The Gouernayle of Helthe With the Medecyne of Ye Stomacke
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B ij redo, line 14) : " The complexion of a man mould be looked to j if he be tempered (i. E. Have the due mixture of contrary qualities), keep him fo with like meats and drinks ; and if he be diftempered, by the contrary bring him little by little again to temper. Therefore to Sanguine men, diftempered, give Melancholious meats ; to Melancholy men, Sanguine meats ; and to Phlegmatic men, Colerick meats ; for every evil Complexion may be brought to Temper, unlefs necef- fities of livelihood let... it. " Exercife of all kind was advo- cated as a moft a6tive reftorer of the Humours. In the " Gouernayle, " a very long Chapter is devoted to this fubjea. This Syftem runs through all the Medical Treatifes of the Age, and though confiderably modified in pra&ife by experience and fpecial Rules, was the only truft of our fore- fathers in the Prefervation of Health ; and in Sicknefs the fole way in which they could hope, in the words of our Reprint " to afterte the Stroke of Deth. " The Work itself is now to be introduced to the Reader, and mould he find in its quaintnefs of idea, expreffion, and orthography the fame intereft that the Writer of thefe Remarks has done, the objeft of the Reprint will have been fully realifed.
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