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.

Of Vomites. CHAP. 8.

What is a vomite?

A Vomite is the expulsion of bad humours (contayned in the stomack) vpwards. It is accounted the wholesomest kinde of Phisick: for that, which a purgation leaueth behind it, a vomite doth root out.

VVhich are the best vomites?

Take of the seeds of Dill, Attripplex, and Radish three drachmes, of Fountaine water one pound and a halfe: seeth them all toge∣ther, till there remaine one pound: straine it, and vse it hot. Or else make you a vomite after this manner: take three drachmes of the rind of a Walnut, slice them, and steepe them one whole night in a draught of white wine, and drinke the wine in the morning a little before dinner.

VVhat if the vomites worke not?

If they work not within an houre after you haue taken any of them, sup a little of the si∣rupe of Oximel, and put your left middle fin∣ger in your mouth, and you shall be holpen.

VVhat shall I doe, if I vomite too much?

If you vomite too much, rub & wash your feet with hot and sweet water: and if it cease not for all this: apply a gourd to the mouth of the stomack. Sometimes without any Phi∣sick at all, one shall fall to a customarie vomi∣ting. And then it proceedes eyther of the colde complexion of the stomacke, or of hot complexion. If of colde complexion, you may helpe it by making a bagge of Worme∣wood, dry Mints, and Maioram, of each a like one handfull, of Nutmegs, Cloues, and Galingall halfe a drachme of each one. Let all of them be dried and powdred, and put betwixt two linnen cloathes, with Cotton in∣terposed and basted. And then let them be applied vpon the stomack; Or else you may apply the said hearbes alone dried on a hote Tilestone, and put betwixt two linnen cloathes vpon the stomacke. Let them for∣tifie their stomackes with the sirupe of Mints or of Wormewood, or eate Lozenges called Diagalanga.

If vomiting proceedes of hote complexi∣on, you may cure it by a playster applied to the stomacke, of oyle of Roses, Worme∣wood,

Mints, and Barly flower with the white of an Egge. Some in such a case take the water of Purselane in their drinke to quench their thirst.