administered therein ibid. They are often needlessely feared ibid. This season often colder than other seasons of the summer 251. 252 c. Dogs-flesh See uncouth flesh Dosis of medicines divers 278. Dreames and their severall kindes 338. Signification of dreames and whether they concerne the ficke 338. 339 340. Drinke and the utility thereof 312. What drinke is ibid. Division of Drinke and rules to be observed in the use thereof ibid. Quantity of Drinke ibid. The ordinary measures of Drinke among the ancients 113. Morning draught ibid. Strong Drinke not to bee used fasting ibid. Beginning the repast with a draught ibid. Drinke often used in ancient time to close up the stomacke 114. Drinking to Bed-ward 115. Drinke made of corne used by the ancients especially Aegyptians 125. Drinke made of corne with us differeth much from that of the ancients ibid. Drinke very usefull in many diseases but in hot and acute Fevers especially 183. Divers drinkes usefull for the diseased 198. 199 c. Drunkards breake all the Commandements 130. They are pernicious to a cōmon-wealth 132 To bee put to death by the Lawes of a Scottish King 133. They are often short lived and many times dye of long lingering diseases 137 No new sinne 129. What it is ibid. Nations taxed with drunkennesse ibid. It is the cause of great mischiefe to the mind and understanding 131. It procureth divers diseases to the body making the same also subject to many outward dangers 131 132. It proveth likewise often dangerous to the soule and many times overthroweth a mans temporall estate 132. It is unseemely to all estates and degrees 133. Diet hath divers significations and what properly among Physitians 1. Diet whether necessary for healthfull and sicke persons 3. Whether by Diet the life of man may bee prolonged for many yeeres 4. Diet cannot perpetuate the life of man and yet a most forcible meanes both to preserve and recover health 5. Diet of the Diseased but slenderly handled heretofore and by very few 140. Strictly observed among the Antients ibid. Among the Aegyptians and Locrians ibid. Diet of the Diseased in generall 162. 163. A full and liberall Diet A spare and strict Diet and the meane betwixt both 163. Hippocraticall Diet too rigid for our country climat ibid. Arabian Diet better suteth with our bodies ibid. Diet of the Diseased reduced into two heads the diseased and the disease it selfe 164. Diet in acute diseases how to be ordered 167. In intermitting Fevers ibid. In continuall Fevers without intermission ibid. In prescribing the Diet of the diseased divers things to be considered 165. 168. By whom the most sparing diet is to be observed 166. Diet drinke See drinke of the diseased E. Eares of beasts 75. Earth nourisheth not 30. Ebionites haereticks their abstinence See abstinence Eeles not wholesome 93. Egestion See excrements Egges and their nourishment 83. Egges whether fit for the sicke they are not so hot as is supposed by Hippocrates in acute diseases 176. 177. Egs man safely be allowed in fevers ibid. Egs of Hens best of all others ibid. Egs prepared after several waies in sicknesse and in health ibid. Markes of Egges and how to discerne a new laid Egge 178. Electuaries how taken 288. Elements pure and simple nourish not 21. 29 c. Elephants flesh See flesh Embrocations 293. Empericke-physitians Intr. 2. Empericke what ibid. Empericks of divers sorts ibid. Empericks abound here with us Intr. 3. Emulsitions their compositions and severall sorts of them 201. Emunctories in the body of man whereby excrements are expelled 225. Endive 49. Error of such as divulge secrets as they call them in the vulgar coung Int. 26. Esseans fast or abstinence see abstinence Evacuation what 226. Evacuations sometimes too much abound ibid Before Evacuations what to be considered ibid. Evacuations of severall sorts generall and particular when they maybe most liberall 228. Ewes milke See milke Excesse of the Persian Kings in their ordinary expences 106. Excrements of the guts or fecall excrements 313. Best excrements ib. Worse excrements Evill coloured excrements of divers sorts wormes in excrements Liquid excrements and the causes 314. Soft excrements with their causes hard excrements and their severall causes Quantity of excrements Time of egestion and how often it is usefull in sicknesse and in health ibid. 315. Exercise and the vtility thereof 211. Vsefull in sicknesse and in health Fittest time foe exercise 213. Violent exercise immediately after meales hurtfull to health c. ibid. Place fit for exercise the persons to be exercised the quantitie or duration quality order c. 213. 214. Exercises ought not to be too violent especially in some persons 214. Difference of exercise ibid. Exercises of the whole body Of some part mixt particular exercises ibid. Exercises of some particular profession 216. Exercise must differ according to severall constitutions 213. Exercise in what kinde of disease may be permitted 221. Exercises in chronicall diseases ibid. Exercises of the minde 217. Expectoration 323. Error in the use of expectoration ibid. Caveats in the use of expectorants preparation of the humors to be expectorated 324. Forme of expectorants ibid. Expectoration in diseases of the lungs and pectorall parts chiefely to be considered ibid. Expectoration ceasing in vlcers of the lungs and the presage thereof 26. Expressum See Broth. Eyes of beasts 75. Eyes full of resplendent spirits 354. F. Fable of the Foxe and the Crane 218. Fecall excrements See Excrements Fancie See Imagination Fascination and the severall sorts thereof 334. Fascination with the eyes ibid Fascination by speech and voice and how procured 333. Fast See abstinence Fatt of Beasts 74. Feare and the severall kindes thereof 39◠Feare produceth strange effects in the body of man Feare may cause death What persons it hurteth most Feare and Griefe stirre vp melancholy in the body of man Sicke folks are carefully to avoid this passion and great circumspection for the prevention thereof to be used 393 394 395 396. Feet of beasts 75. Figges 65. Filbird See Nuts Fild fare 81. Fish and their severall kindes 88. Fresh-water fish 92 Fish in ancient times how prepared how in our time 182. Fish whether fit for the sicke ibid. What Fish fittest for the sicke ibid. Fisticke ibid. Flesh of severall sorts 72 c. Goodnesse of Flesh according to their severall circumstances 71. Vncouth Flesh 83. Flesh for the sicke and divers preparations made of the same 178 179 180. Flounder 89. Fluxes of divers sorts 315. In Fluxes astringent medicines cautelously to be used ibid. Fonticulous See searing Food See nourishment Food of a grosse slender and of a meane substance 34. Foot-ball play 214. Fore-spoken what See Fascination Fowle of severall sorts 77. Tame-fowle wilde-fowle 79 c. Water-Fowle 81. Frictions usefell for the sicke 221. Frogges See uncouth flesh Fruits and their nourishment 59. Fruits of severall kindes together with their qualities and nourishment ibid. Fruits what fittest for the sicke 172. Frumentie See white meat G.
