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A28790	The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon... ; translated out of Latin, with annotations and an account of his life and writings / by Richard Browne. Also, a physical account of the tree of life / by Edw. Madeira Arrais ; translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.	Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Arrais, Duarte Madeira, d. 1652.; Browne, Richard, fl. 1674-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing B372; ESTC R30749	117,539	326

and the forecited Doctor Smith and embrace the old Opinion Were there not a Defect in one Faculty when another is perfect in its Operations I should think many the same one Faculty But Experience showing one Perfect when at the same moment another is Defective I take such as Distinct. We may indeed refer in gross all Faculties of Man to the Soul and so make them one But if according to common acceptation Seeing and Hearing be distinct and those Faculties differ that operate by differing Organs we shall be of the Author's judgment when we consider the Regions assigned each Faculty The Evisceration of the Brain shows us various Ventricles near the Origination of the Nerves Now the Nerves being the Inlets of all Ideas it 's not unlikely that the Ventricles are the Receivers But whether in the Ventricles or in the Parenchymous Part of the Brain these sensible Ideas be concocted into other Notions or where the Soul keeps her Elaboratory of Reason I am not so absolute in usu Partium as to be able better to determine than according to the probability of this Hypothesis For Consider the Eye the principal Negotiator for the Imagination it hath its Visory Nerves in the foremost Place assigned to Imagination But its Motory Nerves are near the Middle or Seat of Iudgment nay the Pathetick Nerves dare not cast a Glance without judicious leave In the very middle or place of Iudgment are the Nerves which be the Moderators of the Countenance and the Tongue the truest Indices of Discretion and Vnderstanding Then the Auditory Nerves are placed behind and seem to carry their Ideas to the Cell of Memory the proper Receptacle of Audibles Behind these indeed come other Nerves but they are only Mancipia Rationis and do obsequiously put in Execution the Dictates of the Higher Powers Now if after this Anatomical Account Imagination Iudgment and Memory improve or impair according to the Good or Hur● that the fore middle or hind part of the Head receive we may as rationally conclude on the Seat of each Faculty as Galen did on the Motory of the Hand when he cured its lost motion by Application to the upper part of the Spine b Our Authour hath made a large Progress towards the making of this good in his Book Of the Wonderful Power of Art and Nature c Hippocrates in his Book Of Dreams takes very rational Presages as well as Diagnosticks of the state of Mans Health from the dark Visions of the Night and so a Man may deal in Oneirocriticks without danger o● Superstition or Shadow of Necromancy CHAP. VII Of Meats and Drink which do more agreeably restore the Natural Moisture that daily is consumed a MEats and Drink which more agreeably restore the Natural Moisture which is daily wasted are many And this Restauration is various according to the variety of Constitutions and according to the goodness of Juices in Meats and Drinks as Pliny saith and especially after the time of full Growth Now some good Juices proceed from Vegetables as well as from Animals but none from Minerals as the Son of the Prince Abohaly maintains in the Preface of his Regiment But the Natural Moisture which is daily wasted may by b Diet and a right Course of Moderating ones Living be restored Which Course ought to consist as much as may be of things of a good Juice and of other Vertues But according to Pliny those good Juices are better which either Increase or Repair the Natural Moisture And of those some do render it purer Some do make it stronger and more remote from Corruption And therefore things of good Juice do differ among themselves For what do proceed from Animals bred on a fruitful Soil do render the Natural Moisture more Sincere and free from Destruction For Bread Fish Flesh and Wine although they afford a good Juice yet sometimes they breed bad Humours But Bread yields a Moisture safer from Destruction than Flesh And Flesh produces a Moisture more remote from Corruption than Fish Wine of the Vineyard affords one more remote than Drink made of Oats or Apples or Barley or of other things For although in all the things aforesaid there may be found Food of a good Juice yet Wine breeds a more durable Moisture than any other Drink But Flesh and Wine and Yolks of Eggs are more apt to breed good Blood than other harder things And they are fit for Old Men because Old Men want Restauration of Blood and Spirits And the chief Goodness of Regiment in them is that which heats and moistens from Nutritives Bathes Drink long Sleep long Lying in Bed from Provocation of Urine and Expulsion of Phlegm And Prince Abohaly saith in his first Canon in the Chapter Of the Regiment of Old Men that Nutritives ought to be such as neither breed Melancholy nor Phlegm nor any sharp Humour as is the Flesh of Pullets Partridge Sucking Kids Calves and Lambs hot temperate and moist Electuaries and some Simples amongst which are the better sort of