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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03917	Of the vvood called guaiacum that healeth the Frenche pockes, and also healeth the goute in the feete, the stoone, the palsey, lepree, dropsy, fallynge euyll, and other dyseases.; De guaiaci medicina. English	Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.; Paynell, Thomas.	1536 (1536)	STC 14025; ESTC S104331	66,421	166

the soule as wytnessethe Timotheus whiche beyng on a seson with Plato at supper hauynge before hym such meate as he was wonte to haue tourned towarde his frendes and sayd They that Plato receyueth to super shal be wel at ease long after meanynge that after moche eatynge of dyuers and aboundant costly dysshes deynteously dressed there folowed euyll and rawe digestion and greatte grefe of the stomake Wherfore afterwarde whan it chanced him to mete with Plato he sayde vnto hym Ye Plato do ete this day rather for to morowe than for the tyme present Â¶ And in Lucian Gallus the cocke Pithagory iugeth it a great benefit of god giuen to Micyllus bycause he coude alway with hunger auoyd al feuers And for that cause was without such dysease Nowe what shal we saye to that whiche as sayncte Hierome wrytethe that certayne dyseased with the ioint ache and the goute after theyr goodes were gone and were from them and were broughte to poore fare and symple meate they dydde recouer theyr helthe For they sayth saynt Hierome toke no thought nor care for theyr houshold and the habuÌ„dance of meate and drynke which do breke both the body and the soule And anone after he sayth There is nothynge that dullethe a mannes mynde so moche as a ful bealy rysynge and tournynge hyther and thyther blowynge out wynde with balkynge fysting and fartynge Â¶ This story may be a lernynge vnto many men whiche is redde of a certayne great belyed and fatte abbot As he was caryed vnto certayne bathes it fortuned hym to mete with a gentylman who asked him whither he was goynge the abbotte made him answere and sayd that he must go vnto the bathes Why quod the gentylman are ye sicke Nay quod the abbot I am not sicke but I haue no appetite vnto my meate I go therfore now vnto the bathes to get againe myne appetite whiche I dydde of late lose for they are holsom therfore Veryly quod the gentylman In this thynge I can be a better phisition vnto you And toke the abbotte with hym and put hym into a depe and daâ—ke dongeon where he fedde hym certayne dayes hungerly and than at laste he asked hym whether he had an appetite to hie meate Ye mary quod the abbotte I sayth quod the gentylman than is it reson that thou gyne me a rewarde for my medicine and made hym pay two hundred crownes and sente hym awaye in good helthe with suche an appetite that he coude haue eaten bothe beanes and lekes where as before he refused all maner meate were it neuer soo deyntie and so was he well ordered seynge he soughte not meate with hunger but hunger with meate But peraduenture we haue spoken more than ynoughe of this thynge therfore let vs go vnto other matters But first I must tell you to make an ende of this chapiter that Guaiacum requyrethe not a bealy that is replenysshed with varyetie of meates or troubled with wynde in the inwarde partes but purified and clensed from al rawnes and grosnes of humours Â¶ Howe hunger may easely be suffred Cap. xviii ANd this scarsenes of meate canne not only be borne but also mâ—ye easely be borne and that throughe the vertue of Guaiacum whiche after that the body is ones brought downe doth both preserue the life and also causeth that the fycke shall not nede to eate any thynge at all Therfore dydde I not without a cause gyue warnynge that the sycke shuld absteyne from meate as moche as may be And if he way feble or faint he maye not be holpen with meate but with the swete sauours which I speke of as moche as is possible put to his mouthe and specially with hote breadde But if any fele hym selfe to be wasted and redy to slyde awaye throughe weakenes Whiche thynge howe it shulde chaunce in any manne I can not telle for in me there happened no suche thyng at all that I neded any maner helpe Than I wolde counsayle hym to vse these thynges which Plinie thynketh easeth hunger and quenchethe thyrste whan they be very lyttell tasted of that is butter and lykeresse reclisse likoresse Drels in this thing we muste folowe Celsus which sayth thus This one thynge muste alwayes be obserued that the phisition be often tymes caused ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ sytte by the pacient to consyder what strength he is of and to cause hym as longe as he