from growing dry Salt hot and cold especially being incorporated and made of sweete Fruits and Roots as Raysons Iujuba dry Figges Dates Parsnips Potatoes and Lickorish Also Drinke made of Indian Maze and other sweete Compounds is very good It is an observation that the keeping of the Liver fat and soft doth lengthen Life and the opening of the Liver procures health in obstructions joyned with inflamations curing also drynes 25. Succory Spinage and Beet after their pith is taken out being boyled in water with a third part of white wine untill they bee soft are with oyle and Vinegar good ordinary Sallets Also Sperage-buds and stalkes and Burre-rootes well sod and seasoned and Broth made with young Vine-buds and blades of greene Wheate are good So much of strengthning the Liver 26. Because the heart receives most benefit or harme by the vapours of the ayre drawne in by breathing or by affections and passions therefore the former Rules concerning the spirits may bee thereunto applyed but no Physicall Cordials but Antidotes strengthening the heart and spirits to resist the allayed poyson These Cordials are formerly mentioned 27. A good ayre is better known by Experience than Signes The best ayre is on a levell open playne the soyle being dry not barren and sandy but naturally bearing wild Bettony Fetherfew and wilde Mints shaded with some trees and Black-berry-bushes and watred with no great river but with cleare gravelly brooks 28. The Morning Ayre is healthfuller than the Evening Ayre which is accounted more pleasant 29. An Ayre somewhat rugged and stirred with a gentle winde is better than a calme cleare Ayre and in the Morning the west wind is best but the North-winde in the Afternoone 30. Sweet odours and smells are very comfortable to the heart yet a good ayre hath not alwaies a good smell for as pestilent ayres have no very bad smell so oftentimes wholesome aires are not very sweete and fragrant but the odour and sent of a good ayre should bee interchangeably taken for one continuall excellent odour or sent oppresses the spirits 31. Nosegayes are good in the open ayre but growing flowers yeeld the best odours and sents as Violets Gilliflowers Pinkes Beane-blossomes Linden-buds Vine-buds Honey-suckles Pellitory-flowers Muske-Roses other Roses yeelding no great sent withered Strawberries Blackberry-bushes in the Spring Wilde Mint Lavendar and in hot Countries the Orange-tree Citron Myrtle and Bay Also walking and sitting in such sweete Ayres is very good 32. Cooling smells are better for the Heart than hot sents therefore in the Morning and at Noone the steame of perfumes made of Vinegar Rose-water and Wine put into a Brasse-pan being received into the Braine is very good 33. And wine powrd on the earth digg'd or turn'd up being no sacrifice yeelds a good scent and smell 34. Also Orange-flower water mingled with Rose-water and Brisk-wine and being smell'd unto or infused into the nostrills is very good 35. Small Pills made of Amber Muske Lignum Aloes Lignum Rhodium Flower deluce-roots Roses Rose-water and Indian Balsam being chewed and held in the mouth are comfortable for the heart and spirits 36. Vapours arising from Medicines taken inwardly to strengthen and cherish the Heart must bee wholesome cleare and cooling hot vapours being naught for Wine yeelding hot vapours is like Poppey in quality Cleare vapours are such as have more vapour than exhalation being not altogether smoaky and oyly but also moist 37. The chiefest Cordials used in dyet are Amber-Grise Saffron Kermes being hot and dry and for coolers Buglosse and Borage-roots Oranges Lemmons and Apples Also powders of Gold and Pearle doe coole the blood and stomacke leaving no bad quality 38. Bezar-stone being not taken in Broath 〈◊〉 or Rose-water but in Wine or Cynamon-water or some other water not hot or strong is an approved Cordiall for the spirits 39. Observe also that great constant and Heroicall desires doe strengthen and enlarge the heart and so much of the heart 40. Opium Nitre and other inferiour drugs procuring sleepe are good for the Braine being the Animall spirits seate and residence and protected or annoyed by the stomacke and therefore stomacke Cordials are comfortable also for the Brayne as these Receipts be three wherof are outwardly one inwardly applyable 41. Bathe the feet every week in a bath made of Lye Bay-salt Sage Camomile Fennil sweet Marjoram Angelico leaves 42. Suffumigations also or perfumes of dry Rosemary dry Bay-leaves and Lignum Aloes for sweet Gummes oppresse the head are good every morning 43. No hot drugs or Spices except Nutmegs may bee outwardly applyed to the Head but unto the soles of the feete they may be laid but annointing of the Head lightly with Oyle rose-Rose-water myrtle-Myrtle-water Salt and Saffron mingled together is very good 44. A Morning potion of 3. or 4. graines of Oyle of Bezars stone with a little Angelico seed and Cynamon once in 14 dayes being taken in the Morning doth strengthen the braine and thicken quicken the spirits 45. All these Cordials taken in Dyet doe comfort the Braine variety of Medicines being the Daughter of Ignorance many Dishes breeding many Diseases and many Medicines effecting few Cures And so much of the Operation