The Englishmans docter. Or, The schoole of Salerne Or, physicall obseruations for the perfect preseruing of the body of man in continuall health.

THE SALERNE SCHOOLE . THe Salerne Schoole doth by these lines impart , All health to Englands King , and doth aduise From care his head to keepe , from wrath his hart . Drinke not much wine , ●uplight , and soone arise , When meat is gone long sitting breedeth smart : And after noone 〈◊〉 waking keepe your eies , When mou'd you find your selfe to Natures Noed Forbeare them not , for that much danger breeds , Vse three Physitians still , first Doctor Quiet , Next Doctor Mery-man , and Doctor Dyet . Rise early in the morne , and straight remember With water cold to wash your hands and Eyes , In gentle fashion retching euery member , And to refresh your braine when as you rise , In hear , in cold , in Iuly , and December , Both comb your head , & rub your teeth likewise : If bled you haue , keep coole , if bath'd keep warm , If din'd , to stand or walke will do no harme . 3. things preserue ● sight , Glasse , Grasse , & Fountains At Eue'n springs , at morning visit-monntaines . If R : be i● t●e mouth , their ●udgen●ents erre , That th●nke tha● sleepe in afternoone is good , If R : be not therein , some men there are , That thinke a little nap breeds no ill b●ood , But if you shall heerein exceed too farre , It hurts ●our health , it cannot be withstood : Long sleep at afternoones by stirring fumes . Breeds Slowth and Agewes , Aking head● & Rheums The moysture brcd●n Breast , in Iawes , and Nose , All cald Catarrs or Tysique , or the Pose . Great harms haue grown , & Maladies exceeding By keeping in a little blast of wind , So Cramps , & Propsies , Collicks haue their breeding , And Mazed Braines ●or want of vent behind . Besides we find in stories worth the readiug , A certaine Roman Emperor was so kind , Claudius by name , he made a Proclamation , A Scape to be no losse of reputation , Great suppers do the stomacke much offend , Sup light if quyet you to sleepe intend . To keepe good d●er , you should neuer feed , Vn●●ll you find your stomacke cleane and voide , O●●ormer eaten meats , for they do breed Repletion , and will cause you soone be cloid , No●e other rule but appetite should need , When from your mouth a moisture cleare doeth void All Peares and Apples , Feaches , Milke , & Cheese , Salt meats , red Deere , Hare , Beefe and Goat : al these A●e meats that breed ill blood , and Melancholy , I● sicke you be , to feed on them were folly . Egges newly laid , are nutritiue to eat , A●d rosted Reere are easie to digest . ¶ Fresh Gascoign wine is good to drink with meat Broth strengthens nature aboue all the rest , 〈◊〉 broath prepar'd with flowre of finest wheate : Well bo●ld , and full of fat for such are best . ¶ The Priests rule is ( a Priests rule should be true , ) Those Egges are best , are long , and white , & new , Remember eating new laid ●gges and soft , For euery Egge you eat you drinke as oft . Fine Manchet feeds to fat , Milke fils the vaines , New Cheese doth nourish , so doth flesh of swine , The Dowcets of some beast● , the marrow , brains , And all sweet-tasting-flesh , and pleasant wine , Soft Egges ( a cleanly dish in house of Swains , ) Ripe Figs and Raysins , late come from the Vine : Chuse wine you meane shal serue you all the year , Well-sauour'd , tasting well , and color'd cleere . Fiues qualities there are , wines praise aduancing , Strong , Beawtyfull , and Fragrant , coole , and dauncing . White Muskadell and Candy wine , and Greeke , Do make mens wits and bodies grosse and fat : Red wine doth make the voyce oft time to seek , And hath a binding quality to that , Canary and Madera , both are like To make one Leane indeed , ( but wot you what , ) Who say they make one lean wold make one laffe They meane , they make one leane vpon a staffe . Wine , women , Baths , by Art or Nature warme , Vs'd or abus'd , do men much good or harme . Six things that heere in order shall insue , Against all poysons haue a secret poure , Peares , Garlick , Reddish-roots , Nuts , Rape , & Rew , But Garlicke cheefe , for they that it deuoure , May drink , and care not who their drink do brew May walke in ayres infected euery houre : Sith Garlicke then hath poure to saue from death , Beare with it though it make vnsauoury breath : And scorne not Garlicke like to some , that think It onely makes men winke , and drinke , and stink . Though all ill sauours do not breed infection , Yet sure infection commeth most by smelling , Who smelleth still perfumed , his complexion Is not perfum'd by Poet Martials telling , Yet for your lodging roomes giue this direction , In houses where