CHAP. 1.

WHereas the beginner, and preseruer of all things, in his word doth will vs to consider his creatures, euen to the least, Ecclus. 42. v. 22. Oh how delecta­ble are all his workes, and to be conside­red, euen vnto the sparks of fire: and to praise him without beeing wearie, Ec­clus. chap. 43. v. 30. then how much more ought men daily with chearefulnes, and diligence, consider and regard the wonderfull order of himselfe, euen vnto the least and basest member, or part, which is of more estimation, then a thousand sparkes of fire, and more to be wondred at then any one element, because it consisteth most wonderfully of all the elements, and is that, for which they all, and all other things were made and ordained. Then see­ing there is no earthly thing, that man should more regard and consider then himselfe, what meanes should any man thinke to be too much, to preserue this rare and wonderfull order of man, in conuenient, comely, and healthfull man­ner? May not they be suspected for murtherers of them­selues, which for idlenes, will not seeke, for sparing cost, care not to seeke, which vpon malitious stomacke, and brasen courage, contemne to seeke in time, the meanes the Lord hath left, to preserue and continue that wonderfull matter of man, in conuenient order? Vnto these it happeneth most commonly, when extremitie of sicknes hath entred their ca­stle, and ruine beginne to rush in, then none more diligent, [Page 2] none more liberall none more calme and tractable, when all labour cost, willingnes, and paines cannot preuaile. May not they be suspected of murther, who knowing a place in­fected with the pestilence, will presume to enter, either by reason of intemperancie, not fearing, or for gaine giue the aduenture? May not they likewise be suspected of murther, which knowing their houses infected, not indeauour to vse the ordinarie meanes, either to shut it vp, and to flie from it, citò, longè, tardè, or necessitie constraining to tarrie, then, and there, to seeke the best meanes they may? May not they be condemned for murtherers, which hauing plague soares, will presse into companies to infect others, or wilfully pol­lute the ayre, or other meanes, which others are daily to vse, and liue by? The word of God commanded the leper to haue his head bare, a couering for his lippes, his garments burnt, and to crie, I am vncleane, I am vncleane, Leuit. 13.45. to the ende he should be knowne, and not infect the ayre with his breath: then how much more ought they, to note themselues by especiall signes, and to keepe them from in­fecting the ayre, hauing soares much more readie to infect then any other disease. Furthermore, if man will not be care­full and consider this wonderfull order of his bodie, because he knoweth that it must perish, he must know that he must neither appoint nor preuent the time: beside he must know that it is the cage of his soule, which must liue for euer, & therefore in honour of that beeing the image of God, keepe the cage as cleane as he can, neither breake or dissolue the same, least his soule, as an vntimely bird, flie vnto the hill. No bodie polluted with grosse humours, either with ex­cesse, or defect of any humour, but it is more apt to grieue the soule, defile the soule, and offend the creatour of bodie and soule. Doth not excesse of choller cause men to rage? of phlegme to be dull & sleepie? of melancholie to phren­sie? and subtiltie of blood to wantonnesse? then perilous is the state of the bodie, whose spirits are possessed with the infection, a propagation many times to despaire, and to forget all dutie, without Gods especiall grace. Is not he a simple man, which will entertaine a daily aduersarie to [Page 3] dwell with him, which they doe, that admit bad humours to haue domination in them, violating nature, or altering her, so as shee is compelled to bring forth fruit like vnto her changed state, that it may be said of some children in whom excesse of raging, dulnes, craftines, wantonnesse, dropsie, le­prosie, phrensie doe raigne: while my parents slept, and were not watchfull to purge their natures, the enemie, the malignant matter caused these tares of bad fruit to be sowne in me, which except grace doe gouerne, will exceede, so as there will be little hope of any good fruit of me, because my soyle is natural to bring forth bad fruit, being thus caused by my parents: quod natura mihi dedit aliernari neque­at, except Gods holy angel watch ouer me, and with the blast or breath of the holy spirit winnow away my corrup­tion. Now therfore it behooueth parents to be no lesse care­full to purge and make cleane their bodies from hurtfull hu­mours, the causes of ill effects, then the husbandman hath to purge and cleanse his feede. If we haue a trespasse, or mis­demeanour done in our goods or houses, we seeke to amend it, but if bad humours doe hazard our bodies, and aduenture our bodies to bring forth bad fruit, or infruitles, before our time hazard death, we deferre the ordinarie meanes, disad­uantaging nature, and art, her minister: carelessely cutting off the number of our daies, which God hath numbred in his fore-knowledge, and by mediate meanes to be continued with our great care, because he first cared for vs, and daily continueth the same.

CHAP. 2.

THe law of nature calleth for a speciall care and regard, to preserue euery member in order: for if shee be distempe­red in the least, the principall members are disquieted, and consequently the whole bodie: then what speciall care ought man to haue in preseruing the naturall, vitall, and ani­mall members, the cause of increasing, liuing, moouing, con­tinuing, and beeing, not onely in office and dutie one for an other, but all of them for man, and man for his maker. Ma­ny are not onely carelesse to helpe nature in her order, but by excesse daily doe hurt her in themselues and others. God [Page] hath giuen her to thee, for thee, in thee, and with thee, to con­tinue his appointed time, and hath made her a meanes to en­tertaine strength, wisdome, knowledge, learning, delights, and pleasures: all which doe lurke, if shee doe lower, all which doe leaue to be, if shee be not to liue, beeing the natu­rall life of man. Iob. 34. v. 14. and in Levit. 17. v. 14. shee is called a spirit, the next worthiest vnto the soule in the seruice of God, thereupon it is said in the Psalme, My soule doth magnifie the Lord, and my spirit hath reioyced in God my Saui­our. This spirit which is the vapour of blood, and becom­meth vitall, and animall, is the cage wherein the soule moo­ueth: the liuer, heart, and head, are the principall regions from whence the spirit into all other members and parts doe passe, with the soules power and effect, either good or bad, so that no member, neither the spirit, not the soule can say to either, thou diddest this wickednes, or goodnesse without me, and therefore must receiue alike. Now then for the ex­cellencie of natures order pollute her not, distemper her not, but indeauour to continue her, as God hath framed and ordained meanes for her.

CHAP. 3.

THe law of man requireth of thee to consider, and inde­uour to preserue thy body in conuenient order: for the stipend it alloweth for him, that murdereth himselfe, is base regarded, and vnreuerent vsage of the corps, by markes vp­on their graues, in void and vild places, besides the losse of goods from wife & children. Let men therefore take heede least by their negligence, wilfulnes, or couetuousnes, they be not guiltie thereof, before God and in their consciences, and so be preuented of their continuall ioy, for preuenting the Lords purpose heare a litle while, which is to haue a man to liue the number of his daies in holines towards him, and in dutifulnes to dispatch, what God himselfe, what king, countrie, and parents plead for: which they cannot doe, that wilfully will take the meanes to shorten their daies, or negligently omit the meanes, to hable them to recouer to continue their daies. Thou art not only iniured, either by taking the foresaide meanes, or likewise omitting the meanes: but God, the parents, king, and countrie may be [Page 5] iniured, for great might be the glory, which God might gayne by the rest of thy daies, much might be the ioy and comfort to thy parents, king, and countrie: therefore shorten not thy daies wilfully, neither omit the meanes whereby there may be hope to redeeme what wilfullie or negligently thou hast hazarded to loose of thy appoynted time. Fur­thermore, man is not onely charged with this watchfulnes, and care ouer himselfe, but he is charged with a care ouer o­thers, especially ouer such as he hath charge: for if thou knowest the meanes to helpe to continue the number of an­others daies, and be hable thereunto, thou must indeauour to doe it, because thou must doe, as thou would be done vn­to, and also hope of some of the fruites before named to come from that body: nay office, and dutie, driueth euery one to helpe others, from sicknes, soares, or dangers. Art not thou which art a master or superiour, bound to greeue for thy seruant, and to releeue thy seruant or inferiour lan­guishing, and yet labouring about thy busines? art not thou inferiour likewise bound to greiue, and indeauour to releiue thy superiour languishing, and yet counsayling and caring for thee? Now therefore let superiour, and inferiour indea­uour to continue the number of their daies, which to God (as I said) is certainly knowne, and to man vncertaine: yet men must certainely knowe, that it is the ordinance of god, then not to be resisted, but in others, as well as in our selues to be continued; by our best indeuours, because we are members one of another, and therefore ought sensiblie to feele ech others greife and passion.

CHAP. 4.

