here is the soul there the body but soul and body are joyntly extended throughout the whole in every part there is both soul body life is the result of this connexion as by the meeting and attrition of flint steel fire is produced so by the reciprocal contact conjunction of soul body life is generated being of a luminous influential nature diradiated through the body from whence vital motions and heat as the product and concomitants thereof do give a testimony of its virtual presence and efficacious energy and as the Ratio formalis of life is in lumine so the vertue power and emanations of life are manifested in actione in operation action and although the soul cannot by a reflex act in this life see the face of its own being nor can we see it in another being invisible a priori environed vailed and hid by the interposition of a dense opacous body yet we may see the back parts and behold what it is in operation and effects and as Operatio sequitur esse according to the axiome we may judge of the purity radication and durability of life by the integrity strength and constancy of its actions and functions and this integrity or perfection of vital operations is that which we call health or sanity and it is the free indisturbed unanimous performance of all the faculties in the rectitude of their duties being the prosperous serenity mutual enjoyment and happiness of soul and body in their conjunct state The benefit and excellencies of this health is best known to those that have lost it Carendo magis quam fruendo quid valeat cognoscimus you that have it and know not how to prize it I le tell you what it is both positively and privatively that you may love it better put a higher value upon it and endeavour to preserve it with a more serious and strict observance and tuition Health is that which makes your meat and drink both savory and pleasant else natures injunction of eating and drinking were a hard task and slavish custome Health is that which makes your bed easie and your sleep refreshing that renews your strength with the rising Sun and makes you chearful at the light of another day t is that which fills up the hollow and uneven places of your Carkase and makes your body plump and comely t is that which dresseth you up in natures richest attire and adorns your face with her choicest colours 'T is that which makes exercise a sport and walking abroad the enjoyment of your Liberty 'T is that which makes fertile and encreaseth the natural endowments of your minde and preserves them long from decay makes your wit acute and your memory retentive T is that which supports the fragility of a corruptible body and preserves the verdure vigour and beauty of youth 'T is that which makes the soul take delight in her mansion sporting her self at the casements of your eyes 'T is that which makes pleasure to be pleasure and delights delightful without which you can solace your self in nothing of terrene felicityes and enjoyments Having taken a breif survey of natural life in the best estate graced and adorned with the society of health and its great attendants the coucomitant benefits priviledges and enjoyments now take a view of your self when health hath turn'd its back upon you and deserts your company see now how the Scene is changed how you are robd and spoyled of your comforts and enjoyments the want of health makes food to lose its wonted relish and is become disgustful and unsavory the stomack now refuseth to receive its dayly charge no longer able to perform the task but desires a quietus est from the office Sleep that was stretcht out from evening to the fair bright day is now broken into peeces and subdivided not worth the accounting the night that before seemed short is now too long and the downy bed presseth hard against the bones Exercise now is toyling and walking abroad the carrying of a burthen The body that moved so light and readily obeyed the steerage of the Pilot is now over ballac'd with its own weight and slowly tugs as against the stream Conjugal imbraces are now but the faint offers of love the shaddows and representations of former kindeness The body that had the magnetisme and secret attraction of souls may now be approached without loss or danger of being snared and fettered as a bondslave the lilly and the rose that nature planted in the highest mount to shew the world her pride and glory is now blasted and withered like long blown flowers The eye that flasht as lightning is now like the opacous body of a thick cloude that rouled from East to West swifter then a Celestial orbe is now tyred and weary but standing still that penetrated the center of another microcosme hath lost its Planetary influence and is become obtuse and dull the hollow sounding breast that echoed to the chanting bird and warbled forth delightful tunes now runs divisions with coughing straines and pauses with a deep fetch 't sigh for breath to repeat those notes again The Veins those rivulets that ran with vital streams bedewing the adjacent parts with fruitfull moisture is now drunk up with parching heat or muddied and defiled with an inundation of excremental humors The want of health converts your house