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.

Why did men liue longer before the floud, then they doe now?

The principall reason, why men in those dayes liued longer then we do, is, because they had not then any of the causes, which ingen∣der in vs so many maladies, whence conse∣quently ensueth death. Their liues were vphol∣den by the course of the heauens, with the qualities of the planets & stars, being at that time farre more glorious and gracious then now. There were not so many meteors, comets, and ecclipses past, from whence now diuers & innumerable circumuolutions proceed.

We must also vnderstand, that our first Parents were created of God himselfe with∣out any other instrumentall meanes, And againe, the earth in those dayes was of grea∣ter efficacie to bring foorth necessaries for mans vse, then it is in this crooked and out∣worne age. The soyle was then gay, trim, and fresh: whereas now by reason of the inunda∣tion (which tooke away the fatnesse thereof) it is barren, saltish, and vnsauorie.

To conclude, they knew the hidden ver∣tues of hearbs and stones, vsing great conti∣nence

in their dyets and behauiours. They were ignorant of our delicate inuentions and multiplied compounds. They knew not our dainty cates, our marchpanes, nor our super∣fluous slibber sauces. They were no quaffers of wine or Ale, nor were they troubled with so many cares, and vaine glorious pompes.