THe soule crieth vnto thee to correct bad humours, and not admit them to raigne: for when she would be gen­tle, mild, and patient, the excesse of choller, constrayneth to rage and reuenge, when she would watch and pray, the ex­cesse of phlegme, causeth sleepines, and dulnes: likewise the excesse of other humours, or the confounding of humours, worketh effectes more vnkindly against the soule, for what­soeuer is of the flesh, is oppugnant to the spirit, or soule, vn­till it hath conuerted it, to bring forth together the fruits of [Page 6] the flesh, which are badges not onely of an vnregenerate man, but of a miscreant, in soule and bodie. Seeing then the lawe of God, thy owne soule, nature, the law of man, pa­rents, king, and country, commaund, and call vnto thee to endeuour to preserue thy bodie, by the almightie his meanes left vnto the, and by his meanes to correct excesse of bad humours, and to amend their confusion, least they here con­founding, soule, conscience, and vnderstanding, god at thy first death confounde thy soule, and in the last generall iudgement, thy confounded soule carry thy flesh vnto the place of confusion. Therefore it is most necessarie for thee to know thy complection, to know what humours abound in thee, or are deficient, or whether they, or any of them be confounded or shuffled with nature, causing alteration or confusion.

CHAP. 5.

TO define the pestilent feuer, is but to reiterate others actions, neither much profitable to the vnlearned: there­fore I purpose to spend the time in that, which may tend vnto the good of the most, with the least suspect of detracti­on or ambition. The pestilent feuer is taken not onely by infection in the ayre, infused by celestiall orbes, and from putrified places, in and vpon the earth: but also by bad hu­mours about the heart and ill affected spirits in the heart, whose aptitude doth entertaine the said infection, yet not alike in all, for all then should die alike: but according to the complection, it is taken sooner or slower, in greater quanti­tie or lesse, and according to the virulent qualitie, or quanti­tie in the ayre, taken sooner or slower, and according to the subiect sooner or slower destroying: as in the humours a­bout the heart, and the spirits in the heart, in the one slow­er, in the other sooner, because the vitall and animall are de­stroyed more speedily: thereupon it commeth when any are thus wise affected, they are exceeding hot, they rage, they cannot stand, and die quickly, or suddenly, in the other, soores often times doe saue, because nature doth purge hir selfe, by the emunctory places. But if they doe not breake forth, the virulent matter returning to the places about the [Page 7] heart, there doth remaine, and kindleth exceeding beat, whereby the heart & spirits therein contained are inflamed, and all naturall humiditie thereby consumed.

CHAP. 6.

THe qualities vnnaturally working in the ayre from the celestiall orbes, and massie globe, are ouer much hotnes and moystnes, actiuely working in the ayre, and all three in the humours and spirits of man: the sooner, by the aptitude of complection and season, or the time of the yeare, altering the qualities naturall, both in complection and ayre, in som­mer sooner, in winter slower, in the one, because there is ex­halation, of putrified vapours, and heate exceeding, cau­sing it to be more virulent: in the other, because of the anti­peristasin of the could qualitie in the ayre, which doth alter the hotnes infused from aboue, and diuert or turne back the hot putrified qualitie lower into the earth, where the cold­nes of the earth doth alter it, and the drynes retayne it.

The substance or matter putrifying in the humours or spirits of man, is ayre impure: thicker then ayre naturall, by reason of moisture, yet not so thicke as water or mysts; by reason of heat: hotter then ayre naturall, yet not so drie by reason of excesse of moisture.

CHAP. 7.

THe reason wherefore it doth putrifie in the humours or spirits of man, is the excesse of heat or moisture, putrifi­ed in the aire, conueied thither: the one inflaming, the other cause of continuing or retaining, by reason of the densitie or thicknes. Secondly, aptnes in the subiects to entertaine the fame. And thirdly large passages to conuey the same to the subiects, and in all, a disparance from the substance and qua­lities of the ayre, and of the naturall humours and spirits in man.

CHAP. 8.

IF the substance of the ayre be infected, then not onely men, but birds, beasts, hearbs, and plants will die.

CHAP. 9.

IF the aire be infected in qualitie, then men, and birdes may die by it, more or lesse, sooner or slower, according [Page] to the quantitie of the virulent matter receiued, & according to the quantitie of virulent and putrified matter in the recei­uer, and according to the aptnes in the subiects, either by large passages letting it in, and beeing within, inhabilitie of contrarie qualities to expell the same.

If putrefaction be in the qualite of the ayre, that it is ouer hotte and grosse, or more hot then grosse, as commonly it is, then it is good for the cholericke and sanguine, to dwell in low roomes.

CHAP. 10.

THese are signes, shewing the ayre to be infected in qua­litie the next yeare following: in autumne before, there will be flashings of fyre, and many meteors of vnequall shapes, in the spring following could and little rayne, in the spring and sommer, the wind most South-ward, great heate in the day, and the night very cold.

CHAP. 11.

THese are the signes shewing the ayre to be infected in substance and qualitie, the effect continuing som­mer and winter, and the next spring following: the reason is, if the ayre, the winter before, had beene infected only in qualitie, then the contrarie would haue corrected it, which to iudgement whas as hable, as in other winters. Secondly, passions sensible felt and seene, in bodies, in the hearbs, in the ayre, and from the earth, like as was the yeare or spring before. Thirdly, the euent in places more generall, where no meanes came, but the ayre to infect.

CHAP. 12.

IF the putrefaction proceedeth most of the earth or vpper­most partes of the earth, as from stinking channells, stan­ding lakes, priuyes, or other polluted places, as dunghills, vncleane kept houses, and such like, then there will be felt many sudden great stinches, and vnsauerie smells, such as cannot be distinguished, or discerned, what it is, or whereof it commeth, because it is confounded, beeing made of di­uers stinches: in that yeare there wil be many frogges, toades, venemous wormes, fleas, and flyes.

CHAP. 13.

IF the putrefaction proceedeth from within the earth, then venemous beasts and wormes will be seene more com­monly aboue the earth, and will breede vpon the earth, and many of them will die.

CHAP. 14.

THe putrefaction or virulent matter of infection now, is from celestiall orbes principally, also from corrupt pla­ces, partly from corrupt humours in man, begotten by the two former, and ill order in feeding and sleeping, in idlenes and late walking abroad, and sitting vp.

CHAP. 15.

THe infection taken at the nostrills is more daungerous then otherwise, because there are two organes or passa­ges that lead to the heart, from thence more, then from the mouth.

CHAP. 16.

THe putrified aire cannot passe so speedily to mans heart, as to diuers other creatures by the instrument of smel­ling, which is couered with a pellicle or filme, which is to be lifted vp before he can smell by the ayre or fume: and that pellicle is grosser in man then in other creatures: and there­fore requireth the hotter or stronger fume to mooue it. Se­condly, the instrument of smelling is placed deeper in the head, then in any other creatures. Thirdly, the instrument of smelling is nigh the braine in man, which with the moy­sture doth hinder the naturall complexion of the instru­ment of smelling, which is hot and drie, attractiue or draw­ing vnto it.

CHAP. 17.

IF the putrefaction in the ayre be more hot then moist, then it is more apt to destroy, and to be taken by the no­strills: first, because the heat is subtile, and passeth vp speedi­ly to the pellicle, and mooueth with the fume or moisture. Secondly, for that the heat doth resist the coldnes and moi­sture of the braine, the which are hinderers of smelling.

CHAP. 18.

The complexion aptest to be infected, is the sanguine, [Page 10] first, because the qualities in that complexion are like vnto the qualities in the ayre, hot and moist, and therefore doth entertaine the ayre the apter. Secondly, because these two qualities in this complexion maketh it more conuertible, like the ayre, which will sooner be made hotter or moister then any of the other elements. Thirdly, because in this complexion, the passages leading to the humours about the heart, and to the vitall spirits in the heart, are more large and spatious then in any other. The reason is, for that blood na­turall is not without his vapours, which cause motion, and where most motion of blood is, there is cause of extention, and the same is in this complexion.

CHAP. 19.

The aptest time for this complexion to entertaine the vi­rulent matter into the humours, is in the former spring espe­cially: for then blood increaseth, and passeth vp and downe, beeing not thoroughly refined, and made the readier by his motion and impuritie to receiue it.

The aptest time for this complexion to entertaine the vi­rulent matter into the spirits vitall is sommer, by reason that the blood beeing made hot, and the spirits likewise hot, and ayre continually heating.

CHAP. 20.

This complexion may take the infection, although not at the nostrills or mouth, yet it may take it at the emuncto­rie places, and at the pores in the skin in other places, which are more large and readier to be opened, then in the other complexions.

CHAP. 21.

The signes shewing this complexion. Visage, white and ruddie, most redde in the cheekes, eyes orderly placed, yet somewhat large ofttimes, vaines blew and full, pulse full and great, vrine plentie, redde and ofttimes grosse, seege, and sweat exceeding, digestion perfect, apt to bleeding and slee­ping, willing to mooue, yet abstaining from motion, by rea­son of heate and sweating, subiect to dreame of bloodie things, and amorous toyes, affable, affectionate, yet to be re­mooued, well spoken, chaungeable in opinion, apt to haue [Page 11] the yellow iaundes, heat vnder the lites, at the heart, and raines, stitch in the right side, subiect to the chollicke, and then the hands and face will be full of srecks in many a one, of meane stature and comely for the most part, a louer of musicke and wines, effeminate, beard large and comely, de­lightfull in himselfe, a louer of companie and conuertible with them, merrie for the most part, haire of colour red or yellowish, subiect to the feuer called Synocham. This com­plexion hauing taken the infection in the humors about the heart, in the emunctorie places, or at the pores in the skin, beeing come vnto the blood, may best of any complexion haue a vaine opened.

