A vindicatory schedule concerning the cure of fevers containing a disquisition theoretical and practical, of the new and most effectual method of curing continual fevers, first invented and delivered by the sagacious Dr. Tho. Sydenham : also shewing by way of preliminary, the indispensible charge lying on physicians to improve themselves and the art ... : with an appendix of Sanctorius his Medicina statica ... / by Andrew Broun, M.D.

SECT. III. Of Aliments, Meat and Drink.

1. ALiments that make the Body heavy, are such as are taken copiously, or such as are difficult to digest: and these that keep the Body light, are such as we are accu∣stomed to, and such as are easily evaporated.

2. A full and a void Stomack both di∣vert Perspiration; the full Stomack by Cor∣ruption of the Meat, and the void Stomack attracts it▪ that it may be filled.

3. Robust Persons do discuss too great plenty of Meat eaten by Perspiration, less robust Persons by Vrine, but weak Persons turn the Chyle into Corruption.

4: If the usual Super be intermitted, the

Stomack being empty, the perspirable Matter is both retained, and becomes acrimonious, & so the Body is disposed to hot Diseases.

5. Unusual abstinence from Aliment does sometime hurt.

6. The use of Swines flesh, especially dried in the smoak, hinders Perspiration.

7. That kind of Meat perspires best, whose weight is least found in the Stomack; for where there is a difficulty of Digestion, there is also a difficulty of Perspiration.

8. That Meat gives the best Perspiration, whose Excrements come away consistent and solid.

9. The time when the Body has lest Perspiration, is when the Body is full of Meat especially of variety.

10. Drinking of water hinders insensible perspiration, but advances sensible.

11. To eat presently after immoderat exercise of Body or Mind is hurtful.

12 Eating and Drinking copiously, doth oftentimes obtund the Acrimony of the perspirable Matter retained, and does hide the infirmities of the inward parts, which oftentimes upon abstinence or purging of these Bodies does break out.

13. Meat that easily perspires (though of small nourishment) doth better repair the

strength decayed by too mu••h venery, than Meat of greater nourishment, but of dif∣ficult perspiration.

14, Onions Garlick, Wedder Mutton and Phesants flesh but especially the Cyreniack juice, help the perspiration of Meats that are difficult to perspire.

15. Meat very little in quantity not be∣ing imbraced by the Stomach, neither digests nor restores the Body, nor perspires well.

16 Insensible perspiration is the excrement of the third Concoction, so that the first not be∣ing perfected, the third cannot be ac∣complished.

17. The corruption of Meat makes weari∣ness, because it diverts perspiration, and this corruption is known by a Celiack Flux, by which the Meat comes away with the ex∣crements undigested.

18. The Coldness and Clamminess of the juice of Cucumbers is kept in the Veins; And other unwholsome juices, thô of easy concoction, by obstructing perspiration, cause Malignant Fevers.

19. None will fall into a disease, if they be careful to provide against the heaping up of Crudities.

20. The Supper taken with the mind troubled, does not digest.

21. To drink betwixt the Dinner and Supper is hurtful, but if so much the drink be less at Supper, the hurt is diminished.

22. An uniform Dyet wants the benefit of one that exceeds sometimes twice or thrice a Moneth, for the Expultrix faculty being stirred up by the redundancy, ex∣cites so great a perspiration, as without the Statickes none would beleive.

23. In a cold Body, Hony nourishes, and perspires well, but in a hot, turning to Bile, it hurts.

24. There is nothing that hurts perspi∣ration more, than to drink when the Chyle is making in the Stomack