many by vsing it became verye fatte and corpulent We in these our Regions thinke it best to eate that which is sower and bytinge in Sōmer swéete in the winter and Spring seasons because the one is colde and the other somewhat hoate Oyle of swéete Almondes is good for them that haue the Stitche and other grief in their breastes For it asswageth lenifieth the Iawes and rough arteries and maketh the humours that are in the Breast apte to be proiected and expelled and of the thicke Creame of Almondes beinge boyled there is made an excellent broath or suppinge good both to nourishe and purge the Reynes and also to scower cleanse the bowelles and bulke of man but it is not so good for the stomacke Honye and the water of it is very good for a cold and moyste stomacke for olde men and them that be of colde complexions and in the winter and Springe seasons But it is not good for them that be Cholerique or in the Sommer time In makinge of honie water that is to witte séethinge water and honie together with a softe fier the fome or froath must be scummed of cleane for if it be not it is prouoked to be windie and inflatiue It hath a vertue abstersiue openeth obstructions resolueth humours and educeth them beinge farre within the bodie and kéepeth the bodie from rottennesse and putrefaction But the best honie must be taken for suche purpose that is to say suche as hath a true and perfect swéetenes a good pleasant smell and a somewhat redde colour not thinne not subtile but clammie and viscious The best honie is gathered in the Springe the second in Sommer but that which is gathered in winter is worste and most hurtfull Also sharpe and sower honie is the worst of al others forasmuche as it is of some thought to be pestilent and venemous Sugar is heater and more subtile then honie for it is thought to be hoate and moyst in the end of the first degrée but by artificiall handlinge that is to witte by further and longer boyling whereby it is made white it becometh not so hoate yet more dry It hath in all poinctes as great vertue and power as honie hath both to lenifie mitigate and open obstructions and also to drye vp and wype away il humours and it is good for the stomacke if no yellow choler be therin for it is easelie conuerted and turned into choler Also it pur geth phlegme that is founde in the fromacke and comforteth the bealie This therfore is very good to be eaten at anye time of the yere but honie is best in winter to be eaten and in the second parte of Autumne Vinegre is said to be good for them that are melancholique but nought for them that be cholerique and therfore it agréeth best to a stomacke that is hoat and moyste it stirreth vp appetite helpeth concoction represseth choler and stoppeth humours from beinge diffused into the inward partes it maketh them subtile cutteth them a sunder and preserueth againste phlegme speciallie if it be mixed with Cinamome and Corraunts to take awaye and alay the ouermuche coldenes and egernesse of it Also beinge in this order and maner tempered it is good for a colde stomacke And this waye do we thinke best to be vsed when you would alay the sharpe and bytinge sowernesse of vinegre boyle it w very good Raisons or Corrantes and if néede be make it swéete with the odorifirous smell of good Cinamome For Cinamome ouer and beside the heate whiche it hath for it is sayde to be hoate toward the third degrée it is also verye good for the stomacke and Lieuer It openeth obstructions and comforteth them both and also it dryeth vp the humiditie or moysture of the stomacke and kepeth it from corruption and putrefaction it confirmeth and corborateth all the vertues and powers of the bodye and restoreth them that be appayred and decayed it cleanseth and mundefieth the head by educinge and fetchinge out the humours that be in it yea it lenifieth and helpeth the Coughe and Breast drawing out all that is naught and hurtfull And thus muche for Condimentes and Sauces Of Grayne Pulse Rotes Herbes NOw let vs speake somewhat of such graine and herbes as serue at the table to be eaten Rice is of muche nourishement enclininge to heat and drynesse and maye be best eaten in winter Ryce sodden in mylke causeth a good habite and plight of the body and encreaseth séede of generation Panick and Mill may be eaten in moyst Seasons either hoate or colde But in Autumne because it is a colde and drye time suche graine as is hoate and moyste is more expedient Barley is better to be eaten in Sommer because it is colde These graines must be sodden with fleshe potage or els in water puttinge afterward therinto swéete Almonde mylke or els let them be condite with oyle which done you may put therto some Sugar accordinge to your owne discretion Of small pulse Phisicions most commend Cich-pease and speciallie the potage or broath wherein it