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A50438	The method and means of enjoying health, vigour, and long life adapting peculiar courses for different constitutions, ages, abilities, valetudinary states, individual proprieties, habituated customs, and passions of mind : suting preservatives and correctives to every person for attainment thereof / by Everard Maynwaringe, M.D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1683 (1683)	Wing M1498; ESTC R31212	85,718	240

infirmity or complaint does follow And therefore it much behoveth Women to have a special regard that this course of Nature be regular according to each persons propriety of body for all have them not alike nor is it to be expected and when it happens otherwise a due course is to be taken to reduce them into order and procure them aright This Flux ariseth from a redundance and is granted to Women for conception-sake that they might both nourish the foetus in the Womb and have sufficient to supply their own bodies Therefore when there is no conception Nature hath appointed a menstrual evacuation to spend the over-plus this way during her capacity of having Children and when that time is past Nature takes up and makes no such provision and then this evacuation ceaseth SECT XVII The four Constitutions or different variation of Bodies distinguished THat the Condition Properties and Habit of Bodies do much differ one from the other and also the same Body by time doth vary and alter much from what it was is that which I need not insist on the proof every one almost will confess the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is convinced of this truth But how this comes to pass and the reasons of this difference and variation are not unanimously agreed upon but great dissenting about the matter The Galenists do comprise the diversity of bodies under four Constitutions Sanguine Phlegmatick Cholerick and Melancholick And this they will have to arise from the difference of bodies in mixtion according to the different proportions they receive of the four Elements participating more of some than the other The Chymical Philosophers some of them will have the difference of bodies to assurge out of three Principles Sal Sulphur and Mercury Others increase that number and will have them five Spirit Salt Sulphur Water and Earth But I must not now ingage in the controversie between the Chymists and Galenists or make another party to oppose both but reserve that as more proper for a Polemical Tract This Work being not intended controversal but Canonical I therefore pass on to state the Matter These four terms of Sanguine Cholerick c. although I do not adhere to them in the common acceptation and in every point as the Galenists use them yet they being so familiar and well known to such for whom chiefly this work is intended I shall retain these names with distinction and limitation to serve our present purpose rather than impose new words upon you not so well understood I do not therefore understand by Phlegm Choler c. that every body is composed of these four humours as their constitutive parts resulting from proportionate and disproportionate mixture and combination of the four Elements But that persons may participate of or abound with a degenerate humour and that the succulencies of the body may incline to such a condition affine and analogous or having such properties as that which is assigned to and called Phlegm Choler c. may well be asserted and we may call them by such names But you must also take notice that the degenerate matter in mans body is so various that you must not think to reduce all such depraved Juices exactly to these three heads of Choler Phlegm and Melancholy and if you add twice three more the number would not be sufficient But since there are not peculiar appellations to distinguish all precisely by better have some general terms than none The variation of bodies in relation to Temperament Habit and Constitution does arise immediatè from the variation of digestions and the different products from thence so that one and the same person shall by time be of different constitutions according as the functions of the body are performed well or ill The changing or establishing of Constitutions procatarcticè does depend upon subjection and obedience to the Diaetetick Rules As every one is ordered prudently and regularly or negligently and incongruously shall be disposed to this or that Constitution If a man live idle plentifully feeding indulging himself in raw Fruits and sleeps much this disposeth him to be Phlegmatick that is his digestions shall not be so good and there will be crude relicts abounding such as are called Phlegm If a man be of an active cogitative spirit eager in business giving himself little rest accustomed to Wine and high seasoned Meats This manner of life fires and heats the body the Juices then will not be so mild temperate and balsamick but acrid hot and sharp and this person then may be said to be of a cholerick constitution or condition of body If a fresh sanguine person of a pure wholesom body be oppressed with care and grief live a sedentary life or too much given to study and serious contemplation and feed grosly This course of life shall change and alter the best constitution the sanguine brisk airy person shall by these means be of a dull heavy disposition and sad mind the body also shall degenerate from its purity and the humours become more fixed and feculent The Soul being the great Spring or Wheel that keeps all the functions in motion upon which they do depend primò principaliter as the Fountain of all Vital Actions If this be dejected and taken off its speed the functions are then performed very heavily as if weights and clogs were hung upon them and then the elaboration of food is not well performed nor a pure alimentary Juice produced but a degenerate succus of a heavy oppressing nature not duly fermented by the Spleen dyscrasyed by the preceding Causes from whence a melancholy constitution is begotten and may so be denominated for distinction The diversity of Constitutions being thus understood we may make use of and retain these distinguishing terms at this time to serve the business in hand since they are so familiar by use and easie to be apprehended by such for whom this is intended But although I can close with them in relation to this purpose I am now upon to order and appoint a Diaetetick Regiment for different bodies yet I think them not of that concernment for a Physician to tye himself strictly to their observance in the designment of Cures these notions being too superficial and remote from the quiddity essence and spring of the Disease are but Characteristical and Signal to note how and which way the vital Powers do deviate and swerve from their integrity are but the Producta Morbi the Products and Effects separable and the Disease may remain behind Wherefore I cannot allow them as they are severally injoined in the Methodus Medendi for indications to sute Purgatives electivè and other Medicines to by peculiar appropriations nor concur with some Hypotheses that are founded upon this Doctrine by the Galenists to steer them in their Therapeuticks which indeed runs them upon great errors in the Cure of most Diseases being so nice in temperaments humours and qualities and eying them so much that they

