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A17165	The gouernment of health: a treatise written by William Bullein, for the especiall good and healthfull preseruation of mans bodie from all noysome diseases, proceeding by the excesse of euill diet, and other infirmities of nature: full of excellent medicines, and wise counsels, for conseruation of health, in men, women, and children. Both pleasant and profitable to the industrious reader	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1595 (1595)	STC 4042; ESTC S107022	73,365	190

the lungs and preserueth the bodie in health Oximel simplex and compositum are made with hony and so are many moe things which are of great vertue Suger the which is called mel canne honny of the reede beeing cleane and not full of grosse pannell doeth cleanse and is not so hote as Bees hony and doeth agree with the stomackes of cholerike persons Haliabas saith it mooueth not the stomacke to drienesse and that the cleane white sugar not adulbrated doeth nourish more than honny Of Rosewater Pearles and Sugar is made a goodlie comforter for the heart called manus Christi Iohn What is the propertie of milke Humfrey Simeon Sethi saieth that milke is of three partes whey curdes and creame Whey is wholesome for to drinke in Summer specially of cholerike persons it cleanseth the body Milke of fatte beastes doeth nourish more than the leane beastes and the milke of yoong beastes is better than of the olde And the new milke is wholesomer than that the which hath stoode in the aire as Rafis saieth And also those beasts that are fed in drie pastures amongest hearbes grasse and flowers hauing conuenient water their milke is very good Milke in the beginning of Summer is very wholesome In Winter it is vnwholesome for fleugmaticke persons or them which haue corrupt and foule stomackes For if the milke be sower it doeth ingender the stone in the reines or bladder Cowes milke is the thickest milke and vnctious or full of butter But the best milke that helpeth against consumptions is womans milke the next is goates milke which goates milke rather nourisheth too much if it be taken commonly Sheepes milke is not very pleasant vnto the stomacke And note this that Milke is not wholesome to them which haue paines in the head or teeth But the people that bee brought vp with milke be faire coloured and healthfull bodies Isaac sayeth if honny and a little salte bee sodden in the milke then it is very wholesome and is not windie nor flegmatike If mintes bourage leaues rosemary flowers honny suckles and alittle Suar be layed in a bason and couered with a faire linnen cloth and milke the saide bason full through the cloth and then let it stand all the night This is pleasant to drinke in the morning vppon an empty stomacke two houres before any other meate it cleanseth the rage of hote burning choler and thus I leaue off milke Iohn What is butter Humfrey Butter is hote and moist fresh butter is vsed in many medicines New made butter meanly salted is good with breade flesh and fish it helpeth the lungs and purgeth the drienesse of the throate and helpeth coughes most chiefliest if it be mingled with hony or sugar It is good for yoong children when their teeth doth growe or ake Butter milke if you crumme newe white breade into it and suppe it off there is no milke nourisheth so much goates milke excepted Cheese if it be new it is indifferently well commended but hard salt cheese doth drie the bodie and engendereth the stone as Isaac and Auicene doe say and manie other Doctours more doe rather discommend it than praise it When as pottes or stones bee broken if hard cheese bee steeped in water and made softe and grownd vppon a Painters stone it will ioyne the broken pottes or stones together againe By this I gather that cheese will engender the stone before any other meates Therefore cheese shoulde bee made in Summer when the creame is not taken from the milke And Bittonie Saxifrage and Parcely chopped together be wholesome for to be mingled amongest the curdes And thus I doe conclude with Haliabas that old cheese is vnwholesome Iohn What be egges Humfrey Galen sayeth in his booke of Simples that egges are no parte of the fowles but a portion of the thing from whence it came Simeon Sethi writing of the diuersitie of egges saieth the first propertie is in their substaunce and the second is in their time eyther newe layed or olde The third is in the manner of their rosting potching or seething New laide egges of hennes potched and supped vppon an emptie stomacke doeth cleanse the lungs and the raines of the backe Harde egges are greately discommended vnlesse it bee to stoppe flixes but it were better for to seethe egges hard in vinegar and then vndoubtedly it will drie vp the flixe of the belly Fried egges be very hurtfull for chollericke people and them which haue the stone Duckes and geese egges bee grose and noysome but partrich feasants and hennes egges ingendreth good blood Iohn VVhat is the propertie of wine Humfrey Hipocrates saieth of a customable thing commeth lesse hurt wherof I gather that they that drinke Wine customably with measure it doeth profit them much and maketh good