neither obserue tyme place age state noâ— coÌ„dicion thinke theim thinges of small profite but onely theâ— respecte is to their disease theâ— loue not longe study in phisicke and are greatly deceyued because they would builde withouâ— foundacion and haue the fruteâ— before thei haue planted y e trees These mennes cures be but bâ— chaunce medly One Sirus begaâ— this whiche receyued certayn rules of Asclepiades The chief â—este secte of Phisitions called Dogmatici These be the wyse meÌ„â—hiche sette not the carte before â—e horse nor the rootes of the â—ees vpwarde They dooe pruâ—ently consider the chaunge of â—ans nature y e dwellyng place â—e alteration of y e ayre the time 〈◊〉 the yeare the custome of peoâ—â—e the maners of diseases the â—shion of mens diete And this â—ey will prous by trewe arguâ—entes and reasons and will be â—ry careful for their patientes â—he disciples of those meÌ„ be the â—st scollers therfore I counsell â—ee Ihon to loue wel Hippocrates â—e prince of Phisicions whiche â—gan the best maner to geue ruâ—s to all the louers of phisicke â—f this writeth Gallen much lauâ—â—g Hippocrates his followers â—d in these daies Leonhardus Futchius Matheolus c. ¶ Iohn SEinge thou hast spooken of sondrie partes of Phisicions I praye thee what partes be there of phisicke ¶ Humfrey TRuly there be fyue thinges to be noted in phisicke as v. principall partes as Gallen saith in lib. de Elementis The first is to consider the nature of mans bodie The seconde is to kepe the bodie in health and to defende it from sickenes and infirmities The thirde is to knowe all the causes rules and sedes wherof the sicknes doth growe The .iiii is Crises or iudgemeÌ„t of the disease of thinges present past to come The fifth is the beste and moste excelleÌ„t for it sheweth the maner of healing dietinge fasshion order waye to helpe the sicke bodie preserue the same as longe as man doth remayne in the state of lyfe ¶ Iohn THou hast spoken of the partes of phisicke what is the forme maner or distribucion thereof ¶ Humfrey IT is distributed in thre formes one is natural another vnnatural y e .iii. agaiÌ„st nature The first is by those things wherof y e bodie is coÌ„pact coÌ„stituted or made as Gallen saith in his .iii. boke of his TeÌ„pramentis Cap. 4. The secoÌ„d is called not natural as meates or thinges to preserue the bodie in health they be not called vnnaturall because they be againste the body but because the rasshe â—akynge or glotonus vsinge of â—hem may bryng many thinges â—o the vtter destruction of the bodie The thirde bee thinges against nature whiche doeth corrupt the bodie or poisone nature wherof Gallen writeth ¶ Iohn NOwe thou hast taughte me short rules of the partes formes phisicall I pray the shewe me some pretie rules of the complexions of men and that I may aptelie knowe theim with their properties elementes temperamentes and humors ¶ Humfrey VPon my lute some time to recreate my selfe I ioyne with my simple armonie manie playne verses Among all other one smal songe of the foure complexions wilte thou heare it take that chaire and sitte downe and I will teache thee my song ¶ Iohn I thanke thee ¶ Humfrey The bodies where heat moister dwel Be sanguen folkes as Galen tell With visage faire chekes rose ruddy The slepes is much dreames be bluddy Puls great and full with digestion fine Pleasauntlie concocting fleshe and wyne ExcremeÌ„tes abouÌ„dant with anger short â—aughing very much and finding sport Drine grose with couler read Pleasaunt folkes at bord and bead Where cold w t moistur preuaileth much Fleumatike folkes be alway suche Fatues softnes here plaine and ryght Narrowe vaines and coller whyt Dull of wyt no hart to bold Pules very slowe disgestion cold Sleping ouer much vryne grose pale Spittell whit thick thus endes the tale Coller is hoot and drie as fyre â—enis of limmes and puffed with yre Costisse belles with litte slepe Dreames of fier or woundes depe Sallowe coulered or tawnie read Feding on salt meates crustes of bread Voyce sharpe and quickenes of wit Vryne yellowe and saltnes of spit Pulses swyft and very strong Cruell countenance not anger long Melancoly is cold and very drye As here in ryme his signes will trye Heare playne and veray thyn A leane wretche with hardnes of skyn Coller whitlie or like to leade Muche watthe and dreames of dreade And stif in folyshe fantasie Disgestion slowe and long angrie Feareful of minde with watrie spitle Seldome laughing and puls litle Vryne waterie and very thyn The colde earth to hym is kyn ¶ Iohn THis is a good song and I wil learne it for though it seme not verye pleasauÌ„t yet I perceiue it is profitable Now thou hast spoken of the singes of the .iiii. complexions I pray the teache me shortlie howe to knowe the elementes ¶ Humfrey THey be y e foure beginners vnmingled and vntempored froÌ„ whose mixtures euerye corporall thynge hath his substaunce ¶ Iohn What be y e partes I pray the tel me â–ª ¶ Humfrey FOure the one is earth the heuiest matter grossest whiche is colde and drie and melancoly And the other is water whiche is lighter moste subtil then the earth of nature is colde moist and flegmatike Then is ayre more purer and lighter then water and if it bee not altered with any other straunge cause it is hote and moiste and sanguen Then fyer is moste lyghte pure and cleare a clarifier and a clenser of all the other elemeÌ„tes wheÌ„ they are corrupted and is of his owne nature hoot drie and collericke And of these foure Elementes both man beaste fysshe foule herbe stone mettall haue their propre workyng not of one of the Elementes alone but of al some more and some lesse accordyng to their natures Hippocrates saieth after the soule is gone from the bodie the body doeth returne to the first matter wherof it was made And to coÌ„clude all thinges that be made vpon earth shal returne vnto the earth againe in tyme. ¶ Iohn VVhy might not men beastes fyshe or foule herbe or tree be of one element aswell as of foure I praye you tell me ¶ Humfrey NOo for Aristotel sayth Deus et natura nihil agunt frustra God nature hathe doone nothinge in vaine And if any thing vpon the earth sencible were of one element no sickenesse coulde hurte it nor disease corrupt it but euery thing liuing vppon the earth seing it hath had beginninge it must nedes haue ending to whoÌ„ these foure complexioÌ„s doeth belonge if they do greatly abounde or disminish or withdrawe their vertues with quantities or qualities ¶ Iohn MAy a man see anye of the Elementes ¶ Humfrey THe thing whiche men do see be none of y e foure ElemeÌ„ts not earth but earthie not water
but he that diateth himselfe temperatly prolongeth his lyfe Therfore grose fyshe lambes flesh the in meates of beastes rawe herbes pygges braynes and all slimie meates be euyll for the but late suppers is worste of all But speciallye if they be long for it causeth paynful nightes to folowe But Galen saythe in his boke De ethimia the meates whyche be withoute all blame be those whiche be betwene subtyll and grose Good bread of clene wheate fleshe of capons or heÌ„nes phesantes and patriches pigions and turtill doues black birdes and small fielde birdes rosted veale or boyled motton These dooe engender good bloude sayth Galen Note also that any other meate that thou doest eate at supper although it seme repugnant to aflegmatike stomack if thou slepe well after it and fele no payne thou mayeste vse it as a meate necessary And when thou canste not slepe wel if the defaute came through meate marke y t meate or drinke althoughe it appere plesaÌ„t refuse it as an enemi And wheras thou hast vsed euil diete as a custome in abusinge time quantitie qualitie be litle and litle bring thy self into good order to time bothe for thy brekfastes dinner and supper Prouided alwaye to eate good thinges but not many thinges For like as repletioÌ„ or abouÌ„dauÌ„ce of meate is an enemy vnto the bodie and the soule and bringeth sodayne death euen so is emptines a shorter of time aweker of y e brayne a hinderer of memorye an increaser of wind coller and melancolye And oftentimes to manye bringeth sodayne death also excepte nature haue some thing to worke vpoÌ„ as I did tel the before vse some light things at breckfast of perfite disgestion within iiii houres after that receaue thy dinner obseruinge the good order of diete drinkinge wine or beere oftentymes litle attoÌ„s eschewing great draughtes of drinke whiche is vsed amoÌ„gst beastes and mingle thy meate with mirth which is euer the beste dishe at the borde be thankfull to God And so leue w t an appetite passinge the time wyslie betwene dinner supper with exercyse laboure studie or pastime vnto theÌ„de of vi houres and then begin thy supper prouided that it be shorter then thy dinner eating thy meate be lytle and litle for gredye and sodayne eatinge is hurtfull to nature as Galen saythe in his diatory Note also that thou mayst eate more meate in winter then in soâ—er because thy naturall heate is enclosed w t thy bodie in winter but vniuersalie sprede in soâ—er Also Collericke men maye as lightely disgeste biefe baken venison c. With asmuch speade and litle hurte as the flegmatike maÌ„ may eate rabit chekeÌ„ partriche c. But the melancoly maÌ„ throughe the coldnes of the stomacke haue not that strength in the stomacke as he haue proÌ„ptnes in wil to eate things warm and moiste be good for him The sanguine man is not so swyfte in this disgestion as the hoote collerike man is But notwithstaÌ„ding he hath good disgestion through the humiditie warmnes of bloud and coueteth to eat swete thinges whiche greatlye agment y t bloud therfore sharpe saucis made with vineger onnions barbaries be holesome Purslen sorrell smal fishes that fedith vppon the stones in fayre running waters cucombers and pure frech wine partely delayed â—ith water be good for the saide â—anguine men to kepe them froÌ„â—uch encrease of fleshe ¶ Iohn THou hast shewed vnto me a verye discrete and wholsome order of diet â—articular to my selfe and partly to oâ—her complexioÌ„s but what rule or preâ—y Gouerment is for sicke folkes ¶ Humfrey THey that be sodeinlye vexed with sharpe sicknesses must â—aue thinne dietes with water â—ruell thyn mutton or chickens â—ottage without any fat or thickâ—es violet leues endiue leaues â—nd suche lyke cooling herbes â—t their drinkes be made of Teâ—ntes thus do to them that haue â—ote harpe sickenesses occasioâ—ed of choller And also colde siâ—pes of endiue violets suger â—ater and vineger sodden together be very holsome But if sicknesses be long of continuaunce their diet must be the thicker their meates made the stronger specially if their diseases be cold with the fleshe of cockes capoÌ„s temperate wyne stewed brothe with holsom herbes as buglos burrage basel parcely and