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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- 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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- Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
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- 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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Contents
- title page
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TO THE RIGHT
HONOVRABLE, MY
GRATIOVS MOTHER
in Law, the Lady Lettice, VVife to
the valerous and Heroicall Knight,
Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Du∣putie
of his Maiesties King∣dom
of Ireland. - A Table, declaring the Con∣tents of the Sections and Chapters of this Booke.
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NATVRALL
AND ARTIFICIAL
DIRECTIONS FOR
HEALTH.
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The first Section.
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CHAP. I.
- What is Ayre?
- Which is the best ayre?
- What is the cause, that the Aire changeth so oft?
- What shall a man doe, if the Aire be either too hot, too cold, or too corrupt?
- Shew me particularly, how the Aire may be corrected for the recouerie of sicke folkes, accor∣ding to the diuersities of places, times, and sea∣sons?
- Aduise me how I should build mee an house for pleasure, health and profit?
- Doth the nature of places alter the quality of the Aire?
- Doth the nature of the time of the yeare alter the Ayre?
- What sicknesses doth the Aire cause?
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Of Water. CHAP. 2.
- What is water?
- How many kindes of waters be there?
- Is not Snow water as good as Raine water?
- What is the nature of fountaine water?
- Whether water being drunke doth nourish? And whether the same be wholesome for sicke persons?
- How shall I know good water?
- VVhen is water wholesomest?
- How shall I reuiue waters that begin to pu∣trifie?
- Of Fire. CHAP. 3.
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CHAP. I.
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The second Section, concer∣ning
foode.
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Of bread and drinke.
CHAP. 1.
- VVhat is the vse of bread?
- What is Rie Bread?
- VVhat is barley Bread?
- How is wheaten bread and pastery to be vsed in Phisicke?
- VVhat is the vse of Beere?
- What is the vse of Ale?
- How shall I discerne good Ale from bad?
- Shew me a wholesome diet drinke.
- Shew me a speedy drincke for trauellers, when they want Beere or Ale at their Inne.
- What shall poore men drincke when Malt is extreame deere?
- How shall I helpe Beere or Ale, which be∣gin to be sowre, or dead?
- Teach me a way to make beere or Ale to become stale, within two or three dayes.
- What is Meath?
- What is Meatheglin?
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Of Wine. CHAP. 2.
- What is the property of wine?
- VVhat is the vse of white wine?
- VVhat is the vse of Rhenish wine?
- VVhat is the vse of Mascadell, Malmesie, and browne Bastard?
- VVhat is the vse of Sack?
- How shall I know whether hony or water be mingled with wine?
- Shew me a way to keepe Claret wine, or any other wine good, nine or ten yeares.
- How might I helpe wine that reboyleth?
- Shew me how to seperate water from wine?
- Shew me a way how a man may drinke much wine and yet not be drunke.
- How many sorts of Drunkards are there?
- How to make them which are drunk sober.
- Shew me a way how to make Tossepots and drunkards to hate wine.
- Shew me a way to make olde wine to be new out of hand.
- At what time are VVine and Beere readie to turne and change?
- Shew me how to keepe wine and Beere with∣out turning.
- Is wine hurtfull to sicke folkes?
- Of diet drinks as well for them that be sicke as in health. CHAP. 3.
- Of Cider and Perry. CHAP. 4.
- Of Flesh. CHAP. 5.
- Of Fish. CHAP. 6.
- Of Milke, Butter, Cheese and Egges. CHAP. 7.
- Of Sauces. CHAP. 8.
- Of Hearbes. CHAP. 8.
- Of Fruit. CHAP. 9.
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Of bread and drinke.
CHAP. 1.
- The third Section.
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The fourth Section.
- Of Euacuations. CHAP. 1.
- Of Vrines. CHAP. 2.
- Of Fasting. CHAP. 3.
- Of Venerie. CHAP. 4.
- Of Bathes. CHAP. 5.
- Of Excrements and Bloud-letting. CHAP. 6.
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Of Purgations. CHAP. 7.
- What is the vse of Purgations?
- Who are apt to take Purgatians and who not?
- What humours are fittest to be purged?
- What must I doe before purging?
- How many things are to be considered in pur∣gations?
- Shew mee the best and safest purgation for flegme.
- For Choler.
- For melancholy.
- Shew me how I may mundifie bloud?
- What shall I doe, if the Purgation will not worke?
- Seeing that glisters be very commodious, shew me a way to make some.
- What if the purgation doth euacuate too much?
- What is the vse of Tobacco?
- Of Vomites. CHAP. 8.
- Of Common sicknesses. CHAP. 9.
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The fift Section.
- Of infirmities and Death. CHAP. 1.
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Of the wicked motions of the
Minde. CHAP. 2.
- What be passions of the minde?
- VVherein consists the cure of the spirituall ma∣ladies?
- VVhich are the chiefest passions of the soule?
- VVhat is Loue?
- VVhat is the cause of loue?
- Shew me some other meanes to remedie the stinges of vnlawfull loue.
- What is Iealousie?
- What is Anger?
- Why doe some looke red, and others pale when they be angry?
- What is Choler?
- What is sorrow?
- What is the effect of Sorrow?
- How many kindes of Sorrowes are there?
- VVhat be the causes of both these kindes?
- What is the reason that men imagine such im∣possible and vaine things?
- Now since you haue discoursed of naturall and Melancholicke Sorrowes, tell mee what harme hapneth by the other sorrow, which wee terme mourning.
- Impletur lachrimis, egreditur{que} dolor.
- What is Feare?
- Why doe fearefull men looke pale?
- How many sorts of fearefull persons are there?
- What is Enuie?
- Doe these affections hurt the soule, as well as the body?
- How doe the temperature of the bodily affe∣ctions, and the soules affections agree together?
- Why is there so great a diuersitie among men?
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Of the Age of Man.
CHAP. 3.
- Into how many ages is mans life diuided?
- Why did men liue longer before the floud, then they doe now?
- Tell me the certaine time, wherein man must of necessitie die?
- VVhich be the most dangerous yeares in mans life?
- Which be the criticall daies?
- VVhich humors are predominant in the night season, and which in the day time?
- Of the foure Humours. CHAP. 4.
- Of the restauration of health. The sixt Section.
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The first Section.
- errata