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A72470	The bathes of Bathes ayde wonderfull and most excellent, agaynst very many sicknesses, approued by authoritie, confirmed by reason, and dayly tryed by experience: vvith the antiquitie, commoditie, propertie, knovvledge, vse, aphorismes, diet, medicine, and other thinges therto be considered and obserued. / Compendiously compiled by Iohn Iones phisition. Anno salutis. 1572. At Asple Hall besydes Nottingham.	Jones, John, physician.	1572 (1572)	STC 14724a.3; ESTC S107904	49,058	102

receue the impression as the light by the brightnes cléernes of Diamonds Saphirs Cristal or such like strengthning the same but in these of thē afore aledged ther is no such aptnes of heating cooling moystning or drying or by any other meanes furthering the same as you may perceue by your own outward senses Beside these heat preserued becometh more mighty being ioyned to drynes then to moysture séeing drines doth whet sharpen heat contrariwise moisture doth dul it as you may also easely gather Lastly actuall fyre working vpon the water it self can not put into it a greater degrée of heat the water it self remayning then the degrée of feruent heate Experience doth verifye the supposition whereby it may be inferred that the waters of Bathes can not be brought to so great a degrée of heate by whot vapoures vnder the earth nor yit by their dashing from hyghe places and craggie for then the waters descendinge out of the cragged rockes in the hyghe hilles in Kayer Naruayne shyre there called VVithua and out of the rauen cragge in Cumbreland shuld through their longe course and violent tossinges become hote But experience proueth the contrarie therefore dashinge togyther and passage of the waters through stony places is not the immediate cause of the heate of the waters of Bathes Séeing that effecte lastly is fyre neyther be such vapours or dashinges matchable to fyre in heate so that from them such an heate can not procéede Wherefore it shal be shewed that if it be heated their heat shal bée by none other means but of fyre And séeing fire doth so heate it ensueth that in the bowels of the earth fire may be found Which as wée haue sayde shal be farther approued both by experience and reason Auicen and Auerhois do permit that Elements are formally in things mixed which thing we leaue worthy to bee graunted by their authoritie so that then thus wise we wil argue It is an harder thing for nature to be able to bringe forth in the bowels of the earth a thinge mingled perfyte then a thing simple perfecte when as a thing mingled thus wyse can not be produced without the simple séeinge it is presupposed but nature can do the first séeing it bringeth forth Golde Siluer Brimstone Salt peter Alume Iron and all other myneralles Ergo it can do the seconde ergo it can bring foorth fyre also And the cause of the beginninge of this fyre is none other then that which is assigned of Aristo in secundo meteo capite de terraemotu And it is an exhalacion hot and drye included in the concauities of the earth where it séeking a passage out and not fynding it is laboured being so laboured it is rarified and beinge rarifyed is kindled bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate If therefore it happen that where such vapour is included and after the maner as is sayde inflamed if I say it happen that there be metal of Bitumen or Sulphur it is also kindled and the fyre is so longe preserued as the matter féeding it shal not fayle which matter féeding must now be searched out bycause it is not yit euident what it is and also many of those which doo followe the opinion of Aristo concerning the cause preseruing the fyre vnder the earth do disagrée although all do confesse that this fyre vnder the earth hath some subiect preseruing it and that thys fyre is the cause of the heate of the waters of Bathes hereafter shall appeare more euidently Iohannes de Dondis an excellent learned man and a pure Peripatetique hath made a very goodly treatice of the hot welles in the fielde of Padua and there amongst other questions hée moueth this Whence it is that the waters of Bathes doo springe hote hée aunswereth at the length with Arist and sayth that the cause is fyre vnder the earth and that such waters doo flowe perpetually hote bycause the fyre is perpetually preserued in those places vnder the earth after hée demaundeth what is the cause preseruing and aunswered wherevnto very ignorauntly Sanonarola cleaueth that it is heate excitated of the Starres in the face of the earth which heate hée affirmeth to bée not onely the cause preseruing but also the efficient as it were and the materiall and subiect of the fyre hée supposeth to bée an exhalation hote and drie that is wynde And bycause the wynde is still ministred therfore that especially fyre is perpetually preserued and perpetually heateth the waters