you mind to make your dwelling That nere the same there be no euil scents Of Puddle-waters , or of excrements . Let ayre be cleare and light , & free from faultes , That come of secret passages and vaults . If wine haue ouer night a surfet brought , A thing we wish to yon should happen seeld Then early in the morning drinke ● draught , And that a kind of remedy shall yeeld , But gainst all surfets vertues schoole hath taught , To make the gift of temperance a sheeld : The better wines do breed the better humours , The worse , are causes of vnwholesome tumors : In measure drinke , let wine be ripe , not thicke , But cleere and well alaid , and fresh , and quicke . The like aduice we gi●e you for your beere , We will it be not soure , and yet be stale , Well boyld , of harty graine , and old , and cleare , Nor drinke too much , nor let it bee to stale : And as there be foure seasons in the yeare , In each a seuerall order keepe you ●●all . In Spring , your dinner must not much exceed , In Summers heat , but little meat shal need : In Autumne , wa●e you eat not too much fruit , With Winters cold , full meals do fittest su●e . If in your drinke you mingle Rew with Sage , All poyson is expeld by power of those , And if you would withall lusts heat asswage , Adde to them two the Gentle-floure of Rose : ¶ Who would not be Sea-sick when seas do rage . Sage-water drinke with Wine before he goes . ¶ Salt , Garlicke , Parsely , Pepper , Sage , and Wine , Make sawces for all meats both course and fine , Of washing of your hands much good doth ryse , T is wholesome , cleanly , and releeues your eyes . Eate not your bread too stale , nor eat it hot , A little Leuend , hollow-bak't and light : Not fresh , of purest grain that can be got , The crust breeds choller both of brown & white , Yet let it be well bak't or eat it not , How ere your tast therein may take delight . ¶ Porke without wine it not so good to eate As Sheepe , with wine , it medicine is and meate , Tho Intrailes of a beast be not the best , Yet are some intrayles better then the rest . Some loue to drinke new wine not fully fin'd , But for your health we wish that you drink none , For such to dangerous Fluxes are enclin'd , Besids the Lees of wine doth breed the stone . Some to drinke onely water are assign'd : But such by our consent shall drinke alone , For water and small beere we make no question Are enemies to health and good digestio● : And Horace in a verse of his rehearses , That Water-drinkers neuer made good verses . The choyse of meats to health doth much auayle , First Veale is holsom meat , & breeds good blood So Capon , Hen , and Chicken , Patridge , Quaile , The Phesant , woodcock , Lark & Thrush be good The Heath-cock holsome is , the Doue , the Raile , And all that do not much delight in mud , Fair swans , such loue your beuties make me bear you , That in the dish I easily could forbeare you , Good sport it is to see a Mallard kild , But with their flesh your flesh should not be fil'd . As choyce you make of Fowle , so make of Fish , If so that kind be soft , the great be best , If firme , then small , and many in a dish : I need not name , al kinds are in request , P●ke , Trowt , and Pearch from water fresh I wish , From Sea , Bace , Mullet , Brean , & Soules are best : The Pyke a rauening Tyrant is in water , yet he on Land good meat yeelds neare the later . If Eeeles and Cheese you eat , they make you hoarse But drinke apace thereto , and then no force . Some loue at meals to drink smal draughts & oft , But fancie may heerein , and custome guid , If Egges you eat they must be new and soft , In peaze good qualities , and bad are tryed , To take them with the skin that growes aloft , They windie be , but good without their hide . In great consumptions learn'd Phisitians thinke , T is good a Goat or Camels milke to drinke , Cowes-milke and Sheepes do wel , but yet an Asses , Is best of all , and all the other passes . Milke is for Agues and for Headache naught , Yet if from Agues fit you feele you free , Sweet-Butter wholesome is , as some haue taught , To clense and purge some paines that inward be : ¶ Whay though it be contemn'd , yet it is thought , To scoure , and clense , and purge in due degree : ¶ For healthy men may cheese be holesome food , But for the weake and sickly t is not good , Cheese is an heauie meat , and grosse , and cold , And breedeth Costiuenesse both new and old . Cheese makes complaint that men on wrong suspitions Do slander it , and say it doth such harme , That they conceale his many good conditions , How oft it helpes a stomacke cold to warme , How fasting t is prescrib'd by some Phisitions , To those to whom the flux doth