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.

CHAP. II.

Whether by meanes of Diet the life of man may be for many yeeres prolonged.

IT is reported of that famous Philosopher a 1.1 Theo∣phrastus, that dying, he accused nature, in that shee had given and granted to brute and unreasonable creatures a long, and to man the noblest of all other creatures so short and so sorrowfull a life: in so much, that weighing both life and death in even and equall balance, one might, and not without cause, doubt, whether life or death were rather to be chosen: as also in regard of the nights rest, a man lives but the one halfe of his time: that I say nothing also of the yeeres of infancy, when as he liveth void of understanding; and of old age, his yeeres seeming to be produced to this period onely for a punishment, witnesse so many cares and casualties; so many dangers and sicknesses, extorting so fre∣quent an invocation of death, that nothing seemeth more welcome then the fruition of such a wish. But unjustly was noble nature of this unjust judge condemned before shee was heard: For, shee like a kinde and loving mother, being very solicitous and carefull of the life of man, hath not onely ministred unto him such things as are necessary for the maintaining and producing of his life; but besides, hath indu∣ed him with reason, and given him hands, to the end hee might more comfortably make use of such things, as she in her bounty had bestowed upon him.* 1.2 Now, b 1.3 our life consisteth in moisture and heat, neither is our life any thing else, but a ioint-continuance of heat and moisture in our bodies. But since our heat doth daily consume & waste away this naturall and radicall moisture, it is againe by the like humidity to be repaired. Now, this is performed by meanes of food, both meat and drinke; the right and moderate use whereof this dieteticall part doth instruct and direct; the which also not onely maintaineth and entertaineth health present, but helpeth also to recover that which is by sicknesse impaired (and as some would have it) produceth the life of man farre beyond the fatall period for all men appointed. And some there were, who by meanes of diet, would promise the perpetuity of mans life, and of a mortall man, to make him immortall; and such a one was that Sophist mentioned by c 1.4 Galen, who promised immortality to all such, whose education he had from their tender yeeres undertaken. Galen is of o∣pinion, that the necessity of death, can by no solid reason be demon∣strated, but confirmed by experience onely. Some, who would make good Galens assertion, argue thus: All men die, either by meanes of ex∣ternall, or internall causes. Externall causes, which procure violent death,* 1.5 are either such as may be avoided, and befall the body of man from without; as blowes, bitings of venomous beasts, and the like; all which, since they may easily be avoided, come not within the compasse

of this dietetiall art; or else they are unavoidable, and such be the things we call not naturall, by the excesse and defect of the which, dis∣eases are ingendred, and death doth thereon ensue. In the golden me∣diocrity consisteth this health we now discourse of, the which, whoso∣ever shall strictly observe, shall prolong his life for many yeeres. This mediocrity did our forefathers in that first and golden age of the world, strictly observe, and so many of them attained 900. and some neere 1000. yeeres. Neither are we to suppose that these were Lunary yeeres, or of the age of a Moone onely, as d 1.6 S. Austine proves against Pliny and Baro. But yet further, the longevity of these our forefathers, did not onely depend upon their simple diet, but there was besides a speciall providence in prolonging their lives; and that as well for the multipli∣cation of mankinde, as also by meanes of their long lives,* 1.7 they might the better attaine to the knowledge of the arts and sciences, mathema∣ticall especially, and that part principally which concerneth the moti∣on of the celestiall orbes, which required no small time. The e 1.8 inter∣nall causes of naturall and fatall death are, according to Galen, three; naturall drinesse, the continuall wasting of our triple substance, and the abundance of excrements. Now, naturall drinesse may be preven∣ted by such things as moisten much. The wasting of our triple sub∣stance may be prevented by good ayre, meat and drinke, of a good and laudable quality, engendring but little excrementitious matter: and if notwithstanding, by reason of their condition or quality, they shall chance to ingender any excrement; they may either naturally, or else by artificiall meanes be voided out: And therefore conclude they, by this dieteticall art, may the naturall causes of fatall death be declined. But this is an uncontrolled truth: Contra vim mortis, non est medicamen in hortis. It is appointed for all men to dye, and then commeth in iudgement,* 1.9 saith the Oracle that cannot lie. True 'tis, and cannot be denied, that by vertue of a laudable diet, the life of man may be prolonged to an hundred, or an hundred and twenty yeeres, as hath beene published by f 1.10 some of our Authors: but for ever to be perpetuated, is impossible, and that both by reason of the materiall and the efficient cause. The matter is either first or second: the first matter, by reason it hath adjoyned pri∣vation, a maligne principle; therefore cannot alwaies continue the same. The second matter is of the elements, whereof the body of man is composed; the which, howsoever it conteineth in it the sub∣stance of the elements well united and compacted together; yet can their disagreeing qualities never so well be composed, but some dis∣cord and disagreement will arise, which is the cause of dissolution of the whole frame. The efficient cause is either remote or neerer: the remote is God himselfe, who hath placed severall and contrary moti∣ons in the heavens; * 1.11 one from the East to the West, and is once every day accomplished; Another againe from the West to the East, which are at great length to be found in the writings of our learned Astrono∣mers. Now, if God would have made the world to continue for ever

