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A66483	Mnemonica, or, The art of memory drained out of the pure fountains of art & nature, digested into three books : also a physical treatise of cherishing natural memory, diligently collected out of divers learned mens writings / by John Willis.; Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661	Willis, John, d. 1628?; Sowerby, Leonard.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2812; ESTC R24570	62,111	192

it properly relateth or if you had rather cause clean paper to be bound between every leaf to receive such Comments Or which is better have plenty of white Paper bound at the end of the Book in which write your Interpretation and relate them to the text by like numbers or letters prefixed before the Notes and Text. CHAP. V Of remembring long Speeches NOw lastly I will treat of Speeches A speech according to my acceptation is any large Treatise composed of many sentences of one kind such are Sermons Orations Declarations Heads or Sections of Books or finally any long Treatise or memorable Speeches are either such as are framed by our selves or by others Again Speeches of other men are either extant in Books or are delivered by word of mouth If the Speeches to be remembred are already extant in print it is sufficient to set down their Titles in your Common-place-Book under their proper Heads to advertise you in what Chapter or part of a Book this or that Argument is more largely handled As for example In the first Book of Calvin's Institutions and thirteenth Chapter the three persons of the Godhead in one Essence is proved by divers reasons to transcribe which Treatise though in Epitome would be very laborious Therefore it is better under the title of Trinity among other common observations pertaining to the same purpose to write down these words That three Persons are contained in one onely Essence of God Cal. Institut Lib. 1. Cap. 13. By which Citation you are directed to that place of Calvin whensoever you please If the Speech you desire to preserve be verbally pronounced you must take it in short-hand if you have skill otherwise in long hand with as much celerity as you can If you be at any time left behind through nimble volubility of the Speakers tongue it will be sufficient to write onely the essential words of every Sentence as for the most part are Substantives and Verbs leaving vacant spaces in which either words of less weight may be interposed which must be supplyed immediately after the Speech is ended Four things must be observed that speeches contrived by our selves may be deeply fastened in memory Method Writing Marginal Notation and Meditation the Method ought to be so disposed that every part of an entire Speech and every sentence of those parts precede according to their dignity in nature that is that every thing be so placed that it may give light to understand what followeth Such a method is very effectual to ease the memory both of Speaker and Hearer for in a speech methodically digested each sentence attracteth the next like as one link draweth another in a Golden Chain therefore Method is called the Chain of Memory For this cause let every former sentence so depend on the latter that it may seem necessarily related thereunto In writing a Speech let your first care be that your Lines extend not too far but that space enough be left in the Margent In the next place that your whole speech be distinguished into heads for a distinct mind apprehendeth better then one confused After you have compiled a Speech you are shortly to deliver do not transcribe it though it be both blotted and interlined lest you lose as much time in new Writing as would suffice to learn it Besides the blots and interlining do more firmly fasten in mind the sentences so blotted and interlined then if they were otherwise This is also to be noted that although it be necessary to write over the intire Speech or at least brief notes thereof before it be publikely pronounced yet ought that Transcription by no means to be seen publikely unless Memory languish and be weak For the mind doth better recollect it self in the absence of Notes and by united force is better prepared to speak Marginal Notation is when one or two chief words of every sentence is placed in the Margent which so soon as seen which is with the least cast of an eye revoketh the whole sentence to mind As if this ensuing small Treatise of the Resurrection were to be learned by heart I distinguish the sentences thereof by words placed in the Margent by which means they are speedily remembred That there shall be a Resurrection of the dead at the last day is confirmed by these reasons Because it is imperfect First that which is imperfect is uncapable of perfect felicity in its kind but the soul separate from the body is imperfect and therefore not capable of perfect felicity Thence followeth a necessity of the Bodies Resurrection that by the conjunction thereof with the Soul the Elect may enjoy perfect felicity How are they happy Tertullian saith Tertullian if they shall perish in part Seals of Salvation Secondly If the Body by Christs command ought to be as well partaker of the seals of salvation as the Soul then it shall as well