Tutela sanitatis sive Vita protracta. The protection of long life, and detection of its brevity, from diætic causes and common cutoms. Hygiastic præcautions and rules appropriate to the constitutions of bodyes; and various discrasyes or passions of minde; dayly to be observed for the preservation of health and prolougation of life. With a treatise of fontinells or issues. Whereunto is annexed Bellum necessarium sive Medicus belligerans the military or practical physitian reveiwing [sic] his armory: furnished with medical weapons munition against the secret invaders of life; fitted for all persons and assaults; with their safe and regular use, according to medical art and discipline by Everard Maynwaring doctor in physick.

Hygistic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the various discrasyes or passions of Mind.

THe Soul and Body are so linked and con∣joyned, as Partners of each others ill and wellfare, that the one is not affected, but the other is drawn into consent; mutually acting enjoying and suffering untill death sepe∣rates and breaks the bands of union assunder. Hence it is, a diseased body makes a heavy droo∣ping mind; and a wounded, disturbed or estless mind, makes a youthful healthy body to decay and languish. Who therefore desires the health and wellfare of the body must Pro∣cure ease, rest and tranquility of mind.

Siue Animo Corpus, nec sine corpore, Animus, bene valere potest.

SHun Melancholy and sadness as very dan∣gerous and destructive, occasioning and producing variety of diseases; suffocates and choaks the spirits, retards their motion and agility of operation, imprisons, and cloggs them in their Stations, darkens their purity and light debilitating all the faculties

of the body, their cheif operator being indis∣posed and disabled; fixeth humors incrassates and begets obstructions; and debilitates the Speen, alienates and subtracts its ferment from the stomack, which decayes both appetite and digestion, procures scorbute, Hypochondriac Melancholy, pains and tumors of the Spleen, Dropsies. Jaundice, &c. A great Enemy to beau∣ty, soon changeth florid blooming youth into a pale withering countenance, and makes the whole body to languish and decay.

Mirth subtiliates, purifies and chears the spi∣rits, puts them upon activity that before were torpid dull and heavy, and excites them to o∣peration and duty in the several faculties: vo∣latizeth, rarifies and attenuates gross feculent ob∣structing humors: preserves youth vigour and beauty; makes the body plump and fat, by ex∣panding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment. Whose wholsome ef∣fects are much the same with those of ex∣ercise, and may well supply when that is want∣ing.

— Dum fata sinunt Ʋivite laeti— Sen.

ANger is the beginning of madness which fires the spirits, & raiseth an intestine tomult and disturbance; agitates and inrageth Choler

and exasperates Cholerick diseases: raiseth hy∣stericall apoplectic and epileptic fits in those subject to them; causeth tremblings of the nerves, palpitations of the heart; discomposeth and disorders the whole body: but more espe∣cially infirm parts are made sensible of the pre∣judice, and Cholerick lean bodies.

Maximum remedium irae est dilatio. —Dis proximus ille est. Quem ratio non ira movet, qui facta rependet Consilio— Claud.

FEar suddenly surprizing, enervates and cha∣seth the spirits to and fro from their residen∣cy and faculties sometimes compressing and dri∣ving them to the heart, causing violent palpita∣tions and suffocation: or scattring them from the fountain of life into the external parts, mak∣ing a dissolution even to exanimation. A long predmeditated and constant fear in a remisse de∣gree, produceth the same effects with Melan∣cholly.

Plura sunt quae nos terrent quam quae Premunt; & saepius opinione quam re∣laboramus.

LOve & desire being inordinate and impetu∣ous, seldom goes alone, but is attended with

fear, anger, Melancholy, dispaire, one or more for its consorts, with which the minde is rack∣ed and torn, and variously affected as the se∣veral passions acts their parts by turns: notwith∣standing difficulties and sufferings, the soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal, deserts her own mansion, and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying, never at home but as a prisoner, and prisoners are but bad house keepers: the body needs must lan∣guish and decay, when the soul thus delights and strives to run away.

