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intention; but this must evermore accompany them, that 

 after the frication, the part being lightly anointed with oil, 

 lest the attrition of the outward parts make them by per 

 spiration dry and juiceless. 



5. The next is exercise (by which the parts confiscate 

 and chafe themselves), so it be moderate, and which (as was 

 noted before) is not swift, nor to the utmost strength, nor 

 unto weariness. But in exercise and frication there is the 

 same reason and caution, that the body may not perspire, 

 or exhale too much. Therefore exercise is better in the 

 open air than in the house, and better in winter than in 

 summer. And, again, exercise is not only to be concluded 

 with unction, as frication is, but in vehement exercises unc 

 tion is to be used both in the beginning and in the end, as 

 it was anciently to champions. 



6. That exercise may resolve either the spirits or the 

 juices as little as may be, it is necessary that it be used 

 when the stomach is not altogether empty ; and, therefore, 

 that it may not be used upon a full stomach (which doth 

 much concern health), nor yet upon an empty stomach 

 (which doth no less concern long life), it is best to take a 

 breakfast in the morning, not of any physical drugs, or of 

 any liquors, or of raisins, or of figs, or the like, but of plain 

 meat and drink; yet that very light, and in moderate 

 quantity. 



7. Exercises used for the irrigation of the members, 

 ought to be equal to all the members ; not (as Socrates said) 

 that the legs should move, and the arms should rest, or on 

 the contrary; but that all the parts may participate of the 

 motion. And it is altogether requisite to long life, that the 

 body should never abide long in one posture, but that every 

 half hour, at least, it change the posture, saving only in 

 sleep. 



8. Those things which are used to mortification, may 

 be transferred to vivification; for both hair-shirts, and 

 scourgings, and all vexations of the outward parts, do fortify 

 the attractive force of them. 



9. Cardan commends nettling, even to let out melan 

 choly ; but of this we have no experience. And, besides, 

 we have no good opinion of it, lest, through the venemous 

 quality of the nettle, it may with often use breed itches, 

 and other diseases of the skin. And touching the opera 

 tion upon the outward parts for their attraction of aliment, 

 thus much. 



