Thesaurus remediorum a treasury of choice medicines internall and externall, exactly composed according to art, peculiarly and properly fitted and appointed against the infirmities of the principall parts of mans body ... / by Julius Degravere ; whereunto is added diagnostic signs to know the temperament and constitution of each body ...

Flegmatic Constitution.

THe flegmatic person is cold and moist, to action more dull and heavy, not so witty, sharp, and accute, for habit of bo∣dy, more grosse and fat, not hairy, the veines small and hid, the haire white or flaxen, a soft, weak, and slow pulse; not so prompt to Venus, prone to sleep and ease; by cold things pre∣judiced, by hot things benifitted, incident to cold, and flegma∣tic distempers, the appetite greater then the digestion.

Let the flegmaticks dyet be warm meats, oftner roste then boiled.

Sugar and Hony, mustard, salt and spices are lawful: Butter and Oyl is good Physick.

Olives, Capers, Broom-buds, Sampier, are good sauce.

Abstain from raw fruits, Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Cucumbers, Melons, &c. as hurtfull.

Refrain green herbs and sallets, as Lettuce, Purslane, Sorrel, except Sage, Rosemary, Time, Marjerom, and some hot herbs.

Refuse Fish, milk, and milk meats, they increase flegme and beget obstructions.

Let thy drink be moderately strong; a cup of Sack sometimes is for thy health, to concock crude and sl••gmatick humours.

Drink no Sider▪ Perry, Butter-milk or Whey, they are too cold and moist for a crude raw stomack.

Indulge not thy self to sleep much, it is an enemy by increa∣sing moisture and dulling the spirits.

Seasonable exercise and moderate abstinence is physick, and great preservatives of health.

Chuse a warm aire, and dry soile, remote from waters, the best place for thy abode.

Hot baths are profitable, and Venus a friend. The former cherisheth the spirits, opens obstructions, and dryes up superflu∣ous moisture. The latter suscitates and stirs up the spirits, al∣leviates▪ and helps concoction.