giue Alarm : We see the better sort thereof doth eate , To make as t were a period of their meat , The poorer sort when other meat is scant , For hunger eate it to releeue their want . Although you may drinke often while you dine , Yet aster dinner touch not once the cup , I know that some Physitions do assigne To take some liquor straight before they sup : But whether this be meant by Broth or wine , A controuersie , t' is not yet tane vp : To close your stomacke well , this order sures , Cheese after Flesh , Nuts after Fish or Fruits . Yet some haue said , ( beleeue them as you will ) One Nut doth good , two hurt , the third doth kill . Some Nut , gainst poison is preseruatiue , Feares wanting Wine , are poyson from the tree , But bak't Peares coun●●d are restonatiue , Raw-Peares a poyson , Bak't a Medicine●be : Bak't Peares , a Weak-dead-stomacke do reuiue , Kaw-Peares are heauy to disgest we see , Drinke after Peares , take after Apples order To haue a place to purge your selfe of ordure . Ripe Cherries breed good bloud , & help the stone , If Cherry you do eat , and Cherry-stone . Coole , Damsens are , and good for helth by reason They make your intrailes soluble and slacke , Let Pea●hes steepe in wine of newest season , Nu●s hurt their teeth , ● with their teeth them c●acke With euery Nut t is good to eat a Reason , For though they hurt the splene they help the back A plaister made of Figges by some mens telling , Is good against all kirnels , Boyles , and swelling , With Poppy ioyn'd , it drawes out bones are broken By Figs are lice engendred , Lust prouoken . Eat Medlers if you haue a loosenes gotten , They bind , and yet your vrine they augment , They haue one name more fit to be forgotten , While hard and sound they be they be not spent , Good Medlers are not ripe till seeming rotten . For meddling much with Medlers some are shent . New Rhe●nish-wine stirs vrine , doeth not binde But rather loose the Belly , breeding wind , Ale , humours breeds , it addes both flesh & force , T is loosing , coole , and vrine doth inforce . Sharpe Vinegar doth coole , withall it dries , And giues to some ill humor good correction : It makes one melancholy , hurts their eyes , Nor making fat , nor mending their complection : It lessens sperm , makes appetite to rise , Both tast and scent is good against infection . ¶ The Turnep hurts the stomack , wind it breedeth Stirs vrine , hurts his teeth thereon that feedeth : Who much therof wil feed , may wish our Nation Would well allow of Claudius proclamation . It sollowes now what part of euery beast Is best to eat : first , know the Hart is ill , It is both hard , and heauy to disgest , The Tripe , with no good iuice our flesh doth fill : The Lites , are light , yet but in small request : But outer parts are best in Physickes skill . ¶ If any braines be good , ( which is a question , ) Hennes braine is best , and lightest of disgestion : ¶ In Fennell-see● this vertue you shall find , Forth of your lower parts to driue the wind . Of Fennell vertues foure they do recite , First , it hath power some poysons to expell , Next burning Agues it will put to flight , The stomacke it doth clense , and comfort well : And fourthly it doth keepe and clense the sight , And thus the Seed and Herbe doth both excell . Yet for the two last told ; if any seede With Fennell may compare , t is Annis-seed : Some Anny-seeds be sweet , and some more bitter , For pleasure these , for medicine those are fitter . Dame Natures reason , far surmounts our reading , We feele effects , the causes oft vnknowne , who knows the cause why Spodi● stancheth bleeding , ( Sp●dium , but ashes of an Oxes bone . ) We learne herein to praise his power exceeding , That vertue gaue to wood , to herbes , to stone . The Liuer , Spodium : Mace , the hart delightes , The braine likes Muske , and Lyc●ras the Lites , The spleen is thoght much comforted with Ca●ers In stomacke , Gallingal● allayes ill Vapors . Sauce would be set with meat vpon the Table , Salt is good sawce , and had with great facility : Salt makes vnsauory vyands , manducable , To driue some poisons out , Salt hath ability , yet things too salt are nere commendable : They hurt the sight , in nature cause debility , The scab and itch on them are euer breeding , The which on meats too salt , are often feeding : Salt should be first remou'd , and first set downe , At Table of the Knight , and of the Clowne . As Tasts are diuers , so phisitions hold They haue as sundry qualities and power , Some burning are , some temperate , some cold , Cold are these three : the Tart , the sharpe , the sour : Salt , bitter , biting , burne as hath bin told , Sweet , fat , and fresh , are