fyncle rootes with some maces daits damaske prunes raysins of the sunne and suche like Siropes of Isope and siterion prouided y t they neither take meate nor medicine immediatly before or sone after their fittes Possitale with clarified herbes excepted whiche they maye take for their comforte accordinge to the estate of their disease for such as be sicke must haue meate contrary to their complexion For they that be cold must haue hote meat and medicines And they that be drie muste haue moiste thinges But they that be hoote must haue colde thinges for the ardent heate of the fier is quenched with the moistnes of y e water so the quaÌ„titie of one qualitie ouercommeth the qualitie of an other And in deede phisicke saith the bodies that bee hoote must be fed with thinges lyke as they that be moist with moist thynges to preserue their moistnes They that bee hoote with hoote thynges to preserue their heate and suche lyke But when they dooe exceade in heate colde moist or drie then let the qualities of moistnes be teÌ„pered with â—rienes the coldnes w t warmâ—es For like as man deliteth in â—hinges of like as the collericke man collericke thinges euen so do beastes frutes as the Colloquintida which is bitter deliteth in bitter ground Hote spices deliteth to growe in hote grouÌ„d and euery frute and herbe dothe delite in the thing that is of likes euen so doth man in his foode But in al things let him beware of distemperaunce surfites or replecion reare suppers dronkenes ¶ Iohn BVt if a man feleth great grief after meates or drinkes what waye is there then for to helpe him ¶ Humfrey VSe walking vp and down and perhappes that wyl disgeste as Auicen saieth And Rasâ—â— sayeth to walke a hundreth paces after meate is holsome for it comforteth disgestion prouoketh vryne and geueth one power and strengthe of stomacke 〈◊〉 eate his supper But the counâ—aill of Galene must here be obserâ—ed Whiche saieth there is no â—eate but it wyll corrupte or â—inke if the body be cast into a â—â—dayne heate by stronge trauel â—ne after meate whiche corrupâ—â—on of disgestion is the mother â—f all diseases and the beginner â—f all infirmities as Auicen reâ—orteth And if you se this wyll â—ot helpe to disgeste your ingorâ—ed full stomake then prouoke our selfe to sleepe liyng vppon our ryght side leaning toward our brest and belly laiyng your â—arine hande vpoÌ„ your brest as â—uerois saith the power of disgeâ—ion is made stroÌ„g wheÌ„ a maÌ„ sleâ—eth For natural heat y t is draâ—eÌ„ inwardly with warmnes or â—eat hath power to disgest But slepe ease you not prouoke
voâ—mit or fast it out and this is thâ— counsell of many learned men For it is no meruaile althougâ— manye meates corrupteth one man whiche be of sundry and dâ—â—uers workinges in the stomake liuer vaines for the qualities doth hinder nature as muche as the quantities And take hede these signes and euill tokens be not founde in you The paines of all your members with idelnes wearines to go or moue your bodie Sodayne greate blusshynge or readnes in your face vaynes swelled and puffed vp read vryue and grosse skine extended or stretched out with fulnes like a blowen bladder full pulses small desire to meat ill reste and grief in slepe seming in slepe to beare some intollerable burdeyne or dreamyng to be specheles these be the euill and daungerous tokens of repletioÌ„ And of this I geue you warning for it hath slayne as manie by aboundance as hunger hath killed through scarcitie ¶ Iohn I Haue hearde saye that holsome ayre is a great comforte to mans nature but corrupt ayre doth muche harme I shall require you therfore to tell me of the good and the bad ayre that I may learne to vse the good refuse y â— bad ¶ Humfrey GAlen in lib. de Sectis sayeth A wyse phisicioÌ„ ought to know the natures of men of waters of aire of regions and dwellings generally particulerly to thy self being a natural English man of birth and education this lande is very temporat How be it our dwellinges in this laÌ„d be variable as fennes marisses wodes heythes valleis playnes and rockie places and neare the sea syde But the sayde Galen geueth counsail in his regimeÌ„t of helth saiyng a good aire which is pure and holsome is that whiche is not troubled in standing waters pooles Therfore maris grouÌ„ds places where hempe flaxe is rotten dead carions be cast or multitudes of people dwelling to together or houses inuironed w t staÌ„ding waters wherinto iakes or sinkes haue issues or wallowing of swine or carioÌ„ vnbruied or foull houses or such like places be dauÌ„gerous corrupteth the bloud whiche is worse then enfectioÌ„ of meate for y e prince saith that al places of concauetes as fellers voltes holes of minerals where mettels be digged or houses or walles ioyned together where as y e sunne with reflexion beateth in w t sodain heate whose absence bryngeth colde This aire is distempered but plesaunt clere aire swete gardens goodlye hilles in daies teÌ„perat when one may se far of These be good also there be certain stars called infortunates in their exalâ—acion whose influence bringeth corruptioÌ„ to creatures rot pestiâ—ence to men beasts poisoning waters killing of fish blasting of frute in trees and corne in the â—ields infecting meÌ„ with diuers â—iseases feuers palses dropsis â—ranses falling sickenesses and eprosis AgaiÌ„st y e said influeÌ„ces â—l christen men must pray to god 〈◊〉 be their defeÌ„ce for thei be gods â—â—strumeÌ„tes to punisheth earth Example we haue of mortall pestilence horrible feuers and sweeting sickenes and of late a generall feuer that this lande is ofteÌ„ greatly plaged withal TheÌ„ one muste make a fier in euerye chymnay within thy house and burne swete perfumes to purge this foule aire and nowe in conclusion to aunswere thy questioÌ„ for the health of dwelling Auicen saith to dwell vpoÌ„ hilles is cold And in valleis comprised with hilles is hote Vpon a hyll syde against the north is cold drie Towarde y e west grose moist verie subtill towardes the East And cleare and warme towards the South And Rasis saieth in his first boke Afforien A maÌ„ dwelling nere the Sea side or greate waters can not liue loÌ„g nor can not be without weakenes of meÌ„bers or blindnes but the bestâ— building of a house is vpoÌ„ a drie ground and a hill towardes the west side and south west dores and windowes opeÌ„ towards the east and north east hauing nere vnto y e said house swete springs of running waters From stony or chaukye grounde whiche is both pleasaunt and profitable to the house For Hippocrates saieth in his boke of aire and water the second chapter Cities townes which is placed toward the east be more surer then the townes builded towardes the north for temperat aire or wynde and sickenesses be les And in the sayde boke Auicen greatly commeÌ„deth pleasant riuers ruÌ„ning towards the rising of the sunne the dwellers in suche places sayeth he be fayre and well fauored smothe skynned cleare sharpe voyces and thus to conclude with thee this shal suffise at this time what and where good pleasant dwelling is Note also that thou must obserue aire in sickenes as thou must do meate in sickenes colde sicknessis warme aire drie sicknessis moiste ayre and so in the contraries to them that be sicke and they that be hole aire of like qualitie is moste holsome they that haue loÌ„g sickeness is chauÌ„ge of aire is a great helpe bothe in feuers dropsies fallyng syckenesses and rumes ¶ Iohn I Haue founde very muche disquietnes in my body when my seruaunts and labouryng familie haue founde ease yet we are partakers of one aire ¶ Humfrey THe cause why thy labouring seruauntes in the fielde at plough pastures or woode haue such good health is exercise and labour thy disquietnes cometh partly of Idlenes and lacke of trauel which moderatly vsed is a thing most soueraint to nature ¶ Iohn I pray y t tel me some thing of exercise ¶ Humfrey THe well learned man Fulgentius saith that exercise is afile and chaufer of the heate natural whiche chasseth away slepe and coÌ„sumeth superfluous strength Of the naturall vertues redeamynge of tyme enemye vnto Idlenes dewe vnto yong men ioy of old meÌ„ and to say y e truthe he which doth abstein froÌ„ exercise shal lacke y e ioyes of helth quietnes both of body mynde And Galen saieth in his regiment of health if we wil kepe ê‘fit health We muste begin of laborrs and moderat trauell and then to our meate and drinke and so for the to slepe this is the cause whye haukers shooters hunters and plowmen and gardeners c. haue so good dysgestyon and strength of bodie Who be stronger armed men then Smithes because of the exercise of there armes stronger boddyed then carpenters which lifteth greate blockes and masons which beareth greate stones not onely in there youth but suche men will take meruelous traueles in age which to Idle people semeth verye paynefull but vnto them selues that trauell no paine but pleasure because of custome These people can disgeste grose meates eating them with much pleasure and slepinge soundlye after them wheras the idle multitudes in Cities noble mens houses great nombers for lacke of exercise doth abhorre meates of lighte disgestion and dantye disshes marye in deade thei may be very profitable to phisicions But if trauell be one of the beste preseruer of helth