is sodden but they must sayeth Auicen be eaten at the middest of Meales and not at the beginninge nor ende They nourishe the bodie stronglie and purelie if they be eaten moderatelie for otherwise they be windy and require a stronge stomacke and a good vertue digestiue but the broath made of them is preferred before anye other because it chaseth away il humours and prouoketh vryne Lintellès are misliked and discōmended because the annoy the stomack fill the Lieuer with obstructions engender melancholique humour cause a dazelinge dimnes of the sight and amonge al kinde of pulse are worste to be eaten for they bréede grosse terrestriall and melancholique bloud Beinge twise or thrise or oftener warmed and eaten the broath being cast away they binde the bealie but the best and surest way is altogether to abstaine from them as moste hurtefull and fitter rather for Laborers and Rurall people then Magistrates and Studentes Beanes are verye windie and tarie longe ere they be digested yea although they be decocted the full space of thrée dayes yet do they still retaine their windines and ventositie They make grosse iuyce in the bodie and send ill vapours to the brain which cause fearfull and strange dreames and they engender thicke grosse bloude Therefore vse them not in diet although otherwise they séeme to haue a certaine abstersiue and nutritiue power But if thou be so be sted that néedes thou must eate of them it were best to make potage or broath with them for so they haue more vertue to cleanse the Reynes of the backe and the bladder and loose much of their windinesse in the boyling And if thou be disposed to put any other grayne or seedes vnto them which haue semblable power to expell and driue away windenesse called of the Gréekes Aphusa put a litle Hony vnto them it shal be a meane to
be breife all suche exercise as best agréeth with theyr nature which may brynge difficultie in fetchyng the breath augment heate and humecte the skynne and exteriour parte of the body with a thin subtile sweate For quicke and nimble exercise maketh the body leane and slendre and the contrarie maketh it grosse and thicke much exercise drieth the bodie but meane and conuenable maketh it fat and corpulent Notwithstandyng for them that vse a slender diet and spare féedyng a shorter ambulacion and smaller walkynge will suffice Now there be some whiche be of a very hoat temperature complexioÌ„ which ought not at all to be exercised for such persons a moderate walkyng baynyng or a gentle Fricasie and rubbynge shal be fully sufficieÌ„t Al such are slender leane and very Cholerique And this is euermore to be noted the a man must vse such moderation in his exercise that be get not a lassitude or wearinesse therwith but assoone as he perceaueth the same to come vpon him it were best for him to desist and leaue of For the bodie with all his partes ought so to be exercised that excremental matter by idlenesse and rest be not gathered But when you beginne to sweate and the exercise séemeth not to be so pleasant as it did before ceasse and leaue of wypyng away the sweate from your bodie then again after that you haue a litle paused and rested your selfe the body must be refresshed For in exercise aswell as in meate and drinke and all other thinges there ought to be a conuenient measure vsed so that the thyng it self be neither ouercharged with to much nor yet debarred from that stinte and sufficiencie that is néedefull and requisite because by excesse the powers are enfeebled and dissolued and by want or defect there is so muche of the vtilitie abated as there lacketh of due sufficiencie For our powers are muche strengthened and chéered if with moderate and fit exercise they be refreshed and cherished Now let vs bréeifly declare the kindes of small and gentle exercises whiche notwithstandyng to the health of the body are néedfull and expedient The first sorte wée haue heretofore declared that is to say a swéete and softe walkynge Then there are Fricasies or Rubinges whiche are the exercises of them that be sickly For vnto them that be in perfit health they are not sufficient as Plato most elegantly and after him Galen affirmeth But we adiudge and thinke theÌ„ to be very good both to muÌ„defie the head and diuert the fumes therof to the vttermost and extreame partes and also to open the pores and conduites of the bodie therby to extenuate and expell subtill humours In olde time men vsed fricasie and vnction before and after euerie kind of exercise before to the end that the passages and pores of the bodie beinge opened by fricasie the humours might haue more easie egresse and after beecause the matter which did exude come out might be wiped away from the skin and that which remained in the fleshe might be extenued and dissolued which order in my oppinion is not to