on the principall parts for extrusion and driving out of nourishment The Operation on the outward parts for attracting and drawing nourishment 6 The History 1. GOod Digestion of the inward parts being the chiefe cause of good Nourishment the outward parts must also performe their Offices and Duties that the inward faculty may drive out Nourishment being attracted by the outward faculty then requiring most strengthning whe Digestion is growne weake 2. The outward parts by bodily exercise comforted and warmed doe thereby cheerefully attract nourishment 3. But exercises attracting new moysture to the limbes being violent doth loosen the limbes and consume the old moysture 4. Frication also and rubbing is in the morning very good for the Body being afterward lightly annoynted with Oyle lest by rubbing the outward parts by Respiration and vapouring should bee weakened 5. Exercise nibbing and chafing the Limbes together is also very good being moderate not strayning or toilesome for the Body must not respire nor sweat too much by rubbing or exercise Therefore exercise is better abroad than in the House and in Winter than in Summer Also after exercise annoynting is good and before and after violent exercises as Fencers before and after their prizes were heretofore annoynted 6. Exercise on a fasting stomack doth by sweating loosen the Spirits and moysture of the Body and beeing unhealthfull on a full stomacke is best after a light breakfast not of Physicall morning potions or Ray sons or Figges but playne meate and Drinke moderately taken 7. Exercise must stirre all the Body not as Socrates sayth the Knees or Armes onely but generally all the Limbes of the body and the posture of the body should bee every houre changed except in sleeping 8. Mortification is a kinde of Vivification and rene wing for
hayre shirts whippings and all outward austerities doe strengthen the attractive faculty 9. Netling is commended by Cardan to be good against Melancholly but for raysing red blisters on the skin is not to bee allowed So much of the operation on the outward parts for attracting and drawing of nourishment The Operation on Food and dyet shewing which is most nourishing 7. The History 1. PHilosophers might better than Physitians follow common opinion in condemning many Services and Messes of meate lengthning not Life but preserving health for a Heterogeneous mixture of meates doth more readily nourish the veines breeding better moysture than one kinde of meate moreover variety excites the Appetite and the Appetite sharpens Disgestion So that a various kinde of Dyet according unto the seasons of the yeare is approoved 2. Good Sawces are wholsome preparatives to meate preserving health and prolonging life 3. Course Fare requires strong Drinke and piercing Sawces that may sinke into the meate but with fine Fare small Drinke is best and fat Sawces 4. At Supper the first cup of drinke should be drunk warm and a good draught of warme drinke spiced taken halfe an houre before meate is a good preparative for the stomacke 5. Meat Bread and drinke being well drest made and brew'd are most nourishing which matters belonging to the Kitching and Buttery are more necessary to be knowne than the Fables of Gold and Pearle 6. Boyl'd meate drest with moyst cooling Sawces doth not moysten the Body beeing good in hot sicknesses but affording no oyly nourishment boyld meats being not so good as roasted and baked 7. Meate must bee roasted with a quick fuddain fire not with a slow fire nor lye too long at roasting 8. Solid meats so corned with Salt that little or no Salt neede bee eaten therewith at the Table is good Salt meate beeing better for Digestion than Salt eaten with meate 9. Meat should be layd to soake in convenient Lyquors before it bee roasted or baked as fish is watred and layd in pickle 10. Flesh beaten before boyling becomes tender for Partridges and Pheasants taken by Hawking and Venison killed in Hunting are very sweete and pleasant in eating And some Fish is better by beating Also hard sower Peares and other fruites beeing rowled and squeezed do wax sweet and mellow Flesh beaten and bruised before laying downe to roast is thereby prepared for Disgestion and is very good 11. Bread well Leavened but lightly salted and baked in a very hot oven is best 12. Of Drinke to lengthen Life Water beeing no Life prolonger it is onely observable that the parts of Spiritual Drinkes as Wine Beere 〈◊〉 and Metheglin must be subtile and the spirits gentle 〈◊〉 because shortnesse and Age doe make the parts 〈◊〉 and cleere but the 〈◊〉 sharpe therefore some 〈◊〉 substance as was sayd must bee put in Vessells to allay the sharpenesse of the Spirits Also Drinke beeing kept in continuall motion by carriage at Sea or in Carts or in Bladders hung on Lines and stirred every Day will by such motions become thinne and cleere by blending the spirits be kept from sowernes being a kinde of putrefaction 13. Meate should by Dressing be made easie of disgestion for old Folkes But Distillations of meate are vaine conceites the nourishing and best part thereof ascending not into vapour 14. Meate and Drinke dissolved and mingled together is easie of Digestion Therefore of Chickins Partridge or Pheasants beeing