sleepe verie paynfull and troublous hoat in the thirde degree and warme in â—he stomake clenseth the stomake and bryngeth good couler to the face and helpeth the grene sickenes prouoketh vrine â—pened the emoroides If they â—e sodden in vineger and layde â—arme to them pele of the rind â—nd cutte it at both the endes â—nd cast it into fayre warme waâ—er and let it lie an houre or two â—nd then slice it this takes away â—e veameÌ„t sharpnes of it Rew â—alte hony one onion staÌ„ped to â—ether is a goodly plaister to lay vpon y â— biting of a dogge leekes purgeth the bloud in march and payneth the heed and be not greatly praised for their iâ— iuice Adoge saythe Dioscorides the head beinge anoynted with the iuice thereof kepeth heare frome fallinge thereis muche varietie of this onyon amongest wryters sayth Plini but this shall suffise ¶ Iohn What is Lettise ¶ Humfrey IT doothe mightylye encrease milke in womens breastes and therfore is called lettisse as Martial saithe firste shalbe geuen to the vertue and power to increasâ— milke in the breasts euery hourâ— lettis is an hearb cold and moisâ— and is comfortable for a hoate stomake bringeth sleepe mollifieth the belly the drier it be eat the better it is I meane if it be not muche wasshed in water adding cleane sallet Oile Suger and vineger to it it abateth carnall luste and much vse of it dulleth the sight the seede is precious against hoat diseases droÌ„ke with tisans There is an herbe called Rocked gentle which partely smelleth like a Foxe whiche is very hoat an increaser of sede whiche herbe must alwayes bee eateÌ„ with Lettis The roote ther of sodden in water will drawe broken boones and will helpe the cough in yonge children ¶ Iohn What he Myntes ¶ Humfrey MYntes be of two kindes garden and wylde Myntes thei be hoat vnto the thirde dooeth drie in the second degre Garden Mintes is best y e pouder of this with the iuice of Pomgarnites stoppeth vomits helpeth sighiÌ„g clenseth hoate choller Three braunches of this sodden with wine doth helpe repletioÌ„ dronke fasting This iuice teÌ„pered with good triacle eaten of childreÌ„ a morninges wil kil wormes and stamped with salte applie it to y t biting of a dogge it will heale it It is holsome sodde with wyndy meates and sodden in posset alâ— with fenill it helpeth collike it encreaseth vital sede It is not best for chollericke complexions but good for flegmatike and indifferent for melancoly and it wyll stoppe bloude stamped and applied to the place The iuice of Mintes is best to mengle in medicine against poison the pounder of Mintes is good in pottage fleshe sodden with Oximel it clenseth fleume ¶ Iohn What is Sention ¶ Humfrey IT is of a mixt temprament it coleth and partly cleÌ„seth if it be chopped and soddeÌ„ in water and drinke it with your potage it wil heale y e griefe of the stomacke purge it from hoate choller his downe with saffron colde water stamped put in the eies it wyll drie the running droppes stamped plaister wyse it helpeth many greuous woundes ¶ Iohn What is Pursleyn ¶ Humfrey COlde in the third and moiste in the seconde if it be stamped with steped Barly it maketh a goodly plaister to coole the head eyes and lyuer in agues burninge heate To eate of it stoppeth Flixes and quencheth burning choller and extingwysh venerus luste and greatly helpeth the raynes and bladder and will kill rounde wormes in the belly and comforte the matrix against muche fleume And the iuice is good to drinke in hoate Feuers it may be preserued with salt then it is very good with rosted meates Plini sayeth it is supposed to make the sight blunte and weake further he saieth that in Spayne a great noble manne whome he did knowe did hang this Pursleyn roote in a threede coÌ„monly about his necke which was muche troubled of a longe sicknesse and was healed ¶ Iohn What is Mugwort ¶ Humfrey MVgworte and Fetherfoy Tansey be verye hoate and drie in the seconde degree Mugwort sporge and oyle of Almondes tempered plaister wise and applied cold to the sick pained stomake wyll brynge health It is good in bathes saieth Galen it is holsome for women it clenseth warmeth and comfort and breketh the stone Plini saieth it is good against serpentes and holsome for trauelyng men if they carye it it comforteth them from wormes Tansey doth myghtely cast wormes froÌ„ children droÌ„ke w t wyne A cold plaister staÌ„ped layde vpon the belly of a womaÌ„ whose childe is dead within her it will seperate the dead chylde from the liuing mother causing her to niese with Betony leues ¶ Iohn THere is an herbe commonly vsed to the great relief of many called Cabage is it so good as it is reported of ¶ Humfrey CAbage is of twoo properties of bynding the belly and making laxatiue the iuice of Cabages lightly boyled in freshe bief broth is laxatiue but the substaunce of this herbe is harde of digestioÌ„ but if it be twyse soddeÌ„ the broth of it will also bynde the belly if it be tempred with AlluÌ„ This herbe hath vertue to clense a newe read Leprosie laid vpon the sore place in the maner of a plaister But to conclude of this herbe the broth of it hath vertue to preserue from dronkenes as Aristotle Rasis and Auicen doth report eaten before drinking time ¶ Iohn What is Philopendula ¶ Humfrey IT is an herbe hoate and drie if it be sodden in white wyne dronke it drieth vp windy places in the guttes cleÌ„seth the raines in the backe and bladder ¶ Iohn What is Agremonie DIoscorides saieth that if this herbe with swynes greace be stamped together and laid vpon an olde rotten sore being hoat it hath vertue to heale it the sede of this herbe dronke with wyne is good against the biting of Serâ—entes stopping of the liuer and bloudy flixe Iohn SOme men saie that the herbe Dragon is of great vertue Humfrey THe iuice of it saith Dioscorides dropped into y e eie doth clense it and geueth much might vnto the eyes of them whiche haue darke sightes the water of this herbe hathe vertue againste the pestilence If it be dronke blud warme w t venis triacle y e sauor of this herbe is hurtful to a womaÌ„ newly conceiued with child Plenij saith that who so beareth this herbe vpon them no venomous Serpente will do them harme This herbe is hote and drye Ihon. THere is a verye swete flower called a violet is it so profitable as it is pleasaunt Humfrey SImeon Sethi reporteth that it doth helpe against hote inflamations of the guts heade and stomacke if the cause be of burning choller Either the water sirrope or concerue of the saide violets either eaten or dronke in the time of any hote passion But vndoubtedly it offendeth the hart because of the coldnes the sauour
sharpe Vineger and Suger Newe Oyle doth moist and warme the stomacke but olde Oile corrupteth the stomacke cleueth to the lunges and maheth one horse Oyle of Roses sharpe vineger tempered together is good to anointe the fore heades of them that be troubled with extreme heate or fransie so that Blugose be sodden in their posset ale or els drinke the syrrupes of Endiue or Buglos There be many goodlie vertues in compounded oiles both to calife and make hote And also to coole the body wheÌ„ it is extreme hoote as the great learned man Iohn Mesua hath decribed in his Antidorarii Ihon. VVilt thou be so good as to tell me the properties of water ¶ Humfrey VVater is one of the four elementes more lighter then earth heuier then fire and ayre But this water which is here amongest vs in Riuers Pondes springes floudes and seas be no pure waters for thei be mingled with sundry ayres corruptions grosenesse and saltnes notwithstandynge in all our meates and drinkes water is vsed amongest all liuyng creatures can not be forborn both man beast fish foule herbe and grasse And as Auicen saieth the claye water is pure for cley clenseth the water and is better then water that ruÌ„neth ouer grauell or stones so that it be pure cley voyde of corruption Also waters runnynge toward the east be pure coÌ„myng oute of harde stonye rockes and a Pinte of that water is lighter then a pynte of the standyng water of welles or pooles The lighter the water the better it is Also waters that is put in wine c ought first to be soddeÌ„ or it be occupied cold and so the fire dothe clense it from corruption Standing waters and water running neare vnto cities and townes or marish ground wodes fennes be euer ful of corruption because there is so much filthe in them of carions rotten dunge c. The hyer it water dothe faule then the water is Yse and snowe waters be verygrose and be hurtfull to the bodies of menne and Beastes To drincke colde water is euyll for it wyll stoppe the bodye and engender melancholye Salte water helpeth a man from scabbes iche and moiste humoures it killeth lice and wasteth bloude betwene the skin and the flesshe but it is mooste hurteful to the stomacke but the vapoure and smoke of it is good for them that haue the dropsy ¶ Iohn What is Vineger Humfrey VIneger is colde and drye and is hurtefull for theim that be melancholye but when it is dronke or poured vpon a outward wound stoppeth the bloud It also kylleth hot apostumations of erisipilus it is an enemi to the sinowes Vineger brimstone sodden together is good for the Goute to wasshe it withall Vyneger tempered wyth oyle Olyfe or oyle of Roses and sodeÌ„ with vnwashed wol helpeth a disease called Soda in the heade applied warme vnto the place it dothe helpe hoate diseases in the hed called Soda it is good in sauce for al warm and moist men Vineger with clene clarified honye penidies and faire water sodden together doth greatly helpe the paines in the throte or lunges or stoppyng the winde quencheth hoat diseases And sharpe vyneger mingled with salt and put vpon the biting of a dog doth heal it and against poyson it is excellent chiefly to drinke a litle therof against the pestilence in a mornynge ¶ Iohn What vertue hath our common salt Humfrey RAsis saith salt is hoat and dry Dioscorides saith salt hath vertue to stop to scoure and mundifie and of that minde is Oribasius saiyng salt is compouÌ„ded of matter abstersiue and stiptik whiche â—atters be both binding and driyng moist humours and is good to powder fat flesh both bief and porke and other fat meate for it hath vertue to drye vp superfluous humours as water bloud c. But it is not good for leane bodies or hoat coÌ„plexcioned people for the much vse of it maketh the body cholerike appere aged and to be angry The very vse of it is onelye to season meates but not to be meate Much good salt is made here in Englande as at â—itch Hollond in Lincholnshire and in the Shiles nere vnto new â—astell Ihon. What is honye or the vertue thereof Humfrey AVerrois sayeth honye is hoaâ— and drye in the seconde degree and dooeth cleanse verye much and is a medicinable meaâ— moste chiefliest for olde men and women For it doth warme them conuert theÌ„ into good blud Iâ— is not good for cholerick persons because of the heat and drynesse Thei do greatly erre that say hony is hoat and moiste but if it be clarified from his wax and drosse and kept in a close vessel there is nothinge that is liquid vpon the earth that remaineth leÌ„ger And this precious iewel hony hath euer bene more praysed aboue suger for it wil coÌ„serue kepe anye frute herb rote or ani other thiÌ„g that is put into it an exceadynge longe time Marueilous is the worke of God in honye beyng a heauenlye dewe that falleth vppon flowers and leues as Auicen â—aieth and is neither the iuice of â—eaues nor fruite but onelye the â—eauenlye dewe Whereunto the Sees commeth in due time and â—ather the said honye and laye it â—p in store in their curious builâ—ed houses whereas they dwell â—â—gether in most goodly order O Sees bees how happyer are you more then many wretched men â—hyche dwelleth neuer together 〈◊〉 vnitye and peace but in conâ—nuall discorde and disquietnes â—s Virgill sayeth En quo discorâ—a ciues produxerit miseros Beâ—olde what discorde wretched Citizins haue broughte foorth But nowe to make an ende of â—e moste excellente vertues of â—onye it is good in the meates 〈◊〉 theim whyche be flegmatike Hony newely taken out of their combes be partlye laxatiue but clarified hony doth binde and dry vp fleum and kepeth the bodyes of flegnatike and old persons froÌ„ corruption The best hony is gathered in the springe time the seconde in somer but that which is gathered in winter is yll hurtful One parte of hony and some part of water sodden together vntil the sroth be all scomde of and when it is colde kepte in a close stone pot this drinke saieth Galen is holesome for sommer clenseth the lunges preserueth the bodye in health Oximel simplex and compositum be made wyth honye and so be many mo thinges whiche be of greate vertue Suger which is called Mel canne hony of the reed beyng clene not ful of grose pannell doth clense and is not so hoate as Bees honye and doth agree with the stomacks of cholericke persons Haliabas saith it moueth not the stomacke to drynes and that the clene white suger not adulbrated dothe nourishe more then honye Of Rose-water Pearles suger is made a goodly comforter for the harte called Manus Christi Ihon. What is the propertie of milke Humfrey SImeon Sethi saieth that milke is of three