best indevours howsoever the disease were not of it selfe incurable And sometimes againe some disease howsoever in it selfe curable yet may sometimes be accompanied with such terrible and dangerous accidents and signes as doe usually accompany such as are shortly to be arrested by sergeant death and yet after the Physitians prognosticke the patient may vnexpectedly recouer as sometimes hath beene seene Now if our Empericke or ignorant Physitian bee called to the former of the two the patients strength persisting and no rub nor let comming in his way the coast being cleare his remedies perhaps not so pertinent and appropriat for the patient yet may this sicke party recover under his hand yea and if he should be yet called to the latter of the two by the skilfull Physitian now given over to a desperate Prognosticke and shall boldly undertake the cure of such a person promising faire and boldly as is the common custome of such people although he administer nothing to the purpose yea rather perhaps that which is quite contrary to the right cure as commeth most commonly to passe howsoever seldome by watchfull eyes observed and this Patient now unexpectedly strength and vigor of body perhaps blowing away all the former feares of evill accidents contrary to the learned Physitians prognostick recover will not the vulgar here admire magnifie and extoll the casuall event of this new Doctor duns setting him no lower than on the top of the pinnacle of fames Temple The other againe how skilfull soever in his profession and able artist yet shall be traduced by virulent and malignant tongues and often esteemed a Physitian of no account And yet for all this neither was the former the honester man but still an ignorant asse and a duns Sifueris pridem remanebis asinus idem Neither yet is the other the more ignorant or unsufficient nor will bee otherwise accounted of among the learned and better understanding sort Sometimes againe it may so come to passe that such an ignorant Empiricke may at the first be called to such a patient as we last mentioned and out of an impudent temeritie howsoever the danger to a judicious eye may not seeme small without any ground of Art or rule in reason at randome boldly promise the patient speedy recovery and for this purpose still after his Empiricall manner administer such medicines as his shallow and ignorant capacitie is able to reach unto and perhaps at length attaine to the height of his hopes yet shal I still avouch that this is but a casuall cure not proceeding from any skillfull sufficiency or right judgement and therefore not to be trusted to And if but an ordinary artist should with a watchfull eye diligently and narrowly observe the ordinary proceeding of such an Aesculapius he should observe him often where dangers are not so easily espied and to none but a judicious understanding obvious to sooth up his deluded patient with the saying of old Agag Surely the bitternesse of death is past when notwithstanding this grim sergeant ceizes on the prisoner without baile or main price And I deny not but often in an ordinary and common disease accompanied with strength of body without the acquaintance of any troublesome accidents such a counterfeit masked Physitian may proceed without detection of error howbeit if any storme of evill accidents arise his ignorance is to the more understanding eye easily discovered howsoever to more vulgar capacities perhaps scarcely discernible As in a calme an ignorant Pilot will make as faire a flourish on the water as a more skilfull and understanding but in a storme is the true sufficiency of the skilful Pilot best discerned Even so it fareth often with the unskilfull practitioner who in a secure and calme disease as I may call it carrieth all faire before him and howbeit never without failings easie by the judicious and understanding to be detected yet are they then to the eye most conspicuous when dangerous and intricate accidents doe appeare whereas the wise and learned Physitian proceedeth still in a rationall method and manner making use both of right reason and ordinary experience and accommodating them to severall occasions and circumstances and with the wise man forseeing the danger remedieth also all sudden accidents which the other not endued with that foreseeing providence nor skill and ability in his profession by reason of his want of education in the liberall arts and sciences especially this of Physicke is neverable in that manner as he ought to effect and bring to passe Besides it is yet a thing very considerable into what great danger people doe precipitate themselues who fall into such ignorant Physitians hands who worke thus by hap hazard and play as it were at fast and loose with mens lives Againe sometimes yea and that very often the learned and judicious Physitian is sent for to the patient now irrecoverably sicke of some desperate disease whereof hee shortly after dieth The honest artist here doth his best indevor both by prescription of orderly diet and such physicall meanes as in his understanding he thinketh fit to oppugne the contumacie of the rebellious disease But the enemie proveth too strong and of greater power than all his provision is able to overcome and the patient at length by reason of that uncontrollable law of mortality succumbeth under the burden of fatall necessity It may be also he was called too late and withall the nicity and morosity of the patient the neglect and carelessenesse of the assistants might prove a great hinderance to the hopefull successe of the cure The ignorant againe called vnto such a patient farre differing in his manner of proceeding as not furnished with so good provision or if furnished yet falling far short of the former Physitian in the dexterity of the right application of the remedies according to the severall circumstances in such cases requisite the patient likewise dieth Now the event is here the same with the former the patient at length paying that debt which all the sonnes of Adam owe. Now who seeth not that will not shut his eyes that he cannot see in the noone-tide of the day the divers proceeding of them both howsoever the event and issue be all one And the honest learned and diligent Physitian deserveth no lesse commendation when the patient dieth than when he liveth his care and paines being then the greater and for this same cause the Germans in danger of death having relation to the Physitians extraordinary paines double his fees And yet our ordinary sort of people for the most part if the patient dye conceive the meanlier of the Physitian and which is yet more grosse and absurd they are so farre from having that due and high esteeme of him as they ought that on the contrary they often howbeit unjustly impute to him the cause of the patients miscarrying And this befalleth oftner the skillfull and learned Physitian than the ignorant Empiricke and that