(faith Plato) he would never have placed these contrary motions in the heavens, because identity and unity is the cause of continuance, as contrariety the beginning of destruction. The neerer efficient cause is our naturall heat, which by little and little destroyes our naturall and radicall moisture, the which once failing, death undoubtedly follow∣eth. And howsoever by the use of aliments it be in some sort repaired, yet this devouring heat getteth daily ground of it, till at length it gi∣veth it the foyle; concerning which, more may be seene in the workes of the worthy Plato. It hath then sufficiently and plainely appeared, that the life of man, by meanes of a good and laudable diet, may be pro∣longed, and diseases prevented; howsoever death is unavoidable. But then here one may aske what is the ordinary period whereunto the life of man by meanes of art may be prolonged?* 1.12 Our ordinary Authours, as wee have said, assigne 100 or 120: but wee have a certaine sort of people, who in shew, would seeme to transcend vulgar understanding, and tell us strange things of the prolongation of mans life for many yeeres, farre beyond this above-mentioned period; and that by meanes of certaine medicines made of metalls, of gold especially; and these be g 1.13 Paracelsus and his followers: And although this great miracle-monger (as his foolish followers would make him) died (not without tormenting arthriticall paines many times, notwithstanding all his se∣crets) before ever hee atteined the 60^th yeere of his age, yet will not their folly depart from them if they were braied in a morter, affirming him yet to live in his grave by vertue of aurum potabile, writing great vo∣luminous bookes, and inditing many profitable precepts to his disci∣ples. I hope the Printers shall not want worke when they are ready. But Paracelsus tells us yet stranger tales (for, I doubt the reader will ac∣count them for such) h 1.14 of attracting not onely life, I meane strength and vigor from a young man, but relateh of one who drew learning and knowledge from another; yea, that from any learned man he met, and kept company with, hee could easily by vertue of his strong imaginati∣on attract and draw unto himselfe the others wit and learning. The same i 1.15 Author, and his expositor tell us strange things of the long life of some particular persons, where is likewise to be observed the great confusion he useth, as in all his writings, so in this particular, where

