Book IIII

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whence eme black eyes.
kco tii t.it:. eyes, 1 uiaiUpeaK iomeemug here to u. They pro Tv"m‘0- te:d from t,lc l,um“urs, [hfC *rc round about» whofe quality'
.plenry;, wanc^ r^innellc, rhickncllc^ mixture, makedivers colours and {yecies of the eyes ; as biatk, blew, gray, Owl, or Goats V , tycs’ red> yellow, tawny pale, light-red , day-colour, green ; dark-red, fiery, flaming, bloud-red, violet-colour, faffron-colcur golden-colour, white as milk, whitifh. But eyes that are all with black colour (whofe beauty if the eye-lids be of the lame colour make a mank em cornel y) proceed from rhis, when the vifible fpiricis weak, and ti,e humour plentiful!, thick, dark, and fhady fo that one cannot fee through it, by rtafon of tne abounding hu- mour, and the prolundity of it ; for no light that comes from our eyes, h carried into his eyes that ftands over againft us, but the
rayes flye back again, and are as it were ret- rted upon us Soin
7{‘L Fo“‘ltain'' and citterns, and deep pits, the water feints to be black, wells. and icrveslor a Looking glafle, the light oi ti ecyes Dcing beaten
back by the thickn (fe of the water, and rcfk&ed upon it lelf • for **at fight black it forceth back our fight upon us.~ But bla.k eyes are of that’ ns eyesM twc and condition, that they ue clearly by day, bccaufethe day light runs into thefe dark fhady eyes, ahd m >ves and enlightens the fpirits. But at night u ey fee ill,' and notio exafriy as others becaufe they want the outward light to move the humours ancl
fZ^dem ^)iri-ts co (1)aTPcn thc,r fi8Qt * buc where humour of a mans
whence and tye is ttanlpaient and clear. Bur the fpiricis imall {lender and
kowibijfee. .weak, they have Owls eyes, or grey and blew colour’d, that is TLanthams ureA Shaper d with blew and white ; ot whicn colour arc lartthorns that you may fee through, for with thefe are made plates for lan- thorns, and of p. is colour are the t^yes of Owls, and many other crea ures. They that have fuch eyes fee weakly, and confufedly by day, becaufe ti e day light, and brightnefle of the Sun diflolves and diffipates the vilual fpirits that are not vtry ftrong: but in the night, becaufe the organs of fight are cnlightncd with a natu¬ ral and imbred lighr, the fpirits being collcdcd and heaped toge- Per’ th7 nearly what is in their way. Thefe kind of eyes \ie in toe night. 1 parkle, and fhine m the dark, and like glittering Srars they fend forth their beams, fo that befides men, many living creatures, not • fo much by their ctaft in hunting, as by the faculty of fight they are endued with, find no inconvenience by the darkneffe of the 1 flight, whereas the bright day hurts them, and blinds them- as ZfZ'mlh' Wf in °-yls> night-Crows, Bars, Cats, Rats, Mice, Dormice, nkbe. who lc e worie w the day by rtafcn ot the too great light, bur the
darknefle of the night (barpneth their eyes ; for you fee that if you ^hoid candles or Torches before them, they can hardly fee .-where¬ fore Sea-men when they Sail gt night defire not that the Moon fhould fhine too clear, but a dark kind of sky, that is not covered ‘#ith too thick clouds. For fo they can fee farther, and the rayes are lcflediffipated by alight objc&, and do not vanifli away fo Toon. Sea is a raoyfkr colour than the reft, but not fo clear andfmooth, and V . r ' * ' neat.
lirjtl&ey*
Sea-eolmd
tjes.
Chap. 6.
Of the reaf on of Seeing, (fc.