For a check to the impetuousness of this in∣ordinate effection and immoderate desire, take these considerations to calm, allay, and regu∣late your passion.

First, that you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affecti∣ons, and lay out more in expectation, then the income of your desire obtained can possibly make a return: that it is far greater in non ha∣bendo, then it will be in fruendo; it will be much less when you have, then it seems to be now you have it not.

Secondly, that the Delirium and fervency of your desire, does not hasten the accompishment of your aymes, but rather retards or frustrates: for the extremity and strength of passion debi∣litates and suppresseth reason, the cheif contri∣ver and manager of your design; puts you up∣on

inconsiderate, immature and rash attempts, and makes you more unfit, incapable and un∣able to effect your purpose; for passion is alwayes spurring, but reason hath its stops and pauses, keeps due times for onsets and pro∣gress.

Thirdly, that prudent and vigorous action, not innane hungry volition or thirsty desire though never so great, must or can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes.

Fourthly, that the ardency and heighth of desire, will not imbetter, sweeten or add to the heighth of your injoyment when obtained; but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem: for what thing soever you pur∣chase, and are mistaken and deceived in, you will not vallue at that rate you first prized it, but at the worth you now finde it. Vehement & lofty desires screws you up to such a heighth of expectation, mountain high; but you must descend into fruition, thats in the valley; and when you find your self in a bottom, and your Sails not so filled and puft as formerly by the fresh gailes and blasts of a strong desire; your top-sails then begin to flap and flag when you come into the still calm of fruition, and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lower amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of injoyment: for in appearance it was great when at a di∣stance seemingly, but now you are come nearer

it is much less and inconfiderable really; and what swelled you full in the prosecution of at∣taining, will not fill you now with satisfaction, but prove aery when you grasp it, and soon emptied in injoyment.

Thirdly, that statutum est, it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing de∣sired, which to a rational creature, is sufficient without other arguments, to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire, and curb the violence of an impetuous affection: but not to cowardise, daunt or stop a laudible active pro∣secution to attain a noble, vertuous and lawful end, with a moderate submissive desire.

—quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem, tutus ac victor fuit. Sen. Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum Serò recusat ferre quod subiit jugum.

CAre immoderate and constant denies the a∣nimal spirits their due times for refreshment, rest and ease; disables them from duty and the true performance of their Offices, being weary and tired for want of respite, heats the spirits and dryes the radical moisture; which changeth a fresh countenance into paleness, and pines the body: most injurious to thin, lean and Chole∣rick bodies.

Si diis Curae es, quid tua cura potest?

Revenge, jealousie and envy are the Ulcers of the mind, continually lancinating, corroding or inflaming; introducing a secret consump∣tion, wasting the spirits and radical moisture, and infeebling all the faculties.

Multis se injuriis objicit, —dum una dolet. Sen.

That you may the better know and rightly un∣derstand how the passions of the mind redound and reflect upon the body to the decay and ru∣ne of it, and abbreviating life.

First, consider that the body without the soul ••s dead and moves not at all: by vertue of the ••oules conjunction with it, informing and as∣suming it, the body acts with various motions and opperations, and according to the activity ••f the soul, organical aptitude and fitness of the ••ody is the exquisiteness and perfection of their ••perations: the Soul then is agent, the body assive, receiving the influx vertue and power ••rom the Soul, who is Rectrix and Gubernatrix ••o whom the rule and government belongs: it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 evident therefore since the body cannot act ••ny thing of it self for its conservation with∣••ut the energy and assistance from the Soul,

whose care is the regulating and moderating the body in all actions external and internal; then the distractions, inactivity, wandrings and neglects of the soul, does tend to the sub∣version of the due order and government, and consequently the ruine and dissolution of the body, which requires a constant supply of daily reparation and regular tuition for its support and maintenance.

Now the Soul transported by passion from its genuine Crasis of placidness and tranquility, and reduced into a turbulent, unquiet and di∣stempered state, is that condition of incapa∣city and unfitness for the government for that time being, and many damages arise thereby as in each passion particularly is enume∣rated.

