II.
Follow after Sobriety.
FOr as drunkenness and immo∣derate feeding oppress and wea∣ken the virtue of the radical balsame: so sobriety preserves from sickness••, and diseases. Sober above most Kings
Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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- Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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- Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.
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- London. :: Printed by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard,
- 1655.
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"Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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was Massinissa the Numidiar, who standing alwaies, and at his Tent∣doore, would in the open field eat his meat without sauce, being con∣tented with dry bread, and military Commons. For which very reason he was so vegetous in old age, that at the years of fourscore and six, he begat a Sonne, and after ninety two, did in a pitched field over-throw the Carthaginians, who had broken their league made with him; in which battel he did not onely supply the place of an active, and expert Leader, but performed all the duties of a common Souldier. By the bene∣fit of this virtue of temperance, did M. Valerius Corvinus live to be an hundred years old▪ and retain'd at that age a sound mind in a sound body. And Socrates continued all his life long in a perfect undisturbed health: yea, sobriety (if we should fall sick,) will restore us to health. There are some who think, that Cae∣sar
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used no other remedy to cure his falling sicknesse, which tooke him first at Corduba in Spaine, so that by a meere spare dyet, hard labours, and tedious watchings, he escaped, and overcame that dangerous and most commonly fatall in disposition.