be misliked And therfore my counsaile is that before thou arise out of thy bed either to rubbe or els to make some bodie els to rubbe with warme hands or som warme linnen clothes thy backe breast and bealy easely softlie and thy armes and legges hardlie and stronglie but suche partes as thou canst reache and come vnto vse to rubbe thy selfe For this fricasie and rubbinge concocteth crude humours and also nourisheth and comforteth the whole bodie And if thou chaunce to sweate cause it with a soft rubbing and fricasie to be wiped of Hippocrates saith that hard fricasie doth binde and consolidate the bodie softe doth loose and mollifie muche doth extenuate and diminishe fleshe meane augmenteth and maketh it wax bourlie It is good also when you gee to bedde if your head be heauie or payned with the murre or reume to rubbe and wringe hard your legges and handes for by such meanes the vapours that ascend vpward are deriued and brought downeward Also fricasie and rubbing the whole body in the eueninge is profitable for them that be throughly wearie or with driues to much molested or with the Atrophie consumptioÌ„ pined and troubled which being done there should ensue an oyntement or perfusion of temperate oyle if the auncient and laudable custome of vnction were not antiquated and groweÌ„ out of vse as many other good thinges are for it helpeth to the spéedines and velocitie of frication it looseth and suppleth the members that be stiffe and indurate and it comforteth and mollifieth the meÌ„bers that are wearied To be rowed vppon the water in a wherrie or barge is an exercise gentlest and easiest of all other Now ouer and beside the fricasies aforesaide let vs particulerlie recite those motions that do exercise not all but certaine partes of the bodie To shoote in a longe Bowe to pitche or throwe great Stones or any other heauie thinges sittinge or standinge is the exercise of the armes and other partes next vnto them albeit the whole bodie may seeme to be therin exercised In readinge to speake at the first with a softe voice and afterward to speeke lowder and lowder is the exercise of the Tongue Breast Throate and Lunges yea it is good for the ventricle or Stomacke also But the exercise of the heade must verie carefullie be looked vnto because amonge al the partes of the bodie the braine is the coldest and therfore his naturall heate must with all diligent heede bée conserued and kept that it bee not distempered nor oppressed with the multitude and abundance of superfluous humours Therfore euerie daye when thou arisest after that thou hast beene at the stoole rubbe thy head with a cleane drie linnen cloath somwhat warme froÌ„ the foreparte of thy head backewarde â—â— the hinderparte and at the first let thy fricasie be small and easie but afterward harder and faster Then kembe it with a cleane combe beginnynge at the former and vpper part of the head bringing the Combe backeward and then againe mundify and make it cleane with linnen clothes as is aforesayd And if the same clothes be a litle perfumed with poudre of Lignum Aloes or Gelouers and drie Roses their vertue is a greate deale the more to helpe the brayne and comforte the sences Certes thou shalt féele a merueilous effect for the healthinesse of thy head if thou vse this ordre of fricasie and combyng For therby naturall heate is excited and stirred vp the pores are opened which beyng stopped superfluous matter and humours are retayned and consequently the brayne payned and affected but beyng opened the same il humours and fumes are propulsed and dispersed and the brayne is made sincere stronge and healthfull There is an opinion setled in the heades of many now adaies and especiallie amonge the commoÌ„ sorte that it is not good for the head to be wasshed alledgynge for their proofe an olde
it is soone conuertible into Choler The thicke and curdie Milke whiche first commeth into the Dugges incontinently after the Cowe hath calued commonly called Biestings is very daungerous for it is slow of digestion and descendeth slowlye from the stomacke and is also grosse of substance causing grosse humours and consequently is thought to engender the stone Fresh and new Cheese sayth Dioscorides is beneficiall to the stomacke but Auicen doubteth therof But I thinke that in hoate seasons and aboute the beginnynge of Autumne it may without daunger be eaten But being olde and yet not rotten nor hard with age conueniently salted I iudge better to be eaten in colde seasons and at the latter ende of meales yet herein as in all other things Nature and Custome is of greate force and muche to be considered For there are some whiche do abhorre Chéese and cannot in any wise brooke it as some others do lothe Wyne and so forthe of others Auicen sayth that such indiuiduall proprieties as these are without