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 â— 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 â—…e spring is moist of temper good and warme â—hen best it is to bathe to sweate and purge â—hen may one ope a veine in either arme 〈◊〉 boyling bloud or feare of agues vrge â—hen Venus recreation doth no harme â—et may too much thereof turne to a scourge â—n Summers heat when choller hath dominion â—oole meates and moist are best in some opinion â—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 cleaâ—… 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 â—…rpe Choller is an humour most pernitious 〈◊〉 violent and fierce and full of fire 〈◊〉 quicke conceit and therewithall ambitious â—…ir thoughts to greater fortunes still aspire â—…ud bountifull ynough yet oft malicious â—…ight bold speaker and as bold a lyar 〈◊〉 little cause to anger great enclin'd â—…ch eating still yet euer looking pin'd 〈◊〉 yonger yeares they vse to grow apace 〈◊〉 Elder hairie on their brest and face â—he Flegmatique are most of no great growth â—…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 â—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 sheâ—… 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 â—…inst these seuerall humors ouerflowing 〈◊〉 seuerall kinds of Physicke may be good 〈◊〉 diet drinke hot baths whence sweat is growing â—…th purging vomiting and letting bloud â—…ich taken in due time not ouerflowing â—…ch malladies infection is withstood â—…e last of these is best if skill and reason â—…spect age strength quantity and season â—f seuenty from seuenteene if bloud abound â—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 swaâ—… 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 first Of other two the last of each are worst But yet those daies I grant and all the rest Haue in some cases iust impediment As first if nature be with cold opprest Or if the Region I le or Continent Do scorch or freize if stomacke meat detest If Baths or Venus late you did frequent Nor old nor yong nor drinkers great are fit Noâ— in long sickenesse nor in raging fit Or in this case if you will venture bleeding The quantity must then be most exceeding â—hen you to bleed intend you must prepare â—…me needfull things both after and before â—arme water and sweet oyle both needfull are â—…d wine the fainting spirit to restore â—…e binding clothes of linnen and beware â—…at all the morning you do sleepe no more â—…me gentle motion helpeth after bleeding â—…d on light meates a spare and temperate feeding â—o bleed doth cheere the pensiue and remoue â—he raging suries bred by burning loue â—ake your incision large and not too deepe â—hat bloud haue speedy issue with the fume â—o that from sinewes you all hurt do keepe â—or may you as I toucht before presume 〈◊〉 sixe ensuing houres at all to sleepe â—est some slight bruise in sleepe cause an apostume â—ate not of milke nor ought of milk compounded Nor let your brain with much drink be confounded â—ate no cold meats for such the strength impaires â—nd shun all misty and vâ—…holesome aires Besides the former rules for such as pleases Of letting bloud to take more obseruation Know in beginning of all sharpe diseases 'T is counted best to make euacuation Toâ— old toâ— yong both letting bloud displeases By yeares and sicknesse make your computation First in the Spring for quantity you shall Of bloud take twise as much as in the Fall In Spring and Summer let the right arme blood The Fall and Winter for the left are good The Heart and Liuer Spring Summers bleeding The Fall and Winter hand and foot doth mend One veine cut in the hand doth help exceeding Vnto the spleene voyce brest and intrailes lend And swages griefes that in the heart are breeding But here the Salerne Schoole doth make an end And here I cease to write but will not cease To wish you hue in health and die in peace And ye our Physicke rules that friendly read God grant that Physicke you may neuer need FINIS De valetudine conseruanda OR â—HE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVLL MAN Collected out of HENRICVS RONSOVIVS which he wrought for the vse of his Sonnes And now published for the helpe of all those that desire their owne HEALTHS By S. H. LONDON Printed by William Stansby for the Widow Helmes 1617. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull SIR EDWARD PIT Knight of Keere Court one of his MAIESTIES Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Worcester c. And to the right Worshipfull SIR IAMES PIT his Sonne AMongst all the parts of physick Right Worshipfull I suppose there is none to be preferd before that part which preserueth health and preuenteth sicknesse for as Tully saith Health is the most perfect state of mans body in this life and the only end and intention whereunto the Physician diuerteth all his doings which state to continue and to enioy is much better then to hazzard the recouery of a sicknesse that by ill dyet is taken as it is better to stand fast â—hen to fall and rise againe and better to â—…epe still a Fortresse or a Castle then when we haue suffered the Enemy to enter to rescue it againe for as the Poet saith Aegrius eijcitur quam non admittitur hospes And because as Cornelius Celsus saith that all medicines do in a manner hurt the stomack and be of euill nutriment And therefore Aesclipiades did endeuour most to cure his Patients by dyet which dyet Right Worshipfull I haue here described and published to the view of the world and haue sheltered it vnder the title of your Name praying you to accept the same with a willing minde considering that I haue no better thing to present you with And as that Persian Monarch did dayne to receiue from a poore man a handfull of cold water so your Worship will accept this poore labor which I now present you with which shall encourage me hereafter to present you with some other labours of more worth In the meane while I humbly take my leaue coÌ„mitting both you and all yours vnto the protection of the Almightie Your Worships most obseruant S. H. THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVL MAN CHAP. I. The causes of corruption and destruction of our humane bodies THAT we may come to our purpose the first and chiefest cause of corruption and destruction of our Bodies of old Age Death and all other miseries which doe happen vnto vs in this life is the fall of our first Parents and the reliques of Sinne remayning in our corrupt Nature as the Apostle doth witnesse in the eighth Chapter of the Romans Corpus nostrum morti destinatum est propter pcccatum For euen as death is the last of all euills which may afflict vs in this life euen so by the name of Death we endure in this life all miseries and afflictions Heere-hence come our errours which leade vs by our blinde will and through the perswasion of the Deuill driue vs to commit all wickednesse and euill wherby we accumulate and heape vp the iust wrath and indignation of God to afflict vs with euery kinde of disease miserie and calamitie Another cause of diseases destruction and deprauation of our bodies is the sinister and maleuolent influence of the celestiall Planets and the infelicitie of our temperaments for as in euery thing there are certayne naturall properties which God from euerlasting hath endued with naturall effects so euery effect and vertue is incited in our bodies from Heauen which God created not only in a certayne order and greatnesse that we should discerne the Yeeres Dayes and Moneths but that there should be signes also from whence wee might take certayne Arguments of things to come For the inferior bodies doe depend vpon the Superior and are contayned in a certayne mutuall knowledge amongst themselues for the Superior doth infuse a certayne secret force and vertue into the Inferior bodies by which the humours of our bodies are changed increased and diminished according to the placing and qualitie of the Starres and this is more cleerely and euidently taught vs by daily experience the Mistris of all things then that it needeth farther demonstration If no man will giue credit to our wordes let him consider the Moone which doth challenge vnto her selfe the chiefe dominion in Humours and they shall well perceiue their error Seeing then it is manifest that the humours of our bodies are gouerned by the Superior bodies And of the euill humours of our bodies to grow Diseases and from disease death therefore not vnworthily of death and the cause of other diseases to
for look what ayre we draw in such and the like spirits goe out from vs. Odors and smells that are oner-hot are not by me approued because it filleth the head and ingendreth the catarrh for the temperature it selfe of the braine being a meane betweene hot and cold doth chiefly reioyce in things that are temperate and on the other side it is much offended and hurt by the contrary therefore sometimes those odors are to be mixed and changed as if cold doth raigne let the odors decline to heat and if heat doth beare sway then frame that they may be of cold operation Of Roses therefore Violets and Myrtels Campher Sanders and rose-Rose-water which are cold things on the other side of Cinamon Citron rynds Orenge peeles Aloes Amber Muske which are hot of which you may vse at your pleasure Odors are not only drawne by the nostrills but there must bee application