Pine and Fistick Nuts for they restore the natural and innate Moisture and a certain Electuary made up of them and artificially prepared and taken in great Quantity with Sugar of Roses Whereof Avicenna speaking of the Consumption makes mention saying that a Persian Woman whose Grave was dug and her Funeral prepared by this recovered her Health and restored her Natural Moisture But remember how I said that according to Pliny things of a good Juice restore the Natural Moisture and yet such as is often presently wasted for this Reason Because bad Chyle is bred sometime from things of a good Juice in a hot Stomach for that sometime the Meat is adust as Royal Haly saith in his Canon Of the Regiment of Meat And also from Meats that of their own Nature do breed a bad Moisture Sometimes this happens in things of good Juice which are of the rank of Animals It is of great moment that the Feeding of these living Creatures be good as in Fish and the rest of Animals For I have seen Chickens fed with Grapes harder of Flesh and more difficult of Concoction than were most Water-Fowl The like one may see in Fish as is apparent in Pikes for they are not fed as othe● Fish and therefore these breed better Food which are themselves better fed And not only their Food is to be considered but the Place wherein they are brought up So we have seen Fish living in a muddy and foul Water which of their own Nature use to breed good Food have notwithstanding produced very bad And on the contrary But in Vegetables four things are to be considered The Soil The Air The Distance of the Sun and The Kind of the Plant. The Soil is considerable Because Plants that grow in a c dunged Soil have Fruit which sooner putrefies than such as grow other where The same may be said of Bread-Corn and other Grain As is also evident in the Wine of that Vineyard

Vertue and Operation And thus we see one Oyl operates more strongly in Old Men than another NOTE on CHAP. XIV a We find in Holy Writ before Hippocrates lived Wine was Man's inward and Oyl his outward Analeptick And Vnction was used by him and by the Sons of Art for many Ages after him Only the Wisdom of our Age knows scarce any Vse of it except contra Pruritum and Pruritum Venereum An erroneous Neglect undoubtedly Nothing can be more apt for our Author's Purpose Since Old Mens Natural Heat as a weakned Garrison slights the Out-works and fairly retires to the Fort of the Heart till Supplies come from without Now Vnction is an Evacuation to the outer Parts of the Body because it heats attenuates and melts those useless H●mours that are discharged to and lodged in the Habit of the Body and then of themselves they dissipate and evaporate And so there is Way made for the vital Flame to play from the Heart But if the Vnction be hot it not only softens the out Parts but its Vertue reacheth the very inward Humours and so heats attenuates and disperses them CHAP. XV. Of things that cause Clearness Cleanness and Ruddiness of Skin and that take away Wrinkles ALL things that a move the Blood and Spirits to the Skin adorn and cloth the Skin with Beauty Cleanness and Ruddiness and this thing is promoted by whatsoever doth gently cleanse the Skin rendring in thinner and making it clean from those things that stick dead on its Surface And in performing this Care must be had of three things namely of Cold too much Heat and the Wind. Now Blood is moved to the Skin three ways namely by breeding of good and subtil Blood by its Purity and by Expansion Things that breed good Blood are those of good Juice amongst which according to Pliny is subtil and sweet smelling Wine as Isaac speaks of Bread well baked and leavened and also all manner of Meats so they be but of good Digestion For Digestion is the true Fountain of good Blood and Humour So doth Avicenna affirm of these things Those things also breed good Humour that are boyled b covered without Water and dry rosted In like manner that Drink is necessary which moves the Blood from the inner Parts to the outer such as c Broth of Pulse Wine Milk Mede and the like drunk on a fasting Stomach And several have had Experience of these things as Avicenna saith in his fourth Canon Haly in the end of his first Discourse of his Practice saith that drinking of Wine and daily eating of wholesome Flesh makes a good and fair Colour And things that dry the Blood are these Trifera Sara●enica made up with Myrobalans and the Antients affirmed that Cassia fistula could do the same Perl prepared doth make the Blood of the Heart clear and fine as Isaac saith in his Degrees Things that disperse and spread abroad the Blood are many and this is done two ways The first is either by taking things in at the Mouth such as are Pepper Ginger Cloves Saffron properly boyled in Wine otherwise it tingeth the Blood as also if two Drachms of Hyssop and one Drachm of Saffron be drunk with Sugar And a Man may eat Herbs such as Radish Leeks Onyons if he eat not often of them as also d Garlick well prepared Or if the Soul be e stirred by certain Operations Actions and Motions of which sort are Wrath Joy Mirth f Anger and what ever provokes Laughter as also Instrumental Musick and Songs to converse with Company which discourse facetiously to look on precious Vessels the Heavens and Stars to be clothed with Variety of Garments to be delighted with Games to obtain Victory over ones Enemies to argue with ones most dear and