sometimes hee mentioneth mortall men, as the Patriarches, and o∣thers: k 1.16 and againe, confounds this narration with a discourse of im∣mortall spirits, who are neither to be confined with in his 1000. nor yet 1200 yeeres. And is it not a thing ridiculous, now in these later times, to extend the life of man-kinde to 1000, 900, or, at the least to 600 yeeres? And besides, may it not easily to an indifferent understanding appeare, how ridiculous this opinion is, that Adam, and the rest of the old Patriarches lived so long by vertue of the Philosophers stone? And what then became of this so rare medicine, when holy Iacob complai∣ned, that few and evill were the daies of his pilgrimage? And how came it to passe, that Abraham and Sarah lived then so short a while? That Isaacs eyes were dimme? Did their forefathers envie them such a medi∣cine? all Arts and Sciences were transmitted from the antient Patri∣arches to posterity, and were they so envious, as to conceale from them so great a good? If these prattlers could by their owne experience make this appeare, there might be some colour for us, to beleeve they had knowne this Art, and concealed it from their successors. But the contrary hath already appeared, whatsoever they prate of one l 1.17 Ar∣tephius, who by meanes of his wisdome (as they say) lived 1000 yeeres. But now, it may be, some will here aske mee the question, whether I am not of opinon, that mens ages now daily decline, the world waxing old, and some holding that the m 1.18 Sunne, now, by that rea∣son, to wit, of the age of the world, draweth neere the earth, as having more need now in this old age of a greater supply of warmth then here∣tofore: But as concerning this subject, because n 1.19 it hath beene of set purpose in a large volume handled at great length, I shall neede to say the lesse; yet something I must say concerning this subject now in hand, I meane the life of man. If this assertion were of an infallible truth, that the age of mankinde had proportionably still declined, then had the period of mans longest life beene by this time comprehen∣ded within a very small number of yeeres. But the contrary of this we see by daily experience confirmed: that in many places of the world, yea, and in most, o 1.20 men live as long as in antient times; I meane, af∣ter the times of our first forefathers, the old Patriarches. This caution I would withall to be put in, that in our comparison with antiquity, we must alwaies put in this proviso, caeteris paribus, making the cases both a∣like. As they lived a sober and frugall life, free from excesse of meate and drinke, and such other things, as have so much abridged the life of man in divers parts of the world, so must wee suppose of our times. And that there have beene in severall ages and times, such long lived people

in the world, may appeare to those that will search into antient writers: and thus wee read of some that lived 200, some 300 yeeres; and the above-mentioned Writer relateth the long life of Iohannes de Tempori∣bus, or Iohn of Times, and divers others; and late Writers tell us sto∣ries of the long lives of the people in p 1.21 Florida, where it is reported, that some there exceede the number of 300 yeeres, and that general∣ly they live there very long, as living after that frugall manner, as did our fore-fathers of old. Besides, q 1.22 a late Writer allegeth Herodote speaking of a people in Africa called Macrobii, living ordinarily 120 yeeres, which is much, if we consider the bad aire generally in most pla∣ces of that vast part of the world; and it is not unknowne, that in these our Northerne cold climates, many people live to a great age, some comming to 100, some more, yea, some to 140. There are some of my acquaintance yet alive, who have told me they have knowne an instance of this last period, in each of these two severall kingdomes of great Bri∣taine. To atteine to 100 is no wonder, having my selfe knowne some of both sexes. If I might dwell upon this point, I could produce many proofes to confirme this truth; but this I thinke may suffice, and such as are desirous to receive further satisfaction, may have recourse to this late Author, of whom before. The like objection is likewise made concerning the stature of men, which heretofore, as seemeth, hath bin very great; and have we not even in our daies seene some of a stupendi∣ous great stature? And if it shall be again replied, that such be not ordi∣nary; I answer, that such great statures were not ordinary, and therefore in holy writ, we have r 1.23 such men singled out, and, as it were, pointed out by the finger. I doe not deny, that both among our selves, and di∣vers other nations, it may be, in former times, men have beene both of stronger and health fuller constitution of body, and of taller stature; but this alteration proceedeth not from any sensible decay in nature, but by reason of our disorderly diet, luxurious lives, nice and effeminate education, so farre degenerating from our antient predecessours, who, thorow their valour and martiall exploits, were famous thorow the world; and we now are become contemptible to such as before stood in awe of this Iland. But that even at this day there are people of a ve∣ry tall stature, whoso hath travelled into Switzerland, shall perceive by oculare inspection; where the people are ordinarily of a very tall sta∣ture, especially those of Zurich: and a s 1.24 late learned Writer maketh mention of the bones of a Giant, digg'd out of the ground, about Lucerne of Switzerland, which being orderly set together, that sceleton was 19 foot long, and 21 of measure by my feet, as it was drawne in the picture by him in his study, whereby I measured it, during my abode at Basil, for the finishing of my physicall studies. Now, before I proceed, I must speake a word or two concerning an assertion, affirmed by some, con∣cerning the abbreviation of mans life, to wit, that, After the flood, the whole frame of the earth was so altered, and, as it were, poisoned, that people could not live so long after, as before. To this I answer, that if we compare lives with lives, wee shall finde this false; and beside, that this same abbreviation of mens lives was begunne before the flood, and that some lived as long after the flood as did before, at least within