the cōpasse of reason and that experience and triall herein is aboue reason The thinnest part of the mylke called whaye beinge vsed by way of medicine rather thē for meate and speciallye in Maye wyth Sugar is very good to scower clense and purefie the bloude and also to quenche choler and purge melancholie without any paine or greeuance For it washeth the breast prouoketh vrine maketh cleane the bladder and without any pain or excoriation draweth out ill humours and as Auicen sayeth rectifieth nourishment and openeth the partes of the bodie that are with obstructions stopped All which vertues and operatious make Auicen to thinke that it maketh men fat Into it may be put a conuenient quantitie of Roses or Sene accordinge as the pacient shal be opplete with humoures the space of a night with a little Anyse séede or Cinamome to make it woorke more strongelie But then were it good that the humours shoulde be concoct and prepared For the approued wise Hippocrates commaundeth vs to minister Phisicke to those thinges that be concoct and to mooue the vncrude Finally all those meates are discommended that are compounded and made of Milke Egges and Chéese or suche other like thinges For although they be all of easie digestiō being seuerally taken yet beyng mingled together they are hardly concocted muche endamage the stomack For sundrie meates of diuers substance and qualitie is a great enemie to health and by reason of the grossenes of some and the finenesse of other some there is required to be diuerse operations of nature and diuerse temperatures of the stomacke for it is greatly busied in the decoction of them all And because some tarie longer in the stomacke then some other doth it causeth fumes and vapours to ascende and strike vp into the head whereby health is much appayred Of Fishe FYshes for the moste parte are not holesome or they are of smale and illnourishement and leaue manye sufluities in the body and also are easlie corrupted And therefore Auicen counsaileth vs not to eate them after vehement and stronge exercise because they will soone be turned into corruption and do also corrupt the humours And in an other place which is also auouched by Galen he sayeth that fishe beinge new and fresh engendreth phlegme and mollifieth the ventricle and is not to be eaten but of them which haue very hoate stomackes because they be verye colde and moyste Beynge salted they are hoate and drye and therfore for them that be phlegmaticke it is better to eate them salted and in winter or at the beginninge of spring but for cholerique persons and in hoate seasons they are best when they be new and moyste but the surest and best way is altogether to abstaine from them The Gréeke poet Homer for his manifolde knoweledge in al faculties worthie to be called the perelesse Phenix of learninge most learnedly bringeth in that Vlisses when he had trauailed longe vpon the Seas and all his victualles were spent was by necessitie enforced and driuen to fishe Meaninge therby that so longe as we may liue without fishe we shoulde refraine it But for asmuche as euerie man may not alwayes eate egges nor fleshe nor at all seasons without any respect and difference and also appetite many times beareth swaye aboue reason Therefore I will declare describe such fishes as are lest hurtfull And first this is to be knowen that those fishes are best which be neither verye harde and drye neyther yet full of stimie and clammie toughnes nether opplete with much fattinesse for all fatte is ill but of fishes the fattenesse is worse then anye other neyther of ill sauoure and relice but pleasant swéete and toothsome in taste and which will not soone stinke after they be taken out of the water It is further also to be noted that of those which are soft and tender the greatest are best but of hard fishe take the smalest For that which among moyst thinges is found drye must be taken as moderate as that is whiche amonge drye thinges is founde moyste Yet let a conuenient measure aswell in the bignesse as in the smalenesse be obserued Also the fishes that liue about cleare Rockes and in stony places are as Galen sayeth better then any other And it is not without good cause that suche fishes be preferred and winne the commendaciō from others For they exercise and mooue themselues muche and often and lye in suche places where they are often tossed and beaten with the continuall surges and waues of the tempestuous Sea and neuer are embroyned with anye filth or diertie slimishnes Those fishes also are greatly commended that come swymminge out of the Sea into Riuers sith they come agaynst the streame and the farther of that they be from the Sea the holesomer and better they are Next vnto them are those that liue in sandie places and those that breede in cleare and freshe runninge water that