into a prison and confines you to the narrow compasse of a chamber t is that which sowers the sweetest and most beloved injoyments t is that which disunites and breaks the league of copartnership between soul and body alienates and makes them at jarrs discomposeth their harmony and weary of their wonted sweet society The Prolongation Abbreviation of Life MAn Consisting of soul and body and this body compounded of heterogenious and dissimilar parts destinated to various actions and offices and not independent in being and conservation will necessarily require variety of assistance and supply proportionable and suting to their several purposes faculties proprieties and temperatures in matter manner times and order for their maintenance and sustentation in the integrity of their actions offices and duties Constitutional dispositions and temperaments peculiarly conservative of themselves respectively and consequently of the whole And by the Law of nature being subject to corruption and dissolution through the fragility of constitutive principles connexion and fabrication is bound to observe rules orders and customes most consonant for preservation continuance in being Now if there be a disproportion or unfitness in the matter and quantum or irregularity in the manner times or order of the auxiliary requisites and conservatives contrary to what the Law or necessity of his nature requires and commands there ariseth distempers ataxjes and disorders the praeludiums to ruine and dissolution And this body being in a continual flux and reflux conversant in vicissitudes and variations of opposites dissimilars contraries and privations as heat and cold siccity and humidity filling and
Tutela Sanitatis SIVE VITA PROTRACTA THE Protection of long Life and Detection of its brevity from diaetetic Causes and common Customs Hygiastic Praecautions and Rules appropriate to the Constitutions of bodyes and various Discrasyes or Passions of Minde dayly to be observed for the preservation of Health and Prolongation of Life WITH A Treatise of Fontinells or Issues Whereunto is Annexed BELLVM NECESSARIVM SIVE MEDICVS BELLIGERANS THE Military or Practical Physitian Reveiwing his Armory Furnished with Medicinal Weapons and Munition against the secret invaders of life fitted for all persons and assaults with their safe and regular use according to medical art and discipline By Everard Maynwaring Doctor in Physick Toga conuenit armis ET Bellum gero pro bono pub lico LONDON Printed by Peter Lillicrap And sold by S. Thompson Stationer at the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yard T. Basser Stationer under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Sreet 1664. To His Renowned Highness RUPERT COUNT PALATINE of the Rhene Duke of Cumberland Kt. of the Garter c. Health Happiness and long Life AS it hath beene the Custome of past Ages to prefix some Eminent Personage in the Front of their Works partly to shew a respect to Dignity and Honour and to reverence the Excellency and illustrious Eminency of the Person as also their peculiar exemplary Merits and Endowments suting with and favoring the Treatise I am hence imboldened in this Dedication to set Your Highness a Patron as you may be a Pattern of temperate and regular living Health and long Life two great desiderable Injoyments the one a step to the other and both acquired by the course of Nature in the methodical and regular observance of Diaetetic Customs And since the Endowments and Faculties of the Mind are much disposed and Biassed heighthened and abated in their operations by the Temperament and Constitutional Changes of the Body and that also by a seminal power and vertue from Parents the ill effects and products of irregular and a methodical living is implanted and charactarized in their off-spring Therefore the regular tuition and government of the Body is of great concernment to all but more especially to such who more eminently are serviceable in a Kingdom and constituted as Pillars of Honour to support and bear up the spreading Fame and Renown of our Nation for Heroick Worthies That we may not untimely be deprived of such nor of our hopes in their Noble and Illustrious succeeding Progeny And as a Duty complying with my nature the propagation of Honourable renowned Families and preservation from a degenerate Issue by praecautions and wholsom Rules is much intended by these Endeavors I now crave your Highness acceptance of this small Offering the Fruit of my Study and Labor which may serve as a Directory in the dayly use of those requisites necessary to being and well being In the regular course of which by a Decree in Nature is promised Sanity length of dayes and juvenile vigour that as your Highness is eminently placed in Dignity and Power your natural Endowments also and personal Abilities may not be clouded with the untimely defects of Nature nor impedited in the full fruition and free injoyment of Temporal Happiness which shall be the constant wishes and desires as hereby it is the endeavors of Your Highness most humble Servant Everard Maynwaringe Literato Philiatro Lectori Salutem PYrrhus Rex deorum in templo immolaturus hoc