Afterward he demaundeth of the place of that fyre vnder the earthe sayth that it is not nye the centre of the earth bicause then it would easily bée corrupted for the earth is ther most pure and therfore the vertue doth more florish so that it is most colde neither is the place of the fyre vnder the brimme of the Earth for if it were ther conteyned it would burne vp the plantes and whatsoeuer is in the face of the same and therfore he concludeth that it is in the middle hollownesses betwene these two extremes that is béetwene the centre and the face of the earthe he addeth that this place where the fyre lyeth is distant from the face of the earth .xxx. Myles whereby it appeareth that he woulde haue the Sunne to perse the earth by the space of .xxx. Myles But this opinion is false bicause if the beames of the Sunne should kéepe fyre vnder the earth it must fyrst passe thorough the face of the earth then passe part after part vntill it come to that especiall heate and so afore it come to that fyre it would burne whatsoeuer is found on the superficies of the earth But admit that this heauenly heate passing thorough the superficies of the earth do not burne all that it encountreth yet it wyll not preserue that fyre bycause seing it is .xxx. myles distant from the superficies of the earth as he sayth toward the centre before the heate excitated of the Sunne beames come thether it will bée so flacke that it wyll not bée warme therefore the opinion of Ioannes is false Againe if fyre vnder the earth that is this flame and especiall heate were perpetually preserued of the heauenly heate it would ensue that in colde Regions waters of Bathes wold not be hot but in hot Regions they would be most feruent hot bicause in colde regions ther is but small reflexion of the beames of the Sunne for which cause they be cold Therfore the heate of the Sunne in them can not bée so hot that it should minister too the fyre vnder the earth so strong an heate but in the hot Zone ther shold not only be so great an heate that those waters should bée most hot but also all things should bée burned But dayly experience proueth the contrary also the authoritie of Matten Curtesse in his booke of Nauigacion to Charles the fith Monarche If therefore the heauenly heate were the cause of heate vnder the earth in cold climates hot waters

of fower yeares they shal finde agayne as great plenty as afore whereby it is sufficient to feede fyre continually when as continually it is engendred and by the same reason for euer preserueth the bathes Lastely if it be obiected that if so great fyre be preserued vnder the earth that it may cause the waters to come forth so hote it should followe that where such hote bathes were there should bée vomica and a chimney out of whiche that flame shuld bée expelled I say it is not néed to ymagine that this flame is equall in all places but in some places is great in some small and therefore where it is greatest there it bursteth out and where it is small the smoke passeth out togyther with the water as at bathe which smoke smelleth there of the nature of sulphur howbeit in other places it may bée of bitumen and that smoke is made bothe bicause the sulphur and bitumen haue in them a porcion of earth melted and hence it is that this fyre may be longe preserued bicause it is a sound matter I call it sounde bycause both brimstone and bitumē be it neuer so pure and myngled haue alwayes earth mingled withall wherevpon although in some places the fire bée not great bycause it is in a sounde subiect which with his soundnes doth long endure the flame also endureth longe Therefore the matter by which fyre is fed in places vnder the earth is sulphur eyther pure or else commixed with his owne earth or else bitumen or some kinde thereof as Fallopius moste reasonably affyrmeth where you that bee learned if this suffise you not may reade further to content you That the metalles of bitumen or Sulphur doo take the beginninge of their heate of wynde inflamed in the places vnder the earth it is shewed But howe the waters do waxe hote thorowe that heate receyued in the Metalles and where that flame is conteyned wée muste nowe séeke séeing it is not euydent enough Therefore there bée in this thinge two opinions one of Agricola that the waters waxe hote bicause there is in the same conduite with the waters both fyre and coles by which they do waxe hot and the opinion is most lyke to be true and partly true bicause we sée with the water passing forth that some of the metal passeth forth and remaineth on the froth in which the water boyleth at Bath and this could not be except the fyre and water wer contayned in one and the same conduite The other is the opinion of Empedocles propounded vnto vs of Seneca that the waters be hot not bicause they passe thorough the burning metall as Agricola supposed but bicause they passe thorough places