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 use of our common meates?

Yong mutton boyled and eaten with o∣pening and cordiall hearbs, is the most nouri∣shing meate of all, and hurteth none, but only flegmatick persons, and those which are trou∣bled with the dropsy.

Yong beefe bredde vp in fruitfull pasture, and other whiles wrought at plow, being pow∣dred with salt foure and twenty houres, and exquisitly sodden, is naturall meat for men of strong constitutions. It nourisheth exceding∣ly, and stoppeth the fluxe of yellow choler: Howbeit Martlemas beefe (so commonly called) is not laudable, for it ingendereth me∣lancholick diseases, and the stone.

Veale yong and tender, sodden with yong pullets, or capons, and smallage, is very nutri∣tiue and wholesome for all seasons, ages and constitutions.

The leane of a yong fatte Hog eaten mo∣derately

with spices, and hot things, doth surpasse all manner of meate, except Veale, for nourishment; it keepeth the paunch slip∣perie, and prouoketh vrine; but it hurteth them that be subiect to the Gout and Sciatica, and annoyeth old men, and idle persons. A young Pig is restoratiue, if it be flayed and made in a ielly. To be short, Bacon may be eaten with other flesh to prouoke appetite, and to break flegme coagulated and thickned in the stomacke.

The hinder part of a young Kid roasted is a meate soone digested, and therefore very wholesome for sicke and weake folkes. It is more fit for young and hot constitutions, then for old men or flegmatick persons.

Young fallow Deere very well chased, hangd vp vntill it be tender, and in roasting being throughly basted with oyle, or wel lar∣ded, is very good for them that be troubled with the rheume or palsy, Yet notwithstand∣ing it hurteth leane folkes and olde men, it disposeth the body to agues, and causeth fearefull dreames.

Some say that venison being eaten in the morning, prolongeth life; but eaten at night

it bringeth sodaine death. The hornes of Deere being long and slender, are remedies against poysoned potions; and so are the bones that grow in their hearts.

Hare and Conies flesh perboyled, and then rosted with sweet hearbs, Cloues, and other spices, consumeth all corrupt humours and flegme in the stomack, and maketh a man to looke amiably, according to the prouerb, He hath swallowed vp a Hare: But it is vnwhole∣some for lazie and melancholick men.