to speake is not now my purpose Onely this one thing I adde that whereas some object that waters distilled in stills made of metall either are not so good by reason of some relicks of the mettall communicated unto them or else have some smoakie or firie impression left behind in these waters I answere the first feare is frivolous and builded on a false foundation and the other may by care and diligence be much prevented But if any be so curious and fearefull they may have their waters distilled per balneum Mariae in glasse stills if they will be at cost But it is the custome of many people that they would fare well and pay little for it Now before I finish this point I must give warning to such as attend the sicke that they doe not unseasonbly too much obtrude upon the sicke these their warme drinks or suppings wherein women doe very much exceed and many times quite debilitate and overthrow their weak stomacks And this shall for this particular now suffice as occasion shall offer it selfe I shall now and then touch upon some particular abuses and failings in this kind and now I proceed to some other drinks and first concerning wine and whether the sicke may be suffered to drinke any CHAP. XIIIJ Of wine and whether it may safly be administred to sicke Of artificiall wines of aqua vitae usquebath and other strong waters OF wine we have already spokeÌ„ at great length and of all the severall sorts thereof the right use and abuse resteth now to say something thereof as it hath relation to the sick Of the excellent vertues of this king of liquors there is no doubt to be made but yet the event is often doubtfull whether it may prove a profitable medicine or a deadly poison And therefore Pliny relateth that a famous wiseman called Androcides wrote good counsell to Alexander the Great as an antidote against his intemperance when thou art to drinke wine O King remember that thou drinkest the blood of the earth For as hemlocke is to man a poison even so is wine To which precepts if he had hearkened he had not in his drunken fits imbrued his hands in his deerest friends blood So that of it may truely bee said there is nothing more conduceth to the strength of the body not yet more dangerous delight than this if not regulated according to reason No mervaile then if there ought to bee great caution and circumspection in exhibiting this to sicke folkes and indeed there hath beene some alteration among Physitians whether wine might safely bee exhibited to sicke people For siâ—â—e diseases are cured by contraries and wine in the estimation of all Physitians is reputed hot it will follow that to drinke wine especially in hot diseases for of others there is no controversie is to increase the disease Plutarch writes that Alexander the great falling into a Fever and drinking wine liberally by that meanes died howbeit we are not ignorant others hold an other opinion concerning his death yet it cannot be denied but wine might hasten his end It may be then admired and wondered at why Hippocrates in Fevers and hot diseases permitteth the use thereof Neither yet did Galen in like cases deny his patients the use of wine If the like care and caution they used in the exhibiting of it were observed no doubt it might be without feare yeelded unto The wine they used was thinne weake white wine called by him vinum aquosum or watery wine much degenerating from the nature of strong hot wine and there he findeth fault with the Guidian Physitians who were altogether ignorant of the right use of wine affirming also that we may safely even in a Pleuresie or inflammation of the lungs exhibite such wines providing still there bee neither great headach nor deliration or perturbation of mind as likewise that the spitting up of tough phlegme bee not hindered nor urine suppressed c. And a little after thou must know that it will be lesse hurtfull to the bladder and upward parts if it be thinne and waterish as he termeth it but better for the guts if it be stronger It appeareth then plainely that even in the opinion of Hippocrates such small wines might be used of the sick And therefore these wines which in comparison of others may bee called cold of the which both Hippocrates and Galen are to be understood are often without danger administred to sicke persons But in the use thereof wee are diligently to consider besides the quality whereof we have already spoken the quantity and opportune time of offering the same The quantity cannot well be determined yet must it be by moderation regulated and severall circumstances not neglected The fit and opportune time is by the same authors assigned when signes of concoction appeare or in the declining of the Fever As likewise in a pleuresie or inflammation of the lungs the matter being now concocted and the inflammation abated and by this meanes expectoration is furthered not hindered Something notwithstanding is to be yeelded to custome and old age If any from their youth bee brought up with wine they will hardly admit of any other drinke neither will the stomacke commonly admit of any other liquor But heare what Pliny saith concerning this same subject As concerning Fevers saith he it is certaine we ought never to give wine in that disease but to such as bee of good yeeres and that in the declining of the disease onely And in acute diseases to none but such as have manifest remissions especially in the night time the halfe of the danger being in the night time that is hope of sleepe to such as shall then drinke It must therefore be given onely with meate neither after sleepe nor yet after any other drinke that is onely taken when the diseased is dry and almost in the case of greatest extremity all hope almost now failing us In such places then where such smal wines grow as in the I le of France about Paris and in the countrey of Xantonge especially about Rochell they may freely give the diseased such smal wines without any danger at al. And of such a thinne acid and somwhat tartish wine composed of most white grapes and a few red I my selfe made a triall in a double tertian during my abode in France This they cal couleur dupesche or peach coloured wine from the colour of the peach flowre or bloome and this wine mingled with water did both quench thirst without any apparent heat and provoked both sweat and urin But let us now draw nearer home and see whether wine may be allowed our sicke It is not unknown that our cold moist climat bringeth not this noble liquor of the grape to any maturity or perfect ripenesse so that whatsoever wine we use we are beholden to our neighbour countries for it besides that wine not being our naturall
attained to 90 yeeres of age replied that hee had rather die within ten yeeres then live a hundred yeeres by meanes of so strict a diet And I make no question that without seeking farre wee might easily find many of this Epicurean Kings mind but since that health comprehends within its compasse a great latitude it cannot be that a like diet should fit every individuall and particular person Such as by reason of a laudable temper and natural constitution of body even from their very cradle injoy a perfect health are by an extraordinary prerogative privileged above their neighbours and may more boldly deale with any kinde of diet but let even such not be too bold but wise and circumspect lest they be overtaken and although the constitution may be strong yet we know a strong and able horse may be overloaded and sometimes haue his backe broken and let the aliment be of as laudable a condition as it will and thy stomacke as strong as that of the Ostrich yet may it be mastered at length And consider well this sentence worthy to be ingraved with letters of gold Plures gula quam gladio periere The sword hath killed his thousands but gluttony his ten thousands How many generous gentlemen of noble parentage and of an ingenious and liberall education might have attained to Nestorian yeeres and shined like bright starres in their orbes by the great good they might have procured to their common countrey if they had not too much prostituted themselves to their sinfull and carnall pleasures and bin drowned too licentiously in their worldly delights which have too much now adaies ceized upon the most part of the Christian world Now such as are valetudinary and of a more crazie constitution ought in a stricter manner compose themselves to a more exact observation of physicall prescriptions Herodicus being but of a crazie constitution of body yet by vertue of his