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.

An Alphabeticall Table of THE CONTENTS OF THIS VVHOLE DISCOVRSE, WITH relation to the page: Intr. is for Introduction.

• Ablution of the body, page 294.
• Abricocke, page 64.
• Abstinence from food, 157.
• Abstinence naturall, voluntary, miraculous, violent or forced, morall, physicall, religious, superstitions, &c. 158, 159.
• Abstinence of the Arch-bishops and Bi∣shops among the Russians, 159, 160.
• Abstinence of the Abyssine Priests, 192.
• Abstinence of the Church of Rome, 160.
• Abstinence of divers Hereticks, and of the Egyptian Priests. 159.
• Acid or sowre waters, 395.
• Acid or sowre waters abound in Germa∣ny, their vertues, and in what infirmi∣ties hurtfull: the continuance or dura∣tion of their use, ibid.
• Aegyptians rigid in the time of purgati∣on, 283, 284.
• Age best admitting, or not admitting large and ample evacuation, 242.
• Age doth not alwaies indicate, nor yet inhibit phlebotomy, 245.
• All ages may be purged, 271
• Age aptest to be purged, ibid.
• Many things therein considerable, 267.
• Aire, the utilitie and qualities of it, how our bodies are thereby altered, 14.
• A pure aire, and what it is, 15.
• Advertisement concerning the aire to our new colonies beyond Seas, ibid.
• Best Aire according to the time of the day: night aire bad, 16.
• In the coasts of Africa especially perni∣cious, ibid.
• Aire of the Sea, see Sea-wind.
• Aire of no small consequence in sicke∣nesse and in health, 141.
• Aire the generall ambient, 142.
• Ambient aire chiefely to be considered, 255.
• Aire temperate, correction of bad aire, and how to order the body according to the seasons of the yeere, 142, 145.
• Aire of Churches and Church-yards, in populous places especially oftentimes noisome, 142, 143, 144.
• Aire of stoves, or hot houses not whole∣some, 147.
• Aire in sicknesse how to be ordered, and how to be corrected, 145.
• Aire of the Countrie, and severall diffe∣rences thereof, 148.
• Of townes and Cities, and the differen∣ces thereof, and whether a countrie aire, or that of cities and townes be better, ibid.
• Aire of the ancient towne and corpora∣tion of Northampton temperate, 149.
• Aire considered in a double respect, 142.
• Aire of the roome where the sicke li∣eth, 146, 147.
• Albanians they see better by night than by day, 355.
• Ale, and the vertues thereof, 127.
• Ale without hops. ibid.
• Ale-houses nurseries of drunkennes, 135.
• Dry ale-houses, see Tabacco.
• Alexander the great sober before his Asi∣atick victory against the Persians, 106.
• Alexander Severus had something read during meales, and after meals, 220.
• Allowes, 93.
• Almonds, 69.
• Almond-milke, 201.
• Almond-milke, or nutmilke for the poorer sort 202.
• Allisander, 54.
• Alphonsus King of Arragon his Epicure∣like speech. 3.
• Amulets, and of what power and effica∣cy against fascination, 356.
• Anchovies, 91.
• ...

• Andrew Dure his life by sea, 19.
• Anger a cruell monster, 388.
• Anger hurtfull to the body. 392.
• Anger the cause of many dangerous dis∣eases in the body of man, ibid.
• Anger hath somtimes caused death, 392.
• Anger for whom most hurtfull, ••91.
• Anger in what diseases most usefull, and in what diseases most dangerous, ibid.
• Antidotes against anger, both out of ho∣ly Writ, and out of divers ancient Philosophers, 388.389, 390.
• Apples of several sorts, how to be used, and when best, 66.
• Apples of what operation, ibid.
• Aqua-vitae, 193.
• Aristotle his counsell to Alexander the great, 389.
• Arteries seldome opened, 239.
• Artichockes, 57.
• Artichockes of Ierusalem, 45.
• Ash-keyes, 99.
• Asparagus, or Sperage, 53.
• Asses flesh, see uncoth flesh.
• Astomi, or men without mouthes, 29.
• Astringent medicines in fluxes not rash∣ly to be exhibited, 315.
• Aveus, 34.
• Augustus Caesar very sharp sighted, 134.
• Aurum Potabile, 6. 193.
• Autumne, and the temperature thereof: See Seasons of the yeere.

B.

• Barble, 93.
• Barlev & the cōmendation therof, 198.
• French Barley, 199.
• Creame of Barley, 198, 199.
• Barley-water how used among the anci∣ents, both Greeks and Arabians, 200.
• Barley water cautelously to be used, and how to be corrected, 201.
• Barley-water for the poorer sort, ibid.
• Our ordinary Barley, how to prepare both for Barley-water, and Creame of Barley, 200.
• Basiliea-veine, 288.
• Basiliske, 355.
• Bathing and anointing the body before meales, 294.
• Bathing very frequent among the anti∣ents, ibid.
• Bathing very frequent among the Ger∣manes, Vs'd there promiscuously with∣out any previous preparation, 294, 295
• Bathes artificiall 296.
• Vse of Bathes in mans body, ibid.
• Warme or temperate Bathes and their vertues. ibid.
• Hot Bathes, and their use in divers dis∣eases, and in what cases most hurtfull, 296, 297.
• Bathing in cold water, and for whom hurtfull in sicknesse and in health, 297.
• In Bathing how to be ordered: conti∣nuance in the Bathe, 298.
• Bathes naturall of severall sorts, 300, 304, 305, 306, &c.
• Bathes participating of the nature of y∣ron, allum, copperas, plaster, silver and gold, ibid.
• Of Sulphurous and Biluminus Bathes ib.
• Immoderate Bathing dangerous, 299.
• Bawme, and Bawme-water, 56.
• Beanes, 43.
• Bed whereon the sicke lieth 152.
• Downe Beds and feather-beds heat the back much, in sommer especially, and in hot diseases. ibid.
• Beds filled with wooll, ibid.
• Beds filled with Oat-chaffe very use∣full, &c. ibid.
• Babylonian Beds of leather, filled with water, ibid.
• Italian beds filled with wind, ibid.
• High French Beds best in sommer, and hot diseases, ibid.
• Field-beds and canopy beds, ibid.
• Hanging Beds good for the use of the sicke, ibid
• Beds should differ according to the dis∣ease and season of the yeere.
• Beefe, 72.
• Beere, and the vertues thereof, 123.
• Differences of Beere from the malt it is made of, from the age, the strength, substance, taste, quantity of hops, the calour, the fewell wherewith the malt is dried, and the water where∣with it is brewed, 126.
• Bitter Beere, 127.
• Beere better for our sick than wine, 192.
• Buttered Beere, and the abuse there∣of, 324.
• Beetes, 49.
• Belly or Tripes, 75.
• Benedict. 1. and 14. Popes, and their licencious lines, 330.
• Barberies, 62.
• Beteony, 56.
• Bewitching: See fascination.
• Bilberries, 62.
• Bird of Paradise, 29.
• Bissextile or leap-yeere, 229, 300, &c.
• Blacke-bird, 80.
• Bittowre, 81.
• ...