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neat. Wherefore by reafon of the groffe moyfture ofic, and the fmall fpirits, they that are fo affeded fee not very clearly,' efpe- dally in a bright Ayre, which offends them chiefly ; Bat if the humour and fpirit be ofa moderate temper, the colour is between EJaand fate white and black very clear, and thereby is the fight performed po/ed'^^ moil exa&ly. The colours of the eyes vary according to age : and by reafon of the thicknefle, thinneffc, plenty, paucity of the hu - Jijxlfthe cy? mours and fpirits j which thing is alio manifeft in the leaves of byribat-.eafon plants, which when they firft ihoot forth, are yellow, then as Uis Varied' they grow elder they wax green, and again as the plant grows old, they become yellow or Sea-colour. So when children are firft born, their eyes are grey and blew, Sea-green, green. Owl-eyes, but as age comes on, they grow black 5 but in old age, they grow white as their hairs do, or degenerate into Owl-like eyes. Alfo Diofcorides hath, from the opinion of other men, written that byr. x.c. medicaments, the colours of the eyes may be altered. For the fhellsof lrnall nuts burnt to allies, will make the pupills of young childrens eyesblack, that are grey and blew, being powred in and anointed on the forehead with Oyl. Alfo the wind, the con- ffitution of the Ayre, the climate, difeafes, affe of the mind , immoderate venery , hunger , immoderate fleep watching, and furfetting ^ change both the colours of the eycs,and the qualities of the humours and fpirics. Wherefore a moderate counfehihri - diet and courfe of life muff be kept, leaftthe organ of fight (than 'be eyes, which God hath given us nothing becrer in our bodies) fhould re¬ ceive any damage. And if the eyes begin to grow dark for want of Em^e{ fe and humours, or by drineffe, or want of fpirits, with grief of min d/obfeSdinre- weeping, watching, wear ineffe, old age, immoderate venery, or be wathgibe extenuated and wafted with immoderate ftudy, we mull ufe fuchfJ,w‘ things as are reftoracive for our bodies, and fofter our eyes : as iyfjat tfj- hewrereEgs, fweet wine, Ray fins, fweet Almonds, Piftaches (lore eyes Cheftnucs either rofted or boy led foft, Turneps, the venue where- of by reafon of the plenty of their windineffe rifeth to the head, and wonderfully refrqftieth the vifive fpirits that are wafted ; alfo the brains of birds that fly much do the like, as of S parrows, Lin¬ nets, Spinks ^ They do unadvifedly whd withput any choice, or making any difference, apply to their eyes, Rue, Celandine, the Kuefomtimes galls of VulturesjKites, Hawks, thatareofa burning and bating hliUsthe^es; faculty, and they wafte and devoiir the fpirics and humours that make the fight : they are indeed fitly applied when the eyes are dark and mifty from fuperfiuity of humours, and when the pin and when Rue and web take away the fight, and deform the eyes ; for they diflolvc celandine are the congealed and collected humours that by their thickneffe h\n-^0fforthd der the fpirits to be brought thither : fo all things that are abftcr- Tapagoldfof gent and extenuating are good in this cafe, as are common Ra -theeyes. difti that procures a good appetite. Fennel-feed, leaves and roots, Eyebright; French- Lavander, and all things that cleanfe the brain ofthick vapours. Wherefore lecSchollers tbatmuft ftu¬ dy by the help of their eyes, avoid Garlick, Leeks, Onions, and all
M m 2 ftrong
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Gar lick. and all flrong things are hurt] all to the
cyrt,
Green things delight the eyes.
Emreds are by their green co¬ lours goad for the eyes.
The eyes are to hens of the mind.
Arguments of the mind from the eyes.
The divers dif- f ojition of the eyes.
Pore blind, what condition of mind they
are of
rA Proverb from fight of the eyes againfl wicked people.