first parboyled with water and salt then wip'd and dryed and boyled to a ielly in wine or Ale with some Sugar a strong comfortable broth is made 15. Also Gravie of meate or mince-meat and Hodg-podges well seasoned are good for old Folkes whose teeth cannot be cheewing prepare their meate for Disgestion 16. The defect of strong 〈◊〉 for chewing meate may 〈◊〉 supplied by making new 〈◊〉 grow hardly effected 〈◊〉 an inward powerfull restoring of the whole body or by hardning the Gums by binding medicines to serve insteede 〈◊〉 teeth or by preparing and dressing meate to neede little or no chewing 17. To exceede sometimes 〈◊〉 the quantity of meat and drink and to water the body by great Feasts and liberall drinking is sometimes good So much of the operation of preparing and dressing of dyet The operation on the last act of Assimilation or conversion into the like substance 8. THe nature of the last Act of Assimilation or Converting into the like substance being the intended effect of the three former Operations may bee opened and declared without Rules The Comment 1. ALL bodies desire to Assimilate and convert Substances into their owne substance Flame Spirit Ayre being thinne and Spirituall doe couragiously performe this worke but thicke and grosse substances very weakely this desire of assimilating being by a stronger desire of rest and ease restrayned 2. For this Desire of assimilating restrained in the Body is ineffectuall untill it bee by heate and Spirit freed excited and actuated and therefore livelesse bodies doe not assimilate and living Creatures assimilate Disgest and convert into their owne substance 3. More heate is required to make hard Bodies assimilate and Disgest therefore the bodies parts growne hard with Age must bee softned and heate then weake encreased for helping Disgestion But of preventing the bodies hardnesse some Rules were delivered and others shall be given heereafter for softning the parts For increasing heate take this Rule or Axiom 4. The act of Assimilation incited and provoked by heate a very accurate subtile motion and most powerfull when bodily motion the disturber thereof ceases For a substance of one kind wil not separate into parts of divers kinds being moved as Curd will not rise nor the Whey sinke downe the Milke being gently stirred Also running water nor any water or liquor will not put refie being continually moved and shaked Therefore by this Reason this conclusion is inferr'd 5. Assimilation is performed and perfected chiefly in sleepe and rest especially towards Morning after good digestion therefore sleeping warme using oyntments towards morning or provoking of moderate heate by an oyled shirt and sleeping afterward again are all very good So much of the last act of Assimilation or converting food into the substance of the body The Operation for making the body tender and young having begun to wither and grow old and how to soften the body 9. THat good Dyet and restraint of the spirits doe by an inward tedious manner of working make the Body tender was formerly shewed an outward and more speedy meanes shall now bee declared The History 1. AS Medea in the Fable pretended to make Pelias young by boyling the pieces of his dissected body in a Kettle with medicinable Drugges so heere in renewing of Age the inward parts must bee distinguished and divided with judgement and by more particular wayes than the body softned 2. But this dissection must be in some respect performed not with any Razour but with judgement for the bowells and inward parts being different their
off Limbes juyce of Hemlocke is used to mitigate the paine by putting the spirits to flight and casting the Patient into a swoone 19. The thickning of the spirits by Flight and driving inwards is a good effect of Poppy-juyce proceeding from a bad Cause being the flight of the spirits 20. Poppey was esteemed by the Graecians to bee a great preserver of Health and prolonger of Life the principall ingredient used by the Arabians called Gods hands was Poppey-juyce the bad qualities thereof being allay'd with other mixtures as Treacle Mithridate and the like 21. All Medicines thickning the Spirits as Poppey doth especially and staying and restrayning the Spirits unruly working and raging in pestilentiall Diseases are good to prolong life 22. A good quantity of Poppy-juyce being found by experience to be comfortable is taken by the Turkes to make them valiant but to us unlesse taken in a small quantity and well allay'd it is deadly poyson 23. Poppy-juyce doth also strengthen the spirits and excite to Venery 24. The distilled waters of wilde Poppy is good for Surfeits Feavers and divers Diseases the spirits being therby thickned and strengthened to resist any diseases 25. The Turkes drinke the powder of an hearbe in warme water to increase their valour and sharpnesse of wit but a greater quantity thereof is of a stupe fying power like Poppey 26. The East Indians refresh themselves before and after labour by holding in their mouths or eating a famous Roote called Betell enabling also their acts of Generation being also of a stupefying power because it blacketh the teeth 27. Tobacco in this age growne so common and yeelding such a secret delight and content