unum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tanquam exoptatissimum à diis immortalibus petebat Inter omnia namque humano generi chara ac utilia corporis sanitas post animae salutem in praetio ab omnibus prae omnibus bonis maxime habenda est Quippe quod ea vacillante ac labante nec animae functiones nec corporis membra ad munia sua rite disponuntur sed vel fractis viribus fatigata succumbunt vel more indebito pravè remissè operantur Frons hilaris Serenus in Severiorem maestumque transit indies deflorescit formosa juventus Honores porrò divitiae splendida illa fortunae bona amissa sanitate ingrata ac seposita parvi penduntur Voluptates deliciae qualesecunque solitae injucundae exoletae transeunt Quae cum ita sint omni studio labore sedulò incumbendum utquantum naturae viribus detur vel artis ingenio excogitari possit hanc vitam in multos annos sartam tectamque tueamur Et licet ex rei natura vitae perennitatem non expectamus eò quod potestates causae vitales à principiis facile inuicem dissidentibus Et sese mutuò destruentibus dependent morborum saltem occasiones incursiones saepius praecaueri juventutis efflorescentiam vigorem nativum viva citatem diutius conservari majori circulo vitae cursum peragi nullis naturae legibus repugnat Porrò cum vitae nostrae scintilla variis obiciatur injuriis adeò ut facili negotio praefocari extingui possit cum nihil in toto terrarum orbe hac vita salubri suavius obtineamus nullis nec impensis nec curis nec praeceptis parcendum quantum in nobis naturae potestati concessum à diminutione extinctione quam diutissimè conservare protahere valeamus In hunc finem sanitatis hanc tutelam vitae praesidium juxta nuturae normam leges artis concinnatum nulli non obtemperanti profuturum puto opus non minus utile sanis quam aegris necessarium viuere nam sanos docet aegrotos valere Prima pars benè vivendi regulas tradit quo sanitas praesens diu conservetur altera autem tutò medendi quo amissa citò paucis parvo recuperetur Habes lector benevole instituti mei rationem operis divisionem multa me reliquisse fateor studiis futuris me mihi satis nondum fecisse in posterum verò politiora haec plura edita fore curabo Interea hiscefave fruere ut sanitatem siquando amissam quam primum restituas presentem feliciter tuearis Jnde proemium hoc maximum multis ut prosim valdè quaero vale dat Londini 6 calend Octobr. An. Dom. 1663. Imprimatur Sept. 25. 1663. M. Franck S. T. P. Reverendissimo in Christo P. ac D no. D no. Archi-Ep Cant. à Sac. Dom. The Introduction THe scope and intention of the Medicinal Art at which every good Physitian collimes and aimes at directs to these two marks Preservation of the sound and Restoration of the Sick and Janus-like he casts a double Aspect to the healthy for their continuance to the sick for their recovery nor is he less concern'd and rejoycing in natures prosperity and triumph then subsidiary in her adversity but shews the highest friendship in her declensions and lowest ebb And having proposed such a Pattern for my imitation I have drawn the ensuing Work according to this examplar which is presented to you now as a rough draught from the first hand
being the cheifest part of my Study and most delightful of late years And having approved in practice what in reason they promised at the veiw enticing to experiments I may with confidence commend to your use being a witness to all that belongs to them made choice of their Druggs saw their due preparation and Composition and not only a spectator but an agent sometimes where the strictest care and nicest curiosity is required being the best recreation I know or can desire For my part I desire no other weapons to oppose any Herculean disease where the capacity of the subject will endure the contest and be conformable to the commands of such a discipline I shall require to be observed The Patient must bear a part or no good to be expected there must be a conspiration consent and agreement between the Physician the Patient and the Medicine against the disease or the design will fail The Physician cannot oure without a good Medicine the Medicine cannot cure except prudently appointed by the Physitian in fit Doses at due times with the requisite circumstances and yet neither shall prevaile if the patient be disobedient intemperate and careless For if by good medicine you prevaile against your disease get ground one day and lose it the next or soon after by an unfit improper ordering your self the labour is in vain as by too often experience we finde it in practise with peevish unruly imprudent patients who thinke the taking of the physick is sufficient let themselves live at the old rate and customes which first occasioned the disease You must not therefore expect these medicines to take that effect as is promised declared in the enumeration of their vertues appropriate use if you by an irrigular course and daily common practise in eating drinking sleeping passions of minde rest and motion or other customes whatever improper and unfit for the condition of your body and distemper act with a Counter motion and repugnancy to the efficacy and vertue of the Medicine and also cherish indulge and strengthen the