A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet.

  • André du Laurens
Date:
1599
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Credit: A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PJ to fuccour and reliene it. 187 wine corre&ethand maketh pleafant the manners of the moft harfh and churlifh natures. One of the moft renowmed Phi. fitions that ever Arabia bred, writeth,that yong folke muft refraine wine: but fo foone as they bee fortie yeeres olde,looke how oft they either fee or {mell it,they ough to praife God, and give him thankes for creating of fo pleafant and delightfome a licour. The wine that is chiefly to bee made choife of for old folke,muft what wineis be an old red,and good ftrong wine, and it mult not bee much bef tor olde delayed, New,fweeteand proffe,are not good,becaufe they flop folke. the liuer,the{pleeneand paflages ofvrine,and make old age fub. ieéétvnto the dropfie or ftone, Ie isnot good to drinke wine fa. fting,nor after that one is throughly heated, becaufe the vapour thereof afcendeth by and by vp intothe head, hurteth the finewes, and caufeth conuulfions, fudden rheumes and apoplexies, Olde men mutt drinke a little at once and oft. Ga/en commendeth artificiall wines,made of Betonie and Parcelie for the Stone and Goute, Hippocras, Malmefie and Candie wine; forcfeene that they be not counterfeited, neither yet contrarieto their natures, Honyed water is commended of all nien,they may vfe the com- son for their ordinarie drinke, and the other (which is calledthe counterfeite of wine, being ftrong like yato Malmefie ) they may take in the morning with atofte, | CHar. VIII, Of theexercifes of old folke. A] Fis moft certaine, that all manner of nourifh: Imenthow cleane and pure foeuer it bee,hath al. | waies fomething in it not agreeable vntonature. It muft neceffarilytherefore follow, that in every <a concoction there be ingendred {ome excrement, . hae » whichbeing kept and not auoyded, may bee the caufe of an infinite fort of difeafes, The grofler-kinde of excre- ments doe purge themfelues, bya fenfibleand manifeft kinde of | euacuation: but the more fubtile and fine maybe wafted and | refolued by exercife, i Cc2 . This