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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	fire_n	moist_a	3,419	5	10.6773	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77586	Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B.	Brooke, Humphrey, 1617-1693.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4905; Thomason E1404_1; ESTC R209490	46,267	289

to hot Distempers to use cooling aliments to drink VVater in stead of VVine to frequent Bathing where it may be had to Rest much and forbear Violent Motions To have little Cisterns of Water always running such as are commonly made of Peuter to hang up Wet clothes to strew the pavement with Roses Rushes Vine-leaves Water-Lillies and other Cooling Hearbs which may likewise be sprinkled with rose-Rose-water and Vinegar On the contrary cold and moist Aires may be much helped by Large Fires Bath-stoves Warming-stones and agreeably provisions may be made in other cases I purpose not to insist upon every consideration that relates to Aire but passing by those that are speculative I shall touch only upon such as are useful and practical and from which most men may derive some Commodity to themselves Mountanous Aires are esteemed wholsomer then in the Valley because more perflated and cleansed by the Winds whereas the others are stagnant like standing Waters But I doubt the truth hereof for that I see not how one part of the Aire can be moved without the other its motion and impulsion being so easy that we see the very voice moves and makes it give way at a very great Distance and then again if to some bodies more gross and stagnant Aires are not so wholsom for instance to the slaggy and corpulent to others they are most agreeable and the thin sharp and Penetrative most inconvenient namely to thin spare and emaciated Bodies What the inconveniences of Metalline Vapors are I shall not need to recite neither yet what helps there are against them because living not where they are we are not subject thereunto The Causes whereby Aire is Corrupted that are within our Ken and which may by us be Remedied are especially three 1. Great Standing Waters never Refreshed 2. Carrion lying long above ground 3. Much People in small Roome living uncleanly and sluttishly The Aire Changes its qualities from the Diversity of Winds By those from the North 't is cold and dry they do confirm and strengthen such bodies which are able to bear them From the South they are hot and moist and so loosen and dissolve the West is more Temperate but the East apt to blastings The South Wind without rains continuing long disposes to Feavors andthe Pestilence and generally so do stagnant Airs without Winds Rain and Thunder It is observed that from the North there arises with the Dogg-star certain Winds called Ethesiae which do not only contemperate the Heat of the Aire but Purg it from putrefaction and pestilential Infections and have thence got the name of Scoparij because they do as it were Brush and Clense the Aire In Consumptions and for Restauration after long Sicknesses the best Aires are in dry Champaignes where there is much Timber-Shade and Forrest Beach Trees and Groves of Bayes where likewise grow odoriferous Plants as Wild Time Wild Marjerom Penny-royal Camomil Calamint Juniper and the like and where the Brier-Rose smells like Musk-Roses Helpful whereunto is likewise the Steam of new ploughed grounds and for such as have not strength to walk a Fresh Turf of Earth every Morning with a little Vinegar poured upon it However 't is best for them that are any thing Healthful not to be over-solicitous in the choise of Aire or to judg that they cannot have their healths except in some few Places of best and excellent Aire for they do thereby very much deject Nature and opinionate themselves into Sickness Such Imaginations the mind in continuall doubts perplexities and make us sickly out of a fear of being sick We see that many men and those not of the strongest and most healthful constitutions live long and without sickness amidst noysom and unpleasant Smells as Oyl-men Sope-boylers Tallow-Chandlers and divers others besides those that are conversant about Dung cleanfing of Common-shores and Jaxes and though Custom in these cases may be urged because of the familiarity that by long use is begotten between such Smells and their Natures yet is it thence clearly evincible that health and noysom smells are not inconsistible which is a clear argument that we need not be over nice and solicitous in the election of Aires as if in this City of London amidst thick fumes Sulphurious Vapors from the Sea-coal we could not enjoy our Health In these cases Opinion is more our Mistris then Reason which whilst we are pleading for we can content our selves with the Smoak of Narcotick Tobacco not only surround our selves therewith in a close Room and in hot weather too but suck it in and let it sometimes descend-into our Stomacks and sometimes ascend into our Nostrils and so into the very Brain it self In some cases therefore we are scrupulously exact in others supinely negligent a middle between both were best as not to think but that health is preservable in Aires not