beloved Friends as Aristotle saith in his Epistle to Alexander For a chearful Mind brings Power and Vigor makes a Man rejoyce stirs up Nature and helps her in her Actions as Rasy saith to Almansor in his Canon Of the Cogitations of the Mind But secondly The things which being applyed outwardly effect this with Abstersion and Action are Lotions and Unctions And in these things the Way of their Abstersiveness is unlike for some things effect this more roughly others more finely There are Oyntments which take away and uncover the old Skin and cause the Spirits to penetrate as far as the Skin Causes that infect the Skin are many Either inward such as are the Humors infecting the Blood as is manifest in the Jaundice For they exert very dangerous operations in the inner Parts This Infection may be taken away by those Remedies which are found among the Wise in their proper Chapters Or outward as Wind Heat Cold. For these things sometime make the Skin black foul and wrinkled but how the Cuticle is defended from these Inconveniences and after they are come how they may be removed the Wise do teach Avicenna of things making the Colour beautiful saith The Skin may be well kept from the Sun Cold and Wind if it be smeared with the White of an Egg and Water of Gum or if some such thick thing be steeped in Water and mixt with an equal quantity of the White of an Egg and if the Skin be smeared with it these Harms are removed which were impressed from these Causes So Haly speaks in his Canon Of Beauty Take of the Flower of Beans Pease Vetches Lupines sweet Almonds blanched Dragant Mastich grind all these together sierce them finely blend them with Milk make a sweet Cataplasm of them let it be on a Day and a Night wash then with the Water of boiled Bran and so use it till the Skin be reduced to its natural Quality and Disposition But if Corrugation happen in the Skin from these Causes let this Oyntment be made which Avicenna in his Canon Of O●l appoints which is very available in driving away and curing the aforesaid Ails Take a little Lily Root prepared Oyl of bitter Almonds Honey and a little Propolis let them be melted together And some have said that Oyl of Balm with Oyl of Bays doth most easily take away and wipe off this Wrinkling of the Skin NOTES on CHAP. XV. a In this Chapter here is a Cosmetica Rationalis backt with true Philosophick Reason not projected upon the Fucus of a barren Notion where as in a curious Picture we may with Admiration view the Dashes of a Master's Hand and then sit down and consider That only a good Philosopher can make a skilful Physician b This may be done two Ways according to Riverius The first is this Take your Meat seasoned according to your Mind and cut into long Slips put it into a well glazed Earthen Pot close covered and luted with Lutum Sapientiae set it in an Oven hot as it is when you draw your Bread let it stand and it will with the Heat dissolve into Liquor But this some may esteem Baking The second Way is this and it is properly Boiling

whatever is dissolved from any thing it must of necessity be assimilated to that thing As is manifest in Diseases passing from one to another such is Weakness of the Eyes and Pestilential Diseases This thing hath an admirable Property for it doth not only render Humane Bodies harmless from Corruption but it defends also the Bodies of Plants from Putrefaction This thing is seldome found and although sometime it be found yet it cannnot commodiously be had of all Men. And instead of it the Wise do use that Medicine which is in the Bowels of the Earth complete and prepared and that which swims in the Sea and that which is in the Square Stone of the Noble Animal so that every part may be free from the infection of another But if that Stone cannot be acquired let other Elements separated divided and purified be made use of Now when this thing is like to Youth that is of temperate Complexion it hath good Operations If its Temperature be better it produceth better Effects Sometimes it is even in the highest Degree of its perfection and then it operates best and then there is that Property whereof we have spoken before This differs from other Medicines and Nutriments which heat and moisten after a certain temperate manner and are good for Old Men. For other Medicines principally heat and moisten the Body and secondarily they strengthen the Native Heat But this doth principally strengthen the Native Heat and after that o refreshes the Body by moistening and heating it For it reduces this Heat in Old Men who have it but weakly and deficient to a certain stronger and more vehement Power If a p Plaster be made hereof and applied to the Stomach it will help very much for it will refresh the Stomach it self and excite an Appetite it will very much recreate an Old Man and change him to a kind of Youth and will make Complexions by what means soever depraved or corrupted better Many Wise Men have spoken but little of this thing they have indeed laid down another thing like it as Galen in his fifth Book Of Simple Medicines and Iohannes Damascenus in his Aphorisms But it is to be observed that q Venus doth weaken and diminish the Power and Virtue of this thing And it is very likely that the Son of the Prince in his second Canon Of the Operations of Simple Medicines spoke of this thing where he saith that there is a certain Medicine concealed by Wise Men lest the r