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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11350	The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.; Regimen sanitatus Salernitatum. English	Johannes, de Mediolano.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Hobbes, Stephen, attributed name.; S. H.; Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598. De conservanda valetudine liber. English.; Ronsovius, Henricus.	1617 (1617)	STC 21608; ESTC S113433	31,784	97

a Smaragd a Saphire or a Draconites which you shall beare for an ornament for in stones as also in hearbes there is great efficacie and vertue but they are not altogether perceiued by vs hold sometime in your mouth eyther a Hyacinth or a Crystall or a Granat or pure Gold or Siluer or else sometimes pure Suger-candy For Aristotle doth affirme and so doth Albertus Magnus that a Smaragd worne about the necke is good against the Falling-sicknes for surely the vertue of an hearbe is great but much more the vertue of a precious stone which is very likely that they are endued with occult and hidden vertues Feede onely twice a day when yee are at mans age neuerthelesse to those that are subiect to choler it is lawfull to feede often beginne alwayes your dinner and supper with the more liquid meates sometimes with drinkes In the time betweene dinner and supper abstain altogether from cups vnlesse necessitie or custome doe require the same notwithstanding the same custome being so vicious must be by little and little changed I would not that you should obserue a certaine houre eyther for dinners or suppers as I haue sufficiently told you before lest that daily custome should be altered into nature and after this intermission of this custome of nature hurt may follow for custome doth imitate nature and that which is accustomable the very same thing is now become naturall Take your meate in the hotte time of Summer in cold places but in the Winter let there bee a bright fire and take it in hotte places your parlours or chambers being first purged and ayred with suffumigations which I would not haue you to enter before the suffumigation be plainely extinct lest you draw the fume by reason of the odour And seeing one and the same order of diet doth not promiscuously agree with al men take your meat in order as is before said and sometimes also intermit the vse of meats for a whole day together because through hunger the faults of the stomack which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or surfetting or by any other meanes may be depelled and remoued By this meanes also your bodies shal be better accustomed to endure and suffer hunger and fasting eyther in iourneyes or wars Let your suppers bee more larger then your dinners vnlesse nightly diseases or some distillations doe afflict you After meat taken neither labor in body nor mind must be vsed and wash the face and mouth with cold water cleanse the teeth either with Iuory or of a Harts horn or some picker of pure siluer or gold After your banquets passe an houre or two in pleasant talkes or walke yee very gently and soberly neither vse much watchings long in the night but the space of two houres goe to your bed but if honest busines doe require you to watch then sleepe afterwards so much the longer that your sleep may well recompence your former watchings Before that you goe to your bed gently smooth down your head armes and shoulders the backe and all the bodie with a gentle and soft rubbing vnlesse you meane to do it in the morning to moue distribution whose time is best to be done in the morning In the Winter sitting by the fire put off your garments and drie your feete by the sire neuerthelesse auoid the heate and the smoake because it is very hurtfull both to the lungs and the eyes In the Winter time warme well your garments at the fire and warme the linings of the same for it helpeth concoction and remoueth all humiditie and moysture But my father did not allow of this custome warning men of strength and those that are borne for the Common-wealth not to accustome themselues to such kind of softnesse which doe weaken our bodies Also when you put off your garments to goe to bed then put away all your waighty cogitations and lay them aside whether they 〈◊〉 publike or priuate for when all your members be free from all cares you shal● then sleepe the quieter concoction and the other naturall actions shall best bee performed But in the morning when you rise againe resume to your selues your forme dayes thoughts and cares for this precep my Father had often in his mouth there fore I deliuer it vnto you as the mo●… worthy of your obseruation Certayne precepts against Heate and Drynesse EUen as cold is hurtfull to trauailers so is heat also for thereby trauailers be offended for it hapneth by the want of moysture and aboundant heate for when too much heat doth infest trauailers they doe thereby often-times grow into sicknesse and the natural moysture strength is dissolued Therefore my aduice is first when you trauell not to vse much vociferation or talke for thereby is wont to be drawne thirst and drynesse against which detayne in the mouth crystall corall siluer sugar-candy or a flint-stone that lyeth in cold water the Iulep of Roses an● Violets with cold water in like mann●… new stick of lickoras taken fresh out of the earth and chawed or the drinking of water quencheth the thirst also new ligs doe mitigate thirstinesse and coole the heate Pine kernels the leaues of Purslane held in the mouth Straw-berries Peares Pruines Cherries the seedes of Quinces seedes of Lettuce and cucumbers doe very well diminish thirst What Age is and what difference in Age. IN Age there are fiue parts or differences first child-hood from our birth to fifteene yeeres and is hot and moyst The second adolescence from fifteene to fiue and twentie a meane and perfect temperature then youth from fiue and twentie to fiue and thirtie and is hot and drie then middle age or mans state from fiue and thirty to forty nine declining to cold and drie from nine and forty the end of ●he life all cold and dry in all this course ●f the life there is a continuall change of 〈◊〉 body but especially euery seuenth ●…re is called Annus criticus the yeere of ●…ment In which time we are in greatest danger touching life and death Therefore I would aduise you to haue regard to the change of those times and to vse all meanes to preserue the shortnesse of life as much as may be FINIS