precise diet attained to the age of an hundred yeeres Asclepiades relied so much upon his diet that he would lay a wager against Fortune that hee would never assume to himselfe the name of a Physician if ever he fell sicke And surely who so considereth aright the fraile and crazie condition of the body of man dare scarce be so bold as to lay any such wager I count it for a miracle saith Plinie and finde but onely this one example that Xenophilus the Musitian lived an hundred and five yeeres without any bodily infirmity or as another calleth him Pythagoras of Chalcis Curtius relateth the life of the Philosopher Calanus who being surprized with a great loosenesse and fearing lest his former felicity of seventy three yeeres health should be by this noysome disease interrupted threw himselfe into the fire and so was consumed into ashes CHAP. II. Whether by meanes of Diet the life of man may be for many yeeres prolonged IT is reported of that famous Philosopher Theophrastus that dying he accused nature in that shee had given and granted to brute and unreasonable creatures a long and to man the noblest of all other creatures so short and so sorrowfull a life in so much that weighing both life and death in even and equall balance one might and not without cause doubt whether life or death were rather to be chosen as also in regard of the nights rest a man lives but the one halfe of his time that I say nothing also of the yeeres of infancy when as he liveth void of understanding and of old age his yeeres seeming to be produced to this period onely for a punishment witnesse so many cares and casualties so many dangers and sicknesses extorting so frequent an invocation of death that nothing seemeth more welcome then the fruition of such a wish But unjustly was noble nature of this unjust judge condemned before shee was heard For shee like a kinde and loving mother being very solicitous and carefull of the life of man hath not onely ministred unto him such things as are necessary for the maintaining and producing of his life but besides hath indued him with reason and given him hands to the end hee might more comfortably make use of such things as she in her bounty had bestowed upon him Now our life consisteth in moisture and heat neither is our life any thing else but a ioint-continuance of heat and moisture in our bodies But since our heat doth daily consume waste away this naturall and radicall moisture it is againe by the like humidity to be repaired Now this is performed by meanes of food both meat and drinke the right and moderate use whereof this dieteticall part doth instruct and direct the which also not onely maintaineth and entertaineth health present but helpeth also to recover that which is by sicknesse impaired and as some would have it produceth the life of man farre beyond the fatall period for all men appointed And some there were who by meanes of diet would promise the perpetuity of mans life and of a mortall man to make him immortall and such a one was that Sophist mentioned by Galen who promised immortality to all such whose education he had from their tender yeeres undertaken Galen is of opinion that the necessity of death can by no solid reason be demonstrated but confirmed by experience onely Some who would make good Galens assertion argue thus All men die either by meanes of externall or internall causes Externall causes which procure violent death are either such as may be avoided and befall the body of man from without as blowes bitings of venomous beasts and the like all which since they may easily be avoided come not within the compasse of this dietetiall art or else they are unavoidable and such be the things we call not naturall by the excesse and defect of the which diseases are ingendred and death doth thereon ensue In the golden mediocrity consisteth this health we now discourse of the which whosoever shall strictly observe shall prolong his life for many yeeres This mediocrity did our forefathers in that first and golden age of the world strictly observe and so many of them attained 900. and some neere 1000. yeeres Neither are we to suppose that these were Lunary yeeres or of the age of a Moone onely as S. Austine proves against Pliny and Baro. But yet further the longevity of these our forefathers did not onely depend upon their simple diet but there was besides a speciall providence in prolonging their lives and that as well for the multiplication of mankinde as also by meanes of their long lives they might the better attaine to the knowledge of the arts and sciences mathematicall especially and that part principally which concerneth the motion of the celestiall orbes which required no small time The internall causes of naturall and fatall death are according to Galen three naturall drinesse the continuall wasting of our triple substance and the abundance
And of this simple there is a spirit quintessence distilled But beware of imposture if thou beest not well acquainted with the preparation Marjoram is a sweet pleasant and well smelling herbe hot and dry in operation and little inferior to the former in this respect It comforteth all the noble parts especially the stomacke and may with good successe be used to further concoction comfort the stomak discusse wind It much comforteth the brain also and as the precedent so is this good against all cold diseases of the braine and nervous parts But this as all other hot plants excelling in strong smell are most appropriate for phlegmaticke constitutions cold and moist braines and stomacks Hot cholericke bodies are thereby offended And very hot braines are offended with any strong smell I have knowne some whom the smell of a Damaske rose would presently make their heads ake Of the soveraine vertues of Sage few are ignorant and the singular good opinion the world had alwayes of this simple did minister occasion to aske the question why any man dyed that had sage growing in his garden To which it was as truely againe answered that against death no Physicke was to be found The qualities for heat and drouth doe much accord with those of the plants last spoken of It is above all others most effectuall against all cold diseases of the braine and nervous parts and therefore good for those who are obnoxious to Palsies and Apoplexies It is good also to strengthen all the noble parts and very good against wind It is very good to comfort and cleanse the cold and moist womb and fit it for conception And being of an astringent and corroborating quality it is good to prevent abortion in such as be thereunto subject as also good against womens immoderate fluxes The country people in Germany thinke themselves free from poyson all that day after if they eat in a morning three leaves of sage with a little salt well dried and taken in a pipe as is usuall to take tobacco it would produce a farre more safe and certaine effect in cold and moist braines and so might prove an excellent preservative against Apoplexies Epilepsies and all manner of cold rheumaticke defluxions commonly called by the name of colds And I am perswaded that if it were to us unknowne and brought from the East or West-Indies or som other remote region and so begunne to bee taken by some of our Shagd or Slasht Mounsieurs we should quickly have it thus used in the country for we are all now for the new cut Bawme is a soveraine good cordiall herbe and is very good against melancholy strengtheneth the braine and helpeth the memory where the defect is from a cold cause It is more used for Physicke than for food and yet it may wel be used in broths and in sallets mingled with cooling herbs especially when it is yet tender and young There is a strong water stilled out