In a threefold manner the Soul is put besides it self in the regularity of rectory, and is incurious of the welfare of the body.

First, the Soul is either carried away by some delightful object, as for some thing vehemently desired, deserting as it were the body to follow after that thing desired and coveted, extending her power and strength out of the body, to lay hold, if possibly to obtain, and bring within the Sphere and Circle of her enjoy∣ment.

Or secondly, the Soul is in fury and disquiete within, by the apprehension of some thing as∣saulting

and disturbing it, to which the Soul hath a contrarietie, and antipathy against: as in the passions of fear, hatred, revenge, anger; and the disquietude and disturbance is continued by representations of their Causes in the phan∣tasie, which still present themselves to the soul, by way of a fresh assault, which feeds the passi∣on and continues the distemper.

Or thirdly, the Soul is languishing, heavy and inactive, altogether indisposed to the go∣vernment and tuition of the body; and per∣haps desirous to be discharged and shake it off, being weary of the burthen, taking no delight in their partnership and society, as in melan∣choly despair and grief.

In all which cases you shall find the body to suffer great prejudice and detriment: But first, you must consider how, and by what means or instrument, the Soul does act in the body; the Soul acts not immediately, but mediately by the spirits, which are the Souls approximate and chief instruments in bodily actions and motions, and are appointed their several Sations, Offices and Duties peculiar to the several works, as Concoction, Separation, Distribution, Excre∣tion, Retention. Assimilation, Sensation, &c.

Now it will manifestly appear how the body is damaged and consequently the life abbre∣viated.

In the first Case: when the Soul alienates

her self, wanders away with a vehement desire to procure and obtain any thing most agreeable and delightful (at least so seeming) the Soul as it were contracts it self and unites all her force, stands at full bent after this beloved, dischargeth all her thoughts upon it, and spends her strength in desire and longing; untill at last she pines away with a tedious and starving expectation: In the interim the aeconomy and government of her own mansion the body is neglected; the spirits, at least a good part are enticed away and called of from their proper and peculiar works and duty, perhaps to en∣large and increase the vigour of some other fa∣culty, more immediately subservient and at∣tending the Souls new design and business; pre∣ferred far before a good concoction, due excre∣tion, nutrition, seasonable rest, or what else; and those spirits remaining which have the bur∣then of these duties incumbent on them, have so small and inconsiderable support and supply of influence from the Soul, to direct and back them in their performance, that the functions are executed so weakly and depravedly, to the great prejudice and damage of the body.

Concoction now is not so good, nor the ap∣petite so quick; the Stomack calls not for a new supply, as yet not being well discharged and quit of yesterdayes provision: the Stomack now is weary of dressing and preparing long

Dinners for the body; Lenten and fasting dayes are its vacation from trouble, and best contented when least to do.

Separation now is not so good, the excre∣mentitious and nutritious part walk hand in hand together, and pass without contradiction or due examination: the watch now is not so strict at the Ports and privy passages, to discern what is fit to pass this way, and what the other, and what to reject and keep out, but promiscu∣ously receives what presents it self.

Distribution now is not so good, aliment tires by the way, wanting spirits to convey and bring it to its journeys end; and exercise to jog it on through the angust Meanders, and more difficult passages.

Sanguification is now degenerate and vitiate, the preceding requisites and fit praevious dispo∣sition being wanting.

Membrification or assimilation is now changed for Cachectic and a depraved habit.

Excretion and evacuation of what is super∣fluous and and unfit longer to be retained in the body, is not sent away in due time, but stayes for a pass, the governess is now taken up with other matters, neglects due orders and commands to the expulsive faculty for their emission.

Necessary and wholesome Customes are now neglected and disregarded: the Soul too oft is

wandring and gadding abroad, and best when she is from home; but neglects the airing of her Cottage, and perfuming it with fresh aetherian breath.

The Soul is now alwayes restless and distur∣bed, nor shall the sences her attendants take their due repose, but keeps an unqiet house at midnight.