Of the* reaf m of feeing, &c. Book IIIL
itronglmclliug tilings and that (end forth luch itinkmg vapours* and are hurtfuii for them. For thefe fpoil the eyes, memory, and damnify all the fenfes. But fuch as ufe hard labour and exercile, none of thefe things can hurt them. £ut outwardly we muft look on fuch things that refresh the fight, and are delightfull to behold, as are all green things, whereof there are innumerable kinds and differences in the fields, woods. Gardens, Groves, to be found: but of ftones, the full grccnncfle ofthe Emrod, and with which the eyes can never be fatisfied, as alfo the Prafius, the Topaz, the Jafper, the Saphir, Eranos commonly called a Tarqucfle, and the Lazul-ftone ; Whereby the vifive fpirics. are collected, and do ! not vanifh; fo they fharpen the fight of the eyes. But that fome by looking on the eyes do collect the inclination of the mind and thoughts, Iamnotagainft.it. For they are the Indexes, and do fhew forth, the inward affedions, thoughts, conceptions, though the tongue be filent . So in fome peoples eyes and countenance there fhines, meekneffe, modefty, placability, clemency, probity, and many more tokens there are to be feen of a pleafing and fe- date mind. And in others, by looking on their eyes, you maydif- cover pride, arrogancy, hautinefle, cruelty, craft, fraud, anger, envy, hatred, indignation, fear, elation, joy, forrow, defpair. Alfo Phyfitians in difeafes do carefully obferve theconftitutions of the eyes ; For if they be fprinkled with redneffe, or ftreaked with bloody Breaks, they fhew a frenfy or madneffe from the inflamma¬ tion of the brain ; but if they be wan, and dark lead-colour, they fhew the extin&ion of natural heat and lofle of life. But inftable, winking, moving, unquiet eyes, and unconftant, fignifie alienati¬ on of the mind and doting, but faint, moift, flagging, full of tears, dark, trembling, ft iff, fhaking, fwoln, hollow,hid, dull, twinkling eyes befides the di verfity of affedf ions of the mind in found people^ they fhew in fick people alfo, not without danger of life, diftem- per ofthe brain, from plenty or want of humours, from heat ot cold. But pore-blind, goggle ey’d, fquint ey’d, and fuch as look obliquely and a-skew, befides their mufcles drawn awry, and pul¬ led divers ways, they have this errour in their Natures alfo, which vice becaufe it principally confifts about the Brain, which is the habitation or rather the Court of the mind, as it doth out¬ wardly much deform the eyes, fo it enclines the mind to fome vi- tious affections ; formoft of thefe that want good education, are falfe,crafty, deceitfull, quarrelfome, inconftant, fubtile to circum¬ vent, and have wonderful tricks to gull men with. Wherefore the Hollanders, when they deferibe a man that is fo marked, call him, a/limgaft, een loos ende hftich fchalck,Een boos mebt : that is, an overthwarr,crooked, crafty knave, that you cannot fafely cruft; for that he doth all his actions with fraud, deceit, fallacy, catching, de¬ ceits, impoftures,and diffembling tricks, to do other men mifebief, and himfelf profit. All thofe men partake of this nature and con¬ dition, who in the principal and chief part of their bodies have any remarkable fign, namely on their head, Hearr, Liver, whereof I
Ghap.7.
why fame are born without fome parts.
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fpake more largely in my Phyfiognomie, the fecond book, Chap.
3 6.
CHAP. VII.
The Reason why fome are born without fome parts , and want fome L imbs ; others have fome parts double andfuperfluoui , and fervingfor no ufe.
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DAily examples fhew that fome are born with double limbs , and fuch as grow to the reft, as with appendixes to their beet 3 Armes, Head, and ibmetimes they are diftinguifhed by joynts. And as deformed , and monftrous fhapes proceed irom faulty and corrupt feed, and the ill conftitucion of the Womb , the Stars alfo joyning their forces in the produd ion of them : fo by re¬ dundance of humours, and plenty of feminall excrement, the parts of the body come forth double, the imagination of the parents be¬ ing bulled about fome fuch thing in the formation of it. For if at any time that fex , which is fhaken with the fmalleft affedions and prints them upon the Child, conceives any thing in the mind ; or thinks that things are double before their eyes,by the concourfe and Flux of humours, that fall down on thofe parts, about which the thoughts are employed, do ferve to frame double parts that are fuperfiuous, or parts of fome other kind. For fuch abfurd imagi¬ nations are obferved in living Creatures. So lately a Lamb was yeaned, with a Head of a Sea-Calfe, at the fight of chat Sea-Mon- fter. So the yeare before , there was feen , a Sheep and a Caife , with double Heads :and I faw and handled a Hen , that had four feet, and four Wings. But fince Women in conception , and all the time they go with Child, have divers fpccies and things in their imaginations; and fometimes it falls out, that double reprelentati- Ons ofthingsaremade to them , from grofte vapours rifing from beneath , or with diftraded and broken Spirits , that fhould be dirufted-to the point of the Apple of the Eye, whereby their fight is divided and cut into two, all this affedion is carri¬ ed to, the Child thats breeding , and fome parts being hand- fomely formed , imagination faftneth to them other need Idle parts.
For the force of imagination is fo ftrong , that if a woman once faften her eyes and thoughts upon any objed5all the faculties of na¬ ture , and that force that ferves to form the Child, the humours running from all parts, which are at her command, fall down thi¬ ther , and imagination is wholly intent to do the biifineffe ; hence it is that fomtimes (lie frames divers and unufuall fhapes , double parts, and fuperfiuous appendixes, and faftneth ftrange limbs to the body. But from defed of humours and penury of nutriment , or where the naturall faculties iu making the parts are too weak,
and
Redundance of matter brings things double .
whence are de~ fraved Births.