vnder which there is fyre kyndled togither with the metalles Which opiniō séemeth good enough For we haue in the springes of Buckston certaine well springes into which water entreth cold bicause they come not of one conduite but when it is ther commixed it waxeth hot which thinge wée can not saye too bée done through brimstone or bitumen there kindled and burning séeinge there appeareth neyther any metal nor fyre but wée must suppose that this is only done bycause the metall burneth vnder those conduites the water there is altogyther putable and yet do breake out hote as you haue heard which thing should not be if they waxed hote through their passage through metalles fyred but they would necessarily haue the smell and taste and some substance of that metall which as I haue saide they altogyther lacke therfore wée must say that they be not only in vse too bée dronke and to make meats of but also they wash their finest linnen whit and be more whyter than with the Ryuer water harde by and yet they breake out whote bycause they gette heate of the Stones by which they passe vnder which Stones ther is fyre kindled in any of the mettalles aforesayd This opinion of Empedocles Vitruuius a man of greate experyence confyrmeth what then must we suppose in this thing I lay that the meane by which waters do wax hote is two foulde both already propounded one verily propounded of the mynde of Agricola and the other of Empedocles for some are heated bicause they passe thorough stonie places vnder which ther is fyre kindled and burning in the metall of brimstone or bitumen neyther are these stones therfore turned into chalke that one myght iudge or into ashes bicause they can not be disgested or bicause the heat is slack and lytle and so greate onely as may heale the stones and waters or bicause if it be much it is farre distāt from those stones And other doe waxe hot bicause they passe thorough the mettall it selfe fyred and burning as Agricola supposed you may gather of these two wayes by which waters doe waxe hot the cause why some of the waters of bathes break out most hote as the hote bath at Bath other meanly hot as the crosse bath other betwen both as the kings bath other warme as Buckstones other cold as at Halliwel in Flint shyre called in brittish Fannon Onen Freny which yit be bath waters and haue a medicinable force facultie Therfore the causes of these differences are two that is smalnesse and distance of the fyre for if heate being in the conduytes be much and strong and that water maketh his iourney not very long before it breake out of the earth it wyll flow most hote but if the fyre be lytle and the iourney long it wyll be warme If the fyre be much the iourney meanely long it wyll be meanely hot as contrarily if the fyre be lytle and the iourney most short bicause the water should keape the whole heate which it hath receaued And the contrary happeneth if it take a long iourney bicause in the passage some heate euaporateth continually After the same maner you may saye of water which doth not waxe hote thorow fyre béeing in the conduytes but by reason of hote stones vnder which there is fyre kindled in the metalles and that may be little or much and neare or farre of those stones and so the heate of the waters shal be varied by reason of the next situation or the flame farre of as also by reason of the smalnesse or muchnesse of the same to which you must adde the long or short iorney which the water it selfe maketh before it breake out of the earth for it may be that fyre to be much and neare the water flowing ouer and yit the water wil passe forth warme or lue warme or cold bicause the water hath lost all that heat in the long iourney as in Buckstones bathes benefyte you may reade Hitherto we haue shewed that Bathes be hote alwayes bicause the fire is continuall and that the fyre is continuall bicause new féeding may be ministred and that the féeding is alwayes ministred bicause in places vnder the earth there is matter of which it may be engendred Moreouer it hath appeared how that fyre hath bin

the sonne of 28 Seth the sonne of 29 Adam and Eua. From Noe we haue followed the Septuaginta as wee did the most probable histories vntil Nos Concerning the noblenes genealogie of the founder antiquitie of the Brittaynes and origyne of these our Bathes of Bathe we haue spoken somewhat It resteth that in a word or two be declared theyr excellent properties worthie effects aydefull in déede to the most sort of infirmities accidents and gréefes which as saith Galen Lib. de symptomatum differencijs is the fealing of a thing cōtrary to nature and after Auicen in canonibus they be these Stryking Breaking Lewsing Ytching Smarting Pricking Shrinking Streatching Persing Beating Greauouse Heauy Byting Tyring Stunning or Sléeping And for these disseases following c. 1 Morphewes 2 Scales 3 Scabs 4 Scurfe 5 Wheales 6 