Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.

THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF THIS VVHOLE TRACTATE.

Of the First BOOKE.

• CHAP. I. DIuers acceptations of this word Diet. What health is, and whe∣ther Diet be a thing necessary for healthfull and sicke persons?
• CHAP. IJ. Whether by means of Diet the life of man may before may yeeres prolonged?
• CHAP. IIJ. Of Climactericall yeeres, with their reasons assigned by antiquity, numeri∣call, astrologicall and Physicall.
• CHAP. IV. Of things called not naturall, and first of the aire.
• CHAP. V. Of severall sorts of wines, and their various effects.
• CHAP. VJ. Of the foure seasons of the yeere, and how they affect the body of man.
• CHAP. VIJ. Of water in generall: of terrestriall water: of water passing thorow, or issuing out of the earth; as springs, rivers, wells and ponds.
• CHAP. VIIJ. Whether any pure Element bee able to nourish a mixt body? and whether any such compound be able to live by the sole use of the same.
• CHAP. IX. Whether the life of man without food bee sustained for any long continu∣ance of time.
• CHAP. X. Of nourishment, and what therein is to be considered.
• CHAP. XJ. Of the times of repast, and how often we ought to eat in a day, and when to feed freeliest, at dinner or at supper. Something concerning breakefasts.
• CHAP. XIJ. Of the matter of nourishment, and first of corne, and bread made thereof.
• CHAP. XIIJ. Of roots usually eaten, and in most account for food.
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• CHAP. XIV. Of herbs in most ordinary use for diet, and first of such as coole most.
• CHAP. XV. Of Herbs hot in operation, and in most ordinary use. Of Artichocks, Gourds, Cucumbers, and muske melons.
• CHAP. XVJ. Of the fruits of trees, especially of shrubs and lesser trees ordinarily used for food, and often for physicke: and first of Strawberries, Raspes, mulberries, Gooseberries, Currants (by the vulgar so called) red and blacke, of Barberries, and whorts, or whortle-berries. Of Cherries, Plums, Abricocks and peaches.
• CHAP. XVIJ. Of Grapes, Raisins, Currants (properly so called) figs and dates; and of Apples, Peares, Quinces, Oranges, Citrons, Lemons, Pomegranates, Services, Medlars and Corneillions, Of wallnuts, Haselnuts, fitbirds, almonds, bitter and sweet, Chestnut and Fisticke-nut.
• CHAP. XVIIJ. Of severall sorts of flesh, especially of foure footed beasts, with their appur∣tenances and parts.
• CHAP. XIX. Of fowle both tame and wild, and their severall sorts, as also of parts of fowles, and of Egges.
• CHAP. XX. Of strange and uncouth diet, which some people have in ordinary use: as of dogs, cats, horses, mules, asses, rats, locusts, frogs, snailes and mans flesh.
• CHAP. XXJ. Of severall sorts of fishes, both of the Sea and fresh-waters, together with the various and divers nourishment they breed in the body.
• CHAP. XXIJ. Of seasoning meate. Of salt, and of sauces of severall sorts. Of spices u∣sed in diet both in sicknesse and in health.
• CHAP. XXIIJ. Of Gluttony and excesse in the use of food.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of Drinke, and what things in the use thereof to be observed. Of mor∣ning draughts, drinking betwixt meales, beginning or ending the meale with a draught, and drinking to bedward.
• CHAP. XXV. Of water as it is used for drinke, and of severall wayes of cooling the same, and correcting bad waters.
• CHAP. XXVJ. Of Wine, the severall sorts thereof, with the right use, and for whom most fitting.
• CHAP. XXVIJ. Of Beere, Ale, Perry and Cidar, serving us in stead of wine.
• CHAP. XXVIIJ. Of drunkennesse, and the mischiefes thence insuing to the soule, body and goods.

Questions discussed and handled in this First BOOKE, with relation to the Chapters wherein they are contained.

