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A89219	Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.	Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.; Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2382; Thomason E835_16; ESTC R202888	187,851	309

doubt hapned upon these causes That Cyprus aboundeth in Cypres and Firr-trees Sardinia in Alom and Copper Mines Anticyra is replenished with true Hellebors and Thasus is full of deadly Ughes which either kill a man or make him mad when the savor infects him fully as it doth in such hot and dry Countries The aire may be also infected with the smoak of Charcole newly kindled whereof Quintus Catulus died or with the smel of new morter which killed Jovinianus the Emperor in his bed or with the snuf of a candle wherewith many have been strangled or with the aire of a pan of coles throughly kindled by which as Aemylius Victor studied in the City of Parma he suddenly fell down dead By the smell of a snuf of a candle many become leprous and women miscarry of children What light is best to study by of oyle wax dears suet and tallows the very smel of roses cureth headach and of some flowres drunkenness The smel of a wantlowse may kil a child in the mothers womb the very smel of Physick cureth many First therefore in the election or choice of aire observe this that it be pure and void of infection for pure aire is to the heart as balm to the sinews yea it is both meat drink exercise and Physick to the whole body Meat whilst it is easily converted into spirits Drink whilst it allayeth the thirst of the lungs and heart which no drink can so well quench exercise whilst it moveth humors immoveable otherwise of their own nature medicine or Physick whilst it helpeth to thrust forth excrements which would else harden or putrifie within our bodies the vapors whereof would so shake the bulwark of life and defile the rivers of blood issuing from the liver that we should not live long in health if happily we lived at all Next to purity of aire we must chuse that also which is temperate For natural heat is not preserved saith Galen but of aire moderately cold And Aristotle saith That Countries and Cities and houses which by interposition of hils on the North side be seldom cooled are subject to mortality and many diseases Yet must it not be so hot as to dissolve spirits procure thirst and abundant sweat to the hindring of urine and decaying of strength and appetite But as I said before of a middle temper because as nature is the mother so mediocrity is the preserver of every thing Who sees not a dry Summer peeleth and a dry winter riveleth the skin and that contrariwise an over-moist aire puffeth it up with humors and engendreth rheumes in the whole body Thirdly That aire is best which is most seasonable Namely warm and moist in the Spring hot and dry in Summer cooling and dry in Autumn cold and moist in Winter which seasons falling out contrarily as sometimes they doe especially in Islands infinite and unavoidable diseases ensue thereupon For if the spring-aire be cold and dry through abundance of Northeast winds dry inflammations of the eys hot urines fluxes of bloud by nose and bowels and most dangerous catarrhs to old persons follow upon it If Summer be cold and dry through the like winds look for all kinds of agues headaches coughs and consumptions Contrariwise if it be too hot and dry suppression of urine and womens courses together with exceeding bleeding at the nose is to be feared If Autumn be full of Southern and warm blasts the next Winter attend all rheumatick and moist diseases If Winter on the contrary be cold and dry which naturally should be cold and moist long agues humoral aches coughs and plurisies are to be expected unless the next Spring be of a moist disposition Again consider also how any house or City is situated for the aire is qualified accordingly Namely if they be placed Southeast South and Southwest and be hindred from all Northern blasts by opposition of hils they have neither sweet water nor wholsome aire but there women are subject to fluxes and miscarriages children to convulsions and shortness of breath men to bloudy fluxes scourings and Hemorrhoids and such like But Cities Countries or houses situated clean contrary towards the North-west North and North-East and defended from all Southern gusts and blasts albeit the people there are commonly more strong and dry yet are they subject through suppression of excrements unto headaches sharp plurisies coughs exulceration of the lungs phlegmatick collections rupture of inward veins and red eyes Likewise in those Countries young boyes are subject to swelling of the codds young girls to the navel-rupture men to the diseases above named Women to want and scarcity of their natural terms to hard labours ruptures and convulsions and to consumptions after childbearth Easterly Towns especially inclining to the south and houses are more wholesome then the westerly for many causes first because the aire is there more temperately hot and cold Secondly because all waters and springs running that way are most clear fragrant pleasant