disease Therefore remember that a duty is required incumbent upon you and impute not your miscarriages improper unseasonable insufficient use of the means to the deficiency of the Medicine and that you make a difference between a chronic inveterate radicated disease to which you are propense by hereditary nature constitution or constant bad customes and a slight accidental infirmity The former requiring a more serious prosecution continuance and repetition of Medicines if you have been many moneths perhaps years contracting a disease you may well allow some days for a parting And that these Medicines may not receive a prejudice in their reputation undeservedly and for want of knowledge in the proper choice and use of them especially in such cases and persons where a subordinate use of Medicines is required for the eradicating of a contumacious and chronic disease such I say who desire a methodical and exact course in the use of these Medicines more at large and peculiar for their complicated diseases and condition of body then what is exprest and provided for in this book I shall upon their application to me whether by letter if far distant or otherwise give them my advice and directions in the choice and use of any Medicine or Medicines as their particular case requires according to the true account and relation I shall receive of their infirmities at my dwelling next to the Blew-Bore on Ludgate-hill London OF Life Health and Sickness AFter the praevious disposition of formation and effiguration of seminal matter in the wombe by the innate spirits thereof the chief actors in vegetation having prepared fabricated and made ready for animation the Soul then exerts her power animates and gives life and as supreme moderator and governor disposeth and orders all for future conservation and perfection of operation The seminal Spirits which before were chief and principal in preparation and fabrication of this mansion are now after the souls assuming the Government but instrumental and subordinate immediately acting by vertue and power from the soul received neither can the one act without the other the soul cannot act the body in its operations but mediately by the intervening Spirits there is so great a distance between the spirituality of a soul and the corporiety of bodies but the Spirits being of the most refined subtile volatized material substance are the fittest Intermedium of conjunction conveyance and commerce between the Soul and body nor can the spirits act their parts in any Vital operation but by the energy command and power derived from the soul These spirits have their residence in every part of the body as principal assistants and excitors to the performance of the office and duty belonging to the several parts and are the approximate immediate agents of the soul and they are preserved maintained and supplied by the additional spirits extracted from the bodyly aliment daily received There is also a ferment or transmutative quality peculiar to each part or office for concoction resulting from the particular nature property and temper of each part being the author of alteration and transmutation by vertue whereof the food received is digested volatized and receiving various impressions according to the disposition of the ferment of each part by which it passeth until it be fit for assimilation into the substance of the body In the vigour and rectitude of these ferments and the aforesaid spirits consists the sanity and integrity of each member in its office but the diminution alienation and depravation of either vitiates and imbecillitates the parts indisposeth and incapacitates them to their office and duties from whence various morbifick effects are produced answerable to their several causes and the variety of organical parts in their principal or ministerial functions These Spirits and ferments are preserved and maintained in their natural purity and vigour by a temperate sweet Air wholsom and regular dyet seasonable sleeping and waking moderate and constant exercise due evacuations and retentions tranquillity and ease of minde But these irregular unnatural disproportionate or unsutable in matter manner times or order destroyes the regular oeconomy and peaceable Government of the body raiseth discords introduceth and begets morbifick causes abbreviates and shortens life Of which particularly hereafter This I have premised as a ground work for the superstructure intended and for your preparation and clearer apprehension of what shall be delivered in the following discourse knowing upon what bases it is founded The life of man consists in the Conjunction of soul and body mutually embracing each other with the bands of Love and desire of continued Union until the incapacity and unfitness of the body by its ruinous and decayed condition or other impediments and deficiency enforceth the soul to desertion and departure Spiritual and Corporeal substance are now knit and interwoven one with another by an extraordinary curious artifice and contrivance so that you can not say
