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be moderate, and which (as was noted before) is not {wift, nor to the utmoft ftre th, | 
nor unto wearinefs. But in Exercife and Frication there is the fame reafon and cau 
that the body may not.perfpire or exhale too much : Therefore Exercife-is' better 
the open air than inthe houfe, and better in Winter thanin Summer; and again, 
cife is not onely to be concluded with Unétion, as Frication is, but in yehement 
ercifes Un@ion is to be ufed both in the beginning and in the end, as it was 
to Champions. WOT ae ON aE 
That Exercife may refolve either the {pirits or the juices as little a3 may be, it is” 
neceflary that it be ufed when the ftomach 1s not altogether empty : and therefore that | — 
it may not be ufed upona full ftomach, ( which doth much concern health) nor yet 
upon an empty ftomach, (which doth no lefs-concern long life) it is beft totokea 
breakfaft in the morning, not of any Phyfical Drugs, or of any Liquors or of Raifins, | 
or of Figs, or the like; but of plain Meat and Drink, yet that yery light,and ia moderate 
uantity. ‘2 ’ hws 
: Escercifes ufed for the irrigation of the members, ought to be equal to all the mem 
bers ; not (as Socrates faid) that the Legs fhovld move, and the Arms fhouldreft, ot 
on the contrary; but that all the parts may participate of tne motion. And it isalto. | 
gether requifite to long lifes that the Body thould never abide long in one pofture, but | 
that every half hour, at leaft, it change the pofture, faving onely in fleep. - # = 
Thofe things whith are ufed to AZortification may betransterred to Viwification: for 
| both Hair. fhirts, and Scourgings, and all yexations of the outward parts,-do fortifie the 
Attractive force of them. “i sae et 
Cardan commends Nettling, even to let out Afelancholly: but of this we have no ex- 
perience ; and befides, we have no good opinion of it, left, through the venemous | 
quality of the 2errle, it may with often ufe breed Itches and other difeafes of the skin. 
And touching the Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attratlion of Aliment, | 
thus much. wh ‘ Mag) 
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The Operation upon the eAliment it felf for. | 
the Infinuation thereof. 7. oz 
The Hiftory. 
He vulgar reproof touching many Dithes doth rather becom 
former than a Phyfician; or howfoever it may be good for 
health, yet it is hurtful to length of life, by reafon that a various mixture of | 
Aliments, and fomewhat heterogeneous, finds a paflage into the veins and juices of the | 
body more lively and chearfully than a fimple and homogeneous dict doth z befides, it 
jismore forcible to ftir up Appetite, whichis the {pur of Digeftion., Theretore we | 
allow beth a full Table, and a continual changing of Difbes, according to the Seafons of 
the year, or upon other occafions. E260 ae. 
-Alfo that opinion of the Simplicity of Meats without Sawces is but a fimplicity of 
judgment 3, for good:and well-chofen Sawces are the’ moft wholefome preparation of, | 
«Meats, and conduce bothto health andtolonglife. oS agai a 
It muft be ordered, that with Meats hard of digeftton be conjoyned {trong Liquors 
and Sawces that may penetrate and make way ; but with Meats more eafie of digefti- _ 
on, fmaller Liquorsand fat Sawces. se a Lae Oe oa ie 
| «Whereas we advifed before, thatthe firft Draught at Supper (hould be taken warm; | — 
now weadde, that for the preparation of the ftomach, a good draught of that Liquor 
( to which every man is moft accuftomed) be taken warm half an hour before m 
alfo; but a little {piced, to pleafethetafte. a} Gk UA Ok aaa 
. The preparation of Meats, and Bread, and Drinks, that they may be rightly ha 
led,: and, in order: to! this Intention, is of exceeding great moment howfoeveri 
feem a Mechanical thing, and favouring of the Kitchin and Buttery; yet it is 
confequence than'thofe Fables of Gold and precious Stones,andthe like. 