temprate euery houre . ¶ Foure speciall vertues hath a sop in wine , It maketh the teeth white , it cleares the eyne , It addes vnto an empty stomacke fulnes , And from a stomack fil'd , it takes the dulnes . If to an vse you haue your selfe betaken , Of any diet , make no sudden change , A custome is not easily forsaken , yea though it better were , yet seemes it strang● , Long vse is as a second nature taken . With nature custome walkes in equall range . ¶ Good dyet is a perfect way of curing , And worthy much regard and health assuring . A King that cannot rule him in his dyet , Will hardly rule his Realme in peace and quyet . They that in Physicke will prescribe you food , Six things must note we here in order touch , First : What it is : and then , for what t is good , And When ; and Where ; How often ; and how much , Who note not this , it cannot be withstood , They hurt , not heale , yet are too many such . ¶ Coleworts broth doth loose , the substance bind , Thus play they , fast and loose , and all behind . But yet if at one time you take them both , The substance shall giue place vnto the broth . In Phisicke Mallowes hath much reputation , Their very name of Mellow seemes to sound , The roote thereof will giue a kind purgation , By them both men and women good haue found . To womens monthly flowers they giue laxation , They make men soluble that haue bin bounde , And least we seeme in Mallowes praises partiall . Long since hath Horace praised them & Martial . ¶ The worms that gnaw the womb & neuer stint Are kil'd , and purg'd , & driuen away with Mint . But who can write thy worth ( ô soueraigne sage , ) Some ask how men can die , where thou dost grow Oh that there were a Medicine curing age , Death comes at last , tho death come nere so slow : sage strengths the sinews , Feauers heat doth swage , The Palsie helpes , and rids of mickle woe , In Latine ( Salui● ) takes the name of safety , In English ( Sage ) is rather-wise then crafty : Sith then the name betokens wise , and sauing , We count it natures frend , and worth the hauing . Take sage and Primrose , Lauender , and Cresses , With Walwort that doth grow twixt lime & stone For he that of these hearbes the iuice expresses , And mix with powder of a Castor-stone , May breed their ease whom Palsie much opresses Or if this breed not helpe , then looke for none . ¶ Rew is a Noble hearbe to giue it right , To chew it fasting it will purge the sight , O●e quality thereof yet blame I must , It makes men chast , and women fils with lust . Fayre Ladies if these Phisicke rules be true , That Rew hath such strange qualities as these , Eat little Rew , least your good hushands ( REW ) And breed betweene you both a shrow'd disease . Rew , whets the wit , and more to pleasure you , In water boyl'd , it rids a roome of fleas . I would not to you Ladies , Onyons praise , Saue that they make one fayre ( Aesclapius saies ) yet taking them requires some good direction , They are not good alike for each complexion . If vnto Choller men be much inclin'd , T is thought that Onyons are not good for those , But if a man be Flegmatique ( by kind ) It does his stomacke good , as some suppose , For Oyntment Iuyce of Onyons is assign'd To heads whose hayre fals faster then it growes : If Onyons cannot helpe in such mishap , A man must get him a Gregorian cap. And if your hound by hap should bite his master , With Hony , Rew , and Onions make a plaister . The seed of Mustard is the smallest graine , And yet the force thereof is very great , It hath a present power to purge the braine , It addes vnto the stomacke force and heat : All poyson it expels , and it is plaine , With sugar t is a passing sauce for meat . She that hath hap a husband bad to bury , And is therefore in hart not sad but merry : yet if in shew good manners she will keepe , Onions and Mustardseed will make her weepe . Though Violets smell sweet , Nettles offensiue , yet each in seuerall kind much good procure , The first doth purge the heauie head and pensiue Recouers surfets , Falling sicknes cures : Tho Nettles stinke , yet make they recompence , If your bellie by the Collicke paine indures : Against the Collicke Nettle-seed and Hony , Is Phisicke : better none is had for money , It breedeth sleep , staies vomits , fleams doth sofiē , It helpes him of the Gowt that eats it often . Cleane Hysop is an Herbe to purge and cleanse , Raw Flegmes , & hu●tfull humors from the brest , The same vnto the Lungs great comfort lends , With Honey boil'd : but farre aboue the rest , It giues good colour , and complection mends , And is therefore with women in request : With Hony mixt , Cinquefoyle cures the Canker , That eats our