The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne. Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.

Title

The English mans doctor. Or the schoole of Salerne. Or [ph]ysicall obserua[ti]ons for the perfect preseruing of the bodie of man in continuall health. [Wh]ereunto [is] adioyned precepts for the pr[e]seruation of health. Written by [Hen]ricus Ronsouius for [the p]riuate vse of his sons. And now published for all those that desire to [preser]ue their bodies in [perfect] health.

Author

Johannes, de Mediolano.

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[L]ondon :: [Printed] by William Stansby, for the Widdow Helme, [and] are to be sold at her shoppe in Sa[in]t Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-street,

1617.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PRINTER TO the Reader.
• encomia
  • Ad Librum.
  • In Librum.
  • In Laudem Operis.
• THE SALERNE Schoole.
• title page
• TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull SIR EDWARD PIT, Knight, of Keere Court, one of his MAIESTIES Iustices of Peace, in the Countie of Worcester, &c. And to the right Worshipfull SIR IAMES PIT, his Sonne.
• THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, OR A DYET FOR THE HEALTHFVL MAN.
  • CHAP. I. The causes of corruption and destruction of our humane bodies.
  • CHAP. II. Generall precepts to conserue the Health.
  • CHAP. III. Speciall precepts of preseruing Health.
  • CHAP. IIII. Of the ayre.
    • section
    • Of windes, and sweete smelling sauours.
    • A description of an odoriferous water.
  • CHAP. V. Of Meates and Drinks.
    • section
    • Of Drinke.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Exercise and Labour.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Sleepe and Watch.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of Accidents and Affections of the minde.
  • CHAP. IX. Of Ioy.
  • CHAP. X. Of Venus or the act of generation.
  • CHAP. XI. Certayne precepts for dyet to be obser∣ued euery day.
    • section
    • A pouder to preserue the whitenesse of the teeth.
    • The description of a Dentifrice, which Messelina Augusta vsed: ex scribonio largo.
    • To whiten the teeth, and to preserue them from heate, which was vsed by a wo∣man of great name.
    • Another Dentifrice.
    • A Medicine that doth comfort the sight.
    • section
    • Certayne precepts against Heate and Drynesse.
    • What Age is, and what difference in Age.