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When double things are re- prejented.
what imagina¬ tion in a wo¬ man can do.
whence come
parts to he wanting.
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and not forceable enough, it falls out that men want home parts, or have them d if proportioned and toofmall,and thoughNature (ome- times have matter enough to make the Child of, and hath force and (Irengch enough to do it, yet (he is now and hen hindred, that the cannot bring all things to perfection , and frame a comely and H twhandsand well proportioned body; fo that the Infant is born fometimes with feet com to be forne par£S euc (hort or maimed, and not niade up :for fometime a ZTwd” woman may have a narrow Matrix, a hard and callous Spleen, Hips (ticking forth, and turned inward back again, and other Ob- ftacles, that will not fuffer the Infant to grow, and to be pirfe& in all parts ; for the tender parts of the body by reafon of (o great im¬ pediments cannot be dilated, nor diffufe them (elves, nor enjoy the nourifhment comes to it; but is ftopt and (fay’d , that the parts cannot grow beautifully and well formed. For I think it falls out A ftmiiefnm hcre , as it is with Trees that are fet in (tony grounds , fo that the fonvllZd™ roots cannot fpread every way , but being hindred , turn back y ' again, and grow crooked, and being repulfed they return, Som the body of a Woman, when the Child is framed , either it is hin¬ dred by the narrownefle of the paffage, or for want of nutriment , or by reafon of feme hard thing that comes againft it , fo that the limbs cannot be framed with joynts , and diftin&ly as they fhould be. Sol faw a noble mans Daughter, with a maimed and fpongy A Riflory rek- hand, which when the Parents ordered mee to handle her , I found ted. by touching of her fingers, that the joynts, .which by nature fhould
come forth, were turned inwards and retorted, fo that they repre- fented no (hape of fingers, for all the parts of this member, and or¬ der of the (mail bones, wherewith the hands fhould be clinched or opened , were hid and folded up within. We call this Stomped Hence I pronounced that that errour and fault of nature proceed¬ ed from this, that that force and faculty of nature which (hould be employed in forming the Child , and Itrives to perfeft a man in all his parts, was hindred by fome impediment, that it couldnot make the joynts compleat, and frame them handfomely as a hand lhould bee ; for the Mother being fubjeft to the hardnefle of the Spleen » and female Children inclining to that fide that is the left fide > from the affeftion of that part , on which thofe parts leaned as againft a hard Rock 5 they became fo ill lhapen and de¬ formed.
CHAP.
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Chap. 8. Whether Linnen ought to be changed when me#lyfick)&c;
• ; -CHAP. VIII.
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Wfjether Shirts , Sbeets^Cov 'rings, Linnen% ought to be changed when men lye jick ofFeavors * whether it berjit prefently to Ihmc the Beard and eat the Hay re offach as are newly recovered ofdifeafes, alfoin what difeafes it is good to wajh the feet. , . ,
IF at any time in contagious and peftilcnt difeafes,CarbuncIes or Bu jo’s and other, Eruptions or Putties, rticw chemfelves in rue outward pans of the body as t cy ufc tokdo,iomtime$ eminent like Warts, iometunes flat and plain, as the humour is thick or chm 5 *
fometimcslead colour’d, wan, black, yellow, green,divers colours which are the worttilometimes red,ircth, white, which arc the belt, and fateft, ill which kinds & differences we fee in the Smai-Pox 3c Mealilsj inallcnde kinusot Barters, Ladvifc men to ihift their whe”ce st*t* Sheets, B.lankets,Ptllows, Coverlid ,Beds, Shirts, & to lay on frctti, 2Z'°cJlw« &. to harg cneir loul chotnes that are taken from their bodies in the Ayre, ro oc vcntiiared, whereby the contagion and ill vapours, that the Coverings are tainted with from the body infected, may be ta¬ ken off. Forfince many foul and pernicious vapours , as fmoke come out of fuch bodies, wnich the clothes chat the fick is covered witnall draw to them * it will be, t oat the fick muft needs fuck in the Ayre round about them , and be tnfe&ed again every moment with a new contagion, for he roles in his corruption, as a Sow in the hcreaft wallows in the mire, which I would have to be obferved chusfarr of the difeafe J ' when the difeafe abates, and begins to mend, and the Conco&ion ”?th}%t9be and Crifis be part, chat is , when certain and undoubted fignes of C w^e * health llnew thcmfelves, which fignifie that the forces of the body are mafters of the difeafe , and that but a few relieves of the dif¬ eafe remain within : for then Sneets or Snircs hung in the Sun , or before a good fire (hould be laid under thofe-that are upon recove¬ ry $ or elfe I bid one of the Servants, whofe body is well to weare them for two days on h is back,orelfe to lay them in his bed to keep them warm , and they may not differ from the heat of a mans bo¬ dy, leaft the change might bring lome inconvenience to the fick or exafperatethe difeafe in any part : for by this reafon or rather er- rour, the party that was almoft recovered may fall to a relaps.
