fried and baked some warme some colde some fish some flesh with sundrie fruites and sallets of diuerse hearbes to please thine eye remember with thy self that the sight of them all is better than the feeding of them all Consider with thy selfe thou art a man and no beast therefore bee temperate in thy féeding and remember the wise woordes of Salomon Bee not gréedie sayeth hée in euerie eating and bée not hastie vppon all meates for excesse of meates bringeth sickenesse and gluttonie commeth at the last into an vnmeasurable heate Through surfet haue manie a one perished but hee that dieteth himselfe temperately prolongeth his life Therefore grosse fish lambs flesh the in-meates of beastes rawe hearbes pigges braines and all slimie meates bee euill for thee but late suppers is woorst of all and specially if they bee long for it causeth painfull nights to follow But Galen sayeth in his Booke De ethimia the meates which bee without all blame bée those which bee betwéene subtill and grosse Good bread of cleane wheat flesh of capons or hennes phesants and partriches pigeons and turtle doues blacke birdes and small fielde birdes rosted veale or boyled mutton These doe engender good bloud sayeth Galen Note also that any other meate that thou doest eate at supper although it séeme repugnant to a fleugmaticke stomacke if thou sleepe well after it and féele no paine thou mayest vse it as a meate necessarie And when thou canst not sleepe well if the default came through meate marke that meate or drinke although it appeare pleasant refuse it as an enemie And whereas thou hast vsed euill diet as a custome in abusing time quantitie and qualitie by little and little bring thy selfe into good order and to time both for thy breakfasts dinner and supper Prouided alway to eate good things but not many things For like as repletion or abundaunce of meate is an enemie to the bodie and the soule and bringeth sodaine death euen so is emptinesse a shortner of time a weakner of the braine a hinderer of memory an increaser of wind choler melancholy And oftentimes to many bringeth sudden death also except nature haue some thing to worke vpon as I did tell thée before vse some light things at breakfast of perfite digestion within foure houres after that receiue thy dinner obseruing the good order of diet drinking wine or béere oftentimes and little at once eschewing great draughts of drinke which is vsed among beasts and mingle thy meate with mirth which is euer the best dish at the boord and be thankefull to God And so leaue with an appetite passing y e time wiselie betwéene dinner and supper with exercise labour study or pastime vnto the ende of sixe houres and then begin thy supper prouided that it bee shorter than thy dinner eating thy meate by little and little for gréedie and sudden eating is hurtfull to nature as Galen sayth in his Diatorie Note also that thou maist eate more meat in Winter than in Summer because thy naturall heate is enclosed with thy bodie in Winter but vniuersally spread in Summer Also cholericke men may as lightly digest béefe bacon veneson c. With as much spéede and litle hurt as the fleugmatike man may eate rabit chicken and partridge c. But the melancholie man through the coldnesse of the stomacke hath not that strength in the stomacke as hee hath promtpnes in wil to eat things warm and moyst be good for him The sanguine man is not so swift in this digestion as the hote cholericke man is But notwithstanding he hath good digestion through the humiditie and warmnes of bloud and coueteth to eat swéete things which greatly augment the bloud therfore sharpe sauces made with vinegar onions and barbaries bée wholesome Purslen sorrell small fishes that féede vppon the stones in fayre running waters cowcumbers and pure French wine partly delayed with water bee good for the saide sanguine men to kéepe them from much encrease of flesh Ioh. Thou hast shewed vnto me a very discrete and wholsome order of diet particular to my selfe and partly to other complexions but what rule or prety Gouernment is for sicke folks Hum. They that be sodainlie vexed with sharpe sicknesses must haue thin diets with water gruell thin mutton or chicken pottage without any fat or thicknes violet leaues endiue leaues and such like cooling hearbes and let their drinkes be made of Tezantes thus doe to them that haue hot sharpe sickenesses occasioned of choler And also colde siroppes of endiue violets sugar water and vinegar sodden together bee verie wholesome But if sickenesses bee long of continuance their diet must bee the thicker and their meates made the stronger specially if their diseases be cold with the flesh of cocks capons temperate wine stewed broath with wholsome hearbs as buglos borrage basill parcely and finkle rootes with some maces dates damaske prunes reisins of the sunne and such like Sirops of Isope and citeron prouided that they neyther take meate nor medicine immediately before or soone after their fittes posset ale with clarified hearbes