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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Title: 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.
Author: Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be solde at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetestreete,; 1612.
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Subject terms: Health -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "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 May 7, 2024.

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Is moderate fasting good?

MOderate fasting, as to omit a dinner or a supper once a weeke, is wonderfull com∣modious for them that are not cholericke or melancholicke, but full of raw humours. This, Anthony the Emperour knew very well, when he accustomed to drinke nought saue one cup full of wine, with a little pepper after he had surfetted.

Of the commodities of Fasting I haue writ∣ten more largely in my second booke of the Golden Groue: and now of late in my first Circle of The Spirit of Detraction coniured and conuicted.