Where f. -re both to thofe, and to others that are fick of lighter dif¬ eafes, I command feverely, that the difeafe may forthwith come to the height, and the fit may be leffe ed at firft,that they be not un¬ quiet tolling and tumbling, nor any way expofe chemfelves to the colJ Ayre j as there arc fome, who in dcuucfull and dangerous dif- Tofingofthe eafes will lye with their Arrms ftretchcd forth, and their Kgs dif- ^Sl'^0T ^ played, and t fie chemfelves up and down, and fo drive back fweat,
Pulhes, Importmes, Swellings and tumours , and other colledi- ons in cue body Ciiat would break forth. For the cold Ayre com¬ ing to the body, flops all their courfe, drives them back, and will not faffer them to ripen ; but neat, and tier fomentations, open the
Pores e majptOf,
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Whether fickmen ought to jhtft their linen. ‘Book Illl.
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Pores and paflages , and make way for the filthy vapours to come forth j that they may be difcuffedj wherefore I think they do well, who firft being infedted, and taken in a contagious Ayre, fet them- felv.es clofe to a’gobd fire, xfiat they may all run dowipwith fweat , yet not beyond their ftrengrh, or that they (hould-faifit by it ^ but chdt at chefamejime , .their, body being purg-ed downward , and their belly cleanfed, they may take fuch things inwardly , which iliall expell and difcufle the venome , they have firft drawn in , before it get rbpt^ and hath lay’d 'faft hold of the bod y , and pofleTs it fclieoot/thfeiheart and principal! parts for rhe mifchicfe makes a ftmiefrom a LMc to do. that? As tbeyjthat lay fiege to a City, do firft affaul* citybefieged. the Caftles andsForcs, andCommander. of -the place, for the reft will yeild prOfimtly andfubmit : when therefore the body begins jo bt affedted with a dangerous^and dubious difeafe y if the matter rr quire the opening ofa Vein or purging , let that be done in time , j* v ’ fochat at firft y and before that, the belly be purged ^ then open a,
then give cordially to corroborate the Heart and the vital! letthg. l0° parts, as The riack,and Mithridate with Wine,orfyrupofFumiter>-
ry,Epithime, ; Violets, or fome other liquor chat the natureof^He body requires,. on a skillfull Phyfitian fhall think fitj wherein it is.fit he ibould be wonderfuil ckar-ftghrcd , that he mifleuot rh4 (hark. Bur fora deco&ion 5 the p relent remedies are Germander* fb^tJmeUs like Garlicky jirgrows plentifull in Zealand, Mari¬ golds that caufe fweat, Baku, Figs, red Onyons, xhe rootof Spom dylion, that is: like to Angelica , and Mafterwort in forces. Amongft " \v> which the root of Zedoary is lingular , that is not rotten, of no va-
' Jew,,loft and without fmell , fo it be 1 wallowed with Rayfins , or Currance* or fome Liquorifh, and fo chew’d and fwallowed: what thugs forthus they may.paletveand defend themfelves, who are forced %T?Ugie°Zd -to go to thofe tharare infeded with a peftilent difeafe, to comfort twee n. ‘fficjm, and raife up their hopes for what is better , and make them Such M wu^l° be pf good confidentejjfs Miniftcrs of the Churcb,Phyfitians, Ghy-
to the difeafed. - . . . ~ .. r _ , . . - ,
in a contagious JUfgtons, Mxdwtvesf In caie ot luch Eruptions of tumours, which rtfe4>"3fv>e*t it. iy heft to be feht forth be times, I -think it not fir, at the beginning ,nc'e to ftrew the. Chambers orfkore^wkh Vine i^aves, Sedge, Whiter •ItibrhjRofes^My nils. Willow Poplar, green Grille, ©rto fprin- W -Vinegar of Water in them, unleffc they faint by too much fw racing * for fuch things will make the humours fall back , and v, bin the cbm- thicken the skin and paflagesof the body , which fhouid rather be 1 Hwedwkb °Penec^ 3 ^at the contagious vapours of the body may come out 5 kougbs. which is better performed by hot fomentations than by cold * fotn* times we muft put fuch things to theii Noftrills as may recrc&f xweqfmUsYe* c^jr 5pirics , and may reftorethe Life that is faint with coo great 1 — *" ; hear, as are Rofes, Violets, Clove-Gilliflowers, Camphir, Bugloffe 1 forage, WaterrLillies, Wine, Amber, Lemmons, Quinces, whdrei- of.moft of them may be given inwardly boy led in Wine, or ftrewd wuhSugar, Pr feafoned forae otherwife for fauce , adding a little? Saffron and Cinamon thereto, whereby they may be more plea fing ^ fof;fmell,aQd taft chefesfes, and Heart, and Palate, and may r T * ' the
.crr.t '
Chap. 8. How fick men are to be ordered upon recovery , &c.