to the brest and stomacke Treacle Mithridate Frankincence Amber Angelica and such like which are thought to haue vertue against venome no lesse comfort to recreate your spirits ariseth out of gardens where-hence ariseth sweete smells and sauours also to vse sweete smelling hearbes flowers and rushes at the time of the yeere conuenient to the constitution and state of the bodie and to cast about the court and in the chambers the leaues of Withies of Roses Violets Vine-leaues Origanum wilde Time Time Lauender Myrtils Quinces Peares the flowers of Orenges Pomegranates and other such like and also to sprinkle the chamber with Rose-water or the water of the flowres of Orenges and other like also to euaporate the place with vineger and sometimes also in your chambers to burne perfumes fragrant and sweet smelling What sweete smells fumes or torches I am wont to vse I will heere set downe that hauing a care to the temperature and state of the body you may vse also A description of an odoriferous water TAke an equall weight of Rose-water with the best white wine Rose-viniger the fourth part Suger-candie a third part dissolue it in those things some adde a little Saffron with this water wash the hands and face the ioynts and eyes and therewith cleanse the teeth and besprinkle the rest of the clothes CHAP. V. Of Meates and Drinks IN meate and drinke wee must consider these sixe things first the Substance then the Quantitie third the Qualitie fourth Custome fift the Time and lastly Order We must also vnderstand that it is best and most wholesome to vse meates that be simple for meates that be simple are most wholesome and profitable but many and sundrie sorts of meates are very vnhealthfull and hurtfull to our bodies our elders which liued very long and without sicknesse were wont to eate at one meale flesh only and at another bread only yet would I not wish you my sonnes to accustome your selues to one only meate especially if you be yong for Galen expounding the Aphorisme of Hipp. saith That such things as wee haue of long time beene vsed to although they bee not of the best nourishment they are not so dangerous as other things which are farre better whereunto we haue not beene accustomed wee must therefore now and then alter our diet and vse to eate such meates as before wee vsed not neither must we bind our selues to any one kinde lest we be driuen at any time to change our custome and so wee fall sicke presently thereupon Cornelius Celsus a good Physicion giueth counsell that such as bee in health should vse their ordinarie fore and plaine vsuall diet and to forbeare much varietie of meats is best and wholesomest because the stomack set a work too too much laboureth greatly in the digesture of sundry meates at one time It is thought good to mixe moist with drie things cold with hot and hot with cold and those meats which are in the meane or mediocritie of all excesse to be most commendable of which sort is bread made of cleane corne sufficiently leauened and moderately baked Also the flesh of Hens and Capons Phesants Partriges Woodcocks yong Pigeons Blackbirds Thrushes Turtles and such like small birds In like manner Fishes bred amongst rocks and stones or about the sea side and such as in taste are neither vnpleasant and vnsauourie nor yet clammie and vnctious of the which we will speake particularly hereafter Now in meats nothing so well encreaseth good bloud as when they are well digested for thereby is ended more easily the second concoction which is in the veines and liuer and also admitteth the third digestion which is in the particular members parts which be nourished Also there bee some meats betweene whom there is but small difference of digestion as is betweene a Henne and a sucking Calfe a Chicken and a Kid the flesh of an old Calfe and a yong Bullock in such respects as these where the difference is so small it skilleth not greatly if they which be somewhat hard to digest be eaten before that which is of lighter digestion And this I suppose was the opinion of Galen for heauie meats and such as bee slow of digestion require a stronger and greater power digestiue therfore meats of easie digestion are first to be taken before those which doe differ so far from them in easinesse of concoction And also you must take heede of crude and raw meates and that the same be both throughly boyled or rosted but in any wise beware of stuffing of your selues too much with meate and drinke nor to irritate and prouoke your appetite with delicious sawces for meates excessiuely eaten although they be of good nourishment commonly they doe ingender crudities lasks and vomits Againe to take lesse then