that being once taken it can hardly be forsaken doth lighten the body and take off wearinesse opening the pores and voyding humours but thickning the spirits being a kind of Henbane and doth like Poppy buzzell and trouble the braine 28. Some humours of the body as those proceeding from melancholy are like Poppey-juyce and doe cause long life 29. Opium Or Poppy-juyce the Leaves and seeds of both kinds of Poppey also Henbane Mandrake Hemlocke Tobacco Nightshade or Banewort have all a drowsie stupefying power 30. Treacle Mithridate Trifer Paracelsus Gumme Syrrop of Poppey Pills of Hounds tongue are compouded drugs of the sale nature 31. These Presecriptions Prolong life by thickning the spirits by coolers 32. In Youth keepe every yeere a coole dyet about May the spirits in Summer being loose and thinne and no cold humours bred and take a Julip of Poppey and other hot ingredients but not too strong every morning between sleep then keepe a spare diet for fourteene dayes afterward forbearing Wine and hot Spices 33. Smoakes and steames being not too purgative to draw forth humours but having a light operation on the spirits of the braine doe coole the spirits as well as coolers therfore a Suffumigation made of Tobacco wood of Aloes dry Rosemary-leaves and a little Myrrh being in the morning received into the Nostrills is very wholesome 34. But the Water of compound Opiate Drugs the vapor rising in distilling and the heare settling downwards is better to bee taken in youth than the drugs for the vertue of distilled water is in their vapour being in other respects weake 35. Some Drugs being like Poppy but not so strong doe yeeld a drowsie cooling vapour and wholesomer than Poppy not shunn'd by the spirits being thereby gathered together and thickned 36. The drugges like unto Poppy and therewith used are Saffron and Saffron flowers the Indian Leafe AmberGrīse Coriander-seed prepa red Amomum Pseudamomum Rhodianwood water of Orange Blossomes and an infusion of the flowers steeped in Oyle Olive and a Nutmeg dissolved in Rose-water 37. Vse Poppy sparingly at set times but these other Drugs being commonly taken and in dayly dyet are very soveraigne to prolong life Pharmacopaeus in Calecut by using Amber lived to one hundred and sixty yeeres of Age and the Nobility of Barbary by using the same drugge are longer liv'd than the common people And our long-liv'd Ancestors used Saffron very-much in their Cakes and Broths So much of thickning the spirits by Poppy and Other drugges 38. The second way and meanes to thicken the spirits is by cold for cold doth properly thicken and by a safer operation and working than the malignant qualities of Poppey though not so powerfully yet because coolers may be familiarly used in dayly dyet they are better to prolong Life than drowsie Potions or Drugs 39. The spirits are cooled by breathing by vapours or by dyet the first way being best but difficult the second good and easie the third weakeand tedious 40. The cleare pure Ayre which may be taken on the dry tops of mountaines and in open shady fields is good to thicken the spirits 41. Also vapours doe coole and thicken and Nitre hath in this kind a speciall operation grounded on these Reasons 42. Nitre is a kind of cold Spice being so cold that it biteth the tongue as hot Spices doe 43. The spirits of all Drugges Naturally not Accidentally cold are few and weake spirituall Drugges being on the contrary hot Nitre onely having aboundance of spirits is of a vegetable nature and cold For Camphire is spirituall and cold in operation by accident and the thinne quality thereof being without sharpnesse doth lengthen the breath in inflammations 44. Also Nitre mingled with Snow and Ice and put about vessels doth congeale and freeze the liquor within and common Bay-salt doth make Snow colder and more apt to freeze But in hot Countries where no Snow falls Niter is onely used 45. 〈◊〉 and Souldiers to make them valiant doe drinke Gunne-powder before they fight or joyne Battaile as the Turkes doe Poppy 46. Nitre doth allay the destroying he are of burning 〈◊〉 and Pestentiall 〈◊〉 47. The Nitre in Gun-powder shunning the flame when a Peece is fired doth make the crake and report 48. Nitre is the spirit of the earth for any pure earth covered or shaded from the Sun-beames so that nothing doe spring or grow thence will gather store of Nitre the spirit of Nitre being inferiour to the spirit of living creatures and of Vegetables and Plants 49. Cattell drinking of water wherein there is Nitre doe grow fat being a signe that the Nitre is cold 50. Land and Grounds are made ranke and mellow by the fatning quality of the spirit of Nitre which is in dung 51. Therefore the spirit of Nitre will coole thicken and refresh the spirits and abate their heate For as strong Wine and Spices doe enflame the spirits and shorten life so Nitre composing and restrayning the spirits doth lengthen life 52. Nitre may bee used with meate and eaten with Salt to the proportion of a tenth part and put in morning Broaths from three Graines to ten or in drinke and being used in any manner moderately it Prolongs Life 53. As other Drugges besides Poppy being weaker and safer to bee taken in greater quantity and oftner doe