hath any strength to wrastle and fight with hunger And if he begynne to doubt of his weakenes to helpe hym with meate Excepte any had leuer folowe that whiche Gellsius sayth that Erastrat dydde write that the Scythians whan they for somme cause muste nedes suffer hunger do thruste together theyr bely and bind it round about very straitly with brode swadlynge bondes thynkyng that by suche pressynge to gether of theyr bealy hunger may be putte away or the easelyer borne For seing as he saith hunger commeth of emptines and is caused of the voydnes and holownesse of the intrayles and of the bealy than whanne the bealy is gyrded in harde so that the emptines is filled and the holownes ioyned there can be no hunger where as these thynges be not and vtterlye forbearynge of meate may lightly be born But why say I vitterly for bearyng of meate whiche can not be in this cure I may well calle it hunger what so euer it be that any abydeth For it maye be suffred well aud easely thoughe a man take nothynge in the worlde to helpe it But vnto these deynteous sycke persones what thynge can be lyght whiche can not onely suffer no hunger but also not to haue a stomake vnto meate they thynke it intollerable For the whiche if at any tyme they be sycke we mought praye god that they neuer recouer consyderynge they esteme hit a greatte grefe to bye helth with a lyttel sufferynge Â¶ Of these maner persons if I speke some what largely I do it after myn accustomed maner specially whan I perceyue many of my countrey men the Almaynes to erâ—e in this behalfe Â¶ The prayse of temperaunce in spite of ryotte Cap. xix BVt I beseche almyghty god that this nation maye ones knowe it selfe Whiche thing I do not desyre so moch bycause it is vncomely that the people that rulethe all the worlde shoulde so lyue as for that that suche intemperancie and ryotte is an occasion to vs of great euyls and also to be greatly dispised If other people shoulde eate and drynge as moche as they coud they thinke they shulde passe the lawe of nature but whan we cromme in so moche that we can not beare it we loke after laude and prayse What meneth these strynes and contentions of our valyant drynkâ—rs Whanne he that drynketh is receyued with triumphe whan it is glorye to ouercome in drynkynge and no shame to be dronke and cast it vp agayn O countâ—ry O empire As for the Polonians or if there be any other that passeth vs in dronkennes I regard them not but this

suffer the goddes nor Iupiter to graunt thervnto Â¶ And Cicero bringeth in Cato saying that a libidinous and intemperate youth maketh age very feble And he aduyseth and counsaileth vs to eate and drink so moch as may susteine the bodily strength not oppresse it thynkynge that nothing can be so vnfrendly vnto the mynde of man whiche he callethe an heuenly reward and gyft as voluptuousnes is Nor as longe as luste and pleasure bereth rule Temperance can haue no place Neither vertue may beare any stroke where luste and pleasure reigneth And therfore he iudgeth that we ought to gyue great thankes vnto age whiche causethe that we lyste not to do that thynge whiche we ought not For voluptuousnes sayth he beinge an ennemye vnto reason stoppeth and letteth all good counsell and blyndeth the eyes of the mynd aud medleth nothyng at al with vertue And therfore he thinketh that olde men are happy whiche whan they lacke feastes full dyshes and the cuppes ofte walkynge they lacke also dronkennes rawnes of stomake and be not combred nor vexed with dreames whiche maner of thynges accompany them that are gyuen to suche wantonnes For Hierom sayth that diseses come of to moche eatynge Â¶ There is a prety ieste of a certeyne phisition of this countrey whiche hadde a syke man in cure that hadde runnynge legges and that not withstandynge was gyuen to bankettynge and drynkynge myghtyly and yet complayned that his medicines preuayled not And that his soores ranne faster than they dydde at the begynnynge Truly sayde the phisition they wolde ceasse roâ—nnynge out if thou woldest cesse powryng in Â¶ Galenus affirmeth that the great chuffes whose lyfe and occupation is fedynge maye neither liue longe nor be helthful and theyr myndes be so wrapped with ouer moche bloude and fatnes euen as it were with myer that they haue no maner heuenly meditation but do alwayes thynke vppon eatynge drynkynge fartynge and shytyng Â¶ The olde Romaynes called that fedynge necessarie that was slender and sparyng Â¶ And amonge the grekes litell meate was moche commended by the writing of many Â¶ The Essees whiche were a certayn sorte of philosophers among the olde Iewes are lauded of Iosephus bicause they had