Petrus de ebaâ—o The passion of the mind called dread or feare is whan the bloud and sprites be drawen inwardlye and maketh the outwarde partes pale trimblinge â—o this by sides pitiful experieÌ„s Haliabas Galen and Aristotel do witâ—es the same The suddayn passion of ioye or gladnes is clene contrary to feare For the harte â—endeth fourth y e spiritual bloud â—hyche in weake persons the arte can neuer recouer agayne â—ut death incontinent as Galen â—yth and as we maye se by exâ—erience As in the metinge of â—en and there wyues ChildreÌ„â—nd there parentes which ether â—y pryson or banyshment were â—ythoute al hope euer to se eche â—ther and in ioye of metynge the delating spreding of y e hart bloud haue caste the bodye into swoninge And thus my frende Iohn I do coÌ„clude vpon certeyn affections of the mind wisshing doctor diat quiat mery man to helpe the whan thou shalt nede For mirth is beloued of musicions plesante birdes fisshes as the Dolphin What is mirth honestly vsed an image of heueÌ„ A great lordshippe to a poore maÌ„ and preseruer of nature Salomon sayth Non est oblectatio super cordis gaudium c. And yet I saie THe Ireful man is euer a thall The ioyful minde is happest of al. Zele burne lyke flames of fiere Whan honest mirth haue his desyre Loue well mirth but wrath dispise This is the counsell of all the wyse ¶ Iohn I Wold very fayne knowe the natures of sorten simples and first what is worme wood ¶ Humfrey A CoÌ„mon knowen herbe it is of diuers kindes as PoÌ„ticum Romanum c. It is hote in the first drye in the seconde degre and it is very bitter and beinge â—ried kepeth clothes frome worâ—es and mothes and the sirope â—hereof eaten before wyne preâ—erueth men frome dronkennes â—f it be sodden in vineger it will â—elpe y e sores that bredes in the â—ares being laid warme vppon â—t is good to be dronke agaynste Appoplexia Opthalmia Which is 〈◊〉 sicknes of the eye is greatlye â—elped with the wormwood if it â—e stamped made luke warme â—yth rosewater and layed vpon â—he eye and couered with a clene â—yked walnut shel the sirope helâ—eth the bloudie flixe it doeth â—elp a cold stomack if it be droÌ„ke tenne daies together euery morninge two sponfull of the sirope is good against the dropsie euery daye dronke two ounces fastinge and thus saythe Auicen figges cocle wormwood nitur stamped together and made in a plaister is good agaynst the disease of the splen and also killeth wormes in the bellye vsed in the foresayde maner one drame of the powder maye be dronke at once in wine it haith many moo godlie vertues ¶ Iohn What is y t propeties of Anes seedes ¶ Humfrey IT is much like vnto fenel sede and is called Romane fenel that is warme and swete and hote in the seconde and drye in the third degre the newe sedes is y e beste It ingendereth vitall sede openeth the stoppinge of the raynes and matrixe being dronke with Tysantes or clene temperate vine ¶ Iohn What thinkest thou of mouse eare ¶ Humfrey AN herbe comenlye knowen colde and moiste in the firste â—egre as Gallen sayth the decocâ—ion of this herbe sodden in waâ—er with suger is good againste â—he falling sickenes being often â—imes dronke put a lefe therof â—nto the nose it wil prouoke sterâ—utation or nesinge which wonâ—erfullie doth clense the vayns ¶ Iohn 〈◊〉 wold fayne knowe what is Chyken â—ede ¶ Humfrey ALmoste euery ignorant woman doth knowe this herbe but theyr be of it diuers kindes they bee verye good to keepe wouÌ„des from impostumations stamped and applied vnto them and draweth corruption out of wouÌ„des and sodden with vineger doth draue fleume out of the head if it be often warme put into the mouthe and spit it oute agayne In this same maner it helpeth the teath and soden in wine and so dronke it will clense the reignes of the backe ¶ Iohn VVhat is Sorrell might I knowe of the and the propertie therof ¶ Humfrey THy Coke dothe righte well knowe it and all they that make grene sauce but y e discription I leue to Dioscorides and Leonard futchius not onlye in thys herbe but in al other and to tell tell thee the vertue I will it is colde and drie in the seconde degree it also stoppeth it is like on diue in propertie because it ouer commeth choler and is muche commended it helpeth the yelow iaundis if it be droÌ„ke with small wyne or ale and also quencheth burning feuers to eate of the leues euery morning in a pestileÌ„ce time is moste holsome it they be eaten fasting This herbe doeth Dioscorides Galen and Auicen greatly commende besides the greate learned men of this tyme. ¶ Iohn What is Planten or Waybrede ¶ Humfrey THe greater Planten is the better it hathe seuen greate vaynes it is cold drie the seede of it droÌ„ke with read wyne stoppeth the bloudie flixe the rootes sodden and dronke in wyne stoppeth the bloudy Flixe the rootes and leaues beinge sodden with sweate water and with Suger or borage water and geuen to hym that hath an Ague either tertian or quartaine two houres afore his fitte proue this for thus haue I helped many it is verye comfortable for chyldren that haue great Flixes Agues and is a friende vnto the lyuer this herbe is greatlye praysed of the Doctours ¶ Iohn VVhat is Camomill and the operation thereof ¶ Humfrey THis herbe is very hoat it is dronke against cold windes and rawe matter beinge in the guttes the Egiptians did suppose it woulde helpe all colde Agues and did consecrate it to the sunne as Galen saieth Also if it be tempered and streined into white wyne and dronke of women hauing y e childe dead within the body it will cause present deliuerance it dooeth mightelie clense the bladder and is excellent to be soddeÌ„ in water to wash the feete the oyle is precious as is declared hereafter ¶ Iohn HOppes be well beloued of the beer brewers howe dooe the Phisiâ—ions saye to them ¶ Humfrey THere be whiche doth coole be called Lupilum those that we haue be hote and drie bitter sower hote saith old herbals And â—ucchius saith thei clense fleume â—holer and y e water betwene the skin and fleshe the sirupes wyll clense grosse rawe fleume from y e guttes and is good agaynst obstructioÌ„s sodden If the iuice be dropped in the eare it taketh the stinke away of rotten sores the rootes will helpe the lyuer and splene beyng sodden and droÌ„ke the beer is very good for flegmatike men ¶ Iohn What is Sage for that I loue well ¶ Humfrey THere be two kindes of sage they be herbes of health and therfore they be called Saluia this herbe is hote dry prouoketh vrine clenseth y e matrix stoppeth the bloud in a wouÌ„de If
it be put in a pigge it drieth the humours that would engeÌ„der fleume it is good againste the palsie oftentimes eaten or sodden in wyne it wyll helpe clense ytche scabs and fylth from the pudent and secret meÌ„bers Aetius doth greatlye commende this herbe and the excellent regiment of Salern where it sayeth Cur moritur homo cui saluia crescit in horto enquiryng why men do die that haue Sage growyng in gardens But trewlye neyther Phisicke herbe nor running can make man immortall but assuredlye Sage is holsome for olde folkes to be put in to their meates for it clenseth fleame from the senewes which fleame will relaxe the synewes The wyne of Sage dronke vpoÌ„ an empty stomake is holsome for flegmatike persones or them whiche haue the fallynge sickenes or dropsie ¶ Iohn VVhat is Pilopodie that groweth vpon the Oke tree ¶ Humfrey IF this herbe bee sodden with Beetes and Malowes in the broth of a henne and dronke it will loose the belly and clense fleume the roote of this herbe being drie and beaten into fyne pouder and draweÌ„ into the nose thrilles helpeth a disease called Polipus ¶ Iohn I Haue heard talke of Hoorhounde I would fayne heare of his workyng ¶ Humfrey IT is a herbe hoat and drie if it be sodden with fayre water suger or hony and streyne it this drynke doeth clense the stomake from stynkynge fleume it is an excellent herbe for women to clense their moneth tearmes the water of this is good to helpe them which haue a moist reume fallyng from the head vpon the lunges being often dronke but it is hurtfull to the bladder and raynes the sirope therof dooeth clense the kynges euill and also put into the eares doth greatlye comforte the hearing if the eares be troubled and stamped with hony and applied into the eies it clenseth the syght Iohn What is Verben ¶ Humfrey IT is called the holy herbe it drieth and byndeth if it be sodden with vineger it helpeth a disease called saint Anthonies fier oftentymes washynge the pained place the leues of VerbeÌ„ and Roses and freshe swynes grease stamped together wyll seace payne and griefe in euerye wounde and wyll keepe woundes from corruption it is good for people that haue the tercian or quartaine Agues And thus sayeth Dioscorides moreouer he sayeth the weyght of a Dram of this herbe with three halfe penyes weyght of Olibbulom and put in nine ounces of olde wyne tempered together and dronke fourtie daies of this quantitie fastyng it wyll helpe a disease called the kynges euyll or paine in the throte ¶ Iohn What is Rewe or herbe Grace ¶ Humfrey I Tell thee this herbe is verie hote and bitter and doth burne because of his hotenes in y e third degree if a litle of this rewe be stamped and sodden wyth wine and dronke it is an excelleÌ„t medicine agaynst poysone and pestilence wyth roses and vineger and rewe stamped together and put in forred clothe or biggen applied vnto the temples of the heade or forehead do seace greuous paynes in the head And in lyke mauer it healeth y e bitinges of serpentes or dogges stamped with vineger many nyce people cannot abide it cryinge fie it stinkes The seade of thys herbe beaten in pouder put in freshe clarified butter pitche melted together is good for theÌ„ to drink â—hat are brused ¶ Iohn What is burnet ¶ Humfrey IT is of the nature of fyue fynger drie and byndyng and not moist as many saith stampe it put it to the eies