condensate and thicken the spirits by flight so Drugs of an inferiour nature and operation to Nitre doe also coole and thicken the spirits 54. All Drugges inferiour to Niter smell earthly like good pure earth newly turn'd up and digg'd the chiefe whereof are Burrage Buglosse Burnet Strawberry-leaves and strawberries Cowcumbers and fragrant Apples Vine-leaves and Buds and Violets 55. Next to these are Drugges of a hot smell but cooling as Balme Citrons and Lemmons greene Oranges Rose-water roasted Peares Damask and Red Roses and Muske-Roses 56. These Fruits inferiour to Nitre for thickning the spirits should bee used raw not roasted their cooling spirits being by fire dispersed therefore to infuse or squeeze them into Drink or to eate or smell to them raw is best 57. The spirits are thickned also by the odour and smell of other Drugges inferiour to Poppey and Nitre For the smell of pure fresh earth comming from following a Plough or digging or weeding and the smel of leaves fallen from trees in Woods or Hedge-rowes at the beginning of Autumne is good to coole the spirits and especially wither'd Strawberry leaves also the smel of Violets of the flowers of Pellitory of the Wall of Blackberries and Madre-selve is cooling 58. A Noble man of my acquaintance who lived to bee very old did usually after sleepe smell to a clod of fresh earth 59. Also Endive Succory Liverwort Purflaine c. doe by cooling the blood coole also the spirits though not so soone as vapours and smells So much of thickning the spirits by Flight The third kind of thickning is by Delight the fourth by the restraint of their cheorefulnesse joyfulnesse and too violent motions 60. The spirits are mitigated and thickned by such acceptable pleasing Objects as doe not draw them forth but afford them inward delight whereby being collected into their Center they enjoy themselves and therein finde a sweete content 61. The former Positions of drugges inferior to Opium and Nitre being here remembred further inquiry of thickning the spirits by cooling will bee needelesse 62. The restraint of the violent affections and motions of the spirits shall bee hereafter declared now the thickning of the spirits having beene shewed the qualification and temper of their heate follows 63. The spirits should not bee hot and sharpe but strong and lusty to conquer and subdue resisting matter not to attenuate expell thin humors Spices Wine and strong drinke must be temperately used and after Abstinence hath refreshed the appetite and also Savory Margerum Penny-royall and all heaters that bite on the tongue must bee seldome used The heate by them infused into the Spirits being not operative but a devouring heate 65. These Hearbs strengthen the heate of the Spirits Endive Garlicke Blessed-Thistle young Cresses Germander Angelico Wormseed Vervin Set-well Myrthe Pepperwort Elder-budds and Parsley and being used in Sawces and Medicines are hot in operation 66. Also of cooling Drugges compounded with Euphorbium Bastard Pellitory Stavesacres Dragon-wort Anacardium Oyle of Beaversstone Hart-wort Opoponax Gumme of Agasillis and Galbanum and the like to allay the drowsie stupefying power of Poppey a very good Medicine to strengthen the spirits and make them hot and lusty may bee made like Treacle and Mithridate being not sharpe nor biting on the tongue but bitter and of a strong sent yet hot in the stomacke and in working or in their Operations 67. The desire of Venery often stirred up and excited but seldome satisfied in Act doth strengthen the heate of the spirits and so doe some of the affections So much of the heare of the spirits being a cause of long life 68. The spirits should not abound but be few and moderate for a small flame devoures not so much as a greater 69. A sparing Pythagoricall dyet such as Monks and Hermits under the Order of St. Necessity and St. Poverty used is good to prolong life 70. Also drinking of water hard lodging cold spare Dyet of Sallets Fruits and powderd flesh and sale Fish without any fresh warme meate a haire-shirt fasting watching abstinence from sensuall pleasures doe abate and diminish the spirits which being reduc'd to a quantity sufficient to maintaine life doe make lesser wast on the body 71. But a higher Dyet somewhat above those rigorous moderate Dyets being kept man equall constant manner hath the same operation For a great constant quiet flame consumes not so much as a lesser which blazeth and is somtimes bigger sometimes lesser and Cornarus Venetus keeping such a constant Dyet and drinking and eating so many yeeres by just proportion and weight lived in perfect health untill hee was an hundred yeeres of age 72. Also to avoyd inflammation of the spirits a full-sed body not mortified by strict dyets must use seasonable Venery lest the spirits swelling too much doe soften and destroy the body so much of the moderate plenty of spirits 73. The restraynt of the spirits motion is next considerable for motion doth make the spirits hot There be three Restrayners of the spirits Sleepe avoyding of violent labour exercise and wearinesse and the governing and moderating of troublesome affections And first of Sleepe 74. Epimenides slept many yeeres in a Cave without any food because the spirits in