The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight.

The third SECTION.

The Commod••••ies, which this New-found Dyet brings to the Body.

IT remayneth now, that I propose, what Commodities this set Dyet produceth: First, it preserues a man free from all sicknesses, for it keepes backe all the Humours and watrish spirits, which arise from the Stomacke to the Head. It cures the Go••t, the Dropsie, the Astmaticke Pas∣sions, the Cough, and Catarrhes, it hinde∣reth Crudities and raw f••••gmaticke hu∣mours, which indeede are the ingendring causes of all diseases. It bridles and keeps all the Humours in such an equall temper, that none shall offend eyther in Quantity, or in Quality: for indeede all our sicknesses proceed from Repletion, sauing some few which proceede of Famine, in taking more sustenance then Nature requires, or the Stomacke can well digest. For mani∣festation whereof, we see, that all Disea∣ses are cured by Euacuations. Blood letting is vsed to ••ase Nature. And so are Purga∣tious

taken to free the Body of that insup∣portable load of filthy matter, which by Gluttony was ingendred. Nor will one Purge sustice. But before an ordinary sicknesse be remooued, the Apothecary must minister many Nauseatiue and bitter Potions able to weary the strongest Na∣ture. For at the first, the first Region, as Physitians call it, must be purged; that is, the Guts and entrailes. Secondly, the Liuer. And lastly, the Veines must bee emptied of their watrish Humors and ex∣crements.

And it is holden for certaine, that in e∣uery two yeares there is such store of ill humors and excrements ingendred in the Body, that a Vessell of one hundred Ounces wil scarce contayne them.

These humours being let alone, will corrupt in processe of time, and wil cause a man to fall into some deadly sicknesse. And commonly, most people, which dye in their Beds, before they arriue to ex∣treamity of old age, doe perish by these ouer-abounding Humors, which they heaped within them through their exces∣siue Feasts and Belly-cheere.

The second Commodity, that comes by

this orderly Dyet is, that it doth not one∣ly defend a man from those superfluous Humors within the Body, but likewise it fortifieth him agaynst outward Causes; for hee which hath his Body pure with temperate humors, shall easier endure the ini••ries and discommodities of cold or hot weather and of ••oylesome labour, then he that liues licentiously. Yea, and if he be wounded in his body, he will speedily re∣couer.

The reason is, because very little fluxe of any offending humor can fall into the wounded part, which in other bodies is wont to inflame; yea, and sometime it will cause a griping Convulsion, or a vio∣lent Fea••er. An which our temperate ha∣bit of bodily Mould shall neuer once bee af∣fected with; for there is as much diffe∣rence betwixt them, as the••e is betwixt a perfe••t Ch••••ensian Procellane, and our roughest earthen Vessels.

Lastly, it preserues a man from the Plogue, for there is nothing heere to spa••••, no matter to worke vpon, which was verified insober Socrates, who not∣withstanding that the Plag••e had of∣tentimes

wasted Athens, yet hee was neuer sicke eyther of that, or any other disease.

The third Commodity is, that it cau∣seth not onely Health, dut a••so Long Life, in so much that when hee dyeth, hee feeles no such pangs and torments, as other men vse to haue, for hee falls, like an Apple fully ripe, euen by meere reso∣lution, mildly, and gently away. The bond of a Temperate mans Body and Soule is dissolued onely, when the Radi∣call moysture is spent; like vnto a Lampe, which is extinguished when the Oy••e is quite consumed. For euen as a Lampe may bee put out three manner of wayes:

First, by outward violence, as by v••he∣ment wind.

Secondly, by powring too much wa∣ter vpon it, wherewith the pure Liquor of the Oyle is oppressed.

Thirdly, by the vt••er consumption of the Oyle: So Mans Life, which is com∣pared to a burning Lampe, may bee extin∣guished three wayes.

First, by the Sword, Drowning, or such like violent death.

Secondly, by the superfluity or depra∣ued quality of the Humours, wherewith the naturall moysture is corrupted. Third∣ly, when this moysture is spent by the length of time. If a man dyes by reason of eyther of the two former wayes, there must ensue a great commotion in Nature, and therefore he feeles extraordinary grie∣••ances, when the bond of Nature is thus ••••o••ently before the day and ripe time compelled to bee dissolued. But by the third manner of dissolution a man feeles no paine at all, because the Temperature is all by leasure dissolued from within him, and because the gentle moysture, which feedes the Body, becomes wasted together with the naturall heate at the same instant, when the Soule departes. And thus shall our Dyeted persons dye, except they bee•• forced by some outward Accident.

The fourth Commodity is, that it makes the Body Actiue, Light, Liuely, and ready to all motions and exercise: For heauinesse, lazinesse, and the oppression of Nature pro∣ceede from the aboundance of Humours which destroy the passages of the Spirits, and besiedging the ••ovnts, they ouer moy∣sture them at last. Therefore when this a∣boundance

of Humors is diminished or ta∣ken away by a Regular Dyet, the very cause of dulnesse and heauinesse is also ta∣ken away, and then the pores and passages of the Spirits are made broad and more open.