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.

Shew me preseruatiues against cold diseases.

Doctor Steuens water is an excellent pre∣seruatiue to prolong life, and against cold dis∣eases, and is made after this manner: take a gallon of gascoigne wine, then take ginger, gallingall, Cammomill, Sinnamon, nutmegs, graines, cloues, mace, anise-seede, carraway∣seed, of each of them a drachme; then take sage, mints, red roses, tyme, pellitory of the wall, wild marioram, rosemary, penny-moun∣taine, otherwise wilde tyme, cammomill, La∣uender, of euery of them one handfull, then bruise the spices small, bruise the hearbs, and put all into the wine, and let it stand twelue houres, stirring it diuers times, then distill it in a limbeck, and keepe the first pint of the wa∣ter, for that is the best: and then will come a second water, which is not so good as the first. The vertues of this water are these; it comforteth the spirits, it preserueth the youth of man, it helpeth old gouts, the toothach, the

palsie and all diseases proceeding of cold: it causeth barren women to conceiue, it cureth the cold dropsie, the stone in the bladder and the raines of the backe, it healeth the canker, comforteth the stomacke, and prolongeth a mans life. Take but a spoonfull of it once in seauen dayes; for it is very hot in operation. Doctor Steuens who vsed this water, liued one hundred yeares wanting two.

The sublimated wine of M. Gallus, Physitian to the Emperour Charles, the fift of that name, is most admirable: for the vse thereof caused him to liue sixscore and nine yeares without any disease: which I thinke to be better then Doctor Steuens water: it is made in this sort; Take of Cubebs, Cinnamon, Cloues, Mace, Ginger; Nutmegs, & Galingall, three ounces, of Rubarbe halfe an ounce, of Angelica two drachmes, of Mastick foure drachmes, and of Sage one pound and two ounces: steepe these in two pound and sixe ounces of Aqua vitae, which was sixe times distilled: then distill them altogether. This wine comforteth the braine and memory, expelleth Melancholy, breaketh the stone, prouoketh appetite, reui∣ueth weake spirits, and causeth a man to waxe

young and lustie: It may be taken twise eue∣ry weeke, and not aboue one spoonfull at each time, and that but in a cup of drinke fast∣ing.