The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

CHAP. XVIII.

Ill dayes. CRiticall daies be such daies on which there is or may be perceived some manifest alteration in a sick body, either to health, death, or continuance of sicknes, and are very necessary to be observed; the critick day doth often happen after the beginning of the sicknes, the 3. 5. 7. 9. 11. 14. 17. 21. 28. day, in which daies neither medicines, nor bloudings should be used, neither any naturall, or voluntary eva∣cuation be stopt, as flux of the belly, bleeding at the nose, urine, sweate, vomiting, flux of the hemorrhoids or courses in women; some follow the Egptians rule in observing certaine daies, wherin if any fal sick or be hurt they shall hardly escape, which are these, the 1. and 7. of Ianuary, the 3. and 4. of February, the 1. and 4. of March, the 8. and 10. of Aprill, the 2. and 7. of May, the 10. and 15. of Iune the 10. and 13. of Iuly, the 3. and 2. of August, the 3. and 10. of September, the 3. and 10. of October, the 3. and 5. of November, the 7. and 10. of December; As likewise the 10. of August, the 1. of December, and the 6. of Aprill, are observed by Philosophers as perillous to take any surfet therein by overmuch eating: It is like∣wise observed by an antient Philosopher Arabian, that there are three mundayes in the yeare very unfortunate either to let bloud or begin any worke of importance viz. the first munday in Aprill, on the which Caine was borne, and his brother Abel slaine: the first munday in August, the which day Sodom, and Gommorha were con∣sumed: And the last munday of December on the which

Iudas Iscariot was borne, who killed his father, married his mother, and betrayed his master, our Saviour. And these three mundaies with Childermas day which is the eight and twentieth of December, are by divers scholars held unfortunate to all men, and subject to divers mis∣haps. Good daies. Some daies there are also which are observed by old writers to be very fortunate daies, for any busines to be undertaken in; also that children borne in those daies should never be poore, children put to schoole in those daies should be rich and the like: the daies are these; the 3. and 13. of Ianuary; the 5. and 28. of February; the 3. 22. and 30. of March; the 5. 22. and 29. of Aprill; the the 4. and 28. of May; the 3. and 8. of Iune; the 12. 13. and 15. of Iuly; the 12. of August; the 1. 7. 24. and 28. of September; the 4. and 15. of October; the 13. and 19. of November; the 23. and 26. of December; and this shall suffice for the opinions of the more curious sort of the learned. Of the fourth part of Physick which is of the signes of diseases presaged by the urine, stoole, pulse, sweate, vomite, bloud, astrologicall signes, crisis, &c. I shall treate of in the next impression, having not so much time now as scarce to finish the fift part as it should be.