Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B.
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Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B.
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Brooke, Humphrey, 1617-1693.
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London :: Printed by R.W. for G. Whittington, and are to be sold at the Blew-Anchor in Cornhill, near the Exchange,
1650.
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Health promotion -- Early works to 1800.
Health -- Early works to 1800.
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"Ugieine or A conservatory of health. Comprized in a plain and practicall discourse upon the six particulars necessary to mans life, viz. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and drink. 3. Motion and rest. 4. Sleep and wakefulness. 5. The excrements. 6. The passions of the mind. With the discussion of divers questions pertinent thereunto. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness, and prolongation of life. By H. Brooke. M.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77586.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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The Table.
OF Aire. 55
Which the best Aire. ibid.
Helps against bad Aire. 58
Sharp Aires. 60
Corruption of Aire. 62
Change of Aire by Winds. 63
Of Native Aires. 71
Sudden alteration of Aire bad. 72
Caution about Aire. 74
Of Anger. 237
Its Discommodities. ibid.
Remedies against Anger. 228
B.
No Breakfast. 123
C.
Benefits of Continency. 185
Costiveness to be prevented. 52
Of Custom 34
Customs how to be altered. 35
D.
Rules for Drink. 133
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Effects of Drunkenness. 136
Of Dotage. 240.
E.
Of the Excrements. 182
Excrements of the Belly. 189
Their proportion to the Aliment. 191
Excrements of the Brain. 217
Of the Ears and Nostrils. 218
Commodity of Exercise. 143
Exercise when to be forborn. 159
What best for the Fat and Lean. 160
When best. ibid.
Places bad for Exercise. 161
Violent Exercise bad. 162
Drinking cold beer after Exercise bad. 165
Also drinking Sack and strong wa∣ters. 166
Kinds of Exercise. 167
F.
Errors in Feeding. 104
Cautions about Feeding.
Respect in Feeding to the nature of
meats. 114
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To the Constitution of the Person. 115
To the season of the Year. 116
Best times of Feeding. 118
Order of Feeding. 139
Of Feasting. 110
Of Frications. 171
H.
Health what it is. 15
By the orderly use of what things
Health is preserved. 21
Of Hunger.
I.
Intemperance. 85
It hinders nourishment and growth. 90
Of Joy. 251
Effects of Joy. 252
Incommodities of Incontinency. 187
L.
Of Love. 236
Three kinds of Love. 236
Godlike. ibid.
Humane. 237
Conjugall. 238
Of Looseness. 192
Of Lust. 238
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M.
Of Motion and Rest. 143
Of Meat and Drink. 77
Due quantity of Meat. 84
Drink against Melancholy. 249
P.
Whether Physick be necessary for the
preserving of Health. 44
Cautions in using Physicall Helps. 47
Whether customary Physick be to be
continued. 49
Physick worse for the Healthful. 51
Of the Passions. 220
R.
Commodities of Rest. 176
S.
Discommodities of a sitting Life. 144
Of Sleep and Wakefulness. 174
Cause of Sleep. ibid.
Evils of immoderate Sleep. 176
Long Sleeps for whom best. 178
Sleep after Dinner. 180
Form of lying in Sleep. 181
Of Sweat. 210
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When Sweating to be avoided. 211
When to be provoked. 212
Helps to Sweat. 214
Why Sleep causes Sweat. 215
Long and Violent Sweating bad. 216
What Smels best. 70
Of Spitting. 217
Of Sadness. 243
Remedies against Sadness. 244
Larger Supper. 127
T.
The Bounds of Temperance. 100
Gaeatest pleasure in Temperance. 95
1. Rule of of Temperance. 102
2. Rule of Temperance. 103
Of Thirst. 80
V.
Of the Ʋrin. 193
Divination by Ʋrin a deceit. 194
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