• 1. WHether by meanes of Diet the life of man may be prolonged? cap. 2.
• 2. Whether mans age doth not now decline, and the world wax old? Cap. 3.
• 3. Whether any compound or mixt body can live by the use of one Element onely? Cap. 8.
• 4. Whether water conveied thorow pipes of lead be wholesome for ordinary use? Cap. 7.
• 5. Whether man or woman may live many daies, moneths or yeeres without the use of any sustenance whatsoever? Cap. 9.
• 6. Whether it be best to feed freelist at dinner or at supper? Cap. 11.
• 7. Whether breake-fasts are to be used? Cap. 11.
• 8. Whether snailes be good against a Consumption? Cap. 20.
• 9. Whether morning draughts fasting be allowable? Cap. 24.
• 10. Whether good to drinke betwixt meales, and to bedward? Cap. 24.
• 11. Whether it be good to begin, or yet to end our meale with a draught? ib.
• 12. Whether old may be allowed the use of wine? Cap. 26.
• 13. Whether it be fit sometimes to be drunke to make one cast in an ague, or no? Cap. 28.

Contents of the Chapters of the Second BOOKE.

• CHAP. I. OF the Diet of the Diseased in generall, the utility and profit thereof. Of the aire in particular, and how to be corrected in time of need, and what fewell for this purpose is best. Something concerning the aire of Churches and Church∣yards.
• CHAP. IJ. Of the particular aire wherein sicke liveth, to wit, his habitation, and the best situation thereof. As also whether a country-aire or that of Townes or Cities bee better? Where something concerning the situation of the ancient Towne of Northampton.
• CHAP. IIJ. Of the clothing and covering of the sicke, as also concerning their shifting, and of the error of the vulgar practising the contrary. Something also concern∣ing the bed wherein the sicke lieth, and whether the sicke ought to have his haire cut?
• CHAP. IV. Of abstinence, either from some or all sorts of food, for a short or a longer time, and of severall sorts of abstinence.
• CHAP. V. Of aliment or diet of the diseased in generall: Whether a thinne and spare diet or a full and liberall be better.
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• CHAP. VJ. Certaine rules and lawes from whence the Diet of the Diseased is de∣sumed.
• CHAP. VIJ. What things in prescribing Diet for the Diseased are to be observed.
• CHAP. VIIJ Of fit Diet for the Diseased, and that of severall sorts; and first of that which vegetables afford: as bread, herbs and fruits.
• CHAP. IX. Of flesh, and what sorts of flesh are fittest for the sicke, and how to bee ex∣hibited.
• CHAP. X. Of Egges and their use, and whether they may be allowed the sicke? Of divers liquid substances made of flesh: as broth, Colice, Gelee, restorative distillations, &c.
• CHAP. XJ. Of Fish, and whether they may be allowed the sicke?
• CHAP. XIJ. Of the drinke of the diseased, and first of water, with the frequent use there∣of in antient times. Whether, and how now to be exhibited? and how before to be prepared, and where it is not admitted, how to supply the defect thereof.
• CHAP. XIIJ. Of warme drinke, and whether it be usefull or no?
• CHAP. XIV. Of wine, and whether it may safely be administred to sicke folkes? Of ar∣tificiall wines, aqua vitae, usquebagh, and other strong waters.
• CHAP. XV. Of divers drinkes made of honey, mulsum, mulsa, or hydromel, oxy∣mel, with the various wayes of their composition, and of their excellent vertues.
• CHAP. XVJ. Of divers drinkes made of Barly, very usefull for the sicke, and in fre∣quent request: as Ptisan, Barly-water, Creame of barly; and wherein ours differ from those of antient times. Something concerning Emulsions, both al∣mond-milke, and others.
• CHAP. XVIJ. Of milke of divers sorts, and whether fit to be used of the diseased?
• CHAP. XVIIJ. Of exercise which terminateth in rest, the necessity and utility thereof: together with divers and various sorts of exercise, aswell generall as particular, with severall circumstances therein to be considered.
• CHAP. XIX. Of the exercise of the mind. Whether at our meales wee may discourse and deliberate of serious and waighty affaires? And what was the custome and practice among the antients. Accommodation of Exercises to the sicke, how safe it is for them to use Exercise, and what fittest, and in what diseases.

Questions discussed and handled in this second BOOKE.

