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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