CHAP. 22.

IF this complection or any other, haue the blood infected, the vaines will be blackish, and not so full, as before in health, for that the good blood flyeth inward to the sedi­ment from the infection, and there remaineth subiect to in­fection by little and little, as it goeth outward, or as the other runneth inward, the liuer will be worse in this complection, and consequently digestion imperfect, the body hot all o­uer, more then in other complections, because blood infec­ted hath larger passage, then in other complections. For as­much as good blood is not without good vapour, and both of them, cause of vitall spirit, and that cause of the animall spirits, by which two man liueth, and mooueth, and is made more hable to resist the virulent matter of pestilence: there­fore it behooueth euery complection to clense his blood, & purge it from humours hurtfull vnto it, which these receipts following by Gods helpe will performe.

CHAP. 23.

TAke of cassia new extracted one ounce, of hony halfe an ounce, of sugar two drammes, infuse these seuen or eight howers, in fowre ounces of borrage water, and sower oun­ces of violet or endiue water: if you can, get a fingerfull of liuerwoort, and first bruise it a little, then infuse it with the cassia, it will be very proper, (especially if it be in sommer) then strayne all together, and drinke of it euery morning fasting, three howers before meate, the quantitie of two or [Page 12] three ounces, vntill you feele your blood reasonable cooled, and the stomack not impayred.

CHAP. 24.

IF this complection doth learne or perceiue, that choller raigneth in the blood, then let them take the quantitie of Cassia, hony, and sugar before mentioned, and of Rhubarbe three drāmes, of the sweete rush called squinant, one drāme, pound them all gross, then infuse them seauen or eight howers in seauen ounces of water of endiue, or cichorie, or for want of these, in the decoction florum & fructum, to the which put of syrupe of roses laxatiue, and of syrrupe of vi­olets of either halfe an ounce: take it two mornings or three together, warme it a little before you take it, & take it some­what colder then blood-warme.

CHAP. 25.

IF this complexion doth spie, that phlegme be mixt with the blood, then let him take of Turbith, or Agaricke, two drammes, ginger two scruples, and pound them gross, or slice them thin, and infuse it with halfe an ounce of Cassia and an ounce of hony if it be in winter: at other times take as much cassia as hony, and infuse all together in eight or nine ounces of sweete wine, or Oximell, that is, one part vineger, twyse so much hony, foure times so much water boyled vntill the third part be wasted, and cleane skimmed: take this two mornings fasting.

CHAP. 26.

IF melancholie raygne take of cassia and hony one ounce, & of polypody one dramme, a scruple and a halfe of gin­ger, cut the polypody and ginger very thin, and infuse them altogether, in six or seauen ounces of fumitory water eight howers: then strayne them and drinke it warme fasting two mornings together: when you take any of these you must sit a quarter of an hower, thē walke as long, then lie vpon your right side, then vpon your left as long, that done, then sit vp tight halfe an hower, after that walke and sit at your pleasure in your chamber.

CHAP. 27.

Hauing cleansed your blood, and auoided the bad hu­mours, [Page 13] which most annoy you, (which is meete to be done, in euery one once a yeare, in many twise, in the for­mer and latter spring, (and in some oftener) then will your blood and spirits be lesse capable of the infection, and bet­ter hable to expell it, hauing taken it, and so much the lesse capable and hable, by how much you shallbe carefull to vse these receiptes following, best fitting for your com­plexion.

CHAP. 28.

FIrst a receipt very proper to be taken, not onely, as a de­fensatiue euery morning fasting, but for your resolution to knowe, whether you be infected, for then you will vo­mite or at least be very full, and desirous to vomite, by rea­son of the contrarietie of the qualities in these substances, & the virulent heate in your owne substance. Send vnto the Apothecaries billes made as followeth: R. Santalorum omni­um, Boliarmenei ana scr. 2. aq. rosar. dr. 2. aq. violarum dr. 3. vini albi. dr. 5. infuse these in the waters and the wine 7. or 8. houres, then straine them through a very course strainer, and drinke it fasting, or before supper an houre and halfe.

CHAP. 29.

A Pome very comfortable, and necessarie for this com­plexion to vse at all times, and especially in the time of pestilence. R. Santalorum omnium dr. 2. florum Boraginis, Vio­larum, Rosarum rub. ana dr. 1. s. rad. Cichorij dr. 1. Macis dr. 2. Cort. mali citri dr. 1. s. Camphurae dr. 2. Ladan. d 1. Papaneris albi scr. 1. Ambrae gra. 2. Cinamomi d. 5. cu [...] Teribenthina in aq­rosarum Lot. in qua fiat dr. 1. storacis infusio hor. 7. Smell vnto this at any time, but cheifely fasting, and when meate is digested.

CHAP. 30.

A Water to sprinckle vpon cloathes, and in the house, meete for this complexion at all times, and in the time of pestilence most necessarie. R. olei violarum, Nenupharij ana d. 2. olei rosarum vn. s. Camphurae vn. 5. omnium Santalorum vn. 3. Thuris dr. 2. Myrrhae vn. s. Cort. Limonum citrinorum & granatum ana dr. 1. Tamarise, Ribes. Coriand. ana vn. s. When you haue gotten these, or so many as you can of them, then [Page 14] cut them or pound them grosse, and boile them in two quarts of vineger, or one quart of vineger, and the other of water, vntill a pint be consumed, then put in your oyles and gummes, and stoppe the vessell very close, and let thē boile halfe a quarter of an houre. Straine it before it be colde through a coarse strainer very hard, then put to it of rose­water vn. 2. and mixe it well with it then put it into a glasse stopped close, and set it out of the sunne: when you would vse it, stirre it well together before you put in the brush or sponge, because of the oyles which will flote and be vpper­most. This may serue any complexion, the better for the chollericke, if you doe adde more of the cold and moyst things, as of the oyle of lillies, violets, of the lemmons, orin­ges, and pomegranates, and such like, which the Apotheca­ries may doe, if you informe them of your complexion: the better for the phlegmatike, if he diminish of the cold and moist things, the quantitie following, and adde of these things; origani p j. Thuris ar. 2. cipressiar. 2. Iuniperi dr. 3. the better for the melancholie, if you adde of oyle of sweete al­monds, and oyle of nutmegges, dr. 3. of muske gr. 4. costi dulc. gr. 2.

CHAP. 31.

A Perfume proper for this complexion, and good for all, to alter the virulent qualitie in the aire about thee. R. nu­cis moschat, caphur, nardi, garyopillorum, ana dr. s. ladani, cala­mit, ana dr. 1. stiracis dr. s. santali albi odoriferi, benionini ana dr. 3. ciperi dr. 1 s. fol. rosarum rub. dr. 2. matorani, fol lauria­na dr. s ligni aloes dr. s. omnia in puluerem redact. commixta (que) cum aqua rosarum, in qua tragagant. gummi arabicum, siue ca­phura maduerint, formenter pastilli, siue orbiculi pro suffimento. Then may you at pleasure take some of it and perfume with it, as with other persumes. Vse the perfume in the fore­noone, then the water in the afternoone: let all the houshold be present to take the perfume, especially those of this com­plexion. This will last or continue three daies in your roomes, or in your apparell, the longer if you vse the water presently after the perfume, for the oyles, and the apparell will retaine it a long time, which others that come nigh you, [Page 15] or talke with you will discouer, especially if the water pre­scribed for the plegmatike be vsed.

CHAP. 32.

These pills are good for this complexion, but best to­wards winter, or in winter: for the often vsing in sommer may procure a feuer. R. Aloes dr. 2. lot. in vino alb. & aqua violarum siue Endiuie, succi acaciae. dr. s. myrrhe, cinamoni ana dr. 1. fiat massa pillularum cum vino & aqua boraginis, sine ci­chorij. If you haue the hemorehoids, or if women haue their sicknes, then tell the Apothecaries, and will him to adde to the former, bdellij subalbidi. dr. s. and thereby you shall be sure of no harme to the intralls: adde this Dragaganthi dr. s. take the waight of halfe a dramme in pills, before you goe forth, or before supper, but drinke presently after a little draught either of ale or white wine. Whosoeuer doe vse these pills, they shall finde for their complexion a great be­nefit to the head and spirits.

CHAP. 33.

IT is very good for this complection in sommer to vse this, R. Tamarirind. dact. vn. 2. fiat infusio siue decoctio in sero lactis lib. 1. s. and drinke of it two mornings, you may take this, when you will, so that it be not presently after supper or dinner before digestion be made: if you will haue it tast sharpe, put into it the more of the Tamarindes. I would wish euery complection in the time of pestilence in sommer to vse this, but mooue not violently presently after you haue taken it: this will procure appetite and coldnes, and kindlie purgeth choller.

CHAP. 34.

IF this complection suspect, that they haue taken the in­fection, then let them put their legges in warme water, & be let blood in the vaines, which lead from the heart and head.