is without much mudde Furthermore those fishes that féede vpon swéete herbes rootes and wéedes aboute the banke sides are better then those that liue by mudde and slime amonge which ill sorte are those fishes that are called Mugles or Lompes which are not holesome although they séeme to haue a pleasant taste and sauoure Therefore al such fishes as liue in filthye puddles fennes marshes dyches and standinge waters whiche mooue not are to be eschewed This generall warninge now premised briefly and namelye let vs touche suche sortes of fyshes as are best and most sufferable supposed to be of good nourishement and of lightest concoction Good and holesome is the Gilthead called Aurata and of the Gréeques Chrysophris because it hath in his forehead a thinge congelate which in the water shineth like golde as in the olde ones it is to be séene they géeue muche nourishement and therefore are difficultie digested So is the Rochet and Seapearches But Riuer pearches whiche are like in maner to the
binde and restrain the stomacke but after meates they mollefie the bealie and cloase or drawe the stomacke together which is not to be merueyled at cōsideringe that the mouth of the stomacke by a certaine astrictiue power which is in them is shutte together and the nourishement or meate before eaten forciblie protruded and thruste forward as we sée by experience in a bottle or in a bladder when we wring hard and thrust out of them being full the licour In the noumber of fruictes also Seruice bearies Cornell bearies and Medlars are of all others most constrictiue and may be very well vsed as medicine but not as meate because they increase no commendable bloude but bynde the bealie to muche and bringe muche harm to the head and the whole bodie Of Apples those that are swéete sayeth Aegineta haue more power to heate then others and are more easely digested speciallye if they be rosted or boyled Sower apples do coole more and cutte a sunder the congeled humoures in the stomacke The harrishe and roughe tasted apples do confirme the stomacke that is weake by distemperaunce of heate or muche moysture and suppresse the bealy but yet Quinces for that purpose more then any others But in goodnes those apples excell all others that are called Regia poma which are not altogether so colde and are thought to be very holesom and comfortatiue to the harte because they repell and driue away al fuligiuous moyste vapours which trouble the harte strike vp into the head Finallie when the head is distempered throughe drinking muche wyne they haue bene found right commodious to alaye and redresse the inconueniences thereof but they be thought to be hurtefull to the Sinewes and to hebetate or dull the memorie speciallie if they be of nature sower For they be colde ynough and by the slynesse of there substaunce pearce and are conueighed euen into the very innermoste partes But swéete apples whiche are kept til the next winter are farre better For beinge then through tract and continuance of time come to a full ripenes and perfecte maturitie are thereby also made more holesome and apt to be digested and are not so soone corrupted beinge orderly vsed For them that haue weake stomackes they be excellent good beinge rosted in the ashes or trimmelie sodden in water when they be eaten Peares also in like maner being kept they be mellow and fully rype haue the same vertu but they géeue more plentifull nourishement to the eaters and are more pleasant to the stomacke As for Pome Citrons Limons Orenges and Adam Apples sith they rather serue for medicine then for meate I will here say nothing they that be disposed to know the historie and operations of them may at large sée them most learnedly and truely described and set forth by Mattheolus in his commentaries vpon Dioscorides Oliues although Auicen reckeneth them among those fruictes that hurt the stomacke and Eyesight yet in another place he affirmeth that they beinge conduict in salte licour or Pickle do stirre vp appetite corroborate and comfort the stomacke and loseth the bealie speciallie if they be eaten with vineigre And Capers beinge in like sorte vsed are right commendable for the same purposes Chestnuttes because they are of heauie concoction and engendre grosse crude humours albeit not verye ill and cause windynes very greatly I iudge fitter to be left to them that vse labour and much exercise Notwithstanding they coole and drye and somewhat binde but beinge boyled they nourish well and loose much of their windines specially if they be sodden with the séedes of Anyse or fenell or suche like Hasill nuttes are hoate and drye in the first degrée they cause headache inflate the stomack if they be much eatē they be hardly digested they degrauate the tōgue hinder the speach albeit being new they are somwhat more friēdlie to