• Bleare eyes, the and effects they pro∣duce, 355.
• Blites, or Bleees, 49.
• Blood of beasts, 76.
• Blood abounding causeth many disea∣ses, 228.
• Blood-leting: See phlebotomie.
• Borrage. 50.
• Boare-heads nailed on great mens gates in Switzerland, 356.
• Braines of beasts, 75.
• Braines of fowle, 82.
• Bramble-berries, 61.
• Brawne: See Hogs flesh.
• Bread of severall sorts, 42.
• Bread of Wheate, and the differences thereof; from the meale, preprati∣on and age, ibid.
• Bread made of Barley, of Pease, Beanes, Oates, Millet, Panicke, &c. 43.
• Bread made of roots, ibid.
• Bread of other graines seldome used for food, more for physicke, ibid.
• Bread of Chestnuts, 70.
• Bread yeeldeth the best nourishment.
• Bread to be used both with Fish and Flesh, ibid.
• Bread, what best for the sickes use: how for them to be prepared, and how to be used, 170, &c.
• Bread of new flowre fittest for the sick, and how the ancients washed their bread, ibid.
• How it is washed with us, ibid.
• Vnleavened Bread hurtfull for the sicke, ibid.
• Artificiall preparations of Bread accor∣ding to occasions, ibid.
• Breake-fast, and whether it be used∣full, 49.
• Broome, 93.
• Broome-flowers, 99.
• Brothes for the sicke, 179.
• Buglosse: See Borrage.
• Buriall in Churches and Church-yards: See Aire.
• Burning lampe made of blood: See lampas vitae & mortis.
• Bustard, 81.
• Butter, 76.
• When best, 208.
• Whether usefull for the sicke, and how to be used, ibid.

C.

• Cabbage and their qualities, 52.
• Cacochymia what, 231.
• Calipha died by eating pigeons roasted with the heads, 275.
• Camels milke: See milke.
• Camels flesh: See uncouth flesh.
• Capers pickled, 99.
• Capons flesh, 77.
• Capons unknowne to the ancients, 154.
• Capons whether they ingender the gout, 175.
• Cardan contemned the dog-daies: His voyage into Scotland to Cardinall Be∣ton, 255.
• Carnall copulation, and the moderate use thereof, 325.
• Moderately usefull, and profitable for the body, 326.
• Immoderate use thereof procureth great hurt to the body.
• For what bodies most usefull:
• For whom most hurtfull; sicke folkes must absteine from it.
• Some other things concerning this sub∣ject, 326.327, &c.
• Carpe, 93.
• Carrot, 45.
• Carrying on mens shoulders, 219.
• Cats flesh: See uncouth diet.
• Cephalice vein when to be opened, 239.
• Chamelion liveth not on the aire. 29.
• Charles the great had something read to him during meales, 229.
• Cheekes of beasts, 75.
• Cheese. 76.
• The best. ibid.
• Cherries and their kindes, 62.
• Chestnuts: See Nuts.
• Chickens. 77.
• Children are not to be frighted with bug-beares and the like, 394.
• China broth: See broth.
• Cider, 128.
• Cinamon, and the vertues thereof, 102.
• Cinq-foile, 51.
• Circaea or Circelus: See Mandrakes.
• Citron or Lemmon, 63.
• Cives, 46.
• Clary, 54.
• Clement the 8 Pope, a bastard, a Bawd, &c. 329.
• Climactericall yeeres, with the signifi∣cation of the word 10.
• Climactericall yeers of divers sorts, and what they portend, ibid.
• According to some, divers in man and woman, ibid.
• Three severall causes of these yeeres, A∣stronomicall & Physicall, Numrical, 11.
• ...

• Clothing of the sicke, 153, 154.
• Clothing would inrich Northampton, 150.
• Clothing begunne to be set up in Nor∣thampton, ibid.
• Clovegillisiflowres, 99.
• Cloves, 101.
• Cocatrice: See Basiliske.
• Cockes-flesh, 78.
• Old Cockes, 157.
• Cockles, 91.
• Cod-fish of divers kinds, 89.
• Coelica passio▪ See Fluxes.
• Cold of Northerne countries, 259.
• Cold countries may feed more liberally than hot, 38.
• Colice, 180.
• Columbines, 53.
• Col-worts: See Cabbage.
• Concoction, naturall and artificiall, 277.
• Concoction when to bee expected, ibid.
• Conger, 89.
• Conie, 74.
• Constantine, King of Scotland, made strict lawes against riot and excesse, 106.
• Conviviall discourses: See exercises of the minde.
• Corne, and the kindes thereof, 4.
• Corneillons, 67.
• Covering of the sicke, 151. 152.
• Too much covering of the sicke, ibid.
• Countrie-people often much wrong themselves in the use of phlebotomy, 148.
• Country-Surgeons often much wrong the people in this same particular, ibid.
• Cow-slip flowers, 99.
• Crabfish, 92.
• Crane, 81.
• Criticall daies depend more upon the materiall cause of the disease, than on the starres, 358.
• Crustards: See white meats.
• Crying: See exercise.
• Cucumer, or Coucomber, 58.
• Cupping most commonly used with sca∣rification: See Scarification.
• The matter and forme of such cups, and in what bodies most usefull ibid.
• Dry cups without scarification, ibid.
• Currants, 61. 65.
• Cuttle-fish, 90.

D.

• Dates, 65.
• David, King of Scotland, suppressed all riot and excesse in his kingdome. 167.
• Daies good and bad, a heathenish super∣stion, 259.
• Deer: See Venison.
• Derivation, and when to be used: See phlebotomy: What it is ibid.
• Distillation unknowne to antiquitie, 190.
• Distilled waters, ibid.
• Distilled restoratives for the sicke, 180.
• Dinner, and the time thereof among the ancients, and among us, 37. 38.
• Dinner or supper, which may be more liberall, 39. 40.
• Dinner the day of purgation, 288.
• Discourse of waighty matters du∣ring meales: See conviviall dis∣course. ibid.
• Directions for Conviviall discourse, ibid.
• Divines and their education in good li∣terature: Intr. 19.
• Their paines and prerogative: ibid.
• Their advantage beyond the Physiti∣ans: ibid.
• They are freed from many incom∣brances whereunto the Physitian is subject: ibid.
• They have the sole power of admitting those of their owne profession, Intr. 19. 21.
• Diureticke remedies, and their use, 311.
• Their right use and preparation before. ibid.
• Of two sorts, ibid.
• Errour in the use of diuretickes: Safest and best diureticke simples, ibid.
• Danger in the use of hot diureticke simples, ibid.
• Dog-daies, whether to be observed, 151, &c.
• Whether phlebotomy and physicke may not safely be administered there∣in, ibid.
• They are often needlessely feared, ibid.
• This season often colder than other