Pustles 7 Byles 8 Apostemes or swellings 9 Vlcers 10 Letters 11 Ringwormes 12 Lepryes 13 Pockes 14 Goutes 15 Ioyntaches 16 Paulsye 17 Apoplexyes 18 Faulling sicknesses 19 Shakyngs 20 Numnes 21 Crampes 22 Destillacions 23 Rheumes 24 Poses 25 Whorsenes 26 Coughes 27 Running of the eyes 28 Running of the eares 29 Singing and ringing of thē 30 Dropping of the vryne 31 Diabetes which is the ouer making of water 32 Tenesmos which is a desire of going to the stole without doing of any thing or very lyttle with great paine 33 Collycke 34 Flyres 35 Hemorhoydes 36 Pyles 37 Feuers interpolate that come of melancholly or fleame entring the Bathe ii houres before the fit 38 Hardnes of the Splene swelling thereof 39 Swelling of the matrice or place of cōcepcion 40 Hardnes of the Liuer coldnes therof 41 Wyndines 42 Hardnes 43 Barenes 44 Ouer slipperines 45 Coldnes 46 Wasting of Seade 47 Gréene siknes 48 Hydropsyes 49 Coldnes of the brayne 50 Lack of memory 51 The sleapinge sicknes Now as you haue harde the disseases greafes which it helpeth So I think it not impertinent to shew the causes of the paynes before declared that you may the réedyer cōsult with your Phisicions thereof as of all other thinges heareafter to bée mencioned béefore ye séeke the ayde of the Bathes therfore that preordinate Phisicion by prouidence diuine Hippoc. the prince of Phisike saith that the way by which the sicknesse is vnderstanded is the perfect pathe to the curacion therof Galen lykewise the worthiest Doctour in Natures schole wylleth that before the cause be iuged no remedy be geuen whose councels herein I wysh you to follow 1 Ytching payne cōmeth of a tarte or salt humor 2 Smarting of an eger humor 3 Pricking of a sharpe humor 4 Stretching of windines that stretcheth out the Synewes and muscles contrary to nature 5 Compressyue cōmeth of matter or wyndines that maketh narrowe or constrayneth the membre or part 6 Concussiue or shaking paine procedeth of matter that is resolued betwene the muscles and panycles which by extending the panicle causeth solucion of continuitie 7 Wearyeng is cause of humors or wyndines enclosed betwene the panicle and the bone or of colde drawing the sayd panicle togither 8 Lewsyng paine is caused of matter stretching the flesh and the muscles and not the chordes 9 Persyng is caused of humors or grosse windines retained betwene the tunicles of an hard and grosse membre as in the gut Colon which without ceasing pearseth as it wer boring thorow with a gymlet 10 Actual is caused of humor retayned in a member when solucyon of continuitie is made 11 Stupefactiue is caused of vehement cold or hete and by stopping of the pores retayning the sensible Spyrites as by strong binding or ouerfilling of the wayes 12 Beating or quapping cōmeth of a hot Aposteme for a cold neuer causeth pain except it turne to heate neither is byting paine in hot Apostemes but when it procedeth of inflamacion sensibilitie of the place and multitude of beating vaines 13 Heauy or grauatiue paine is caused in an Aposteme in a membre not sensible as in the Lungs kydneys and in the splene or mylt 14 Tyring paine cometh of a laboryouse exercyse or thorough an humor vehemently stretching the membre 15 Biting payne is caused of sharpe and eger humor But now let vs returne again to the propreties of the Bathes the which in some anoye the stomache and in the most sorte byndeth very much the bodie if they drynke not of the water as in the last booke shal be handled The which water many suppose hath not ben accustomed to be appoynted to be dronke by the most auncient phisicions of the Greakes the reason is they saye for that Galen whose maner was to passe ouer nothing worthy to be entreated of hath so slightlie skypped ouer theyr aydes vertues vses effects which if they had ben effectuall to be accompted he would as sone haue wrytten a booke of it as of Tryacle or of the facultie of simple medicines c. This cōiecture I deny not may cause some to thinke so who haue not wel digested his mening in all his workes whose whole scope is to wryte of nothing at large but that wherein reason preuayleth with experyence But bicause these Bathes were the medicines of Empyrykes he left them at large howbeit in dyuers partes of his woorkes we fynde mencion made of Bathes and especially in his fourth booke De sanitate tuenda wher he hath these words ther be some waters in vse to be dronke for the purging of the body as the waters in which Nitre bitumen c. Againe he saith in his fyrst booke De sanitate tuenda that all waters representing the force of medicine as the waters of Allume Sulphur or Bitumen haue force of drying by the which it is more then manyfest that he commendeth them when as he calleth them medicinall Moreouer to proue that they were in vse to bée dronke both before Galen his tyme and since by the dyscourse following it may most euidently appeare Scribonius