emptying rest and motion sleeping and waking inspiration and expiration and the like could not subsist amidst these opposite subalter nations if they were not bounded and regulated by due order of succession to fit and convenient times that they might not clash interfeere and encroach upon each others priviledges due times and proprieties If heat exceeds the radical moisture dryes up the spirits evaporate and the body withers If cold the faculties are torpid and benum'd the spirits being frozen up to a cessation from their duties If moisture prevails the spirits are cloged suffocated and drowned in the chanels of the body If siceity and dryness the organical parts are stubborne unpliable and uncapable of their regular motions and due actions the vitastreams being drank up that should irrigate refresh and supple them Were the body alwaies taking in and sending nothing forth it would either increase to a monstrous and vaste magnitude or fill up suffocate and stifle the soul were it alwaies in excretion and emission the body would waste away and be reduced to nothing Nor is the receiving in of any thing sufficient and satisfactory to the body for its preservation but that which is appointed by nature proper and sutable nor emission or ejection of any thing but that which is superfluous and unnecessary to be retained If sleep prevailes contrary to the Law of nature the body in a lethargic soporiferous inactivity stupefied and senseless lies at the gates of death If watching exceeds the limits transgresseth â—nd steals away the due time for sleep the faculties are debilitated and enervated the spirits tyred worn out and impoverished If inspiration were constant without intermission the body would puffe up and be blown like a bladder If expiration were continual the soul and spirits would soon quit their habitation and come forth If alwaies exercised in motion the body would pine and weare away if alwaies at rest it would corrupt and stink There is a rule therefore proportion measure and season to be observed in all the requisite supports and auxiliary helps belonging to our preservation and by how much or often any of these necessary alternative successions are extravagant and irregular exceeding the bounds and limits prescribed by nature justling out the successive appointed action duty or custom from its seasonable exercise and due execution by so much is the harmony of nature disturbed vigour abated and duration shortned by those jarrs discords and encroachments The thwarting and crossing of nature in any thing she hath enjoyned either in the substance or circumstance is violence offered to nature and is destructive more or less according to the dignity or quality of the thing appointed For nature was not so indifferent in the institution of thâ—se duties and customes that they might be done or not done or so careless and irregular to leave them at your pleasure when and how or to be used promiscuously and preposterously without order â—t the liberty of your will fancy and occasions for as you may see in all other creatures exactness of rule method and constant order impressed upon and radicated in their natures by which they act alwaies sutable regular and constant you may not imagine so choice and exquisite a peice as man to be left without a law and rule to guide and steer him in the necessary actions concerning life and that he should rove in uncertain inconstant unlimited quantities times orders manners and the like but is bounded and restrained upon penalties and forfeitures of being well being and long being to the nice and strict observance of these lawes and customes necessary for the tuition of life and defence of humane frailty As moral good actions are placed in a mediocrity between two vitious extreams so natural actions and auxiliary requisites conservative of life have their golden meane digression from which on either side leads to ruin and destruction Too much sleep or too little too much meat and drink or too little to much rest or too much motion too much air or alwaies close pent up too great excretions or too long retentions too much heat or too much cold either of the extreams lead to the gates of death And as nature hath not appointed any thing or every thing to be food but this and that so likewise not at any time to be received not in any quantity after any manner prepared or in what order you please but proportionable suteable and convenient As there is variety of dispositions and inclinations of minde agreeing with and liking one thing but disagreeing resisting and disliking another so is it in the variety of bodies and food one body is of this constitution temper and appetite will sute and agree well with this meat and disagree with another for if all meats were convenient for all bodies to be used promiscuously without choice how comes it to pass the antipathy resistance and abhorrency of some bodies against some particular meats and this not from a fancy and conceipt but radicated in the constitution that if it be eaten though unknown shall produce Fluxes vomitings swoonings and such like effects here is manifested the opposition disagreement and distance between this constitution and this kind of meat which being so great that the dislike and discordancy appears