excepted which they may take for their comfort according to the estate of their disease for such as be sicke must haue meate contrarie to their complexion For they that be colde must haue hote meate and medicines And they that be drie must haue moyst thinges But they that bée hote must haue colde thinges for the ardent heate of the fire is quenched with the moystnesse of the water and so the quantitie of one qualitie ouercommeth the qualitie of an other And in deede Phisicke sayeth the bodies that bee hote must be fed with things like as they that be moist with moyst things to preserue their moistnes They that be hote with hot things to preserue their heate and such like But when they doe exceede in heate cold moist or drie then let the qualities of moistnes be tempered with drienes and the coldnes with warmnes For like as man delighteth in things of like as the cholericke man cholericke things euen so do beasts and fruites as the Colloquintida which is bitter delighteth in bitter ground Hote spices delight to grow in hot ground and euery fruit and hearbe doth delite in the thing that is of like euen so doth man in his foode But in al things let him beware of distemperaunce surfites or repletion reare suppers and drunkennesse Ioh. But if a man feele great griefe after meates or drinkes what way is there then for to helpe him Hum. Use walking vp and down and perhappes that will disgeste as Auicen saieth And Rasis sayeth to walke a hundreth paces after meate is holsome for it comforteth disgestion prouoketh vryne and giueth one power and strength of stomacke to eate his supper But the counsaile of Galen must here be obserued Which saieth there is no meate but it will corrupt or stinke if the bodie be cast into a sodain heate by
ought to bee twise in the Moneth for the conseruation of health but that which is more doeth hurt the bodie There is another kinde of the clensing of the body by sweating as with hot drinkes warme clothes perfumes made of Olibalum brimstone niter c. There is also bathes and sweating in hot houses for the pockes scurffe scabbes hemerodes piles which hot houses haue the vertue of helping the saide diseases But if any that be of an whole temperate complexion do sweate in drie hot houses it doth them much harme as hyndring their eyesights decaying their teeth hurting memory The best bathing is in a great vessel or a litle close place with the euapuration of diuers sweete hearbes wel sodden in water which haue vertue to open the poores softly letting out feeble and grosse vapors which lieth betwene the skinne and the flesh This kinde of bathing is good in the time of pestilence or feuer quarten in the end of the bathes it is good to anoint the body with some swéete oyle to molifie and make soft the sinewes And thus to conclude of bathing it is verie holsome so that it be not doone vppon an emptie stomacke palsies may come thereby or to take sodaine colde after it there foloweth an other purgation called neesing or sternutacion which is beneficial for the bodie if it be vsed vpon an empty stomacke Twyse or thrise in a morning with a leafe of Bittony put into thy nose it helpeth memory good against opilation stopping and obstructions Suppositers be good for weake people or children made with Hieria Picra and hony made in the length of a finger Scarifiyng or boxing as Galen saith applied vnto the extreme partes as the legges and the armes doth great helpe vnto the body in drawing watery humour away from the body but boxing is not good for the brest applied thereto in hote feuers is daungerous Glisters made according to arte be good for them whieh be too weake to take purgation The maner of the said glisters because they be not here to be spoken of at large I entend by Gods grace to set forth in my next book of helthful medicins Purgations venerous there be so many practicioners thereof that I neede to write no rules but this that affection lust and fantasie haue banished chastitie temperance and honestie Ioh. Plaine people in the countrie as carters threshers ditchers colliers and plowmen vse seldome times to wash their hands as appeareth by their filthynes and as verie few times combe their heads as it is seene by floxe nittes grease fethers strawe and such like which hangeth in their haires Whether is washing or combing things to decorate or garnish the body or els to bring health to the same Hum. Thou séest that the deere horse or cowe will vse friction or rubbing them selues against trees both for their ease and health Birdes and haukes after their bathing will prune and rowse them selues vpon their braunches and perkes and all for health What should man do which is reasonable but to kéepe himself cleane and often to wash the handes which is a thing most comfortable to coole the heate of the liuer if it bee done often the handes be also the instrumentes to the mouth eies with many other thinges commonly to serue the bodie To wash the handes in cold water is very holsome for the stomake and lyuer but to wash