In the second Case: the regular and due or∣der of government in the body is subverted and changed, when the Soul in the forementioned passions, of fear, anger, hatred or revenge, is disturbed and a arum'd by the assault, ap∣proach or appearance of some evill or injury; the Soul then summons the spirits together from thei•• common duties, and calls them to her aid and assistance, for security from danger, to re∣pulse the violence offered or revenge the injury; hurrying them here and there, from one part to another in a tumultuous manner, if the assault be suddain and surprizing; sometimes inward to support the heart, to give courage and resolu∣tion, which by their suddain concourse and con∣fluence to the Center; causeth great palpita∣tions, and sometimes suffocation: or else com∣manding them to the out-works, into the exter∣nal parts, to repell the invasion and violence of the evil presenting or approaching, or to re∣venge the quarrel: the hands and arms then receive a double or trebble strength, the Muscles

being full and distended with agile spirits for their activity and strength in motion: the eyes then are staring full and stretcht fourth with a croude of inflamed spirits, darting fourth their fury and spending their strength upon the ad∣versary and object of their trouble: the tongue then is swelled with spirits and bigg words, that wanting a larger room for vent, tumbles out broken and imperfect speeches, and scarce can utter whole words: The Leggs and Feet then have an Auxiliary supply, and double portion of spirits conveighed in to their sinews, to in∣crease their agility and strength, to come on or off: but in the mean time the heart perhaps is almost fainting, so long being deprived off, and deserted by, those lively vigorous spirits, which did inhabit and quarter there for its Life-guard, protection and support; are now called off their Guard and common duties, imployed in Forreign parts, commanded here and there as the emergent occasion presents it self to the go∣verness of this Microcosme.

In the third Case mentioned: the due order, government, and necessary execution of offices and duties belonging to the welfare and main∣tenance of the body and preservation of life, is neglected and weakly performed.

When the soul being darkned and overspread with a cloud of sadness, betakes her self to a sullen incurious recumbency and retiredness wil∣ling

to resign and cast off the government and tuition of the body; and as a burthen which she delights not now to bear about, begins to loose her hold, who before had embraced and clipt so close; suspending the vertue of her energy and vigorous emanations; but now acting faintly and coldly, those necessary mutual performan∣ces without regard to their former friend∣ship, or their future conjunct preservation. The body now begins to sinck with its own weight, and press towards the Earth the natural place from whence it came. That aetherian spi∣rit which before had boyed it up and took de∣light to sport it to and fro, is now ready to let it fall and groues downwards, to leave it whe∣ther it must goe. The wonted pleasures of their partnership and society, is now disgusted and rejected: food now hath lost its relish and is become unsavory: sleep which before was pleasant as a holy day in the fruition of rest and ease, is now composed of nothing but troublesome unquier dreams, linked together with some fighing intervals, to measure out the weary night by. Exercise and sporting re∣ereations is now accounted druggery and labo∣rious toyling: unwilling is the soul to move her yokfellow, farther then the enforcing law of nature and necessity commands and urgeth. their joynt operations which before were duly and unanimously performed, are now ceased, a∣bated

or depraved, by the retraction, relu∣ctance and indisposed sadness of the soul to act: the wonted vigorous emanations of the soul, and her radiant influence upon the spirits is now sus∣pended, subducted and called back. These mini∣string attending spirits and cheifest agents, which at a beck were alwaies ready agile and active in the execution of her commands now want commands to stir and warrants to act by: but in a torpid and somnolent disposition, unfit for action and the exquisite performance of their duties, and in a sympathizing compliance with the soul the excitrix and rectrix of their motions, are ready to resign their offices, and give over working, that what they now do is faintly and remissely performed, with much de∣ficiency & depravation. When the soul is pleas∣ed and merry, the spirits dance and are cheirfull at their work; but when she droops and mourns, the spirits are dull, heavy and tired, the functions weakly and insufficiently executed.