disgestion those people that vse to drinke wine seldome times be di●●●●perated White wine if it be cleare 〈◊〉 wholesome to be drunke before mea●●● for it pearseth quickely to the blad●er but and if it bee drunke vpon a full stomacke it will rather make opilation and stopping of the meserates because it doeth swiftly driue foode downe before nature hath of himselfe disgested it And the nature of the white wine is of least warmenesse The second wine is pure Claret of a cleare Iacinct or yellowe colour This wine doeth greatly nourish and warme the body and it is a wholesome Wine with meate and is good for flegmatike folke but very vnwholesome for yong children or them which haue hote liuers or paines in their head occasioned of hote vapours or smoakes for it is like vnto fier and flaxe The third is blacke or deepe red wine which is thicke a stopper of the belly a corrupter of the bloud a breeder of the stone hurtfull vnto olde men and profitable to few men except they haue the flixe And for the election of wine saieth Auicen that Wine is best that is betweene new and olde cleare declining somewhat to red of good odour neither sharpe nor sweete but equall betweene two for it hath vertue not onely to make humours temperate warme and moiste but also to expell euill matter the which corrupted the stomacke and bloud In the Summer it ought to be delayed with pure cleare water as Aristotle saieth in his Problemes And note this that in drie yeeres Wines are best and most wholesome but in watery yeares the grapes be corrupted which wine doth bring to the body many euill diseases as dropsies timpanes flixes reumes windes and such like as Galen saieth And thus to conclude of wyne almightie God did ordaine it for the great comfort of mankind to bee taken moderatly but to be drunken with excesse it is a poyson most venemous it relaxeth the sinewes bringeth palsey falling sicknesse in cold persons hote feuers fransies fighting lecherie and a consuming of the liuer to chollerycke persons And generally there is no credence to be giuen to drunkards although they be

as of foure I pray you tell me Hum. No for Aristotle saith Deus natura nihil agunt frustra God and nature hath doone nothing in vaine And if any thing vpon the earth sencible were of one element no sicknesse could hurte it nor disease corrupt it but euerie thing liuing vppon the earth seeing it hath had beginning it must néedes haue ending to whom these foure complexions doeth belong if they do greatly abound or diminish or withdraw their vertues with quantities or qualities Ioh. May a man see any of the Elements Hum. The thing which men do see be none of the foure Elements not earth but earthie not water but watrie not ayre but airie not fier but firie But the things which man doth féele be the foure Elements as earth aire fier and water And these be the vttermost simples of complexions diuersly and specially alone of them selues or mingled with other taking sundrie and diuers effectes maners condidions formes and qualities both in man and beast and euery liuing thing sensible and insensible Ioh. What is the complexion of the quarters of the yeare and names of the signes Hum. The spryng time when bloud doeth increase Summer when red colour doeth rule Haruest when colour aduste or melancholy doth reigne Wynter when fleugme doeth abound in full strength It is called wynter from the twelfth day of December vnto the tenth daie of March This season is colde and moiste it is called spring time from the .xii. day of March and endeth about the .xii. day of Iune Summer begins about the xii day of Iune and endeth about the .xii. day of September Autumne or Haruest beginneth about the .xiii. daie of September and endeth about the .xi. daie of December Capricornus Aquarius Pisces be winter signes Aries Taurus Gemini be signes for the spring Cancer leo and Virgo be the signs for Summer Libra Scorpio and Sagitari be the signes for haruest And the sun goeth through al these xii signs in xii months And y e Moone goeth xii times through each of the foresaid signs once in the yeere and do take sundry effects in man beastes and fruits in the said signes hote or cold moist or drie Iho. What be the complexions of medicines Hum. Those things that ouercome and gouerne the body as purgations expulsiues c. These be called medicins and those things that nourisheth and augmenteth the bodie bee called meates For the complexions of meats and medicines bee knowne by their tastes as coldnes hotnes moistnesse drines bitternes saltnes swéetnes fatnes sharpnes stipticke and clammie And because thy request is to haue prescribed vnto thée but onely a little gouernment of health I will shewe vnto thée another of my little songs in plaine méetre how thou shalt know meates and medicines by their tastes Iohn That is my chiefe desire I will heare thee say on Humfrey Cold quencheth the cholers pride Moist humecteth that which is dried The flowing moisture by proofe I trie Is wasted of humours hote and drie The subtill foode that is piersing quicke The clammy meates maketh it thicke Bitter things cleanse and wipeth oft And expell fleugme and maketh soft Salt drieth and resolueth fleugme