Incontinent should offend their Creator There is such a Heat in this thing as is in Young Men of a Sound Complexion and if I durst declare the Properties of this Heat this most hidden Secret should presently be revealed For this Heat doth help the Palsical it restores and preserves the wasted Strength of the Native Heat causeth it to flourish in all the Members and gently revives the Aged In like manner because of Similitude let the Square Stone of the Noble Animal the Mineral Sun and the Matter which swims in the Sea be made use of These three things well prepared are assimilated to the Native Heat of a healthy Man The Antient Sages have also reported that there is another kind of Medicine which is able to perform this namely s Wine artificially mixt and prepared whereof there are five Properties as Galen saith Wine mixt with Water 1. Heats the whole Body 2. As it were pierceth the Members 3. Tempers the Humors 4. Excites Natural Heat 5. Chears the Heart which I think is to be imputed to the Wine not the Water And it must be understood of that Wine which is t strong and is found in Syria Also Royal Haly in his Chapter Of Old Age where he discourses of Drink speaks thus If any one use it according to the Measure and at the Time he ought it will strengthen the Native Heat and diffuse it through the whole Body it will disperse Cholerick Humors and temper them by purging by Sweat and Urine it will make a hard Nature softer and will moisten when through too violent Labour Dryness doth happen It begets Chearfulness and Joy and mitigates Melancholy It is said also that the white and subtil should be drunk with a great deal of Water especially when the ripe Age of Man and the time of full growth is come But Sowre and Old Wines are to be avoided If Men be of necessity forced to drink such Wines let them be dashed with sweet Water and Warm and before they be drunk let them stand mixt for six Hours For Isaac doth thus speak of strong Wine mixt Wine mixt doth cool hot Bodies moisten the dry make dry the moist and produce contrary Operations Whence the Antients likened it to the great Treacle because one may see two contrary Vertues latent in it We would have all understood of strong Wine mixt wherein are five Properties u Colour Smell Tast Substance Age. A Man ought to drink that Wine which is yellowish Haly affirms that Wine should be drunk whose Colour enclines to Redness Avicenna saith Red is most eligible which is clear of Substance in Tast neither bitter nor sweet but Pontick But if it seem too Vinous it ought to be mixt with Spring-Water where there is no extraneous Vapor Royal Haly saith that Old and Sowre Wine should be avoided Isaac thinks that after a Year is over the Goodness and Strength of the Wine doth begin None almost do speak of the space of Time wherein this Mixture should be made except Royal Haly who seems to have spoken well in his foresaid Canon Of Old Wine For unless Wine remain for some Time mixt the Wine by Digestion in the Stomach will be separated from the Water For the hot and fiery part ascends and the Earthy will remain in the Bottom of the Stomach as appears by a Glass-Vessel full of Red Wine so that if Water be poured upon it and the Vessel closed that no Air can get in you shall see the Water sink to the Bottom But this Clashing of the Wise about the Colour and Season of Wine is not worthy so great Admiration seeing that diversity of Soils doth often cause it For the Vertue of Plants is various according to the Variety of Places and Provinces as Haly saith upon Galen's Regiment where he speaks of the Correction of Medicine Aristotle Of the Secrets of Secrets affirms That Wine should be drunk by Old Men and them that plentifully flow with Phlegm he thinks it hurtful for the Young and Hot. Red Wine encreases Blood more than White and is in some measure better than all Wine and more agreeable to Mens Complexions such namely as grows on a Soil enclosed between Hills and Dales whose Clusters are of a good Sweetness and Maturity in a subtil and pure Air and which are not gathered before the Force of their Substance be rebated their Colour become Golden namely a Mean between Red and Yellow their Tast sharp pungent and delectable and

before their Substance be clear When the Wine shall be such let a Man drink as his Age and the nature of the Season will permit For then it will preserve the Stomach strengthen the Natural Heat help Digestion defend the Body from Corruption carry the Food to all the Parts and concoct the Food till it be turned into very Blood It also cheers the Heart tinges the Countenance with Red makes the Tongue voluble begets Assurance and promises much Good and Profit If it be over-much guzzled it will on the contrary do a great deal of Harm For it will darken the Understanding ill affect the Brain render the Natural Vigor languid bring Forgetfulness weaken the Joynts beget shaking of the Limbs and Bleareyedness it will darken and make black the Blood of the Heart Whence Fear Trembling Weakness of the Genitals and the Destruction and Ruine of the Seed do arise And which is worse it breeds the w Leprosie and so imitates the Nature of the Serpent which taken immoderately and not as Physicians advise is mortal of which well prepared Antidotes are made that cure Diseases NOTES on CHAP. XII a Some would have this to be Quintessence of Mans Blood But what the Author speaks of cannot be predicable of any Quintessence For his Arcanum is applied Plasterwise Quintessences are taken inwardly Neither does he mention any Preparation of it at all but gives only the Vertues of it in puris naturalibus Some might imagine it a Precious Stone that turns its Orient Splendor into a sordid pale Blush at the Venereal Pollutions of its Possessor But no one can imagine that the Sapphire in a Ring can contribute to the Guilt of the Incontinent otherwise than as sometimes it is the Price of their Iniquity which its fading doth betray Now our Author declaring he could meet but with little of it in Physick I guess we must have recourse to Divinity in which he was also conversant Where in 1 King 1. 