odour be especial profitable for the comfort of the heart yet not so as though  a good odour be the prerogative of a good air for it be certain that as there  be some pestilential air which smell not so ill as other that be less hurtful  so on the contrary there be some air most wholesome and friendly to the spirit  which either smell not at all or be less please and fragrant to the sense and  general where the air be good odour shall be take but now and then for a  continual odour though never so good be burdensome to the spirit we commend  above all other as we have touch before odour of plant grow and not pluck take  in the open air the principal of that kind be violet gilly flower Finkes bean  flower lime tree blossom VineBuds honey suckle Yellow musk rise for other rise  grow be fast of theirSmels strawberry leave especial die sweet Briar principal  in the early spring wild mint lavender flower and in the hot country orange  tree citron tree myrtle laurel therefore to walk or sit near the breath of  these plant will not be neglect for the comfort of the heart we prefer cool  smell before hot smell therefore the best perfume be either in the morning or  about the heat of the day to take a equal portion of vinegar rise water and  claret wine and to pour they upon a fire-pan somewhat heat neither let we be  think to sacrifice to our mother the earth though we advice that in dig or  blow the earth for health a good quantity of claret wine be pour thereon  orange flower water pure and good with a small portion of rise water and Brist  wine snuff up into the or put up into the nostril with a syringe after the  manner of a errhine but not too frequent be very good but champ though we have  no Betel or hold in the mouth only of such thing as cheer the spirit even  daily do be exceed comfortable therefore for that purpose make Grains or  little cake of amber Grise mark lignum aloe lignum Orris powder and and let  those Grains or be make up with rosewater which have pass through a little  Indian balsam the vapour which arise from thing inward take do fortify and  cherish the heart ought to have these three property that they be friendly  clear and cool for vapour be nought and wine it self which be think to have  only a heat vapour be not altogether void of a opiate quality now we call  those vapour clear which have more of the vapour than of the exhalation and  which be not smoky or Fu liginous or unctuous but moist and equal out of that  unprofitable rabble of cordial a few ought to be take into daily diet in stead  of all amber Grise saffron and the grain of kermes of the hot sort root of  bugloss   and borrage citron sweet lemon and Permaines of the cold sort also  that way which we say both gold and pearl work a good effect not only within  the vein but in their passage and about the part near the heart namely by cool  without any malignant quality of bezoar stone we believe well because of many  trial but then the manner of take it ought to be such as the virtue thereof  may more easy be communicate to the spirit therefore we approve not the take  of it in or syrup or in rosewater or any such like but only in wine Cynnamon  or the like distil water but that weak or small not burn or strong of the  affection we have speak before we only add this that every noble and resolute  and as they call it heroical desire strengthen and enlarge the power of the  heart and touch the heart thus much as for the brain where the seat and court  of the animal spirit be keep those thing which be inquire before touch opium  and niter and the subordinate to they both also touch the procure of gently  sleep may likewise be refer hither this also be most certain that the brain be  in some sort in the custody of the stomach and therefore those thing which  comfort and strengthen the stomach do help the brain by consent and may no  less be transfer hither we will add a few observation three outward one inward  we will have bath of the foot to be often use at least once in the week and  the bath to be make of lie with bay-salt and a little sage camomile fennel  sweet marjoram and pepper wort with the leave of Angelica green we commend  also a fume or suffumigation every morning of dry rise marry dry and lignum  for all sweet gum oppress the head especial care must be take that no hot  thing be apply to the head outward such be kind of spice the very nutmeg not  except for those hot thing we debase they to the sole of the foot and will  have they apply there only but a light anoint of the head with oil mix with  rise and a little salt and saffron we much commend not forget those thing  which we have before deliver touch opiate nitre and the like which so much  condense the spirit we think it not impertinent to that effect that once in  fourteen day broth be take in the morning with three or four grain of  castoreum and a little seed and calamus which both fortify the brain and in  that aforesaid density of the substance of the spirit so necessary to long  life add also a Vivacitis of and vigour to they in handle the of the four  principal bowel we have propound those thing which be both proper and choice  and