Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer].

Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734

Date:: 1725

Credit: Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$All Animal Humours decay by being evaporated, like the Arifaction in Plants, and, this is the Effeft of a too hot Regi¬ men. The Autumn and Winter are moil inju¬ rious to old Men, whofe Heat is weak, and then the Circulation and Pulfes are moil ftopt. In Spring and Summer they are the moft healthful. This is the hot Regimen; by our Pulfes we know, that hot Air, hot Baths, hot Cloaths, hot Meats,_ fuch as are acrid, bitter, fait, foetid, aromatic, ferment¬ ed Liquors, hot brandy Spirits, refinous Wines, Tobacco, hot Fires, violent Exercife, hot Paflions of Anger, Joy, Revenge, many Cares, much Study, conftant VigilU„ hot Snuffs, much Fri&ion with hot Oyl,, much Faffing, foft hot Beds, drinking hot Tea’s and Coffee, the flop ofnatural Excre¬ tions by Sweat, Urine, Stools, Semen,Men- fes \ all thefe Things are an Excefs in the: hot Regimen; they accelerate the Pulfe, andl haften old Age, in the thin heftical old; Men. The florid and fat old Men are of a fanguine Conftitution, and prelerve that Temper by avoiding all Exceffes in the hot and cold Regimen.‘ They are moft health-] ful, and I reckon them in the middle of the acrid, choleric, and fait Tempers, which! abound in the thin hot old Men, and the pituitous and ferous Humours and Slime.: which$