with hot water engendreth rheumes wormes and corruption in the stomacke because it pulleth away naturall heate vnto the warmed place which is washed Frication or rubbing the bodie is good to be done in mornings after the purgation of the belly with warme clothes from the head to the brest then to the belly from the belly to the thighes legges and so forth So that it be done downwarde it is good And in drie folkes to be rubbed with the oyle of camomill Kembing of the head is good in mornings and doth comfort memorie it is euil at night and openeth the pores The cutting of the haire and the paring of the nailes cleane keepeing of the eares and teeth be not only thinges comely and honest but also holsome rules of Phisicke for to be superfluous things of the excrements Ioh. The chiefe thing that I had thought to haue demanded the very marke that I would haue thee to shote at is to tell me some thing of dieting my selfe with meate and drinke in health and sickenesse Hum. There is to be considered in eating the time of hunger or custome the place of eating and drinking whether it be colde or hote also the time of the yéere whether it bee Winter or Summer also the age or complexion of the eater and whether he bee whole or sicke also the things which be eaten whether they be fish or flesh fruits or herbes Note also the complections and temperaments of the said meates hot or colde drie or moyst and most chiefly marke the quantitie and so forth And like as lampes doe consume the oyle which is put vnto them for the preseruation of the light although it cannot continue for euer so is the naturall heate which is within vs preserued by humiditie and moystnesse of bloud and fleugme whose chief engenderer be good meates drinkes As Auicen saith de ethica When naturall heate is quenched in the bodie then of necessitie the soule must depart from the bodie For the workman can not worke when his instrument is gone So the spirits of life can haue no exercise in the body when there is no naturall heate to worke vpon Without meate saith Galen it is not possible for any man to liue either whole or sicke and thus to conclude no vital thing liueth without refection and sustenaunce whether it be animall reasonable or animall sensible without reason or any vital thing insensible both man beast fish and worme trée or hearb All these things be newtrified with the influence or substaunce of the foure Elementes or any of them Ioh. Well Humfrey thou knowest my complexion and disorder of my diet what remedy for me that haue liued like a riotter Hum. I know it well thou arte flegmatike and therefore it is long yer thy meate be disgested When thou dost eate fish and flesh together it doth corrupt in thy stomack and stink euen so doth hard cheese and cold fruits And olde poudred meates and raw hearbes ingender euil humors so the diuersity of quality quantity of diuers meats doth bring much paine to the stomack doth engender many diseases as thou maist reade in the first booke of Galen Inuementis membrorum cap. iiij And the Prince himselfe sayeth in 3. prim doct 2. cap. 7. Saying nothing is more hurtfull than diuerse meates to be ioyned together For while as the last is receyuing the first beginneth to digest And when the table is garnished with diuerse meates some rosted some
to idle people seeme verie painefull vnto them selues that trauell no paine but pleasure because of custome These people can digest grosse meats eating them with much pleasure and sléeping soundly after them whereas the idle multitudes in Cities and noble mens houses great numbers for lacke of exercise doe abhorre meates of light digestion and daintie dishes Marie in deede they may bee verie profitable to Phisitions But if trauaile be one of the best preseruers of health so is idlenesse the destroyer of life as Auerois writeth and Hippocrates saying euerie contrarie is remooued and helped by his contrarie as health helpeth sicknes exercise putteth away idlenesse c. But euery light mouing or soft walking may not bee called an exercise as Galen sayeth therefore tennis dauncing running wrastling riding vpon great horses ordained as well for the state of mens health as for pleasure whereunto it is now conuerted rather to the hurt of many than the profite of fewe exercise doeth occupie euery part of the bodie quicken the spirits purge the excrements both by the reynes and guts therefore it must be vsed before meate for if strong exercise bee vsed immediately after meate it conueyeth corruption to each part of the bodie because the meate is not digested but when thou séest thy water after meate appeareth somewhat yellowe then mayest thou begin exercise for digestion is then well But sicke folkes leane persons yong children women with childe may not much trauaile The exercise of dice cardes fighting drinking knauish railing of bauderie and such like rather may be called an exercise of diuels than of men And thus to conclude with Salomon quam pretiosus sit sanitas thesaurus Ioh. After painfull