participate of Eternal Salvation but the Body according to Christs institution ought to partake of the seals of salvation For the Body is washed with water of Baptism and nourished by Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper Ergo c. As Seeds Thirdly Like as Seeds cast into the Earth dye and revive again so humane bodies buried in the ground dissolved and corrupted shall rise again at the last day by the quickening virtue of Christ Paul brandeth him with folly 1 Cor. 13.35 who cannot conclude the resurrection of the dead out of the vivification of Seeds buried in the ground 1 Cor. 13.35 whence Augustine Augustine He which vivisieth dead and putrified Seeds by which men live in this world more facilely will raise you up to live eternally Revolution of things Fourthly The Revolution of all things is an argument of the Resurrection as Day followeth night Waking Sleep Rest Labor and Winter Summer so Life followeth death and Resurrection Sepulture That which Tertullian speaketh in his Book Of the Resurrection of the flesh Tertullian is pertinent hereto Day saith he dyeth into night yet is enlivened again with glorie all over the world Fiftly It is evidently proved by the Resurrection of Christ seeing Christ which is our head is already risen it is a testimony that we also who are his members shall live after death Where the head is thither will the members be gathered Christ our head 1 Cor. 15.20 in this respect Christ is termed the first fruits of the dead 1 Cor. 15.20 Resurrection of others Sixthly The particular Resurrection of some to a temporal life in this world was a sign of the general Resurrection to eternal life to be at the end of the world These were raised again after death 1. The son of the widow of Sarepta 1 King 18.22 2. The son of the Shunamite 2 King 4.33 3. A certain man by the touch of Elias bones 2 King 13.21 4. The son of the widow of Naim Luke 7.15 5. The daughter of Jairus Luke 8.48

memorative faculty and using those profitable things before prescribed II. If the Brain suffer through excessive heat endeavour must be used to qualifie the same persons so infested must abstain from all things augmenting or exciting heat such are most Aromatical Spices as Pepper Ginger Cloves c. All sorts of Wine and strong Drink Garlick c. violent exercises must be eschued and hot Solar beams especially at noon and after meat as also study after Supper let such persons eat cold sowr fruits after meals smell often to things of a cold scent as are Violets Roses Saunders natural Camphire Rose-water Wood-bine Flowers Mullein c. recreate their Spirits sometimes in Gardens where Flowers and odoriferous Herbs breath a fragrant smell walking in the shade So soon as they are ready in a morning let them wash their faces in cold water dipping their eyes open therein that the water may soak and refrigate their eyes in like manner at Evening towards Bed-time let them anoint their temples and two uppermost Spondyle with Oyle of Roses which doth diminish the heat of the Brain and also procure Ileep which hot brains want not a little III. If the Brain be over-cold it must be tempered by abstinence from things of a refrigerative nature and use of hot things persons afflicted with a cold Brain must desist from using all things which cool the Brain as Lettice Musk-Melons brown-Brown-bread Brains of living Creatures that are humide as of Calves Pigs c. unripe fruits green herbs unboiled water c. Let them decline the Moon and Northerly Winds eat hot victuals use these Aromatical Spices being very profitable Pepper Cloves Cinnamon Mace Nutmegs Ginger Juniper-Berries Ivory-shavings c. Hot Odours comfort the Brain exhaled from Balm Mint Galangal Rosemary Lignum Aloes Oranges Amber Musk c. Moreover Green Ginger eaten fasting twice or thrice a Week in quantity of a small Nut doth much commodate a cold Brain Likewise Wine of good colour taste and Odour taken moderately It is expedient once a month to wash the hinder part of the head and neck toward bed time with hot water wherein Balme Cammomile Sage Bay-leaves Hyssope Fennel Sweet-Marjerome c. have been decocted Lastly Unction of the nape of the neck and two uppermost spondyles with tepid oyl of Dill or Rue administreth great benefit to a cold Memorie 4. If the brain abound with superfluous humors care must be taken to consume them and reduce the brain to its due temper Let moist brains therefore abstain from all humid and Phlegmatick things as Broths Pottage Milk Swines flesh especially Pigge young Lanbs Chickens before they are plumed Musk-Melons c. Let them refrain from use of Garlick Onions Strong Drinks and all other things which replenish the brain with gross Vapors and be carefull their food be free from all viscosity lest through augmentation of Phlegmatical matter in the brain by fly mie meat they render themselves obnoxious to Apoplexies Lethargies or Palsies Let their meat be well seasoned with salt for that doth very much exiccate and cut Phlegmatick humors and rarifies the Spirits being best of all sauces for moist brains Let them shun Southern winds and all things replenishing the head with humors Chewing of Mastick with Ginger and Pellitory of Spain doth mightily purge the head of Phlegmatick superfluities