doth take away the dropping and prickyng and doth heale woundes and is good to drinke for the tercian Ague ¶ Iohn What is Dandilion ¶ Humfrey IT is temperat colde and drie with Roses and vineger tempered together it helpeth y e head in hoat diseases The sowthistle called Soncus hath the same vertue and so hath Suckery if they be sodden they lose the belly and quencheth heate whiche burneth in the stomake and defendeth the head froÌ„ hote smoking vapours and purgeth yelow chouller and rebateth venerous and fleshelye heate and is good to be sodden and dronke in hoate burnynge Agues though this herbe be coÌ„monly knowen and compted of many as a vyle weede yet it is reported of Dioscorides to be an excellent herbe ¶ Iohn What is Spynnage ¶ Humfrey AN herbe much vsed in meat colde and moiste in the firste degree it mollifieth and maketh softe the belly it is good for them that be hoat and drie and yll for flegmatike men ¶ Iohn What is Cowcumbers ¶ Humfrey THey be trewly in the seconde degree very moist and colde The seedes be good to be geuen in hotte sicknesses the pouder of the sayde seedes dronke in clene wyne is good agaynste dyuers passions of the harte this frute wil cause one to make water wel the roote dryed in pouder therof dronken in water and honye prouoketh vomite if they be moderately eaten they bringe good bloude tempered wyth honie and anointe the eyes that helpeth a disease called Epinictidas which troubleth meÌ„ with straÌ„ge sightes in the nightes the best of this frute is whiche beareth the beste seedes the sauoure of that is not holsome mellons citrons pampans and this kinde of pepons or great apples be muche vsed in EnglaÌ„d and is more coÌ„mon then profitable because they vse to eat them rawe Englishe men being borne in a tempered region enclining to colde may not without hurte eat rawe herbes rootes and frutes plentifull as manye men whiche be borne farre in the south partes of the worlde whych be moste hote of stomake therefore lette them eat these frutes boyled or baken with hony and pepper and fencle seedes or suche lyke there be an other hote kinde of bitter cucombers which doo purge ¶ Iohn What is Garlicke ¶ Humfrey GArlicke is very hote and drie in y e fourth degre it troubles the stomacke it is hurtfull to the eyes heade it increaseth drieâ—ies but it will prouoke vrine is good to be layd vppon the byâ—inge of a snake or edder it is good for the emeroides applied to the sore place being first stamped if it be sodden the stinke is taken from it but the vertue remayneth to be eaten against the coughes paines in the lunges it cutteth and consumeth corrupt fleume and bringeth slepe It is not good for hoat men nor women with childe or Norces geuing milke to children but Galen calleth it the coÌ„mon peoples treacle if sanguin men do eate much of it it will make them to haue read faces but it is a speciall remedy against poyson ¶ Iohn What is Onions ¶ Humfrey THey do make thin the bloud and bringe slepe they be not good for collericke men the long onion is more behemeÌ„ter then y e â—ounde and the read more then â—he whyte the drie more then the grene and the rawe more then the sodden or preserued in salte although they cause
nepeth the guttes is euil for the eies To them that be very flegmaticke ale is very grose but to temperat bodies it encreaseth bloude It is partely laxatiue and prouoketh vrine Cleane brewed Beare if it be not very strong brewed with good hoppes doeth clense the body frō corruption is very holsom for the liuer it is an vsual or cōmon drinke in moste places of Englande whiche in deade is hurt made worse with many rotten hoppes or hoppes dried like dust whiche commeth from beyonde the sea But although there commeth manye good hoppes from thence yet it is knowen that the goodly stilles fruteful groūds of englād do bring furth to mās vse as good hoppes as groweth in any place of this worlde as by profe I know in many places of the countrey of Suffolke Where as they brewe their beare with the hoppes that groweth vppon their owne groundes And thus to conclude of ale and beere they haue no suche vertue nor goodnes as wyne haue and the surphetes whiche be taken of them through dronkenes be worse thē the surphetes taken of wyne Knowe this that to drinke ale or beere of an empty stomacke moderatly hurteth not but dooeth good But if one be fasting hungry or empty and drinke muche wine it will hurte the synewes bringeth crāpe sharpe agues palseis as Auicen Auerois and Rasis saieth ¶ Iohn What is bread Humfrey THe beste Bread is made of cleane swete wheate whiche groweth in claie grounde and maketh but litle brēne when it is groūd light leuened meanelye salted and the bread to be baken in an ouen not extremely hoate for burning of the bread nor les then meane hoat for causyng the bread to be heauy and rawe the lyghter the bread is the more full of holes it is y ◠holsomer as Auerrois and Rasis saieth And also bread must neither be eaten new baken nor very staile or olde for thone causeth drienesse thirst smoking into y e head troubling the braines and eies through the heate thereof The other drieth the body and bringeth melācoly humers hurting memory The best bread is that whiche is of a daie olde and the loues or manchets may neither be great nor litle but meane for the fier in smal loues dryeth vp the moistnes or vertue of the bread and in great loues it leueth rawenes and grosenes Reade Galen in the properties of bread Sodden bread whiche be called symnels or cracknelles bee very vnholsome and hurteth many one Rie bread is wyndy and hurtefull to many therfore it shoulde be well salted bakē with Annis sedes and cōmonly crustes of bread be very dri burneth thei do engēder melancoly humers Therfor in great mens houses the bread is chipped and largeli pared and ordynarely is made in brewes and sosse for dogges whiche wyl helpe to feede a great nomber of poore people but that manye be more affectionat to dogges then men Barly bread do clense coole and make the body leane Iohn What is Rise Humfrey THere be many opiniōs in the vertue therof but I shal stay my selfe with the iudgement of Auicen Ryse saith he is hot dry hath vertue to stop the belly it doth nourrishe much if it be sodden with milke but it oughte to be steped in water a whole night before if blaunched Almondes be stamped and with Rose water streined into them and sodden with cowes milke it is very nutramentall Iohn What be Almondes Humfrey THe bitter Almondes be hoatter then the swete Almōdes Drie Almondes be hurtfull the milke of moiste Almondes wher in burning stele is quēched stoppeth the flix To eate Almondes before meate preserueth against drinkenes Walnuts be holsom when they be newe to bee eaten after fishe for they hinder engendring of fleume Simeon Sethi saith they are hote in the first and drie in the seconde degre not holsome before meate Plinii speakinge of Metridatis the greate kynge that Pompius founde of his own hand writinge that two nuttes two figges and twenty rewe leaues stāped together with a litle sail and eaten fasting doth defende a mam both from poyson and pestilence that daie Philberdes and haste nuttes be hard of disgestion ill before meate hurtefull to the head and lūges if they be rosted and eaten with a litle pepper they will helpe the running and distillation of rumes Chestnuttes if they bee rosted eaten with a litle hony fastynge they healpe the coughe if they be eaten rawe althoughe they greatelye nourryshe the boedy yet they be hurtful for the splene and filleth the bellyful of winde Nutmegges bee very good for colde persones comforteth the sight memory as Auicen saieth but without doubte Nutmegges doth combuste or burne sangwin men and drie their bloude and thus much haue I spoken shortly of Nuttes Iohn VVhat be Cloues Galangell and Pepper Humfrey THey be hoate and drie and as Rasis saieth doth comforte cold stomakes and make sweate breth and is good in the meates of them that hath ill disgestion ▪ Black pepper is hoater then lōg pepper doth mightely warme the body the grosser it is eaten with fisshe or frute the better it prouoketh vrine it is hoate and drie in the fourth degre therfore they do erre that saie pepper is hoate in the mouthe and colde in the stomacke Although pepper be good to them that vse it well yet vnto artificiall women that haue more beastlines then beuty and cannot be content with their natural complexions but would fayne be fayre they eate peper dried corne and drinke vineger with suche like bagage to drye vp their bloude and this is the very cause that a great nomber though not all fal into weakenes greene sickenes stinkinge brethes and oftentimes sodaine death Ihon. What is swete Callamus odoratus Humfrey AN excellent sweete roote and profitable for men if the poticaries keepe it not vntill it bee rotten it is hote and drie in the beginning to the middes of the second degre it hath poore to clēse to drie to waste all windes with in the body without hurte Galen doth greatly cōmend the sauoure of it They y t drinke of this roote sodden in wyne shal haue remedy of the white morphew and recouer good collers And this haue I proued it helpeth crampes sickenessis in the senewes beinge dronke in wyne sodden with sage it helpeth the splene y e liuer and raynes and will clense the secrete termes of womē and agmenteth naturall seede Ihon. What is Ginger Humfrey IT is hoote in the thirde degre and moiste in thende of the first if it be vncollered White and not rotten it is very good most chiefly if it be conserued And grene as Mesua saith it maketh warme a colde stomacke and consumeth windes helpeth euill disgestion and maketh meate gooe easelye downe into the stomacke Iohn What is Setwall Humfrey HOate and drie in the seconde degree and is