of it very good in palpitation of the heart and other such infirmities especially where there is no great heat It is hot and dry in quality about the second degree Betonie is no lesse hot and dry than the former a very good herbe howbeit in greater request for Physicke than for food and yet may it well be used in broths It is a soveraine good herbe for many both outward and inward diseases It is esteemed principally good for the braine and cold infirmities of the same It is likewise good against inward obstructions and is good also to cleanse the kindneies and all the urinary passages with many other vertues which were heere too long to relate and shall suffice to have reckoned up the principall There is an herbe called Tarragon as hot as any we have yet named of a pleasant and delectable smell and comfortable both to head and heart whereof is also sometimes made use in the kitchin and is used in sallets being used with cooling herbs It may be used of cold and phlegmatick nauseous stomacks and so it both warmeth the same and furthereth concoction Hyssop is sometimes used in broths or pottage although in a small quantity being hot and dry about the third degree or not farre off it being also of a thinne attenuating and cutting quality It is good for the head but principally for the breast and obstructions of the pipes of the lungs and singular good for attenuation and expectoration of tough phlegmaticke humors Phlegmaticke cold obstructed bodies may freeliest use it Time a soveraine good and usefull herbe is as hot and dry if not more than hyssop and is in no small request both for food and physicke being especially good in cold infirmities and phlegmaticke constitutions against the wind colicke weakenesse of stomacke and may also conveniently be used against melancholy and for many other infirmities which for brevity I here passe by Savourie is much of the same vertue that Time and appropriated for the like infirmities It is used amongst other pot-herbs howbeit alwayes in a small quantity and mingled with many cooling herbes And this is alwayes in the use of pot-herbs to be observed that there be a small proportion of these hot and dry herbs used to a greater quantity of those of a cooling quality Besides the herbes themselves some of them bring forth a frâ—utâ— which is in no small esteeme among many We will beginne with the garden thistle which although it beareth not properly any fruit yet is it answerable thereunto for before it flowre it sendeth forth as it were a fruit which is in no small request and used by most people It is most commonly eaten boiled with butter vineger pepper and salt The young and tender stalkes used after the same manner are nothing inferior to themselves The Italians eat Artichockes raw while they are yet young and tender with pepper and salt which is a food nothing worth ingendring crude grosse and evill nourishment Galen saith it ingendreth but bad nourishment boiled and dressed much more than raw But being used moderately they will not offend the body They are accounted hot and dry howbeit I thinke ours doe not exceed the first degree They are esteemed flatuous and to excite lust and are with all diureticke provoking urine and cleansing the passages of urine There are three sorts of these fruits of herbs which have som affinity among theÌ„selves especially two of them The first is by the Latines called Cucurbita Citrullus by the French Citroulle and in English a Gourd and by som a melon It is cold and moist ingendring no good humors in the body and never to be eaten raw but boiled or rather fried with butter or oile and onions or the like which may correct this cold and moist quality It is of it selfe insipid and therefore the French use to adde to it vinegar or verâ—uice as some use here in England also It may
often very truely verified many times for a little land they take a foole by the hand But because it is an easie matter for an ordinary understanding to make a large coÌ„ment upon this Text I here leave it wishing people to be wiser and not so much wrong their children as is now adaies the custome which oftentimes brings the gray-haires of the parents to the grave with sorrow and a too late repentance had I knowne so much c. The antient heathens against this used mans blood against this intoxication and histories make mention of Faustina daughter to the Emperour Antoninus Pius and wife to Antoninus the Philosopher who fell so farre in love with a sword-player that this Emperour asked counsell of all his wisards what was the readiest and speediest way to cure this strong and violent affection and they being instructed by their Master Satan a murderer from the beginning advised him to put to death this sword-player and that afterward Faustina should drinke up a good draught of his warme blood and then get her to bed to her husband which accordingly was performed of the which copulation was ingendred that cruell Emperor Commodus who with his frequent sword-plaies and slaughter of his subiects had almost quite over throwne the whole Roman common wealth And howbeit this woman was thus freed yet is this no warrant for the use of such a remedy although some of the antients have set downe this as a remedy both against this and the Epilepsie The Paracelsists promise wonders of mans blood as Paracelsus himselfe promiseth by a secret made of mans blood to cure all Epileptick diseases And one Ioh. Ernestus Burgravius maketh a lamp of mans blood called brolychnium or lampas vitae mortis Of this lampe of life and death hee promiseth wonders to wit that it shall burne as long as the party of whose blood it was made continueth and goe out at the same instant that the party dieth and withall that as this lamp burneth cleare and quietly without any sparkling the party shall live with freedome from any infirmity either of body or minde but if otherwise it sparkle or the light be dimme and obscure and the flame be sometimes lighter than at other times then it is a token of anxiety heavinesse and the like Credat Iudaeus apella Let them beleeve it who list It is not unknowne how Satan hath from the beginning thirsted after mans blood hence have wee so many sacrifices of mankinde as in antient stories recorded so even unto these our times so many still continue as our Spanish narrations make mention of the Westerne parts of the world And hence was if also that hee suggested to his ministers so many remedies composed not onely of the blood but of divers other parts of the body of man and as our Magicians still teach their too too credulous disciples as an antient Father well observeth But now it may be asked whether one may die of love inseeming not to offer that violence to nature as to extinguish this lampe of life â— I answer that this passion as we have heard may emaciat dry up and exhaust all the radicall moisture of the body And so although it doe not worke such a sudden impression upon the body whereby it is in an instant overthrowne yet doth it by degrees so extenuate and debilitate the whole body that it is thereby often cast into an irrecoverable consumption And with histories in this kind it were easie to make up a great volume Schenchius maketh mention of a maid who being by her parents crossed of a match intended betwixt her and a young man pined away and died many I make no question can instance of many in their owne experience as it were easie for my selfe to doe also but that I hasten to other matter And besides because I thinke few of judgement will make any doubt thereof I will therefore leave it To this place also we may referre iealousie called zelotypia being nothing else but the excesse of love with a continuall feare of being deprived of