By all means let Melancholly Men avoid excess both in eating and drinking, let them avoid all meats hard of digestion, especially such as are Students or lead a Se∣dentary life; let them use meats that are light of dige∣stion, and drink often at meat. Excess either in meat
Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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- Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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or strong liquor, causeth crudities and rawness at the Stomach, Idle and strange imaginatious and fancies, a stinking Breath, Headach, Toothach, forgetfulness, shortness of breath, Consumptions, Phtisicks, third day Agues, the Chollick and Illiack passions, and Dropsies.
Much Exercise is very profitable for such, not only because it helpeth digestion, but also, because it destri∣buteth the Vital Spirit throughout the Body, and con∣sumeth those superfluous Vapors by insensible Transpi∣ration, which causeth those idle fancies and imaginati∣ons in men.