4. If any do ch••nge their course of Dyet which they have used for a long time, as they who by high feed∣ing and continual fulness, come to have a very fat and gross body, they resolve to use a more sparing Diet; or they who have been accustomed to a very sparing and low Diet, if on a sudden they come to have ful∣nesse and variety of Dyet; or they who have much used any thing, as
The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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- The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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- Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
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- 1656.
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"The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Tobacco, &c, which they resolve to forbear, let them observe these following
Cautions: 1. Not to do it suddenly, but by little and little; for all sudden changes are hurtful to nature.
2. That they do it not, but in time of perfect health, because they are then best able to undergo such change.
3 That they do it not when they are much disturbed with businesse or otherwise; because when the mind is much disturbed, Nature is easily drawn to irregulate working to cause Diseases, and especially by a sudden change from that which hath been accustomed.
4. If a man hath accustomed himselfe to any thing the most part of h••s life time, howbeit this custome is bad, yet he cannot safely begin a change in his old age.