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A50438	The method and means of enjoying health, vigour, and long life adapting peculiar courses for different constitutions, ages, abilities, valetudinary states, individual proprieties, habituated customs, and passions of mind : suting preservatives and correctives to every person for attainment thereof / by Everard Maynwaringe, M.D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1683 (1683)	Wing M1498; ESTC R31212	85,718	240

neglect the spring from whence they do arise and where the greatest stress of Cures do lie Morbi in initiis vitalibus radicem habent And although I have distinguished food for several constitutions or conditions of body as most proper and fit for them and commonly most agreeable and appetible yet I do not thereby strictly enjoin or restrain any one of a dissenting appetite from some things greatly coveted and suteable by experience although appointed for another person of a different constitution but that every person seeing the general Rule may something be guided thereby and examining his peculiar propriety of Body undiscernable to others whether it will comply freely or with reluctance In such case where there is a refusal of this or that as not suting but disgustful you are not to impose upon your Nature forcibly though injoined by the general Rule But where you are at a stand in things indifferent what to chuse when either will comply and sute your appetite then follow the Rule as advantagious Moreover the strong robust bodies active and laborious are not so strictly enjoined to observance as tender weak bodies which soon are discomposed and altered by ill diet or that is incongruous for their condition of body If a person have a cold waterish Phlegmatick Stomach those Meats and Drinks and Sauces are not so agreeable and requisite for him as will well agree and sute with a Cholerick hot and dry parching Stomach A Phlegmatick man most commonly takes no delight in Milk and Whey cold Meats and cooling Drinks or cooling Sauces but he loves seasoned hot Meats strong Drinks Spices and hot Herbs to make his Meat savoury and acceptable to his Stomach But the Cholerick Man shall delight in the other and they shall sute best with him being temperately and discreetly used So that a Diaetetick Regiment well appointed and observed is physical to discrasyed and distempered bodies to contemperate and allay the luxuriance of some predominant Humour and something dispose the faculties to produce the alimentary Juices of another nature which by time will alter and change the constitution or condition of Body from what it was and reduce it nearer to what it ought to be SECT XVIII The sanguine Constitution or purest state of Body how generated and preserved THis Constitution does result from the integrity of the faculties and due Crases of the Parts performing their offices rightly When Food is well elaborated and transmuted in such manner as is proper for each digestion then a good constitution and good habit of body is established The Mass of blood then hath its pure tincture and all the liquors of the body their peculiar properties suteable to the intentions of Nature But if the Crases of the Parts be perverted by a spontaneous defection and imbecillity of the faculties or otherwise procured to irregularity by bad food intemperance and the Diaetetick Rules not observed then the alimentary Juices do degenerate from their purity the mass of Blood and nervous liquor are depraved the constitution and whole habit of body altered and changed for the worse The sanguine person enjoys the best state and condition of body does not abound or is molested with crude Phlegmatick or acrid Cholerick Juices or otherwise degenerate but hath the succulencies of body in their right and proper natures as is most fit for every Vessel and part of the body hence it is that this person is more fresh temperate lively and florid of a more pleasant mind and good disposition having pure blood and other good Juices to supply the Body from whence the spirits are generated both plentifully and of a good extraction This State and Constitution of Body is best preserved and continued so from degeneration by a good Diaetetick Regiment disposing all the requisite supports of Life Customs and Actions whatsoever that they be moderate seasonable and suteable to such Natures contributing their assistance wholly and not being any ways detrimental by their ill management The Sanguine Person will continue long in that condition and good state of Body by a due observance of Dyet Exercise and Rest Sleep and Watching Excretions and Retentions passions of Mind For any of these irregular and unsuteable will alter and change the best tempered body into some other depraved condition answerable to their Causes as the intemperate Air of a hot Climate or sudden change of Weather not regarded violent and unseasonable Exercise night-watchings ill-dyet c. introduce a depraved alteration and degeneration of the blood and therefore most commonly sickness soon follows such injurious Courses I might here forbid the smoaking of Tabaco the common Purgatives falsly denominated but rather and more properly Corruptives which stamp an ill impression upon the parts and vitiate alimentary Juyces of the Body but the injuries procured from Tabaco and these Drugs are declared at large in my Tract of the Scurvy Therefore I need not repeat here For the Election and Choice of Food for quantities and due times in Eating and Drinking for the choice of Air and place of Abode for Exercise Sleep c. consonant and most