inward parts with cruell ranker , But mixt with Wine , it helpes a greeued side , And staies the vomit , and the Laske beside . Ellecompane strengthens each inward part , A little loosenes is thereby prouoken : It swageth greefe of mind , it cheeres the heart , Allayeth wrath , and makes a man fayre spoken : And drunke with Rew in Wine , it doeth impart , Great helpe to those that haue their bellies broken , Let them that vnto choller much incline , Drinke Penny-royall steeped in their wine , And some affirme , that they haue found by tryall The paine of Gowt is cur'd by Penny-royall . To tell all Cresses vertues long it were , But diuers patients vnto that are debter , It helpes the teeth , it giues to bald men haire , With Hony mixt , it Ring-worme kils & Tettar : But let not women that would children beare , Feed much thereof , for they to fast were better . An herbe there is takes of the swallowes name , And by the Swallowes gets no little fame , For Pliny writes , ( tho some thereof make doubt ) It helps young Swallowes eies , when they are out . Greene Willow though in scorne it oft is vs'd , yet some there are in it not scornfull parts , It killeth wormes , the iuice in eares infus'd , With Vineger : the barke destroyeth Warts . But at one quality I much haue mus'd , That addes and bates much of his good desertes ▪ For writers old and new , both ours and forren , Affirme the seed make women chast and barren . Take Saffron if your hart make glad you will , But not to much , for that the heart may kill . Greene Leekes are good as some Physitians saie , yet would I choose , how ere I them belieue , To weare Leekes rather on Saint Dauids day , Then eat the Leekes vpon Saint Dauids Eue , The bleeding at the nose Leekes iuice will stay , And women bearing children , much releeue , ¶ Blacke Pepper beaten grosse you good shal find If cold your stomacke be , or full of wind : white Pepper helps the cough , & fleam it riddeth , And Agues Fit to come it oft forbiddeth . Our Hearing is a choyce and dainty sence , And hard to mend , yet soone it may be mard , These are the things that breed it most offence , To sleepe on stomacke full , and drinking hard : Blowes , fals , and noise , and fasting , violence , Great heat , and sudden cooling afterward : All these as is by sundry proofes appearing , Breed tingling in our eares , and hurt our hearing : Then thinke it good aduice , not ydle talke , That after supper bids vs stand or walke . You heard before what is for hearing naught , Now shall you see what hurtfull is for sight : Wine , women , bathes , by art or nature wrought , Leeks , Onions , Garlicke ▪ Mustard seed fire & light : Smoake ▪ Bruises , dust , Pepper to pouder brought , Be●●● , Le●tils strains , Wind , Tears , & Phoebus bright , And all sharpe things our eie-sight do molest : Yet watching hurts them more then all the rest . ¶ Of Fennell , Veruin , Kellidon , Roses , Rew , Is water made , that will the sight renew . If in your teeth you hap to be tormented ▪ By meane some little wormes therein do breed , Which paine ( if heed be tane ) may be preuented , By keeping cleane your teeth , when as you feede : Burne Francomsence , ( a gum not euill sented ) Put Hen-bane vnto this , and Onyon-seed , And with a Tunnell to the tooth that s hollow , Conuey the smoke thereof , and ease shall follow . ¶ By Nuts , Oyle , Eeles , and cold in head , By Apples and raw fruites , is hoarsnes bred . To shew you how to shun raw running Rheumes , Exceed not much in meate , in drinke , and sleepe , For all excesse is cause of hurtfull fumes , Eate warme , broath warme , striue in your breth to keep Vse exercise , that Vapors ill consumes , In Notherne winds abroad do neuer peepe . ¶ If Fistula do rise in any part , And so procure your danger , and your smart , Take Arsnicke , Brimstone , mixt with lime & sope And make a Tent , and then of cure there s hope . If so your head do p●ine you oft with aking , Faire water , or small beere drinke then or neuer , So may you scape the burning fits and shaking , That wonted are to company the Feuer : ¶ If with much heat your head be in ill taking , To rub your head and Temples still perseuer , And make a bath of Morrell ( boyled warme ) And it shall keepe your head from further harm . ¶ A Flix a dangerous euill is , and common , In it shun cold , much drink ; & strains of women . To fast in Summer doth the body drie , Yet doth it good , if you thereto invre it , Against a surfet , vomitting to try , Is remedy , but some cannot indure it : yet some so much themselues found help thereby , They go to sea a purpose to procure it . ¶ Foure seasons of the yeare there are in al , The Summer , and the