Largus who was Galens auncient appoynted to be dronk for the vlcers and swellings of the bladder water wherein Iron was quenched this he did as he affyrmeth to imitate the propreties of the Bathes of Ferraria as you may reade in his .146 ca. Archigenes also proueth as testifyeth Actius lib. 11. that waters of bathes were vsed to be appointed to be dronke for thaffects of the bladder of the most auncient Phisicions Oribasius lykewyse appoynteth the vse of drinking both of hot and cold bathes In collectaneis ad Iulianum imperatorem Pansanias doth shew how that the people Cynethensis vsed to drinke of the medicinable Wel called Alisson for the byting of madde dogges in Archadicis suis Vitruuius entreating of the waters of Bathes proueth that by reason of Bitumen and Nitre they were dronke for purging of the body plentifully lib. nono what néede many words In the tyme of Augustus Caesar the waters of bathes wer in great vse to be dronk at what tyme Phisicions flourished not onely in the hye courte of Rome but also ouer all as preciouse stones

kindled what it is wher the heate heating the waters is contayned wée haue likewyse shewed the cause why some waters do breake oute hote some colde more or lesse and wée haue confuted the opinions of diuers Philosophers and haue shewed how they resulte c. Nowe it followeth that we shewe of what natures such waters be and after what sorte they be cōmixed I finde thrée maners of mixtions in waters of bathes for there be some which haue so farre commixed with thē those things which they containe that those things are made one body with the substāce of the water one forme hath resulted out of thē such things whether they be metallique or other cā not be seperated frō the substance of the water but in a very long tyme a most strong cōcoction or mutacion comming out such maner of mingling is that which doth giue gret integritie maketh thē durable this therfore is the first maner of mixtiō which may be cōsidered in the waters of bathes Another is that there are some waters which haue receiued metalles in the concauities of the earth as they flow yet those metalles are not wel commixed as we presuppose at Buckstons so that of the metalles and the water there resulteth one body by one forme as we haue said in the first maner of mixtion but they bée rather confounded with the waters The thirde is meane betwéene both for there are some waters which are partly mixed in déede with the waters which they do containe partly not commixed as S. Vincents but confounded as we haue sayd aboue But we haue not decréed to speake at large of the commixtions of al bathes but onely in a word or two of our baths of Bathe and what the mineralles be supposed there commixed or infunded in the course of those waters by the qualities wherof procéedeth their effectes medicinable which in my iudgement can in no way more certainly bée approued then by the properties and that the collour smell and taste best approueth The colloure of the waters of the bathes of bathe is swartie greene or marble yellowe the yellownes of the brimstone mingled with the water making a sussible couloure Albeit coulour maketh little or rather nothing to the knowledge of the facultie as Montan. hath most excellently shewed libro de componendorum facultatibus For many things of coulour whyte be found mere contrarie in operation as for example Snow is very cold and chalke is very hot yet eyther of them is most whyte The smell of the bathes of Bathe and S. Vincents is of brimstone as the artificiall bathes that bée made thereof howbeit neyther smell also maketh much to the knowledge of the propertie for it litle forceth whether they smel swetly or otherwise for of swéete smellinge and ill sauouringe things ye shall fynd many of diuers natures altogither neuerthelesse of these some coniecture may be made yet that is vncertayne and not perpetual of tast therefore shall wée entreat Theion chibur sulphur is sharpe and stinging of taste especially if you as the Chimistes do destill it into oyle or water of qualitie whit drie in the fourth degrée as partly by his quicke burning may appeare and of thynne essence And vnto this taste sayeth Montane we must onely trust for thorow it may be perceyued not only the temperaturs of simple medicines in heate colde moysture and dryenes hauing strength from the first faculties as Galen sheweth but also all other vertues as of wiping deuiding opening cutting expelling and such lyke the fittest instrument the truest touchestone of all properties trying both toucheable and tasteable qualities Taste I saye therefore aboue all other senses as all the learned Phisicions affyrmeth is too bée trusted of which so great occasion being gyuen wée can not but speake somwhat with that worthy scholler Melancton lib. de Anima First defyning what taste organ and obiect is Taste truely is a sense of féeling which in