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A81875	A treasure of health By Castor Durante Da Gualdo, physician and citizen of Rome. Wherein is shewn how to preserve health, and prolong life. Also the nature of all sorts of meats and drinks, with the way to prevent all hurt that attends the use of either of them. Translated out of Italian into English, by John Chamberlayne, Gent. Imprimatur, April 5. 1686. Rob. Midgley.; De bonitate et vitio alimentorum centuria. English	Durante, Castore, 1529-1590.; Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.	1686 (1686)	Wing D2682B; ESTC R202251	103,967	242

care that none come into the Chambers th● strewed for if there be a great many with the● Breath they re-heat the Room Besides this l● the Chamber be full of odoriferous Fruits as swe●● smelling Apples Pears Quinces Citrons and Li●mons But if the Air should be too cold yo● must avoid the Wind chiefly the Northern a● not go out of the House before Sun-rising a● strew your Chamber with hot Herbs as Mint Peniroyal Sage Hysop Laurel Rosemary Marjora●● or else make a decoction of these Herbs with Clove● Cinamon Mace and such like and sprinkle t● Chamber therewith and perfume it also wi●● some aromatical Smells as Incense Mastick ●●namon Ladanum a Gum made of the fat D●● that is gathered from the Leaves of Lada N●●megs rine of Citrons Myrrh Amber Lignum ●loes Musk and the sweet smelling Gum call'd St●rax putting these things on lighted Charcoal 〈◊〉 else mix these Perfumes with liquid Storax setti●● it a little while over the Coals These aromati●● Odours have the vertue to open the Pores wh●● they are stopt attenuate the gross Humours a●● is good against the cold and moist Vapours of t●● Body This Perfume may be made another w●● if you take of all these things to wit Half ounce or six drams of Roses one dram of A●ber of Musk half a scruple of Behen Album Sparling Poppy or red Behen ana two scrupl● of the Flowers of Nymphea or River-Lillies thr● drams of Ladanum one dram of Mastick Incen●● ana two Drams pound these not too small and set them over t●● Coals Besides this to correct the bad quality of the Air and to attenuate and dissolve the gross and slimy Humours of the Body let there be always burning in the Chamber a good Fire of some Odoriferous Wood as Lawrel Rosemary Cypress Juniper Oak Pine Firr the Latrix or Larch-Tree Turpentine and Tamarisk Moreover Night and Day smell to a Ball of Pomander composed of these following several Ingredients Take of Saffron one Dram and a half of the Oriental Amber half a Scruple of Musk half a Dram of Storax Calamita the Gum which proceeds from a sweet Cane in the Indies and of Lawrel ana one Scruple these are altogether dissolved in Malmsey and thereof is made a round Ball. One thing is worthy your Observation and Remembrance that is that the Air in hot and moist Countries as for Example in Rome c. is very destructive to the Health the Air of the Vineyards is also little wholesom unless when the Northern or Western Wind blows Of Seasons those are the best which keeping their proper temperature are equally either cold or hot but the changeable and incertain Weather is the worst of all I must not likewise omit to tell you that in the Summer when the South Wind blows as in those places which stand towards the North are the least wholsome as in the Winter the Northern Wind blowing those which look towards the South If you desire to know the quality of the Air and disposition of the Weather at Night in the open Air put a dry Sponge and if in the Morning you find it dry you may assure your self the Air is dry if wet then conclude the Air is moist and damp The like Experiment may be tryed ●ith new Bread which being exposed to the Nocturnal Air as the former if in the Morning you find it mouldy the Air is corrupted and putrefied but if the Air be hot and dry the Bread will remain withou● any change The malignity of the Cold may b● corrected by artificially causing a good and swee● Breath viz. by keeping in your Mouth Treacle Mithridate also the Confection called Alcarmes a term of the Arabian Physicians whereby they meant a Cordial made of certain little Scarle● Worms of which also is Crimson made rubbing the Teeth with this Antidote which yet becomes better by the addition of Zedoary a Roo● like Ginger growing in the East-Indies an● chewing therewith Angelica and this Dentifrice or Medicine to cleanse the Teeth may be made if you take of Rosemary one Dram of Myrrh Mastick Bole-armoniack Dragons-Blood Burnt-Allom ana half