labor and exercise or disquietnesse of the mind there was neuer thing that hath done mee so much comfort as sleepe hath done Hum. Auicen saith that sléepe is the rest and quietnesse of the powers of the soule of moouings and of senses without the which man can not liue And truely sléepe is nothing else but an Image or brother to death as Tullie sayth And if by imagination thou didst perceiue sléeping waking weied in the ballance together there thou shouldst sée them equall in weight for Aristotle saith that man doth sléepe as much as he doth wake But this is to be considered in sléep that natural heat is drawen inwardly digestion made perfite the spirites quieted and all the bodie comforted if the true order of sléepe be obserued in sixe points First a quiet minde without the which either there is no sléepe or else dreadfull dreames tormenting the spirites Secondly the time of sleepe which is the night or time of most quiet silence for the day sléepes bee not good most chieflie soone after dinner except to sick persons or young children in their tymes conuenient Thirdly the maner of sleepe that is to eschew the lying on the backe which bringeth manie grieuous passions and killeth the sleeper with sodaine death To lie vppon the left side is verie euill in the first sleepe but tollerable in the seconde but the most surest way to make the digestion perfite is to lie vpon the right side with one of the handes vpon the breast Fourthly sléepe hath the quantitie which must be meane for superfluous sléepe maketh the spirits grosse and dul and decayeth memorie sixe or eight houres will suffice nature For like as much watch dryeth the bodie and is perillous for falling sicknes and blindnes euen so too much sléepe is as perillous for extremes be euer ill Fiftly in the time of colde feuers the patient must not sléepe vntill the trimbling fitte bee past for then the hot fit that followeth will bee extremer than any other fit and hard to helpe Note furthermore that those bodies that be full of hote inflamations sleepe not well therefore they must vse things to extenuate and to make colde as Tizantes and colde sirops or gentle purging froÌ„ the bellie and liuer or finally to haue the median veine opened according to time state and age Sixtly the chamber must bee considered that it bee cleane swéete comely clothes fit for the time of the yeare and the age of the people to kéepe the head warme is very holsom for in sléepe natural heat is drawne into the body for the braine of nature is colde moyst Windowes in the south part of the chamber be not good it is best for them which haue colde rheumes dropsies c. to lie in close lofts for dry bodies to lie in low chambers and in the time of the Pestilence often to shift chambers is healthfull lying vpon the ground in Gardens vnder trées or neere vnto stinking priuies bee hurtfull to the bodie and this shall suffice for thine instruction of sleepe prouided that thou doost not long retain thine vrine for feare of the stone and paine in thy reynes Ioh. There is nothing which I more feare than the stone for my father was sore vexed therwith what shal I marke in mine vrine Hum. Among all mortall diseases the stone is the greatest a preuenter of time a deformer of man and the chiefe weakner of the body and a grieuous enemie to the common wealth Howe manie noble men and woorshipfull personages hath it slaine in this Realme manie one which commeth of hote wines spices long banquets repletions fulnesse costifenesse warme kéeping of the backe salt meates c. The remedie whereof is in all poyntes contrarie to these causes small wines temperate béere or ale no spices but wholsome hearbs as Time Parcely Saxifrage c. Light meales most chiefly the supper no baked nor rosted thing but onely sodden meates and oftentimes to relaxe the bellie with Cassia Fistula newe drawne from the Cane with sugar and to eschew salt meates and not to kéepe the backe warme the stone is often found in yong children which commeth of the parents and oftentimes in old folke Which stones bee ingendred as I haue saide besides milke fruites hearbes saltfiâ—h and flesh hard chéeâ—e c. Now marke well this lesson following for thine vrine Ioh. That shall I gladly reade but softly and I will write thy wordes Humfrey First in vrine foure things marke Thus said Actuarij the good clearke Colour regents and contents therein Substaunce grosse thick or thin A faire light an vrinall pure Then of thy sight thou shalt be sure Colour of bright gold or gilâ—e Is health of liuer heart and milte Red as chery or saffion drie Excesse of meat in him I spie Colour greene or like darke red wine Or â—esembling the liuer of a swyne Is adustion with fiery heate Burning the liuer and stinking sweate Leaddy colour or blacke as inke Death draweth neare as I doe thinke Except the terms which women haue Or purging blacke choller which many do saue Colour grey as horne or cleare water Is lacke of disgestion saith mine