sleepe devoure not much radicall moysture 75. Also Dormice and Bats doe sleepe in holes all the Winter sleep restrayning the consrming power of their vitall spirits so Bees wanting Honey and Butter-flies and Flesh-flyes do live by sleep 76. Sleepe after Dinner the first Vapours of meate like a Dew ascending then into the head is good for the Spirits but unwholesome for the body And sleepe is as nourishing as meate for old folkes who should often take light Refections and short naps and beeing growne extreame olde should live in continuall ease and Rest especially in Winter 77. Thus moderate sleepe being sound and quiet doth prolong Life 78. To make one sleepe soundly and quietly Violets are good sod Lettuce Syrrup of Roses Saffron Balme Apples eaten before going to Bed a sop dipt in Malmsey wherein a Muske-Rose hath beene steeped or a Pill or Potion made of these Ingredients Also all binding Drugges as Coriander-seed prepared and roasted Quinces and Peares doe cause sound and quiet sleepe But a good draught of cleere cold Water is best to make young folkes having strong stomacks sleepe soundly Voluntary Extasies and fixed profound Meditations joyned with a quiet minde doe thicken the spirits more than sleepe making them rest from outward operations as sleepe doth So much of sleep 79. Violent wearisome exercises and motions as Running Tennis Fencing are not good nor strayning of strength to the uttermost as Leaping and wrestling for the spirits by such violent nimble motions and straining of the strength being droven into a narrow roome doe become more sharpe and praedatory or devouring but Dancing Shooting Riding Bowling and such moderate Exercises are very healthfull Some of the affections and passions of the minde doe shorten the life of man and some
moisture 17. For oyle and fat alone and also in mixture and composition are hardly dissipated and wasted For water is sooner consumed and Dryed than oyle alone sticking longer in paper or a Napkin before it be Dried 18. To breede this oylinesse in the body roasted or baked meate is better than boyled or stewed or dressed in any kinde with Water more oyle beeing Distilled and extracted out of drye substances than moist 19. And generally all sweete things doe moysten the body with this oylinesse as Sugar Honey sweete Almonds Pine-Apples Pistacke-nuts Dates Raysons and figs but all sower salt sharpe meates doe breede no dewy oylinesse 20. Also Seeds Nuts and roots the Maniches using no other dyet are good with meat in Sawces for all kinde of bread beeing the confirmer of meats is made of Seedes or rootes 21. But Drinke being the Waggon carrying downe meate doth especially moisten and soften the body Therefore Drinkes not sharpe or sower but ripe and cleere are best as Wine beeing as the old wise sayd in Plautus toothles with age also stale Beere and Ale beeing not sharpe but ripe and pleasant 22. Metheglin strong and olde is a good Drinke but beeing incorporated with Sugar insteede of Honey which is sharpe as the Water is by Chymists thence extracted would bee better espeoially after a yeare or sixe moneths age the rawnesse of the water beeing then gone and the Sugar growne subtil and spirituall 23. But olde Wine and stale Drinke beeing subtill and full of oylinesse are also Spirituall and sharpe and not so Good therefore Porke or Venison well boyled being laid into Vessels of Wine Ale or Beere the spirits of the wine and of other lyquors feeding thereon will lose their sharpnes 24. Also Beere or Ale bread of Wheate Barley and Pease with Potato roots B ur rootes and other sweete rootes to the quantity of a third part is better to prolong Life than drink made onely of Graine 25. Flowers also being not sharp or biting are good sawces and sallets for meate as Ivy-flowers with Vinegar taste pleasantly and Marigold leaves and Betony flowers in broaths So much of the operation in the bodies moisture The Operation on the inward parts to make them digest and drive out nourishment 5. The History 1. How the Stomacke Liver Heart and braine the principalls parts and Fountaines of Concoction may be comforted and made to performe their offices by imparting Nourishment and spirits to the severall parts and renewing the Body Physicall Rules and Prescriptions doe declare 2. The spleene gall reynes midriffe small guts and lights being members serving the principall parts are here confiderable because their Diseases cured by Physicke may bee derived to the principall parts But by good digestion and the soundnesse strength of the principall parts life is prolonged and the Body nourished and kept from decaying in old age 3. But Medicines and Dyets agreeable to the state of bodies and comfortable to the foure principall parts are in Physicke prescribed For 〈◊〉 and Physick are necessary to recover and preserve health but Life is chiefly lengthned by a good physicall diet prescribed in these choise Receipts following 4. The stomack resembling the good man of the house and being the cause of all Concoction and Digestion must be fortified and strengthened by being kept temperately warm retentive and cleane without oppressing humours not empty or fasting being nourished by it selfe more than by the veines and lastly in appetite whereby Digestion is sharpned 5. Warme drinks are also very good For a famous Physitian would usually at Dinner supper 〈◊〉 messe of hot broth very greedily and afterward wish that he could cast it up again saying that he needed not broth but the broths warmth 6. At supper the first cup of wine Beere Ale or any other kinde of Drinke must bee alwayes warmed 7. A draught of wine wherein Gold was quenched is good at meales the Gold having no vertue but as other mettals yet Gold quenched in liquor leaves therin a binding power without other qualities belonging to metals 8. Sopps of bread dipped in wine wherein Rosemary and Citerne barke have beene infused with sugar are better in the middle of meales than wine 9. 