presently other disagreements which are in a lower degree of opposition do not manifest themselves immediatly yet they produce ill effects in the body plus minus pro viribus which discover themselves gradually at times and seasons and occasions If you acknowledge the former you must admit of the latter the reason is á majori ad minus As sleep is appointed by nature to refresh the spirits and repair lost strength so the time for sleep is appointed and limited not when you please the Sun that glorious light was not made for you to sleep by nor the night for sports and revells but for rest Nature does not only command what to be done but when how much how long after what manner in what order the modification Circumstances and requisite qualifications as well as the thing it self are to be regarded And therefore by a diligent inquisition and curious speculation into the workes of nature you may as much admire the manner of preservation government order weight and measure regular vicissitudes alternations and successions as the excellency and contrivance of the things themselves in their creation and generation Whatever is appointed by nature as necessary for conservation and support of being though never so good yet if it be unseasonable out of course immoderate in quantity quality or duration alters the property and Intention of nature converts good purposes to bad effects We say every thing is best in its own kind and of continuance in its own Element and nature is most cheerful vigorous and durable in the course and method of her own injunctions but being put by thrust out of her own way is not of long duration the birds cannot live in
may drink more freely then others or if thirst importunes you at any time to satisfie with a moderate draught is better then to forbear Accustome youth and strong stomacks to small drink but stronger drink and wine to the infirm and aged it cheers the spirits quickens the appetite and helps digestion For corpulent gross and fat bodies thin hungry abstersive penetracting wines For lean thin bodies black red and yellow wines sweet full bodied and fragrant are more fit and agreeable For Drink whether it be wholesomer warmed then cold is much controverted some stifly contending for the one and some for the other I shall rather chuse the middle way with limitation and distinction then impose it upon all as a rule to be observed under the penalty of forfeiting their health the observation of the one or the other There are three sorts of persons one cannot drink cold Beer the other cannot drink warm the third either You that cannot drink cold Beer to you it is hurtful cools the stomack and checks it much therefore keep to warm drink as a wholesome custome you that cannot drink warm Beer that is findes no refreshment nor thirst satisfied by it you may drink it cold nor is it injurious to you you that are indifferent and can drink either drink yours cold when you cannot have it warmed That warm Drink is no bad custome but agreeable to nature in the generalitie first because it comes the nearest to the natural temper of the body and similia similibus conservantur every thing is preserved by its like and destroyed by its contrary Secondly heat though I do not hold it the principal agent in digestion yet it does excite is auxiliary and a necessary concomitant of a good digestion ut signum causa Thirdly Omne frigus per se pro viribus distruit Cold in its own nature and according to the graduation of its power extinguisheth natural heat and is destructive but per accidens and as it is in gradu remisso it may comtemperate allay and refresh where heat abounds and is exalted Therefore as there is varietie of Pallates and Stomacks likeing and agreeing best with such kind of meats and drinks which to others are utterly disgustful disagreeing and injurious though good in themselves so is it in Drink warmed or cold what one finds a benefit in the other receives a prejudice at least does not fâ—nd that satisfaction and refreshment under such a quallification because of the various tempers particular appetitions and idiosyncratical proprieties of several bodies one thing will not agree with all Therefore he that cannot drink warm let him take it cold and it is well to him but he that drinks it warm does better Which is to be understood in Winter when the extremity of cold hath congelated and fixed the spirits of the Liquor in a torpid inactivitie but by a gentle warmth are unfettered volatile and brisk whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the stomacks fermenting heat being so prepared then to be made so by it Motion and Rest EXercise often in the morning chiefly with an emptie stomack alwayes and after excremental evacuation if you can procure it Exercise rowseth dull inactive spirits gives ventilation opens obstructions by the motion attenuation and penetration of the subtile spirits agitates and volatiseth feculent fixed subsiding humours concocts and abates superfluous moisture increaseth natural heat promotes concoction distribution and conveyance of aliment through the narrow Channels and passages unto the several parts of the body procures excremental evacuations