to feede and slepe And should not man well foresee In youth to know his old degree THen from .xxxv. or few yeres folowing the lusty brauÌ„ches of youth begin to abate his pleasaunt leues flowers and fruite by litle litle will decaye rawe â—humers crampes dropsies quaterns melaÌ„coly will then drawe nere The riots surfittes sore labours bearing of extreme burdens wrestlings actes venerus with the abuse of youth wil then spring forth to the detriment of age nad sodaine decaye of lyfe in especiall of drunkardes ¶ Iohn VVhat be the places of blend Coller Fleume and Melancoly Naturall or vnnaturall Thou haste not made a particular distinction of their proper places but generally thou hast spoken well in thy songe ¶ Humfrey THere are also other discirptions of the foure humors very necessary to be knoweÌ„ and their places where as they dwel within the body first of bloud as Galen saieth in his first booke of effected places bloude saieth he that is in the pulsis doeth greatly differ from the bloude of the vaynes for the bloude of the pulsis is thinner yeallower and hotter and this bloud maye bee called the gouernour of life The spring fountayne of the bloud generall is in the lyuer whiche serueth euery vayne of bloude this bloud in culler is very read Flewme is whyte and is ingendred in the stomake and at leÌ„gth by the vertue of naturall heate pure fleaine is turned into blod There be also watry slimy glassy grosse salte sower thicke harde binding and extreme cold fleames whiche in dede be vnnaturall that bee engendred thorowe surphets coldnes or idelnes bringing to the bodie many noisome diseases There is also coller whiche is yellowe whose place in the body is y e gall which commeth of the clensing or puryfying of bloud and this coller is cleare hote and drie and the coÌ„forter of decoction Grene coller or coller myngled with fleame be vnnaturall melancoly naturall in the splene is nothing but the sex degrees or heauie residentes of the bloud the naturall melaÌ„coly is knowen by his blacknes the vnnatural cometh of the burning of coller and is lighter hoter browne of couler sower of taste and putteth the bodie in great dauÌ„ger as madnes blacke gaunders continual feuers and sodaine deadly diseases Therefore my frende Iohn remember this short discriptioÌ„ of humors as the wordes of Galen Auicen saye ¶ Iohn Thus I haue heard thy seueral placinge of the foure complexions of bloud Choler Fleume and Melancoly and is there any distincte hootnes coldnes moistnes and drienes in anye other creature besides man tel me ¶ Humfrey NOt onely in manne but in beastes fyshe foule serpeÌ„ts trees herbes mettels And euery thyng sensible and insensible according to their natures be equally myngled or tempered togeter whiche is called meane teÌ„peraunce or els exceadeth in degrees whiche is called intemperaunce hote and moiste may be compounded together so maye colde and drie hote and drie cold and moiste example A cholerick man hote drie a Fleumaticke man cold moist c. Of herbes as hisope and rewe hote and dry purssen and coucumbers cold moist c. But tempramentes or complexioÌ„s of men beastes and trees be some hoter some colder according to their natures As a lion is hooter then a cholericke man pepper is hoter theÌ„ cloues And though there bee degrees in more hotnes or more coldnes yet they are called but hote or colde as men after labour or trauell they will saye they are hoote but the fier which people warme theÌ„ at is hotter Also there be things repugnaunt to tempramentes as moiste and drienes together heate and coldnes together as fier to bee colde or the water of his own nature to be hote which water peraccidence of the fier is made hote and fier quenched by the water And euery thynge exceading greatly with distemperaunce or wanting temperaunce or complexion do eftsones come to an end as men by extreme sickenesses surphets or woundes or finally age lackinge naturall vertue Of heate and moistnes of trees and herbes from whome iuce and sappe is withdrawen these thinges of necessitie muste nedes die and come to corruption as Galen and Aristotel sayeth ¶ Iohn VVhether be men or women of coldex complexion ¶ Humfrey AVicen saieth like as menne be hote drie so be wemen colde and moiste ¶ Iohn YEa but Lucian saieth they be perelous hote of their tonges and ful of venim though I am no phisicion yet can I make a dissciption of that member for I am oftentimes stinged with it I would to God they had been wormed when they were yong but when they are olde they are past all cure but the best medicine y â— I haue is a gentle herbe called rewe whiche I am neuer without great store ¶ Humfrey MAnkinde was borne naked to this ende that he mighte clothe him selfe with other creatures whiche he brought not in to this world with him as cloth lether harnes made of iron for his defence because he is y e chief creature But horses of nature haue harde hoâ—es lyons sharpe teeth purpintyns sharpe prickes whiche is their coÌ„tinual and natural armour as things euer prepared to debate strife by no art can scant be tamed The Rose as pleasauntly as she doeth appeare and as swetely as she doth smel spring not further without a great noÌ„ber of sharpe prickes Therfore it is tollerable for men to beare with them whome nature hath sealed and marked for his owne With that humor most chollerick disgresse from this thy communicacion and let vs talke of thinges more profitable for in deade this is pleasaunt to no maÌ„ ¶ Iohn SEyng thou wilt not discribe me thiâ— particuler members of whiche wâ— haue spokeÌ„ I would be glad to know the partes of mankinde with a shortâ— discription of his members ¶ Humfrey MEmbers be simple and also compounde the simples bee tenne in nomber the cartilages the gristels the bones veynes synewes arteries pannicles lygamentes cordes and the skyn Members compounded be those that be ioyned and builded together of simple members as the handes face fete lyuer harte and so compounded members be made of simple Some of the compounded members be called principalles as the harte from whence the arteries springes the brain froÌ„ wheÌ„ce the sinewes springes the liuer whiche is the well of the bloud from whence y e veynes do spring the stones of generacion from whence the sede of lyfe dooe spring but those compounded members that bee principall Be all the other members except the simple as y e nose the eares the eies the face the necke the armes and legges the braynes and chief substance of our fleshe be compounded meÌ„bers of sinowes couered with panackles whiche be of a synue nature but that sinewes geue felyng to all the whole body euen as the artiers geueth spirituall bloud froÌ„ the heart to euery meÌ„ber
place with the euapuration of diuers sweate herbes well sodden â—n water whiche haue vertue to â—pen the poores softly letting out feble and grosse vapers whiche â—ieth betwene the skinne and the â—â—eshe This kinde of bathinge is good in the time of Pestilence or feuer quartein in the ende of the â—athes it is good to anointe the â—ody with some swete oyle to moâ—ifie and make soft the synewes And thus to coÌ„clude of bathing â—t is very holsome so that it bee not doone vppon an emptie stomacke palseis maye come there by or to take sodaine colde after it there foloweth an other purgacion called nesing or sternutacion whiche is benificiall for the bodie if it be vsed vpon an empty stomacke Twyse or thrise in a morning with a lefe of Bittony put into thy nose it helpeth memory good againste opilation stopping obstructions Suspositers be good for weake people or childreÌ„ made with Hieria Picrâ— hony made in the length of a finger Scarifiyng or boxing as Gallen saieth applied vnto the extreme partes as the legges and the armes doth great helpe vnto the body in drawing watery humour away from the bodye but boxing is not good for the breste applied therto in hote feuers is â—aungerous Glisters made acâ—ording to arte be good for them â—hiche be to weake to take purâ—ations The maner of the sayd Clisters because they be not here 〈◊〉 be spoken of at large I entend â—y Gods grace to set forth in my â—ext boke of Helthful medicins Purgacions venerus there be 〈◊〉 many practicioners thereof â—hat I neede to wryte no rules â—ut this that effectioÌ„ lust fanâ—asie haue banished chastitie teÌ„â—raunce and honestie ¶ Iohn â—Laine people in the countrey as carters thresshers ditchers colliers â—owmen vse seldome tymes to washe â—eir haÌ„des as appereth by their filthy â—s as very fewe tymes combe their â—ads as it is sene by floxe neites â—ese fethers strawe and suche like â—hich hangeth in their â—eares Wheâ—er is wasshing or coÌ„bing thinges to decorate or garnishe the body or 〈…〉 bryng health to the same ¶ Humfrey THou seest that y e deare horse or cowe will vse friction or rubbing theÌ„ selues against trees both for their ease and healthe Birdes and haukes after their bathing will prune rouse them selues vpon their brauÌ„ches and perkes and al for healthe What should man do whiche is reasonable but to kepe hym self clene often to washe y e haÌ„des which is a thinge moste comfortable to coole the heate of the liuer if it bâ— done often the handes be also the instrumentes to the mouthe and eies with manye other thinges coÌ„moÌ„ly to serue y e body To wasâ— the handes in cold water is very holsome for the stomake and lyuer but to wash with hote wateâ— engendreth rumes wormes and corruption in the stomacke because it pulleth awaye naturall heate vnto the warmed place whiche is washed Frication or rubbing the bodye is good to bee done a morninges after the purgation of the belly with warme clothes froÌ„ the head to the brest then to the belly from the belly to the thighes legges so furth So that it be done downwarde it is good And in drie folkes to be rubbed with the oyle of camomyll Coming of the headde is good a morninges and doth coÌ„forte memorie it is euill at night and open the pores The cutting of the heer and the paring of the nailes cleane keping of y e eares and teathe be not onely thynges comely and honest but also holsome rules of Phisicke for to be superfluous thinges of thexcrementes ¶ Iohn THe chief thing that I had thought to haue demaunded and the verie marke that I would haue the to shote at is to tell me some thing of dietinge my self with meate drinke in health and sicknes ¶ Humfrey THere is to bee considered in eating and drinking the time of hunger or custome the place of eatynge and drinkinge wheit be colde or hoote also the time of the yeare whether it be Wynter or Sommer Also the age or complexion of the eater and whether he be hoole or sicke also the thinges which be eaten whether they be fishe or fleshe frutes or herbes Note also the coÌ„plexions and tempramentes of the sayde meates hoote or colde drie or moist and moste chiefly marke the quantitie so furth And like as lampes doth coÌ„sume the oyle whiche is put vnto them for the preseruacioÌ„ of the light although it cannot continue for euer so is the naturall heate which is with in vs preserued by humiditie moistnes of bloude and fleame whose chiefe engenderer be good meates and drinkes As Auicen saieth deethica When naturall heat is queÌ„ched in y e body theÌ„ of necessitie the soule must departe from the body For the worckeman can not worke when his instrumente is gone So the spirites of life can haue no exercise in the body when there is no natural heate to worke vpon Without meate saieth Galen it is not possible for any maÌ„ to liue either whole or sicke and thus to conclude no vital thing liueth with out refection and sustenaunce whether it be animall reasonable or animale sensible without reason or any vital thing in sensible both man beast fisshe and worme tree or herbe All these thinges be newtrified with the influence or substaunce of the foure Elementes or any of theÌ„ ¶ Iohn VVell Humfrey thou knowest well my coÌ„plexion disorder of my diat what remedy for me that haue liued lyke a riyotter ¶ Humfrey I Know it wel thou arte flegmatike and therfore it is longe or thy meate is disgested When thou doste eat fyshe and fleshe together it dothe corrupte in thy stomack and stinke euen so doth harde chese and cold frutes And olde poudred meates and rawe herbes ingender euil humers so y â— diuersitie of qualitie and quaÌ„titie of dyuers meates dothe bringe muche payne to the stomack and doth engendre many diseasses as thou maste rede in the firste booke of Galen iuuemeÌ„tis membrorum c .iiii. And the Prince hym selfe sayth in iii. pri doc ii Ca. vii Saing nothing is more hurt ful then diuers meates to be ioyned together For whyle as the laste is receauing the first begin to disgeste And when the table is garnished w t diuers meates some rosted some fried baken some warme some colde some fyshe some fleshe with sundrye frutes and salletes of dyuers herbes to plese thyne eye remeÌ„ber with thy selfe that the sighte of them all is better then the feding of them all Consider wyth thy selfe thou arte a man and no beaste therfore be teÌ„paret in thy feding and remember the wyse wordes of SalomoÌ„ Be not gredie sayth he in euery eating and be not hastie vpon all meates For excesse of meates bringeth sicknes and glottonie cometh at the last into an vnmeasurable heat Through surphite haue manye one perished
