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.

About this Item

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.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: Health -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14298.0001.001
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 June 14, 2025.

Pages

For Choler.

Take two drachmes of good Rheubarbe beaten into powder, and incorporate the same with fiue ounces of hot water, wherein Damask Prunes haue beene sodden; and vse it hot in the morning. Or else take halfe an ounce of Cassia fistula, a drachme of Rheu∣barbe, and infuse them in water of Endiue with an ounce of the sirupe of Limonds: The next morning mingle all these with three ounces of Ptisan or Whay, and drinke this in∣fusion warme. Others of the poorer sort purge themselues onely with halfe an ounce of Dia∣prunis laxanice, mixt with Succory water and drunke warme; or else with halfe an ounce of Electuarium de succo Rosarum, and three oun∣ces of the decoction of French Prunes.