of Plintes Naturall Hiftorie. 30 
A toficcroffe-legged, with the ham of one leg riding aloftupon the kneeof the otherjand that by 
rurnsfhifting trom knee to knee. And in verie truth, our aunceftots time out of mind, have ex- 
preffely forbidden in all counfels of State, held by princes,porentats, and Generals of the field; 
to fichand in hand or crofle-legged :for an opinion they have, Thatthis manner of gefture hin- 
dreth the proceeding and iffue of any actin hand or confulced upon. They gave out likewife 4 
freight prohibition, That no perfon prefent at any folemmitie of facrifices or vowes making 
fhould fit or ftand crofle-legged or hand in handinmanneratorefaid. 9 
As for veiling bonnet before greatrulers.and mapiltrats, or within theit fight, Varro faith, is 
was fathion at firft not commaunded for any reverence or honour therbytobe done unto go- 
vernours, but for healthfake ; andnamely,that mens heads might be more firme andhardie,by 
B that ordinarie ufe andcuftome af being bare. it tind Sci ivr 35 
When a mote or any thing els is falue into oneeye, itis good to fhut the other hard, Ifthere 
Se warer gotten into the right eare,the manner is to jumpe and hop withthe leftleg,bendingand 
_ énclining the head toward the right {houlder:femblably, if the like happen to the left care, to 
doe thecontrarie. If one befalne intoa fit of coughing, the way to ftay itisro let his next fellow 
{pit upon his forehead. If the uvula be falne, it will up againe, ifthe Patient fuffer another to bite 
the haire inthe crowne of his head, and foto pull him up plumbe from the ground. Hath the 
neckea cricke or apaine lying behind,what better remedie than to rub the hams? Be the hams 
pained? doc the like by thenape of thenecke. Say the crampe take either feet or leges plucking 
and {tretching the finews when one is in bed, the next way to beuled, is to fetthe feet upon the 
€ flocre or the ground where the bed ftandeth: or put cafe the crampe take the leftfide, then be - 
fure with the righthandto catch hold of the great toe of the left foot:and contrariwife, if the 
crampe come to the right leg, doe the like by the right foot. If the bodie fall a {haking and qui- 
vering for cold, orif onebleed exceflively atthe nofthrils iris pafling good to bind ftreightand 
hard the extreame parts, to wit, handsand leggs, yea and the earsalfo. 1t fallech out oftentimes, 
that one cannot lye drie nor hold his water, but it commech from him ever and anon ;whatis 
thento be done ?mary tie the foreskin of bis yard with a linnen thread or a papyrrufh, & with- 
all,bind his thighs about in the middle. Ifthe mouth of the ftomacke be readie to turne,and will 
neither receive nor hold any thing,it is good to prefle hard and {traine the feet togither,orelsto 
thruft both hands into hot water. | Porbil wise 
D — Tocome nowunto our fpeech and exercifeof the tongue: in many cafes and for divers cau- 
fes, itis holefome to fpeake but little. | have heard fay, that Mecenas Mce((tzs enjoyned himfelfe 
three yceres filence, and during that time never {pake word, for that ina fit of a convulfion or 
crampe, hehad betoretimne caft up bloud. In cafe any thing be readic to fall or ruth violently a- 
gainftus, and chat wee be in daunger of fome ftroke, fay thatwee be climbing up hill, orturaed 
downe backeward,or lying along, there is not the like means againe to preferve our bodies,as to 
hold our wind: and this invention wee had froma bruit anddumbebeait, according as I have 
fhewed before. i 
Moreover itis {aid, that to fticke downe a {pike or yron naile in that verie place wherea man 
or woinans head lay during the fit of the falling fickneffe,at the verie firft time tharhe or the fell, 
E fecureth the partie that fo doth, for ever beeing troubled with that difeafe. Alfo itis holdenfora 
fingular thing to mitigat the intollerabletorments of the reins, loins, and bladder, to piffe with 
the bodie bending forward and groveling in the bathing tubswithin the bains. Astorgreene 
wounds, it is wonderfull how foone they will be healed, incafethcy be bound up and tied witha 
* Hercules knot: And verely it is thought,that to knit our girdles which we weare aboutusevery x wWhereiano 
day with fuch a knot, hath a great vertueinit,by reafon that Aercales firft devifed the fame. ends arc to be 
Demetrtus, in atreatile that he compiled’as touching the number of foure, ‘affirmeth that ie (6020 8° 
isof grearefficacie;and he alledgeth reafons why itis not goodto prefcribein any medicine to ched,& there- 
be drunke,the quantitie of foure fextars or fourecyaths. Torub the earsbehind, is fuppofedto fre hardly to 
be verie good for them that are given to he bleare-eyed: like astorub the forehead, for weeping ; ae 
F  orwaterin geyes, ‘ 
Concerning the figns of life and death which may befound in man, this is one, Thatfo long 
as the Patients eye is focleare hata man may fee himfelfe in the apple of it, wee are not to de{- 
aire of life. | 
5 AsfortheVrine of mankind, divers authors have treated of it;whoas I find, have not pe 
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