the same effect is procured by Sage held some space in the mouth it is also salutiferous to swallow a grain of the purest white Frankincense Tobacco so called from the Isle Tobacque temperately taken is beneficial for moist brains chiefly when the head is repleat with more then usual superfluities but too frequent use thereof decayes Radical moisture augmenting Rhumes and distillations by accident for as a Well the more it is exhausted with buckets doth more abound with water so the head frequently evacuated by smoke of Tobacco is dayly replenished with greater abundance of humors Juyce of Citrons taken fasting is much more excellent to digest Phlegmatick matter then Tobacco which I think no man that makes experience will deny 5. If the brain be too dry it must be lenified with moistners such people must abstain from salt meats and all drying things and avoid the east wind Let them eat moist and succulent things as Rear Eggs Capons Pheasants Mountain Birds Kidds flesh new Cheese unsalted fresh water fish caught in gravelly places Milk Broth Cheries Prunes Pomegranats Figgs Melons Succory Endive Lettice and like things small drink if they drink wine at any time let it be allayed with water and eschew all violent motion if their bodies be costive let them rather use cooling moistening Clysters than Purgations So much for the four simple qualities annoying the Brain which things well observed I may be more brief in the other four temperaments as consisting of these compounded for if the Brain be infested with two peccant qualities as too hot and moist or two hot and dry in such compound temperaments such things as we have exhibited to mittigate either quality are to be used so far as one doth not impede the alteration of another If of two qualities one is more predominant than the other and more affect the Brain we must proportionally more oppose the stronger but to return to our purpose and say something of compound temperaments as well as of simple 6. He which hath a Brain too hot and moist must fly all moistening and heating things refreshing himself with cold and dry things for such the North wind is good the South wind hurtfull cold dry odours are most fit for them as Saunders Rosewood Eglantine c. Lotions made of cooling drying herbs decocted unctions with cooling drying oyls as oyl of Myrtle-berries of Cammomil flowers oyl of Hony oyl of Roses 7. Brains hot and dry in excess must decline hot and dry things and recover themselves with cooling moistners avoiding the East wind Let them be most commonly bare headed and choose their habitations if they may in a cold moist Region near some river let their lodging-Chamber be a low room paved with Tyles Towards sleep let them anoynt their heads with oyl of Violets or of Water-Lillies cold moist scents are most advantagious for them as of Mullein Nightshade Roses Violets Water-Lillies Willow leaves c. 8. Persons afflicted with brains too cold and moist to which distemper most Students are incident have a very weak Memorative faculty for of the four primary qualities Humidity and Frigidity are most noxious to Memory but Frigidity most of all yet the Brain is more facilely and speedily cured of these distempers than of the others because the Brain of the seven principall Members is naturally moist cold and humid so that hot and dry things applyed to qualifie its intemperateness are less dangerous To those things which are severally delivered before for help of cold moist Brains these things may be added all hot and dry things as Aromatical spices Nutmegs Ginger Cynnamon Powder of Euphorbium Zedoarie c.

If you cannot yet discover the Idea have recourse to the third and fourth Rules of Poetical Revocation 2. Book 3 Chap an Idea being revocable in the same manner Finally if it continue irreparable by all these ways let it pass and be no longer sollicitous in search thereof For as a Book carelesly laid up in a Study is not many times to be found when it is sought though you remove several Volumes yet afterward comes to hand beyond expectation when another Book is reached that stands by it So it doth oft happen in this business though an Idea negligently reposited cannot be found when it is sought yet at another time when a Notion reposited in the cell of Memory near it is excited that also of its own accord discovereth it self If a man do prudently follow these Rules of recovering latent Ideas as with Ariadnes thred he will doubtless wind himself out of the Labyrinth of blind Oblivion and with admirable facility recall to mind forgotten sentences and vanished Idea's FINIS A TREATISE Of cherishing Natural Memory CHAP. I. Of such as debilitate Memory NAtural Memory is a faculty which every man hath naturally to apprehend and retain note-worthy things if Memory be diligent in its Function endeavour must be used to conserve it unprejudiced if it be impaired care must be taken to have it restored and erected I will therefore first treat of the conservation of Natural Memory indamnified afterward of the restauration thereof impaired Three things conduce to preserve Natural Memory in good Estate viz. Declination of such things as debilitate Memory use of such things as corroborate the same and a well instituted