a Dram of Cinnamon one Dram and a half Rose Vinegar mastick-Mastick-water ana three Ounces half a pound of Rain-water of Honey three Ounces boyl these together over a gentle fire to the end that they may be well scummed afterwards add thereto Bezoar a kind of Precious Stone very Cordial being an excellent Antidote to expel Poyson by the Arabick Doctors it is called Badzahar i. e. Alexipharmacon a Remedy for Poison and as a● Unguent keep it in a glass Bottle Of this take a spoonful every Morning fasting holding it in your Mouth and rubbing your Gums therewith the which must b● afterwards w●ll washed and cleansed with Wa●●● distilled in a hot Bath of white Salt and Roch-Allom ana three Ounces and thereto may be added a little ●●stick-water With this wash the Teeth for these things cleanse the Mouth cause good Breath f●sten loose Teeth flesh the Gums heal the putrefied Flesh and make the Teeth white Besides all this there is great heed to be taken in the choice of a House see whether the Place and the Air be good or bad wholesom or unwholsom to dwell in The House therefore which you take let it be seated in the highest place of the City therein chuse your Apartment at least one pair of stairs high and let it be very light and so placed that it may always receive the Wind in the Summer and the Sun in the Winter and have Windows on all sides that is East West North and South if it may be to the end that no one Air may remain there long which otherwise would putrefie and corrupt and furthermore you ought to avoid not only lying in a Ground-Chamber but also tarrying there long for the highest are the most wholsom where you breath the thinnest and purest Air then you receive this benefit that dwelling in the highest and most open place of the House preserves and repairs the radical Moisture of the Body and hinders Old Age but to be in a dark lower Room or under the Ground is very naught for Life is maintained by the open Air and by Light but in the shade a Man grows mouldy and corrupted I must furthermore advertise you that of Animals Herbs Fruit Corn and Wine those are to be chosen that grow in high Ground free from ill smells putrefied by the Wind and receive a temperate and sufficient warm●h of the Sun where there be no stinking Lakes and Dung-hills to molest them for there the Fruits remain a long while uncorrupted and this is ●he only place whereon a man may securely fix to dwell in 'T is also commodious to have a Country House whereto you may sometimes repair for as the Country provides Food and Victuals for the City and the City consumes it so humane Life by sometimes dwelling in the Country is prolonged but by the Idleness of the

City it is shortned Likewise change of Air is sometimes very requisite and necessary though that change should not be made suddenly but deliberately and by little and little And because to the rectifying the Air the Clothes do in some measure contribute defending the Body from it for this purpose wear those Clothes that be warm and dry in the Winter get a Suit of Lamb-skin Fox-skin of a Marten or Ermin and for a good warm pair of Shoes take the skin of an Hare which is very good against the weakness and infirmness of the Hams or else that of a Fox which strengthens all the Members Some make their Clothes of Wool Cotton or Silk for those that are made of Linnen are least of all warm Cover well the Body by Night especially the Head which is the Cell or Domicile of the rational Soul from which are derived many indispositions wherefore one must take great care that the Head be neither too hot nor too cold and there be many that in the Night-time cover their Head close with warm Clothes for whilest a Man sleeps the natural heat retires to the inward parts and the outward parts are deprived of their heat whence they are easily offended by the external Cold a●d likewise whilest a Man is awake much heat and many Spirits by the Operation of the interiour and exteriour Faculties ascend into th● Head and by that means render it more hot Therefore there is most need in the Day to keep it cool but in the Night warm One must also beware of being too much in the Sun or near the Fire and not to wash the Head too often for these hot things open dilate and rarifie the parts of the Head and more readily dispose it to receive a superfluous humidity In the Winter 't will not be unuseful to sprinkle your Clothes with this sort of Water Take of Iris Florentina or Flower-de-luce Zedoary Spikenard ana one Ounce Storax Mastick Cinnamon Nutmegs Cloves