the becter reftore the decayed (pints. And though the Phyfitians do not ufe rafhly to admit any innovations about the fick,* nor to sometime; rhr depart a hairs breadth (rom what is reaion, yet in (ome things J
they will yeild to them after the Crifis is over, that is, when cer- •
tain (igns of recovery appear, and the greaceft part of the humours *0t *“* m' is cither difeufl’ed by fweat, or drawn forth by bloud-lctcing, and purging critically , for then we are not unwilling to let them fomc- times drink wine or cold water, then we fuffer them to change their furniture, beds, coverings, and to remove into ocher cham¬ bers, which if cney were (uffered to do before the date and vigour of the difeafe, before the Crifts and concoction of it, they would bring them prefently in danger of their lives. For the heat of the bed, and fomentations applyed to the body, do betimes call forth rrhenfm* t the Feavourifh heat, and help the fweat and puftuls to break out, c°mesf°rihfea* l'o that the bowels that were inwardly opprdfed with grofTe fumes *6nah'h and vapours, the skin and pores being opened by heat, are refrefh- ed, and ventilated. For by this means the putrefaction is foon dif- cuffed, ail ifoppings arc broke open, the feaver is abated, and all things grow milder. For as in a dining room filled with fmokc, A finite fom thegueftsarealmoftftrangled, and their eyes like to be put. our Jmi° houf(i* unlcile the dores and windows, be fee wide open, that the* i'moak and fuliginous vapours may flye out into the Ayre and vatiifh; fo in the body of man, the heart is almoft choakedby the thick clouds and dark humours, unlcflethe pores and paffages be laid open, that the foul vapours may breathe away. And as it is when we boil Aftmi[efrom meat, the filth and skim thatrifeth up muft be skimmed off, we s£lofma&tbe call it Bm,n , and all be well purged, left the meat fhould be pol¬ luted with fomc excrements and filth : fo at firft by fweat, vomit, phlebotomy, purging, the humours heaped in the body muft be removed, before they fpread into the veins, and fallen into the Ar* A teries ; for then asfpots that (lick long in garments, they can hard- yaQfnioutof ly be wafhed out, nor fo eafijy be driven from their places where F ** thc*y fit fall. But as for the trimming of the beard, for therein confiftsche grace and ornament of a man, and tlx; hairs that grow on the head, wherein there is contained a manlike force, as Sampfon To / fove the makes it good, and in all ages many more have done, who are vc- burdis in ry hairy, I would have allmen take notice thatofbtimes it is not good for men in perfeCl health to have their Beards and hair fha- ved dole to their skins, or to have their heads long wafhed. For tuo much ufe of it weakens the forces, and makes men effeminate and unmanly ; alfo itrefolves and extenuates the fpirits, and na¬ tive hear, and draws from the heart great part of boldnefle and courage in undergoing dangers, though fomaime$..to rub the head with fomecoorfecloathjtoftroke the beard, and to foke it with To/ubthehead fomc moift abftc-rgent matter, is good to clear the eyes, and mak&Je0(iforth*eyt5 the mind morequick ; Bur for men that are fick, or newly reco¬ vered from difeafes, I think it not fit, fo foon as they are grown well, to be fhaved with a Rafour ; for it moves the flowing of hu¬ mours, and if any reliques of the difeafe remain yet in the body,
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when Bath's are good.