1 2 3 4. we meet with that Medicine more plainly which is here more obscurely described 1. Now King David was old and stricken in years and they covered him with Cloths but he gat no Heat 2. Wherefore his Servants said unto him Let there be sought for my Lord the King a young Virgin and let her stand before the King and let her cherish him and let her lye in thy Bosome that my Lord the King may get Heat 3. So they sought for a fair Damsel thorowout all the Coasts of Israel and found Abishag a Shunamite and brought her to the King 4. And the Damsel was very fair and cherished the King and ministred to him but the King knew her not The Iews say that when Saul was easing himself David cut off the Skirt of his Robe for which David's Heart smote him and the Qualm came so cold over his Heart that he could never after recover it Others say He quaked so ●erribly at the sight of the Angels drawn Sword which destroy'd his People that the Cold Fit held him to his dying-day But King David was old and stricken in Years and they covered him with Cloths but he gat no Heat Wherefore his Servants advise him to this Remedy b Our Author has given Abishag the very fair Damsel's Adumbration most curiously c Here are this fair Shunamite's Rose of Sharon and Lily of Damascus d her Hair like Purple in curling Locks e her two young Roes that are Twins feeding among the Lilies f her Head filled with the Dew and her Locks with the Drops of the Night g her Countenance fair as the Moon clear as the Sun h her Fruit sweet to her Tast as She sits under the Shadow with great delight i her Spikenard and chief Spices k while the Southwind blows upon her Garden that the Spices thereof may flow l her Well of Living Waters and Streams of Lebanon m And here the fairest among Women is wounded by the Watchmen and then her Beloved departs n Here our Author allows a wholesome Contagion as well as a morbid and a Sympathy in Health as well as in Sickness between Creatures of the same Kind which argues that this Help meet for an Old Man must be somewhat Humane o And let her cherish him p And let her lye in thy Bosome that my Lord the King may get Heat q But the King knew her not r This danger of Incontinence is another convincing Argument that our Authors Cataplasm is a Virgin the greatest Temptation to that Fault Now if the Sin of eating the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil were the Scriptural Knowledge of a Woman as is some Learned Mens Opinion a spotless Virginity may very likely do some Good in protracting that evil Day of Man which Woman's corruption first brought upon him Or admit if our first Parents had not eat the Apple as most Divines allow they really did Man might have been conceived without Sin or brought forth without Sorrow this and all other Acts being naturally performed according to the Will of his Creator as the Sun goes round without Sin but that by the Fall Will and Pleasure is become Sinful and Lust exorbitant which before was as pure innocent natural Propensity as for the Stars to keep their Courses Even in Nature this way corrupted the Remedy is highly Rational For in this Case the Virgin Heat irritated and exalted by the Contact of Man thus Old exerts it self by its Incubation on her Bedfellow when she fails of Conception by him and so acts that Vigor outwardly in preserving her decaying Species which she would otherwise inwardly in Procreation of it anew And on the other side this Old Dust and Ashes may by his warm Concubine have some Sparks kindled in him so as to keep the Embers alive that for want of fewel are not able to break out into a Flame of Lust however willing though insufficient to take green Wood. But if the Old Mans Vital Flame thus trembling and lambent on himself should proceed to animate Posterity he must only expect his own speedy Extinction s This is Old Mens Milk for there is no fitter Vehicle to accelerate the heavy Circulation of their Blood than Generous Wines t But what shall we say of Rhenish White and Claret which have an innate watrish Crudity besides a worse mixture oftentimes at the Vintners u These Properties should be well considered in our Beer and Ale whose Cold Clime refuseth the Grape And since Fire is to them what the Sun is to the Grape we should take great care they be well boil'd and allow them time enough to ferment and ripen But here I must take notice of a modern ill Custome of drinking Brandy which may very well serve Medicinally upon extraordinary Occasion but the constant Vse of it must needs dry exceedingly the Blood and Inwards especially and so turn Mens Bodies to dry old Skeletons or by creating Obstructions in the Alimental Passages cause Dropsies and either hasten Old Age or