exquisitely serene and penetrative and on the other side to avoid choaking hot and too exiccative Fumes which in time parch the Lungs and dry up the Brain For Odors those are best which neither by their super-abundance of Heat Strength and Crassitude of Spirits do overcome us but which by their rarity and quickness do refresh us But they also are good only sometimes and the bodies infirmity requiring it for otherwise no Smell is best but that which is almost insensible in the Aire it self It is observed that the Aire we are born in tends much to the Restauration of Health Something may be allowed to 't because of its Sympathy with the innate Spirits of the Body which remain in some measure from our generation to our Dissolution Although I conceive when we go into our Native Countries to repair our Health after long Sickness the principal means thereof is vacancy from care and business the wholsomness and simplicity of Country Feeding the enjoyment of friends merriment and pleasant pastime which is usuall and which ought indeed to be especially intended in such Journies But above all sudden alterations in Aire from extream to extream is very dangerous Such as usually falls out in March April and somtimes in May as also in September October the change is usuall too in severall parts of the same day the Mornings and Evenings extream cold the mid day excessive Hot In these cases the surest way is for them that are crazy to go warm clothed till the uncertainty of the weather is over the Proverb speaks well though homely Till May be out Leave not off a Clout We must not like the unexperienced Marriner believe the Stormy Season to be past because of a fit of Sun-shine If we err t is better do it on the safe hand and not run the hazard of a sickness for fear of an unhansome Nick-name This Caution concerns those only that are any thing infirm and sickly as indeed most are the youthful and robust can bear all Weathers and in the thinnest apparel though there is a Proverb

Resistance that is made in the Stomack and that is most done by Dissimilaries For Inter Symbola facilis est transitus Those things that are of nearest similitude do easiest pass one into another I plead not here for bad Customs but for the best way of Removing them desiring this Inference rather may be made there-from that since Evil things becoming Customary are so difficulty removable we be very careful to enure our selves only to those things that are good wholsom of easy charge and preparation Whether Physick be Necessary for the preservation of Health If the due Course and Order of Nature were observed there would be very little or no need at all of Medicinal Helps for we see those that live nearest thereunto continue longest and most free from sickness as Country-men and those who observe a Strict Diet the last by an extraordinary temperance prevent the generation of those Crudities and Corrupt Humors which are the matter and Fuel of Diseases The other though they feed heartily and plentifully yet is their Diet but simple and at all times much alike their Appetites fresh and urgent their Concoction strong and constant and the accumulation of evil Humors prevented by their hard and Customary Labor These want little or no Physical helps But those that are subject to many Disorders as the most part of Mankind is stand in much need of Preservatives Preventives Hence hath come in the Custom of bleeding purging at Spring Fall and with some Monthly the now frequent Regurgitations after every feeding the use of Fontanels the frequenting of the Wells the entring into Diets and Courses of Physick Nor do we usually after Restauration become Wiser or more wary and orderly in the Regulation of our lives but recover strength only for the new more able exercise of our Intemperance so continue the Necessity of customary preventives In these cases therefore they are to be allowed for the avoiding of greater Evils only with these Cautions That strong and violent means be not used when gentle and more familiar helps wil serve nor many Remedies when few are sufficient that we prefer Alteratives and Correctives before Purgatives and likewise Minoratives and benigne Medicines before Churlish and Scammoniate bleeding or purging before an Issue for that is Medicamentum Continuatum a being as it were in Continual Physick which is also frequently liable to pain and irksome prickings upon the change of weather and other accidents But then though gentle means be to be preferred it must be with a great probability of effecting the ends intended 2. Though Imminency-of Diseas do beget a Necessity of observing the Seasons for Physick yet that Custom need not be continued but when there is a likelihood of the same Imminency as suppose a Turgency of Humors heaviness and wearisomness of the Limbs want of appetite c. hath for these six years every Spring signified a Necessity of Dieting and Purgation and that they have to good purpose been used accordingly yet if the same man do by observing a better order in Diet and a greater Temperance so behave himself for the following year as not to have the same Symptomes and Indications neither is it necessary that he