tough Fat nourisheth and makes subtile inough Stiptike or rough taste on the tongue Bindeth and comforteth appetite long Sweet things in clensing is very good It dissolueth much and nourisheth blood These things well vsed nature will please But abusing them beastly bringeth disease Iohn In good faith me thinks thou sayest well for there apeare perfite reasons in these thy prety rules Now thou hast declared vnto mee the signes of complexions of men with the way and apt knowledge of meates by their tastes I would faine learne shortlie the temperaments and complections of mankinde Hum. There was neuer so discreet nor wise phisition that either feared God or pitied mankind or loued his owne honestie would take in hand either to prescribe diet or to minister medicin to any body before he wel did consider and wisely wey with himself the temperament mixture or cōplexion of mankind first whether he were hot or colde moist or drie fat or leane or indifferent betwene them both tempered by health or distempered by sicknesse as the extremities of hotenesse coldnesse moistnesse and drynesse Therefore Iohn these things may not bée forgotten you must note also the foure ages of mankinde first the tender state of children which beginneth at the birth so continueth vntill xv yeres next after their said birth Their temperaments or complections be hot and moist very like vnto y e seed wherof they bee procreated then next vnto childhood or innocēt age Youth which is the second part of life beginneth to reigne his temperament or complection hath rather more firy heat than perfite naturall heat and this second age continueth for ten yeares as Galen sayth Well in these two first states of life let all naturall fathers mothers bring vp their youth set God before their eyes for they haue no smal charge committed vnto them that must giue account to God how they haue brought vp their children and they that in these yeres do space correction truly be grieuous enemies vnto their children and at last shalbe recōpensed with shame when they shall sée misfortune wretchednesse fall vpon the fruites of their owne séeds For men haue smal profite of their corne which be choked and ouercome with Thistles Bryers and Brakes which were not weeded in time much lesse of their children which haue receyued neyther correction nor honest learning in due season If the kéepers of gardens be carefull ouer their late sowne séedes and tender hearbes which are in daunger to bee destroyed of euerie frost What shoulde good fathers and mothers doe for their children whose tender and youthfull yeares bee caryed away and ouercommed of euerie foolish fantasie and it is no maruaile But this shall suffice for the wise and smally profite the fooles but to my matter which I tooke in hande I will returne vnto the thirde age of mankinde which is called the lustie state of life and beginneth at xxv yeares and continueth vnto xxxv This age is hote and drie and verie cholericke as Galen sayth This part of life is subiect to manie burning and extreeme feuers and hote vlcers therefore it is necessarie to knowe this temperament of complection which is called cholericke as plainely may appeare by age strength diet vrine c. This is the best time for mankind to trauell in with godly exercise in science arte and profitable trauelles in his vocation putting in practise the vertues which he hath learned in youth for this is the sommer part of life wherein all goodly frutes do florish in euerie good occupation This is the very haruest to gather the precious corne and the frute of their labours against the colde stormes and cloudie daies of their aged winter wherein the bodie

good collours And this haue I proued it helpeth crampes and sickenesse in the sinewes being drunke in wyne sodden with sage it helpeth the splene the liuer and raines and will clense the secret termes of women and augmenteth naturall seede Ioh. What is ginger Hum. It is hot in the third degree and moist in the end of the first if it be vncollered White and not rotten it is verie good most chiefly if it be conserued and greene as Mesua saith it maketh warme a colde stomacke and consumeth windes helpeth euill disgestion and maketh meate goe easely downe into the stomacke Ioh. What is Setwall Hum. Hot and drie in the second degree and is good if the pouder thereof be drunke is most of effect against the pestilence except Methridatum It is good against poison winde chollericke and colde passions of the heart and doeth restraine vomites The weight of eight graines doth suffice to be drunke in ale or wine vpon an empty stomacke Iohn What is sinamon Humf. Dioscorides saieth there bee many kindes of sinamon but generally their vertue is this to helpe dropsies windes or stopping of the liuer and is hote and drie in the third degree Iohn What is Cassia Fistula Seneca and Rewbarb Humfrey Cassia Fistula if the cane be heauie and the Cassia within blacke and shining that is good Cassia if this bee drawen newe out of the cane halfe an ounce or more at one time and mingled with suger and eaten of a fasting stomacke in the morning it hath power to purge choller to cleanse the raines of the backe it will fret and