• seasons of the summer, 251. 252, &c.
• Dogs-flesh: See uncouth flesh.
• Dosis of medicines divers, 278.
• Dreames and their severall kindes, 338.
• Signification of dreames, and whether they concerne the ficke, 338. 339, 340.
• Drinke and the utility thereof: 312.
• What drinke is: ibid.
• Division of Drinke, and rules to be ob∣served in the use thereof: ibid.
• Quantity of Drinke: ibid.
• The ordinary measures of Drinke a∣mong the ancients, 113.
• Morning draught. ibid.
• Strong Drinke not to bee used fa∣sting. ibid.
• Beginning the repast with a draught ibid.
• Drinke often used in ancient time to close up the stomacke, 114.
• Drinking to Bed-ward, 115.
• Drinke made of corne used by the ancients, especially Aegyptians, 125.
• Drinke made of corne with us dif∣fereth much from that of the an∣cients, ibid.
• Drinke very usefull in many diseases, but in hot and acute Fevers espe∣cially, 183.
• Divers drinkes usefull for the diseased. 198. 199, &c.
• Drunkards breake all the Commande∣ments, 130.
• They are pernicious to a cōmon-wealth, 132
• To bee put to death by the Lawes of a Scottish King, 133.
• They are often short lived, and many times dye of long lingering diseases, 137
• No new sinne, 129.
• What it is, ibid.
• Nations taxed with drunkennesse, ibid.
• It is the cause of great mischiefe to the mind and understanding, 131.
• It procureth divers diseases to the body, making the same also sub∣ject to many outward dangers, 131, 132.
• It proveth likewise often dangerous to the soule, and many times over∣throweth a mans temporall estate, 132.
• It is unseemely to all estates and de∣grees, 133.
• Diet hath divers significations, and what properly among Physitians, 1.
• Diet whether necessary for healthfull and sicke persons? 3.
• Whether by Diet the life of man may bee prolonged for many yeeres? 4.
• Diet cannot perpetuate the life of man, and yet a most forcible meanes both to preserve and recover health. 5.
• Diet of the Diseased but slenderly handled heretofore, and by very few, 140.
• Strictly observed among the Antients, ibid.
• Among the Aegyptians and Locrians, ibid.
• Diet of the Diseased in generall, 162. 163.
• A full and liberall Diet: A spare and strict Diet, and the meane be∣twixt both, 163.
• Hippocraticall Diet too rigid for our country climat, ibid.
• Arabian Diet better suteth with our bodies, ibid.
• Diet of the Diseased reduced into two heads; the diseased, and the dis∣ease it selfe, 164.
• Diet in acute diseases how to be orde∣red: 167.
• In intermitting Fevers: ibid.
• In continuall Fevers without intermis∣sion, ibid.
• In prescribing the Diet of the disea∣sed divers things to be considered, 165. 168.
• By whom the most sparing diet is to be observed, 166.
• Diet drinke: See drinke of the disea∣sed.

E.

• Eares of beasts, 75.
• Earth nourisheth not, 30.
• Ebionites haereticks & their abstinence:

• See abstinence.
• Eeles not wholesome, 93.
• Egestion: See excrements.
• Egges and their nourishment, 83.
• Egges whether fit for the sicke: they are not so hot as is supposed by Hippo∣crates in acute diseases, 176. 177.
• Egs man safely be allowed in fevers, ibid.
• Egs of Hens best of all others, ibid.
• Egs prepared after several waies, in sick∣nesse and in health, ibid.
• Markes of Egges, and how to discerne a new laid Egge. 178.
• Electuaries how taken, 288.
• Elements pure and simple nourish not, 21. 29, &c.
• Elephants flesh: See flesh.
• Embrocations, 293.
• Empericke-physitians, Intr. 2.
• Empericke what, ibid.
• Empericks of divers sorts, ibid.
• Empericks abound here with us, Intr. 3.
• Emulsitions, their compositions and se∣verall sorts of them, 201.
• Emunctories in the body of man, where∣by excrements are expelled, 225.
• Endive, 49.
• Error of such as divulge secrets (as they call them) in the vulgar coung, Int. 26.
• Esseans fast, or abstinence: see abstinence.
• Evacuation, what, 226.
• Evacuations sometimes too much a∣bound, ibid Before Evacuations what to be considered, ibid. Evacuations of severall sorts, generall, and particular, when they maybe most liberall, 228.
• Ewes milke: See milke.
• Excesse of the Persian Kings in their or∣dinary expences, 106.
• Excrements of the guts, or fecall excre∣ments. 313.
• Best excrements, ib. Worse excrements, Evill coloured excrements of divers sorts, wormes in excrements: Liquid excrements and the causes, 314.
• Soft excrements with their causes: hard excrements, and their severall causes: Quantity of excrements: Time of e∣gestion, and how often it is usefull in sicknesse and in health, ibid. & 315.
• Exercise and the vtility thereof, 211.
• Vsefull in sicknesse and in health: Fit∣test time foe exercise, 213.
• Violent exercise immediately after meales hurtfull to health, &c. ibid.
• Place fit for exercise, the persons to be exercised: the quantitie or duration, quality, order, &c. 213. 214.
• Exercises ought not to be too violent, especially in some persons, 214.
• Difference of exercise, ibid.
• Exercises of the whole body: Of some part, mixt particular exercises, ibid.
• Exercises of some particular profes∣sion, 216.
• Exercise must differ according to seve∣rall constitutions, 213.
• Exercise in what kinde of disease may be permitted, 221.
• Exercises in chronicall diseases, ibid.
• Exercises of the minde, 217.
• Expectoration, 323.
• Error in the use of expectoration, ibid.
• Caveats in the use of expectorants: pre∣paration of the humors to be expecto∣rated, 324.
• Forme of expectorants, ibid.
• Expectoration in diseases of the lungs and pectorall parts chiefely to be con∣sidered, ibid.
• Expectoration ceasing in vlcers of the lungs, and the presage thereof 26.
• Expressum: See Broth.
• Eyes of beasts, 75.
• Eyes full of resplendent spirits, 354.

F.

• Fable of the Foxe and the Crane, 218.
• Fecall excrements: See Excrements.
• Fancie: See Imagination.
• Fascination, and the severall sorts there∣of, 334.
• Fascination with the eyes, ibid
• Fascination by speech and voice, and how procured, 333.
• Fast: See abstinence.
• Fatt of Beasts, 74.
• Feare, and the severall kindes thereof, 39••.
• Feare produceth strange effects in the body of man: Feare may cause death: What persons it hurteth most: Feare and Griefe stirre vp melancholy in the body of man: Sicke folks are carefully to avoid this passion, and great circum∣spection for the prevention thereof to be used, 393, 394, 395, 396.
• Feet of beasts, 75.
• Figges, 65.
• Filbird: See Nuts.
• Fild fare. 81.
• Fish, and their severall kindes, 88.
• Fresh-water fish, 92,
• Fish in ancient times how prepared: how in our time, 182.
• ...

• Fish, whether fit for the sicke, ibid.
• What Fish fittest for the sicke, ibid.
• Fisticke, ibid.
• Flesh of severall sorts, 72, &c.
• Goodnesse of Flesh, according to their severall circumstances. 71.
• Vncouth Flesh, 83.
• Flesh for the sicke, and divers preparati∣ons made of the same, 178, 179, 180.
• Flounder, 89.
• Fluxes of divers sorts, 315.
• In Fluxes, astringent medicines caute∣lously to be used, ibid.
• Fonticulous; See searing.
• Food: See nourishment
• Food of a grosse, slender, and of a meane substance, 34.
• Foot-ball play, 214.
• Fore-spoken what: See Fascination.
• Fowle of severall sorts. 77.
• Tame-fowle, wilde-fowle, 79, &c.
• Water-Fowle, 81.
• Frictions usefell for the sicke, 221.
• Frogges; See uncouth flesh.
• Fruits and their nourishment, 59.
• Fruits of severall kindes, together with their qualities and nourishment, ibid.
• Fruits, what fittest for the sicke, 172.
• Frumentie: See white meat.