continue by Custom of Physick but may the next Spring without danger leave it off or at least wise lessen it as occasion requires For in these cases the Indication is not to be taken from Custom but the Imminency of Sickness 3. Though Customary means be needfull for prevention of Imminent Sicknesses yet they are not therefore to be used Out of Wantonness and when there is no appearance or likelihood of an ensuing Malady for by that means as Celsus well saith We consume in our Healths the Remedies of our Sickness and dispose our selves many times by so weakning our Bodies to those sicknesses we had before no propension unto for that they worst of all endure Medicines that are of sound Constitution who have nothing for Physick to work upon but the good Humors and Habit of the Body it self 4. They who either naturally or by the excessive feeding upon hot and dry meats have slow bellies and are constantly costive must prevent the inconveniences which will thence ensue as extream putrefaction of Excrements hot Vapours in the Brain heaviness and pain in the Head Inappetency palpitation of the Heart windiness in the Stomack the Cholick c. they must prevent I say these Inconveniences by the use of some gentle Lenitive and such order as is requisite for keeping the body loose and laxative as eating roast Apples or stewed Prunes half an houre before Dinner drinking a good Draught in the Mornings forbearing dry Meats using Cassia Manna Pulp of Tamarinds Syrup of Roses Pilulae ante Cibum loosening Clisters Whey with Fumitery Senna or Epithymum c. Milk or the Waters in the Summer and the like proper to facilitate the Belly prevent those obstructions which are the Fountain and Nurse of most Diseases and all this may be done familiarly without much ado and beget no disturbance to the Body Of Aire AIre we attract by Inspiration and Perspiration by the Windpipe and by the Pores and that to repair our continual loss of Spirits and contemperate the heat of the Heart and Blood The goodness of Aire is considered either as it is in it self or with Relation to this or that Body In it self that is best wch is pure serene not mingled with any noysome smell as of Carrion Iaxes places where they repose their Dung standing and corrupted Waters thick Foggs and Vapors c but is naturally pure and void of all inquination Considered with Relation to this or that Body that is best which by its similitude is most proper to preserve Health or by its contrariety most efficacious to expel diseases as over moist bodies live most Healthfully in Dry Aires and over dry in Moist so that 't is a mistake to think the clearest and sharpest Aire is best for every body since Distempered and depraved Constitutions do as necessarily require a contrariety in Aire and consequently somtimes moist and thick Aires as in Meats and Drinks I have lately known two sickly bodies who heretofore were hardly ever out of Physick and yet for that time since they lived in Lambeth-Marsh a place that no one would choose for the pureness and Clarity of the Aire have enjoyed a sound and uninterrupted Health and one of them hath lived there for these 3. or 4. years Sound Bodies and healthful endure well almost any Aire but Crazy Persons must if they have the Conveniency make choise of such Aires as are opposite to their Distempers But when want of Means and Conveniency necessitates any to those Aires that are most repugnant to their Healths all the help that remains is by proper meats and drinks and other means to repair what may be that defect as if the Aire be hot and the Body inclined

concerns them also That they should be old when they are young that they may be young when they are expected to be old Some other inobservancies there are prejudicial to Health that somewhat concern this point which I shall only touch upon as being naked in the cold Aire and going into the Water when we are hot and Sweaty by doing whereof many healthful Persons dispose themselves to Agues and Consumptions 2. The ventring too suddenly before the Pores are closed into the cold Aire after Bathing and Sweating in Hot-Houses Cradles or Sweating-Chairs by which not only the benefit hoped for is lost but our Infirmities are doubled upon us by begetting an inequality of Heat and Cold in the Inward and Outward Parts whence arise those Shuddrings and Aguish Rigors that usually follow thereupon And so I have done with Aire the first of the non-Naturals as we call them that is of which the body is not compounded though by them it be preserved Of Meat and Drink OUr Bodies being in a continual though insensible Consumption would in a short time decay were it not that Reparation is made by the use of Meats and Drinks By the first the Solid Parts are refected by the last the Humid For the better performance whereof God hath endowed every Creature with an Appetetive Faculty distinguisht according to the Objects forementioned into Hunger and Thirst Hunger is caused by a sharp and Fermenting juyce remaining in the Stomack especially in the upper Orifice the most sensitive part thereof by the penetrative Quality whereof the Meat ingested is also digested fermented and concocted and so made fit