CHAP. 35.

IT is very good in the time of pestilence for this complexi­on, to vse frication in the morning, especially of their thighes and legges.

CHAP. 36.

IT is good for this complection to drinke in the after­noone of a ptisme made of barly, adding to it a little vine­ger, to euery pynt halfe a spoonefull.

CHAP. 37.

IT it good for this complection, to vse vineger in their meates, and to wet their chamber flores with vineger,

CHAP. 38.

THese things are at no time conuenient for this complexi­on to vse, but worst in the time of pestilence, for their exceeding heat, beeing hot in the fourth degree: garlicke, leekes, garding cresses, pepperwort, onyons, radish roots, neither are these conuenient especially in the time of pesti­lence, because they properly heate the liuer, and inflame the blood, wormewood, egrimonie, fennell, hyssope, spike, margerom, folefoote, time, harts tounge, all hearbes, which are hot in the third degree, as rhue, sauine, cloues, mynt, penyriall, veruin, smalledge, perslie, centorie, laurell, three-leaued grasse, saffron, spourge, the flowers of eldern are ill for the liuer, because they heat it, the flowers of betonie, Ca­momill, centorie, the flowers of Squinant called the sweete rush.

CHAP. 39.

These hearbs are good for this complexion especially in the time of pestilence, beeing colde in the second degree; Lettice, cichorie, sorrell, beetes, Endiue, liuerwoort, crow­toes, fleewoort, plantin, knotgrasse: and these likewise are good because they properly coole the liuer: fumitorie, wa­terlillies, purslayne: but most properly these coole the liuer beeing eaten: cichorie, lettice, enduie, liuerwoort, the flow­ers of cichorie, water lillies, and red roses are likewise good to coole the liuer.

CHAP. 40.

THese are not conuenient for this complexion: flesh of old beastes, vdders, braynes, fat (especially of flesh) hot bread, much sleep, bloodinges, or intralles of beastes, mar­row, rawe hearbes, (except borage cichorie, or lettice) nue ale, hard cheese, Fennish flowers are ill.

CHAP. 41.

THese are good for this complexion, bread of wheate somwhat leauened, well baked, not ouer ould: wines well fined, and of meates, those which are of good digestiō, not ouer sweete, nor ouer easely to be digested.

CHAP. 42.

OF fruites sealdome vse these: Iuniper buries, cloues, for they are hot in the third degree, but lesse seldome these, long pepper, white pepper, blacke pepper, for they are hot in the fourth degree.

CHAP. 43.

EAte seldome figges, capers, dry meats, for these are hot in the second degree, and so are nutmegges, which heate the heart very much in this complexion.

CHAP. 44.

OF fruites these are good for the liuer: barberries, guords, cucumbers, for they properlie coole the liuer, so are limonds, millions, prunes, peaches pomegarnets, oringes somewhat tart, these are cold in the second degree.

Of seedes these are ill for this complexion, for they heate the liuer: anise seede, persely seede, cummin seede, fennell seede, wild smalledge seede, caraway seede, garding pepper seede, persnipp seede. These seedes coole the liuer: guord, cucumers, endiue, lettice, milion, purslanie, citron seedes.

CHAP. 45.

OF rootes these are ill for this complxion, for they heate the liuer: smaledge, fennell, persely, sparage, rhue, butcher broome.

CHAP. 46.

SIchorie rootes and such like before mentioned, are good to coole the liuer.

CHAP. 47.

THe vse of these wooddes are good for this complexion: cypresse, the tamariske, santalum rub. alb. citrinum.

CHAP. 48.

THese not so good: the iuniper, guiacum, the wood alo­es, the hebene tree, box tree, red styrax, milleldine, the cedar tree.

CHAP. 49.

These gummes for this complexion are good: the Ara­bicke and Camphure.

CHAP. 50.

These ill: the gumme of the Cedar, and the gumme Am­moniacum, beeing hot in the third degree; but these worst of all, Euphorbium, and the gumme Belzoin, for they are hot in the fourth degree.

CHAP. 51.

Let this complexion take heede in taking Methridate, treacle, saffron, and such like, which oft times are meanes to inflame, and procure sores whereas there would be none, and the malignant matter, by lesse dangerous meanes, or by natures habilitie might be preuented.

CHAP. 52.

The phlegmatike complexion is so called, by the two qualities in the water, cold and moistnes, combined and pre­dominant in a bodie; consisting likewise of the other three elements, yet principally participating of this, and thereup­on hath the denomination phlegmaticke, videl. cold & moist for the most part.

CHAP. 53. Signes to know this complexion.

The substance soft, foggie, quauing: the colour of the substance whitish, the proportion large, for the most part, or els exceeding grosse: veines hardly seene, blood waterish, pulse slowe, the bodie slowe in motion, sleepie, dull, haire plaine, sieldome bald, not apt to learne, cowardish, spittle white, and after motion very frothie: vrine grosse & white, especially after great labour; subiect to dreame of waterie things, as of fish and ponds: much superfluitie or excre­ments by spitting and sweating: the feete stinking, especial­ly after motion: the bodie subiect to his naturall infirmitie in Februarie betweene the tenth day and the twentieth: this complexion is subiect to paine in the head, loynes, knees, priuities, armes, and feete, by phlegmatike humours taking cold: fearefull, timorous, the breast commonly without haire, sieldome angrie, not retaining anger, soone cold, the [Page 19] breast commonly narrow, and these are subiect to the sick­nes of the heart, and much subiect to a quotidian feuer.

CHAP. 54.

This complexion is aptest to breede the infection, be­cause moisture doth cause putrefaction, especially in the lat­ter spring, and winter: because then phlegme raigneth, cau­sing grosse humours, that is to say, making blood thicke, phlegme thicke, and choller grosse, retaining heat vnnatu­rall, which by heate in sommer is made more hot and viru­lent expelling putrefaction. You must vnderstand, that I write vpon the phlegmatike bodie, as he is said so to be na­turally of phlegme, which is cold and moist, sweete, & white, without distinction in tast, for that tasteth all other things: the substance, the forme, the passions, the accidents of the phlegmaticke, which hath phlegme vnnaturall, are diuers: for some is slimie, some salt, some viscous, some sower, pla­sterie, stipticke, thicke, grosse, some thin: before all or any of the which phlegme naturall was, and by distemperature, it becommeth as before, which for the most part, is by excesse of phlegme naturall, and by accidents comming to it.

CHAP. 55. The diet for the phlegmaticke.

Hot things moderately vsed are good for this complex­ion, for they doe attenuate and digest phlegme. Eate of one meate at a meale, if not, then eate the finest first, els the grosse meates suffocate, and the finest lie vndigested, by rea­son of the coldnes in the stomacke, which cannot digest the grosse meates so speedily as other complexions. They must abstaine from such meates as ingender phlegme ouermuch, and are cold and slimie, clammie or clung: new cheefe ill, all fish for the most part, the best are small fishes fried: the in­wards of beasts ill, repletion or feeding to the full ill, for concoction in the phlegmaticke is slower then others, and therefore they ought of all others to satisfie nature, not ap­petite. Idlenes is ill, for agitation procureth heate and con­coction, although it may be alledged that the stomacke is neuer idle, nor out of motion in any complexion, and there­fore not onely the stomacke, but all the bodie desireth not [Page 20] to mooue, but to be quiet and still: euen as the water which mooueth not, except the winde mooue it, or the straightens or highnes of the place force it to mooue.

CHAP. 56.

These mineralls are ill for this complexion to vse, in re­gard of their coldnes: quicksiluer, lead, white lead, burnt lead, spume of siluer, or the dragges of lead.

CHAP. 57.

These stones are likewise ill for their coldnes: the car­buncle called a corneol, the saphyre stone, the christall, the granat stone, and this worst, the diamant, for it is cold in the fourth degree, likewise corall pearle is ill.

CHAP. 58.

Things cold in the first or second degree, or moist in the first or second degree, are not vtterly to be forbidden to this complexion; because they worke not extremely, but may properly be corrected, by things hot and drie in the second degree, and so made temperate. But things moist, or cold in the third or fourth degree, are sieldome or neuer to be vsed: for their correctiues must be equipollent, and then very of­ten there happeneth to the qualities of the other humours, no little distemperature. Vse this sieldome, Mandrags, houseleeke, henbane; these neuer, humblocke, poppie, gol­den-hearb (otherwise called orch:) forbeare sorrell, lettice, purslaine, violets, waterlillies, endiue, cichorie, fumitorie, plantin, borage, nightshade, white roses and redde. Eate siel­dome of sharpe oringes, peares, prunes: more sieldome of gourds, cucumers, of apples sharpe and moist, pomegra­nets, lemmons, millions, peaches, grapes. Vse these sieldom, barly, millet (otherwise called Turkish wheat) mallowseed, rapeseede. Refraine from cypresse wood, the Tamariske tree, lignum trium santalorum, veriuice, vineger, and the iuice of opium, the iuice of an Indian tree called sanguinem draco­uis, campher. Those things which are cold and drie in the first or second degree, or cold in the first and second degree and drie in the third, may best be tolerated to be vsed in the time of pestilence of this complexion, then at other times.