〈◊〉 are good to 〈◊〉 the stomacke but syrrup 〈◊〉 Quinces taken alone after meales and with vinegar before meales is better than Quinces beeing somewhat too 〈◊〉 for the stomacke 10. 〈◊〉 Elecampane Masticke Wormwood Sage and Mint are excecding good for 〈◊〉 stomacke 11. 〈◊〉 of Aloes Masticke and Saffron taken in winter before dinner are also very good the Aloes beeing first washed in Rosewater and the infusion of Dragant in vinegar and then dissolved in sweet fresh oyle of Almonds 12. An infusion of wormwood with a little Elecampane and Sanders may be sometimes used in Winter 13. In Summer a 〈◊〉 of white 〈◊〉 of the infusion of powder of Pearle and powder of River Crevises shells and a little chalke doth very much refresh and strengthen the stomacke 14. But all cold morning-draughts commonly used as Syrrups Decoctions Whey Beere or Ale are unwholesome coolers being not good for an empty fasting stomack but five houres after Dinner and an Houre after a light Breakefast they may be used 15. Fasting often is bad for long life and so is also all kind of thirst for the stomacke must be kept cleane but alwayes moyst 16. The annoynting of the backe-bone over against the 〈◊〉 of the stomacke with 〈◊〉 fresh Oyle-olive of the 〈◊〉 of Mithridate is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the stomack 17. A bagge of locks of Wooll 〈◊〉 in sharpe Wine after the in fufion of Myrtle 〈◊〉 Barke and a little 〈◊〉 is good to be worne alwayes next the stomack And so much of comforting the 〈◊〉 handled more largely in other operations 18. The Liver must be kept from Inflammation drynesse and obstruction happening in Age the waterish loosenesse thereof being a disease 19. To the Rules hereunto belonging delivered in the Operation of blood these choise Prescriptions may be added 20. Promegranate-Wine or Pomegranate-juyce newly squeezed into a glasse may be taken in the Morning with some sugar and a little Citron-bark and three or foure whole Cloves and used from February to the end of April 21. Young Cresses taken either raw or in broth or drinke are exceeding good and also Spoonewort 22. Aloes washed and allayed is hurtfull to the Liver therefore not commonly to bee taken Rheubarb dissolved in sweet oyle of Almonds and rose-Rose-water is good for the Liver being taken before meate because a dryer and at severall times either alone or with Tartar or a little Bay-salt lest by purging away the thinne matter the humours should become tougher and harder 23. Take the Decoction of Steele twice or thrice a yeere to loosen Obstructions and stoppings in the liver two or three spoonefuls of Oyle being first taken and the Body especially the Armes and fore part of the stomacke afterward stirred by exercise 24. Sweete Drinkes keepe the Liver
much as change of Ayre Therefore poore men living in Cottages and never changing their Dwellings are commonly long-liv'd But in other Respects the Spirits beeing fresh and lively change of Ayre is good foure yeerely remoovings beeing sufficient that so neither Travayle nor continuall residence in one place may proove wearisome So much of excluding or keeping out and avoyding the praedatory devouring power of the Ayre The Operation on the Blood and cooling the heate of the Blood 3. The History THe two Operations following have as Actives to Passives Relation to the former which endeavoured to keepe the spirits and ayre from wasting the body as these shew how to make the blood moysture and body lesse subject to depraedation and wasting but Blood watering the moysture and limbes three powerfull rules concerning the operation on the Blood shall bee first propounded 2. First Blood being cold is lesse dissipable and subject to scattering abroad There are two coolers more agreeable to the following Intentions than Julips or Potions 3. In Youth Glisters not purgative or cleansing but onely refrigerative cooling and opening made of the juyce of Lettuce Purslane Liverwort Sevegreene or House-leeke Fleawort-seed with a temperate opening decoction mingled with a little Camphire but in Age instead of Houseleeke and Purslane the juyce of Borage and Endive may be used and these Glisters must be an Houre or more retained 4. Secondly in Summer a Bath may be made of sweete luke-warme water and new whey and Roses insteade of Mallows Mercury Milke and such like mollifiers and softners 5. Annoynt the Body with Oyle and thickning substances before Bathing for receiving the refrigerating quality of the coolers and repelling the water the pores of the body being not