may safe and convenient be transfer into diet and regiment of life for  variety of medicine be the daughter of ignorance and it be not more true that  many dish have cause many disease as the proverb be then this be that many  medicine have cause few cure and the operation upon the principal bowel for  their of aliment thus much the operation upon the outward part for their  attraction of aliment the history although a good concoction perform by the  inward part be the principal towards a perfect alimentation yet the action of  the outward part ought also to concur that like as the inward faculty send  forth and extrudes the aliment so the faculty of the outward part may call  forth and attract the same and the more weak the faculty of concoction shall  be the more needs be there of a concur help of the attractive faculty a strong  attraction of the outward part be chief cause by the motion of the body by  which the part be heat and comfort do more cheerful call forth and attract the  aliment unto themselves but this be most of all to be foresee and avoid that  the same motion and which call the new juice to the member do not again  despoil the member of that juice wherewith it have be before refresh  Frications use in the morning serve especial to this intention but this must  evermore accompany they that after the frication the part be light anoint with  oil leave the attrition of the outward part make they by perspiration dry and  juiceless the next be exercise by which the part confricate and chafe  themselves so it be moderate and which as be note before be not swift nor to  the utmost strength nor unto weariness but in exercise and in frication there  be the same reason and caution that the body may not perspire or too much  therefore exercise be better in the open air than in the house and better in  winter than in summer and again exercise be not only to be conclude with  unction as frication be but in vehement exercise unction be to be use both in  the beginning and in the end as it be ancient to champion that exercise may  resolve either the spirit or the juice as little as may be it be necessary  that it be use when the stomach be not altogether empty and therefore that it  may not be use upon full stomach which do much concern health nor yet upon a  empty stomach which do no less concern long life it be best to take a  breakfast in the morning not of any physical drug or of any liquor or of  raisin or of fig or the like but of plain meat and drink yet that very light  and in moderate quantity exercise use for the irrigation of the member ought  to be equal to all the member not as Socrates say that the leg shall move and  the arm shall rest or on the contrary but that all the part may participate of  the motion and it be altogether requisite to long life that the body shall  never abide long in one posture but that every half hour at least it change  the posture save only in sleep those thing which be use to mortification may  be transfer to vivification for both hair shirt and and all vexation of the  outward part do fortify the attractive force of they cardan commend nettle  Even to let out but of this we have no experience and beside we have no good  opinion of it lest through the venomous quality of the nettle it may with  often use breed itch and other disease of the skin and touch the operation  upon the outward part for their attraction of aliment thus much the operation  upon the aliment it self for the insinuation thereof the history the vulgar  reproof touch many dish do rather become a severe reformer than a physician or  howsoever it may be good for preservation of health yet it be hurtful to  length of life by reason that a various mixture of aliment and somewhat  heterogeneous find a passage into the vein and juice of the body more lively  and cheerful than a simple and homogeneous diet do beside it be more forcible  to stir up appetite which be the spur of digestion therefore we allow both a  full table and a continual change of dish accord to the season of the year or  upon other occasion also that opinion of the simplicity of meat without sauce  be but a simplicity of judgement for good and well choose sauce be the most  wholesome preparation of meat and conduce both to health and to long life it  must be order that with meat hard of digestion be conjoin strong liquor and  sauce that may penetrate and make way but with meat more easy of digestion  small liquor and fat sauce whereas we advice before that the first draught at  supper shall be take warn now we add that for the preparation of the stomach a  good draught of that liquor to which every man be most accustom be take warm  half a hour before meat also but a little spice to please the taste the  preparation of meat and breed and drink that they be right handle and in order  to this intention be of exceed great moment howsoever it may seem a mechanical  thing and savour of the kitchen and buttery yet it be of more consequence than  those fable of gold and precious stone and the like the moisten of the juice  of the body by a moist preparation of the aliment be a childish thing it may  be somewhat