❧
The
Old
mans
Dietarie
.
VEry
aptlie
and
truelie
is
Phisicke
defined
by
Hippocrates
,
where
he
saieth
:
This
profitable
,
wholesome
and
necessarie
Diet
for
Olde
men
,
is
tearmed
in
Greeke
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
&
is
in
vertue
,
working
,
operation
and
effect
,
in
a
maner
like
vnto
that
renutritiue
and
restoratiue
diet
,
that
is
prescribed
vnto
pueling
and
still
sickly
persons
:
or
to
such
as
haue
beene
lately
recouered
from
their
discrasies
and
maladies
,
to
nourish
and
comforte
their
weake
bodies
,
called
likewise
of
the
Greekes
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
For
,
these
twaine
(
beside
that
parte
which
is
tearmed
Gymnastique
or
exercitatiue
,
seruing
only
for
recreation
of
them
that
bee
strong
&
healthfull
)
are
the
chiefe
and
speciall
partes
of
that
Phisicke
,
which
is
principally
directed
to
preserue
the
bodie
,
sound
,
healthfull
and
lustie
by
Diet.
The
Phisition
therfore
that
is
to
enter
into
this
charge
,
and
to
deale
in
this
behalfe
,
must
bee
no
childe
in
knowledge
,
neither
a
rawe
Scholler
in
his
Arte
,
but
must
bee
able
perfectly
and
at
his
fingers
endes
,
Rome
,
in
the
daies
of
Galene
:
that
by
comparing
the
yeeres
of
that
fresh
&
lustie
Old
man
,
with
old
men
of
other
Ages
:
the
Phisition
(
dealing
in
this
charge
of
cherishing
and
w●ll
dieting
Olde
men
)
may
the
better
knowe
and
the
readier
see
,
what
thinges
bee
best
to
choose
,
and
what
to
eschewe
:
s●●h
Old
age
containeth
in
it self
no
small
Latitude
,
according
to
more
or
lesse
:
according
whereunto
his
diet
and
fare
must
proportionablie
in
conuenient
qualitie
and
quantitie
bee
either
encreased
or
abated
.
For
a
more
plaine
declaration
therefore
of
this
matter
,
we
wil
diuide
the
Age
of
Old
men
stepped
into
yeres
,
into
three
partes
.
The
second
is
of
such
,
as
for
weakenes
and
want
of
strength
are
growne
to
bee
nummish
in
their
limmes
and
vnweldie
for
any
bodily
trauaile
:
Olde
mens
bodies
by
nature
are
colde
and
drye
.
For
,
Wherfore
,
by
the
number
of
yeeres
to
make
any
certain
distinction
or
difference
of
Ages
,
it
is
very
hard
,
yea
,
vnpossible
to
doe
it
.
For
,
it
is
often
seene
,
that
by
reason
of
the
natural
distemperaunce
of
some
one
principal
member
,
or
moe
:
or
for
that
,
He
therefore
that
exactly
and
perfectly
knoweth
,
that
Drinesse
and
Coldnesse
together
,
doe
possesse
Aged
bodies
:
&
that
of
olde
men
among
themselues
,
moyst
.
As
touching
the
quantitie
and
measure
of
such
remedies
as
hee
must
vse
,
he
may
as
occasion
serueth
,
(
accordingly
either
as
the
age
of
the
partie
,
or
as
his
custome
and
ordinary
dealings
and
fashions
do
require
)
occupy
and
take
:
euer
regarding
and
hauing
an
eye
to
the
aforesayd
distemperance
that
raigneth
in
this
olde
Age
.
For
by
all
these
,
hee
shal
be
much
holpen
and
furthered
,
to
knowe
more
certainly
the
weake
and
foreworne
disposition
of
Olde
folkes
.
Now
,
forasmuch
as
our
body
is
daily
affected
and
continually
groweth
toward
weakenes
and
debilitie
:
n●edes
must
it
in
that
respect
,
feele
a
double
inconuenience
,
the
one
,
of
alteration
:
the
other
of
continuall
decay
of
it
owne
substaunce
.
For
,
ouer
and
besides
the
sundrie
outwarde
meanes
of
alteration
,
which
many
wayes
happen
vnto
the
bodie
,
as
though
they
were
engraffed
and
naturally
breeding
therin
:
Doe
wee
not
see
,
that
through
daylie
and
continuall
decaying
and
wasting
of
some
parte
of
the
bodily
substaunce
,
and
of
the
diminishing
and
empayring
of
naturall
heate
,
together
with
the
expence
of
the
spirits
and
of
the
simple
&
similare
parts
,
Age
doth
stealingly
creepe
vpon
vs
,
and
therewith
drines
&
colones
besiegeth
and
assayleth
vs
?