that they love or at least of having any corrivall which often maketh a man or woman to lose the use of reason insomuch that the minde is never at rest And this feare is merely imaginary I meane without any just cause and sometimes there is too just cause ministred It behooveth therefore both man and woman to be carefull in their choice and afterwards to give no just occasion to bring their reputation in question Some instances of jealousies both justly and unjustly conceived a r famous late Physitian setteth downe A certaine Merchant of a chiefe towne in Switzerland a man of good account and esteeme in that place being divorced from his former wife married another being a maide who bare him divers children After certaine yeeres perceiving his man too familiar with his Mistresse conceived a strong iealousie of his wife which caused him the more narrowly to observe her carriage Vpon a time he fained himselfe to goe a iourney into the countrie about some earnest businesse and yet in the evening conveied himselfe secretly into a chamber next adioining to his owne bed-chamber where he might easily observe what passed and within a short space esâ—ies his man come boldly to his Mistresse where he killed them both in the very act of adultery and then as is the custome of that country laid certaine pieces of mony upon their dead corpses which was a signe that they were taken in this filthy act and might therefore lawfully be killed the matter being afterwards examined hee was acquitted of the fact The same Authour maketh mention of a Doctor of the civill law in the South part of France who was very iealous of his wife and not without iust cause and suspecting her familiarity with a Scrivener so narrowly observed her actions that one day hee comes rushing into the roome where shee and this Scrivener were together being in his owne house masqued and accompanied with many schollers students in law where he first bindes him hand and foot then cut off his nose his yard and afterwards cut his hamstrings and so let him goe the same maimed Scrivener sayth mine Author I saw afterwards at Montpelier going upon crutches and in a miserable and wretched case drawing his lame leggs after him A just recompence for adulterers and it were to be wished we might see some such exemplary punishment inflicted upon such as thus neigh after their neighbours wives since especially Moses law that the adulterer should dy the death which in all the Germane countries is in force is not here with us in force The â— same Authâ—◠〈…〉 yet mention of another evâ—n me jealous of his wife and yet with out any cause This was a scholler newly returned out of France who married Doâ—â—â—â— of physickes daughter with whom a long time before hâ—e had been 〈◊〉 love 〈◊〉 Doctor had a
neere relation to the lively microcosme man And if we plead a sympathy betwixt man and man what doe we know but some of these may sometimes be taken from an enemie and then shall we have an antipathy and by consequent a contrary operation And let there be as much balsamicke salt as they tearme it in the blood and bones this same answere will serve I hold it impious to mainteine that by vertue of that balsamicke salt remaining in the bones of Elisha made to the murthered man revive for it should then first have revived Elisha himselfe in whom it inhabited radically or else not suffered him to dye No more was there any power in the dead bones mentioned by Ezechiel nor yet in the dead at the death of our Saviour Christ and at the last resurrection to arise all these being meerely miraculous not effected by any natural meanes On these I say and the like places impiously in mine opinion and out of purpose alledged I cannot now longer insist but leave them to the scanning and judging of by the judicious and learned Divine and come to the manner of cure And here I must intreate the Reader to call to mind what was first said concerning this cure In the first place then the blood was to bee stanched the wound washed with the patients owne urine and well bound up and that the Author might act his part more handsomely if a bone were broken then he put into this ointment some comfrey rrots The condition and quality was that it were neither of any principall part nor yet yet that any nerve or arterie were cut And what need such adoe about nothing this being easily by nature effected Wash an ordinary wound and keepe it cleane and I warrant it will heale without this curious ointment which effecteth just nothing especially as it is used The beasts dogges especially wee see licking a wound or ulcer and by this meanes keeping it cleane from corruption the chiefe impediment hindring the healing is thus easily cured without either stitching or any other helpe And therefore if this have beene accounted impostorious to make the world beleeve that was done by the vertue of such ointment wherewith the weapon was anointed let no man marvell This manner of cure is called sympatheticall and magneticall by way of sympathy and attraction and from the supposed attracted vertue from the starres stellatum or starrie ointment Now as concerning the operating vertue by sympathy as I doe not deny so I say the same is not here to be seene and where this sympathy is to be found the things sympathising are not far remote one from another as in the unisone harmony and consent of two lutes or vialls may easily appeare which is the defendants owne instance But let any one touch the string of a lute or viall and see whether the unisone string of another lute a mile off will make any vibration or stirring of the straw or make it leape from one thing to the other unison with that of a miles or more distance suppose also there be neither wind stirring nor interposition of houses or any other impediment whatsoever And therefore the length of a table is no proportionat distance to that often yea twenty miles of the operation of the weapon-salve as is applied by our defendant And as little or farre lesse for this purpose make the rest of his examples of sympathie as of the maw or gussord of fowles alleaged for this same sympathie good to corroborate the stomacke braines to braines lungs to lungs heart to heart guts to guts c. If I should yet grant all this to be true whereof I have yet just cause to doubt if not to deny whatsoever some others have held to the contrary and fox lungs working by their abstersive and opening quality yet would all this make just nothing for the purpose these working per contactum physicum by mutuall contact and their operation exuscitated and actuated by the internall naturall heat but none of them producing any such effect at a miles or more remote distance But on things so plaine and evident I need not to insist This salve is called also magneticall for magnetically attracting forsooth a sanative vertue from the weapon and salve to the wound But the experience of many yeeres hath taught us that the load-stone will draw yron but at a small distance neither twenty ten nor yet one mile take as bigge a load-stone as a mans head and as little a piece of yron as you will And therefore although some agents worke at some distance yet is there alwaies some proportion to be observed betwixt the agent and the patient and although there be not alwaies a naturall contract yet there is commonly some effluxe or emanation whereby the one toucheth the other And this is the ordinary manner of operation And that this is the case with the loadstone may easily appeare in that it attracteth yron more or lesse as it is of efficacy and power and not only doeth it draw yron but even sometimes silver it selfe yea sometimes one loadstone hath beene observed to draw another yron to draw the