strengthens all the Members and preserves Nature in her vigour Vary exercise according to the condition of your body and season of the year the stronger and Phlegmatic bodies in cold weather admit of stronger and swifter motions Choleric bodies weak and the Summer season more mild and gentle Be not violent in exercise nor continue it longer beyond a pleasure but desist with refreshment not a lassitude and weariness Put on some loose garment until your body be cool and setled in its natural heat and temper the pores being opened by exercise the cold is more apt to enter from whence a greater prejudice then you could expect benefit from your labour Fly idleness and a sedentarie life for want of due action and motion the body like standing waters degenerates corrupts and decayes Ignavia corpus hebetat labor firmat Sleep and Watching MOderate sleep refresheth the spirits increaseth natural heat helps concoction gives strength to the body pacifies anger and calmes the spirits gives a relaxation to a troubled mind Immoderate sleep dulls the spirits injurious to a good wit and memory fills the head with superfluous moisture and clouds the brain retains excrements beyond their due time to be voided and infects the body with their noxious fumes and vapours an enemy to beauty Turpis qui alto sole semisomnis jacet Cujus vigilia medio die incipit Sen. Go early to sleep not with a full stomack and early from sleep that you may rise refreshed freshed lively and active not dulled and stupid When you lay by your Clothes lay aside also your business care and thoughts and let not a wandring phansie prevent your rest Let your bed be soft but not to sink in which suckes from the body exhausts and impaires strength a Quile upon a Featherbed is both easie and wholesome Avoid day sleeps as a bad custome chiefly fat and corpulent bodies but if your spirits be tired with much business and care or by reason of old age debilitie of nature extream hot weather labour or the like that dissipates the spirits then a moderate sleep restores the spirits and is a good refreshment but rather take it sitting then lying down Night watching and late sitting up tires and wastes the animal spirits by keeping them too long upon duty debilitates nature changeth the fresh flower of youth heats the body dryes and exasperates Choler in time extinguisheth natural heat breeds Rhumes and Crudities most injurious to thin leane bodies Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Evacuation and Retention UNder this Head is comprised excretions by Stool Urine monethly Purgations Venus by the Pores pallate Nose and Ears of which the former are of the greatest concernment and special care to be had of them Excremental evacuations are various proceeding from the several concoctions conveyed out by several Channels and Vents which duly evacuated are no small helps to the conservation of health and are the effects of a temperate and regular body The retention of them beyond due time argue distemperature of parts or irregular living and brings much detriment to the body by their noxious Fumes and putrid Vapours that might infect corrupt and disturb the body Immoderate evacuations causeth weakness debilitie of nature by exhaustion and procures several diseases Cachexies Consumptions Dropsies c. To keep the body soluble is very good that at least once a day you may not miss to
those necessary mutual performances without regard to their former friendship or their future conjunct preservation The body now begins to sinck with its own weight and press towards the Earth the natural place from whence it came That aetherian spirit which before had boyed it up and took delight to sport it to and fro is now ready to let it fall and groues downwards to leave it whether it must goe The wonted pleasures of their partnership and society is now disgusted and rejected food now hath lost its relish and is become unsavory sleep which before was pleasant as a holy day in the fruition of rest and ease is now composed of nothing but troublesome unquier dreams linked together with some fighing intervals to measure out the weary night by Exercise and sporting reereations is now accounted druggery and laborious toyling unwilling is the soul to move her yokfellow farther then the enforcing law of nature and necessity commands and urgeth their joynt operations which before were duly and unanimously performed are now ceased abated or depraved by the retraction reluctance and indisposed sadness of the soul to act the wonted vigorous emanations of the soul and her radiant influence upon the spirits is now suspended subducted and called back These ministring attending spirits and cheifest agents which at a beck were alwaies ready agile and active in the execution of her commands now want commands to stir and warrants to act by but in a torpid and somnolent disposition unfit for action and the exquisite performance of their duties and in a sympathizing compliance with the soul the excitrix and rectrix of their motions are ready to resign their offices and give over working that what they now do is faintly and remissely performed with much deficiency depravation When