available against the fervour of disease but it be altogether  adverse to a full of dew alimentation therefore boil of meat as concern our  intention be far inferior to roast and bake and the like roast ought to be  with a quick fire and soon dispatch not with a dull fire and in long time all  solid flesh ought to be serve in not altogether fresh but somewhat powder or  corn the less salt may be spend at the table with they or none at all for salt  incorporate with the meat before be better distribute in the body than eat  with it at the table there will be bring into use several and good and  infusion of meat in convenient liquor before the roast of they the like  whereof be sometime in use before they bake they and in the pickle of some  fish but Beatrice and as it be scourge of flesh meat before they be boil will  work no small matter we see it be confess that Pertridges and pheasant kill  with a hawk also buck and stag kill in hunt if they stand not out too long eat  better even to the taste and some fish scourge and Beatrice become more tender  and wholesome also hard and sour Pears and some other fruit grow sweet with  roll they it be good to practice some such Beatrice and bruise of the hard  kind of flesh before they be bring to the fire and this will be one of the  best preparation of all breed a little leaven and very little salt be best and  which be bake in a oven through heat and not with a faint heat the preparation  of drink in order to long life shall not exceed one precept and as touch water  drinker we have nothing to say such a diet as we say before may prolong life  to a indifferent term but to no eminent length but in other drink that be full  of spirit such as be wine ale mead and the like this one thing be to be  observe and pursue as the sum of all that the part of the liquor may be exceed  thin and subtle and the spirit exceed Mild this be hard to be do by age alone  for that make the part a little more subtle but the spirit much more sharp and  eager therefore of the infusion in the vessel of some fat substance which may  restrain the acrimony of the spirit counsel have be give before there be also  another way without infusion or mixture this be that the liquor may be  continual agitate either by carriage upon the water or by carriage by land or  by hang the vessel upon line and daily stir they or some such other way for it  be certain that this motion do both subtilise the part and do so incorporate  and compact the spirit with the part that they have no leisure to turn to  courness which be a kind of putrefaction but in extreme old age such a  preparation of meat be to be make as may be almost in the middleway to  extracted juice  and touch the distillation of meat they be mere toy for the  nutritive part at least the best of it do not ascend in vapour the incorporate  of and drink before they meet in the stomach be a degree to extracted juice   therefore let chicken or Pertridges or or the like be take and boil in water  with a little salt then let they be cleanse and dry afterward let they be  infuse in must or ale before it have do work with a little sugar also gravy of  meat and Mincings of they small well season be good for old person and the  rather for that they be destituted of the office of their tooth in chew which  be a principal kind of preparation and as for the help of that defect namely  of the strength of tooth to grind the meat there be three thing which may  conduce thereunto first that new tooth may put forth that which seem all  together difficult and can be accomplish without a inward and powerful  restauration of the body second that the jaw be so confirm by due astringent  that they may in some sort supply the office of the tooth which may possible  be effect three that the meat be so prepare that there shall be no needs of  chew which remedy ready and at hand we have some think also touch the quantity  of the meat and drink that the same take in large quantity at some time be  good for the irrigation of the body therefore both Greas feast and free drink  be not altogether to be inhibit and touch the operation upon the aliment and  the preparation of they thus much the operation upon the last Act of  assimilation touch the last Act of assimilation unto which the three operation  immediate precede chief tend our advice shall be brief and single and the  thing it self rather needs explication than any various rule it be certain  that all body be endue with some desire of assimilate those thing which be  next they tuis the rare and pneumatical body as flame spirit Airt perform  generous and with alacrity on the contrary those that carry a gross and  tangible bulk about they do but weak in regard that the desire of assimilate  other thing be bind in by a strong desire of rest and contain themselves from  motion again it be certain that that desire of assimilate be bind as we say in  a gross body and make be somewhat free and stir up by the heat and neighbour  spirit so that it be then actuate which be the only cause why inanimate  assimilate not and animate this also be certain that the hard the consistence  of the body be the more do that