Naturall and artificial directions for health deriued from the best philosophers, as well moderne, as auncient. By William Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law.
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- Naturall and artificial directions for health deriued from the best philosophers, as well moderne, as auncient. By William Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law.
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- Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
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- 1600.
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Contents
- title page
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To the Right worshipfull, his louing sister, the Ladie Marga∣ret Vaughan; health, happi∣nesse, and tranquillitie both of bodie and mind. -
The Authour to
his Booke. - Momi obiectio in Au∣thorem.
- Authoris Responsio ad Momum.
- The first Section.
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The second Section, concerning foode.
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Chap. 1. Of bread and drink.- VVhat is the vse of bread?
- What is the vse of beere?
- What is the vse of Ale?
- How shall I discerne good ale from bad?
- Which is the best drink?
- Shew mee a speedie drink for trauellers, when they want beere or ale at their Inne?
- What shall poore men drink, when malt is ex∣treame deare?
- How shall I help beere or ale, which beginne to be sowre or dead?
- Teach mee a way to make beere or ale to be∣come stale, within two or three daies?
- What is meath?
- What is Meatheglin?
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Chap. 2. Of Wine.- What is the propertie of wine?
- What is the vse of white wine?
- What is the vse of Rhenish wine?
- What is the vse of Muscadell, Malmesie, and browne Bastard?
- What is the vse of Sack?
- How shall I know whether hony or water be mingled with wine?
- Shew mee a way to keepe Claret wine, or any other wine good, nine or ten yeeres.
- How might I help wine, that reboyleth?
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Chap. 3. Of Milke. -
Chap. 4. Of Flesh.- What kinde of meate is best.
- What meate is of an hard digestion?
- Shew mee a way to preserue flesh and foule, sound and sweet, for one moneth, not∣withstanding the contagiousnesse of the weather?
- What is the vse of mutton?
- What is the vse of beefe?
- What is the vse of veale?
- What is the vse of swines fiesh?
- What is the vse of Kid?
- What is the vse of Venison?
- What think you of Hare and Conies flesh?
- What is your opinion of Capons, Hennes, and Chickens?
- Shew me a way to fallen capons in most short time?
- What is the vse of Pigeons?
- What is the vse of goese?
- What is the vse of Duckes?
- What is the vse of Partridges?
- What is the vse of quailes?
- VVhat is the vse of woodcockes and snites?
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What is the vse of swannes, turkies, perockes, hernes, and cra
es? - What think you of larkes and sparrowes?
- What is the vse of egges?
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Chap. 5. Of Fish.- What is the vse of Carpe?
- What are salmon and trouts?
- What is the vse of Barbles?
- What is the vse of sturgeons?
- What is the vse of Cuttles?
- What is the vse of Lampreyes?
- What is the vse of tenches?
- What is the vse of Pikes?
- What is the vse of Eeles?
- What is the vse of Perches?
- What is the vse of Oisters?
- What is the vse of Cra-fishes?
- Shew mee a way to keepe Oisters, lobsters, and such like, sweet and good for some few dayes?
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Chap. 6. Of sauce. -
Chap. 7. Of graines, spices, and pulse. -
Chap. 8. Of herbes. -
Cap. 9. Of Fruit.
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The third Section. Of sleepe, early rising, mirth, and exercise.-
Chap. 1. Of sleepe, and early rising.- What bee the commodities of sleepe?
- What be the discommodities of sleepe?
- How many houres may a man sleepe?
- Vpon which side must a man sleepe first?
- May a man conueniently ly vpright on his back?
- Shew me some remedies to procure sleep?
- VVhat think you of noone sleepe?
- VVhat are the commodities of earely rising?
- VVhat are dreames?
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Chap. 2. Of mirth. -
Chap. 3. Of exercise.
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The fourth Section. Of Euacuations.-
Chap. 1. Of Bathes. -
Chap. 2. Of bloud-letting. -
Chap. 3.
- What is the vse of purgations?
- VVho are apt to take purgations, and who not?
- VVhat humoures are fittest to be purged?
- What must I doe before purging?
- How many things are to be considered in purgations?
- Shew mee the best and safest purgation for sleagme?
- For choler?
- For melancholie?
- Shew me how I may mundifie bloud?
- What shall I doe, if the purgation will not worke?
- Seeing that glisters be very commodious, shew me a way to make some?
- What if the purgation doth euacuate too much?
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Chap. 4. Of vomits. -
Chap. 5. Of vrines. -
Chap. 6. Of fasting. -
Chap. 7. Of venerie.
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The fift Section. Of infirmities and death.-
Chap. 1. -
Chap. 2. Of the wicked motions of the minde.- VVhat is loue?
- What is the cause of loue?
- What is anger?
- Why doe some looke red, when they be an∣grie?
- Why doe some looke pale?
- What is sorrow?
- What is the effect of sorrow?
- What is feare?
- Why doe fearefull men looke pale?
- What is enuie?
- Doe these affections hurt the soule, as well as the bodie?
- How doe the temperature of the bodilie affections, and the soules affections agree together?
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Chap. 3. Of the age of man.- Into how many ages is mans life diuided?
- Why did men liue longer before the stoud, then they doe now.
- Tell mee the certaine time, wherein man must of necessitie die?
- Which bee the most daungerous yeeres in mans life?
- Which be the Criticall daies?
- Which humours are predominant in the night season, and which in the day time?
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The sixt Section. Of the restauration of health.-
Chap. 1. Of the foure partes of the yeare. -
Chap. 2. Of the foure humours. -
Chap. 3. Of medicines, to-prolong life.- Shew me certaine remedies to preserue health, and to prolong life.
- These quintessences which you speake of, may not be gotten without great difficultie: wherefore re∣ueale those preseruatiues, which I may easily get.
- Declare vnto me a dayly dyet, whereby I may liue in health & not trouble my selfe in Physicke.
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- The contentes of the sections, and Chapters of this booke.