of the flowers be plesaunte the oyle that is made of this herbe haue vertue to bring quiet slepes to them which haue greuous hote paine in the hed Ihon. VVhat is the vertue of the pleasant white Lilly Humfray DIoscorides saith that the Oyle of Lillies doothe mollifye the Sinnewes and the mouthe of the Matrixe the Iuse of Lillies vineger and Honnye sodden in a brasen Vessell doth make an ointment to heale both newe aud olde woundes If the roote be rosted and stamped with Roses it maketh a healing plaister against burning of fier the same rote rosted hath vertue to breake a Pestilence sore applied hoate vnto the sore place is drie in y e first degre The oile of water Lilies be moiste sufferent against all hoate diseases to anointe the ardent places and doth reconcile quiet sleepe if the forehead be anoynted therewith Iohn IN the time of the pestilence my wyfe maketh me a medicine of an herbe called Centauri doth she well or not Humfrey PLini saieth that the Sirupe of this herbe dronke with a litle vineger and salte doth clense the body The leaues and flowers be of great vertue to be sodden dronke against al rawe humors of grose sieume watry or windy it doeth clense cruent or bloudy matter within the bodies of men or women The pouder of this herbe is good in pessaries for women causing the dead childe to departe from the mother and is holsome against the pestilence in the time of wynter and is hoat and drie Iohn VVe beutifie and make pleasaunte our wyndowes with Rosemary vsyng it for small other purposes Humfrey ROsemary is an herbe of gret vertue hoate and drie soddeÌ„ in wyne and droÌ„ke before meat it doth heale the kinges euill or paynes in the throte as Dioscorides and Galen sayeth the sauour of it doth comforte the brayne and harte y â— flowers of Rosemary is an excelleÌ„t cordial called Anthos Ihon. IS pulial royal an herbe of anye valewe or a wede of contemption Humfrey IT is an herbe of muche vertue and profite hote and dry in the thirde degre Diascorides saithe if this herbe be sodden with honnye and Aloes and droncke it wil clense the liuer and pourge the bloud most chiefly it helpeth the lunges Simeon Sethi saithe if womeÌ„ drinke it with white wine It wil prouoke and cleanse the termes menstrual and is a very holsome pot herbe Ihon. What saist thou vnto Muslarde Humfrey PLinius dothe greatlye lawd it saiyng that there is nothing that dothe pearse more swiftlier into the braine then it doth Hony vineger and mustarde tempered together is an excellente gargarisma to purge the head teethe and throte Mustarde is good againste al the diseases of the stomacke or lunges winde â—leume and rawnes of the guts and conduceth meat into the body prouoketh vrine helpeth the â—alsye waisteth the quartaine â—rieth vp moiste rumes applied plaster wise vnto y e head Hony and mustard helpeth the cough and is good for them that haue â—he fallinge sicknesse notwithstandinge the coÌ„mon vse of mustard is an enemy to y e eie Many more vertues haue I reade of mustarde but the occasion of â—ime hathe vnhappilye preuened not onlye my large discriptioÌ„ 〈◊〉 this but also in manye other â—mples whyche heareafter I entende largely to wryte vpon if it please God to permit me Iohn Thei say that Buglos is very holsom Humfrey IT is an herbe moste temperate betwene hoate and colde of an excellent vertue a comforter of y t harte a purger of Melancoly a quieter of the Frencie a purger of the vrine holsome to be droÌ„kâ— in wyne but moste effectuall in sit 〈◊〉 Dioscorides and Galen doet greatly commende this herbe that doth dayly experience wel proue Iohn What is thy mynde of swete Basell â–ª Humfrey THis herbe is warme in the sconde degre hauing the vertue of moistues and if it be soddâ— in wyne with Spicenarde droÌ„ke it is good agaynste dropsyes windes fleume coldnesse of the hart hardnesse of the stomacke the sauoure of Basill doth comfort the braine and hart the vse of this herbe in meates doth decay the sight Ihon. The plaine people of the country will say that those flowers which be pleasaunt in smellinge be oftentimes vnholesome in working the rose is pleasaunte in sence what is it in vertue Humfray IT hath an odour most plesaÌ„t hath vertue to cole and binde The water is good to make Manus Christe many other goodly cordialles Roses and vineger applied vnto the foreheade do bringe slepe conserue of Roses haue vertue to quench burning choller and to stay the rage of a a hoote feuer oyle of Roses Vineger and the white of an egge beaten together doth not onlye quenche sacra igms but also bring a madde man into quietnesse if hys foreheade be well annointed therwith after the recept of Pilles of chochi in the time of the pestilence there is nothinge more coÌ„fortable then the sauor of Roses ¶ Iohn What saist thou of Sauery ¶ Humfrey IT is hote and dry in the thirde degree if the greene hearbe be sodden in water or white wine and dronke these be his vertues to make the liuer soft to cleanse dropsies coulde choughes clenseth womens diseases and seperateth the deade childe from the mother as Diascorides and Galen â–ª saith also Germander is not much vnlike the vertue of this herbe Iohn BVt for troublinge of you I woulde be glad to knowe youre minde of Time and a fewe of other hearbes Humfrey IT is vehamente of heat with drinesse in the thirde degree Diascorides saith if it be dronke with vineger and salte it pourgeth fleume sodden with honny or meide it hathe vertue to cleanse the lunges breaste matrix rains and bladder killeth wormes Iohn VVhat saiste thou of Parslye and Saxifrage Humfrey THey haue vertue to breake the stone Parslye is hote in the seconde degree and drye in the middest of y e third The sede dronke with whyte wine prouoketh the menstruall termes as Diascorides saithe also smalledge hathe the like vertue ¶ Iohn VVhat is thy iudgemente of Liuerworte ¶ Humfrey IT hathe vertue to cleanse and coole Dioscorides saithe it dothe heale the woundes of the liuer and quencheth the extreme heat thereof tempered with honnye and eaten dothe healpe a disease called regius morbus and pains of the throte and lunges Iohn What is Bettony ¶ Humfrey THey be of diuers kindes Leonardus futchius doothe call the sweete Gilliuers by the names of Bettonye but the one semeth to talcke of that whiche is commonlye knowne of the people called the lande Bettony which hathe the vertue to kill wormes within the bellye and healpeth the quarteine cleanseth the matrixe and hathe the vertue to heale the bodye within If it be brused it is of greate effecte if it be sodden with worme wodde in white wine to purge fleume and is hote in the first degre dri in the
or feuers Iâ—â—he vrine of goates be stilled in May with sorrel the water diâ—â—illed is not hurtful nor noyâ—oÌ„ but whomesoeuer vse to drinâ—ke therof two drammes morn and eueninge it will preserue hym from the pestilence The milcke of Goates I wil describe in the place of milke Iohn VVhat is the flesshes of Read and fallowe Deare Humfrey MOre pleasaunte to some thâ— profitable to manye as appeareth once a yeare in the corâ—â—â— fieldes the more it is to be lamented Hippocrates and Simeon Sethi do plainelye affyrme thâ— fleshe of them to engender euill iuse and Melancholye cold diseases and quarteins the fleshe of winter deare do lesse hurt the bodye then that which is eaten in Sommer For in Wynter mans disgestion is more stronger and the inwarde partes of the bodye warmer and may easerlye consume groose meates then in Sommer as we see by experience In colde weather frostes healful people be moste hungriest The lunges of a dere sodden in barlye water and taken fourthe and stamped with penedice and Honye of equall quantitye to the saide lunges and eaten a mornynges dothe greatlye healpe olde coughes and drinesse in the lunges There be many goodly vertues of theyr hornes bones bloude and tallowe Ihon. VVhat is the properties of Hares and Conies fleshe Humfrey AVisen saiethe the fleshe of Hares be hoote and dryâ— ingenderers of Melancholye not praised in Phisicke for me 〈◊〉 but rather for medicine For indede if a Hare be dryed in the moneth of Marche in an Ouen or furneyse and beaten into pouder and kept close dronke a morninges in Beare Ale or white Wine it wyll breake the stoane in the bledder if the paciente be not olde If childrens gummes be annointed with the braines of an Hare their teethe wyll easelye come foorthe and growe The gall of an Hare mingled with cleane hony doth cleanse waterye eyes or redde bloudye eyes The fleshe of Hares muste be tenderly rosted and well larded and spiced because of the grosenesse but it is better sodden The fleshe of Conies are better then hares flesh easyer of disgestion But rabbets be holsomer And thus to conclude of Connies experience teacheth vs that they are good they be could and dry of nature and small mention is made of them amonge the auncient phisitions as Galen saythe I neede not to speake verye longe of euerye kinde of beastes as some of the beastes that be in Hiberia like little Hares whyche be called Conies Iohn If the olde and ignoraunte menne of Connyes whyche were seene in the nature of manye other beastes that hadde dwelte in diuers places places of Englande then should haue knowne them righte well And perhappes receyued of theym as small pleasure as manye