and wholesome resembling as it were a dainty spring and verily women there conceive quickly and bring forth easily children prove large well coloured and lively men healthful strong and able to any exercise But Western cities and houses barren clean of Eastern gusts have ever both troubled waters and unwholesome winds which mingled with the waters obscure their clearness and maketh the inhabitants weak heavy and ill coloured hoarce-voiced dull witted and wanting as if they were entring the house of death quickness and vigour But Avicen of all others declares this most at large who shewing the boldness and goodness of aire by the situation describes them in these words Houses having their chief or full seat Eastward are very wholsome for three causes First because the Sun rising upon them purgeth the aire very timely Secondly because it stayes not there long to dissolve spirits but turneth westward after noon Thirdly because cold winds are commonly as ushers to the Sun rising by which all corruption is killed that either was in the aire or lay on the ground Westerne places are worst situated First because the Sun bestowes not his maiden head and kingly heat upon them but a hot and scorching flame neither attenuating nor drying their aire but filling it full of fogs and mists Whereupon it falls out that the inhabitants are much troubled with hoarseness rheumes measils pocks and pestilence Southern seats are commonly subject to catarhs fluxes of the belly heaviness want of appetite haemoroids inflamation of eyes and their women conceive hardly and miscarry easily abounding in menstrual and mighty pollutions their old men are subject to palsies trembling apoplexies and all humoral diseases their children to cramps and the falling evil their young men to continual putrified agues and all kind of rebellious fevours In Nothren countryes through the driness coldness and sharpness of the wind women do hardly conceive and dangerously bring forth or if they be well delivered yet commonly

about the rump on either side thereof and are as many take it very restorative The Matrix The matrix of beasts yea of a barren Doe so highly esteemed is but a sinewy and hard substance slow of digestion and little nourishment Eyes Eyes of young beasts and young birds are not unwholesome being separated from their skins fat balls and humours for then nothing remaineth but a sweet tender and musculous flesh which is very easie of digestion Ears Snouts and Lips The Ears Snouts and Lips of beasts being bloudless and of a sinewy nature are more watrish viscous and flegmatick then that they may be commended for any good or indifferent nourishment Pinions and Feet The Pinions of birds and the feet of beasts are of like disposition yet the pinions of geese hens capons and chickens are of good nourishment and so are the feet of young hogs pigs Lambs and Calves yea also a tender Cow-heel is counted restorative and Heliogabalus the Emperour amongst his most dainty and lustful dishes made Pies of Cocks-combs Cock-stones Nightingales tongues and Camels heels as Lampridius writeth Galen also for men sick of agues boil'd Piggs-pettitoes in barly water whereby each was bettered by the other the Ptisan making them the more tender they makeing the Ptisan more nourishing and agreeable to the stomack That sodden Geese feet were restorative Messalinus Cotta by trial found out if Pliny may be credited The Tails or Rumps of Beasts are counted by certain unskilful Physitians yea of Dr. Isaac himself to be hard of digestion First because they are so far distant from the fountain of heat Secondly because they are most of a sinewy constitution to which if a third had been added that they are but covers of a close-stool perhaps is arguments would have been of some indifferent weight For indeed the farther any part is from the heart it is fed and nourished with the more fine and temperate blood also the extremities or ends of sinews are of strong wholesome and good nourishment but as for the Tails and Rumps of Beasts it is indifferently mingled of flesh sinews and fat so that the very Anatomy of them shews them to be a meat agreeable to all stomacks and verily whosoever hath eaten of a pye made onely of Mutton Rumps cannot but confess it a light wholesom and good nourishment The Rumps of Birds are correspondent having kernels instead of flesh but when they are too fat they overclog and cloy the stomack Udders The Udders of milch beasts as Kine Ewes Does and She-goats are a laudable taste and better then Tripes because they are of a more fleshy nature Lean Udders must be sod tender in fat broth fat Udders may be sod alone each of them need first a little corning with salt being naturally of a flegmatick and moist substance Stones The Stones of a Bore work marvails saith Pissanellus in decayed bodies stirring up lust through abundance of seed gathered by superfluous and ranck nourishment Indeed when Bucks and Stags are ready for the rut their stones and pisels are taken for the like purpose as for the stones of young Cocks Pheasants Drakes Partridges and Sparrows it were a world to write how highly