consume the stone it purgeth very easily and is pleasant in taking and may bee taken of children weake women and sicke men in the time of their feuers the accesse of their fittes excepted Reubarbe doeth purge yellow choler by himselfe two or three drammes may be taken or a little more so that there be a dram of Spikenard or Sinamon put vnto it In Summer to drinke it with whey in Winter with white wine but the cleane yellowe rubarbe sliced and put into infusion al the night with whey white wine or endiue water and streyne it in the morning doth greatly purge the blood and liuer thrée or foure drams with Spikenard a dram or more Séeny Alexandria if it be sodden in the broath of a cocke or a henne doeth purge the bloud and melancholie verie gentlie and comfort the heart One ounce of the cleane small leaues of séeny without cods or stalkes halfe a quarter of one ounce of ginger twelue cloues finkle séede two drammes or else two drams of Sinamon tartar halfe a dram beaten al together in powder these do purge the head mightily to be taken before supper the weight of one dram in a little white wine Ioh. I would bee glad to learne the vertue of Aloes Hum. There be two kinds of Aloes one is named Succo trina which is like a liuer cleare brittle bitter coloured betwéene red and yellow this is best for medicines A little of this being tempered with Rose water being put vnto the eies helpeth the dropping and watery eyes Also it is put in many excellent medicines laxatiue as saffron myrrhe aloes mingled together In the forme of pilles is the most excellent medicine against the pestilence as it is written in this booke folowing Honie and aloes mingled togither doe take away the markes of stripes and also doth mundifie sores vlcers it doeth cleanse the abundance of choler fleugme from the stomacke It is not good to be taken in Winter for Auicen doeth forbid it but in the spring time or haruest the powder thereof The weight of a french crown mingled with the water of honie or mead and so drunke in the morning it doth cleanse both choler and fleugme There is another grosse aloes which is good for horse tempred with ale and ministred aswell to other great beasts as horses the weight of half an ounce and thus much haue I sayd of aloes but if aloes be cleane washed it is the wholsomer many vnwashed aloes wil cause emerodes Ioh. Is the saffron that groweth in England as good as that that come from the other side of the sea Hum. Our English hony saffron is b●tter than any that commeth from any other strange or forrein land But to thy question of saffron it hath vertue either in bread or pottage to make the heart glad it warmeth the body it preserueth from drūkennes drunke in ale or wine prouoketh acts venerous iuduceth sléepe purgeth vrine Myrre aloes saffron make an excellent pill against the pestilence 2. peny weight of saffron pouder rosted with the yolk of an egge very hard the said yolke beaten in powder 12 graines drinke in mornings is good against the pestilence saffron planten and iuory sodden The decoction drinke helpeth the yellow iaundeys it is drie in the first degrée and hath vertue to restraine Ioh. We plaine men in the country dwel farre from great cities our wiues and children be often sick and at deaths doore wee can not tell what shift to make wee haue no acquaintance with the apothecaries cōmonly we send for aqua vitae or malmesey whatsoeuer our diseases be these be our common medicines or else we send for a box of triacle and when these medicins faile vs we cause a great posset to be made and drink vp the drink thinkest thou these medicines to be good Hum. For lacke of medicine God helpeth the people oftentimes by myracle or else a great number of men should perish But because the almightie God hath couered the whole face of the earth with many precious simples whereof rich co●positions bee made therefore bee neither so rude nor barbarous to thinke these medicines good that thou hast rehearsed for all diseases although not hurtfull to some but because many doe receyue more mischiefe than medicine in counterfeite triacles I shall rehearse vnto thee what Valerius Cordus and others doe write vpon the vertue of the precious triacle called Methridatum Ioh. I would be glad to heare of that precious triacle and his vertues Hum. This excellent triacle Methridatum is next in qualitie and vertue to Theriaca and so differ but little but onely Theriacha is a little hotter and stronger against venom of snakes adders and serpents It helpeth all paines of the head of men or women if it be come of cold most chiefly of melācholie and feare It helpeth megrime falling sicknes and all paines of the forehead dropping of eyes It helpeth toothake paines of the mouth chéekes if it be put in maner of a plaister or else annoint the pained place It helpeth paines of the throte called Squinancie and also cough appoplexia and passion of the lunges and manie grieuous dolors and pains within the bodie drunke with the decoction of the flowers of Pomgranats or Plantine it helpeth and stoppeth flixes in the Ilias and long guts winds or collicke The extention or cramps be

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