Wherevpon
naturall
heate
beeing
once
abated
,
the
ventres
and
offitiall
members
seruing
for
the
conuenient
conueighaunce
of
humours
and
distribution
of
nourishment
,
are
vtterly
vnabled
from
accomplishing
their
offices
and
performing
their
actions
:
and
the
power
attractiue
found
either
to
bee
very
small
,
or
greatly
depraued
and
out
of
frame
:
wherby
the
bodie
becommeth
bloudlesse
and
cold
,
and
all
the
strength
,
comelinesse
and
beautie
thereof
banished
and
exiled
:
it
aboundeth
also
&
is
full
pestred
with
great
store
of
phlegme
,
and
whayish
excrementall
baggage
,
vnlesse
it
bee
(
accordingly
as
strength
will
permit
)
discreetely
and
temperatly
dyeted
.
In
this
place
therfore
,
the
mark
whereat
wee
leuell
and
ayme
,
for
the
good
and
orderly
vsage
of
Olde
men
in
their
Dyet
and
trade
,
be
manifest
and
plaine
enough
:
namely
,
that
there
bee
first
a
supplie
and
filling
of
those
places
in
the
body
which
are
emptyed
&
euacuated
,
The
summe
and
effect
of
all
holesome
dyet
(
saieth
Galene
)
consisteth
in
these
fower
things
:
Arabyan
Auicen
(
though
not
very
learnedly
&
eloquently
,
yet
(
certes
)
plainlie
and
orderly
vttered
and
expounded
of
Old
mens
dyet
:
his
wordes
be
these
:
The
effect
and
summe
of
their
regiment
is
,
to
applye
and
vse
that
which
may
heate
and
humect
:
namely
,
nourishing
meates
,
Bathes
or
Baynes
,
Drinks
,
large
sleepe
,
long
lying
in
Bedd
,
longer
(
I
saye
)
then
young
men
neede
:
continuall
prouoking
of
vrine
,
expelling
of
phlegme
from
their
stomackes
by
way
of
the
Entrailes
and
Bladder
,
and
carefully
preseruing
,
gently
cherishing
and
mildly
maintayning
Nature
in
them
.
Auicen
.
Furthermore
,
the
apt
and
profitable
vse
of
these
wholesome
things
,
especially
consisteth
in
these
three
points
:
namely
,
in
conuenient
quantitie
,
expedient
qualitie
,
and
meete
time
and
maner
of
vsing
the
same
.
Euery
one
of
which
,
are
briefly
and
after
his
accustomed
maner
appoynted
and
particularly
set
down
by
that
worthie
Hippocrates
:
where
he
saieth
:
Exercise
,
Meate
and
Drinke
,
Wherefore
,
olde
folkes
must
feede
sparingly
and
moderatly
,
not
inf●rcing
them selues
with
much
at
once
,
but
often
in
a
daye
,
as
twise
or
thrise
,
as
their
strength
shall
seeme
to
require
,
&
be
able
to
beare
:
and
as
by
custome
they
haue
acquainted
themselues
.
For
,
if
they
exceede
measure
neuer
so
little
,
it
doth
them
much
harme
.
Wee
therefore
,
herein
specially
imitating
Galen
(
who
in
his
describing
of
a
familiar
and
(
as
it
were
)
a
peculiar
direction
of
health
for
his
Countrymen
of
Greece
,
vsed
for
an
example
or
patterne
,
Antiochus
the
Phisition
,
Telephus
the
Grammarian
,
and
certaine
other
Old
men
that
liued
till
they
were
of
extreme
age
)
will
likewise
in
this
our
prescription
of
the
Old
mans
Dietarie
,
assay
so
to
order
and
deale
with
him
,
both
for
his
tyme
,
turnes
and
seasons
,
and
also
for
the
qualitie
and
quantitie
of
such
things
as
hee
must
vse
,
that
by
conferring
our
aduise
and
direction
,
and
the
meanes
of
our
vsuall
and
familiar
Dyet
with
that
tried
rule
and
perfect
squire
and
leuell
of
Dyet
,
vsed
by
famous
Auncients
of
old
tyme
,
we
may
be
able
certainly
to
knowe
and
vndoubtedly
discerne
,
what
is
needfull
to
be
added
,
and
what
is
necessary
and
behoouefull
to
bee
withdrawne
and
taken
awaye
from
such
Oldmen
,
for
whom
we
purposely
write
this
present
Regiment
:
exactly
trying
&
duely
considering
withall
,
the
habite
,
constitution
,
plight
,
disposition
,
qualitie
&
strength
of
their
bodies
:
together
also
with
the
nature
of
the
Region
or
country
where
they
haue
bene
bred
and
dwell
,
and
also
the
custome
or
fashion
wherunto
they
haue
bene
most
acquainted
and
enured
.