G.

• Garlicke, 46.
• Gelee, 180.
• Gelee of Harts-horne, ibid.
• Ginger, the vertues and cautions in the use thereof, 100.
• Glisters used for divers ends, and in di∣vers infirmities: they differ both in the quantitie and qualitie: quantitie differeth according to severall cir∣cumstances; Retention of Glisters, 281, 282.
• Gluttony with the incoveniences ther∣of, hurtful both to soule and body, 103.
• Gauseth many diseases, 104.
• Goats-flesh. 73.
• Goats-milke: See milke.
• Gold and Silver communicate no ver∣tue to minerall waters, 305.
• Goose-berries, 61.
• Goose, tame and wilde 78.
• Solan Goose, 79.
• Gourd, 57.
• Gournard, 90.
• Grapes, 64.
• Gregorian yeere: See Bissextile.
• Griefe and sorrow, and the effects there∣of, what sort of griefe allowable, what sort of people it most hurteth; and whom least, 393.
• Gripings in purgation, 290.
• Gudgeon, 92.
• Gufford: See maw.

H.

• Haddocke. 90.
• Haire, whether it ought to be cut in sicknesse, 155▪
• Whethet it ought to be short or long, 156.
• It ought not too often to be cut, especi∣ally that of the face and beard ought not too often to be shaven, 155.
• Haire baltered together after a strange serpentine forme, a very strange and prodigious thing to behold 156.
• Hollibut, 90.
• Hares-flesh, 74.
• Heatt of beasts, 75.
• Haslenut: See Nut.
• Head and braines, 75.
• Health a chiefe earthly happinesse, 1.
• What Health is, 2.
• Health two-fold, ibid.
• Heathens and Heretickes farre surpasse our Romanists in strictnesse of absti∣nence: See Abstinence.
• Hectickes how to be bathed, 296.
• Hedge-hogg, 74.
• Henne, 77.
• Herbs, and their use in diet. 48.
• Their use for the sicke, 171.
• Heron, 81.
• Herring, 90. Red-herring, ibid.
• History of a woman-physitian in Nor∣thampton-shire, Intr. 10.
• Of a noble vertuous Lady of Northamp∣ton-shire very charitable and benefici∣all to the poore, Intr. 12.
• Histories of quacksalving Mountebanks, Intr. 3.
• History of a yong woman cured by phle∣botomy, howbeit much diswaded by her friends therefrom, Intr. 11.
• Histories of Leprosies cured contrary to intention, Intr. 7.
• History of a desperate cure in the swea∣ting sicknesse ibid.
• Another of a desperate fellow casually curing himselfe of an inveterate head∣ach, ibid.
• Another of a fellow taking an indefinite quantity of sweating powder for the Ague. ibid.
• Another of a Gentlewoman cured of the mother, stone, and splene, Intr. 20.
• ...

• History of a man living onely on the Sunne and aire, 29.
• History of the diversity of weather in a small distance, 22.
• History of Democritus his life prolong'd for certaine daies, 29.
• Histories of som who lived divers yeers without any manner of sustenance, 31.
• History of a fellow living 7 daies vnder the ground on his owne urin only, ib.
• History of a dead Henne turned into a stone, 32.
• History of Pythagoras his supposed forty daies fasting, 33
• History of the imposture of an Hermite counterfeiting long abstinence, ibid.
• History of a maid eating all the salt she could come by: See salt,
• Histories of some living all their life time without any drinke, 109.
• History of Iovinian the Emperor killed with the smoake of charcoale, 145.
• History of wine permitted in a fever, 192.
• History of one living long on the spirit of Wine, 193.
• Histories of some living all their life time on milke only, 109.
• Histories of divers dying about their cli∣mactericall yeere: See Climacteri∣call yeere.
• History of a Gentlewoman delivered of twinnes in the field, farre from any towne, 236.
• Histories of women with child purged and phlebotomised, 273.
• History of phlebotomy in an ancient Gentlewoman. 245.
• History of phlebotomy an in old man during the dog-daies, 254.
• History of a Knight cured during the dog-daies, 233.
• History of a tame Bucke once drunke, which never after would drinke any strong drinke, 131.
• History of an absurd cure of sore eyes, 257.
• History of Galeacius, Duke of Mantua, 345.
• Another of Faustina, wife to Amonius the Philosopher, who dranke the blood of a sword-player. 347.
• History of Antiochus in love with his mother in law, Stratonice, 346.
• History of one killing his wife & a man in the very act of adultery 348.
• Another of a French Doctor, severely punishing his corrivall, ibid.
• Some others to the same purpose, espe∣cially of an old woman, fearing lest after her death, her young husband should marry a young woman, 359.
• History of Philip king of Macedon falling in love with a faire young maid, 353.
• History of a ligature in a young country-fellow and his wife newly marri∣ed, 351.
• Another of Priests in France, ordinarily vsing ligatures, ibid.
• History of one by the Divell tempted to drunkennesse, who by this meanes fell also into two other foule sins, 131.
• History of a old strumpet-killing certain Abbots with her love drinkes, 352.
• Histories of some dying of feare, 396.
• Others of some by feare having their blacke haires changed all white in one night, 394.
• History of a Gentlewoman in Northam∣ton: shire bigge with childe, by reason of feare falling into strange convulsi∣on fits, yet recovering, 397.
• Another of a widdow newly married, who after a great anger, died of con∣vulsions, 392.
• Histories of Philosophers concerning anger, 389. 391.
• History of a much renowned Empe∣ricke, disgraced by King Iames of fa∣mous memory 410.
• Hogs flesh, 71. 72.
• Wilde Hogs flesh, 74.
• Hony and the vertues thereof, 95. 96.
• For what complexions most usefull, ibid.
• Boiled Hony; it must not be over-boiled, ibid.
• Course Hony, quintessence of Hony, 96.
• Clarifying of Hony, skimming of Hony:
• Effects of raw Hony, ibid.
• Horse-flesh: See uncouth flesh.
• Hot-houses or Stoves, 147.
• Humours to be purged out of the body:
• Humours capable of concoction: See purgation.
• Hydromell, 196.
• Hydrotickes, or medicines provoking sweat of severall sorts, 291. 292.
• Hydroticke mineralls, ibid.
• Hydroticke inunctions, ibid.
• Hydrotickes cautelously to be used: pre∣paration before their use, ibid.
• In chronicall diseases how; in what cases hurtfull: Caution in the use of strong Hydrotickes, ibid.
• ...

• Continuance or duration, 243.
• Hyssop, 57.

I.