for separation and Distribution When this juyce a visible Specimen whereof is the Runnet in a Calfs Stomack is either wasted as after very long Fastings or is dulled by Repletion or intermixture with other Humors so that the force thereof cannot be felt or when the Mind is over-intent and distracted so that it can give no ear to its Impulsions Then does the Appetite flagg and decay as on the contrary when this juyce is over-abundant and extreamly acide there follows a continual Importunity from the Stomack an unsatisfiable Appetite which being most eminent in Dogs is therefore called Appetitus Caninus the Dog-like Appetite but appears sometimes in Men as every one can Instance Thirst is a Desire of that which is Cold and Moist for though many Stomacks are satisfied with Hot Drink yet is it through a Customary aberration from Nature inasmuch as we see that all Creatures except Man are desirous of and use that Drink only which is cold and in man the use of Hot Drinks is not so much attributable to his Natural Appetite as to his having been indulged therein by his Physitian or himself in respect of some other Weaknes and Infirmity of his Body This Thirst doth vanish when the Mouth of the Stomack is bedewed with Humors that are Phlegmatick Watery or Insipide As it is increased when those Humors are consumed and the Stomack dry and parcht either through its own or any of its Neighbours Indisposition or yet when the Coats thereof are lin'd with a Salt Hot or sharp Humor These Things premised of which I shall make use hereafter I return to the Considerations of those things that are Aliment viz. which being eaten or drunk are altered by our Naturall Heat and so prepared by the several Parts destined thereunto as at length to be Converted into the Habit of the Body it Self In Meats and Drinks there are six particulars to be considered viz. 1. Substance 2. Quality 3. Quantity 4. Custom 5. Time 6. Order For the two first I purpose not to insist upon them viz. their Substance and Quality what yield Good what Bad juyce and apt to putrefaction which are easy which hard to be digested what are Hot Cold Moyst Dry Causing or Freeing from obstructions neither intend I to treat of every Meat and Drink particularly both of these having been already performed in English by Dr. Venner in his Via Recta ad Vitam longam from whence those that are inquisitive that way may receive satisfaction Unwilling I am now to exspaciate in so large a Field which I shall rather reserve to a time-of more Leasure My Intention being at present to consider only these Particulars relating to Meats Drinks viz. The Quantity Time Order and Custom The greatest and most dangerous Errors being committed with Reference hereunto First then for Quantity or how much ought to be eaten Here there is not so much need to prescribe the Bounds and shew what are the Limits of Temperance as effectually to perswade to the observance of those Limits A word therefore first as to that and what Argument can be more efficatious then an Enumeration of the Benefits that ariseth from Sobriety and Temperance and of the discommodities that are the Natural Effects of the contrary I shall reckon them up in two ranks and then let every man make his choise The Benefits of Temperance 1. Freedom from almost all Sicknesses 2. Length of Life and Death without pain 3. It armeth us against outward Accidents 4. It mitigateth incurable Diseases 5. Maintains the Senses in their Integrity and Vigeur 6. It moderates our Passions and Affections and renders them easily commendable 7. It preserves the Memory sharpens the Wit and Vnderstanding 8. It Allays the Heat of Lust The Inconveniences of Intemperance 1. It brings upon us almost all Diseases 2. It shortens our Days and makes us dy in Agonies 3. It exposeth us to innumerable accidents of extream prejudice 4. It takes part with Diseases and makes them incurable 5. It dulls stupifies and decays the Senses 6. It subjects us to our Passions and makes them irresistable 7. It drowns the Memory dulls the Wit and Vnderstanding 8. It furiously provokes us to Lust These experimental Events who can deny since almost every man carries about him and within him a convinceing argument thereof Whence is the Multitude of Physicians but from the frequency and Multitude of Diseases and whence that frequency and Multitude but from Excess This is generally confessed but the practice still continued the understanding assents but the Affections over-rule the present delight we take in those delicious Cates Condiments and inticing Sawces that are before us over-sways our judgments In this case Venter non habet Aures the Belly hath no Eares All our Senses are at a stand save that of our Tast so earnest are we in digging our Graves with our Teeth so greedy after Diseases which by excess insensibly steal upon us and then in the midst of our Aches and Intemperance we repent and call to mind the unhappy cause thereof I shall desire therefore that before hand besides the former these 2 Arguments be coned 1. That Nourishment and Growth consists not in the Abundance we eat but in the due competency A man may hinder his Nourishment and prevent his Growth as