auther Vrine like flesh broth is verie good Beginneth disgestion and norish blood Subcitrine and yellow be vrine next best Bread and flesh will wel disgest The vrine that is white and thick Is euer called flegmatick Melancholy water is white and thin The redde and grosse is sanguin Yellow and thin spring from the gall Wherein holler ruleth all The swelling and braynes bloudy Causes circles thicke with colour ruddy But when circles be thin and red Choler greene the right side of the hed If leaden circles swim on the brinke It is falling sicknesse as I do thinke When Oyle in vrine doth vppeare Resolutio pinguis draweth neare When Oyle appeare in feuers hot Dissoluing the body causeth a blot But of Periotides thou feelst no paines This Oyle Pronogstick consuming raines The grauell red declareth for euer In drie backed men duble tertian feuer When golden grauell appeareth alone It hurt the raines but is no stone When grauel is of colour white Stone in the bladder worketh spite Contentes like small threeds or hears Through heat drienesse the bodie wears Consumtion scabbe small sport and lust Is when many haires be mingled with dust In the bottom of veins or vessels great Lieth stopping matter like bran of wheat Wherein contentes are like skales of fish As appeareth in the chamber dish These signifie feuers and ethickes olde Or scabbes which the bladder do infolde White froth swimming commeth of wine The yelow froth is of Iaundise kinde Thus of vrines I do conclude With wordes of truth but meeter rude Here is also a litle of the signes of the excrementes of the belly OVr filthy dung and fex most vile The dregges of natures food When they be diuers coloured made The signes bee neuer good If the siege be like vnto the meat Newe drawen into the mawe Or fleeting with fleame or burbles great The bodie is windy and rawe The yelowe doth from choller come The greenâ— is burnt adust The black and leady be deadly signes The flesh will turne to dust The excrement that is in the iakes cast If it haue oyle or fat Consumption of body then begin The chiefest signe is that The priuie soft well compact Made in the accustomed time Is euer good and the hard is ill And thus I ende my rime Ioh. Once I fel into a great sicknes and hitherto I am skant recouered of it the surfit was so great but counsell was giuen me that I should not staie my selfe vpon the opinion of any one phisicion but rather vpon three then said I to retaine three at once requireth great charge for those men to whome liues be committed ought liberall reward to be giuen Then said my frend they are good gentlemen and no great takers What be their names said I he aunswered saying The first was called doctor Diet the second doctor Quiet the third doctor Meriman I did writ their names but yet I could not speake with them Hum. Hitherunto I haue said some thing that shall well suffice for thee to know doctor Diat as for Quiet and Mery man they lie in no phisicions handes to giue but only in Gods For small it helpeth to any man to haue honour riches fame cunning c. And in the meane time to want quietnesse and myrth which bee the chiefe friendes Tenderest nourses wholsomest phisitions most pleasant musitions and friendliest companions to nature pleasant birds singing in the branches be more happier than rauening cormorants and gréedie haukes which with paines inchaseth their preyes The quiet lambs be euer happier in their kinde than the gréedie rauening foxes wolues and lions which neuer cease vexing themselues to kill liuing thinges for their foode The poore Oister lurking vnder the rocke or sande which is neuer remooued of strong ebbes nor flouddes is farder from trauell and continuall paines than the horrible whale most fearefull to fishes The low shrubs or bushes growing neare to the ground be euer in more sauegarde than the lustie high flourishing trées spredde with pleasant braunches which bee subiect to euerie strong winde The poore boats in harbour bee in lesse perill than the rich fickle ships tossed vp and downe on the cruell flouds What shall I say but this that the miserable ragged begger called Irus was more happier in his pouertie with quietnes and mirth than was the gluttonous beast monstrous man king Sardanapalus with all his golden glorie court of ruffians and curtizans which came to a shamefull ende Diogenes I warrant you was not inferiour to Alexander in the state of happines haue left as great a fame behind him sauing that AlexaÌ„der was a more cruell murtherer than Diogenes a chast liuer In déed y e poore silly shepheard doeth pleasantly pipe with his sheepe when mighty princes doe fight among their subiects breake many sléepes in golden beds when bakers in bags brewers in bottels do snort vpon hard straw fearing no sodaine mishap The great paines and secrete griefes that disquieted mindes doe dayly sustaine bee not much vnlike vnto the infernall tormentes that the wicked doe feele Phisicke vnto an extreame troubled minde say what they list helpeth as little as to apply a playster to the breast or head of a dead body to