ana half an Ounce Juniper-berries three Drams Behen Amber Musk ana one Scruple Distill all these things with Wine In the Summer take of rose-Rose-water four pounds of the best Vinegar one pound of Red Roses one handful and a half Camphire half a Dram Musk seven Grains Spice of Diambra Flower-de-luce ana one Ounce pound all these except the Spice the Musk and the Camphire and dissolve them all in rose-Rose-water which being put into a Limbeck cover it nine days under Horse-dung You may also make use of this Powder to sprinkle on your Clothes adding rose-Rose-water Take Red Roses Violets ana one Ounce Peel or Rind of Citron Solanum or Night-shade of Myrtle Lignum-Aloes ana one Ounce Camphire Amber ana half a Scruple Musk Behen ana five Grains and make of this a thin Powder 'T is also good to carry Odoriferous things in your Hand in the Summer-time a Sponge dipt in rose-Rose-water or Rose-vinegar and smell to it often or carry with you this Odoriferous Ball Take of Roses one Dram Red Coral four Scruples Water-Lillies one Dram and a half Bole-armoniack one Dram ●●orax Calamita one Dram and a half Lignum-Aloes two Scruples Mastick one Dram L●danum two Drams Amber Musk ana two Grains these are pounded and so made into a Ball. In the Winter carry a Sponge infus●d into Vinegar wher●in steep Cloves and Zedoary Or else carry in your Hand this Ball of Amber Take of Ladanum half an Ounce Storax Calamita two Drams Bezoar Mastick ana one Dram Cloves Nutmegs Crocus Dyers-Grains white Wax Lignum-Aloes ana one Scruple Amber half a Scruple Musk dissolved in Malmsey five Grains make it into a Ball. Besides this there is need of defending the Breast and Stom●●k with Lamb-skin or Hares or with a Pillow of Feathers seeing that the Stomack indisposed is the Mother of the Distemper Besides the Clothes which are used for the Head and Stomack make an Odour of Saffron Lignum-Aloes an● Amber for these things strengthen the Brain bu● the Musk is to be left out by reason of its to● great Evaporation the hands are to be often covered with Gloves in the Winter made of Fox-skin in the Summer of Hares-skin Kids o● Lambs The last thing though not the least to b● observed is That with the greatest diligence an● care you avoid coldness of Hands or Feet since that infinite Distempers are wont to proceed and flow from thence CHAP. II. Of Motion BEcause Motion is not only requisite to the preservation of the Health but also very needful towards a good habit of the Body therefore after the Air it remains to treat of Exercise the which is a most powerful and prevalent thing to keep us in health being that which purges and drives away the superfluous Humours of the Body which are in such sort dissipated and dissolved that there is no longer need of Physick where this is not wanting There be many sorts of Motion and that is the best which is not violent as Walking but is a regular motion of the Body as being most kindly and most agreeable to the Members but that Motion which is caused in a Coach in a Ship on Horse-back or the like is the least wholsom Some Exercises are strong and wearisom and others moderate light and weak The temperate Exercise is that which contributes much to the Health for it corroborates the natural Health wasts the Superfluities enlivens Youth chears old Age and hinders Fulness fortifies the Senses renders the Body light and agile strengthens the Nerves and all the Joynts for the exercised Parts become more robust This also consolidates the Members aids Digestion keeps the Passages of the Body clear and open so that the smoaky Vapours of the Spirits may find a better and more free issue the which are the chiefest instruments in the conservation of hum●ne Life being the reason that the Food finds an ea●●● concoction digestion and assimulation of Parts and finally a cause of the evacuation and expurgation of all the Superfluities The light Exercises are Fishing Fowling and such like Divertisements which chear the Mind and as moderate and temperate Exercise does wonderfully contribute to the Health so overmuch Idleness is very pernicious Rubbings are also exceeding useful for they hinder the Humours from falling into the Joynts and doing it in the right time that is when the Superfluities shall be evaporated from the inward Parts it helps Digestion recreates the Body and opens the Pores whereby the moist Humours and Vapours of the Body obtain an easier passage It also swiftly draws the Blood to the outward Parts it thickens the subtil Bodies and attenuates the gross hardens the soft and mollifies the hard and fi●ally confirms the natural heat The quantity of the Exercise reaches so far as the Body can bear without growing too weary that is till you wax hot having a fresh colour and begin to sweat which so soon as you perceive change your Cloaths and dry well all the Members and put on other Cloaths