body stand in needs of a great heat to prick  forward the assimilation which fall out ill for old man because in they the  part be more obstinate and the heat weak and therefore either the obstinacy of  their part be to be soften or their heat increase and as touch the  malacissation or mollify of the member we shall speak afterward have also  former propound many thing which pertain to the prohibit and prevent of this  kind of hardness for the other touch the increase of the heat we will now  deliver a single precept after we have first assume this axiom the Act of  assimilation which as we say be excite by the heat circumfuse in a motion  exceed accurate subtle and in little now all such motion do then come to their  vigour when the local motion whole cease which disturb it for the motion of  separation into homogeneal part which be in milk that the cream shall swim  above and the whey sink to the bottom will never work if the milk be never so  little agitate neither will any Puterfaction proceed in water or mix body if  the same be in continual local motion so then from this assumption we will  conclude this for the present inquisition the Act it self of assimilation be  chief accomplish in sleep and rest especial towards the morning the  distribution be finish therefore we have nothing else to advice but that man  keep themselves hot in their sleep and further that towards the morning there  be use some anoint or shirt with oil such as may gentle stir up heat and after  that to fall asleep again and touch the last Act of assimilation thus much the  operation upon the inteneration of that which begin to be arified or the  malacissation of the body we have inquire former touch the inteneration from  within be do by many wind circuit as well of as of detain the spirit from  issue forth therefore be accomplish slow now we be to inquire touch that  inteneration which be without and be effect as be sudden or touch the  malacissation and of the body the history in the fable of restore Pelias to  youth again Medea when the feign to do it this way of the same that the man  body shall be cut into several piece and boil in a cauldron with certain drug  there may perhaps some be require to this matter but the cut into be not  needful notwithstanding this cut into piece seem in some sort to be useful not  a knife but with judgement for whereas the consistence of the bowel and be  very diverse it be needful that the inteneration of they both be not effect  the same way but that there be a cure design of each in particular beside  those thing which pertain to the inteneration of the whole mass of the body of  which notwithstanding in the first place this operation if perhaps it be  within our power be most likely to be do by bath unction and the like concern  which these thing that follow be to be observe we must not be too forward in  hope to accomplish this matter from the example of those thing which we see do  in the Imbibitions and a steeping of inanimate by which they be intenerated  whereof we introduce some instance before for this kind of operation be more  easy upon inanimate because they attract and suck in the liquor but upon the  body of live creature it be hard because in they the motion rather tend  outward and to the circumference therefore the emollient bath which be in use  do little good but on the contrary hurt because they rather draw forth than  make entrance and resolve the structure of the body rather than consolidate it  the bath and unction which may serve to the present operation namely of  intenerate the body true and real ought to have three property the first and  principal be that they consist of those thing which in their whole substance  be like unto the body and flesh of man and which have a feed and nurse virtue  from without the second be that they be mix with such thing as through the  subtlety of their part may make entrance and so insinuate and convey their  nourish virtue into the body the three be that they receive some mixture  though much inferior to the rest of such thing as be astringent I mean not  sour or tart thing but unctuous and comfort that while the other two do  operate the out of the body which destroy the virtue of the thing intenerate  may as much as be possible be prohibit and the motion to the inward part by  the astriction of the skin and close of the passage may be promote and further  that which be most consubstantial to the body of man be warm blood either of  man or of some other live creature but the device of ficinus touch the suck of  blood out of the arm of a wholesome young man for the restauration of strength  in old man be very frivolous for that which nourish from within ought no way  to be equal or homogeneal to the body nourish but in some sort inferior and  subordinate that it may be convert but in thing apply outward by how much the  substance be like by so much the consent be better it have be ancient receive  that a bath make of the blood of infant will cure the leprosy and heal the  flesh already putrify insomuch that this thing have beget envy towards some  king from the common people it be report that Heraditus for