they are esteemed Averrhois thinks that the stones of a young Cock being kept long in good feeding and separated from his Hens do every day add so much flesh unto our bodies as the stones themselves are in weight Avicen as much esteemeth Cock-sparrowes stones or rather more But the Paduan Doctors but especially Doctor Calves-head giveth that faculty to the stones of Pheasants and Partridges above all others Skin The Skins of Beasts yea of a roasted Pig is so far from nourishing that it can hardly be well digested of a strong stomack Some Birds are sodden or roasted without their skins because they are black and bitter as Rooks Dawes Cootes and Moor-hens and howsoever others are spared yet the skin of no Bird turneth to nourishment but rather to ill humours or filthy excrements Nay the very skin of an egg of a nut an almond a prune a raisen or a corrin and generally of all fruit is so far from nourishing that it cometh out of the strongest mans body either whole or broken as it went in CHAP. XIIII Of Milk FOrasmuch as childrens stomacks and old mens bodies and consumed mens natures be so weak that not onely all flesh and fish but also the fruits of the earth are burdensome to their tender and weak bowels God tendring the growing of the one the preservation of the other and the restoring of the third hath therefore appointed Milk which the youngest child the weariest old man and such as sickness hath consumed may easily digest If we would define or describe what Milk is it seemeth to be nothing but white blood orrather the abundant part of blood whited in the breasts of such creatures as are ordained by nature to give suck appointed properly for children and sucking little ones but accidentally for all men sick either of consuming diseases or old age That womens Milk is fittest for young children it may easily be proved by the course of nature which converteth the superfluity of blood in a woman bearing her child within her to the brests for no other purpose then that she should nourish her own babe For truly nothing is so unperfect defectuous naked deformed and filthy as a man when he is newly born into the world through a straite and outstreatched passage defiled with blood replenished with corruption more like to a slain then a living creature whom no body would vouchsafe to take up and look on much less to wash kiss and embrace it had not nature inspired an inward love in the mother towards her own and in such as be the mothers friends Hence it cometh that mothers yet hot sweating with travail trembling still for their many and extream throws forget not their new-born Babes but smile upon them in their greatest weakness heaping labour upon labour changing the nights trouble with the dayes unquietness suffering it to taste no other milk then that wherewith in their bellies it was maintained This doth a kind and natural mother if she be of a sound and indifferent strong constitution for her child and thus did Eve Sara Rebecca and Rachel yea all women which truely loved their children and were both able and willing to feed their own There be many reasons why mothers should be afraid to commit their children to starnge women First because no Milk can be so natural unto them as their own Secondly because it is to be feared lest their children may draw ill qualities from their Nurses both of body and mind as it fell out in Iupiter whom whilst his Mother committed to Aega Olens daughter and Pans wife to be nursed by her the Country woman living only upon goats milk could not but be of a strong lascivious nature which left such an impression in the child

through want of milk they are not able to nurse their children Their young men die of consumptions their old men and children of cruel cramps They which dwell upon the tops of hills where every wind blows from under the Sun are for the most part sound strong nimble long-lived and fit for labour Contrariwise the valley people so seated that no wind blows upon them are ever heavy spirited dull and sickly for as a fire of green wood dieth unles the flame be scattered with continual blowing and as a standing water corrupteth in a little space so an idle aire rouled about with no winds soon putrifieth because his dissimilar parts be not separated by winowing as the chaffe is from the wheat But the best situation of a house or city is upon the slaunt of a southwest hill like to this of Ludlow wherein we sojourne for a time neither fully barred of the East North and Southern winds clear and free from the mists of bogs and fens purified from the stinck of common Sinks Vaults and Lestals as also from the unwholesome breathings of Caves Colepits Copper or Brimstone-mines not so cold as to stupifie members not so hot as to burn the skin not so moist as to swell us with rheumes nor so dry as to parch up our natural moisture not to much nor to variable as upon the top of hills not so little nor too standing as in low Vallies neither smelling of nothing as in barren Countries nor smelling of bad things as in the Fens but fragrant without a discerning of smell and sweetest of all in an unknown sweetness For howsoever