of the teeth TAke three egge-shels three drams of red corall two drams of white silke burnt to pouder in a new earthen pot Cinamon two drams Cloues one dramme Pellitorie of Spayne two drammes These being beaten to fine pouder rubbe the teeth euery day euening and morning The description of a Dentifrice which Messelina Augusta vsed ex scribonio largo TAke Harts horne burnt in a new earthen pot and reduced into pouder one ounce and a halfe Mastick one ounce and a halfe Sal Armoniack sixe drammes To whiten the teeth and to preserue them from heate which was vsed by a woman of great name TAke Aloes one ounce a halfe perles one ounce red Coral and white Lignum Aloes red Sanders of euery of them one ounce Dragons bloud fine Purslane one ounce and a halfe Roch Alum washed so long in faire water that it be as cleere as crystal one ounce mastick amber Myrrhe of eyther halfe an ounce the shels of water Crabs two drams let euery one bee beaten by it selfe into fine powder then take pure hony of Roses seuenteene ounces and with the powder aforesaid let it boyle gētly at the fire except the Mastick and the Myrrhe which afterwards mixe therwith and when it shall come to a conserue in thicknesse let it be alwayes stirred with a sticke in the boyling and when it shall be remoued from the fire let it rest till it wax cold then adde the Myrrhe and the Mastick then afterwards keepe it to your vse in a vessell of glasse with this Dentifrice if the teeth be rubbed in the morning with a piece of course linnen it doth comfort them and make them very white Another Dentifrice TAke red and white Corall of each one ounce Pellitory Mace Mastick of each one ounce Pomis stone and Bole-armonick of eyther one ounce make these things into fine powder A Medicine that doth comfort the sight TAke perles which beat into fine powder then straine them thorow a linnen cloth with rose-water then instill into the eyes certaine drops of the same water som in stead of the perls do vse of the finest Sugar with Rose-water but I iudge the vse of Perles to be the better These things following doe very much profite the eyes if yee keep them from dust smoake remaining out of the aire the Sun the cold from strong winds from beholding the Sun also to auoide the multitude of Venery and repletion of meat and drinke nor presently after dinner or supper to sleepe and as it is before said to bathe and wash the eyes with cold cleare water although this Medicine following be very much approued Take waters of Veruayne Betony and Fenell of euery one one ounce and a halfe white wine one ounce Tutla prepared one dram Sugar-candie two drams Aloes epatic one dram womans milke two drams Camphire halfe a scruple powder that that is to be powdered and let it remaine in infusion for foure and twentie houres then let them be strained and therewith wash the eyes being shut Also to prosecute our former purpose when you arise in the morning to auoide all superfluities as well by vrine as by the belly which doe at the least once euery day Auoid also from the nostrills and the lungs all filthy matter as wel by cleansing as by spittle and cleanse the face head and whole bodie loue you to be cleane and well apparelled for from our cradles let vs abhor vncleannes which neither nature or reason can endure When you haue done these things remember to powre foorth your praiers vnto God with a cleare voice that the day may be happie prosperous vnto you that God may direct your actions to the glory of his name the profit of your Country the conseruation of your bodies The walk yee gently what excremēts soeuer do slip down to the inferiour parts being excited by naturall heate the excretion thereof shall the better succeed As for your businesses whether they be publike or priuate let them be done with a certain honesty then afterwards let your hunting iourneyes bee performed apply your selues to studie and serious businesse the houres of the fore-noone and so likewise in the afternoone till two or three houres before supper alwaies in your hāds vse eyther Corall or yellow Amber or a Chalcedonium or a sweet Pommander or some like precious stone to be worne in a ring vpon the little finger of the left hand haue in your rings eyther

depend in some part vpon the celestiall bodies is declared Besides this there are two other kindes of causes that doe change and destroy our bodies which doe grow from the superior Planets One kinde is that that is ingendred with vs and is therefore said to be Interne necessarie and ineuitable and they are in number three that is Drynesse which by the course of Age bringeth to death a daily wasting of substance or the great varietie and mobilitie of the matter in our bodies and the abundance of excrements Another kinde of them are which happen outward and therefore are called Externe of which the reason is said to be twofold for some of them are which doth not change or affect our bodies of necessitie for although when these things happen their hurt may be by vs auoyded notwithstanding there are some of them that our life may be safe without them They are such things which doe bruise hurt and wound our bodies which for the most part hapneth by some outward force as in the warres and other cases of Fortune as either being drowned or made away with poyson There are other things also which are said of necessitie to alter Mans body which although we may auoide particularly yet generally we cannot when we cannot liue without them These things I say doe destroy and ouerthrow the