• Idlenesse a great incentive and stirrer up of lust, 345.
• Iewes absteine from water during their solemne fasts, 30.
• Ignorant and unskilfull persons are not fit to deale with this dieteticall part of Physicke, farre lesse with the parti∣cular part thereof, Intr. 26.
• Ignorance of the vulgar in judging of a Physitians sufficiency, Intr. 4. 5, &c.
• Ignorant and undeserving people often rob the Physitian of the praise & com∣mendation due to his desert, Intr. 20.
• Ignorant and unskilfull practitioners of∣ten more chargeable to the patient than the most skilfull Physitian, 410.
• Illyrians hurting by aspect, 355.
• Imagination produceth strange effects within the same body, 359.
• Imagination cannot attract influences frō the heavens; according to the doctrine of Paracelsus, Crollius, and other Para∣celsians it workes wonderous and stu∣pendious effects, attracting from the heavens plagues, pestilent Fevers, &c. And like a load-stone it attracteth any power from the elements, and wor∣keth beyond thousands of miles: As likewise that the imagination of the sick attracteth health from the health∣full, 160. 161.
• Indication of phlebotomy, 230.
• Indication of purging, 271.
• Indication of the quantity, 278.
• Infirmities following lustfull love, 345.
• Ingratitude of patients towards their Physitians, Intr. 22, &c.
• Ingratitude of old, blame-worthy, ibid.
• Intemperance: See Gluttony.
• Iringo-roots, 45.
• Ioy and gladnesse good if they be mo∣derate: Exceeding measure may pre∣judice the health, and may sometimes cause death, 398. 400.
• Ioy and gladnesse usefull for the sick, and carefully to be procured ibid.
• Ischiadiça, or vena poplitis when to be o∣pened, 240.
• Issue and event in Gods hands; it falleth out alike to the learned and unlearned Physitian, Intr. 5. &c.
• Issues where to be made, 265.

K.

• Kid, 73.
• Kidney, 76.
• S. K••aherines well a bituminous spring, neer Edenbourgh in Scotland, 307.
• Knaresbor••w well in Yorkeshire, ibid.

L.

• Labour of the minde cannot be recom∣penced: See Physitians.
• Laconicum what, and for what bodies most beneficiall; together with the time, both generall and particular: Preparation before the use of it, 297.
• Lamb, 73.
• Lampas vitae & mortis, 347.
• Composition of this Lamp, 365.
• Lamprey, 93.
• Lapwing, 81.
• Larke, 80.
• Lavative broth, 288.
• Lawyers and their great paines: They have many advantages of the Physiti∣ans: See Physitians.
• Leaches, their election & right use, 263.
• Leape-yeere: See Bissextile.
• Leeke, 46.
• Legges of fowle, 82.
• Lemon: See Citron.
• Lettice, 48.
• Levret: See Hares flesh.
• Ligatures, their utility and profit, 221.
• Ligatures unlawfull, and their too too frequent use among some, 351. 352.
• Linen of the sicke: It ought to be often shifted: Errour of the vulgar in this point detected and confuted, 163.
• Linet, 80.
• Liver of beasts, Lungs of beasts, 75
• Liver of fowle, 82.
• Lobster, 92.
• Locusts: See uncouth flesh.
• Love, and what it is: Lustfull Love and harmes thereby procured: Remedies against this unlawful lust, 144, &c.
• Lovepotions mentioned in prophane au∣thors: simples provoking lust of divers kindes: they prove often poison to the body: They have no such vertue as our ancient and moderne Physitians write of: they cānot force affections, or pro∣duce such effects of themselves, 361.
• Whether love can be procured by any medicine? 352.

M.

• Mace, 101.
• Mackerell, 90.
• Magistrates should not suffer any nice∣ties to be published in Almanacks, 261.
• Mallowes, 50.
• Mandrakes and the consideration there∣of: Description of Mandrakes: Im∣posture of cheaters with their coun∣terfeit Mandrakes: Opinion of the

• ancients concerning this point: Opi∣nion of S. Augustin & others, 382. 383.
• It is rather hot than cold in operation: It hath no power to make the barren beare children, 386.
• Apples of Mandrake: Narcoticke qua∣lities of this plant, 384. 385.
• Mans flesh: See uncouth flesh.
• Shambles of mans flesh, ibid.
• Manichees error concerning fasting: See Fasting.
• Manucodiata: see Bird of Paradice.
• March-panes and their use: see bread for the sicke, 328. 329.
• Marigold. 53.
• Marioram: Pot Marioram, 55.
• Marrow, 75.
• Maw or Gussard, 82.
• Mawborne hills springs, 307.
• Meale: See Repast.
• Mediana, or Median veine, 239.
• Medlar, 67.
• Melicratum: See Hydromel.
• Melon, Muske-melon, 58.
• Menstruous fluxe stopt, cause of many diseases, 331.
• Menstruous fluxe abounding, ibid.
• Mercury, 52.
• Metheglin used much by the ancient Brittaines, 96.
• Milke, and what it is, 76.
• Best Milke and the parts thereof, ibid.
• Milke, Milke of divers sorts: Mares milke in great request among the Tar∣tares: Womans milke: Ewes milke: Cowes milke: Goats milke: Sowes milke: Vertues of these severall sorts of milke: In what time of the yeere best: It differeth according to the na∣ture of the beast from which it is mil∣ked: the colour and food it feeds on: qualities and properties of the best milke, and of whom it may safeliest be used: too frequent used offensive: how, and with what preparation to be used, and what to be done after the use thereof: How the ancients used it: Cautions before it be used: Ancients boiled water with their milke: The quantity. pag. 203. 204, 205.
• Sower-milke: Butter-milke, 280.
• Milt, 75.
• Minerall waters brought in by the later Physitians, 300.
• The lose not their vertue in leap-yeere: See Leap-yeere.
• They lose much of their efficacy and power by carrying and warming, 306.
• Vsefull for the health of mankind, 299.
• They are used in a double manner, 303.
• Preparation of the body before their use: The time and manner of using them, 304.
• Ministers too busie with the practice of Physicke, even where able Physitians are to be found, 404.
• They have no reason to plead for want or need: Divers reasons against this practice, and the unlawfulnesse there∣of proved, ibid. &c.
• Moone in some cases observable: Shee is of swift motion, and abideth not long in a signe, 257. 258.
• Moore-Cocke, 80.
• Moore-Hen, 82.
• Mulberries, 60.
• Mules flesh: See uncouth flesh.
• Mullet, 90.
• Mulsa, Mulsum, 196.
• Mushroms, 47.
• Mussells, 91.
• Mussell-broth: See Broth.
• Mustard, 99.
• Mutton, and which kinde is the best, of Ewes, Wedder, &c.

N.

• New-name Wells, 308.
• Night-walkers. 304.
• Nine runneth hard by the ancient towne of Northampton, 149.
• This River made navigable would in∣rich all the country round about it. 150.
• Noctambulones: See Night-walkers.
• Northampton situate in a good fruitfull soile, 199.
• It is situate towards the South Sunne: the aire very temperate, and health∣full for the body of man, ibid.
• Nourishment in generall, 34.
• Things to be considered in nourish∣ment, ibid.
• Nourishment of herbs, 48. 49, &c.
• Nourishment of fruits, 59. 60, &c.
• Nutmegs, 102.
• Nuts, 68.
• Indian Nuts, 112.