and exceeds in goodness all the other Herbs because it breeds Milk and quenches the burning Heat of the Stomach provokes Sleep and stagnates the Flux of the Seed It allays the acrimony or sharpness of the Choler it excites the Appetite and takes away the loathing of the Stomach and strengthens it and in short 't is very good for many Distempers of the Body Hurt The continual and superfluous use of Lettice obscures the Eye-sight corrupts the Seed weakens the natural Heat and makes Women barren or at least if they bear Chi●d●en it makes them stupid and foolish It makes a man slow and lazy and is hurtful to a cold Stomach and therefore is bad for old men Remedy It is less hurtful boyled than raw and is to be eaten with Mint Tarragon Rocket Garlick Onions c. and drink some good White-wine after it but you must not eat it too often It must not be washed for thereby is taken away one of its best Qualities being upon the surface thereof and causes that the Lettice weakens the Sight CHAP. XLIII Of Hops Name IN Latin they are call'd Lupulus in English Hops and Hop-tops Choice Those are best which spring from the Plant without having any Leaves round about them and whereof the Stalk is rough and tender Quality They are hot and dry in the second degree that is the Hops but the Hop-tops which are in form like Sparagus are very moist they heat little and dry less therefore where we say they are cool we mean the Hop-tops only Commodity They beget perfect Nourishment and render the Humours equal comfort and cleanse the Bowels and more particularly the Blood and make it clear and pure separating it from the dregs bringing them down and purging Choler Hops also do no less cleanse the Liver not only remove the Obstructions thereof but also those of the Milt The tops being eaten boyled mollifie the Body and the decoction of the Flowers is an Antidote for those that are poysoned and cures the Itch. The Syrup thereof is excellent good for cholerick and pestilential Feavers Hurt When it is gathered with the Leaves and hard Stalks it is not easie to be digested but is more windy than the tender and of a worse juyce Remedy Let them be eaten boyled and seasoned with Garlick and Vinegar or with the juyce of Oranges and Pepper They are good at all times for all Ages and Complexions especially boyled in good Broth. CHAP. XLIV Of Balm Name IN Latin it is call'd Citrago Melissa Melissophyllum in English Balm and Balm-gentle Choice The most tender is the best and that grows on pleasant Hills and has the good smell of a Limmon Quality Balm is hot and dry in the second degree Commodity It comforts the Heart and takes away the trembling thereof It mollifies the Breast and removes the obstructions of the Brain it helps Digestion and cures the Hiccoughs heals the biting of venomous Creatures and all flegmatick and melancholy persons Hurt It excites venereal Pleasures it is windy and of little nourishment Remedy Being eaten in Sallads it is to be mixt with cool Herbs as Lettice and the like CHAP. XLV Of Mint Name IN Latin Mentha in English Mint Quality Mint is hot in the third degree and dry in the second Choice That which is sowed in the Garden is ●he best and thereof only the tender tops Commodity It is very pleasant to the Stomach and comforts it especially if it be cold it strongly excites the Appetite and hinders the Milk from staying in the Stomach or in the Dugs and therefore those that love Milk ought often to use Mint Being used in Food it kills the Worms and for that effect Mint may be given to Children that is one dram of its juyce with half an ounce of citron-Citron-water or the syrup of Limmon-peel It takes away the Hiccoughs loathing and vomiting and fortifies the Stomach whence is said Nunquam lenta fuit stomacho succurrere menta Hurt 'T is of small Nourishment inflames the Liver and Stomach attenuates the Blood and because it is a sharp Food it stimulates Lust whereby the Body becomes lean feeble and less lusty Remedy If you eat but a little and with other cool Herbs it is less hurtful 'T is to be used in Winter by old flegmatick and melancholy men but in Summer 't is naught especially for young cholerick men CHAP. XLVI Of Parsley Name IN Latin