From the preceeding discourse may easily be collected, that the distempers and alienations of the soul from her genuine crasis of serenity and quietude, is of great disadvantage, to health; impressing upon the body various preternatu∣ral effects, forming the Ideas and charracters of diseases upon the spirits, and by them commu∣nicated, conveighed and propagated in the bo∣dy: likewise the morbific seeds & secret chara∣cters

of diseases which lay dead and in∣active, are by the aeconomical disturbance and perturbations of minde, awakened, moved and stirred up to hostility and action which other∣wise would have layen dormant; as by greif, fear or anger; hysterical passions, swoonings, epilepsies, &c. Are often procured; and it is evident, and commonly observed by infirme and diseased people, how passion agravates and heighthens their distempers; and acccording to the temper of their mindes will their bodily in∣firmities be agravated or abated.

I shall conclude this subject with three corollaryes being the Epitome of what hath been asserted and aimed at.

1. There is no perturbation or passion of mind, whether little or great, but it works a real effect in the body more or less, according to the nature and strength of the passion; and by how much the more suddain, great, often, and longer duration the passion is by so much are the impressions and effects worse, more dura∣ble and indeleable. You cannot be angry or en∣vious or Melancholly, or give way to any such passion, but you cherish and feeed an enemy that preys upon your life, and you may be as∣sured that passion makes as great nay greater alteration within the body; then the change of your countenance appears to outward view, which is not a little, although but the shadow

or reflections of the inward distemper and dis∣order: and were it possible by any perspective to see the alteration and discomposure within made by a passionate minde, the prospect would be strange, and much different from that pla∣cidness and tranquility of an indisturbed quiet soul.

2. Strong and vehement passions or affections of the mind to intent upon this or that object, whether desiderable, or formidable and to be a∣voided, alienates suspends & draws of the wont∣ed vigour influence and preservative power of the soul due to the body; whereby the functions and operations are not duly and sufficiently per∣formed, but intempestively remissly and weak∣ly: nor is the dammage onely privative, but also introduceth and impresseth upon the spirits a morbific idea, which is ens reale & seminale, producing this or that effect, according to the nature and property of the Idea received, and aptitude of the recipient subject. Phan∣sies and Idea's are let in naked, but they strait are invested and cloathed in the body, have a real existence, and are entia realia; though at first conception but entia rationis: as the longing of a pregnant woman, being but the Idea of a thing in her minde, begets various and real distempers in her body, if not soon satisfyed; and sometimes charactrized up∣on the Embryo in the Wombe. Likewise a

good stomack is taken off its meat suddenly, by the comming of some unwelcome bad news; the appetite is gone now the soul is disquieted, and the Body really affected and altered: let this sad tidings be contradicted, and the Soul satisfied of the truth to the contrary, it sets a new impression upon the spirits, they strait are cheered, lively and active; the stomack calls for meat and drink, and the faculties re∣stored to their wonted operations. Whereby it appears, the two passions of joy and grief, as they are opposite in their objects, so are their effects wrought in the body, as far distant and different.

3. A cogitative or contemplative person to intent, alwayes or unseasonably employing the mind seriously and eagerly either in real or ficti∣ous matters, fabricating Idea's upon the spirits, disturbs and hinders other necessary offices and opperations conservative of being, enervates and weakens their performance in duty, impares health, and hastens old age: but those that live most incurious, and void of studious thoughts and serious cogitations, preserve the strength of nature and integrity of all the facul∣ties, protract the verduce and beauty of youth, much longer from declensions and decay; for by how much the rational faculty is over busie and imtempestively exercised, drawing the full vi∣gour of the soul into the exercise of that fa∣culty,

and robbing other inferiour functions of their necessary influential supply, and emana∣tive power from the soul; by so much the other faculties are impoverished and abated, their ex∣ecutions more languid and depraved: and therefore it is, a close Students life, disposeth and inclines to many infirmities, enervates and debilitates nature, abbreviates and shortens its course.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Fieri non potest, ut animo malè affecto, Non etiam unà laboret corpus.

parcè bibe, frugaliter ede utere exercitio rarò venere diluculo surge tranquillo sis animo tempestivè fac omnia immodice nihil.

Ars brevis, vitam trahit longam.