O.

• Oile, and the use of it very antient, 98.
• Oile of two sorts, ibid.
• Oile of Walnuts wholesome, 99.
• Oisters, 91.
• Olives pickled, 99.
• Onion, 46.
• Orach, 49.
• Orange, 67. 68.
• Orgemond, and what it is▪ See Barley-water
• ...

• Orifice of the veine: Large Orifice: a small Orifice, 240. 241.
• Oxymel and the commendation thereof: simple and compound; how prepared of old, and how with us, 195.

P.

• Paracelsians swelling promises, 6.
• Paracelsians commonly short lived for all their smoakie promises to others: They faile grossely in their antidotes against the Plague, and other contagi∣ous diseases: They hold that metalls nourish the body, but falsely, ibid.
• Paracelsus himselfe short lived: His strange opinion concerning long life: the lives of our forefathers, and pro∣longing of life by imagination: To save his credit, said to be poisoned, ib.
• Parslie, 54.
• Parsnep, 44.
• Partridge, 79.
• Peach, 63, 64.
• Peacocke, 78.
• Peares, dried Peares, 67.
• Penniroyall, 54.
• Pepper, the kindes, right use and abuse thereof, 100.
• Perch, 92.
• Perry, 128.
• Phansie: See Imagination.
• Phesant, 79.
• Philtra: See Love-potions.
• Phlebotomy what, 228. 229.
• How it differeth from purgation: What things therein to be considered, 229.
• Preparation before, during, and after bleeding what to be done, 262.
• Phlebotomy threefold, 230.
• Indication of Phlebotomy: Vse and end of Phlebotomy, and in what cases to be used, ibid.
• Vse thereof in pestilentiall, contagious and maligne Fevers, in the small Pox, Measells and laundise, 233.
• The vulgar shy of Phlebotomy, & why? and causes of the often evill successe of this remedy, 234.
• Not so frequent in Hippocrates time, 243.
• To what persons it may safely be admi∣nistred: It may safely be administred to women with child in time of need; and safely to both young and old, 141. 142.
• Quantity in Phlebotomy hath no cer∣tain rule, and how to be found out, 246.
• Large evacuations when to be used, 247.
• Swounding yeeldeth us no certainty concerning the quantity, nor yet the changing of the colour, ibid.
• Ancients very lavish in this evacuation: Reiteration of Phlebotomy, and di∣vers kindes thereof, 248.
• Divers vulgar errors concerning phlebo∣tomy: Oportune time of Phleboto∣my, generall and particular; of electi∣on and coaction; in prevention and in sickenesse; in chronicall and acute disease, 250. 251.
• It may with us in any season of the yeere be administred, ibid.
• Phlebotomy evacuateth Plethory, 231.
• Things to be considered in the opening of the veine, strength especially, 241.
• Particular Phlebotomy by leaches and scarification, 263.
• Physicke a more painfull, laborious, and troublesome profession than any o∣ther, Intr. 18.
• Physitians practicall paines exceede the paines of other professions: Paines of the three chiefe professions parallel∣ed and compared together, Intr. 19.
• Extent of the Physitians study excee∣deth that of other professions, Ibid.
• Physitians often much incombred to please their patients: Their best acti∣ons and indeavours often misconstru∣ed, and they wrongfully traduced: Their paines greatest, and yet often worse requited than those of other professions: They have many sha∣rers with them which often rob them of their due, Intr. 21.
• Pigeons, 78. 175.
• Whether to be used of the sicke, ibid.
• Pigge, 72.
• Pilchards or sprats, 90.
• Pills, how, and when to be taken, 280.
• Pine-apple: See Nut.
• Plethora: See Repletion.
• Plover, 82.
• Plums and their properties, 65.
• Pomgranat, 68▪
• Pope Iulius a Sodomite, 329.
• Pope Sixtus 4, erected in Roome, stewes for both kindes of uncleannesse, and al∣lowed the use of Sodomy, ibid.
• Pope Clement the 8: See Clement the 8.
• Pope Iohn the 4, a whore-master, an a∣dulterer, a Sodomite, ibid.
• Pope Benedict: See Benedict.
• Pope Paul the 3 prostituted his owne daughter, 330.
• Posset-drinke, and severall waies of

• preparation, 207.
• White-wine posset-Drinke, ibid.
• Sorrell posset-drinke, ibid.
• Posset-drinke in maligne and pestilenti∣all fevers, ibid.
• Plaine ordinary posset-drinke, ibid.
• Best Posset for healthfull people, 208.
• Eating Possets, and the abuse thereof, ib.
• Potato roots, 45.
• Pricke-madam, 50.
• Prescilli••mists fast: See Abstinence.
• Ptisan: See Creame of barley.
• Puffe, 47.
• Purgation what, 267.
• In Purgation what to be considered, ibid. & 368.
• Purging medicines different, 168.
• Compound medicines various and of di∣vers sorts, ibid.
• Of divers formes, 269.
• Externall and internall, ibid.
• Purgation perfect and imperfect, ibid.
• Minorative purgation, ibid.
• ...P••r epierasin, ibid.
• Method of Purgation, and what therein to be considered, 269, &c.
• Error of the vulgar concerning Purga∣tion, 270.
• Indication of purging three-fold, 271.
• When to purge, and severall circum∣stances in purging to be considered, 283
• Humours to be purged, 276.
• Preparation before purgation, ibid.
• Preparation of the body and humors re∣quisite, 277.
• Difference thereof, ibid.
• Quantity of purging medicines, 278.
• Time of our purgation, generall and particular, 283. 284.
• When to be deferred, 284.
• In the beginning when to purge, ibid.
• In the fit when usefull, 285.
• Best time of the yeere, fittest day and time of the day, ibid.
• Strong purgations, 268.
• Gentle purgations, ibid.
• Defective purgation, and the cause thereof, 289. 290.
• After Purgation, how the patient is to be ordered, ibid.
• Divers formes of purging medicinces, 280.
• Liquid and solid formes, &c. 287.
• Passages by which we are to purge, and what therein to be considered, ibid.
• Perfect purgation and the signes there∣of, 289.
• Purselane, 50.
• Pythagorean abstinence: See abstinence.
• Pyke and Pycarell, 29.

Q.

• Quaile, 80.
• Quince, 67.

R.

• Rabbet or Conie: See Conie.
• Raile, 81.
• Raisin: Raisin of the Sunne, 65.
• Raspes, 60.
• Rats-flesh: See uncouth flesh,
• Reddish, Horse-Reddish, 44.
• Repasts and meales, and their number for one day 37.
• Times fittest for Repast, 38.
• Repasts and their times differ in severall countries, ibid.
• Repletion, and how ingendered, 225.
• Repletion indicates evacuation, ibid.
• Revulsion: See Phlebotomy.
• Rheumes distilling downe upon the breast, and how to expell this excre∣ment, 323.
• Rheumes troublesome to the body, ibid.
• Rheume differeth both in colour and in taste, ibid.
• Rheume, or that which is spit vp must be observed in pleurisies: Error of the vulgar in the use of expectorating me∣dicines against the Rheume, ibid.
• Rhintax: See Bird of Paradice.
• Ribes: See Currants.
• Rice-bread: See Bread.
• Rice-pottage: See white meats.
• Riot and excesse abound much in this our age: See gluttony.
• Rochet, Roch, 92. 93.
• Roses of severall sorts, 44, &c.
• Roses their severall kinds & vertues, 51.
• Rue eaten against fascination: See fasci∣nation.