to you what is convenient which is a certain rule of proportion if you observe not to eat to a satiety and fulness but desist with an appetite being refreshed light and chearful not dulled heavy and indisposed to operation and action either of mind or body A set quantity or measure of meat or drink cannot be prescribed as a general rule and observation for all to follow in regard of the variety and great difference of persons in Constitution Age strength of Nature condition of Life and infirmities that what is convenient for one is too much for another and too little for a third The strong and healthy cannot conform to the sickly weak and infirm in quantity nor the labouring man to the sedentary and studious or the idle therefore every stomach is to be its own judge and every one ought to moderate themselves by the Cautions before-mentioned If your diet sometimes be not so good and proper for you in the quality and substance make amends in the quantity and eat the less Indulge not to the cravings of an irrational sensitive appetite but allow such a supply of daily food as will support and maintain bodily strength and not over-load it thereby the spirits will be vigorous and active humours attenuated and abated crudities and obstructions prevented many infirmities checkt and kept under the senses long preserved in their integrity the stomach clean the appetite sharp and digestion good Quicquid plus ingeritur gravat naturam non juvat But by the surplusage and over-charge the stomachical ferment is over-laid and its incisive penetrative faculty obtunded the appetite and digestion abated the stomach nauseating fluctuating and belching with crudities from whence Gripes Fluxes and Feavers do follow the spirits also clogged dull and somnolent and by their indisposition and inactivity humours subside degenerate incrassate and obstruct from whence also various ill symptoms and depraved effects throughout the body debilitating and decaying the senses enervating and stealing away the strength of the body by defrauding it of good nutriment hastning old age and shortning life Although you do not perceive the injury of your intemperance presently yet it will appear and be manifest if Physick remove it not seasonably Noxa etsi ad tempus fortasse delitescit temporis tamen successu sese exerit In Winter you may eat more freely but in Summer the spirits are dilated exhausted and drawn forth by the external heat opening the pores wherefore the appetite is not so sharp nor digestion so quick And the Rule is true though heat be not the principal cause of concoction yet it is a necessary Agent Exciter and Cooperator The third considerable in regular eating is fit and convenient times wherein take these Cautions Let not the common custom of meals invite you to eat except your appetite concur with those times and keep a sufficient distance between your times of eating that you charge not the stomach with a new supply before the former be distributed and passed away and in keeping such a distance your stomach will be very fit and ready to receive the next meal the former being wrought off perfectly no semi-digested crude matter remaining to commix with the next food and that is one chief cause of crudities and a foul stomach when a new load is cast in before the former be gone off which begets much excrements not much aliment clogs the Body and procures Diseases And therefore Avicen rightly admonisheth Nemo sanitatis suae studiosus aliquid comedat nisi ad hoc certo prius invitante desiderio ventriculo unà cum reliquis superioribus intestinis à praesumpto cibo vacuatis The Stomach that is empty receives closeth and embraceth food with delight will be eager and sharp in digestion and the Body will attract and suck the aliment strongly each part as it passeth along will perform its Office readily and sufficiently which they will not do if often cloyed with depraved and indigested aliment but slowly and with reluctancy for although they do not act by reason yet they have a natural instinct or endowment to discern their proper and fit object If you ask how oft in the day and when it is convenient to eat I answer as the quantity is not alike measured to all so the times are not equally to be appointed Children that have coming and craving stomachs do and may eat often in a day Young men and women healthful and good stomachs that labour or use much exercise may eat thrice in the day Morning Noon and Night The elder sort and such as are infirm or weak in stomach that do no work use no exercise or have a sedentary life to such eating twice in the day is sufficient And herein also respect is to be had to the nature and temperature of the Body and to custom for cool fat and moist Bodies bear hunger better than lean hot people of greater perspiration and cholerick stomachs who are gnawn by abstinence and do not well bear it especially if they omit a meal contrary to custom as Hippoc notes Apher 24. de rat vict qui bis de die cibum capere consueverunt ii nisi pransi fuerint imbecilles finnt infirmi ac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 patiuntur Omit a meal sometimes it acuates and sharpens the stomach concocts indigested matter and makes the next meal rellish better Eat no late Suppers nor variety at once a good stomach may endure it for a while but the weaker is more sensible of the injury the best is prejudiced in time Eat not presently after exercise nor when you are hot but forbear till the spirits he retired and setled in their stations The fourth considerable for manner of eating and helps to digestion take this advice When you come to Meat leave your care and business but bring in your friend and be as merry as you can mirth and good company is a great help to a dull stomach both for appetite and digestion Eat not hastily but chew your meat well 't is a good preparation for concoction and your stomach will more easily and sooner digest for if it be but half chewed the stomach must have the labour to chew it over again with its incisive ferment Drink a little and oft at meat to macerate and digest especially if your meat be dry and solid and to help distribution of aliment but great draughts cause fluctuations and disturb the fermentation Forbear reading writing study or serious cogitations for two hours after meat else you draw off from the stomach abate the strength of digestion and injure the brain Hasty motion opens the Orifice of the stomach precipitates the food before due time and vitiates digestion SECT VII The variety of Mans Food The several sorts of Flesh and Fish their difference in digestion and goodness MAN above all Creatures exceeds in variety and choice of meats having not only for necessity and convenience but for pleasure also Nature abounds in variety