Panala medica vel sanitatis et longævitatis alumna catholica: = The fruitfull and frugall nourse of sound health and long life. Per Guil: Folkingham Gen: Math. & Med. studiosum.

CHAP. VII.

Of the Diet and Order obseruable in the vse of this medicinable Ale.

THe head of this Chapter is the Subject of the Dietetique or Second Part of Panala: in which, besides some large discourse of the salutary vse of the six Non-naturalls, the alimentation both of the Spirits and Body, is anatomically delinea∣ted. Yet that this Medique part may not in the meane time, bee posted forth Pede primo claudicaens, with downe-right halt before, I held it vnfit to be altogether past-ouer here in silence, and haue therefore borrowed leaue for a touch or two in a few lines, before I goe about to trace out the whole Linea∣ments of that Body.

In diuturne, lingring and daingerous dis∣eases it is very conducible and requisite in all sorts of Physicall courses ordained for their cures, to foster and follow the constant keepe of regular strict moderation, not in the qualities and quantities of Meats and Drinkes onely, but in the rest of the Rerum non natu∣ralium

likewise. But in the vse of this Medi∣camentum Alimentosum, there is much lesse need to prescribe any so exact and precise Rules of Diet, be the Intension cautionary or curatiue, to secure or arme the Body in pre∣uention of ingruent infirmities, or to remoue or cure them when they haue made seisure. Yet is it very commendable and conuenient too, in the vse of this Ale, as of all other me∣dicinable meanes, to obserue and keepe a moderate abstinence from food, of manifest ill condition at least, and in all others to rise e∣uery Meale from Table with good appetite, that Nature, being no way hindred or op∣prest with meats of hard digestion or naugh∣tie iuice, or with too large proportion of in∣gurgitation, may without impediment freely and happily produce her curatiue and salutary aymes and effects.

This Generall Rule may well serue as all∣sufficient to the common sort of People, to whom tis idle folly to prescribe strict orders, which they neither can nor will keepe. Ma∣ny mens Purses are not furnisht for meats of fit iuice, and many robust and laborious per∣sons are happy in their habilities of strong constitutions, accustomed to hardnesse and to grosse feeding, and meats of light digest

are of sleight esteeme with stomackes inured to make full meales on solid strong dishes. One word more yet by the way, of the diffe∣rent fruits of full and spare feedings.

Repletion or too liberall feeding heaps vp abundance of excrements and superfluous and vitious Humors (the Relicts of ouer-taxed concoctions) begets crudities and obstructions, oppresses and suffocates the diuine and natiue heat, much hindring the laudable functions thereof spirituall and corporall, for it dulls all the Senses, and disanulls all dexterity, agility and actiue promptitude of the body, and be∣sides breeding all sorts of maladies humor all, excrementitious, and such as proceed from Plethora and Cachochymia, it causes many times recidiuation and returne of diseases o∣therwise quit and cured, and seldome failes to frustrate the care and cure of the honest Artist, in that they obtunde, debilitate, and oft depraue the salutary operations of medici∣nable meanes. For Nature being ouer-borne with the heauy load of abundance, sinkes vnawares in the mid-way vnder her burthen.

But contrariwise, the Innatum calidum (that diuine Opifex and author of all naturall functions) nor implicated, nor intricated with ingestions of viands offensiue in Quan∣titie

or Quality, but free to diffuse it selfe into and through all parts of the body, shall bee able euerywhere to extend and execute its natiue power and strength, to conuert good iuices and depurated blood by nutrition into the substance of the body and all its parts, to digest, rarifie and dissipate by insensible transpiration all superfluous Humors, to con∣coct the crude, and change them into sangui∣neous nutriment, to attenuate the thicke, make fluent the tough, expedite obstructions, make patent all the corporall Passages, and fortifie the expulsiue facultie. And by these meanes, the operation of this generous medicine shall be rectified, exalted, and more enhabled to produce and shew-forth its most exqui∣site worthy effects, euacuatiue, alteratiue, and otherwise operatiue, with more speed and fa∣cility. Such and so great is the virtue, force and effects of Abstinence or Spare-diet.