a little; still comparing the declining of the age of man before the flood, with that which succeeded after. We see t 1.25 Methusalem lived 969 yeeres; and his sonne Lamech came almost 200 short of his age: againe u 1.26 Noah his sonne exceeded his fathers age almost 200 yeeres; and his sonne x 1.27 Sem lived compleat 600 yeeres, and 500 of this after the flood; and so comparing one with another, we shall find that com∣paring this begunne abbreviation, Sem lived as long after the flood, as Lamech did before, although this abbreviation did not hold alwaies a∣like: For, Methusalem, we see, lived longer than any either before or af∣ter him; God, in this, manifesting his mighty and omnipotent power, lest wee should ascribe too much to the order of inferiour causes. But lest I heare ne sutor ultra crepidam, I leave this theme to the Divine. Howsoever, the daies of man were much abridged in the daies of Abra∣ham, Isaac and Iacob, but especially in that age wherein Moses lived; and therefore we easily perceive this point to be cleare, that the time of mans age hath not sensibly declined since that time. It may be also some would aske what sexe is of longest life? I answer that the y 1.28 male, by reason of his superaboundant heat, and good temperature of body: howsoever, this must still be understood, with that parity we have here∣tofore mentioned: for, no question some women are farre longer lived than some men; a temperate woman, and of indifferent constitution of body, therefore may by many yeeres out-live a debauched swagge∣ring, luxurious good fellow.* 1.29 And the severall complexions are not here to be past over: the sanguine of all others being of longest endurance; and next to it the cholerick; the phlegmaticke succeed, and the melancholy are ordinarily shortest lived.* 1.30 The climat wherein one liveth, maketh also much for the long life of man, and therefore we see that in our Northern countries oftentimes people live long: and in one and the same country, the native inhabitants thrive better, and live longer many times than strangers; as may appeare by the z 1.31 in∣habitants of S. Helena, where the naturall Negroes lived ordinarily 110 yeeres, although the aire of it selfe be very unwholesome to our Europeans, insomuch that few of them there exceed 50 yeers. And there are yet divers other things which may lengthen or abbreviate the life of man, as the particular influence of the superior powers, and to us un∣knowne, &c. But above all, there is a supreme over-ruling power in our great and omnipotent Maker, to lengthen and shorten the life of man at his good will and pleasure. It is naturally in-bred in all men to desire length of daies, and without doubt, it is in it selfe no small blessing, as being a reward of keeping Gods commandements, let those therefore, who would comfortably partake of so great a blessing follow the direction of the Spirit of God, uttered by the mouth of the Wise∣man. a 1.32 My sonne, forget not my law, but let thine heart keepe my com∣mandements: for length of daies, and long life, and peace shall they adde to thee. And again, b 1.33 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome, and the know∣ledge of the holy is understanding: For, by me thy daies shall be multiplied, and the yeers of thy life shall be multiplied. See againe the contrary denuntiati∣on: c 1.34 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall hee prolong his daies which are as a shadow, because hee feareth not before God. Againe, the

