Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	earth_n	moist_a	3,602	5	10.5010	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66483	Mnemonica, or, The art of memory drained out of the pure fountains of art & nature, digested into three books : also a physical treatise of cherishing natural memory, diligently collected out of divers learned mens writings / by John Willis.; Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661	Willis, John, d. 1628?; Sowerby, Leonard.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2812; ESTC R24570	62,111	192

If you cannot yet discover the Idea have recourse to the third and fourth Rules of Poetical Revocation 2. Book 3 Chap an Idea being revocable in the same manner Finally if it continue irreparable by all these ways let it pass and be no longer sollicitous in search thereof For as a Book carelesly laid up in a Study is not many times to be found when it is sought though you remove several Volumes yet afterward comes to hand beyond expectation when another Book is reached that stands by it So it doth oft happen in this business though an Idea negligently reposited cannot be found when it is sought yet at another time when a Notion reposited in the cell of Memory near it is excited that also of its own accord discovereth it self If a man do prudently follow these Rules of recovering latent Ideas as with Ariadnes thred he will doubtless wind himself out of the Labyrinth of blind Oblivion and with admirable facility recall to mind forgotten sentences and vanished Idea's FINIS A TREATISE Of cherishing Natural Memory CHAP. I. Of such as debilitate Memory NAtural Memory is a faculty which every man hath naturally to apprehend and retain note-worthy things if Memory be diligent in its Function endeavour must be used to conserve it unprejudiced if it be impaired care must be taken to have it restored and erected I will therefore first treat of the conservation of Natural Memory indamnified afterward of the restauration thereof impaired Three things conduce to preserve Natural Memory in good Estate viz. Declination of such things as debilitate Memory use of such things as corroborate the same and a well instituted method of living whereby the Memorative faculty may be most preserved in vigor Things that debilitate Memory are these 1. Unwholsome air that is infected with vapour of standing-standing-waters Marshes Woods Prisons Dunghils Common Sewers c. 2. Aire shut up from penetration of Wind and Sun for air not purified by Wind or Sun engendereth a malign venomous quality like standing water in Ponds and Lakes therefore when you walk abroad leave the Windows of your Chamber and Study open 3. Windie aire that is agitated with violent winds 4. Aire that procureth rain 5. Moist aire such as discendeth a little before Sun set and hovereth about the earth all night and some part of the morning especially in Maritime places Go not forth before the rising Sun hath purified the aire by his Rayes nor after Sun setting when cloudy darkensse of night invadeth the aire 6. Aire infected with smoke of strong sented combustible things as Sea coales Weeds Turfe Dung and Char-coales unlesse they be well kindled II. Drinks Broths and Decoctions made of unwholsome waters offend the Memory of which kinde is the water of Ponds Marshes of Ice and Snow dissolved as also of Muddie Salt Bitter and ill smelling water Rain water especially falling in time of Thunder or Lightning because it is lightest is chiefly commended for Domestical uses but serveth only for present occasion by reason of its speedy corruption Fountain or Spring Water challengeth the next place which devolveth from Mountains through stony craggy clifts to this succeedeth River water when the channel of the River is deep and gravelly Well-water is ranked last if it smell of Mudd the Well must be cleansed and purged by casting in Lyme and the bottome afterward covered with great store of Chalk through which the water bubling is defecated and rendred more Salubrious To conclude the clearer lighter further distant from any taste or smell colder in Summer hotter in Winter water is the more wholesome it is III. Food hurteth the Memory 1. If it be crude as raw flesh unboiled water immature fruits green hearbs chiefly if they beef cold quailty c. 2. If it be Vaporous that is replenish the head with grosse Vapors as thick drinks strong wine Beans Pease Garlick Onyon c. but Onyons are more noxious then the rest because they lose not their Malignity by Decoction even then procuring the head-ach offending the eyes by causing obstructions in the Optick nerves dulling the Senses and raising troublesome dreams 3. If it be very moist and engender phlegme as Milk Chickens before they are feathered young Piggs c. especially any food that hath a slimie tast 4. If it digest slowly as Cheese marrow fat principally of Fish flesh of Cranes and Herons fruit included in shells as Wall-nuts Small-nuts Chest-nuts Almonds c. 5. Variety of dishes diversity even of wholesome meats is evil of Sauces worst of all distracting the stomack by concocting food of several qualities Neverthelesse healthfull persons may eat any meats though they be esteemed somwhat hurtfull when the appetite doth as it were long For such victuals as the appetite doth greedily covet the stomack doth earnestly embrace quickly Concoct and Transmit to the lower parts whence they offend lesse however it is safer to eat such meats at Dinner then at supper IV. All Repletion of Drink or food is hurtfull chiefly of Bread too much Repletion dulleth wit and is a great enemy to the Memorative faculty Plato saith The soul is diseased in a full fed body It is often seen by experience that if a learned or wise man accustomed to live sparingly through poverty be exalted to some eminent degree of dignity or honour and doth afterward indulge his appetite by eating and drinking immoderately he becomes lesse learned and wise The reason is by accesse of gross humours to the brain the Notional Figures imprinted therein before by degrees wear out and vanish and new figures take no such deep impression but are quickly erased through overmuch humidity of the brain Fly therefore Drunkennesse and Gluttony as the mortallest enemies of a good Memory V. Sleep offendeth Memory If it be First overmuch Secondly if taken in a windy place or under Lunar raies Thirdly in the day most of all with shoes on or being miry Fourthly upon the back for it preventeth expulsion of Excrements at mouth and nostrils their proper conveyances and causeth their Conflux to the back whence ariseth Obstructions Fifthly upon the belly because it endamageth the eyes being dangerously prejudicial to such as are molested with Rhumes in their eyes VI. Venus 1. if it be immoderate 2. upon a full stomack 3. when the body is lesse moist as at New Moon in time of hunger c. 4. when sleep doth not follow for it is requisite that the loosned members of the body be refreshed by ensuing sleep Persons very young or very ancient of a frigid constitution and all such as finde inconvenience after the act must wholly abstain therefrom VII Coldnesse of the hinder part of the head of the neck stomack belly and feet VIII Labour or exercise of body 1. Exceeding moderation which exhausteth strength 2. In windy or moist places 3. On a full stomack which replenisheth the head with crude Vapors augmenteth Choller IX Idleness X. Perturbation of mind as anxious care fear