Winter , Spring and F●ll : In euery one of these , the rule of season , Bids keepe good dyet , suting euery season . The Spring is moist , of temper good and warme , Then best it is to bath , to sweat , and purge , Then may one ope a vaine in either arme , If boyling bloud or feare of Agues vrge , Then Venus recreation doth no harme , Yet may too much thereof turne to ● scourge . In Summers heat ( when choller hath dominion ) Coole meats and moyst are best in some opinion The Fall is like the Spring , but endeth colder , With wines and spice the winter may bee bolde● Now if perhaps some haue desire to know , The number of our bones , our teeth , our veyne● This verse ensuing plainely doth it shew , To him that to obserue it taketh paines : The Teeth thrice ten , and two twice eight a row Eleuenscore bones saue one in vs remaines : For veynes that all may vaine in vs appeare , A vaine we haue for each day in the yeare : All these are like in number and connexion , The difference growes in bignes and complexio● Four Humors raigne within our bodies wholy , And these compared to foure Elements , The Sanguin , Choller , Flegme , and Melancholly , The later two are heauy , dull offence , The tother are more Iouiall , quicke , and Iolly , And may be likened thus ( without offence ) Like ayre both warme and moyst , is Sangui● clear , Like fi●e doth Choller hot and dry appeare , Like water , cold and moist ( is ) The Melancholy cold , dry earth is like . Complexions cannot vertue breed or vice , Yet may they vnto both giue inclination , The Sang●in gamesome is , and nothing nice , Loues wine , and women , and all recreation ▪ Likes pleasant tales , and newes , plaies cards and ●ice , Fit for all company , and euery fashion : Though bold , not apt to take offence , not i●● full , But bountifull and kind , and looking chearefull : Inclining to be fat , and proue to lafter , Loues myrth , and Musick , cares not what comes after , Sharpe Choller is an humour most pernitious , All violent , and fierce , and full of fire , Of quicke conceit , and therewithall ambitious , Their thoughts to greater fortunes still aspyre , Proud , bountifull enough , yet oft malicious , A right bold speaker , and as bold a lyer . On little cause to anger great inclin'd , Much eating stil , yet euer looking pin'd , In younger yeares they vse to grow apace , In Elder hayry on their breast and face . The Fl●gmatique are most of no great growth , Inclining rather to be fat and square , Giuen much vnto their ease , to rest and sloth , Content in knowledge to take little share , To put themselues to any paine most loth , So dead their spirits , so dull their sences are : Still either sitting like to folke that dreame , Or else still spitting , to avoid the flegme , One quality doth yet these harmes repayre , That for most partthe Fl●gmatique are fayre . The Melancholy from the rest do var●y , Both sport , and ease , and company refusing , Exceeding studious , euer sollitary , Inclining pensiue still to be , and musing , A secret hate to others apt to carry : Most constant in his choise , tho long a choosing ▪ Extreame in loue sometime , yet seldome lustfull , Suspitious in his nature , and mistrustfull . A wary wit , a hand much giuen to sparing , A heauy looke , a spirit little daring . Now thogh we giue these humors seueral names , yet all men are of all participant , But all haue not in quantity the same , For som● ( in some ) are more predominant , The colour shewes from whence it lightly came ▪ Or whether they haue blood too much or want . The watry Flegmatique are fayre and white , The Sanguin , Roses ioyn'd to Lillies bright , The Chollericke more red : The Melancholy , Alluding to their name are swart and colly . If Sanguin humour do too much abound , These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe , The face will swell , the cheeks grow red & round With staring 〈◊〉 , the pulse bear soft and breefe , The vaines exceed , the belly will be bound , The Temples , and the fore-head full of griefe , Vnquiet sleeps , that so strange dreames will make To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake : Besides the moysture of the mouth and spittle , Will tast too sweet , and seeme the throat to tickle If Choller do exceed , as may sometime , your eares will ring and make you to be wakefull , your tongue will seeme all rough , and oftentimes Cause vomits , vnaccustomed and hatefull , Great thirst , your excrements are full of slime , Tho stomacke squeamish , sustenance vngratefull , your appetite will seeme in nought delighting , your hart still greeued with continuall by ●ing , The pulse beat hard and swift , all hot , extreame , your spittle