S.

• Saffron, 102
• Sage, 56. It is far more soveraigne for the corroboration of the bram and ani∣mall parts than Tabacco: See Tabacco.
• Sailing, and the differences thereof: See Exercise.
• Sal gemmae: See Salt.
• ...Sal ammoniacus, ibid.
• Salivation, and the use the thereof, 316.
• Abuse thereof, ibid. & 321.
• Salmon, Salmon-trout, 92.
• Salt a sauce of sauces, 94.
• Salt of severall sorts, 95.
• Salt what best, ibid.
• Salt of salt-wells, ibid
• Salt made by the heat of the fire, ibid.
• ...

• Salt of plant, ibid.
• Salt, what complexions it best befitteth and to whom an enemy, 94.
• Cautions in the use thereof. ibid.
• Immoderately used hurtfull. Proper∣ties and vertues of Salt, ibid.
• Salicatella vena, 240.
• Sampierre kept for sallets, 92.
• Saphena veine, 240.
• Sardanap••lus his Epicure-like Epitaph, 105.
• Savory, 56.
• Scarification, 264.
• Often used with cupping: In what ca∣ses to be used, ibid.
• Scald, 90.
• Scurvie-grasse ale: See diet-drinke.
• Searing or burning of some part, What it is, 265.
• The benefit and utility thereof. The place of the issue, with some cautions, and the instrument wherewith it is made, ibid.
• Seasons of the yeare considerable in sicknesse and in health. 20.
• How ordinarily defined and limited, 21
• Otherwise distinguished by Hippocrates ibid.
• Seasons differ according to Climats and Countries within and without the Tropickes. ibid.
• They differ according to the situation of places, 22.
• Section or opening of the veine: See veine.
• Seed of generation what, and for what use, 315.
• Service, 67.
• Setaceum and Setum: See searing.
• Shifting of the sicke: See cleane linnen.
• Shooting with a bow: See exercise.
• Shrimps: See pranes.
• Signe whether to be considered in Phle∣botomy? 256.
• Erroneous and superstitious custome of the vulgar in so punctually observing the signe, ibid.
• Confutation of this opinion, 257.
• The Sunne ought to have a greater share in the signe than the Moone, and the reasons, 259.
• Signes ruminant a meere fancy and Chi∣mara. 258.
• Signes not to be observed in purging, ibi.
• Signes neglected of our best Physitians, howsoever some of them expert Ma∣thematicians, 260.
• Silke-wormes eaten: See uncouth diet.
• Situation of the sicke, house: See aire.
• Skallions: See Onions.
• Sleepe moderate, and the benefits there∣of, 332.
• Immoderate sleepe with the harmes thereon insuing, ibid.
• What sleepe is, ibid.
• It is not properly a function of any sense ibid.
• Fittest time for sleepe, 333.
• Sleepe in the day time whether allow∣able, ibid.
• For whom most hurtfull, ibid.
• Best situation of the body for Sleepe, Morning-sleepe, ibid.
• Sleepe of the sicke, 335.
• Time fittest for sicke folkes to sleepe in, ibid.
• In acute diseases fittest time. ibid.
• In what diseases it may bee of longest continuance, ibid.
• Sleepe in intermitting Fevers, ibid.
• In 〈◊〉〈◊〉 diseas••s ibid.
• In sop••••••••rous diseases it must bee s••••••ted. ibid.
• Whether the sick may sleepe after phy∣sicke? 288.
• Sleep not naturall threefold, 335.
• Drowsie or deadly sleepe, ibid.
• Criticall Sleepe, and the severall sorts of the same, 336.
• Sleepe carefully to be procured, ibid.
• The vulgar very shy of hypnoticke or sleepy medicines, ibid.
• Skirret, 45.
• Smelt, 90.
• Snailes and their use: See uncouth flesh,
• Snailes whether usefull in Consumptions and Hecticke fevers, ibid.
• Snot and Snevill, and the significations thereof, 303.
• Snowtes of beastes, 73.
• Sodomie by a Popish Prelate maintained lawfull, and allowed by a Pope, 329.
• Sorrell, 30. Wood sorrell, ibid.
• Soule and the passions thereof, 341.
• Spa. See Minerall waters.
• Spa by Aberdene, ibid.
• Sparrow, 80.
• Spells, characters and strange words of themselves have no power to pro∣duce any strange effect, 357.
• Spices used in Diet, 100.
• Spinage, 49.
• Spirit of wine: See aqua vita.
• Spirit of Ale or Beere, 1••3.
• ...

• Spittle, and the use thereof. 316.
• Spittle best in condition. Severall tasts of Spittle: Severall colours, ibid.
• It is to be considered in sicknesse and in health, 3••6.
• Sprats: See pilchards,
• Sterline, 80.
• Stipendary Physitians, Intr. 24.
• Stipends for Physitians would prove ve∣ry profitable for the cōmon-wealth, ibid.
• Stocke dove, 78.
• Stones of beasts, 76.
• Stones of fowle, 82.
• Storke, 81.
• Stove: See Hot-house,
• Strawberrie, 59.
• Sturgeon, 89.
• Succory or Cichoree: See Endive,
• Sugar and the vertues thereof, whether knowne by the antients, 96, 97.
• Sugar and sweet meats much used often prove dangerous, and for whom espe∣cially, 97.
• Sulpherous Bathes: See Bathes,
• Supper: See repast.
• Suppositories, their use, and with what caution to be used, 282.
• Surgeons ought to be carefull. They are often too busy with the profession of Physicke, Intr. 4.
• Swan, 81.
• Sweat an excrement of the third con∣coction, 290.
• Sweating in acute diseases, 291.
• Naturall and procured by Art: Sweat diaphoreticall: Sweat criticall and symptomaticall: Sweat how to bee procured: siimples provoking sweat, ibid.
• Swounding in phlebotomy no certaine signe of a sufficient evacuation, 247.