loadstone yea yron to draw yron And some piece of a loadstone hath beene observed with the one side to draw yron unto it with another to draw another loadstone and with a third to attract both unto it And as concerning the point of the needle compasse alwaies looking to the North that is not universally tree for sailing towards the Wersterne world passing under the Meridian of Asores or Terceres Ilands the compasse then turnes and lookes not towards the North pole as before And not onely there but even in our owne hemisphere also that the needle of the compasse declines from the line looking towards the North from the Canarie Ilands to Carygara about some nine degrees But of this subject although I could say a great deale more yet this shall here suffice And in the fire this is yet more manifest where there is an emanation of heat which warmeth at a proportionate distance and therefore although the fire heat and warme at a remote distance yet is this not indefinite but proportioniate the fire warming according to the bignesse of the fire and the propinquitie or remotenesse of the object And therefore although the fire be a very active agent yet make a fire of ten or twenty load of wood or coales and in a cold frostie morning let any stand a mile or two off yea although there be neither hill nor any other obstacle betwixt yet let him tell me what great warmth he findes thereby As for the distance alleaged sometimes to interceed betwixt the bullet and the party thereby offended it makes as little for the purpose for the bullet violently beats the aire the aire thus agitated worketh such a violent impression on the bodie and the like may be said of the lithning producing
Ghost and comfort unspeakable Worldly sorrow causeth death saith the Apostle but godly sorrow causeth repentance not to be repented of But many are the volumes written by our learned Devines concerning this subject among others a learned late Divine hath handled this point very punctually in his learned and elaborate Treatise of comforting afflicted consciences But this not being my proper element therefore I proceed There is yet a doubt concerning this point which resteth to bee discussed whether of griefe or sorrow any may dye To this question Galen himselfe maketh answer that one may dye of these passions and to this doe all Physitians assent and experience maketh it so appeare And this same Author seconds his authority with sound reason for in such passions the blood and spirits having a speedy and sudden recourse to the heart to succour the same in so great a need where aboarding it with too great violence and in too great a quantity they leave the outward parts of the body quite destitute of this blood and spirits We see what a strange effect this griefe wrought on good old Heli alas how small is our griefe for matters of this nature when he heard the arke of God was taken And that worthy woman his daughter in law although her husband were a prophane and wicked man yet at the hearing of the taking of the arke she was so much therewith affected that nothing no not the newes of a sonne borne of her womb could give her any comfort or hinder her from following the footsteps of her father in law in giving up the ghost And histories relate that Antiochus Epiphanes or rather as some well call him Epimanes that tyrant being chased out of Persia and hearing also that his generall Lysias was defeated and chased away by the Jewes by reason of greife and sorrow fell into grievous diseases although there was yet in him divine punition to be observed and yet not excluding naturall causes A famous Physitian and now and then mentioned in this discourse relateth a story to this same purpose A preacher of this City Basil he meaneth accompanied with his wife onely in the moneth of November returning from a village not farre from the towne hearing them call to shut up the gates hee ranne before to cause them keepe open the gate untill his wife came in and so entring himselfe supposed his wife had been entred after him the gate was shut and she excluded the keyes being as is the custome immediatly carried to the Burgermaster no entry is of any to be expected for that night as I found once too true by mine owne experience and neither could he get forth to her nor shee suffered to come in to him the night very darke this poore desolate woman all the night filling the aire with her complaints there being no house nor town within a great way of this city passed a part of the night and in the morning of this feare and griefe was found dead at the gate The same Author relateth yet two other stories making to us appeare the truth of this point A company of young wenches in the Spring of the yeere walking abroad in a faire morning they came to the place of publike execution where was still hanging upon the gallowes one who had been lately put to death These wild wenches beganne to throw stones at this dead corps at length one throwing a greater stone than the rest this corps turned round at the which motion this maid apprehended such feare and terror that strongly apprehending this dead corps to be alive with all possible speed shee ranne home still supposing this dead body followed her Being come home she fell into strong and violent convulsive fits and so died suddenly Another young maid about 16. yeeres of age went downe into a grave new digged where had beene layed heretofore some matron of the City of Basil and not as yet consumed this dead carkasse this young maid essayed to lift up by the armes but was presently striken with such a feare and terror that she went home and was seized with so violent Convulsions that her eyes were like to leape out of her head and so presently died and was the next day buried in a grave hard by the other as though this dead corps had called for her company as shee cryed out a little before her death In the late yeare 1630. in the beginning of January my presence and paines was craved for a yong Gentleman living within some few miles of Northhampton then sicke of a Fever Within some two or three dayes this gentleman still continuing very sicke the gentlewoman his wife being now quicke with child terrified with some accidents she saw in her husband and withall fearefull of some future event fell suddenly one morning into strong and violent fits of Convulsions being at other times also subiect thereunto the agitation of her head and armes being so violent sometimes drawne one and sometime another way that much trouble it was to hold her but withall the blood and spirits flying all upwards the nether parts were left so feeble that she was presently deprived of the use of her legs insomuch that she was in a chaire carried into another roome But yet the gentleman her husband recovering shee was in a few dayes freed from all her former fits and feares and at her full appointed time was safely delivered of her burden without any hurt or danger either of herselfe or infant I have the more willingly instanced in these particulars to make every one more carefully and circumspect in avoiding and shunning these passions and whatsoever may provoke or incite us thereunto The remedies shall appeare in the next Chapter where wee purpose to speake of the last passion CHAP. XXXIIIJ Of Ioy and Gladnesse and of the excesse thereof which may also hurt the body and whether any may die of excessive ioy THat the former passions are prejudiciall and often very hurtfull to mankinde especially if they exceed may easily obteine credit perhaps with an ordinary understanding but that joy and mirth so agreeable to our nature and so acceptable to our senses should ever produce any such effect will hardlierreceive entertainment And this may seeme yet so much the more strange in regard this is that we all principally aime at as being a soveraigne and excellent meanes not onely to preserve and mainteine our health but likewise to recover the same being already lost And good reason there is for this Joy being a motion of the minde to the outward parts with a certaine gratefull and delighting desire to lay hold on that which may give us content And yet there is withal such a violent motion and agitation of the blood and spirits that weake and pusillanimous people may bee much thereby endangered And the wise man intimates unto us such a moderation in every thing where hee warnes us to