For
Aetius
wordes
(
which
he
borowed
out
of
Galens
discourse
of
Antiochus
the
Phisition
beeing
nowe
foure
score
yeeres
old
)
are
these
:
Their
meate
must
be
as
it
were
a
litle
pittance
at
once
,
but
they
must
haue
it
thrise
in
a
day
.
This
sentence
,
opinion
and
prescription
of
Aetius
is
confirmed
also
by
Auicen
,
and
after
his
blunt
and
barbarous
maner
,
auouched
and
set
downe
in
these
wordee
:
The
nourishment
of
Oldmen
must
be
giuen
vnto
them
by
litle
and
litle
,
Thus
somewhat
confusedly
,
disorderly
,
vnaptly
and
vnrespectively
doth
Auicen
iumble
and
shuffle
vp
in
a
heape
,
as
a
generall
rule
for
euery
Olde
man
,
that
,
which
particularly
and
example
sake
both
Galen
and
Aetius
set
doune
only
for
Antiochus
:
Whereas
the
same
Galene
,
writeth
not
onely
this
:
but
that
other
Old
men
also
liued
long
,
with
Milke
and
Hony
alone
,
with
bread
and
other
strong
and
solide
meates
.
By
this
Ordinarie
thus
prescribed
and
taught
vs
by
Greekes
and
Arabians
,
But
in
prescribing
of
any
Diet
whatsoever
,
aswel
for
the
whole
,
as
for
the
sick
,
wee
must
euer
haue
a
regard
(
as
Hippocrates
counselleth
)
to
Custome
:
It
remaineth
now
,
that
we
likewise
compendiously
and
briefely
set
downe
what
Meates
be
vnholsome
,
or
be
of
ill
iuyce
,
and
giue
naughtie
nourishment
.
This
therefore
must
first
and
principally
be
noted
,
that
all
Meates
and
drinkes
in
generall
,
yeelding
grosse
,
Old
men
therefore
must
vse
to
eate
such
meates
as
be
easie
in
concoction
,
quickly
nourishing
,
soone
alterable
into
the
substance
of
the
body
:
of
good
iuyce
and
commendable
nourishment
,
without
any
store
of
excrements
.
Let
their
bread
be
well
baked
,
throughly
moulded
,
And
let
them
take
heede
they
eate
not
bread
when
it
is
newe
,
or
when
it
is
ill
baked
,
or
vnleauened
,
&
that
which
is
made
of
the
finest
Wheate
Flowre
and
purest
Meale
.
The
bread
that
is
made
of
that
kind
of
Wheate
,
The
best
Egges
be
those
,
that
are
reare
,
All
maner
of
Whitemeates
made
of
Milke
,
is
generally
forbidden
,
But
Cheese
namely
must
be
forborne
,
Ale
and
Beere
for
Old
mens
ordinary
drinke
is
thought
to
bee
nothing
so
holsome
.
Al
water
also
,
either
drunke
alone
,
or
mingled
with
Wine
,
is
accompted
vnholsome
and
hurtful
,
vnlesse
(
Custome
being
to
the
contrarie
)
it
hath
bene
vsed
to
be
drunke
and
mingled
with
some
such
meates
as
serue
to
louse
and
mollifie
the
bellie
.
Olde
men
beeing
much
troubled
with
the
Gout
,
and
the
Stone
,
Meade
,
they
shall
find
a
singular
ease
.
Thus
much
touching
the
qualitie
of
Meates
and
Drinkes
most
profitable
for
Olde
men
.
Let
vs
nowe
semblably
set
downe
a
fewe
wordes
,
and
shewe
in
what
measure
and
order
it
shal
be
most
expedient
for
them
to
take
them
.
Neither
must
oldmen
bee
carelesse
in
the
choyse
and
●requenting
of
their
exercises
.
But
after
Meate
,
all
immoderate
walking
and
vehement
stirring
is
vtterly
forbidden
them
:
and
in
steede
thereof
they
are
to
be
enioyned
to
rest
,
&
to
repose
them selues
,
that
the
meate
in
their
Stomacke
may
leisurely
and
conueniently
bee
digested
,
and
not
too
hastily
conueighed
into
the
rest
of
the
members
before
they
be
sufficiently
concocted
.
If
for
some
weakenesse
,
debilitie
or
infirmity
of
the
feete
,
he
be
not
able
to
walk
,
let
him
ride
or
be
caried
abroade
a
while
.