reuocate the spirites of life or soule againe The sicknes of the body must haue medicine the passions of the minde must haue good counsel What pleasure hath a condemned man in musicke or a dead man in phisicke Nothing at all God knoweth Oh how many men haue béen cast away by thought and most for losse of estimation and some of other affections of the minde as inordinate loue or coueting thinges that they cannot gette or obtayning those thinges that they cannot kéepe or ire of other mens prosperitie or good hap as Tully saith Ouid as fine in poetry as Apelles was in painting discribeth this vile passioÌ„ of ire with a pale face lean body scouling look gnashing téeth venom toung cholericke stomacke toung ful of poison ingrateful seldom smiling but at mischief outwardly appearing as it were quiet inwardly the serpeÌ„t gnaweth fretteth deuoureth c. These men be deuils incarnat beginning hel in this life most enemies to themselues and if they did behold theÌ„selues in a glasse in y e time of their tempests shoulde not their countenances bée more fearefull to themselues than their Ire hurtfull to others yes and perhaps make them staring mad in seeing such a diuels image therefore let wise men be of this minde First to thinke that they would haue no man be irefull against them or disdaine them euen so let them do to others Secondly let them thinke it is better to be spited than pittied for euery prosperous felicitie hath his enemie waiting vpon him The fole hateth the wise The wise man pittieth the foole wel coâ—et rather to be spited than pitied the wrech enuieth the worthie man and so
helped very much with this Methridatū drunken with stilled waters palsies sickenesses in the midriffe the liuer reines and bladder be cleansed therby it prouoketh the menstrual termes in womē being drunk with posset ale If Isop or Germander bee sodden in the said ale it is excellent against the pestilence or poison if it be drunke but a little quantitie thereof according to the disease strength or age of the person It is very good against the stone or for womē which haue a new disease peraccidents called the gréene sicknes there is nothing better against the biting of a mad dogge than to drinke of this and to annoint the wound If it be giuen in drinke to any sicke bodie a little before the accesse or comming of the olde fittes of quotidians tercians or quarteins so that it be drunke with wine temperately warmed This Methridatum is a medicine of no small price Democrates hath a goodly composition of it an other excellent composition is of Cleopatre as Galen writeth An other and the most excellent is the description of Andromachus phisition vnto king Nero but the chief father of this act was king Mithridatus the noble king of Ponthus after whose name it is called Ioh. Indeed this is an excellent medicine but I pray thee where shall I buy it Hum. The blind fellow Iohn doe eate many a flie and the plaine meaning man is oft deceyued There is no trust in some of the Apothecaries for although the vsurpation of quid pro quo is tollerable for their Succidanes yet to abuse their simples or compounds it is not onely theft to rob simple men but also murther to kill the hurtlesse Ioh. Of late time we haue beene so afflicted with sundrie sickenesses and strange diseases that in many places we could get no physitions to helpe vs and when men be sodainly sicke 200. miles from London Cambridge or Oxford it is too late for the patient to sende for helpe being infected with the pestilence I pray thee tel me some good regiment for me my family if it please God that it may take place Hum. I shall be glad forasmuch as thou hast taken paines to heare me all this while to teach thée a pretie regiment for the pestilence Ioh. Reade it faire and softly and I will take my pen and write it Hum. Certainly the occasion of this most feareful sicknesse commeth many waies as the change of the aire from a good vnto an euill qualitie taking his venemous effect of the vital spirits which incontinent with all spéede corrupteth the spirituall blood And sodenly as it were an vnmercifull fire it quickly consumeth the whole bodie ouen vnto death vnlesse the wholsome medicine doe preuent and come to the heart before the pestilent humor And because it is a very strong sicknes it is requisite to haue a strong curing medicine For weake things will not preuail against so strong a matter Therfore I pray you note these six sayings as aire diet sléepe or watch quietnes or trouble and finally medicine First walk not in stinking mists nor by corrupt marrish ground nor in extreme hot weather but in fair cleare aire vpon high ground in swéet fields or gardens hauing fire in your chāber with swéet perfumes of the smoke of Olibanum or Beniamen Frankensence being cold weather And in hote weather roses willow branches sprinkled with vineger often shifting the chamber is wholsom fléeing the South winde Secondly diet moderate eating meate of good digestion as all that haue pure white flesh both of beasts and