soure , of fire-worke oft your dreame . If Flegme abundance haue due limits past , These signes are here set downe wil plainly shew , The mouth will seeme to you quite out of tast , And apt with moisture still to ouerflow ; your sides will seeme all sore downe to the wast , your meat wax loathsome , you● disgestion slow , your head and stomacke both in so ill taking , One seeming euer griping tother aking : With empty vaines , the pulse beat slow and soft , In sleepe , of Seas and Ryuers dreaming oft . But if that dangerous humor ouer-raigne , Of Melancholy , sometime making mad , These tokens then will be appearing plaine , The pulse beat hard , the colour darke and bad : The water thin , a weake fantasticke braine ▪ False-grounded-ioy , or else perpetuall fa●● , Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions , Presenting to the thought ill apparitions , Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming , His eare ( the left especiall ) euer humming . Against these feuerall humors ouerflowing , As seuerall kinds of Physicke may be good , As diet-drink , hot baths , whence sweat is growing With purging , vomiting , and letting blood : Which taken in due time , nor ouerflowing , Each Malladies infection is withstood , The last of these is best , if skill and reason . Respect age , strength , quantity , and season , Of seuenty from seuenteene , if blood abound , The opening of a vaine is healthfull found . Of Bleeding many profits grow , and great , The spirits and sences are renewed thereby , Thogh these mend slowly by the strength of meat But these with wine restor'd are by and by : By bleeding , to the Marrow commeth heat , It maketh cleane your braine , releeues your eie , It mends your appetite , restoreth sleepe , Correcting humors that do waking keepe : All inward parts and sences also clearing , It mends the voyce , touch , smel , & tast , & hearing Three speciall Months , September , Aprill , May , There are in which t is good to ope a vain , In these 3. months the Moon bears greatest sway , Then old or young , that store of blood containe , May bleed now , though some elder wizards say , Some daies are ill in these , I hold it vaine : September , Aprill , May , haue daies a peece , That bleeding do forbid , and eating Geese , And those are they forsooth of May the fi●st , Of ●other two , the last of each are worst . But yet those da●es I graunt , and all the rest , Haue in some cases iust impediment , As first , if nature be with cold opprest , Or if the Region , I le , or Continent Do scorch or freez , if stomacke meat detest ; If Baths , or Venus , late you did frequent , Nor old , nor young , nor drinkers great , are fit , Nor in long sicknes , nor in raging fit . Or in this case if you will venture bleeding , The quantity must then be most exceeding . When you to bleed intend , you must prepare Some needfull things both after and before , Warme water , and sweet oyle , both needfull are , And wine the fainting spirits to restore , Fine binding cloths of Linnen , and beware , That all that morning you do sleepe no more , Some gentle motion helpeth after bleeding , And on light meats a spare and temperat feeding To bleed , doth ●heare the pensiue , and remoue The raging furies bred by burning loue . Make your incision large , and not to deepe , That blood haue speedy yssue with the sume , So that from sinnewes you all hurt do keepe , Nor may you ( as I toucht before presume ) In six ensuing●houres at all to sleepe , Lest some slight bruise in sleep cause an apostume Eat not of milke ▪ not ought of milk compounded ; Nor let your brain with much drink be confounded Eat no cold meats , for such the strength impayre , And shun all mis●y and vnwholesome ayre . Besides the former rules for such as pleases , Of letting blood to take more obseruation , Know in beginning of all sharpe diseases , T is counted best to make euacuation : To old , to young , both letting blood displeases , By yeares and sicknes make your computation , First in the Spring for quantity , you shall , Of blood take twice as much as in the fall : In Spring and Summer , let the right arm bl●od , The Fall and Winter for the left are good . The Hart , and Lyuer , spring & summers bleeding The Fall and winter hand and foot doth mend , One vaine cut in the hand doth helpe exceeding , Vnto the Splene , voice , brest , and Intrailes lend : And swages grieses that in the hart are breeding , But here the Salerne Schoole doth make an end : And heere I cease to write , but will not cease To wish you liue in health , and die in peace : ▪ And ye our Physicke rules that friendly read , God graunt that Physicke you may neuer neede . FINIS .