d 1.35 bloody and deceitfull man shall not live out halfe his daies; e 1.36 we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are wee troubled; for all our daies are passed a∣way in thy wrath; we spend our yeeres as a tale that is told. And therefore it will be good for us still to pray with that holy man, Moses, in the same place f 1.37 So teach us to number our daies, that wee may apply our hearts to wise∣dome. Many old people brag of their old age, how fruitlessely, yea, how wickedly soever they have spent all their pretious time. Indeede, the Wise-man accounteth old-age for a prime ornament. g 1.38 The beautie of the old man is the grey head. But heare againe the same Spirit speake by the same pen-man: h 1.39 The hoarie head is a crowne of glorie, if it be found in the way of righteousnesse. And therefore, if many old men and women had their blinded eyes opened, they had small cause to bragge of their so neere approaching eternall misery; but I will not here inlarge my selfe upon this point, but rather leave it to the Divines pen and pulpit, and so now proceed to that which followeth.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Theophrast. moriens naturā accusavit, quod vitam longiorem bru∣tis animantibus dedit, hominibus vero tam brevem & malignam, ut aequa lance vitam & mortem pensitando, dubites an vita an mors sit ••ptabilior. Quineti∣am aestimatione noctur∣nae quietis, quisque di∣midio vita suae spatio vivit, & pars aequa morti simi••is iransigi∣tur: ne reputantur in∣fantiae anni sine sensu, nec senectae in poenam vivaces; tot periculo∣rum genera, tot morbi, tot casus, tot curae, toties invocata morte, ut nul∣lum frequentius votum, &c. Reolanus ju∣nior in privatis prae∣lect.
• * 1.2

  What life is.
• b 1.3

  De vitae definitione variaesunt Philosoph••rū sententia & definitio∣nes. Arist. tamen ut & medici omnes ejus essen∣tiam in calido & humi∣do collocant.

  Vide Arist. de longi∣tud. & brev. vitae cap. 2. Iohan. Magirum physiol li. 6. cap. 4, &c.
• c 1.4

  Galen lib. de mara∣simo & lib. 1. salut.
• * 1.5

  Reasons seeming to prove that death may be avoided.
• d 1.6

  Lib. 15. de civit. Dei.
• * 1.7

  Why the Patriarches lives were so long.
• e 1.8

  Naturales causae fa∣talis interitus tres sunt, naturalis ficcita••, pe∣renne triplicis substan∣tiae ef••••uvium, & copia excrementorum.

  Idem Gal. loco nupet citat.
• * 1.9

  Hebr. 9.27.
• f 1.10

  Thomas Philolo∣gus de vita ad 120. amos producenda. Et nuper Claudius Deo∣datus de eodem argu∣mento.

  Reasons why the life cannot be perpetua∣ted for ever from the materiall;

  And from the effici∣ent cause.
• * 1.11

  Duo diversi sunt in C••••o m••tu••; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nempe ab ortu in occa∣sum, qui dicitur m••••u•• deci•••••• coeli, & quo me∣tu 〈◊〉〈◊〉 inferiores coe∣li, at{que} adeo omnes pla∣neta spatio Diei & no∣ctis ab ortu in occasum circuner ••piuntur: alter vero motus est proprius inferioribus coelis, & imprimis spharis planetarum, quae motui isti decimi 〈◊〉〈◊〉 veluti obnitentes, contr amoventur ab occasu in ortum, qui quid••m motus lo••ge est tardior quam motus ille primus decimi Coeli, &c. Kee••erm. System. astron. lib. 1. cap. 13.
• * 1.12

  Ordinary period of mans life, not rec∣koned above 100 or 120 yeeres.
• g 1.13

  Quanquam & ipse Paracelsistae & qui co∣rum medicinis utuntur brevis sint vitae, & morbis vexentur; ta∣men ia••••ant suum uni∣versale. Novimus ali∣quos qui metalla per la∣pidē tinxerunt, sed qui nec se, nec alios a morte & morbis praeservare potuerint. De potentia arti•• multus est Roge∣rius, nec est ullus Pa∣racelsicus quin ad oftentationem us{que} pro∣fusus fit promissionibus. Argumenta proferun∣tur a quibusdam longae∣vis sine regimine, quod impossibile est esse per∣fectum sine medicinis, ••t al. antimony, auro potabili, lapide Philo∣sophorum, &c. Quid multis? deficis ar•• in ipsis p••ofessoribus; Si obijciaes hoc illis, pratendunt terminum naturae, defectum medicinae talis, & alia frivola Crollius ridicule Paracelsum ad vitam longam pervenire potuisse negat, quia veneno sit sublatus. At si promissa chy••ica sunt vera, debuit & contravenena fuisse munitus: ut Mi∣thridates, &c. Andr. Libav. analys confess. fratrum de rosea cruce medit. 62.