tourned theyr dayely abstinence into a custome and an other nature The same Ioseph prey seth the continencie of the Phariseis He that wolde ones haue had vs distroyed I thinke hath desyred that this custome of lyuynge myghte enter amonge vs. And therfore seynge Marcus Cato as hit is written in Plinie dyd take great care and feare leste the Grekes shulde inuade Italy with their wanton and voluptuous lyuynge whiche of our forefathers hath prouided that none of these spycis and sylkes shulde be solde in Germania farewell pepper farewell saffron farewel sylke Or if there be any vse therof amonge other nations I praye god that this nation neuer knowe it or se it And Christe sende our countey men this mynde that they may call home agayne the frugalite of theyr elders and facion them selfes to theyr honest sparynge Â¶ With what stoute stomake doth Anacharsis bost the order of his lyuynge Vnto me sayth he hunger is a swete morselle the grounde is my bed a cloke of Scithia that is a beastes skyn is my garmente Â¶ Sober Demosthenes draue dronkeÌ„ Aeschines out of the citie Socrates hatyng the tauerne haunters and such as haue al theyr delyte and pleasure in theyr throtes sayde Many men lyue to the intente to eate and drynke but I eate and drynke to lyue O very wyse man and worthy soo to be taken by Apollos commendation Â¶ And this sayenge of a greke poete is to good to be forgotten Thou thy selfe must rule the bridell of thy bely Â¶ What saye you Whatte maner felowe thynke you Epicurus was Whom all the world persecuteth as a felowe of pleasure whiche put the hyghest felicitie in pleasure Truely what so euer it be that he made soo moche of he ment in the onely vse of breade and water and dyd moch commend slender liuynge and suche as may quickely be gotten And writinge vnto a certayne frende of his he saythe Sende me a lyttell cheâ—e of Cithridi that I maye whanne I woll fare somwhat more deynteously Â¶ Anaxagoras sayde He that eatethe sauourly nedeth but lytel meate Porphirius wylleth the mynde to be clensed and purged with abstinence And Philostrate wrytethe that Porus the kynge of Inde was excedynge strong and mighty not withstanding he neuer fedde but vpon breade and water Masinissa lyued lxxxx yere without any maner delicate fedynge And Mithridates kyng of Ponte which kept warres with the Romaynes .xl. yeres vsed to eate his meate standynge so farre he was from our facion that he wolde not sytte downe on a softe quoysshen Â¶ Titus Liâ—iâ—s writing of Annybal â—aith He measured his mete and drynke after the nede of nature and noâ— after pleasure He had not the tymes of watchyng and sleping distincted by the daye and the nyghte but whan his besynes myghte spare hym than toke he his rest and yet not suche as is caused with a softe bed and silence Â¶ And amonges the laudes of Augustus Cesar this is the chiefe that he was content with lyttell meate and drynke But we hadde leuer order our lyfe after the facion and maners of glottons and pleasaunte felowes lyuynge contrarye vnto nature to the destruction both of body and soule than to the preseruation of theym bothe to sette before vs these examples of lyfe soo noble and soo helthfull And I praye you the Turkes and other that are not of this our religion wyll they euer desyre to become christen men whan they seâ— vs thus to lyue But I truste that oure nation wyll ones at laste beware and waxe wyse agayne beyng taught with our owne harme Â¶ Nowe agayne vnto our pourpose And for so moche as I haue spoken of abstinence and sklender fare I wyll shewe whatte I thynke of hym that ordereth hym selfe after this dyete whether he maye be restored whiche some men do thynke euen without the drynkynge of Guaiacum Whether a man maye be restored by this dyete onely Cap. xx OF them that be good oughte to be none euyl opinion neither suspition but trewely these comen phisitioÌ„s be sore greâ—ed that this medycyne can do so moche and that it alone can do it euen without theyr medling They fume very sore that so many in euery place be sodeinly holpen of whom they trusted to haue had a perpetuall stipend and continuall lucre Wherfore they stryue verye styffely fearynge leste in tyme to comme it shall take away the truste that men haue in theym They haue spoken of late certayne trifelynge and vayne wordes which if they spake as they though muste be ascrybed to theyr ignorance but if they spake it of enuie than vnto theyr mischeuous mind They say that a syke man may be recouered only by this dyete and order of lyfe whiche is prescribed in this cure of GuaiacuÌ„ thoughe he neuer drinke of

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