foules good bread of wheate partly leauened Eate no raw hearbs purslein Lettise yong Lettish or sorrel except with vineger Drinke of cleare thin wine not chaunged and vse often times vineger with your meates and mingle not fish and flesh together in your stomacke to drinke a tisant of barly water rose water sorrell water betwene meals is good eight spoonfuls at once Thirdly beware you sléepe not at noone it bringeth many sicknesses and giueth place to the pestilence and abateth memory For as the marigold is spred by the day and closed by the night euen so is man of nature disposed although through custome otherwise altered vnto great domage and hurt of body Eight hours sléepe suffiseth well to nature but euery complexion hath his proper qualities to sléepe vpon the right side is best euill vpon the left and worse vpon the backe Fourthly vse moderate exercise and labor for the euacuation of the excrements as swift going vp hilles stretching forth armes and legges lifting weightes not verie ponderous for by labour the first and second digestion is made perfite and the bodie strengthened and this is a mightie defence agaynst the pestilence and many mo infirmities wheras through idlenesse be engendered all diseases both of the soule and bodie whereof man is compounded made Fifthly aboue all earthly thinges mirth is most excellent and the best companion of life putter away of all diseases the contrarie in plague time bringeth on the pestilence through painefull melancholie which maketh the body heauy earthly Company musicke honest gaming or any other vertuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heauinesse of mind Sixtly medicine the partie being chaunged in nature and condition trembling or burning vomiting with extreame paine in the day colde in the night and strange imaginations c. Apt to sléepe when these signes doe appeare giue him medicine before xij houres or else it will be his death Take therefore with all spéed sorrel one handful stamped with Rew Enulacampana Oringe rindes Citron seedes the great thistlerootes Geneper berries walnuts cleane picked of each one ounce stampe them all together then take pure sharpe vineger a quarter of a pynt as much buglesse water as much white wine and temper your sayde receytes with these licours Then put in two ounces of pure Methridatum and romachi which is an excellent triacle and two drams weight of the powder of pure Bolearmein mingle them all togither in a verie close vessell and giue the pacient a spoonefull or more next his heart and etfsoones asmuch more let them that take this not sléepe during twētie hours or else take pure triacle and setwel mingled in posset ale made with white wine wherein sorrel hath boyled a good draught and let an expert Chirurgion let the pacient bloud vpon the middle veine called Mediana or the heart veine Basilica a good quantitie according to the strength and age of the pacient except women with childe and children For the retaining the said bloud would all turne to venom and incurable poison And note this that blood bee lette vpon the same side that the sore doth appeare If any appeare for many causes and sléep not viij houres after and vse this most excellent pill oftentimes Take pure aloes epatik and myrre well washed in cleane water or rose water of each 2. drams and one dram of the powder
of saffron mingled with a little swéete wine tempered in a very small vessell vpon the coles vntill it be partlie thicke or els incorporate altogither in a morter then roll them vp in small round pils vse to swallow half a dram of these pils two times a wéeke in the pestileÌ„ce time a mornings thrée hours before meate Another medicine tormentill gentian setwell of each one dram spikenarde drams 2. nasticke drams 3. bole armin drams 8. giue 2. drams to the patient or any that feare the plague in the water of Scabeas or Carduus Benedictus then drinke the broath of a chicken or pure wine to ripe the sore rost a great onion take out the core put in triacle and warme apply it to the place thrée or four times renued warme and oyle Oliue blacke sope sowre leauen lillie rootes of each like quantitie boyled together put in the inice of Rew and make a plaister this will breake the said sore Capons grease yolkes of egs swines grease barlie floure inséede in powder incorporated together wil make a good healing playster Emplastrum diachilon magnum descriptione filij Zacharia doth resolue and quench the hot vlcer But in the time of the plague trust not vrines FINIS The Epilogue HEre I haue presented vnto thee gentle reader a simple Gouernment of health beseeching thee most heartily for to accept it as an argument of my good will as one vnfeynedly that greatly doe couet the good estate and happie health of mankinde which by dayly casualties surfets and age do decay and fall into many grieuous and painfull sicknesses For which cause although perhaps I cannot in all points answer to thy request in this little Regiment yet I shall desire thee to accept mee among