agreeable to this constitution and best state of Body are to be sought in the general Hygiastick Rules before-mentioned which are most proper and applicable to this state and condition of Body as being the Rule or Standard to measure others by And by how much others vary from this temperature and good condition of Body by so much are they to be accounted intemperate and deviating from integrity and do therefore require some particular Rules or Exemptions from the general to regulate them apart because bodies in a right and good state are not to be governed by the same strictness of Law but must have some allowance and exceptions which shall be observed in the particular constitutions following SECT XIX The Phlegmatick Constitution managed for a reduction THE Phlegmatick Person is such whose nature is not so vigorous and acute in the digestive faculties and makes a transmutation of food not so perfect as the Sanguine but something crude and raw This Constitution abounding with superfluous moisture and being cooler in temperature except upon occasions distempered and the Archeus disturbed commonly hath a slower Pulse not so lively active and brisk as the Sanguine person prone to sleep and ease of colour paler by hot things benefited by cold things prejudiced And thus it is by reason the vital powers are remiss and sluggish or perverted and the several functions of the body not performed vigorously and compleatly which ariseth from an innate disability or irregularity and disregard to the Diaetetick rules Now this Constitution of body being fallen a degree from the integrity of Nature and swerving from the best condition and state of body which is the Sanguine and finding by these Characters how Nature is defective and which way declining You ought so to order all your actions and customs as may tend to the rectifying of this deficiency and be

languisheth with the apprehension of a seeming future evil and the prospect of a dubious impending fate Plura sunt quae nos terrent quàm quae premunt saepius opinione quam re laboramus What if the evil threatned be too great for you to encounter with now yet either your power may be enlarged before it comes or that may be lessened and reduced within the compass of your ability to resist and power to contend with Quicquid humana ope majus est Diis permitte curandum Symmach Care Care is a mixt passion made up of Desire and Fear There is in Care a desire of getting and a fear of losing the anxiety between these two enervates and weakens the strength of the Soul she spends her self in projection to acquire and get and labours continually also under the fear of loss either of that already gotten or of that which is in possibility and likely to be obtained Being thus disquieted and always in an unsatisfied condition the Body is enfeebled and checkt from thriving Meat and Drink will not nourish if they be not changed duly in the digestions and assimilated into the substance of the Body by the energy of a vigorous Soul in a placid state of government not drawn off unseasonably and constantly with perplexing thoughts Always plodding in mind is not good if your purse gains and thrives by it I am sure your body loseth and grows worse The Poet's advice in this condition is good sometimes being discreetly used Nunc vino pellite curas Hor. And another well admonisheth from perplexing your selves with future contrivances and provisions Hodierna cura tantum Quis cras futura novit Anacr An indisturbed free mind not loaded with the thoughts of many years to come but bearing only the burthen of the day holds out much longer and preserves the faculties in strength and vigour but immoderate care and a thoughtful life wear out the faculties much sooner tire the spirits by denying them their due times for refreshment rest and ease disable them from duty and the true performance of their Offices heat and waste the spirits and exsiccate the nutritious juices of the Body which change a fresh countenance into paleness degenerate a good Constitution and pine the Body but most injurious to thin lean and cholerick Persons Those too much thus addicted and cumbred with careful thoughts may sometimes imitate this example for a Remedy Nunc potemus laeti jucunda confabulantes Quae vero post erunt diis sint curae Theog Revenge Jealousy and Envy These Diseases of the mind are as painful Ulcers continually lancinating corroding or inflaming they gnaw and eat like a Cancer taking away the nourishment from food and refreshment from sleep the anguish of these sores renders every thing unpleasant and unserviceable for the welfare and support of the Body so that these sicknesses of the mind make the Body to pine and languish introducing a secret Consumption wasting the Spirits and nutritious moisture and enseebling all the faculties Revenge besides the trouble and disquietness of spirit exposeth a man to a greater mischief than what he hath received Multis se injuriis objicit dum una dolet Sen. Jealousie is a secret tormentor that gauls the mind with continual suspicion and raiseth suggestions that afflict the Soul with anxiety and restlesness Envy is a Wolf in the Breast that must be satisfied or it sucks the blood and feeds upon the vitals This Disease pines and starves a man in the midst of plenty and he withers away in the Sunshine of anothers prosperity Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis Hor. These perturbations and Diseases of the mind will not let the body thrive for if that be sick the Body cannot be in health Love and Desire These two although they seldom go alone and desire commonly follows