  Memorabile hoc evenit quod Adamus a Bodenstein Paracelsicae sectae Coryphaem, cum libello edito se pestem pracavere, & curare posse sua theriaca, quam excbymicis concinnebat, divulgaret: Peste correptus, nemine tunc in ea platea ag••otante, peste penitus fere in ••rbe cessante, interierit. Plat. observat. medicin. lib pag. 309. pestil 6. Accidit tunc quoque hoc memoria dignum, quod impostor qui∣dam Pseudomedicus circumforanem, globo quadam ex stibio, uti ex operatione illius potuiconjicere, composito, vinoque immerso, unicum illud exhibendo, omnes se curare posse peste infectos gloriatus est, peste primum uxore eius correpta, ipseque mox eadem perierit, poenas∣que audacia sic ambo dederint. Idem ibid.
• h 1.14

  Prateros vixerunt multi vitam alienam, idque iuxta praescriptum deltica naturae, inter quos fuit Syrus, qui cum de vita laboravit, ro∣busti cuiusdam edolesecutis, qui tum forte adsistebat, vim atque naturam attraxisse dicitur; idque per imaginationem sic est consecutus, ut sensus, cogitationes, demique, animus ipse in alium transferretur. Per talem imaginationem Archafas uniuscuiusque eruditi, atque pru∣dentis hominis scientia••s atque prudentiam attraxiss•• dicitur. Parac. de vita longa lib. 1. cap. 8. Est tertia velut quadam magica, qua quis vitam producit suam adminicule alienae. Modus antem attractionis tam vitae alienae a Syro, quam intellectus, seu prudentiae ab Archasa, seu Archel••o consisit in imaginatione, de qua multa Baco in hoc eodem argumento. Attractionem hanc, si vera est, seq••itur necessario transcorporatio animarum, quam Iohannes Picus perhibet omnes sapientes credidisse, Indorum, Persarum, Aegyp∣tiorum & Chaldcorum, Leo Suavius scholio, ad idem cap.
• i 1.15

  non minus coarguitu•• ex Plinio longinquitas vita in Bachone & Paracelso, quam in Anacreonte aut Xenophonte, qui quidem Impetrim Mululcaciorum insulae Regem 800 annis vixisse scribit, & s••til•• ••ius 600. Qua omnia existi••nat inscitia temporis scripta esse, quod alii annū astate vnum determinabāt, & alterū hyeme, &c. Id. ib.
• k 1.16

  Quantum autem ad longavitatem attinet, scite lunares populi ex Phedone Platonis introducuntur in altis∣simo terrae fastigio supra nubes habitantes, qui ob diuturnitatem aevi non tam mortales homines, quam immortales dae∣mones habeantur. Puschre etiam a Ficino Arabes Astrologi pro∣ducuntur qui ultra li∣neam aequixoctialem ad meridiem subtilissimos montes narrant, inco∣las, daemones quos∣dam, qui ne{que} oriri, ne∣que mori videantur: si∣cut scribit Paracelsus de Hildevio, &c. Idem Leo Suavius scholia ad cap. 1. lib. 4. Parac. de vita longa. Qui•• enim credet ad 1200 annum posse pervenir••? Adde inquit & Mathu∣salem exemplum propo∣no. Et ex parte sub••e∣cti natura••em vigorem, de quo in Mose. lib. 1. Derude medicinā prae∣stantem. Tertio locum eum corpors convenien∣tem; locum inquam in aere seu esse quinto, vel nubibus, ubi nulla est corporatitas, at{que} ubi habitant qui dicuntur somno sepulti, &c. Idē ibid.
• l 1.17