the fellowship of the botchers which do helpe to repaire things that fall into ruine or decay Euen so bee the practitioners of phisicke no makers of men but when men doe decay through sicknesse then the counsell of the Phisition and the vertue of medicin is not to bee refused but most louingly to bee embraced as a chiefe friend in the time of aduersitie if thou readest this little booke and obserue it I trust it will pay as much as it doth promise And because I am a yong man I would not presume to take such a matter in hand although the wordes bee fewe but did consiliate and gather things together which of my selfe I haue practised and also read and noted in the workes of Hippocrates Galen Auicen Plinie Haliabas Auenzoer Rasis Dioscorides Leonhardus Futchius Conradus Gesnerus c. And thus I leaue thee to the companie of this my little booke wishing thee health and all them that shall reade it William Bullein Codrus Mydas Cap. 3â— Nestor Galen Arganton The Epicure desireth to liue altogither in bellie cheere Haeliogabalus court fit for belly gods The iust ceward of belly gods The fruites of inordinate banquets Uarietie of opinions among men An obiection against physicke God the authour of physicke The inestimable goodnes of God ordained hearbes for the health of man Salomon Eccle. 36. The praise and excellencie of phisicke Moises Adam Iesus Sirack cap. 38. Diodoro Test. Ouid. Meramor Chiron centaurus Podalirius Machaon Hippocrates Gallenuâ— Hippocrates in lib. de fla A definicion of physicke Hippocrates in primo Aphoris Theoricha Herodot Emperic Philinus Serapion Apolonii Methodici Asclepiades Dogmatici Hippocrates Galen de elemen de temp de facul Phisicke deuided into fiue partes Gal. lib â— de temp cap 4. Gal. in lib. 2 The 〈◊〉 methâ— The description of sanguine persons The description of the fleugmatike persons The description of the cholericks The description of Melancholie Hippocrates de Element Auic in cauteca The description of the .iiii. Elements Galen in li. 8. 〈◊〉 Hippocrates in lib. de na Ereaturs are compounded of more elements then one Elements felt and not seene Hippocrat in lib. de Natura humana Winter Spring Summer Haruest Auic in pâ—â— can Meates and medicine be knowne bâ—â—asting Colde Moist Salt Auic in pri â—ract â—antico Gal. lib. 1. cap. 2. lib. 2. cap. 3. lib. 4. cap. vlt. Sim. Med. Gal. lib. 5. Aphor. commen 9. An earnest briefe exhortation for the bringing vp of youth Galen in lib. Simp. The best time to prouide for age The foure humours naturall and vnnaturall are described Auicen in lib. can Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Arist. de Gene. Auicen Whether this be true let the married iudge Euery thing bringing his apparell with him sauing man A definition of members A part is called by the name of the whole and not the whole by the part What Annothomie is Foure things considered in the bodie of man Example Dropsy Helping the Emorodes Thereaca is an excellent triacle Use to eat Caâ—ers and take Pillule Iude Haly oâ— pillule de lapide Lazule Miracle helpeth but no medicine in this case Time for all things Hippo. in â— Affor 3. Aristot. in pri prob 56. Auic in 2. pri doct 2. cap. 6. Galen in lib. de flobothomia Rasis in 4. alman cap. 14. Rasis in 4. allmen cap. 14. The middle â—eyâ—e Hip. in 3. pri doct 2. cap. Vsurpation in medicine is euill In the morning is best to let bloud euill toward night Rasis in 4. alman cap. 15. Meates and medicines greeth not except pilsâ— before supper Time to purge Digges Kenningham Vomits and their profits Hip. Sent. in 4. Aphoris Custome of vomit weakneth the stomacke Auicen in 4. Pri. cap. 13. Of bathes and their properties The discommoditie of common hote houses To vse oyntments after bathings is good To bathe vpon an empty stomacke is perilous Of neesing Of suppositers Boxing doth much good to the bodye I will speake more of Glisters in my booke of healthful medicines Many practitioners of actes venerous Beasts and birdes vse frictions and â—â—nning them selues The profit which coÌ„meth in washing the handes with cold water Hot water is holsome to wash hands in Frication is holsom for the body Combing the head Cutting of haire and paring of nayles be comly for men A consideration to be had in eating and drinking A cause why the soule departeth from the body To eate both fish and flesh together hurteth the flegmatick Galen Hippocrates To féede of diuerse sorts of meats corrupteth the bodie Eccle. 27. A good diet prolongeth life What kinde of meates doe cause good blood What hurt commeth of an emptie stomacke when ye go to bed An order of dieting Galen me trite The Melancholie The Sanguine An order for the dieting of such as bee sicke of sharpe feners Of syrops and drinkes As the complexion is so man requireth The .iii. doctrine The .vii. chap. Moderat walk after meat â—rofiteth Galen in 6. de accedenti morbo i. cap. Auice in 13 theo 3. tract 3. cap. To helpe disgestion by diuers waies Hipo. in secundo Prim. doc 3. ca. 6 Haec signa declarant Note which