T

• Tansey: See egges,
• Tarragon, 56.
• Teale, 81.
• Teares, their divers kindes, and severall significations in sickenesse and in health, 293.
• Tench, 93
• Tennis play: See Exercise.
• Theodosius his cruell execution at Thessa∣lonica. His worthy decree and con∣stitution against the sudden executi∣on of Princes decrees, 390.
• Thirst hardlier indured than hunger, 109
• False thirst, Sitis mendosa, 183.
• Thrush, 80.
• Thornebacke: See Scate,
• Tiberius Caesar as sharpe sighted as a cat, 354.
• Time, 57.
• Tabacco as strong and violent a purger, & partaketh as much of a venomous or poisoning quality as any other simple accoūted therfore most infamous, 317
• It evacuateth often good and laudable moisture with the bad: It is indiffe∣rently used of all without respect of any circumstance whatsoever: Qua∣lities of Tabacco. Violent purging faculty. Abuse of Tabacco, with the best use: It is a strong narcoticke or benumming medicine, ibid.
• Often unseasonably used to further di∣gestion, 318
• It often causeth crudities, ibid.
• It is much sophisticate. For what infir∣mities fittest. In what season of the yeere, and with what correction to bee used. Circumstances in the use thereof to be considered. For whom most hurtfull. It is the cause of ma∣ny diseases and dismall accidents, 329 330.
• Tongues of beasts, 75.
• Tortoise, 92.
• Triballians: See Illyrians,
• Tripes: See bellie,
• Trout, 92.
• Truffe: See Puffe,
• Tunbridge-water, 307
• Turbot, 89.
• Turkie, 78.
• Turneps of severall shapes and formes, and their faculties, 44.
• Turtle, 78.

V

• Vdderne of beasts, 76
• Veale, 72.
• Veines to be opened in severall parts of the body of man. 239.
• Venetians vigorous and long lived, 18.
• Venison, 73.
• Verjuice, and the use thereof. 98.
• Vesicatories or blistering medicines: See searing or burning,
• Violets, 51.
• S. Vincents rocke-water, 307.
• Vineger. The vertues and various use thereof, 98.
• Vomit, and the commendation thereof: Rejected by some of the antients, 280
• But very frequently used by others, 281
• ...

• What parts best purged by vomit. Of∣ten rashly exhibited by Empirickes. ibid.
• For what persons most usefull, and for whom most unfitting. Preparation before, and what after a vomit to be done, 280, 281.
• Vrines, and their use, 309.
• Best urine in colour and contents. Gol∣den coloured urine. Blacke urine. V∣rine a fallacious signe therby to judge either of the disease or issue thereof. ibid.
• Vrines vary much in diseases. 310.
• Criticall excretion of urine. Retention and difficulty of avoiding urine. Quan∣tity of urine. Suppression of urine from divers causes, ibid.

W

• Walking a profitable exercise: See ex∣ercise,
• Walking after supper, ibid.
• Wal-nut: See nut.
• Washing and anointing of the body af∣ter. Washing in cold water, 294, 295.
• Washing of the hands. Of the head. Of the feet usuall with us. 295.
• Washing of the feet in sicknesse, 296.
• Watching what it is, and to what fun∣ction to be referred, 332.
• Immoderate watching hurtfull, and how, ibid.
• Water highly esteemed of the antients.
• Antiquity, utility and division of wa∣ter, 24.
• Weighing of water, deceitfull. Divisi∣on of usefull waters. 25.
• Raine-water. Snow-water. Harmes of snow-water. Cisterne-water, and the correction thereof. ibid.
• Vulgar error concerning the boiling of water, 6.
• Terrestriall, or water springing out of the earth. Spring-water. Best spring-water according to situation, place, aspect of humours, &c. ibid.
• Water carried through pipes of lead, whether usefull? Water of rivers, of pooles and ponds. Of wells and pumps, and which of all these is the best. ibid.
• Water the most antient and common drinke of mankind, with divers ob∣servations in the use of drinking wa∣ter, 116, 184.
• Not to be despised for drinke. 187
• Bad water how to be corrected, 117, 118
• Water destilled to the Antients un∣knowne. Destilled better than boi∣led, 290.
• Water in great request among the an∣tients Not to be indifferently exhi∣bited in all diseases, 184, 185
• Water how to bee exhibited without hurt, and what in the use thereof to be considered, ibid.
• Cold water how to be prepared for the use of the sicke, together with the time of use generall and particular, the quantity, &c. ibid.
• Water warmed in frequent use among the antients. Whether usefull for the sicke, 188, 189.
• Strong waters of severall sorts, and the great abuse thereof. For whom most usefull. 193, 194.
• Weapon-salve. The names. Various wayes of preparation. Blood some∣times omitted in the preparation. It effecteth just nothing. Sympatheticall and why? Magneticall and why? Blood used in the Weapon-salve is taken from any man. It receiveth no particular vertue or efficacy from the starres. It is accounted sometimes miraculous, and sometimes mysticall. Confutation of many arguments brought for the confirmation of the weapon-salve, and such other cures as are sometimes supposed to be done at as great or greater a distance with∣out any Physitians contact, 362. 363, 364, 365, 366.
• Welling-borrow-well, 367.
• Whey, and what it is. It may safeier in sicknesse be exhibited than milke it selfe. Vertues of Whey Best whey. Whey of goats milke, and the ver∣tues thereof. It differeth according to the preparation or separation, 206.
• Clarified whey, 207.
• Whigge or wigge: See sowre-milke.
• White meates, and for whom fit, 21••.
• Whiting, 90.
• Wild-fowle: See fowle.
• Winds alter the body of man in sicke∣nesse and in health. They are of great force, 16.
• Their number, natures, and properties according to severall countries. Prin∣cipall winds to be observed. Divisi∣on of winds. Division of land-winds West-wind most t••rrible to Gascony. South-wind our greatest, for the

• North-wind our greatest friends. Etaesi∣an, aniversary, or East-winds: Mari∣time, or winds blowing from the Sea, with their commendation; Why in Italy this proveth otherwise, 17. 18.
• Winds of the Westerne world, or Ame∣rica: South and South-west winds bl•••• most constantly in Peru: Vari∣ous qualities of the Easterne-wind ac∣cording to severall countries, 19.
• Severall effects of winds, 20.
• Wine, and the differences thereof, from the colour, taste, and smell, 119. 200.
• Wi•••• whether it may safely be exhibi∣te the sicke, 192.
• What wine best for the sicke: what not usefull fo them, ibid. & 196.
• What is the best; Artificiall wine, ibid.
• Wine is hot: It is potentially dry: White wine: Small white wine least hot of any other: Red wine: Strong yellow wines, 121. 122.
• Our wines differ much from the wines of the ancients, 122.
• Wine moderately used, for some benefi∣ciall: ibid.
• For whom most usefull, 123.
• Sugar mingled with wine, 24.
• Wings of fowle, 82.
• Wolfe fish, 90.
• Women-physitians, and who unfit and unseemly it is for their sex, Intr. 8.
• Women too censorious and busie about the sicke, and yet ordinarily ignorant of that which is to be done, ibid.
• Womens cures are casuall, and therefore not to be trusted to, ibid. & 9.
• Women faile much, and for the most part in dieting of the diseaded, Int 2.
• Why women so ordinarily exceede in their actions, ibid. & 10. 11.
• Women with childe may safely be phle∣botomised and purged, 143. 269, 270.
• Women of Scythia of a venomous as∣pect, as also those about Pontus, 355.
• Old womē often froward & peevish, 356
• Wooll of Northampton-shire very good: See Northampton.

Y.

• Yeere altered by Numa Pompilius, 302.
• By Iulius Caesar, 301.
• By Pope Gregory 13. ibid.
• Youth ought not to be too tenderly educated, 153.
• Youth made to lie upon the ground, to accustome that age to hardship, 107.
• Youth ought not to accustome them∣selves to cover their heads too much, 253.