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Exercise is that, which maketh the body light, increaseth naturall heat, and consumeth superfluous humours, which otherwise would clotter and congeale within the body. For in euery concoction some excrements are in∣gendred, which being left alone may be the rootes of diuerse sicknesses. Now the thicker sort of excrements are auoyded by sensible euacuations. But the thinner may be wasted and purged by exercise.
It is best to exercise, when the body is fasting and emptie, least after meates by violent and vehement motions digestion be hindred, and putrefaction follow. In sommer, exercise is to be vsed an houre after sunne rising, for feare of a double heat. In spring and haruest time it is to be vsed about an houre and a halfe after sunne rising, that the morning cold may be a∣uoyded. For as the heat at midday is hurtfull: so the morning cold, especially in Autumne is to be eschewed.
Walking, if it be not too slow, is a com∣mendable exercise, and may be vsed in hot monethes, specially of cholerick persons. To hang by the handes on any thing aboue your reach, so that your feet touch not the ground, is good. To climbe vp against a steepe hill, till you pant and fetch your breath often with great difficultie, is a fit exercise to be frequen∣ted in cold seasons. Old men must content themselues with softer exercises, least that the small heat, which they haue, should be spent. They must onely euery morning haue theyr members gently rubd with a linnen cloth.
To be briefe, they must be combd, and cheri∣shed vp with fine delights.
Vnto the flegmatick, rather thē the cholerick.
They must vse loude reading, and disputati∣ons, that thereby their winde pipes may bee extended, and theyr pores enlarged.