the tongue or ruffe of the mouth tryeth sauours Sauour or smacke is a perfect straining of the drie part of the humoure wrought by heate Instrument or organ is a skinne pellicle or philme stretched in the ouer part of the tongue vnder the roufe and hallowe fleshe full of holes like a sponge Obiect of taste is a qualitie in iuyce in which moysture ouercōmeth dryenes earthy heat digesting them both Of tastes ther be seuē simple iii. hote iii. cold the eight which the gréekes cal apoios tasteles without qualitie is rather a priuacion then that it might séeme to be taken any kinde of taste as for the wine fattie tastes they are applyed to the swéetest althogh Plinie in hist plant addeth vnto these suauē acutum albeit in my iudgement dulcis contayneth suauem and acris acutum of this iudgement is Theophrastus Montan. Mont. vi C. other truly they be in nūber these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dulcis calid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acidus frigid 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Salsus 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 austerus   2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amarus 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acerbus   3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acris 3.       gradu     4.         Swéet hote 1. degrée Sooner cold 1. degrée Salt in 2. in the 2. Bitter the 3. Rouge 3. Sharpe   4. Harshe 4. The swéete taste is sayeth Montane in comen de simpli medicament qualit that which is lightly gathered delighting and pleasing the sense of the instrument arguinge an earthy dryenes temperatly excocted and not parched sometime with an ayrie moysture sometime with a watery therfore moderately warming not much moysteninge or drying nay it shall easely be turned to nourishement and alwayes such kinde of strength or vertu shall procéed from the swéete taste if it be simple but if it bée ioyned with other tastes as to the bitter or sharpe it shall bringe foorth mingled vertues the scope of our purpose for the qualities of the Bathes The Salte taste is that which perseth and byteth the tonge bringing a certayne kinde of féeling of heate by reason of earthy dryenes in a watery moysture thorow much heate deminished and by such a qualitie you may haue the force of heating drying and persynge to the depth bicause of much watery moysture mingled therewith The bitter taste is that which séemeth to shunne away from the tongue something arguing a farre greater deminishing of earthy substāce thorow heate thā in the salt tast therfore it shall haue a greater force of heating drying The sharpe taste is that which not onely doth byte the tongue but also dryeth setteth on fire as it were burneth arguing an earthy drynes perfectly diminished by heat and almost turned into the nature of fyre therefore it heateth thinneth and dryeth exquisitely also burneth consumeth Now for example of the swéete taste Sugar honie clarified or destilled honie suckles c. Of the salt tast Salt salt péeter Sal

must be dryed and put on warme clothes Sléepe also after sweate is conuenient but in the bath abstaine from slumbring When ye arise out of your bedde moue with some light exercyse or walke in a closset or in a place frée from distemperature of the ayer especially the cold and from the blasts of wynde If you be either weake or haue the ioyntache vse a place of exercyse and fricacion of the outward partes If fricacion which heare shal be rubbing with a nettel clothe shall not bée made of which you may fynde more largely in my booke of Buckstones bathes benefyte wée must vse a suppositour of honie or of the roote of white lillie or larde or sope or els a fygge and that before meate of all which meanes to euacuate shall heareafter follow The head at your comming forth of the Bathe must be diligently dryed So much meate as is conuenient which wil bring vnto the stomache neyther heauines nor wambling may bée in due tyme receyued Repletion muste altogither be auoyded so muste the Bathes in pestilent seasons and that for two causes in speciall the one by reason it filleth the body with ouer muche euill ioyce by reason whereof it may enduce a spasme and many other euilles the other bycause it openeth the pores making it readie to receyue the ambient infection Such meates and drinkes must bée vsed as bée of light disgestion good nourishment not grosse not stopping not ouer cold nor vehemently hote Héere we might enter into a large and ample discourse of Diete if thorowly we should make mencion of all things nourishing but our intente is not so farre as reason reacheth to shewe how all thinges agréeing and disagréeing of the Gréekes called simpathia antepathia doth eyther assiste and strengthen our bodyes or that doo alter and corrupt our bodies séeing it would make the volume not onely ouer hughe but also burden the Readers