CHAP. 59.

These are conuenient for this complexion, because they abolish phlegme from the liuer and blood; wormewood, e­grimonie, fennell, hyssope, spicke, margerom. These are con­uenient, because they doe correct the colde qualitie of phlegme at the heart: balme, mynt, sage, borrage, buglosse, basell.

CHAP. 60.

These likewise are conuenient for the breast; horehound, betonie, mayden haire, the nettle, dragon woort, and of these many are conuenient for the head and other places. It is good for this complexion to vse Cinamon, Frankincense, hoppes, calamynt, and sometime Rhue, and mace is good, (although it be hot in the third degree) because it is aroma­ticall and cordiall, water-germander, colewoort, penyriall, persly, the rootes of penyriall, carriot rootes, galinga, fen­nell, rapes, zedoarie, persly, the sea onyon, coriander seede, dill seede, anise seede, smalledge, tocket, persly seede, sweete Almonds, Iuiubs, cypresse nuts, figges, capers, nutmegges, cloues now and then, flowers of rosemarie, and lauender, saffron, but not often in the time of infection, melilot, slae­chados, buglosse, cammomill, the flowers of the sweet rush, the flower of our ladies rose, garding pepper, Iamine, sweete amber, and sperma caeti, (or parma caeti) the drie skumme or froth of the sea; it is good to vse the stone that glasiers cut their glasse with, called an emrod, the Ancarcasite or fire stone, the blood stone.

CHAP. 61.

THis complexion may eate onyons, and garlicke orderlie, so as there is no distemperance, in the naturall humors by choller. Much vse of salt, grosse pepper with meates are conuenient: greeneginger, and myrabolans condite, very conuenient: keepe the head and feete warme: dwell in high, and dry places: moderate sweating is good.

CHAP. 62.

IT is very meete for this complexion, to purge once a yeare at the least, in the first spring when it is well entered, with this receipt following, finding no speciall cause to the [Page 22] contrarie.

R. Turpeti dr. 5. fol. sen. dr. 10. polypodiidr. 2. Hermodact dr. 2. s. Rhabarb dr. 2. Zuigib dr. 1. cinamomi anisi ana scr. 5. when you haue all these, slyce them, and pound the anise­seede grosse, then seeth them in a pynt and halfe of water, vntill the third part be consumed, then take of it fasting three ounces, and put to it an ounce of syrupe of roses laxatiue: take this three mornings together if you see that your body be not sufficiently purged in two mornings: which the ex­crementes, and your drynes or sleepines will shewe: if that slyme, or water come not, or slime somwhat yellowish com­eth and no waterish, or white slime matter, then purge no more. So soone as you haue done purging take this, R. Iu lap yiolat vn. 5. aq cinamomi aq. borag. siue endiuiae vn. 5. this will qualifie the distemperature made by the purge, and will comfort properly.

CHAP. 63.

VVIthin a fortnight after, to clense the blood, take this receipt: R. Cassiae nouiter extractae, mellis ana. vn. 5. infuse it in halfe a pint of sweete wine, in vn. 2. of bo­rage water, drinke this two mornings fasting.

CHAP. 64.

THe water, proper to this complexion for vse in the time of pestilence, or at other times, make it as it is for the san­guine complexion adding vnto it, of oyle of sweete al­mondes vn. 1. of frankenscence dr. 3. iuniper, vn. s. of ci­pres vn. 1. of cloues vn. s. of oyle of dill vn. 1. sweete amber dr. 2. let there be a pint of vineger, and a pynt and a halfe of cose water put vnto it.

CHAP. 65.

The perfume for this complexion, is to be made, and vsed as for the sanguin, sauing, in stead of gum arabicke, vse the gum myrrhe, and storax, or in stead of them gummi am­moniacum, as much as is conuenient for the making of the masse somewhat liquid.

CHAP. 66.

A Pome for this complexion: R. Santalornus odoriferum d. s. fol. rosarum damasc. d. 2. Ambr. odor. gr. 3. calamynt. dr. 2. [Page 23] gummi Thuris dr. 2. macis d. 1. s. Anethi dr. 1. nucis moschat. d. 2. gariophillorum dr. 1. galing. d. 1. s. florum Chammomil. d. s. sti­rac. d. s. cinamom d. 2. mosc. gr. 2. ladani d. 1. cum Terebint. in aq. rosarum & milissa lot. vel potius in liq. stiracis, fiat pom.

CHAP. 67.

The pylls for this complexion: R. Aloes lot. in vino odorife­ro, & in aqua Chammomelini, siue betonic. d. 2. myrrhae cina­momi d. 1. siucci faeniculi d. s. fiat massa cum aq. faeniculi ac borago­nis. Take it in such wise as is shewed in the sanguine com­plexion.

CHAP. 68. For the Chollericke Complexion.

VVHereas some may thinke, that I should haue pla­ced choller next vnto blood (according to the order of some writers:) first because choller, is the next pro­per begotten humour of blood: secondly, because his cell or receptacle, is the nearest to the blood: thirdly, because it is of the qualitie of the fyery elemēt, which is as they account the worthier element, beeing the preseruer, and purger, of most things: fourthly, because it is the beutifullest, and the highest element in place. Yet because phlegme is the be­ginner, and begetter of blood, and blood of Choller, and melancholie: therefore, I accoumpt it, prius tempore, & or­dine, sustinendo, although not ordine honoris & dignitatis, in making man: for when it taketh beeing in the wombe, then are all humours together in that masse or lumpe, or els much of it perisheth, yet one predominant, secundum ordinem na­turae producentis & effectum coeuntium & planatarum infusio­nem: so that none can be said to be before another, or more vnworthie: because one without the other neither three without one can make a body neither continue it: therefore I thinke it no errour.

CHAP. 69.

CHoller exceding in a bodie, giueth to the bodie, deno­mination accordingly, and causeth the bodie to haue these two qualities exceeding the other, vz. hotnes, and dry­nes, whose properties are attractiue to draw vnto it, there­fore this complexion is apt to drawe the infection and to [Page 24] ioyne with it, because of the hot qualitie in the ayre naturall, and moysture naturall, conueighing the vnnaturall heate, and moysture into the body, which heate naturall and vn­naturall in the ayre, is entertained of this complexion, not onely for the agreement of the qualitie in heate, but also, for the contrarie qualitie of moystnes to drynes, which would consume and destroy each other, as in fire and water, for euery qualitie would haue euery substance to entertaine it, and therefore cold, heat, moistnes and drynes doe infuse themselues into substances: and heat, cold, moystnes and drynes the one contrarie coueteth to depriue the other: as heat to depriue naturall coldnes, and moysture naturall dry­nes, so doth vnnaturall heat and moystnes, depriue naturall could, and drynes, as in the pestilence.

CHAP. 70.

Signes shewing this complexion: leane, of meane or lit­tle stature, haire black or darke, most commonly curled, eyes quick, colour of skin salow, and in some bodies rud­dish, voyce sharpe, vrin high coloured and cleere, sharpe or quick, of stout courage, soone angry, little sleepe, dreames of fire, or fighting, pulse swift, and strong, subiect to the gout, especially in the legges, subiect to a tertian feuer, de­light in warres, liberall in their youth, and midle age, but in ould age couetous, desire to trauell, desirous of venerie, sub­iect to palsie, apoplexies, and trembling.

CHAP. 71. The diet for this complexion.

Abstaine from all occasions which may mooue vnto an­ger, for that doth consume naturall humiditie. Abstaine from much carnall copulation, for the exceeding heat doth send forth ouermuch humiditie. Fast not long, for choller must haue to retaine it, or els it consumeth naturall moy­sture. Eate the grosse meates first, (as the phlegmatike must eate the finest) because the grosse will be vndigested in the bottome of the stomack, and the finest digested aboue, cau­sing annoyance by phlegme, by reason of the coldnes of the stomacke: so in the stomacke of the cholericke, if he eate the finest first, it will be scorched while the grosse is dige­sting.

CHAP. 72.

IF thou beest of this complexion, and haue the head hot, vse not the flowers of these: sage, melilot, lauender, be­tonie, chamomill, rosemarie, the sweete rush, squinant, balme, scabiones: if thy brest be hot, vse not the flowers of betonie, the sweete rush, balme, nor scabiones: if thy heart be hot, vse not rosemarie flowers, balme, spikenard, bug­losse, saffron, borrage: if thy stomacke be hot, vse not the flowers of the sweete rush, squinant, rosemarie, neither the flowers there of: if thy liuer be hot, abstaine from cento­rie, elder buddes, betonie, chamomill, spike, the sweete rush, squinant: if thy splen be hot, take heed of the flowers of be­tonie, and the flowers of the vine, of ripe grapes: if thy reines be hot or the bladder, vse not the flowers of melilot, squi­nant, mallowes, spike: if the matrix be ouer hot, vse not the flowers of betonie, squinant, sage, spikenard flower deluce: if the ioyntes be ouer hot, vse not the flowers of chamo­mill, melilot, rosemarie flowers, the primerose, or cow­sloppe.