necessitie and nature doth require is the cause why the body is not nourished but weakned and made vnable to doe his businesse for euen as repletum hindreth nourishment and hurteth nature so all sorts of too much abstinence causeth vomits hurteth the stomack resolueth the powers of the body and increaseth ill humours And euen as an ill dyet bringeth heauinesse to the body and dulnesse to the senses so a good dyet refresheth the spirits and reuiueth the minde making it more able and actiue to know and practise vertues operations Of Drinke COncerning drinke at meales it would not be taken before something hath beene eaten at the beginning the drink would be strongest and so towards the end more small if it be Ale or Beere And if it be Wine more and more allayed with Water and the best Physicians hold the drinke would rather be mixt with the meate by sundrie small draughts then with one great draught at the end of the meale for the mixture tempereth well the meate without hindrance A great draught drowneth the meate and hurteth naturall heate that then worketh in concoction and with the weight driueth downe the meate ouer-hastily Hot wines and sweet or cōfectioned with spices or very strong Ale or Beere is not good at meales for thereby the meate is
proceed to the Physike of the minde for as the perturbations of the minde doe follow the passions of the bodie as wee may see and behold in drunkards as Horace saith nam corpus onustum Hesternis vitijs animum quoque praegrauat ipsum Atque affligit humi aiuinae particulam aurae So on the other side the body is affected from the passions of the minde and is said therewith to consent as is manifest in the affects of loue and sorow And seeing therfore the passions of the minde and bodie are so conioined and linked together with a naturall band we must as Auicen saith haue a diligent care to our minde if we desire to auoid diseases which also Galen held before him saying that wee must abstaine from the intemperance and deformity of all the passions and affections of the mind anger and sorrow furiousnesse and feare enuy and thought do alienate and bring a man from the vse of reason and do greatly transforme him from the state and order that is according to nature for moderate mirth helpeth very much to accomplish all the offices and functions of the minde to further and make excellent the concoction As on the contrary sorrow and heauinesse is the greatest hinderance and let to it beware therefore of heauinesse and desperation for as Salomon saith Spiritus tristis exiccat ossa cor laetum exhilerat mentem Therefore giue your selues to honest mirth and Christianlike ioy for as Auicen saith the often vse of mirth disposeth a man to be merry and thereof commeth no small profit but commodities very many Sorrow also is so great an Enemie to nature and bodily health that to resist the malice and the violence thereof remedies as well out of the holy Scripture as examples out of moral Philosophie are needful Also there be certayne herbs fruits and spices that haue the propertie to resist melancholy and to comfort the liuely spirits Such are simples that do comfort the heart and spirits as for example the beholding of fayre shewes and things that are beautifull the hearing of melodious musicke smelling of sweet sauours and fragrant odors such as in the Summer the smell of Rose-water and in Winter with the smell of Lignum Aloes which doth comfort the heart and the brayne and all the other senses very much But beware of too hot and sharpe sauours for they send vapours to the brayne The tasting as that which is confected of Sugar and the iuyce of Pomegranates of Quinces or some other of like temperature being not harmefull neither exceeding in the excesse of any qualitie CHAP. IX Of Ioy. IOy or gladnesse of heart doth prolong the life it maketh the body fat that is growne leane with care and trouble And looke what effect hapneth by sorrow the same hapneth by suddaine ioy And Valerius Maximus reporteth that a Woman of Rome dyed with suddayne ioy This being considered we must auoyd such extraordinarie gladnesse and suddayne ioy And we must remember that there is nothing in this world can reioyce vs so much but that some occasion or other may cause the same to be displeasant vnto vs. CHAP. X. Of Venus or the act of generation NOw that I haue spoken of Labour Meate Drinke and Sleepe it now resteth that I speake somewhat of the act of Generation which delectation must be well measured by a meane for if it doe exceed and be vsed intemperately it doth resolue the spirits and naturall heate about measure and dryeth vp the radicall moysture and so dangerous diseases happen to