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A14295	Naturall and artificial directions for health deriued from the best philosophers, as well moderne, as auncient. By William Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24612; ESTC S105370	29,116	96

qualitie is spent It must neyther looke muddie nor yet carie a taile with it Which is the best drink The most pretious and wholesome ordinarie drink as well for them that be in health as for sicke and impotent persons is made after this maner Take halfe a pound of barley foure measures of water halfe an ounce of Licoras and two drachmes of the seede of Violets two drachmes of parsley seed three ounces of red Roses an ounce a halfe of Hysop Sage three ounces of figges and raisins well pickt Seeth them all together in an earthen vessell so long till they decrease two fingers breadth by seething then put the pot in cold water and straine the ingredients through a cloth Shew mee a speedie drink for trauellers when they want beere or ale at their Inne Let them take a quart of fayre water and put thereto fiue or sixe spoonefulles of good Aqua composita a small quantitie of sugar and a branch of Rosemarie Let them be brued well out of one pot into another and then their drink is ready What shall poore men drink when malt is extreame deare They must gather the toppes of heath whereof the vsuall brushes are made and dry them and keepe them from moulding Then they may at all times brue a cheap drink for themselues therewith Which kinde of drink is very wholesome as well for the liuer as the spleene but much the more pleasaunt if they put a little licoras vnto it There is another sort of drink of water and vineger proportionably mingled together which in summer they may vse How shall I help beere or ale which beginne to be sowre or dead Put a handfull or two of oatemeale or else of ground malt into the barrell of beere or ale stirre the same well together and so make it reuiue a-fresh Or else if you please bury your drink vnder ground in the earth for the space of foure and twentie houres Teach mee a way to make beere or ale to become stale within two or three daies This is performed if you burie your beere or ale being filled into pots in a shadie place somewhat deepe in the ground What is meath Meath is made of honey and water boyled both together This kinde of drink is good for them which enioy their health but very hurtfull for them who are afflicted with the strangurie or colick Braggot doth farre surpasse it in wholesomenesse What is Meatheglin Meatheglin is made of honey water and hearbes If it be stale it is passing good Chap. 2. Of Wine What is the propertie of wine Wine moderatly drunk refresheth the heart and the spirits tempereth the humours ingendreth good bloud breaketh fleagme conserueth nature and maketh it merie What is the vse of white wine White wine drunk in the morning fasting cleanseth the lunges Being taken with red Onions brused it pearceth quickly into the blad der and breaketh the stone But if this kinde of wine be drunk with a ful stomack it doth more hurt then good and causeth the meate to descend before it be fully concocted What is the vse of Rhenish wine Rhenish wine of all other is the most excellent for it scoureth the reines of the back clarifieth the spirits prouoketh vrine and driueth away the headache specially if it doth proceede from the heate of the stomack What is the vse of Muscadell Malmesie and browne Bastard These kindes of wines are only for maried folkes because they strengthen the back What is the vse of Sack Sack doth make men fat and foggie and therefore not to be taken of young men Being drunk before meales it prouoketh appetite and comforteth the spirits maruellously How shall I know whether hony or water be mingled with wine Vintners I confesse in these dayes are wont to iuggle and sophistically to abuse wines namely Alligant Muscadell and browne Bastard but you shall perceiue theyr deceite by this meanes take a few drops of the wine and powre them vpon a hot plate of yron and the wine being resolued the honey will remaine and thicken If you suspect your wine to be mingled with water you shall discerne the same by putting a peare into it for if the peare swimme vpon the face of the wine and sinke not to the bottome then it is perfect and vnmingled but if it sinke to the bottome water without doubt is added vnto it Shew mee a way to keepe Claret wine or any other wine good nine or ten yeeres At euery vintage draw almost the fourth part out of the hogshead and then rowle it vpon his lee after fill it vp with the best new wine of the same kinde that you can get Your caske ought to be bound with yron hoopes and kept alwaies full How might I help wine that reboyleth Put a peece of cheese into the vessell and presently a wonderfull effect will follow Chap. 3. Of Milke What is the vse of milke Milke purgeth superfluous humours in the belly and nourisheth the body but soure things must not in any case be presently taken after it Also for feare it should cōgeale in the stomacke put a litle sugar salt or honey into it and so stirre them together It agreeth well with cholericke persones but not with the flegmatick What is the discommoditie of milk Milk often vsed of them that are not wont to laboure causeth headach and dimnesse of sight it annoyeth the teeth Which discommodities may be corrected by adding rice sugar vnto it Which kinde of milke is best Womans milk is wholesomest and purest because it is a restoratiue medicine for the braine and the consumption Next vnto it goates milk is best What is the vse of Creame Creame with strawberies and sugar taken of hot cholerick persons will not much hurt What is the vse of sower Whay Sower whay is a temperate drink which mundifieth the lunges purgeth bloud and alayeth the heat of the liuer Chap. 4. Of Flesh. What kinde of meate is best That kinde of meat is best which ingendreth good bloud and is easie to be digested as mutton beefe lambe pigges capons chickens partridges woodcockes young pigeons thrushes and such like What meate is of an hard digestion Venison duckes geese together with the kidneyes liuers entrailes of birdes do breed cruditie in the stomack and fluxes Shew mee a way to preserue flesh and foule sound and sweet for one moneth notwithstanding the contagiousnesse of the weather Maister Plat whose authoritie not only in this but in all other matters I greatly allow of counselleth huswiues to make a strong brine so as the water be ouerglutted with salt and being scalding hot to perboyle their mutton veale venison foule or such like and then to hang them vp in a conuenient place With this vsage they wil last a sufficient space without any bad or ouersaltish tast Some haue holpen tainted venison by lapping the same in a course thin cloth couering it first with salt then burying it a yard deepe in