If thy head be ouer hot, abstaine from these hearbs: ca­lamint, fennell, bay leaues, margerom, penyriall, ruhe, sa­uorie, and from the hearbes which beare the flowers before forbidden for the head: if the brest be ouer hot vse not be­tonie, mayden haire, hyssope, balme, horehound, nettle, scabions: if the heart be ouer hot, vse not these, borage, bug­losse, balme, rosemarie, Enusa campana, Basil.

CHAP. 73.

I If thy stomack be ouer hot, refraine from these hearbes, woormewod, fennell, mynt, sage, time If the liuer be hot, refraine from Egrimonie, fumitorie, hysop, spike margerom, fennell, wormewood, folefoote. If thy splene be ouer hot, abstaine from calamint, doder, Egrimonie, cresses, especial­ly garding cresses, (for they are hot in the fourth degree) time, woormewood, hartes tongue. If thy reines be ouer hot abstaine from Rocket, fiue leaued grasse, saxifrage, spikenard, pellitorie. If the matrix be ouer hot, abstaine from mugwoort, calamint, rhue, sauin, penyriall: if thy ioynts be ouer hot, abstaine from chamomil, mleilot, cres­ses, [Page 26] rhue, sage, Egrimonie, S. Iohns woort, costmarie.

CHAP. 74.

Vse these sieldome, galinga, cummin seede, anise seede, nutmegs, dill, smalledge, solindine, pepperwoort, ameos, so­thernwood, mustard seede, garlicke, onyons, rocket, mullin, leekes, costmarie, the roote of gladin, of garden ginger, of doronicke, of radish, of galinga, the roote of water Robin.

CHAP. 75.

Abstaine from the rust of brasse, the scales of brasse, burnt brasse, sulphur, much salt, stone salt, salt peter, oker, arsinick, the spume of the sea, sperma caeti, sweete amber. Vse sieldom cinamon, frankincense: abstaine from burnt wines, and hot wines. Abstaine from these gummes, the gumme Ammoni­acum, the liquor of the cedar tree, but carefully abstaine from the gumme Euphorbium, and the gumme Belzoin. Of mettalls, these you may better indure then any complexion, the drosse or spume of siluer, quickesiluer, and the dregges of lead, white lead.

CHAP. 76.

Of stones vse these, the christall, the carbuncle, the rubin, the stone sardin, the granat stone: in sommer the diamant, in winter the saphyre, the Emeraud, the Hyacynth.

CHAP. 77.

Of plants, vse Endiue, cichorie, lettice, plantin, myrrhe, fleewoort, beetes, sorrell, knotgrasse: when heat exceedeth vse these, hemlocke, poppie, but with direction. Of flow­ers vse these commonly, roses, violets, waterlillies, (and wild poppie with direction:) for excessiue heat, vse the henbane flowers by direction.

CHAP. 78.

Of fruits vse these, peares, prunes, sharpe oringes, lem­mons, guords, pomegranats, cucumers, myllions, peaches. Of seedes vse these, barly, milion, cichorie, sorrell. Of rootes mallowes, cichorie, mandrag. Of woods the cypresse, santal. tri. Tamarssk. Of gummes Camphure, and the gumme A­rabicke.

CHAP. 79.

This will purge all humours in this complexion, but [Page 27] most properly choller: R. Rhabarb. dr. 3. spic. Indic. vel cina­momi dr. 1. Turpet. Polypod. ana dr. 2. Hermodact. dr. 1. fol. senae vn. 1. zingib. scr. 2. anisi scr. 1. coquantur in lib. & sem. aq. ad ter­tia partis consumptionem: & de colatura. dentur vn. 3. addendo syrup. rosarum lax. syrup. Endiuiae vel Cichorij vel de succo Endi. ana vn. s. Take this three mornings or fowre together.

CHAP. 80.

Then within seauen or eight daies after, purge your blood with this, R. cassia vn. mellis vn. 1. saccar. dr. 2. infuse this in vn. 4. of Endiue water, or cichorie water, and of violet water and borage water ana vn. 2. or in 8 ounces of Endiue or cichorie water.

CHAP. 81.

The water to sprinkle vpon your clothes, or other places, make it as for the sanguine, adding of Cypresse vn. s. and of camphure dr. 2. let one halfe be water, the other vineger, adde of the fiue cold oyles of each vn. s. and led the water be red rosewater which you put in.

CHAP. 82.

The perfume prescribed for the sanguine will serue, ad­ding of Camphure dr. 2. santaiorum trium, Tamarisc, ana dr. 2. of roses, violets, dr. 2. s.

CHAP. 83.

The bole. R. bol. Armen. siue terrae sigillat. scr. 1. santalorum omnium scr. 2. dissolue these in aq. violarum & Endiu. vn. s. vi­ni albi. vn. s. aq. rosarum vn. 1. this may you take at any time, but best fasting.

CHAP. 84.

The pills for this complexion; R. Aloes lotum in aq. En­diuiae siue cichorij, vel in decoctione prunorum damasc. myrrha dr. 1. caphur. scr. 1. cinamomi dr. 2. cum aqua borag. & Endiu. fiat massa pro pill. For the vse hereof looke in the sanguine com­plexion.

CHAP. 85.

The pome for this complexion vse that in the sanguine compl. adde filorum ni [...]uph. dr. 1. radici cichor. dr. s. cypressi dr. 2. cort lemmon. dr. 1. make it as before in the sanguine compl. adding to it in the making, of white lead dr. s.

CHAP. 86. The Melancholicke complexion.

Melancholie naturall, is a humour, whose qualities are cold and drie, of the nature of the earth, the dregs of blood setled and seuered from blood (as blood is from phlegme and choller from blood) all which at one time, were in one cell, the liuer, and by ebullition or concoction, caused by contrarietie of qualities in one substance and place, to be se­uered ech from other to their proper cells: blood to the li­uer and vaines, choller to the gall, and melancholie to the splene, phlegme to the lungs.

CHAP. 87.

This complexion is least apt to take the infection for 3 causes: first the passages are straighter and narrower lea­ding to the heart, and to the humours about the heart, then in any other complexion. Secondly by reason of the pow­er and the qualities in the substance, cold and drines, which are opposite vnto the virulent qualitie in the ayre, excessiue heat or moisture one or both continually resisting. Thirdly in regard of the disabilitie of the qualities, vnapt to take im­pression; as in cold marble, cold earth, & such like. The ap­test times for this complexion to take it, is when heate and moisture most abound, as in the springs, for then is the qua­litie in the ayre and in the humours most powerfull to alter and ouercome.

CHAP. 88.

Signes shewing this complexion, leannes, hardnes of skinne, colour duskish or whitely; pulse little, haire plaine, sieldome laughing, vrine waterie and thinne, excrements seege or sweating, little and stinking: much watchfulnes, yet not so much as in the cholerick: dreames feareful, in opinion stiffe, digestion slow and ill, timerous, long in anger or di­slike if it be begunne, fretting much, subiect to one daies fe­uer, by the vnnaturall heat in the spirits of the heart, then is the colour most pale: mooueth slowly, shortnes or straight­nes of breath, heauines of head, and then the vrine is ouer high coloured more then before, some heate is then ouer all the bodie: haire brownish, and sometime mixt with white [Page 29] haires If this humour abound, then are fearefull dreames, as feare of hurts or harme, death of friends, of pitts and darke­nes, long feare without cause, cramps without repletion, heauines of mind, sleepines in the members.

CHAP. 89.

These things are conuenient for this complexion; sweete almonds, almond milke, yeolkes of reare egges, milke from the vdder with sugar in it, wheat bread. Of soules; fesant, henne, capon, field birds. Of fish; roches, dares, gudgines, loches, and such like: veale, yong porke, redde deere, swines seete, calues feete, pease, pottage with mynt, figges, raisons before meate, mynt, rice, lettice, cichorie, grapes, wines mo­deratly and well fined, beare or ale not ouer strong, mirth, braines of hens, chickins and yong geese; it is good to keepe this humour thin.

CHAP. 90.

These are ill, hard meates, drie meates or salt, sower, or scorched meates: colewoorts, mustard, radish, garlicke (ex­cept windines annoy the bodie) much studie, feare, sorrow, wrath, compassion, care, much rest: things grieuous to see, to smell, or to heare, darknes ill, drying of the bodie howsoe­uer, by watching, care, or lecherie: much vse of things hot & drie, especially if choller adust be in the bodie.

CHAP. 91.

Vse these commonly: wormewood, borage, buglosse, beetes, colewoorts, cammomill, Egrimonie, melilot, tinaria, spicknard, hearts-tongue, pellitorie, endiue.

CHAP. 92.

Vse these likewise but not so commonly, Angelica, mug­woort, betonie, balme, horehound, myrrhe, rosemarie, sage, seabions, lupulus, Iuie, peucedanium, water germander, S. Iohns woort, lettice, violets, arage, beetes: as for other things which are hot in the third or fourth degree, vse them with aduise, when cold exceedeth.

