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immediatly before meat, and to do as much between meals: likewife to'drinke the fame tobed- G 
ward,yea and other-whiles in the verie night; fo as we fleepe both before and after: where,by the. 
way this would be noted, That no living creature elfe but man alone, delighteth to drinke any. 
drink hot;know then hereby, that fuch kind of drinks be not naturall, Finally ,to wafhthe mouth; 
with wine before one goeth to bed, for a {weet breath : likewife fo foone.as he is up betimes, with. 
cold wateragainft the toothach, fo ashe doe it three or fivetimes togither, or at leaft-wife ob-. 
ferving fuch an odd number: asalfoto bath the eies inamorning with oxycrat, thatis to fay, 
with vinegre and water mingled togither, to preferve them for beeing bleared, are fingular and 
approoved experiments, io 
Cuar v. 
2 Obfervations 65 touching Dict, and the manner of our feeding, for the 
regiment of health. 
Ike to the former rules is thisalfo, astouching our Diet, Thatit be not too precife,butfoas 
we may feed inditferently of all viands,& acquaint out bodies with varietie of meats ; which, 
is obferved to be the beft way to maintaine our health: and in verie truth, @ippecrates faith, 
Thattoeat but one mealea day,that is to fay,to forbeare dinners, is a diet that will dry up a mans 
ania bodie within, and bring them foon to age and decay. But this aphorifme ot his he. pronounced 
his owne Phy- 48 2 Phyfician to reclaime us from that hungrie and (paring diet, and not asa patron and main- 
fician: where- tainer of full feeding and gourmandife: for I affure you, a temperat and moderat ule of our 
re pee meats, isthe holfomeft thing that is for our bodily health. But ZL. Lacudlws was fo {trict herein, 
Afelera that hefuffered himfelfeto be ordered and over-ruled by his own fervant,who would not let him 
es eat wo cat butas he thought good : in {uch fort,thar it was no {mall difgrace unto him in his latter daies 
be Caufthenes thusto make his man his mafter, andto bee governed byhim rather than by his * own felfe: for 
his Phyfician: was itnot (thinke you) an approbrious ond thamefull fight, to fee a* flave and no better,to put 
for in thofe . . Filthy: 
daies Phy cise Lis lords hand from a difh of meat, being an aged gentleman ashee was, and who in times paft 
were reckoned had rode in triumph: to gage himthus (Lay) and keepe him fhort, though he were fet among: 
burfervants  preat States ata roiall feaft within the capitol of Rome? 
tofuckper~ © 
fons as Lucul- ee 
dus was. ~ Cuap vi 4 
* Palma alterna 
ee seer? 0b Of Sneefing. The ufe of Venerie: and other means which concerne mans health, 
unicue hee , ‘ 
meaneth [to 
{cratch the 
Neefing difchargeth the heavineffe of the head,andeafeth the pofe orrheume that ftuffeth 
palmorinGd: ¢ the nofe:and itiscommonly faid, That ifonelay his mouthto the nofthrils of amoufé or 
a ate ~ ratandtouch the fame, it will doeas much. To fneeze alfo, is a readie way to bee rid of the 
of Woe 
. 5 . e 
‘anwwereth -YeX Othicquet. And Varro giveth counfell, to {erape a braunch of a * Date tree with one hand 
paces to after another by turnes, for to ftay the {aid hicquet. Butmoft Phyficians give direction in this 
the remedies 
nextfollows | : f : : : 2 “s 
ing. into veric hot water. 7 heophrafius faith, that old men doe {neeze with more paine and difficultie 
“Homo abusexé- than others. 
liver ex homine : 
which Dae. As touching carnal] knowledge of man and woman, Democritas utterly condemned it:and 
campivsex- — why fo ? Becaufe (quoth he) in that act, one man goeth* outof another. And.ro fay a truth; the 
potideth thus, : ‘ pee ; a : Bernt ces ae in-. 
pe that ama, (fle one ufeth it, the better itgs for bodie and mind both: and yetour profeffed wreftlers,run- 
inthat a€tion, Ners,and{uch gamfters at feats of activitie, when they feele themfelves heavie or dull, revive 
_ BoethPehde and recover their lively fpirits again by keeping companie with women. Alfo thisexercife clen- 
*Forithol- _ feth the breaft and helpeth the voice, which beeing fometime-before.cleare and neat, was now 
dethwomen become hoarfe andruftie, Moreover, the temperat {ports of Venmsseafe thepaine of thereins 
prPain tu and loins, mundifie and quicken the eye-fight,andbe fingular good for fuch as bee troubledia 
operationof mind and given overmuch to melancholy. i 
Lit, 7.8 IEG IO of ; 
Phyficke. Moreover, it isheld for witchcraft, to fit by women intravaile, orneareuntoaPatientwho M- 
4 
‘Th yetr ae : bint: 
asoldwite, hatha medicine either given inwardly orapplied unto him, * wirh handin hand, crofle-fingred 
that by ts one between another: The experience whercof waswell feene (by report) when ladie* Alcmpesa, 
means kept ' 
herin alon 
Sravaile. 
to 
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cafe, to fhifta ring from the left hand to the longeft finger of the right; orto plungeboth hands — 
was in labour tobe delivered of Hercules, And the worfe isthis peece of forcerie,incafethepar> _ 
andtedious” tie hold ch¢ hands thus joyned a-croffe one finger within another about one or bothknees. Alfo 
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