shut too close lest outward cold strongly closing shutting the Body doe hinder cooling and rather stirre up heate 6. Bladders also apply'd with Decoctions and cooling juyces to the inferiour Region of the Body beneath the Ribs downward are a kind of Bathing whereby the liquour being excluded the Refrigerating quality or Coolenesse is onely received 7. The third Rule doth onely qualifie the substance of the Blood making it firmer and lesse subject to Dissipation and scattering abroad or to the working heate of the spirits 8. To effect this Operation powder of Gold or Leafe-Gold or powder of Pearle precious Stones and Corrals are good being therefore much esteemed by the Arabians Grecians and also Modernes Therefore to omit fantasticall Opinions insinuation being made into the substance of the Blood the spirits and heate having no power to worke thereon putrefaction and drying would bee thereby prevented and Life Prolonged yet divers Cautions are observable First let them bee exactly pulveriz'd and made into powder secondly let their malignant quality hurtfull to the veines be taken away thirdly beware lest their long abode in the body being taken with meate or otherwise received doe breed dangerous obstructions in the Bowels fourthly to avoyd Repletion or filling of the veines let them be seldome used 9. Therefore take them fasting in White-wine mingled with a little oyle of Almonds and afterward use some exercise 10. In this operation use Pearles Corrall and Gold for all Other Mettals having some malignant quality are not so exactly pulveriz'd or made into powder and the powder of cleere grasse greene stones is bad being a Corrosive 11. But drugges of wood may be more safely and effectually used in Infusions and Decoctions being good to make the Blood firme and not dangerous for breeding of Obstructions and their Infusions being taken in Dyet or Drinke having no dregs doe easily pierce into the veines 12. Drugges of Wood are Sanders the Oke and Vine but hot woods having in them any Rozzen or Gumme are not good but dry Rosemarystalkes being a shrub as longlivd as many Trees and such a quantity of Ivy-stalkes as will not make the Potion unsavory may be used 13. Drugs of wood may be also boiled in Broths infused into Ale or Wine before they be setled or refined But Guiacum and such Drugges must bee put in before the Broaths are boyled that the substance of the firmer parts of the Wood being dissolved may remaine in the Broath but whether Ash bee good in Potions is uncertaine So much of the Operation on the Blood The Operation on the moysture of the Body 4. The History 1. TWo kinds of Bodies formerly mentioned concerning living creatures are hardly consumed hard bodies as Mettals and Stones fat as Oyle and Waxe 2. Therefore the moysture of the Body must bee hardened and made fatty or dewy 3. Moysture is hardened by firme foode by cold thickening the skinne and flesh and by exercise compacting the juyce that it may not bee soft and frothy 4. Beefe Porke Venison Goat Kid Swanne Goose and Woode-pigeons especially beeing powdred also dryed Salt-fish olde Cheese and the like are firme sollid meates 5. Oaten bread or Miscelline bread made of Pease Rye and Barley is more sollid than wheaten bread and the course Wheaten bread or browne bread that is full of Brane is sollider than White bread made of purer flower 6. The Orcades feeding on fish and beeing generally fish-eaters are long liv'd 7. Monkes and Hermites living sparingly on drye foode commonly attayned to a great age 8. Pure water beeing mingled with Wine or Drinke hardens the bodies moisture and because the Spirit of the water is dull and piercing Nitre may be there with mingled And so much for the firmnesse of nourishment 9. People living abroad in the open ayre the cold thickning their skinne and flesh no longer liv'd than Dwellers in houses and in cold Countries the Inhabitants attaine unto a greater Age than in hot Countries 10. Many thicke cloathes on the bed or backe doe loosen and soften the body 11. Washing the body in colde Baths doth lengthen life but hot Baths are very bad Baths of binding Minerall waters were formerly mentioned 12. By an easie jdle Life without exercise the flesh is made dissipable and soft being by stout exercises used without excessive sweating and wearinesse compacted hardned Swimming is also a good exercise generally all exercises abroad are better than within the house 13. Frications by a kind of exercise fetching out not hardning nourishment shall be hereafter handled in its proper and due place 14. To make hard moysture oily and dewy is a perfecter worke than hardning being attended with no inconvenience whereas hardners of moysture staying the Consumption and hindering the Reparation and Renewing of Nourishment do thereby further and hinder long Life But oilie and juycy Nourishment by bedewing the Body is lesse dissipable and more reparable 15. This Dewy fat moysture of the Body is no tallowy fatnesse but a Radicall Dew diffused and spread through the body 16. Oily fat meates are not converted agayne into fat perfect Substances returning not agayne into one and the same Substance but Nourishment doth after maturation and Digestion breede an oy lines in the bodies