man sooner then otherwise by nature they would Therefore seeing in the act of Generation there is so great resolution of Spirits the excesse thereof is carefully to be auoyded neuerthelesse great regard must bee had of custome The commodities that come by moderate evacuation are great for it procureth appetite to meate and helpeth digestion it maketh the body more light and nimble it purgeth flegme it quickneth the minde it refresheth the wit reneweth the senses and driueth away sadnesse madnesse anger melancholy finally it doth deliuer vs altogether from leacherous imaginations and nightly pollutions which although some men suppose that there is no offence thereby because of the abundance of nature yet let vs consider what is said in Deuter. cap. 23. If there be amongst you any that is vncleane by that which commeth from him by night he shall goe out of the Hoast and shall not enter into the Hoast but for this matter let euery man vse all honest and lawfull meanes to suppresse the violent force and fury of his burning lust Also if a man will abstayne from meates that be hot and windie and the drinking of sweet headie wines and auoyd the imaginations of Venus and such like he shall not easily be much assailed and tempted with the desire of any carnall appetite likewise if he earnestly apply himselfe to the study of the holy Scriptures and morall Phylosophie banishing idlenesse and flie the company of beautiful and amorous Women he shal easily auoyd the desire of lustfull concupiscence Moreouer there be also other meanes to ouer-come carnall lust mentioned in Galen as to anoynt the reynes with some cooling oyntment made of waxe oyle of Roses and the iuyce of some cooling herb as House-leeke Lettuce Purslane Nightshade or plates of Lead applyed vpon the reynes or else Agnus castus or to eate daily the seede thereof or the seede of Rue or the herbs themselues Also Arnoldus giueth counsell If thou wilt quench the heat of lust anoynt the genitories with the iuyce of Rue or Persly or drinke the iuyce of those herbs Also to smell oftentimes to Camphire is good for the same purpose to sit vpon the very cold eart 〈◊〉 or a cold stone also to plunge the members in cold water or in strong vineger therewith to wash the reynes of the backe and about the lower part of the belly And to end this discourse of Venery flie idlenesse the greatest occasion of lechery for as the Poet saith with which I wil end Otia si tollas periere cupidinis arcus Contemptaeque iacent sine luce faces CHAP. XI Certayne precepts for dyet to be obserued euery day HItherto wee haue spoken of those things and their lawfull vse which things if they be not rightly vsed they do alter and change the body and ouerthrow the naturall state thereof I will now deliuer certayne precepts of the order of dyet to be kept for euery day weekes moneths and yeeres and first I will begin with the dyet for euery day In the beginning when you arise from the bed extend forth all your members for by this meanes the animal spirits are drawne to the outward members the braine is made subtill the body strengthened Then rubbe the whole body somewhat with the palmes the brest back and belly gently but the armes legs with the hands either with warme linnen next the head is to be scrubbed frō the fore part to
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
a Smaragd a Saphire or a Draconites which you shall beare for an ornament for in stones as also in hearbes there is great efficacie and vertue but they are not altogether perceiued by vs hold sometime in your mouth eyther a Hyacinth or a Crystall or a Granat or pure Gold or Siluer or else sometimes pure Suger-candy For Aristotle doth affirme and so doth Albertus Magnus that a Smaragd worne about the necke is good against the Falling-sicknes for surely the vertue of an hearbe is great but much more the vertue of a precious stone which is very likely that they are endued with occult and hidden vertues Feede onely twice a day when yee are at mans age neuerthelesse to those that are subiect to choler it is lawfull to feede often beginne alwayes your dinner and supper with the more liquid meates sometimes with drinkes In the time betweene dinner and supper abstain altogether from cups vnlesse necessitie or custome doe require the same notwithstanding the same custome being so vicious must be by little and little changed I would not that you should obserue a certaine houre eyther for dinners or suppers as I haue sufficiently told you before lest that daily custome should be altered into nature and after this intermission of this custome of nature hurt may follow for custome doth imitate nature and that which