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thofe printipal Bowels be well difpofed,the reft will commonly follow according to ones | 
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And as for thofe things which, according to the different ftate of evety man’s body |. 
may be transferred into his Diet and the regiment of his life, he may colle& them out 
of the Books of Phyficians, which have written of the comforting and preferying the | 
four Principal Members: For confervation of kealth hath commonly need of no more 
than fome {hort courfes of Phyfick ; but length of life cannot be hoped without an or- 
derly dict,and a conftant race of foveraign Medicines. But we will propound fome few, 
and thofe the moft felect and prime dire€tions. aks 
The Stomach ( which, as they fay, is the Mafter of the houfe, and whofe ftrength 
and goodnefs is fundamental to the other concoctions) ought fo to be guardéd and 
confirmed, that it may be without Jmtemperatenc{i hot s- next aftritted or bound, | 
not loofe ; furthermore clean, not furcharged with foul Humours, and] 
yet (in regard itis nourifhed from it felf, not from the veins ) not altogether 
ene or hungry: laftly, itis to be kept ever in appetite, becaufe appetite fharpens 
digeftion. A | 
‘T wonder much how that fame (alidum bibere, to drink warm drink, (which was in | 
ufe amongft the Ancients ) is laid downagain. I knew a Phyfician that was very fa 
mous, who in the beginning of dinner and fupper, would ufually eat a few fpoonfulls | 
of very warm broth with much greedinefs, and then would prefently wifh that it were 
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out again, faying, He had no need of the broth, but only of the warmth. 
I do verily conceive it good, that the firft draught either of Wéne, or dle, or any 
other drink, (to which a man is moft accuftomed ) be taken at fupper warm. 
wine in which Gold hath becn quenched, I conceive, would be very good once ina 
meal; not that 1 believe the Gold conferreth any vertue thereunto, but that I know 
that the quenching of all Metals in any kind of liquor doth leave a moft potent Aftri- 
étion : Now 1 chufe Gold, becaufe befides that Aftri@tion which I defire, it leayeth 
nothing clfe behind it of a metalline impreffion. i 
1 am of opinion, that the fops of bread dipped in wine, taken at the midft of the 
meal, arc better than wine it felf ; efpecially if there were infufed into the wine in | 
which the fops were dipped Regfemary and Cstron-pill, and that with Sagar, that it} 
may not flip too faft. 
It is certain that the ufe of Quinces is good to ftrengthen the ftomach; but we 
take them to be better if they be ufed in that which they call Quiddeny of Qusnces, 
than in the bodies of the Qxinces themfelves, becaufe they lie heavy in the ftomach. 
But thofe Quiddenies are beft taken after meals, alone ; before meals, dipped in Vi- | 
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Sach things as are good for the ftomach above other Simples are thefe, Rofemary, 
| Elecampane, Maftick, wormwmood, Sage, Mint. 
| I allow Pills of Aloes, Maftick and Saffron in Winter-time, taken before dinner; 
but fo, as the Ales be not only oftentimes wathed in Rofe. water, but alfo in Vinegar in 
Hiwhich Tragacanth hath been infufed, and after that be macerated for a few hours in 
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Oil of fweet Almonds new drawn,, before it be made into Pills. | 
| Wine or e4le wherein Yormwood hath been infufed, with a little Elecampane and 
ycllow Sazders, willdo well, taken at timies, and that efpecially in Winter. . 
But in Summer, a draught of White-wine)allayed with strawberry-water, inwhich | — 
‘Wine Powder of Pearls and of the fhells of cra-fifhes exquifitely beaten and (which ; . 
'may perhaps feem ftrange ) a little (halt have been infufed, doth excellently refrefhy | 
\ and ftrengthenthe ftomach, . 
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_ -But'generally, "all Drazghes in the morning “(which are but too frequently fed) 
cooking things, as of Juices, Decoétions, Whey, Barly-waters, and the like ) areto 
(avoided; and ‘nothing is to be put into tite ftomach fafting which is purely co a. | 
| Theferthings are better given, if need require, either at five in the afternoon, or clfe an } 
hourafter alight breakfaft. | lose Wane igh: ea 
| i@fténfaftingsare bad for long life ;- befides, all thirft is to be avoided, and the fto- i 
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