close at the heels of Love yet they may be separated and distinguished thus Love is a delight complacency and suteableness with the thing loved Desire is the longing for or stretching forth of the Soul to obtain procure and bring into enjoyment Desire gives wings to the Soul and seemingly transports and brings her to the thing desired so that all her strength is spent in out-goings and stretchings forth to obtain and join with the object of desire Quò non possum Corpore mente feror Ovid. Love and Desire being inordinate and impetuous seldom goe alone but are attended with other Passions as Hope Fear Melancholy Despair one or more for their consorts with which the mind is racked and torn and variously affected as the several Passions act their Parts by turns Sometimes Love is bold and venturous at another time cowardly and fearful sometime hoping and sometimes despairing sometimes brisk and sometimes sad and heavy So that the Soul is tossed up and down and filled with the disquietness of successive mixt Passions attending upon Love and Desire Nor is the Soul only disturbed and hurried away by this Passion of Desire but the Body also is restless and unquiet going from one place to another being not satisfied Here turns away hoping to find more content There Desire is very sollicitous and troublesom and importunate at unseasonable times so that the bed does not give rest and quiet sleeps but is tossing and turning there from side to side and when up cannot stand still or sit still this thorny desire is always spurring on from one place to another but which way to take this giddy Passion cannot well resolve notwithstanding these perplexities the doubts and difficulties of obtaining the Soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal deserts her own mansion the Body and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying never at home but as a Prisoner and Prisoners are but bad House-Keepers the body needs must languish and decay when the Soul thus delights and strives to run away By the continuance of these Passions interfering and complicating with each other the regular oeconomy and tuition of the Body is neglected that decays grows lean and consumptive the face grows pale the appetite abates and sleep departs or is but short and interrupted with troublesom dreams and wakings the vigour and strength of the faculties is spent in desiring and by the disquietness of the other attending Passions For a remedy and check to the impetuousness of this inordinate affection and immoderate desire take these considerations to calm allay and regulate your passion First That you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affections and you lay out more in expectation than the income of your desire if obtained can possibly make a return that it is far greater in non habendo than it will be in fruendo it will be much less when you have than it seems to be now you have it not Secondly That the Delirium and fervency of your desire does not hasten the accomplishment of your aims but rather retard or frustrate for

the extremity and strength of passion debilitate and suppress Reason the chief contriver and manager of your design puts you upon inconsiderate immature and rash attempts and makes you more unfit incapable and unable to effect your purpose for Passion is always spurring but Reason hath its stops and pauses keeps due times for onsets and progress Thirdly That prudent and vigorous action not inane hungry volition or thirsty desire though ever so great can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes Fourthly That the ardency and heighth of desire will not imbetter sweeten or add to the heighth of your enjoyment but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem for what thing soever you purchase and are mistaken and deceived in you will not value at that rate you first prized it but at the worth you now find it Vehement and lofty desires screws you up to such a heighth of expectation mountain high but you must descend into fruition that 's low as the valley and when you find your self in a bottom and your Sails not so filled and puft out as formerly by the fresh gails and blasts of a strong desire your top sails then begin to flap and flag when you come in to the still calm of fruition and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lowre amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of Enjoyment for in appearance it was great when at a distance and seemingly but now you are come nearer it is much less and inconsiderable really and what swelled you full in the prosecution of attaining will not fill you now with satisfaction but prove aery when you grasp it and soon emptied in enjoyment Non ea jam mens res habenti quae desideranti erat Fifthly That statutum est it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing desired which to a rational creature is sufficient without other Arguments to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire and curb the violence of an impetuous affection but not to cowardise daunt or stop a laudable active prosecution to attain a noble vertuous and lawful end with a moderate submssiive desire Quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit Sen. Melancholly Grief and Despair These Passions being near allied we may rank them together as the Companions and Attendants upon adversity and misfortunes whose properties are to rob and steal away from the Soul that vivacious enlivening power which roborates and quickens all the faculties in the Body When these Passions are predominant the energy of the Soul is abated and all