cure of the dropsy  be put into the warm belly of a ox new slay they use the blood of Kitlins warm  to cure the disease call saint anthony's fire and to restore the flesh and  skin a arm or other member new cut off or that upon some other occasion will  not leave bleed be with good success put into the belly of some creature new  rip up for it work potent to staunch the blood the blood of the member cut off  by consent suck in and vehement draw to it self the warm blood of the creature  slay whereby it self be stop and retire it be much use in extreme and  desperate disease to cut in two young pigeon yet live and to apply they to the  sole of the foot and to shift they one after another whereby sometime follow a  wonder case this be impute vulgar as if they shall draw down the malignity of  the disease but howsoever this application go to the head and comfort the  animal spirit but these bloody bath and unction seem to we sluttish and odious  let we search out some other which perhaps have less loathsomeness in they and  yet not less benefit next unto warm blood thing alike in substance to the body  of man be Nutritives fat flesh of ox swine deer oyster among fish milk butter  yolk egg flower of wheat sweet wine either sugar or it be fine such thing as  we will mix to make be in stead of all especial bay-salt also wine when it be  full of spirit make entrance and be a excellent convoy astringent of that kind  which we describe namely unctuous and comfortable thing be saffron mastic  myrrh and myrtle very of these part in our judgement may very well be make  such a bath as we design physician and posterity will find out better thing  hereafter but the operation will be much better more powerful if such a bath  as we have propound which we hold to be the principal matter beattended with a  four fold course and Crder first that there go before the bath a frication of  the body and a anoint with oil with some thicken substance that the virtue and  moisten heat of the bath may pierce the body and not the watery part of the  liquor then let the follow for the space of some two hour after the bath let  the body be Emplaistrea with mastic myrrh tragacanth diapalma and saffron that  the perspiration of the body may as much as be possible be inhibit till the  supple matter be by degree turn into solid this to be continue for the space  of twenty four hour or more last the Emplaistring be remove let there be a  anoint with oil with salt and saffron let this bath together the Emplaistring  and unction as before be renew every five day this malacissation or supple of  the body to be continue for one whole month also during the time of this  malacissation we hold it useful and proper and accord to our intention that  man nourish their body well and keep out of the cold air and drink nothing but  warm drink now this be one of those thing as we warn in general in the  beginning whereof we have make no trial by experiment but only set it down out  of our aim and level at the end for have set up the mark we deliver the light  to other neither ought the warmth and Cherishings of live body to be neglect  ficinus say and that serious enough that the lie of the young maid in Davids  bosom be wholesome for he but it come too late he shall also have add that the  young maid after the manner of the Persian virgin ought to have be anoint with  myrrh and such like not for deliciousness but to increase the virtue of this  cherish by a live body Barbarossa in his extreme old age by the advice of a  physician a Jew do continual apply young boy to his stomach and belly for  warmth and cherish also some old man lie Wholps creature of the hot kind close  to their stomach every night there have go a report almost undoubted and that  under several name of certain man that have great nose who be weary of the  derision of people have cut off the bunch or hillock of their nose and then  make a wide gash in their arm have bold their nose in the place for a certain  time and so bring forth fair and comely nose which if it be true it show plain  the consent of flesh unto flesh especial in live flesh touch the particular  inteneration of the principal bowel the stomach lung liver heart brain marrow  of the backbone gut reins gall vein artery nerve cartilege bone the  inquisition and direction will be too long see we now set not forth a practic  but certain indication to the practic the operation upon the purge away of old  juice and supply of new juice or of renovation by turn the history although  those thing which we shall here set down have be for the most part speak of  before yet because this operation be one of the principal we will handle they  over again more at large it be certain that draught ox which have be wear out  with work be put into fresh and rich pasture will gather tender and young  flesh again and this will appear even to the taste and palate so that the  inteneration of flesh be no hard matter now it be likely that this  inteneration of the flesh be often repeat will in time reach to the  inteneration of the bone and membrane and like part of the body it be certain  that diet which be now much in principal