is accustomable the very same thing is now become naturall Take your meate in the hotte time of Summer in cold places but in the Winter let there bee a bright fire and take it in hotte places your parlours or chambers being first purged and ayred with suffumigations which I would not haue you to enter before the suffumigation be plainely extinct lest you draw the fume by reason of the odour And seeing one and the same order of diet doth not promiscuously agree with al men take your meat in order as is before said and sometimes also intermit the vse of meats for a whole day together because through hunger the faults of the stomack which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or surfetting or by any other meanes may be depelled and remoued By this meanes also your bodies shal be better accustomed to endure and suffer hunger and fasting eyther in iourneyes or wars Let your suppers bee more larger then your dinners vnlesse nightly diseases or some distillations doe afflict you After meat taken neither labor in body nor mind must be vsed and wash the face and mouth with cold water cleanse the teeth either with Iuory or of a Harts horn or some picker of pure siluer or gold After your banquets passe an houre or two in pleasant talkes or walke yee very gently and soberly neither vse much watchings long in the night but the space of two houres goe to your bed but if honest busines doe require you to watch then sleepe afterwards so much the longer that your sleep may well recompence your former watchings Before that you goe to your bed gently smooth down your head armes and shoulders the backe and all the bodie with a gentle and soft rubbing vnlesse you meane to do it in the morning to moue distribution whose time is best to be done in the morning In the Winter sitting by the fire put off your garments and drie your feete by the sire neuerthelesse auoid the heate and the smoake because it is very hurtfull both to the lungs and the eyes In the Winter time warme well your garments at the fire and warme the linings of the same for it helpeth concoction and remoueth all humiditie and moysture But my father did not allow of this custome warning men of strength and those that are borne for the Common-wealth not to accustome themselues to such kind of softnesse which doe weaken our bodies Also when you put off your garments to goe to bed then put away all your waighty cogitations and lay them aside whether they 〈◊〉 publike or priuate for when all your members be free from all cares you shalâ— then sleepe the quieter concoction and the other naturall actions shall best bee performed But in the morning when you rise againe resume to your selues your forme dayes thoughts and cares for this precep my Father had often in his mouth there fore I deliuer it vnto you as the moâ—… worthy of your obseruation Certayne precepts against Heate and Drynesse EUen as cold is hurtfull to trauailers so is heat also for thereby trauailers be offended for it hapneth by the want of moysture and aboundant heate for when too much heat doth infest trauailers they doe thereby often-times grow into sicknesse and the natural moysture strength is dissolued Therefore my aduice is first when you trauell not to vse much vociferation or talke for thereby is wont to be drawne thirst and drynesse against which detayne in the mouth crystall corall siluer sugar-candy or a flint-stone that lyeth in cold water the Iulep of Roses anâ— Violets with cold water in like mannâ—… new stick of lickoras taken fresh out of the earth and chawed or the drinking of water quencheth the thirst also new ligs doe mitigate thirstinesse and coole the heate Pine kernels the leaues of Purslane held in the mouth Straw-berries Peares Pruines Cherries the seedes of Quinces seedes of Lettuce and cucumbers doe very well diminish thirst What Age is and what difference in Age. IN Age there are fiue parts or differences first child-hood from our birth to fifteene yeeres and is hot and moyst The second adolescence from fifteene to fiue and twentie a meane and perfect temperature then youth from fiue and twentie to fiue and thirtie and is hot and drie then middle age or mans state from fiue and thirty to forty nine declining to cold and drie from nine and forty the end of â—he life all cold and dry in all this course â—f the life there is a continuall change of 〈◊〉 body but especially euery seuenth â—…re is called Annus criticus the yeere of â—…ment In which time we are in greatest danger touching life and death Therefore I would aduise you to haue regard to the change of those times and to vse all meanes to preserue the shortnesse of life as much as may be FINIS