that breuitie couete and therefore that we may bée rather pleasant and compendiouse then gréeuouse or tediouse with some little entrance that your senses may take some smacke of our méening shall suffice vntill an other place more méete considering also that in our Tables of thinges naturall such things are distinguished This truely I appoint with Fernelius lib. secundo de abditis rerum causis That nothinge at all can nourishe vs which is not it selfe nourished endued with lyfe for stones or metals ar no eliments or nourishments for vs but only either plantes lyuing creatures or such as haue procéeded from thē bycause our life health can not be sustained but by the lyf of other it heateth not the substance of our bodies but by the matter of them whatsoeuer of thē liueth most excellēt is most holsome for our nourishmēt for the bodies of birds foure foted beasts doth better nourish then fish them both better then frutes or herbes if ye referre like to like of which peraduēture it is comprehended that nourishment is familiar vnto vs first truly in spirit diuine heat afterwarde in matter which receiued preparation vnto these thinges these wée call the whole substance But if ye wil therfore séeme to say how that the Scorpion the Hemlocke bicause they both lyue be nourished with an ayrie substance heauenly heat nourisheth vs then ye are far deceyued for it foloweth not by by contrarily euery liuing thing to be a nourishment but it is beside necessary that the heat of the liuing thing be agréeable familiar vnto vs as in Buckstons bathes benefyt it is briefly shewed But the heat heauenly spirit of many is against ours altogither pestiferous deadly that substance which is of things expelling poyson things veneming is plased cōtrarie to the substance of nourishments for as the one is ioyned vnto vs in great familiaritie so is the other hurtfull pestilent wherfore in the kinds of the whole substance extréeme nourishmēts things expelling poyson be contrarie Betwene these as it wer purging medicine take place which neither nourish nor corrupt as after shall bée handled for now we will prosecute the Diete at bathe best to be obserued The bread shal be onely of wheat leauened and good neyther hote nor stale drink of cleane ale or rather béere cleanly brewed not ouer hopped and stale Fleash of Muttons Kiddes Rabbettes and of all clouen footed foules as well wild as tame Of fishes Trught Creuis de dulce Breane Barbill Pike Cheuan Perch Roche Bret Gurnet Whiting Smelt Cod Millers tumbe all the which bée good for chollerique persons But they muste be boyled not rosted nor fried or poudered eyther with spices or salt as Rolādus affirmeth in Hidri Pottage made with chickens or with the aforesaid flesh may be very well vsed poched egges but neither quayles stares pigeons sparrows nor any such bot filling meats Fruits as almondes raisons damaske prunes quinces baked or any waydressed be permitted After meat reste or sleepe an hower or more but not by and by If it shall be necessarie for the affect of any parte anoynt the place or emplastre it with the clay of the bathes where continually the water floweth but this shall moste auayle legges swollen thorow a colde and moyst cause vlcerated Before the entring into the bath at euentyde vse exercise for the strengthning of the partes of the which I wishe you to looke in Buckstones bathes benefyte The Bathe must bée dayly changed receyuing newe or fresh water Sée that altogither whyle ye be there and lenger yée auoyde copulation that is the vse of women In the euen tyde let them enter the bathes vi vii or viii howers after dinner the disgestion béeinge fulfilled as is sayde Tariatice in the Bathe in the morning may be longer in the euening shorter If in the fyrst daye the belly by the bathe be shronken togither toward the backe bone it is a good and wholesome signe But if the wombe be puffed vp or affected with ache or else on whyle it is hote and another whyle colde with other gréefes it is an euill signe If after certaine dayes the body beginneth to be better then afore and the naturall operacions shal be a signe of curation or not curation There bée .x. accidentes which vse to happen by bathes as Rolandus testifieth fainting comonlie called swowning immoderate watch thirste payne of the heade costifenes immoderate sweate burninge of vryne losse of appetite rheume and feuers The weaknes of the spirites which we ●al swowning is amended if vineger of Iuniper or that in which graines of Iuniper be macerated and applied to the mouth and nosethrilles Likewise confection of Buglosse or Borage or Corrall of perles or preciouse stones of the flouers of Rosemary of Roses or a sop in Gascoigne wine be taken We do attribute watche to the heate and dryenes of the Bathes bicause it drieth the humidities of the skume especially in chollerique heades which take awaye wyth things cold and moyst