the functions insufficiently weakly and depravedly performed A dark Cloud of Melancholy over-spreading the Soul suffocates and choaks the Spirits retards their motion and agility darkens their purity and light these instruments in each faculty being thus disabled their offices in every part of the body are faintly executed whereby the whole body decays and languisheth witness the common symptoms of a dejected sad condition a pale thin face heavy dead eyes a slow weak pulse loss of appetite weakness faintness restlesness a weight or compression about the region of the heart with continual sighing or palpitation these are the effects wrought in the Body by Melancholy and Grief which are to be avoided as great decayers of Nature Enemies to Beauty Health and Strength Hope and Joy But these are the recreations of the Soul and are as sanative and wholesom as exercise is for the Body for the Soul plays and danceth in hope and joy Embrace therefore and cherish these as the supports of your life which raise the Soul to the highest pitch and extend her energy to the utmost These enlivening affections of the mind are the greatest friends to and preservatives of Health and strength for in this serene state of gladness all the faculties and endowments of soul are advanced and invigorated both rational sensitive and natural which implies a vigorous performance in all the members of the Body and therefore contribute mainly to the keeping or acquiring of Health and consequently the prolongation of life Content and joy prolong youth and preserve beauty make the countenance fresh the Body plump and fat for pleasantness and delight of the soul put all the spirits upon activity quicken their operations and duty in all the functions conveigh nutriment to repair and replenish the utmost borders and confines of the microcosm therefore dum fata sinunt vivite laeti FINIS Advertisement PAins afflicting humane Bodies their various difference Causes Parts affected Signals of danger or safety Shewing their tendency to Inflammations Tumors Apostems Vlcers Cancers Gangrenes and Mortifications for a seasonable prevention of such fatal Events With a Tract of Fontinels or Issues and Setons By E. Maynwaringe Doctor in Physick Printed for Henry Bonwick in St. Pauls Church Yard Bookseller Morbus Polyrhizos Polymorphaeus A Treatise of the Scurvey Examining the different Opinions and Practice of the most solid and grave Writers concerning the nature and Cure of this Disease With instructions for prevention and Cure thereof By the same Author The fourth Edition Tabidorum Narratio A Treatise of Consumptions Scorbutick Atrophies Tabes Anglica Hectick Feavers Phthises Spermatick and Venereous wastings radically demonstrating their nature and Cures from vital and morbifick Causes By the same Author The Mystery of the Venereal Lues Gonorrhaea's c. disclosed comparing the dissenting judgments of most eminent Physicians hereupon and the various methods of Cure practised in Foreign Countries Resolving the doubts and fears of such as are surprized with this secret perplexing Malady By the same Author desperati ne desperent assiduè tentando deploratos saepè curando certiùs tutiusque sanamus Medicus Absolutus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Compleat Physician qualified and dignified the rise and progress of Physick Historically Chronologically and Philosophically illustrated Physicians of different Sects and Judgments distinguished the abuse of Medicines imposture of Empericks detected c. By the same Author Praxis Medicorum antiqua nova The Ancient and Modern Practice of Physick examined stated and compared the Preparation and Custody of Medicines as it was the primitive custom with the Princes and great Patrons of Physick asserted and proved to be the proper charge and grand duty of every Physician successively c. By the same Author

casualties and variations from thence we must in reason imagine and conclude that our Bodies do likewise receive impressions and alterations from thence also Drink being of a diffusive nature soon spreads and is communicated to all parts of the Body and does tincture them with such properties and qualities it is pregnant with whether better or worse It is not then of mean concernment what drink we accustom our selves to and how choice we ought to be in our Drink for bad Drink is not only the disgust upon our Palate and a displeasure at present in drinking but it hath influence upon our Bodies for the future to alienate and pervert the fermenting and transmuting powers of the digestions and to introduce an unsound state of Body if the Drink be not pure and wholesome free from any smatch of ill But how oft you are injured upon this account you little know at least take little notice and regard but wonder at every appearance of a disease or discomposedness as if you had never been under the procuring causes of any distemper or morbifick change in the Body Hence it is that the water-drinkers have the advantage of all good fellows the strong Beer and the Ale drinkers but this by the way But supposing Beer to be well brewed all the ingredients good and of a fit age to drink when all these happen together which is but sometimes then Beer discreetly used may be good and wholesom for the Body To make up therefore the goodness of Beer these conditions are requisite It ought to be well boil'd and well hop'd clear and well setled not stale for that is injurious but tasting of the hop not strong for common drinking but at other times to refresh the Stomach and chear the Heart strong Beer may supply the place of Wine Ale though