of and of china and if they be  continue for any time and accord to strict rule do first attenuate the whole  juice of the body and after consume it and drink it up which be most manifest  because that by these diet the French pox when it be grow even to a hardness  and have eat up and corrupt the very marrow of the body may be assure cure and  further because it be as manifest that man who by these diet be bring to be  extreme lean pale and as it be ghost will soon after become fat well colour  and apparent young again wherefore we be absolute of opinion such kind of diet  in the of age be use every year will be very useful to our intention like the  old skin or spoil of Sarpents we do confident affirm neither let any man  reckon we among those heretic which be call cathari that often purge and make  even familiar to the body be more available to long life than exercise and  sweat and this must needs be so if that be hold which be already lie for a  ground that unction of the body and oppletion of the passage from without and  exclusion of air and detain of the spirit within the mass of the body do much  conduce to long life for it be most certain that by sweat and outward  perspiration not only the humour and excrementitious vapour be exhale and  consume but together with they the juice also and good spirit which be not so  easy repair but in unless they be very immoderate it be not so see they work  upon the humour but the best purge for this intention be those which be take  immediate before because they dry the body less and therefore they must be of  those purger which do least trouble the belly these intention of the operation  which we have propound as we conceive be most true the remedy faithful to the  be it credible to although not a few of these remedy may seem but with what  care and choice they have be examine by we that they may be the intention not  at all impeach both safe and effectual experience no doubt will both verify  and promote these matter and such in all thing be the work of every prudent  counsel that they be admirable in their effect excellent also in their order  but seem vulgar in the way and mean the Proches of death we be now to inquire  touch the porch of death that be touch those thing which happen unto man at  the point of death both a little before and after that see there be many path  which lead to death it may be under stand in what Common-way they all end  especial in those death which be cause by indigence of nature rather than by  violence although something of this latter also must be insert because of the  connexion of thing the history the live spirit stand in needs of three thing  that it may subsist convenient motion temperate refrigeration and fit aliment  plame seem to stand in needs but of two of these namely motion and aliment  because flame be a simple substance the spirit a compound insomuch that if it  approach somewhat too near to a flamy nature it overthrow it self also flame  by a great and strong flame be extinguish and slay as Aristotle well note much  more the spirit flame if it be much compress and straiten be extinguish as we  may see in a candle have a glass cast over it for the air be dilate by the  heat do contrude and thrust together the flame and so lessen it and in the end  extinguish it and fire on Hearths will not flame if the fuel be thrust close  together without any space for the flame to break forth also thing Fircd be  extinguish with compression as if you press a burn coal hard with the tongue  or the foot it be straight extinguish but to come to the spirit if blood or  phlegm get into the of the brain it cause sudden death because the spirit have  no room to move it self also a great blow on the head induce sudden death the  spirit be straighten within the Ventrides of the brain opium and other strong  do coagulate the spirit and deprive it of the motion a venomous vapour total  abhor by the spirit cause sudden death as in deadly poison which work as they  call it by a specifical malignity for they strike a loathe into the spirit  that the spirit will no more move it self nor rise against a thing so much  detest also extreme drunkenness or extreme feed sometime cause sudden death  see the spirit be not only oppress with overmuch condense or the malignity of  the vapour as in opium and malignant poison but also with the abundance of the  vapour extreme grief or fear especial if they be sudden as it be in a sad and  unexpected cause sudden death not only over much compression but also over  much dilatation of the spirit be deadly joy excessive and sudden have bereave  many of their life in great evacuation as when they cut man for the dropsy the  water flow forth abundant much more in great and sudden flux of blood  oftentimes present death follow and this happen by the mere flight of vacuum  within the body all the part move to fill the empty place and among the rest  the spirit themselves for as for slow flux of blood this matter pertain to the  indigence of nourishment not to the diffusion of the spirit and touch the  motion of the spirit so far either compress of diffuse that it bring death  thus much