the soul is pleased and merry the spirits dance and are cheirfull at their work but when she droops and mourns the spirits are dull heavy and tired the functions weakly and insufficiently executed From the preceeding discourse may easily be collected that the distempers and alienations of the soul from her genuine crasis of serenity and quietude is of great disadvantage to health impressing upon the body various preternatural effects forming the Ideas and charracters of diseases upon the spirits and by them communicated conveighed and propagated in the body likewise the morbific seeds secret characters of diseases which lay dead and inactive are by the aeconomical disturbance and perturbations of minde awakened moved and stirred up to hostility and action which otherwise would have layen dormant as by greif fear or anger hysterical passions swoonings epilepsies c. Are often procured and it is evident and commonly observed by infirme and diseased people how passion agravates and heighthens their distempers and acccording to the temper of their mindes will their bodily infirmities be agravated or abated I shall conclude this subject with three corollaryes being the Epitome of what hath been asserted and aimed at 1. There is no perturbation or passion of mind whether little or great but it works a real effect in the body more or less according to the nature and strength of the passion and by how much the more suddain great often and longer duration the passion is by so much are the impressions and effects worse more durable and indeleable You cannot be angry or envious or Melancholly or give way to any such passion but you cherish and feeed an enemy that preys upon your life and you may be assured that passion makes as great nay greater alteration within the body then the change of your countenance appears to outward view which is not a little although but the shadow or reflections of the inward distemper and disorder and were it possible by any perspective to see the alteration and discomposure within made by a passionate minde the prospect would be strange and much different from that placidness and tranquility of an indisturbed quiet soul 2. Strong and vehement passions or affections of the mind to intent upon this or that object whether desiderable or formidable and to be avoided alienates suspends draws of the wonted vigour influence and preservative power of the soul due to the body whereby the functions and operations are not duly and sufficiently performed but intempestively remissly and weakly nor is the dammage onely privative but also introduceth and impresseth upon the spirits a morbific idea which is ens reale seminale producing this or that effect according to the nature and property of the Idea received and aptitude of the recipient subject Phansies and Idea's are let in naked but they strait are invested and cloathed in the body have a real existence and are entia realia though at first conception but entia rationis as the longing of a pregnant woman being but the Idea of a thing in her minde begets various and real distempers in her body if not soon satisfyed and sometimes charactrized upon the Embryo in the Wombe Likewise a good stomack is taken off its meat suddenly by the comming of some unwelcome bad news the appetite is gone now the soul is disquieted and the Body really affected and altered let this sad tidings be contradicted and the Soul satisfied of the truth to the contrary it sets a new impression upon the spirits they strait are cheered lively and active the stomack calls for meat and drink and the faculties restored to their wonted operations Whereby it appears the two passions of joy and grief as they are opposite in their objects so are their effects wrought in the body as far distant and different 3. A cogitative or contemplative person to intent alwayes or unseasonably employing the mind seriously and eagerly either in real or fictious matters fabricating Idea's upon the spirits disturbs and hinders other necessary offices and opperations conservative of being enervates and weakens their performance in duty impares health and hastens old age but those that live most incurious and void of studious thoughts and serious cogitations preserve the strength of nature and integrity of all the faculties protract the verduce and beauty of youth much longer from declensions and decay for by how much the rational faculty is over busie and imtempestively exercised drawing the full vigour of the soul into the exercise of that faculty and robbing other inferiour functions of their necessary influential supply and emanative power from the soul by so much the other faculties are impoverished and abated their executions more languid and depraved and therefore it is a close Students life disposeth and inclines to many infirmities enervates and debilitates nature abbreviates and shortens its course 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fieri non potest ut animo malè affecto Non etiam unà laboret corpus parcè bibe frugaliter ede utere exercitio rarò venere diluculo surge tranquillo sis animo tempestivè fac omnia immodice nihil Ars brevis vitam trahit longam Of