the stomack for they bring lesse harm therunto although they engender grosse humours Beinge eaten with figges they are the better to be borne withall because they are sooner conueighed from the stomacke downe into the mawe and thence expelled But to eats them aloane or often speciallie out of winter is not so holesome Filberdes because they be astrictiue and restraine Reumes and Catarres might be thought to be profitable to the stomacke but for all that they are very ill and hard to be digested by reasō of the thicke substaunce that is in them and consequentlie because they binde the bealie the more But Auicen commendeth them because they are good for all Lieuers by reason of the small heate wherwith they be endued For they are hoate and drye in the firste degrée and therefore they do no hurte so a Lieuer that is hoat and vnto it that is colde they do muche good Also they are aperitiue and open oppilations and obstructions and make good iuyce in the bodie but they inflate and engender windinesse in the bottome of the bealie and cause headache with augmentacion of the braine They are slowe of digestion and prouoke vomite and the ryndes of them bynde the bealie and therfore they are but seldome and not of al men to be eatē And if thou happen at anye time to eate of them to driue away the coughe and to helpe spettle for they do easely cause spittinge and heale an inueterate cough it is best firste to drawe out and extract the iuyce out of the substance of them for by that means they are made lighter of digestion the subtiler substance being taken out of the grosser left behinde And if a little Anyse or Cinamome be stamped and put vnto them all their inflation and windines is taken awaye And both of them as well the filberd as the hasill nutte eaten with figges are preseruatiue against all small poisons as Auenzoar and since his daies Auicen haue written Swéete Almonds are almoste equall in heate with these aforesaide sauinge that they somewhat decline to moysture vnlesse they be vinewed and restie for then they are drye The nourishement which they géeue although it be smal yet it is good Also they extenuate and cleanse with out any binding they do open and comfort the passages and vesselles of the vrine and take awaye all obstructions speciallye of the Splene and Lieuer and they be very soueraigne and good for them that haue any diseases in their Breastes or Kidneis or haue any inflamation of the Lunges But because they cause Sléepe and tary longe in the stomacke for they be harde of digestion if they be eaten alone they send vp fumes and vapours into the head and trouble it with the Murre and Reume And therefore I woulde wishe that the iuyce shoulde be taken out of thē whiche is called the milke of Almonds and this is the best way to eate them beinge made in little dishes rather then to eate the whole harde Almondes speciallie in Autumne For by this meanes it will easely descend and
Christ hath but very few Imitatours and folowers wheras notwithstandinge there be many whiche haue still this saying in there mouthes how that euery action of Christe is our instruction But let vs draw towarde an ende of our purpose When nature is desirous of carnall coniunction and is neither prouoked therevnto by imagination and thought nor any other outwarde cause but with multitude and abundance of Sperme it must be vsed in a fit and conuenient time And that is when the meat is throughlie concocted and yet no hunger nor desire to eate approcheth that Sleepe or rest immediatlie after it may take away the lasitude gotten and caused through the action there of or at the least mitigate and lenifie the same But if we should erre in either parte it were much better as Galene sayth to offend being replete and armed with a full Stomack then when it is emptie and pynched with ouermuch defect and want of foode For it is better that is to say it doth lesse harme to vse when the bodie is warme and calefied then when it is cold and infrigidate and full infarced rather then when it is emptie and when it is humected rather then when it is drye But he the same Galene taught before that measure and temperatenesse therein ought to be chosen and obserued that the bodie neither should be too hoate nor too cold too moyst nor too drie too much replete nor to much emptied Neither do I heere allow the Law and ordinance of Solon whereby the enacted that a man shoulde carnally know his wyfe at least thrise in a moneth For often vse thereof to many men is harmefull yea to some once is to muche Againe this acte is not a thinge necessarie to conserue the partie that vseth it but onely to repaire and encrease the Spece or kinde whiche otherwise in short time woulde decaye Therfore let Solon beinge an heathen Eathnique take his lawe to himselfe Studientes many tymes are troubled