temperature constitution and naturall health of man if they be not rightly vsed as necessity and the state of the body requireth And those are those sixe things which are called not naturall which we will consider in particular which sixe things are placed in our power and election and they are of sixe kindes 1. The first is Ayre Water and Fire 2. The second is Meate and Drinke and all those things which are giuen the body for nourishment 3. The third is Motion and Rest both of the whole body as of euery part thereof 4. The fourth is Sleepe and Watchfulnesse 5. The fifth is Excretion or Expulsion of excrements or retention vnder which is contayned the opening of a veine Purgation Vomit auoyding of Urin Sweate Bathing the act of Generation and such like 6 The sixth are the Symptoms Perturbations Affections or Accidents of the minde such as are Feare Anger Sorrow Ioy and such like of which we will speak more afterwards These things being duely and rightly vsed doe conserue man in good health but vsed contrarily they destroy for as health doth consist in a meane and a mediocritie so also in a meane vse of things necessary it is conserued CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health I Haue declared vnto you the chiefe causes through which the diuers mutations destructions and corruptions of our bodies doe arise Now on the contrarie I will declare vnto you also those things which if we vse them in right order and manner doe contayne the safetie of life restore health lost and diminish some kindes of diseases and expell them For this thing it is first needfull and requisite that you know certainely and be sure of that although the celestiall bodies doe exercise a certayne force and admirable vertue in the affaires of Man yet notwithstanding GOD Almightie the Worke-man and Creator of all Nature and Humane things being the Lord of Life and Death who hath the gouernement of all Inferior bodies that cannot be remoued but that he doth gouerne and rule the influence of all Stars and Planets and remoue the course and efficacy of them and likewise doth moderate all inclinations that grow from the Planets and oftentimes according to his great goodnesse doth turn away diseases and change them into better sometimes also according to his secret and iust iudgement for our sinnes to exasperate and turne them into worse For the diuine Maiestie is not in the Starres which the God-head hath framed for the profit and conseruation of mankinde neither is it inclosed within a certayne fatall necessitie as it were shut vp in prison but doth worke freely and as the chiefe cause doth gouerne and moderate all other causes This therefore eternall God the most louing Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which proroged the life of King Hazechias for fifteene yeeres is humbly to be prayed vnto daily that he would bestow vpon vs also a long and a safe life with a right constitution as well of body as strength of minde and to preserue the same for rightly is it said Astra valent aliquid plus pia vota valent Astra regunt mundum sed regit astra Deus Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse piorum Next when for our sinnes our bodies are affected with often and diuers kindes of diseases we must carefully striue that we gouerne the inclinations and wandering motions of our mindes and that we vse a bridle to our outward members and that we doe not only flye wickednesse but that we auoide the occasions also thereof It becommeth you my deare Sonnes to vse this diligence in the gouernement of your life and manners and chiefly to embrace true Religion and due obedience and loue to your Parents which if you shall doe God will in like manner as he hath promised in the Decalogue giue vnto you happinesse and long life for as S. Paul saith truely in the 1. of Tim. 4. Pietas ad omnia vtilis est c. Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things which hath the promise of the life present and of that that is to come the which in some manner was vnderstood by an Ethnick Zoroaster King of the Bactrians where he saith Qui mentem ardenum ad opus pietatis intenderit labile corpus seruabit and Cicero saith Pietatem esse matrem fundamentum omnium virtutum That Godlinesse is the mother and foundation of all vertues Secondly when it is said that the Starres be the working causes of destruction and mutation and the causes of diuers diseases in our bodies and whereas the obseruation of the celestiall effects is not forbidden I will that you take this care that as well the yeerly directions as the figures of your natiuity be obserued which I haue diligently and exactly computated I leaue to euery one of you which notwithstanding you shall examine without all superstition and shall be aduised by the iudgement of the learned Astrologians and Physicians that you may the better auoid the euill foreseene and the good things shall be brought to their wished euent for that is true which some doe affirme that coelum esse fatalem picturam in coel●sti tabula and very well was it said by Hipp. and Galen the Princes of Physicians that the Arte of physicke without the supportation of the Heauens to be oftentimes in vaine yea also oftentimes to be hurtfull This obseruation doth profit very much for the preseruation of the health and for the preuention of diseases therefore you must regard the more your naturall inclination with the greater vigilancy that you may bee the better able to gouerne your

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