Petroselinum in English 't is called Parsley Choice The tender is the best which is not yet seeded or in Flowers whereby the Leaves smell the sweeter and more pleasant to the taste Quality Parsley is hot in the second degree and dry in the third Commodity It is very much used almost in all Food it is put into salt Meats and in short it is used about most things of the Kitchin Eaten raw or boyled it provokes Urine Sweat brings down womens Flowers cleanses the Reins the Liver and the Matrice and removes their Obstructions dissolves Windiness is pleasant to the Stomach and the Liver and its concoction is good against the Coughs and Poysons It has the same Qualities of the Coriander and is most acceptable and grateful to the mouth of the Stomach and mitigates its Heat breaks the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder removes the Obstructions and helps the Coughs and all distempers of the Breast The Roo●●eing roasie● under the Ashes are eaten with Vinegar Oyl an● Salt in a Sallad Hurt It is of a difficult Digestion and does not beget very good Humours obfuscates the Eye-sight and is oftentimes hurtful to the Head but this is not that Parsley which hurts Epilepticks but the ordinary Parsley Remedy It is to be eaten raw with other cool Herbs as Lettice Sorrel and the like it is not very bad if eaten in a small quantity and boyled in Broth. The Roots ought to be well boyled first taking out of the middle their pithy substance CHAP. XLVII Of Burnet Name IN Latine Pimpinella and Sanguisorba in English Burnet Choice The Garden-Burnet is better than the Wild. Quality This Herb is hot and dry in the second degree Commodity It is used to be eat in Sallads wherein it is very pleasant by reason of the sweet smell it has resembling a Melon and this is that which is sowed in the Garden the wild has the noysom and rank smell of a Goat whence it is call'd Pimpinella hircina and this is reduced under the sorts of Sassafras for the great vertue and power which it has to cleanse the Reins and the Bladder and to break and drive forth the Stone and Gravel of the Kidneys it also provokes Urine and removes the Obstructions of the Liver The Garden-Burnet is a singular Remedy against the Plague as likewise the Wild and I remember that my Father who besides his other Sciences had no mean skill in Simples told me often-times that in the last great Plague which so infested all Italy that with the Decoction of Burnet only

and if there be any need lye a little in Bed and rest your self till you shall be refreshed and recover new strength Now the time for Exercise is before Meals having first evacuated the Excrements of the Belly and of the Bladder for it is usually very bad and destructive to those who being but just risen from Table with their Stomach charged venture on any Exercise And as Motion and Exercise performed before Meals is a great preserver of Health so if presently after Meals 't is the source and original 〈◊〉 divers Infirmities Therefore let all Exercise be afore Meat to which there ought at least for some small time to succeed a profound and quiet rest and remisness of the Body though from this Rule are excepted the Rusticks and Husbandmen who by a continual custom go to their Exercise and that without any hurt as soon as the meat is out of their mouths and herein is verified the saying That it is better to exercise the Body full than empty After a violent Exercise one ought to beware of catching cold for the Motion and Exercise having opened the Pores of the Body the cold easily enters therein bringing along with it Catarrhs and divers other Infirmities Then in the morning having first gone to stool the Friction or Rubbing is to follow which must be performed on the extreamest or farthest Parts of the Body beginning at the Knees and proceed down to the ends of the Feet then from the Thighs bending at the Knees then from the upper Ribs to the lower then from the Shoulders down the Back and lastly from the Arms to the Hands And this to be done with a Napkin or Towel lightly rubbing your Body till the skin wax something red In old Men the motion of their superiour Members as the Arms and the Shoulders is most necessary because it diverts and prohibits the Humours from falling into the lower Parts And on the contrary the rubbing Exercise of the Feet or the washing them with Water alone does accelerate and hasten the Gout in old Men When it being requisite that they should sometimes wash their Feet let them take weak Lye wherein let there be boyled red Roses and