Is wine hurtfull to sicke folkes?
Hypocrates writeth, that to giue wine or milke to them that be sicke of agues or head∣aches,
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.
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- 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.
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- Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
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- 1612.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14298.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.
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is to giue them poyson, yet neuerthe∣lesse it doth agree with some kind of diseases: as for example, it is permitted to them that be troubled with dropsies, with ill dispositions of the body, and with the rawnesse and weak∣nesse of the stomack: to be briefe, wine is an excellent restoratiue for olde age, which of it selfe is a great and troublesome sicknesse; and for this cause some Phisitians aduised olde men to drinke wine in the middest of Som∣mer, I meane to vse Bacchus for their Phisiti∣an twenty dayes before, and twenty dayes after the dogge dayes, to the end that in the heat and siccity of that fierie starre, their lungs should be ouerflowne: but howsoeuer, wine reuiueth feeble spirits, and maketh the heart light, specially of an olde man, accor∣ding to the Italian saying: A vecchio infun∣de lolio ne la lampada quasi estincta. Vnto an olde man it infuseth oyle in his decayed lampe.