Garlicke 46. Gelee 180. Gelee of Harts-horne ibid. Ginger the vertues and cautions in the use thereof 100. Glisters used for divers ends and in divers infirmities they differ both in the quantitie and qualitie quantitie differeth according to severall circumstances Retention of Glisters 281 282. Gluttony with the incoveniences therof hurtful both to soule and body 103. Gauseth many diseases 104. Goats-flesh 73. Goats-milke See milke Gold and Silver communicate no vertue to minerall waters 305. Goose-berries 61. Goose tame and wilde 78. Solan Goose 79. Gourd 57. Gournard 90. Grapes 64. Gregorian yeere See Bissextile Griefe and sorrow and the effects thereof what sort of griefe allowable what sort of people it most hurteth and whom least 393. Gripings in purgation 290. Gudgeon 92. Gufford See maw H. Haddocke 90. Haire whether it ought to be cut in sicknesse 155 Whethet it ought to be short or long 156. It ought not too often to be cut especially that of the face and beard ought not too often to be shaven 155. Haire baltered together after a strange serpentine forme a very strange and prodigious thing to behold 156. Hollibut 90. Hares-flesh 74. Heatt of beasts 75. Haslenut See Nut. Head and braines 75. Health a chiefe earthly happinesse 1. What Health is 2. Health two-fold ibid. Heathens and Heretickes farre surpasse our Romanists in strictnesse of abstinence See Abstinence Hectickes how to be bathed 296. Hedge-hogg 74. Henne 77. Herbs and their use in diet 48. Their use for the sicke 171. Heron 81. Herring 90. Red-herring ibid. History of a woman-physitian in Northampton-shire Intr. 10. Of a noble vertuous Lady of Northampton-shire very charitable and beneficiall to the poore Intr. 12. Histories of quacksalving Mountebanks Intr. 3. History of a yong woman cured by phlebotomy howbeit much diswaded by her friends therefrom Intr. 11. Histories of Leprosies cured contrary to intention Intr. 7. History of a desperate cure in the sweating sicknesse ibid. Another of a desperate fellow casually curing himselfe of an inveterate head-ach ibid. Another of a fellow taking an indefinite quantity of sweating powder for the Ague ibid. Another of a Gentlewoman cured of the mother stone and splene Intr. 20. History of a man living onely on the Sunne and aire 29. History of the diversity of weather in a small distance 22. History of Democritus his life prolong'd for certaine daies 29. Histories of som who lived divers yeers without any manner of sustenance 31. History of a fellow living 7 daies vnder the ground on his owne urin only ib. History of a dead Henne turned into a stone 32. History of Pythagoras his supposed forty daies fasting 33 History of the imposture of an Hermite counterfeiting long abstinence ibid. History of a maid eating all the salt she could come by See salt Histories of some living all their life time without any drinke 109. History of Iovinian the Emperor killed with the smoake of charcoale 145. History of wine permitted in a fever 192. History of one living long on the spirit of Wine 193. Histories of some living all their life time on milke only 109. Histories of divers dying about their climactericall yeere See Climactericall yeere History of a Gentlewoman delivered of twinnes in the field farre from any towne 236. Histories of women with child purged and phlebotomised 273. History of phlebotomy in an ancient Gentlewoman 245. History of phlebotomy an in old man during the dog-daies 254. History of a Knight cured during the dog-daies 233. History of a tame Bucke once drunke which never after would drinke any strong drinke 131. History of an absurd cure of sore eyes 257. History of Galeacius Duke of Mantua 345. Another of Faustina wife to Amonius the Philosopher who dranke the blood of a sword-player 347. History of Antiochus in love with his mother in law Stratonice 346. History of one killing his wife a man in the very act of adultery 348. Another of a French Doctor severely punishing his corrivall ibid. Some others to the same purpose especially of an old woman fearing lest after her death her young husband should marry a young woman 359. History of Philip king of Macedon falling in love with a faire young maid 353. History of a ligature in a young country-fellow and his wife newly married 351. Another of Priests in France ordinarily vsing ligatures ibid. History of one by the Divell tempted to drunkennesse who by this meanes fell also into two other foule sins 131. History of a old strumpet-killing certain Abbots with her love drinkes 352. Histories of some dying of feare 396. Others of some by feare having their blacke haires changed all white in one night 394. History of a Gentlewoman in Northamton shire bigge with childe by reason of feare falling into strange convulsion fits yet recovering 397. Another of a widdow newly married who after a great anger died of convulsions 392. Histories of Philosophers concerning anger 389. 391. History of a much renowned Empericke disgraced by King Iames of famous memory 410. Hogs flesh 71. 72. Wilde Hogs flesh 74. Hony and the vertues thereof 95. 96. For what complexions most usefull ibid. Boiled Hony it must not be over-boiled ibid. Course Hony quintessence of Hony 96. Clarifying of Hony skimming of Hony Effects of raw Hony ibid. Horse-flesh See uncouth flesh Hot-houses or Stoves 147. Humours to be purged out of the body Humours capable of concoction See purgation Hydromell 196. Hydrotickes or medicines provoking sweat of severall sorts 291. 292. Hydroticke mineralls ibid. Hydroticke inunctions ibid. Hydrotickes cautelously to be used preparation before their use ibid. In chronicall diseases how in what cases hurtfull Caution in the use of strong Hydrotickes ibid. Continuance or duration 243. Hyssop 57. I. Idlenesse a great incentive and stirrer up of lust 345. Iewes absteine from water during their solemne fasts 30. Ignorant and unskilfull persons are not fit to deale with this dieteticall part of Physicke farre lesse with the particular part thereof Intr. 26. Ignorance of the vulgar in judging of a Physitians sufficiency Intr. 4. 5 c. Ignorant and undeserving people often rob the Physitian of the praise commendation due to his desert Intr. 20. Ignorant and unskilfull practitioners often more chargeable to the patient than the most skilfull Physitian 410. Illyrians hurting by aspect 355. Imagination produceth strange effects within the same body 359. Imagination cannot attract influences frō the heavens according to the doctrine of Paracelsus Crollius and other Paracelsians it workes wonderous and stupendious effects attracting from the heavens plagues pestilent Fevers c. And like a load-stone it attracteth any power from the elements and worketh beyond thousands of miles As likewise that the imagination of the sick attracteth health from the healthfull 160. 161. Indication of phlebotomy 230. Indication of purging 271. Indication of the quantity 278. Infirmities following lustfull love 345. Ingratitude of patients towards their Physitians Intr. 22 c. Ingratitude of old blame-worthy ibid.