  Human vitae spatium longe aliter est coercendum, licet (in∣usitato miraculo) Ar∣tephius dicatur a Ba∣chone ope sapientiae suae ••000 annos vixis∣se, quemadmodum aliē quidem primo mundi seculo.
• m 1.18

  Coperni∣cus docuit Solem esse viciniorem terrae quam tempore Ptolomaei fu∣erat per miliaria Germanica vicies sexies mille sexconta, & sexaginta. Phil. Melanchton in physicis ipse queque statuit Solem ess•• viciniorem terrae, & ait, Deum veluti Solem terram versus retraxisse, quo natura effoeta egeat majori calore & fermento. Alii autem Astronomi, & Physici istam mutatam Solis vicinitatem penitus repudiant, inter quos est imprin is magnus ille Scaliger qui exercit 90. sect. 2. violenter Copernicum nostrum insectatur. Disputat autem de ista Solis eccentricitate Clariss. Mathem, Ori∣ganus cap. 1. prog. ad annum 1604. & docet esse quidem revera Solis eccentricitatem mutatam, sed non esse tantam quantam Ste. Florus ex sententia Copernici posuerat, sed vix dimidio tanta, ila ut in eo congruat cum sententia Melanchtonis; qui ia physica, ubi de Sole tractat, dicit Solem propiorem terrae esse factum quam fuerit tempore Ptolomei milliaribus Germanicis novies mille nongentis. Keckerm. systemat. Astron. lib. 1. cap. 13.
• n 1.19

  23 Richard Hacluyt
• o 1.20

  Anacreonti poeta de iis qui 200 annos expleverint Damiatos astipulatur memora••s Pictorium pracipuum corpore viribusque. Etiam 300 Alexander & Cornelius Dandonem quendam in Illyrico dicunt vixisse. Leo Suavius in cap. 2. lib. 4. Parac. de vita longa.
• p 1.21

  The sobrietie of the Floridens doeth lengthen their dates in such sort, that one of their kings told me (saith Morques) that hee was 300 yeeres old, his father which he there shew'd mee alive, was 50 yeeres elder than himselfe; when I saw him, mee thoght I saw nothing but bones covered with skin. His sinews, veines and arteries (saith Landoniere, in descriptiō of the same man) his bones and other parts appeared so clearely thorow his skinne, that one might easily tell them and discerne tho one from the other; hee could not see, nor yet speake without great paine. They shewed mee their off-spring to the fifth generati∣on, and yet it was told them by the o∣ther Indians, that the eldest of them both might by the course of nature live 30, or 40 yeeres more. Pur∣chas his pilgrim. lib. 8. cap. 7. Americus Vespu∣tius saith, the Brasili∣ans live 150 yeeres, and that they have alwaies an Easterly wind, which tempe∣reth their aire. Idem lib. 9. cap. 4.
• q 1.22

  Ma∣crobii in Africa, saith Herodot. lib. 7. live or∣dinarily 120 yeeres; their meat was boil'd flesh, their drinke, milk. Idem l. 4. cap. 14.
• r 1.23

  Deuteron. 3.11. 1 Sam. 17.4, &c. 2 Chron. 11.23. Switzers tall and lusly men, especially in the Canton Zurith.
• s 1.24

  Platerus observat. medicin. lib. 2. pag. 548. The inundation of the whole world by the deluge, was not the cause of the ab∣breviation of the life of man.
• t 1.25

  Genes. 3.27.
• u 1.26

  Genes. 9.29.
• x 1.27

  11.11,
• y 1.28

  Man is ordinarily longer lived than the woman. And why, Arisi. lib. de longitud. & brevit. vita cap. 2.
• * 1.29

  What complexion longest lived.
• * 1.30

  In what Climat.
• z 1.31

  Purchas li. 14. c. 12.
• a 1.32

  Prov. 3.1.2.
• b 1.33

  9.10.11.
• c 1.34

  Eccles. 8.13.
• d 1.35

  Psalme 55.23.
• e 1.36

  Psalme 90.7.9.
• f 1.37

  Verse 12.
• g 1.38

  Proverbs 20.29.
• h 1.39

  16.31.