Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.

What is the vse of Fruit?

ALL Fruit for the most part are taken more for wantonnesse then for any nutritiue or necessary good, which they bring vnto vs. To verifie this, let vs but examine with the eye of reason what profit they cause, when they are eaten after meales. Surely we must needs confesse, that such eating, which the French call desert, is vnnaturall, being contrary to Physicke or Dyet: for commonly fruits are of a moist facultie, and therefore fitter to be taken afore meales (but corrected with Suger or comfits) then after meales: and then also but very sparingly, least their effects appeare to our bodily repentance, which in women grow to be the greene sicknesse, in men the morphew, or els some flatuous windy humor.

White figs pared, and then eaten with O∣renges, Pomegranats, or seasoned in vinegar, in spring time do nourish more then any fruit, breake the stone in the rains, & quench thirst.

Raisins and curranes are very nutritiue, yet

notwithstanding they putrifie the raines and the bladder.

Sebastian Prunes doe loose the belly, and quench choler.

Red garden Strawberries purified in wine, and then eaten with good store of Suger, doe asswage choler, coole the liuer, and prouoke appetite.

Almonds and Nuts are very nutritiue, and doe encrease grosnesse; they multitiply sperme, and prouoke sleepe. But I would not with any to eate them that are short winded, or troubled with head-aches.

Olde and ripe Apples roasted, baked, stew∣ed, or powdered with Suger and Annise seed, doe recreate the heart, open the wind-pipes, and appease the cough.

Ripe Peares eaten after meat, and powde∣red with Suger, cause appetite, and fatten bo∣dies. And if you drinke a cup of olde wine after them, they will doe thee much good.

Weighty Orenges are very good for them that be melancholick, and keepe backe the rheume.

Cheries, Plums, and Damsons, doe qualifie bloud, and represse cholerick humours.