method of living whereby the Memorative faculty may be most preserved in vigor Things that debilitate Memory are these 1. Unwholsome air that is infected with vapour of standing-waters Marshes Woods Prisons Dunghils Common Sewers c. 2. Aire shut up from penetration of Wind and Sun for air not purified by Wind or Sun engendereth a malign venomous quality like standing water in Ponds and Lakes therefore when you walk abroad leave the Windows of your Chamber and Study open 3. Windie aire that is agitated with violent winds 4. Aire that procureth rain 5. Moist aire such as discendeth a little before Sun set and hovereth about the earth all night and some part of the morning especially in Maritime places Go not forth before the rising Sun hath purified the aire by his Rayes nor after Sun setting when cloudy darkensse of night invadeth the aire 6. Aire infected with smoke of strong sented combustible things as Sea coales Weeds Turfe Dung and Char-coales unlesse they be well kindled II. Drinks Broths and Decoctions made of unwholsome waters offend the Memory of which kinde is the water of Ponds Marshes of Ice and Snow dissolved as also of Muddie Salt Bitter and ill smelling water Rain water especially falling in time of Thunder or Lightning because it is lightest is chiefly commended for Domestical uses but serveth only for present occasion by reason of its speedy corruption Fountain or Spring Water challengeth the next place which devolveth from Mountains through stony craggy clifts to this succeedeth River water when the channel of the River is deep and gravelly Well-water is ranked last if it smell of Mudd the Well must be cleansed and purged by casting in Lyme and the bottome afterward covered with great store of Chalk through which the water bubling is defecated and rendred more Salubrious To conclude the clearer lighter further distant from any taste or smell colder in Summer hotter in Winter water is the more wholesome it is III. Food hurteth the Memory 1. If it be crude as raw flesh unboiled water immature fruits green hearbs chiefly if they beef cold quailty c. 2. If it be Vaporous that is replenish the head with grosse Vapors as thick drinks strong wine Beans Pease Garlick Onyon c. but Onyons are more noxious then the rest because they lose not their Malignity by Decoction even then procuring the head-ach offending the eyes by causing obstructions in the Optick nerves dulling the Senses and raising troublesome dreams 3. If it be very moist and engender phlegme as Milk Chickens before they are feathered young Piggs c. especially any food that hath a slimie tast 4. If it digest slowly as Cheese marrow fat principally of Fish flesh of Cranes and Herons fruit included in shells as Wall-nuts Small-nuts Chest-nuts Almonds c. 5. Variety of dishes diversity even of wholesome meats is evil of Sauces worst of all distracting the stomack by concocting food of several qualities Neverthelesse healthfull persons may eat any meats though they be esteemed somwhat hurtfull when the appetite doth as it were long For such victuals as the appetite doth greedily covet the stomack doth earnestly embrace quickly Concoct and Transmit to the lower parts whence they offend lesse however it is safer to eat such meats at Dinner then at supper IV. All Repletion of Drink or food is hurtfull chiefly of Bread too much Repletion dulleth wit and is a great enemy to the Memorative faculty Plato saith The soul is diseased in a full fed body It is often seen by experience that if a learned or wise man accustomed to live sparingly through poverty be exalted to some eminent degree of dignity or honour and doth afterward indulge his appetite by eating and drinking immoderately he becomes lesse learned and wise The reason is by accesse of gross humours to the brain the Notional Figures imprinted therein before by degrees wear out and vanish and new figures take no such deep impression but are quickly erased through overmuch humidity of the brain Fly therefore Drunkennesse and Gluttony as the mortallest enemies of a good Memory V. Sleep offendeth Memory If it be First overmuch Secondly if taken in a windy place or under Lunar raies Thirdly in the day most of all with shoes on or being miry Fourthly upon the back for it preventeth expulsion of Excrements at mouth and nostrils their proper conveyances and causeth their Conflux to the back whence ariseth Obstructions Fifthly upon the belly because it endamageth the eyes being dangerously prejudicial to such as are molested with Rhumes in their eyes VI. Venus 1. if it be immoderate 2. upon a full stomack 3. when the body is lesse moist as at New Moon in time of hunger c. 4. when sleep doth not follow for it is requisite that the loosned members of the body be refreshed by ensuing sleep Persons very young or very ancient of a frigid constitution and all such as finde inconvenience after the act must wholly abstain therefrom VII Coldnesse of the hinder part of the head of the neck stomack belly and feet VIII Labour or exercise of body 1. Exceeding moderation which exhausteth strength 2. In windy or moist places 3. On a full stomack which replenisheth the head with crude Vapors augmenteth Choller IX Idleness X. Perturbation of mind as anxious care fear