made of the same ingredients as Beer yet differs having a less quantity of Hops being more sweet smooth and pleasing to the Palate Ale in general is not so wholesom as Beer for that it is not so well boiled nor hop'd and will not keep so long but soon changeth and grows four yet in some parts of England as in the North the Ale is much better more pleasant and wholesomer brewed than in the Southern parts Ale is subject to the same casualties and abuse as Beer that what hath been said before may also be applied here Metheglin is a drink made of water honey some herbs and spice boiled and then set to ferment which being varied according to the will of the maker and no certain rule I cannot so well determine upon it but being well ordered a good drink may be made for variety to please a little sometimes Meath is something like to Metheglin being made of water but a less quantity of honey and is not so strong nor so much compounded but a simple innocent good Summer drink being abstersive and cooling provokes urine and keeps the body soluble Mum if it be right Brunswick is a hearty strengthning liquor and may safely be used sometimes by such as require strong drink whose bodies do like and agree well with it But our English Mum is not comparable to it and disparageth the other being too often sold for Brunswick Coffee is a Drink now much in use and therefore 't is seasonable to say something for whom it is good at least not prejudicial and for whom it is injurious Coffee excites and raiseth the animal spirits that are dull or inactive and puts them upon motion and is helpful to such as must be watchful for it prevents drowziness and heaviness and makes them more brisk in business the very scent of Coffee Powder affects the spirits so as to agitate and move them But then on the other hand most Coffee drinkers are smoakers that what advantage they gain by Coffee is lost by Tobacco for this by a narcotick property disposeth to sleep and rest and most people are dull and heavy after it but for the nature and effects of tobacco my Tract of the Scurvey will inform you The frequent and constant use of Coffee does make lean therefore proper for fat and corpulent people that would abate of their flesh and that are inactive and slothful but injurious to spare slender people and to them that are too watchful and make but short sleeps in the night also to such as are affected with a tremor a shaking and trembling of the head or hands or that are vertiginous An enemy to hot and cholerick Constitutions and whose bloud is depraved by adust melancholy Coffee then promotes it nor is Coffee a friend to Venus but rather disables Brandy is another drink in fashion of late years and some love Vsquehath and to keep doing Aqua vitae sometimes supplies their wants to sip on others tipple to excess of these spirits But these are pernicious Drinks to use commonly and in the way of good fellowship for they destroy the natural heat and change the crases of the parts and leave the Body chill and cold always requiring their constant help to warm the stomach which must needs be destructive to Health and opposite to long Life But in cases of necessity upon fainting or sudden weakness or oppression of spirits a fullness nauseousness or crude watering of the stomach upon such emergencies you may have recourse to these helps and blameless if you have no better to serve your need Accustom youth and strong stomachs to small drink but stronger drink and Wine may be allowed to the infirm weakly and aged for that it chears the spirits quickens the appetite and helps digestion moderately taken and this sometimes as occasion requires Drink whether it be wholesomer warmed than cold is much controverted some stiffly contending for the one and some for the other I shall rather chuse the middle way with limitation and distinction than 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 stomach and checks it much therefore keep to warm drink as a wholesom custom you that cannot drink warm Beer that is find 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 until your stomach alters and requires it to be warm Therefore as there is variety in Palates and Stomachs liking 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 from at least does not find that satisfaction and refreshment under such a qualification because of the various natures particular appetitions and idiosyncratical

trepidation of Members Thus you see the inconveniences and mischief that follows intemperate drinking but to promote this irregularity and great folly the rare Invention of Healths contributes not a little to the pouring down of strong liquor and makes them so earnest in remembring the health of others that they quite forget their own and are then very active to destroy it quite forgetting that drinking of Healths and healthful drinking are two things and inconsistent But drinking together is the signal of Friendship and to be made Drunk is the Character and Memento of a generous and hearty entertainment for most commonly drinking concludes the Feast when nature hath been tempted with varieties and perhaps over-charged therewith to add yet more weight the next folly is to fall upon drinking to inebriate and disturb the spirits to vitiate the fermentation and precipitate the meat out of the stomach before digestion be finished by a Floud of liquor that if you have escaped a surfeit of eating you shall not go away without a mischief by Drinking and thus your good Dinner is spoil'd and instead of being bettered by it you are the worse and your Friends kindness proves your prejudice