The Buckler of bodilie health whereby health may bee defended, and sickesse repelled: consecrate by the au[thor] the vse of his cou[...] [...]shing from his heart (though it were to his hurt) to see the fruites of his labour on the constant wellfare of all his countrie-men. By Mr. Iohn Makluire, Doctor in Medicine.

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Author:	Makluire, John.
Title:	The Buckler of bodilie health whereby health may bee defended, and sickesse repelled: consecrate by the au[thor] the vse of his cou[...] [...]shing from his heart (though it were to his hurt) to see the fruites of his labour on the constant wellfare of all his countrie-men. By Mr. Iohn Makluire, Doctor in Medicine.
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TO THE MOST NOBLE, WOR∣THIE, AND GENEROVS LORDS, MY L. CHANCELLER, PRESIDENT, and the rest of the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable privie Counsell.

TO THE TRVE∣LY NOBILITATE HONORABLE, AND GENE∣ROVS GENTLEMAN, IAMES MONTGOMERY ESQVIER, SONNE TO MY LORD VISCOVNT OF the Airds, in the Kingdome of IRELAND: Health.

TO THE READER.

In IO AN. MAKLVIREVM (siue lyradem).

In Authoris nomen, Mak. hoc est filius. Lure, id est esca.

In Libri inscriptionem

In Zoilum.

Author ad Censorem.

The Contents of this Booke.

THE BVCKLER OF HEALTH.

Canon 1.

Of Phlebotomie.

Of Loch-leachs.

Of purging.

Of Vomitores.

Canon. 2.

Canon. 3.

Of exercise.

Of Tobacco.

Of meats in generall.

Of Bread.

Of Flesh.

Of Fowles.

Of Egges and Milke.

Of Fish.

Of herbs fit for eating.

Of drinke in generall.

Of Wine.

Of Water.

Canon. 6.

Of the Passions of the minde.

Canon 8.

Canon 9.

Of the Aire.

Canon 10.

Of Sleepe.

Of Generation.

A PARTICVLARE REGIMENT ACCOR∣DING TO THE COM∣PLEXION, AGE, AND REASON.

Of temperature or complexion in generall.

Of sanguineans.

Of Cholericks.

Of Melancholicks.

Of Flegmaticks.

The change of dyet accor∣ding to the age.

Of bairnly age.

Of Youth.

Of middle age.

Of old age.

Of the seasons.

Of the Spring.

Of Summer.

Of Harvest or Autumne.

The Winter.

A REGIMENT FOR VVOMEN WITH CHILD, BAIRNES, AND NOVRSES.

Of their governement, the tyme of their birth, and after the same.

The tyme of birth.

Of the government of the Child.

Of the Nurse.

Of the diseases befals Chil∣dren, and their cure.

Of conception according to the diverse sortes of it.

The signes of true conception.

Of false conception.

A false conception from wind or water.