CHAP. 93.

VSe these commonly: sweete almondes, iuiubes, the cypresse nut.

CHAP. 94.

THese are good to warme the splene: bitter almondes, ca­pers, anise seede, caraway seede, watercresses seedes, spa­rage seede, fennell seede, gentian, the rootes of penyriall, gladin.

CHAP. 95.

Things good for the liuer, are likewise good for the splene, because the splene is hurt from the liuer, and receiueth good from thence: therefore looke in the sanguine com­plexion: things cold or dry in the second, or third degree, are not commonly to be vsed: and things cold and dry, in the third degree vtterly to be refused, except in the time of pestilence, and except they be corrected neuer vse them in winter.

CHAP. 96.

THese will purge all humours, but especially melancho­lie: R. Polypodij dr. 3. fol. senae. dr. 11. Turpet. dr. 3. Rha­barb. hermodact. ana. dr. 1. s. iugib. scr. 2. Cinamomi anisi. ana scr. 1. s. concisa, coquantur in lib. 1. s. ad tertiae partis consump­tionem, & de colatura denter. vn. 3. tempore matutino, a den­do syrupi rosarum laxat. syrup. fumiter, ana vn. s. take this three mornings together, if you doe not see by your excre­ment the contrarie, which ceaseth to be duskish.

CHAP. 97.

Then within seauen or eight daies after, take this receipt to clense the blood: R. Cassiae mellis ana vn. 1. saccar. dr. 3. in­fuse these in water of fumitorie, vn. 6, or 7. if it be winter in aq. Epythimi. vn. 8. drinke it two mornings together blood-warme.

CHAP. 98.

For the water to sprinckle vpon your cloaths, or in your chambers, vse as before in the sanguine complex. taking 3. parts water, and one part vineger: adding to it, of oyle of Chammomill vn. 2. and subtracting as much of the other oyles: if it be in winter, adde oyle of spike, dr. 2. adde vnto it of rosewater, violet water ana vn s. of balme water, dr. 2. sub­tract as much out of the other cold waters: adde of Traga­gent. dr. 1. cedri liq. dr. 2. Thuris dr. 2. s.

CHAP. 99.

The suffumigation vse as before in the sanguine com­plexion, adding vnto it of spike dr. s. if in winter adde dr. 2. of frankenscence, dr. s.

CHAP. 100.

The bole. R. boli armenij, siue terr. figillat. scr. 2. santalorum ommium. scr. 2. dissoluantur in aq. rosarum dr. 1. s. aq. melis­sae violat. ana dr. 2. vini albi dr. 4. mulsi dr. 1. the order for making of this is to be obserued as in the other complexi­ons.

CHAP. 101.

The pills. Of Aloes dr. 2. lot. in vino odoriser. aq. violar. aq. meliss. siue Epythymi ana part. equal. myrrh cinamomi ana dr. 1. fiat massa pillularum eum aq. predict. sit quantitas vt in presc­dent scr. vel. dr. 1.

CHAP. 102.

The pome. R. santalorum odorifer. florum rosarum, violar, chamomeli ana dr. 1. s. melissae dr. 1. cort. citri. dr. 1. s. macis dr. 2. myrrhae dr. 1. s. camphur. dr. 1. s. ladani dr. 1. papauer scr. s. Ambr. gra. 3. cinamomi gra. 4. nucis mosc. dr. 1 cum Te­rebint. lot. in aq. rosaerum violarum melisse, adde si posis de liq. cedri partem vnam cum aq. predict.

CHAP. 103.

Whereas I haue set downe receiptes proper for euery complexion, as well in purging, and altering the virulent qualitie in the humours apt to infect, and to be infected, and that in such manner, as the complexions may be more secure then by general receiptes, because you may properly vse the same, without danger, and offence to any quali­tie in the hmours naturall, which order euery one cannot ob­serue, neither is hable: therefore I haue set downe receiptes, respecting the good of all: because they are to purge, and alter the poysoning qualitie in the ayre, and in all humors.

CHAP. 104.

The pome. R. Ambrae, moschi ana scr. s. boli Armen dr. 6. tadani dr. 3. nucis moschat. myrrhae, gummi. Iunip. Thur. calami. odorati, trinus santatorum ana scr. 1. lig. Aloes, stirae. [Page 32] chaphurae anae scr. 2. succi mal. aurantior. suc. portulac. vn. 3. sem, acetosae. dr. 3. cornlli rub. [...]r. s. in aq. rosarum, & aceto infus. I [...]rebent. in aq. rosar. lot. syrup. ex cort. mali citri ana quant. sufficit, fiat pom.

CHAP. 105.

Another pome. R. Ladani vn. 1. pulueris cortic. citri exiccato. vum in vmbra & semin. eius ana dr. 1. croci, camphurae, ana dr. s. rosarum rub. scr. 4. cum succo ocymi fiat pome. If you will vse this pome in winter, then put vnto it o [...] zedoarie dr. 1. ambre scr. 1. mosch. scr. s. it is good to hold some of this pome in your mouth when you are in a place you suspect, and to smell vnto it.

CHAP. 106.

The pilles R. Aloes vn. s. myrrh, croci ana dr. 2. fiat massa ad pill. foramnd. apta.

Take the waight of a dr. s. in the morning, and drinke after it of wine mixt with water, asmuch as your mouth will containe at one time: and before supper take scr. 1. and drinke as before: let it be white wine in the morning, and sacke before supper. Vse this but once a weeke in sommer, for ouer often vse in some complexion may cause a feuer.

CHAP. 107.

Another receipt verie worthie, and necessarie, which you may take as before: R. corallar. rub. been albi & rub. ana dr. 1. sem. catri excorticari, sem acetosae ana dr. 1. sem. gentiana, radic dictami. Tormentillae ana dr. 2. s. boli Armen. cinamomi electi ana vn. 1. santalorum omnium, sem ocymi ana ar. 1. s. margaritar. elect. fragmentor. rubini, saphyri hyacinthi ana dr. 1. fiat omnium puluis subilissimus. R. de puluere vn. 1. sacati dissolut. in aqua rosarum & acetos. fian morselli.

CHAP. 108.

Take sometime of the powder, and when you will of the morsells in the morning or before supper: of the powder take dr. s. in the morning and before super scr. 1. drinke the quantitie as in the former receipt, and let it be with wine one part, and two partes rosewater in the morning: before supper two parts wine, and one parts rosewater: the powder of this doth stay in the passages that lead to the heart resist­ing [Page 33] and altering the virulent ayre that is drawne thether: if you cannot get all the ingredients, thē take as many of them as you can, but leaue not out the bole Armanacke, the Ci­namon, nor the three woods.

CHAP. 109.

The perfume for sommer. R. fol. rosarum rub. dr. 1. myrti camphor. ana vn. s. Thuris dr. 3. cort. citri vn. s. macis dr. 3. cina­momi dr. 2. ligni Aloes dr. s. santalorum odorif. dr. 3. calamint. dr. s. Rorismarini dr. 1.

CHAP. 110.

Suffumentum. R. Rosarum rub. vn. s. ligni Aloes dr. 2. cam­phorae dr. 3. Thuris dr. 1. macis dr. 3. cinamomi dr. 2. garyophillo­rum dr. 1. cort. citri vn. s. rorismarini dr. 2. s. myrti dr. 3. scin. Ace­tosae dr. 2. s. santalorum omnium dr. 2. pound these and per­fume with it about the setting of the sunne, and before the sunne riseth, you may vse the quantitie at your discretion: this is most proper for the sommer time, but if it be in win­ter then adde these, R. xiloaloes, costi dul. storac. ana dr. 3. pu­legium, origin. ana dr. 3.

CHAP. 111.

The water. Vse this in sommer, R. cort. granat. citonior. & Gbanae ana vn. 1. Alchechengi, Tamarisci, coriandri, Ribes ana. vn. s. nenifar. vn. 1. fol. rosarum rub. violar. ma. s. myrti p. 1. portulacae, plantaginis, fol. salui, chamomillae ana ma. 1. boyle these in two pints of vineger, and one pint of water, & adde vnto it, of oyle of chamomil, of water lillies, of violets, of ech halfe an ounce: vse it as before in the complexions. When you vse it, put in of this infusion made as followeth, R. ca­phur. dr. 1. santalor. omnium, Thuris, gummi Iunip ana dr. s. in­fundantur in vn. 1. aceti vn. 2. aq. rosarum hor. 8. fortiter expri­menter. In winter, adde of these; R. Ambrae dr. s. costi dulc. dr. 1. storac. dr. s. cypressi dr. 1. origani, pulegij. fol lanc. ana m. s.

CHAP. 112.

A receipt to clense the blood in any complexion. R. Cas­siae, mellis ana vn. 1. diaprun. non solut. dr. 3. s. fundantur in aqua Endiuiae, siue cichorij vn. 3. vini alb. vn. 2. leniter expriment. fiat pot. pro motutinis duob. vel. trib.