To returne; After each morning draught of the Ale, you may to many good purposes eat a few Raisons of the Sunne, and now and then make your Supper of them and a morsell of Bread if you will, for they leuigate, smooth and supple the roughnesse of the rough Ar∣tery or Wind-pipe, by opening and strength∣ning they cure the torrifaction, or retardate

the sexilitie of the Liuer, clense Phleagme, ir∣rorate and madifie the body with nutrient moisture, and make the iuices thereof roscid, lesse dissipable and more reparable, they breed good blood, and helpe infirmities of the Throat, Lungs, Chest, Milt, Kidneys, and Bladder. For forbearance of meat after pur∣gation taken, some limit the space of two houres after a strong purging Potion, but in purges of solid forme, or in Pills, double that time should bee interposed and past, before other Repast. And many admit of no meale vntill the Purge haue performed its Office, lest the meat should be corrupted by mixture with such medicine, but it is all-sufficient that the substance or body of the Purge hath so quit the ventricle that it hath past the Port Pylorus into the Intestines; of which there is assured test, when neither Belching, nor vp∣braiding, nor loathing, nor sense of gnawing at the stomacke, nor any sent of the medicine re∣maines. Then moderate refection with meat of good iuice and easie digest may conueni∣ently, and must necessarily bee taken to re∣fresh Nature. Yea tis a common practice (contrary to Auicen (Fen. 4. l. 1. doct. 5. c. 5.) to prescribe the taking of a Messe of thinne Broth, after the first or second stoole, to wash-down

the Reliques of the Medicine, to quali∣fie the tedious qualities thereof, to comfort the stomacke, and to promote the operation of the Physicke.

But this Ale is so milde and benigne a Medicine, it may safely be admitted a neerer neighbour vnto meales, though it hath no need of washing-downe by any other liquid meanes.

For keeping the house; This Panala is phy∣sicke fine custodia, neuer in respect of its owne nature, confining the patient to his Chamber, but be he of any indifferent hability of body, or that he intertaine it for caution or preuen∣tion of sicknesse, hee may in the day-time, when the weather is any thing temperate, either walke or ride abroad, or follow his necessary field-occasions. But if the day be immoderate in heat, cold, wet, or winde, com∣mon sense will tell euery sensible man, that the strong ought not in the vse of this nor any other purging Physicke (how mildly soeuer euacuating) rashly expose his bodie (of which neither diuine nor humane law per∣mits to make wilfull wracke) to the iniurie of such distempered Skies, and that keepe-within-doores is the safest and surest (and in∣deed necessary) guard for the crasie in such

cases. For the humors stirr'd vp and agitated by purge, are, in too hot seasons (which de¦bilitate the strength, kindle hot diseases) more or lesse, according to the strong or weake working of the Medicine, either drawne to the Superfice or skin, (a contrary course) or else over heated, doe kindle a Fe∣uer: thorow Cold they grow sluggish and dull, and slowly descend and passe thorow the straitned passages. The Ayre being ve∣ry moist, in wet weather, passing into the body through the dilated Pores, loosens the same, and occasions defluxions, but a more vast and free Ayre, agitated with blustering winds, much trouble the Body with a shuf∣fling confusion of the Humors, and cause dif∣ficult Purging.

For Matter of motion: It is verie requisite and conuenient (viribus constantibus) to vse moderate Exercise or Labour of the Body af∣ter taking the Potion to stirre vp and kindle the Fire of the Innatum Calidum (the mouer of all Medicines and Causa sine qua, without which their spirituall faculties lie as it were consopited, and produce no good Action) and before meat an houre or more to further Concoction, Digestion, and Distribution of Vi∣ands, to restore and corroborate all the Cor∣porall

Faculties, and rectifie the Actions of all the Senses, but with this Caution, that it be continued ad Ruborem onely, in thin Tex∣tures of Body, lest it exhale, dissipate and spend the Spirits, and debilitate the Mem∣bers, yet in strong corpulent and stuffy Con∣textures it may well be extended ad sudorem, and the rather if bee not vsed till some two houres after taking the Medicine.