with a phlegmaticke humour descending from their heades into their stomackes being of them selues colde whiche inconuenience may easely be remedied if they take in the morning a dragme or twaine of the confection named Diatrion Piperion Or else they may drinke Pepper alone specially that whiche is white beinge brayed and put into water or let them take betime in the morning a litle Ginger condite or else a Chebule condite which is a kinde of mirobolanes Of Ayre Holsome and vnholsome AYre althoughe we describe it last in order and what qualitie therof is best for bodily health yet is it a principall poinct and no lesse to be regarded then the other preceding For néedes must it inspiâ—â—â—â—d breath into vs continuallye that the heart and lunges may therby be competentlye and conuenablie cooled This among all other is so néedefull and necessarie vnto man that he is vneth able to liue one moment of an houre vnlesse new fresh Ayre comming in and out coole and refrigerate his hart Therfore vnto all men without any exception it is hole some and expedient to drawe into lunges the best that is to wit the purest Ayre For corrupte and vnpure Ayre is vnto all age a great backefriende and enemie Now the diuersitie of Ayres procedinge of heate colde drought or moystnes accordeth not to euerie mans nature alike For vnto those bodies that are of the best temperature the most temperate Ayre is holesomest But in whom anye excellinge qualitie beareth domination vnto such that Ayre is moste holesome whiche in like degrée resisteth and oppugneth that qualitie For temperature is altered with contrarious diete and order and is conserued with his like Thou shalt therefore as farreforth as may be 〈…〉 thy selfe to liue neither in a troubled and contagions ayre nor in that which is very cold or too hoate or too moyst or whiche is open to vaporous blastes and pestilent windes such as blowe out of the South In winter it is best to liue in a warme and open Sunnye place lyinge open to the Cast but we must alwayes tourne our heads from the Rayes and Beames of the Sunne speciallye about noone because beside calefaction and heate whiche they bring to the head they do also draw vnto it humours and matters wherfore manye times they cause headache and bléedinge at the nose But the Rayes or Beames of the Moone are a great deale more to be eschewed and taken héede vnto that they shine not vpon vs speciallye when we sléepe for they cause ill diseases For asmuche as the Moone is Ladie of moysture and mooueth humours Also the night aire is not holesome because the Sunne géeuer of life is gone out of our Hemisphere In winter if the Ayre be troubled and darke which as Auicen saieth maketh the soule sorrowful it must in part if it may not in all be qualified and by some artificiall meanes bettered Whiche is done either by remaining in a house or in some couert place shrowded from the sturdie stormes of dismall Boreas certaine houres of the daye and also by purifinge the Ayre with a good fyer in our Chamber made with good woodde or else by makinge in it a perfume with Iuniper or Lignum Aloes In Somer it is best to dwell in suche a temperate place that the windowes of our house may open towarde the North or if we will we may sprincle our ChaÌ„ber with Rose water and vineigre specially when the Ayre is corrupt with anye stinkinge fauour or anye other fulsome exhalacion Auicen praiseth the Aire of Mountaines and Downes for the Somer time and thinketh it best for a man in the night to lye in the vpper parte or Garettes of his house but in the daye time he sayeth the lower roomes are fittest and holesomest Aristotle choose him a dwellinge place that stoode highe and laye open with prospectes towarde the South and the East in a subtile Ayre neither moyst nor colde Plato found verye olde and aged persons dwelinge in high and temperate regions And this is to be noted and knowen that the Ayre in highe places which by repercussion and reflection of the Sunne Beames are not warmed be cold and the higher the place is the colder is the Ayre Therfore the middle loftes of the house are fittest for winter and the highest for Somer You muste also beware that when yow be hoate yow stand not longe in the winde or colde Ayre because euerye sodaine alteration and chaunge hurteth nature very muche and colde stoppinge the pores and passages of the humours hindereth conuenient refrigeration and difflation of vapours and also is a great Enemie to naturall heate but chieflie to the brain and sinewes To be shorte the sentence and opinion of Hippocrates is alwayes to be sette before our eyes whose woords I haue here recited For he sayeth that to euacuate muche and sodainelie or to be filled with repletion to warme to coole or by anye other meanes to mooue the bodie more then naturall course tolerateth