Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	fire_n	put_v	8,964	5	5.5894	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00527	Speculum ægrotorum. The sicke-mens glasse or, A plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.	Fage, John, student in phisicke.	1606 (1606)	STC 10665; ESTC S114685	34,615	72

slender dyet for the vsage of abstinence and fasting helpeth the digestiue vertue and clenseth the body of grosse and vnconcocted Humours But contrarily much eating and drinking quencheth naturall heate hindereth digestion and repleateth the body wi●● groue humors and superfluitie bredeth stitches and ventositie c. If they will conserue their bodies in health let them eate and drinke very little and vse meates that will soone be digested and strong drinke and hot wines But let them avoide excesse of drinking for that engendreth Quotidians the Dropsie called Lencoflemna Falling sicknesse Goutes Greene sicknesse Rumes Catarres and such diseases as are bred of indigestion Much exercise also is very salubrious to the bodyes of such persons for it extenuateth grosse Humors and expel●eth them by swet and other euacuations quickneth the memorie stirreth vp courage and clarifieth the skin FLegmaticke cholericke men are of a stronger nature then Flegmaticke persons for in them the vertue of digestion is quicker and may obserue a meane order of dyet but excesse filleth their bodies with yellow choller such diseases as procéed thereof Also much excesse of drinking engendreth corrupt matter Morbus gallicus Fistula c. Moderate exercise is commodious to this complexion CHollericke Flegmaticke persons are of stronge constitution may eat and drink a good quantitie slender dyet abstinence doth worke the like operation in them as in chollerick but not so outragiously Much excesse of strong drinke inflameth the blood and ingendereth yellow Iaunders and Plurisyes Let them vse one excercise moderatly but beware of violent labour Héere is to be noted gentile Reader that exact iudgement cannot be giuen vpon a mans complexion by any one of the aforesaide tokens for as much as they are all variable and changeable yet of rest the colour is most certaine in our Ocean climats and in healthfull persons but forreine Climes and sicknes altereth the colour also the Stature Trine Pulse and Order of a person changeth after the order of dyet and health of the partie also the conditions altereth sometimes when grace worketh aboue nature or when some fortunate Planet is Lord of the natiuity And as for dreams they 〈◊〉 ●●gether variable one while procéeding of some inordinate musing and thinking of a thing whereby the vertue cogitiue is troubled and imprinteth the same in the braine sometimes of the humor bred and engendred in the stomacke euapouring into the head otherwhiles the illusion of euill spirits or by the Reuelation of good Angels And to conclude a mans complexion altereth according to age and diet of the person as naturall heat aug●●enteth or defecteth Approoued Remedies for sore eyes For dimnesse in the eyes TAke halfe a pint of Rennish wine then as much hony and boyle them both together in the boyling scumme it well let it boyle til halfe be consumed take it off the fire and kéepe it anoynt the eye with it and put some in the eye and in thrise vsing it will helpe For the Webbe in the eye TAke iuice of Veruine oyle of wheat water of Rosh of each a like then boyle it well in a brasen vessell then put in the eye For a blowe with a stone or a chip in the eye THe best Remedie for such an accident as by experience hath bin approued is this take a handfull of Cardus Benedictus and stampe it small temper it well with halfe the white of an Egge and therewith make a plaister laying it on flaxen herdes binding it hard to the eye where it shall lye till it be dryed and then apply another and so consequently vse it til your patient be throughly whole this is also a present remedie for the eyes that are bloodshed Laus sit Deo omnipotenti The Epilogue of the Author OMightie Ioue to thee be praise that rules raignes on hie Thy Majestie extolled is aboue the Starry skie Thou that the heauēs earth of confusde Chaos made The Sonne and Moone and twinckling Starres Bright day and nightley shade Who can expresse thy wonderous workes thy wisdome power and might No Saint nor Angell can doe it much lesse a mortall Wight Thou that from wise and pregnant wittes thy Arcanes doest conceale And vnto Babes and simple men thy secrets doest reueale Let Cherubin and Seraphin laudate thy name alwaies And hilles and dales resound a voice to eccho foorth thy praise Also let man and beast likewise thy worthy actes admire And euery liuing thing on earth thy condigne praise aspire Thou canst the dead to life reujue to the blinde giue sight And eke bring out of Stigian vale so forcely is thy might For why the life of euery thing is in thy hand O Lord. And maist doe with it what thou wilt if that thou say the word Thou that the Sun for certaine daies didst cause to stay stand Vntill thy people Israel had got the vpper hand Canst bridle frowning Saturns rage bloody Mars withhold and bring the Sicke to perfect health what euer Stars foreto●de For thou alone art onely he that all things doest respect And rulest fate and future haps for loue of thine elect Vnto the Father vncreat and Iesus Christ his Sonne And vnto God the holy Ghost all laud and praise be done FINIS