Thus to the necessary uses of Drink appointed by nature we have invented other designments and made Drink to serve for pleasure profit wantonness and debauchery so that Drink which should help to support nourish and maintain the strength and vigour of nature is made an unhappy instrument to abuse and injure the Body by perverting and disordering the regular oeconomy thereof But instead of satisfying thirst and refreshing of nature some pour in a flood of liquor to drown the faculties and extinguish vitality and many their are that account it a pleasure to sop their souls in drink and some have drowned themselves by such intemperance The Cattle drink to satisfie thirst and then leave of drinking some men indeed do not drink like beasts but make themselves Beasts by drinking for being thereby deprived of their reason they act like to Brutes But of Drinking and Drunkenness we have reckoned up the evils we will not be so partial to smother the benefits but take all with you Drinking advanceth the revenue of excise and custom It makes Barly to bear a good price and helps the Farmer to pay his rent It keeps the Physician and Apothecary in employment and doubtless it adds considerably to their business Lastly It maintains a tap trade and too many live well by it Now whether Drinking ought to be promoted to forward these advantages and answer such ends with the destruction of Health abbreviation of Life and debauching the People I leave you to judge Drink for necessity not for bad fellowship especially soon after meat which hinders the due fermentation of the stomach and washeth down before digestion be finished but after the first concoction if you have a hot stomach a dry or costive body you may drink more freely than others or if thirst importunes you at any time to satisfie with a moderate draught is not amiss SECT XIV Exercise and Rest regulated and appointed promoting sanity and vivacity THat Exercise and due Motion seasonably used contributes to the preservation of Health and prolongation of Life will appear if we consider the great benefits that are procured by it First In general exercise raiseth the spirits and puts them upon vigorous action in all the Faculties Secondly It empties the stomach and promotes the appetite for the next meal the remainders after digestion that accumulate to clog the stomach are moved by Exercise and excited to pass away and being thus discharged of those relicts the appetite grows sharp and craves food very strongly Thirdly Exercise provokes expulsion of Excrements and suffers not any superfluous matter to lodge in the body For by the turgid motion of the spirits the common ductures and conveyances are dilated and expanded which together with the agitation of the body gives a ready and free passage to any feculent or excremental matter that ought not long to be retained Fourthly Exercise opens the Pores and gives a free transpiration which otherwise by too much rest are occluded and shut up contrary to the intention of Nature having appointed these vents and secret ways of evacuation to ventilate and cleanse the habit of the body which in a short time would be very foul and impure by congestion of superfluous humours if not purified and transpired by these exhaling Ports Fifthly Exercise promotes and adds much towards the nutrition of the body For this we find generally that active stirring people are more fresh in countenance more vegete and lively in spirit more firm and solid in flesh and stronger in their limbs than other persons that live a sedentary idle and sluggish life And that it should be so there is good reason in as much as exercise gives a free passage for nutriment to arrive at every member and part of the body and also excites the Archeus or ruling principle in each for a more vigorous assimilation and likewise does expedite and send away the superfluities of every digestion all which promotes and sets forward a good nutrition Exercises are various and commonly chosen as each person phansies or the Company invites as Dancing Running Ringing Tennis Hand-Ball Foot-Ball Riding Fencing Bowling with many others some whereof are purely pastime as those named others are necessary labours as Digging Sawing and such like Exercise is to be chosen such as sutes best with the Nature of each persons body Some require exercising of upper parts most others of the lower parts and some equally both those Exercises which generally are advantagious in using and stretching all the parts and which I prefer before others are Tennis Hand-Ball Fencing and Ringing Yet I would not impose upon any contrary to their inclination for in these cases that which is most delightful will probably prove most beneficial Observations and Cautions to be remembred in exercising are such as these 1. Exercise daily in the Morning chiefly with an empty stomach always and after excremental evacuation if you can procure it 2. Vary exercise according to the condition of your body and season of the year the stronger phlegmatick bodies and in cold Weather admit of stronger and swifter motions Cholerick hot bodies weak and the Summer season more mild and gentle 3. Be not violent in exercise nor continue it longer beyond a pleasure but desist with refreshment not a lassitude and weariness 4. 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 than you could expect benefit from your labour or pastime 5. Walk gently after Exercise and settle by degrees no sudden changes are suteable or profitable to Nature 6. Eat not until you be fully reduced to that temper and moderate heat as when you began and when the spirits