Fricasies
and
Rubbings
in
the
morning
with
warme
Oyle
,
And
this
Fricasie
or
Rubbing
must
be
done
downward
,
that
is
to
say
,
beginning
at
the
upper
parts
of
the
body
,
and
so
bringing
the
hand
downward
toward
the
lower
partes
.
But
for
such
as
be
discrased
in
the
upper
partes
of
their
bodies
,
as
they
that
haue
the
swimming
in
their
Head
,
or
bee
troubled
with
the
Headach
or
payne
in
their
Necke
,
or
greeued
with
the
Apoplexie
,
it
shal
be
best
to
apply
their
Fricasies
,
Rubbings
and
exercises
to
their
neither
partes
onely
.
If
they
bee
subiect
to
the
Gowte
and
grieues
in
their
ioyntes
,
it
shall
be
very
good
for
them
,
often
to
stirre
and
exercise
their
armes
and
hands
.
But
as
in
all
things
els
:
so
in
this
,
speciall
regard
must
be
had
to
Custome
:
that
Oldemen
be
not
rashly
and
sodainly
drawen
by
and
by
to
a
diuers
course
and
contrary
order
,
either
in
their
vsage
of
meate
and
drinke
,
or
in
any
other
kind
of
exercise
or
respect
whatsoeuer
.
For
,
to
alter
the
habite
and
long
continued
custome
of
an
Oldman
,
is
both
hard
and
dangerous
.
Furthermore
,
Oldmēs
bodies
through
impotencie
and
debilitie
of
the
nourishing
facultie
,
are
encombred
and
pestered
commonly
with
watrish
excrements
,
and
rawe
humours
:
whereby
they
haue
neede
of
such
helps
as
may
prouoke
bryne
,
extenuate
the
clamminesse
and
toughnesse
of
those
humours
,
and
also
to
vse
such
medicinable
meates
,
as
bee
abstersiue
,
and
expell
all
daungers
threatened
thereby
.
But
forasmuch
as
all
such
bee
sharpe
and
hoat
in
operation
,
it
is
therefore
required
in
the
Phisition
,
to
be
therin
very
circumspect
and
carefull
,
that
hee
direct
the
drift
of
all
his
hoat
Medicines
and
meates
to
this
ende
,
partly
thereby
to
helpe
forward
concoction
,
and
to
make
proportionable
distribution
of
the
meate
into
al
the
members
of
the
bodie
:
and
partly
,
to
open
obstructions
,
and
to
expell
all
phlegmaticke
and
clammie
matter
:
and
not
flatly
to
dry
vp
the
bodie
,
and
so
consequently
to
bring
the
whole
Aged
habite
into
a
more
coldnesse
and
refrigeration
:
which
thing
wee
see
some
ignorant
Empericks
and
Practitioners
in
Phisicke
commonly
to
doe
,
who
neuer
thinke
themselues
to
haue
shewed
sufficient
proofe
of
their
dapper
skill
vpon
the
bodies
of
their
Patients
,
vnlesse
they
straight
waies
with
some
strong
solutiue
,
they
make
a
cleane
riddance
of
all
that
is
in
their
weake
bellies
.
In
Olde
men
therefore
,
to
make
them
soluble
,
to
purge
phlegme
and
to
louse
their
bellies
,
it
shall
bee
effectuall
and
sufficient
enough
to
vse
Oliues
condite
,
and
Capers
pickled
in
Oyle
,
or
Honny
eaten
with
bread
,
Mercurie
,
Mallowes
,
Blite
,
the
decoction
of
Colewortes
or
Cabages
,
a
Figge
now
and
then
eaten
with
a
little
Sene
,
&
some
good
Turpentine
as
much
in
quantitie
as
two
or
three
Walnuttes
.
For
,
this
not
onely
mollifieth
and
louseth
the
bellie
,
but
mundifieth
also
and
cleanseth
the
entrailes
,
openeth
the
obstructions
of
the
Lunges
,
sknowreth
the
Kidneyes
,
and
driueth
out
grauell
:
the
proportion
of
his
Receipt
is
appoynted
to
be
one
vnce
.
oenomel
:
Beside
the
premisses
,
there
be
yet
other
things
no
lesse
to
bee
respected
:
namely
,
such
as
are
outwardly
incident
vnto
vs
:
of
which
sorte
are
these
:
Ayre
,
Water
,
Fier
,
Oyle
,
Bathes
,
Sleepe
,
and
Affections
of
the
mynd
.
Ayre
therefore
must
bee
chosen
,
For
vses
of
the
Kitchin
:
In
Winter
&
such
seasons
wherein
the
weather
is
cold
,
Competent
and
measurable
Sleepe
is
best
,
Affections
and
perturbations
of
the
minde
,
FINIS
.