husbande menne haue founde profite by them in theyr Corne. Nowe thou haste well satisfied me of the foâ—r foted beastes whiche commenlye Englishe menne sedeth vppon Nowe I praye thee tell mee some of the vertues of soules and firste of Cockes Capones and Hennes Humfrey CHickens of Hennes saithe Auenzoar is mooste commended and mooste laudable of any fleshe nourrisheth good bloud It is lighte of disgestion and dothe comfort the appetite cock â— chickens be better then hennes the capoÌ„ is better then the cock â—â—â— dooe augmente good bloud and feede as Rasis reporteth and â—xperience proueth in men both â—â—ole and sicke An olde Cocke whiche is well beaten after his â—ethers be pulled of vntill he be â—â—ll bloudy and then cutte of his â—ead and drawe him and sethe â—im in a close potte with fayre â—ater and whyte wyne Fenyll â—ootes Burrage rootes Violet â—lanten Succory and Buglos â—aues Dates Prunes greate Raysins Mates and Suger â—ut in the mary of a Calfe and â—anders This is a moste excelâ—nt broth to them that be sicke â—â—eake or coÌ„sumed The braines â—â—hennes capons or chekens be â—â—olsome to eate to comforte the â—raine and memory And thus to â—onclude these forsaide fowles 〈◊〉 better for idle folkes that labour not then for them that vse exercise or trauel to whom grose meates are more profitable ¶ Iohn What is the properties of Gese Humfrey VVylde gyse and tame their flesh be veri grose and hard of disgestion Auicen saieth â–ª The fleshe of great foules and of gese be slowe and hard of disgestion for their humiditie they do breade feuers quickly but their gooslynges or yonge gese being fatte are good and much coÌ„mended in meates And Galen saieth that the fleshe of foules be better then the fleshe of beastes But vndoubtedly gose mallard pecocke swane and euery foul hauing a long necke be all harâ— of disgestion and of no good coÌ„plexions But if gese be well roâ—ted and stopped with salte sage â—epper and onions they will not â—urte the eaters therof There be great gese in ScotlaÌ„d which â—redeth vpon a place called the Basse Ther be also Bernacles whiche haue a straunge generaâ—ion as Gesâ—erus saith and as the â—eople of the Northe partes of Scotlande knoweth because 〈◊〉 should seme incredible to mani I wil geue none occasioÌ„ to any â—ither to mocke or to meruayle And thus I geue warninge to â—hem whiche loue their healthe 〈◊〉 haue these forsayd foules somwhat poudred or stopped with â—alte all the night before they be rosted Iohn I pray the tel me of y â— flesh of Duckes ¶ Humfrey THey be the hoatest of all domestical or yard foules and vncleane of feeding notwithstaÌ„ding though it be harde of disgestion and marueilous hoate yet it doth greatly norrishe the body and maketh it fatte Hippocrate saieth they that be fedde in puddels foule places be hurtfull but they that be fedde in houses pennes or coopes be neutratiue but yet grose as Isack saith Ihon. What he PigioÌ„s Turtles or Doues Humfrey THe flesh of Turtles be meruailous good and equall to to the beste as Auicen saith Thei be best when they be yonge and holsome for flegmaticke people Simeon Sethi saieth the house doue is hoater then the field doue and doth engender grose bloud The common eating of them is ill for chollericke persones with read faces for feare of Leprosie therfore cut of the feete wynges and head of your PigioÌ„s or Doues for their bloud is that whiche is â—o venemous they be best in the spring tyme and heruest And Isaack saieth because they are so â—yghtly conuerted into choller They did commaunde in the old â—ime that they shoulde be eaten with sharpe Vineger Purâ—leyn Coucombers or Sitron Roosted Pigions be beste The bloud that commeth out of the ryght wynge dropped into ones â—ye doth mightely help the eie if it swelleth or prieketh And thus much haue I spoken of PigeoÌ„s or Doues Ihon. What is the flesh of Peacoches Humfrey SImeon Sethi saieth it is a rawe flesh and harde of disgestion onles it be very fatte But if it bâ— fatte it helpeth the Pluresie Haliabas saith that both Swannes Cranes
or Cardus Benedictus then drinke the brothe of a chicken or pure wine to ripe the sore roste a great onion take out the core put in triacle and warme apply it to the place thre or foure tymes renued warme And oyle Oliue blacke sope soure leauen Lilly rootes of eche lyke quantitye boyled together put in the ioyse of Rew and make a plaster this wil breake the sayd sore CapoÌ„s grese yolkes of egges swines grease barlie floure linsede in pouder encorporated together wil make a good heling plaster Emplastrum diachilon magnum discriptione filii Zacharia doth resolue and quence the hote vlcer But in the time of the plage trust not vrins ¶ Agayne to the gentle Reader THe swift runner in his rase gentle Reader in a stobby or rockye grouÌ„d is in daunger efâ—sones to stumble or faule where as the goer faire and softly in the smothe path is safe Euen so because I haue had no coÌ„ferrence with others nor longe tyme of premeditatioÌ„ in studie but with speade haue coÌ„ciliated this smal intitled Gouernement of health it can not be but many things haue missed in the print as in folio .iii. the .xviii. line reade sighe for fight iâ— fol. lx the seconde page .xi. line reade Olibanum for Olibulom and in the ende of the Epistle to the reader there is imprinted Wenzoar for Auenzoer in fol. lxvi line .xv. leaue out because And thus to conclude I will by Gods grace ioyne another booke called the Healthfull medicins vnto this Gouernement and at the next impressioÌ„ such amendes shalbe made that both silable and sentence shalbe diligently kept in trew order to thy contentacion God willing who euer kepe the in health The first of March the yeare of our saluacion 1558. VVilliam Bulleyn Codrus Midas Cap. 38. Nestor Galen ArgantoÌ„ ☞ The epicure desireth too liue al together in belly chere Heliogabalê° court â—it for belly gods The iust rewarde of belly gods The frutes of inordinate baÌ„quets Varietie of opinions amoÌ„g meÌ„ Anobieâ—tion against phisicke God the author of phisicke The inesâ—imable goodnes of god ordeined herbes for the healh of man Salomon Eccle. 36. The praise exeleÌ„cie of phisicke Moises Adam Iesus Sirack cap. xxxviii Diodoro Test Ouid. Metamor Chiron centaurê° Podaliriê° MachaoÌ„ Hippocrates Gallenus Hippocrates in lib. defla A diffinitioÌ„ of physicke Hippocrates in primo Aphoris Theoricha Herodotê° Emperici Philinus serapion Apolonii Methodici Asclepiades Dogmatici Hippocrates Gallen de elemen de temp de facul Phisicke deuided into fyue partes Gal. lib. 3. de temp cap. 4. Galle in lib. 2. The rap metho The discription of the saâ— guene peâ—â—sons The discription of the sleâ— matilâ—e persons The discription of the colericke The discription of MelaÌ„coly Hippocrates de Element Auic in cauteca The discription of the .iiii. ElemeÌ„ts Galen in li. 8. decr Hippocrates in lib. de na â—turs comâ—â—ded â—ore eâ—eutes 〈◊〉 one Elen felt seen Hippocr in lib. de Natura humana Wynter Spryng Sommer Haruest Auic in pri can Meates and medicine bee knowen by tasting Cold. Moiste Salte Auic in pri tract cantico Gal. lib. 1. cap. 2. li. 2. cap. 3. li. 4 cap. vlti Sim. med Gal. lib. 5. Aphor. coÌ„men 9. An ernest brief exhortacion for y e bringyng vp of youth Galen in lib. Simp. The beste tyme to prouide for age 〈…〉 Auicen in li. can Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Arist de Gene. Auicen Whether this bee true let y â— maryed iudge eueri thiÌ„g bringyng his aparel with him sauiÌ„g maÌ„ Muskels and glandens flesh A diffiâ—â—cion of members Muskels and glandens flesh A parte is called by the name of y e whol and not y e whole by the part What annothomie is Foure thinges coÌ„sidered in the body of maÌ„ Example Dropsy Helpyng the Emorodes Theriaca is an excelent triacle Vse to eate Capers and take Pillule Iude Haly or pilluledâ— lapide Lazule Miracle helpeth but no medicen in this case Time for althinges Hipp. in 1. Affor 3. Aristo in pri prob 56. Auice in 2. pri doc 2. Cap. 6. Gallen in lib. de â—lobothomia Rasi in 4. alman cap. 14. Rasi in 4. alimeÌ„ Ca. 14. the midle vayne Hip. in 3. â—ri doct 〈◊〉 cap. VsurpatioÌ„ in medicin be euill In the mornyng is beste to let bloud euell towarde night Rasi in 4. alman ca. 15. Meates mediceÌ„s â—â—eith not excepte pilles before supper Tyme to purge Digges Kenningham Vomites and there profites Hip. SeÌ„tin 4. Aphoris Costome to vomit weakeneth the stomack Auicen in 4. pri cap. 13. Of bathes and there propertes The discoÌ„moditie of coÌ„mon hote houses To vse oyntemeÌ„tes after bathings is good To bathe vpon an empty stomalie is perilous Of nesing Of suppositers Soringe doth muche good to the bodye I will speake more of Glisters in my boke of healthful medicins Manye practicioners of actes venerus â—esâ—es birdes vse frictious and pruninge theÌ„ selues The profit whiche cometh in washing the haÌ„des with cold water Hote water is vnholsome to washe hands in FricatioÌ„ is holsom for the body Comyng the head Cuttinge of heare paring of nayles be comly for men A consideration to he had in eatinge drinking A cause why the soule departeth from the body To eate both fishe fleashe together hurteh y â— flematick Galen Hipocrites To fede of diuers sortes of meates corrupteth the bodye Eccl. 37. A good diet prolongeth lyfe What kindes of meates dothe cause good bloud What hurt commeth of an emty stomacke when ye go to bed A order of dieting Galen me trite The melancoly The sanguine An order for the diâ—tinge of such as be sicke of sharpe feuers Of siroppes and drynkes As the coÌ„plexion is so man requireth The. iii. doctrine The. vii chap. Moderat walke after meat profiteth Gallen in 6. de accedenti morbo 1. cap. Auice in 13. theo 3. tracte 3. cap. To healp disgestion by diuers wayes Hipo. in secondo prim doc 3. ca. 6 Hec signa declarâ—nt Note which be the most holsomst ayers to dwell in what airs corrupteth the bloud Corrupte aire bringeth sondry diseases Feruent praier vnto God doth miâ—tigate hâ—â— wrath Sweete aire to be made in y e tyme of sicknes SituacioÌ„ best for a house Pleasaunt people moderate exercise a soueraâ—â— thing Fulgen. in lib. 2. What profit coÌ„meth by exercise Vse meketh labour esy Apho. Idelnes the mother of al mischiefe Exercise before meate Auicen in can Of slepe and waking Tulli. in lib. de sene Arist in lib. de so Slepe after dinner not helhtful Slepe on the right syde is best Gal. sen 1. terap ca. 6. Thy lodging muste be kepte clene Note that sleapeers in fildes in harueste shalbe in dannger of quartens in winter The cause of y e stone remedies for y â— stone Foure thiÌ„gs noted in vrines Golden vrine Read vrine Grene vrine Couller like lead 〈…〉 〈…〉 like 〈◊〉 be â—â—â—h 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ite 〈◊〉 vâ—in â—â—â—ite