a little Salt in this let them wash their Feet at such time as the Fits of the G●●t be not upon them Likewise it would be good for them to pull off their Shoos and Stockings themselves without the help of their Servants which things moderately exercise the Body and stir up the Heat and Spirits And by the way I cannot but disapprove of the binding the Stockings with the Garters 't is rather far more commodious and wholsom to wear Drawers and Stockings of one entire piece for binding the Legs hard causes several pains and hinders the Heat Blood and Spirits from circulating and descending into the Joynts whence they are weakned and apt to receive divers Distempers Furthermore it is very profitable in Coughing to spit and cast out the Excrements of the Body Besides this before any Exercise in the Morning as soon as you are up rub well your Head and comb it with an ivory Comb from the Forehead upwards to the Crown giving it at least forty Combs then with a rough Cloath or a Sponge rubbing your Head it dispels all the Superfluities which are there lodged for thereby the Spirits are rarified and the passages of the Head opened and the smoaky Vapours are more freely evacuated Which thing corroborates all the interior Faculties that is the thinking the imaginative Vertues and the Memory and the use of a Comb does wonderfully restore the Sight especially in the mean time looking in a Glass the which excites all the animal Vertues chiefly the Sight and the combing the Head oftentimes a day draws the Vapours to the upper Parts and easily removes them from the Eyes but in combing do not keep the Head too open Then with another Comb comb the Beard the which cut often because 〈◊〉 chears and causes a readiness of Mind It is expedient likewise to sneeze after this universal Evacuation snuffing up into the Nose a little powder of Pepper or other Snuff Lastly 't is a necessary thing to wash the Face and Hands according to this rhiming or Leonine Verse Si fore vis sanus ablue saepe manus The washing the Face refreshes a Man and makes the Heat to retire by Antiparistasin and then uniting it self it becomes more strong In the Winter wash with the decoction of Sage or Rosemary sometime steeped in Wine in the Summer fresh Water is most agreeable whereto add a little Rose water with a little Soap or rather a perfumed Wash-ball The Hands ought to be often washed for they are the Instruments which keep clean the Organs whereby the Superfluities of the Brain issue forth as are the Ears the Eyes and the Nostrils and therefore is said Lotio post mensam tibi confert munera bina Mundificat palmas lumina reddit acuta But after Meals you should not wash the Hands with hot Water for it breeds Worms in the Belly and the reason is this because the hot Water does extract and draw forth the natural Heat whence it happens that digestion and concoction of the Food becomes imperfect the which is a powerful occasion of the Worms The Eyes also are to be washed with fresh Water which cleanses them from all Gum and Filth and putting the Eyes into cool fresh Water open does wonderfully clear and purifie the Eye-●●●ht afterwards drying them with a very clean and perfum'd Towel Take care also that your Teeth be very clean which for want of well rubbing and cleansing cause a naughty and stinking Breath and the superfluities of the Teeth being mixed with the Food does breed corruption and renders it putrified Besides which the rotten Teeth do send to the Brain an infectious Vapour and nothing is better to keep the Teeth white and clean than to wash them twice a Month with Wine wherein let there be boyled a Root of Tithymalus or Spurge And now to wash the Head sometimes we ought not to take that old Italian Proverb or Sentence for our Guide viz. Si lavano spesso le mani raro i piedi et non mai il capo That is we must often wash our Hands seldom our Feet and never our Head But that Maxim is not good for washing the Head sometimes does greatly strengthen the Brain especially if in the Winter-time you wash it with sweet Lye wherein let there be boyled some Sage Bettony Staechas or French-Lavender Camomil Myrrh and a little odoriferous Wine and use also Wash-balls made of the Soap of Venice or Damascus about two ounces of the Larch-tree or Agaricon a kind of Mushroom growing upon high Teees of a white colour very good for the Head one ounce of Ladanum three drams of Cloves and Spikenard ana two scruples with oyl of Myrtles and with these Ingredients make a little Ball for your use In the Summer boyl with your