wilde beastes Thirdly let them vse Borage and Buglosse in their drink Fourthly musick is meete for thē Fiftly they must alwayes keepe their bellies loose soluble Chap. 3. Of medicines to-prolong life Shew me certaine remedies to preserue health and to prolong life To liue for euer and to become immortall here in earth is a thing impossible but to prolong a mans life voyde and free from all sicknesse to cause the humours in the bodie by no meanes to predominate one ouer an other to preserue a man in a temperate state I verely beleeue it may be done first by Gods permission and then by vsing weekely either the weight of one scruple of the spirite of the herbe called Rosa solis or the essence of Celandine or the quintessence of potable gold wherein pearles are dissolued Also who someuer hath any of these well prepared may helpe all the diseases of mans body whether they be curable or vncurable Reasons I neede not alledge for that which is openly seene with eyes need no proofes It is an absurd thing to be ignorant in that which euerie man knoweth Is not the falling sicknesse onely cured by the spirit of vitrioll doth not mercurie heale the French poxe and the filthie scabbe doeth not oile of antimonie plucke vp at once the impurities of the feuer They doe none can denie the same Mineralls are of most efficacie if they be rightly prepared and purged from their poyson and superfluities Truely it is a wonderful thing in this life that mans vnderstāding can bring these inferiour works to so great perfectiō without doubt it is the prouidēce of god that learning in this latter rotten age should wax lightsom therby to defēd life which otherwise through the cōtagion of the world would soone decay frō these new strange maladies which are in all places very rife cōmon so that the saying of that great prophet is now verified come to passe my age shal renew it selfe like an Eagle O rare gift of the mighty God! who made Moses liue 120. years without dimnesse of sight without griefs not loosing any of his teeth who prolonged Hezechias life by 15. yeares hath inspired into mens hearts such excellent knowledge These quintessences which you speake of may not be gotten without great difficultie wherefore reueale those preseruatiues which I may easily get Doctor Steuens water is an excellēt preseruatiue to prolong life is made after this māner take a gallō of gascoigne wine thē take gin ger gallingal cāmomill cinnamon nutmegs grains cloues mace aniseed carrawayseed of each of thē a drachme thē take sage mints red roses time pellitorie of the wal wild mariorā pennymountayne otherwise wilde time cammomille lauender of euerie of them one handfull then bruse the spices small bruse the herbes put all into the wine and let it stand twelue houres stirring it diuers times then distill it in a limbeck and keepe the first pinte of the water for that is the best and then will come a second water which is not so good as the first The vertues of this water are these it comforteth the spirites it preserueth the youth of man it helpeth old goutes the tooth-ache the palfie and all diseases proceeding of cold it causeth barren women to cōceiue it cureth the cold dropsie the stone in the bladder in the reines of the backe it healeth the canker comforteth the stomacke prolongeth a mans life Take but a spoonefull of it once in seauen dayes for it is very hot in operatiō Doctor Steuens that vsed this water liued one hundred yeares wanting two The sublimated wine of M. Gallus physition to the Emperour Charles the fift of that name is most admirable For the vse thereof caused him to liue sixescore and nine yeares without any disease which I thinke to be better then Doctor Steuens water it is made in this sort take of Cubebs cinnamon cloues mace ginger nutmegges and galingall three ounces of rheubarbe halfe anounce of Angelica two drachmes of masticke foure drachmes and of Sage one pound and two ounces steepe these in two poundes and sixe ounces of Aqua vitae which was sixe times distilled then distill them altogither This wine comforteth the braine and memorie expelleth melancholy breaketh the stone prouoketh appetite reuiueth weake spirites and causeth a man to wax younge and lustie It may be taken twise euery weeke and not aboue one spoonefull at each time To conclude there is a iuleppe made only of white wine and sugar which comforteth and refresheth the body much causing the spirites to waxe liuely it is made thus put two pound of sugar in three pound of wine and one pound of rosewater seeth it till it come almost to a syrupe This iuleppe is so acceptable to nature that it supplies the vse of meat and drinke Declare vnto me a dayly dyet whereby I may liue in health not trouble my selfe in Physicke I will first of all in the morning when you are about to rise vp stretch your self strongly for thereby the animall heate is somewhat forced into the outward partes the memorie is quickned and the bodie strengthned 2. Secondarily rub and chafe your body with the palmes of your handes or with a course linnen clothe the breast backe and bellie gently but the armes thighes and legges roughly till they seeme ruddy and warme 3. Euacuate your selfe 4. Put on your apparel which in the summer time must be for the most part silke or buffe made of buckes skinne for it resisteth venime and contagions ayres in winter your vpper garment must be of cottō or friezeadow 5. Whē you haue apparelled your selfe handsomely combe your head softly and easilie with an Iuorie combe for nothing recreateth the memorie more 6. Picke and rub your teeth and because I would not haue you to bestow much cost in making dentifrices for thē I will aduertise you by foure rules of importāce how to keep your teeth white and vncorrupt and also to haue a sweete breath First wash well your mouth when you haue eaten your meate secondly sleepe with your mouth somewhat open Thirdlie spit out in the morning tha● which is gathered together that night in the throate then take a linnen cloth and rub your teeth well within without to take away the fumositie of the meat and the yellownesse of the teeth For it is that which putrifieth them and infecteth the breath But least peraduenture your teeth become loose filthy I will shew you a water farre better then pouders which shall fasten them scoure the mouth make sound the gums and cause the flesh to growe againe if it were fallen away Take halfe a glassefull of vineger as much of the water of the masticke tree if it may easilie be gotten of rosemarie mirrhe masticke bole Armoniake Dragons herbe roche allome of each of them an ounce of fine cinnamon halfe an ounce and of fountaine water three glassefulles mingle all well