some men dream that the smell of the spice-trees in Arabia felix make the neighbour inhabitants both healthfull of body and sound of mind which I will not deny if you compare them with the borderers of the Palestine lake Nevertheless as Tully saith of women They smell best which smell of nothing so verily the aire that smells of nothing is best to nourish us in health though otherwise in some sickness a perfumed aire is best and also to expel a loathsome stinck or like to the neighing of Apolloes horses to rouse up dull and sleepy senses In which respect I am of Aristotles opinion that sweet smels were appointed to be in flowers fruits barks roots fields and meddowes not onely for delight but also for medicin Nevertheless as the tastles water makes the best broath so the smelling aire gives the purest I will not say the strongest nourishment to our spirits In Plutarchs time men were grown to this wantoness that every morning and night they perfumed not only their apparrel and gloves but also their bodies with sweet ointments made of most costly spices buying with great charges what shall I say an idle a needless a womanly pleasure nay verily an unnatural and more then bruitish For every beast loveth his own mate only for her own smel whatsoever it be but some men love not their meat nor drink nor the aire nor their wifes nor themselves unless they smel or rather stinck of sweet costly and forreine fumes which being taken without cause do the head more hurt then being taken upon cause they do it good Wherefore if thy brain be temperate and not too moist cold or dull eschew a strong smelling aire such as comes from walflowers stock-gillyflowers pincks roses Hiacynths mead sweet hony suckles jasimin Narcissus musk amber civet and such like contenting thy self with the simplest aire which for sound complexions is simply best Or if for recreation and pleasuresake thou desirest it some time let it not be of a full or strong sent but mingled with sweet and soure as violets with Time and breathing rather a sharpe then a fulsome sweetness And thus much of the choice of aires now come we to the preparation and use of them CHAP. IIII. OF AIRE 1. How it is to be prepared 2. How it is to be used SAtyrus that Goat-bearded God the first time that ever he saw fire would needs kiss it and embrace it in his armes notwithstanding that Prometheus forewarn'd him of coming too nigh for he knew well enough the nature of fire to be such that as in certain distances times and quantities it may be well endured so in others it is harmful and exceeding dangerous The like may I say of heat cold moisture and driness of the aire which in the first or second step towards them may and do preserve life but the nearer you come to their extremities the nearer are you to death So that either you will be burnt with Satyrus or frozen to death with Philostratus or dryed up for lack of moisture with Darius Souldiers when they could get no water or dye as the inhabitants of the lakes in Egypt do with too much moisture Wherefore let every one consider his owne strength and constitution of body for some like to new wax are dissolved with the least heat and frozen with the least cold others with Salamanders think nothing hot enough others like to silk worms can abide no cold others with Smiths and Woodcocks can abide those frosts which even the fishes themselves can hardly tolerate So likewise dry constitutions laugh and sing with the Thrush when rain approacheth when others of the contrary complexion do mourn and lament with the Plouver because it is so wet Which being so I shall no doubt deserve well of every man in teaching him so to prepare the aire that sometimes abroad but alwayes at home it may be tempered according as he most needeth and purified from all infection Concerning the tempering of aire in our houses is it too hot and dry then coul it by sprinkling of Vinegar and Rose water by strewing the floure with green flags rushes newly gathered reed leaves water-lilly leaves violet leaves and such like stick also fresh boughes of willow sallow poplar and ashe for they are the best of all in every corner Is it too cold and moist amend it by fires of clear and dry wood and strew the room and windows with herbs of a strong smell as mints penniroial cammomil balm nep rue rosemary and sage Is it too thick and misty then attenuate and clear it in your chamber first by burning of pine-rosin as the Egyptians were wont to do then presently by burning in a hot fire-shovel some strong white-wine vinegar But their chiefest perfume of all other called Kuphi The great temper was made of sixteen simples namely wine hony raisins of the sun cipres pine-rosin mirrhe the sweet rush calamus aromaticus spike-nard cinamon berries of the great and little juniper lignumaloes saffron figtree buds and cardamoms to which composition in Galens time Democrates added Bdellium and the seed of agnus castus and the Physicians in Plutarchs time the roots of Calamint It were needless to write how wonderfully Apollo I mean our new Apollo Francis Alexander of Vercelles for so like a proud Italian he calleth his