• 1. VVHether a Country-aire or that of townes or cities be better? cap. 2.
• 2. Whether it be better to shift the sicke, or to let them lye still in foule clothes, according to the vulgar custome? Cap. 3.
• 3. Whether the bed is to be warmed? Cap. 3.
• 4. Whether it be good to cut the haire of the sicke? Cap. 3.
• 5. Whether a thinne and spare or a full and liberall diet be better? Cap. 5.
• 6. Whether Egges may safely be used of the sicke? Cap. 10.
• 7. Whether fish may be allowed the sicke? Cap. 11.
• 8. Whether warme drinke be usefull? Cap. 13.
• 6. Whether wine may safely be exhibited to sicke folkes? Cap. 14.
• 10. Whether milke may safely be used of the sicke? Cap. 17.

Contents of the Chapters of the Third BOOKE.

• CHAP. I. OF Repletion and Inanition in generall, what they are, and the variety of particular circumstances therein to be considered.
• CHAP. IJ. Of Phlebotomy, what it is, the severall sorts, and sundry things therein to be considered.
• CHAP. IIJ. Whether in contagious, maligne and pestilentiall Fevers, and in the small Pox and Measels, as likewise in the Jaundize, Phlebotomy may safe∣ly be administred?
• CHAP. IV. Of the veines to be opened in the body of man, and the manner.
• CHAP. V. To what persons this remedy may safely be administred. Whether a wo∣man with child may safely be let blood? where something concerning the age fit to be phlebotomized.
• CHAP. VJ. Of the quantity, how long the Patient is to bleed; as also concerning re∣iteration of this remedy in the time of need, with a confutation of some errone∣ous opinions concerning this point.
• CHAP. VIJ. Of the fittest time for evacuation by Phlebotomy, both generall and par∣ticular, both of election and coaction: as also whether we may let blood during the dog dayes?
• CHAP. VIIJ. Whether in Phlebotomy we are to observe the signe, and severall other things pointed out to us by our Ephemerides-masters.
• CHAP. IX. Preparation before Phlebotomy, during bleeding what to bee done, and

• how to be ordered after. Of particular Phlebotomy by leaches. Of scarificati∣on and cupping. Of searing, setum, vesicatories, &c.
• CHAP. X. Of Purgation or evacuation of corrupted humors in generall.
• CHAP. XJ. Whether we ought to purge or no? what persons are fit to bee purged, and able to indure purgations? Whether women with child may safely bee purged.
• CHAP. XIJ. Of humours to be purged: of their preparation; as also of the body to be purged. Of the quantity or reiteration, or often exhibition in time of need.
• CHAP. XIIJ. Of vomits, Glisters, Suppositories, and with which we are to beginne when divers are requried?
• CHAP. XIV. Of the opportune time of purgation, both generall and particular, with divers other things concerning this subiect.
• CHAP. XV. Of the waies and passages by which we are to purge: of the formes in which we exhibit Physicke; together with the manner of governing the sicke during purgation, and meanes to keepe Physicke in the stomacke, that it cast it not up againe.
• CHAP. XVJ. Of sweating and meanes to provoke the same: divers sorts of hydro∣tickes, or medicines provoking sweat, both externall and internall.
• CHAP. XVIJ. Of Bathing among the antients, as also certaine ablutions of head, hands and feet. Of artificiall Bathes generall and particular; the right use, the time, preparation, and divers other considerable circumstances, and how farre we observe the customes.
• CHAP. XVIIJ. Of naturall Bathes or minerall waters. Whether Leap yeare, called also Bissextile causeth any alteration in these minerall waters, or infringeth the force thereof? and of the originiall and first beginning of this time.
• CHAP. XIX. Of preparation before the use of minerall waters; the right use and ver∣tues of them, their various kindes both in this Iland and other countries.
• CHAP. XX. of the excretion by urine, the retention of urine, together with the na∣ture of diureticke remedies, the right use and abuse thereof.
• CHAP. XXJ. Of ordure ••••rfecall excrements, and divers things in them consider∣able, this excretion being sometimes too lavish and sometimes deficient.
• CHAP. XXIJ. Of Spittle, spitting or salivation. Of Tobacco and the great abuse thereof in this Kingdome to the great prejudice of the health of the body.
• CHAP. XXIIJ. Of Snot or Snevell. Of rheume falling downe upon the lungs and o∣ther pectorall parts. Of expuition or expectoration, the great abuse committed