CHAP. 113.

Signes shewing the heart or humours about the heart, to be infected with the pestilent feuer, by the hot qualitie in the ayre.

A vehement heat within, and without little or none: and if it be confirmed, the breath stinketh more then it was woont by much: pulse, vrin, and digestion, doe seldome de­clare it. There is heat of the breath, disquiet, and straightnes of breath, the breast is felt to be narrower, and the breath is restrained, thirstines, drines of tongue, blacknes of tongue, with pustulls or blisters vpon the lippes and tongue: trem­bling of the heart and pulse: the breath goeth short: and there is sometime a sounding, making the outward parts cold: sometime a drie cough, somtime there appeare sores, of colour whitish, blew, and redde: the digestion is thin, li­quid, spumie, stinking, and vnctuous: some doe vomit, some haue the fluxe, the vrin is stinking.

CHAP. 114.

If the heart be possessed principally, with extreme heate from the ayre, then the bodie is commonly hot, except the liuer preuent it, the pulse is swift in motion, much puffing or blowing, by reason the heart mooueth so swiftly in this passion: the bodie commonly is foolish, and bold: this qua­litie killeth soonest, because it mooueth with the spirits vi­tall, and animall, most speedily.

If the heart be infected with the virulent qualities of heat, and moisture, then the pulse mooueth slower, likewise the breath. This destroieth slower. And if there be equalitie of the qualities, then the bodie lingereth, and is long dying, or els soares commonly, saue.

CHAP. 115.

Meanes to know who is infected with the pestilence. Take bole-Armoniack dr. 1. of white wine vn. 1. of rosewa­ter vn. 2. mixt these: take it fasting, (and fitting halfe an houre after) or before supper: if the bodie vomit, it is infe­cted. And for further proofe of this, (let the partie that vo­miteth vpon the receipt,) breathe into the mouth of a cock, and if the cock languish or die within twelue houres, then it [Page 35] is greatly to be feared that the bodie is infected.

CHAP. 116.

A meanes to know if any roomes be infected, and by the same, and the generall perfume next before, to purge and clense the roomes: put two or three sheepe into the roomes, three or foure daies before the full or change: and there continue them, vntill the next full or change: and then wash them, or one of them, in warme water: and put the water to wash or swill, or mixt, so as swine may drinke it: and if the swine doe die, the infection is most part taken out of the house: then perfume the house as before.

CHAP. 117.

If two, or moe lie sicke of the pestilence, and no soare ap­peare; by this receipt following you may perceiue which will liue.

Take of bole-Armoniack, white wine, and rosewater, the quantitie before mentioned, and adde vnto it, of saffron scr. 1. finely pounded, of methridate scr. 2. and take it in manner aforesaid, and which of them vomit is like to die, and the o­ther are like to liue: this I lately prooued at Wesson by Nor­thampton, as the parents of two children can testifie, to whome I tolde, that the bodie that did vomit, was in great danger to die, and the other was in hope to liue: which came so to passe, and shee which liued had a soare.

CHAP. 118.

Whereas they doe most infect, which haue sores, the aire, and clothes continually receiuing the virulent matter, and qualities from them; and the bodie most commonly able to walke into companies, and that without suspition: there­fore, by these meanes following they may be found out.

If you suspect any, as you may iustly, whhere some haue died out of a house, or where the next house haue had the infection, then doe as followeth; Command them to stand vpright, and to reatch themselues vpright: if they faile to doe it, then suspect a sore in the backe, bellie, brest, or flanks: after that, presently command them, to lay their hands vpon a dore, or beame; if they hang more by one arme then by the other, or their neckes hang awrie, suspect a soare vnder [Page 36] the arme, vpon the arme shoulders, or in the necke: present­ly after this, command them to walke vp and downe as fast as they can; if they halt, or steppe not largely, suspect a sore in the thighs, flanks, knees, backe, or hyppes: presently after this, command them to bow down foreward to the ground, and reach vp something, not remoouing any foote, if they cannot, then suspect the flanks, or backe: if they doe per­forme all this, and be very short winded, hauing no other disease knowne; then suspect a soare to ensue, or the bodie very shortly to be in great danger by the pestilence.

CHAP. 119.

A breife order for those, which are shut vp, and not hable to vse the meanes before set downe: let them which are cleare in the house, doe as followeth: sleepe little, for so thy bodie shalbe made more dry, rub thy thighes, and armes, morning and euening, and if you can against the fire, so shall the humours about the heart with the blood, be out­ward, apt to be swet out at the emunctorie places. Let thy bread haue the third part barly, which is cooling and dry­ing, let thy drinke be for the most part, (especially in the end of dinner and supper) of a ptisme made with barlie, as followeth:

CHAP. 120.

Take a pynt of barly, and 4. pyntes of running water, beate the barly vntill the huske depart, then when you haue winnowed it, put it into the water, and there let it continue, vntill it beginne to boyle, then take the barly from the water, and put it into a vessell wherein is eight pintes of water rea­die to boyle, or very hot: let it boyle vntill you thinke that two or three pyntes be wasted, then strayne it, and afer it be cold, keepe it in a stone bottle or pot; and when you drinke of it, put into your draught, if it be halfe a pynt, a spoonfull or some deale lesse of vineger: and if you be cossiue, put in­to it of sugar halfe a quarter of an ounce or a little more, or­der it so as it be neither ouer sharpe, nor ouer sweet, and if you infuse all night an ounce of Tamarandes in halfe a pynt of your ptisme, and drinke it fasting, it is very good.

CHAP. 121.

Vse vineger with your meates, vse the pills of aloes men­tioned before: when you make your beddes, and in the morning when you rise, smell to a sponge, or cloth dipped in vineger: keepe no water in the house long, neither suffer wett places in the house, for moysture will putrifie by the virulent ayre, where the sunne or fyre commeth not: eate no hearbes, or very few, neither haue them in your house, walke not early, or late in the ayre, lye not on the side of the house, where the sunne shineth most; (although the sunne be a meanes to purge the ayre) for that draweth the infection to the roome, and heateth the place, which if it retaineth any that is not exhaled or altered, then it is apt to infect, remayning in the ayre in the roomes, after the depar­ture of the sunne and not in other solid matters, as bodies, clothes, or such like, to the which the ayre will conueigh it in the night more speedily after the departure of the sunne.

CHAP. 122.

Forasmuch as I haue spent more time about preserua­tiues, then about the cure: my reason is, because no man can doe that certainely, except he see the passions, aswell to know whether it be in the way to be confirmed at the heart, or whether it be confirmed: and then no cure. Secondly in some bodies complexion, feare, greife, or other infirmities, cause it to be more sharpe, and strange at one time, then a­nother, and in one bodie more then another. Thirdly, the epidemiall or pestilent feuer, neuer ceaseth to make impres­sion, to corrupt, and poyson, because the body is apt and disposed to take it, but in what quantitie the absent phisition cannot certainly tell, therefore no certaine cure: the securest way is, to haue the physition present or not farre from thee, who may vse meanes accordingly: for so long as it is in the way to be confirmed, so long is there hope, by things which exceede the impression, and may make the bodie more vn­apt to intertaine and keepe it: and lastly rectifie and con­firme what is decaied.

[Page 38]HEre insueth a table collected out of Pythagoras, with certaine breife notes added therevnto, whereby may be knowne in all humorall diseases (without sight of vrin or patient) what part of the body is ill affected, what humor aboundeth, & causeth the passion. Which beeing knowne, you may looke into the discourse of the complexion, there shall you find what is to correct the offending humours, and to purge the peccant matter: what diet is to be vsed, and what hurtfull things are to be auoided. For the finding out of the cause, and the affected place: you are to inquire what day the bodie did first feele any passion or greife, then looke for the planet that ruleth that day, (as Saturne accor­ding to the greekes) beginneth to raignne betweene xij. and 1. of the clock in Sondaies night, and continueth vntill xij. of the clock in Saturdaies night. Iupiter beginneth to raigne at xij. of the clock in Frydayes night, and raigneth vntill xij. of the clock in Thursdaies night. So likewise is Mars for Tuesdaye, Sol for Sonday, Ʋenus for Friday, Mercurie for wedensday, and Luna for monday. Looke in the Alma­nack in what signe Sol is in that moneth wherein the patient fel sick, then in what signe the moone is that day wherein he fell sick: this being done, looke in the highest columne of the day for the planit wherein he felt his passion first: then look in the first columne for the signe the sunne is in in that moneth, and for the signe the moone was in that day when he first fell sick, and against the signes, in the columne right vnder the planet of the daie, shall you see the places ill af­fected. As for example, one falleth sicke vpon a humorall disease, the 21. day of May beeing mondaie in the yeare of our Lord 1604. the sunne beeing in Gemini, the Moone in Cancer, Luna beeing the planet of that day: now in the co­lumne right vnder Luna, and against Gemini, may you see armes ill affected. In the columne right vnder Luna, against Cancer, may you see head and stomacke ill affected. In the page following may you see Luna, and vnder that shall you read the cause, with the affected places.

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