• in the use of expectorating medicines, and the right use thereof.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of carnall copulation, the right use and abuse thereof. What age and constitution it best befitteth. Some thing concerning the menstruous flaxe in women.
• CHAP. XXV. Of Sleeping and waking, the benefit and use thereof in sickenesse and in health. The severall sorts of sleepe, and what persons may sleep freeliest, and who lesse.
• CHAP. XXVJ. Of dreames, and that of them there may bee made good use in sicknesse and in health. Of Noctambuli, commonly called Night-walkers, or such as walke in their sleepe, especially in the night-season, together with the reason thereof.
• CHAP. XXVIJ. Of the soule and passions thereof in generall.
• CHAP. XXVIIJ. Of lustfull love, and what hurt is thereby procured to mankind. Whe∣ther any may dye of love. Some thing also concerning Iealously.
• CHAP. XXIX. Of amorous or love-potions, called Philtra. VVhether love may bee procured by fascination.
• CHAP. XXX. Of fascination by sight, by wordor voice, or yet by spells. Of Imaginati∣on, and strange stupendious effects our Paracelsists attribute thereunto, to∣gether with the absurdity of the same.
• A digression concerning the weapon-salve, with a confutation of the chiefe arguments brought for the maintaining thereof.
• CHAP. XXXJ. Of Mandrakes, the nature and vertue thereof, and whether this plan•• hath any power to procure love?
• CHAP. XXXIJ. Of immoderate and passionate anger: the hurt thereby procured to the body in sickenesse and in health, and antidotes against it. In what diseases best, and in what worst; and whether any may dye of anger.
• CHAP. XXXIIJ. Of sorrow, griefe and feare; the danger and detriment commeth there∣by to the body of man, and how hurtfull in sicknesse and in health. Whether a∣ny may dye of Sorrow and Griefe.
• CHAP. XXXV. Of Joy and Gladnesse, and the excesse thereof, which may also hurt the body. Whether any may dye of excessive Joy.

The conclusion of this whole discourse.

Questions discussed and handled in this Third BOOKE.

• 1. VVHether in the maligne, contagious and pestilentiall Fevers, as likewise in the small Pox and Measels, and in the Jaundize we may safely let blood? Chap. 3.
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• 2. Whether a woman with child may be let blood or purged? Cap. 5. & 10.
• 3. Whether age doth indicate Phlebotomy? and whether this remedy in time of need may not be administred to young children and aged people? Cap. 5.
• 4. Whether the party phlebotomized will every yeere expect the reiteration of the same remedy? Cap. 6.
• 5. Whether palpitation of any part of the body doth argue life to bee confined to that part, and that a veine being then there opened the party should presently dye, as is by some of the vulgar conceived? Cap. 6.
• 6. Whether we may safely purge and bleed during the dog daies? Cap. 7.
• 7. Whether in Phlebotomy and purging we are to observe the signe with the Moone? Cap. 8. & 14.
• 8. Whether Somnus meridianns, or Sleepe in the day time bee to bee al∣lowed of? Cap. 25.
• 9. Whether Leap yeere altereth or infringeth the force of minerall waters for that yeere. Cap. 18.
• 10. Whether any simple by its vertue can procure love? Cap. 29.
• 11. Whether love can be procured by fascination or bewitching. ibid.
• 12. Whether Phansie or Imagination doth worke ad extra, or without its owne body upon any externall obiect? Cap. 30.
• 13. Whether any may dy of love? Cap. 28.
• 14. Whether Mandrakes have any power to procure love? Cap. 31.
• 15. Whether any may dye of Anger? Cap. 32
• 16. Whether one may dye of Sorrow and Griefe? Cap. 33.
• 17. Whether one may dye of Ioy and mirth? Cap. 34.