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Receipt book [manuscript].
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Transcription:
is not, (in this my small paynes) to commit soe
great an absurditye, or rellish [of soe great a] presumption
as to prescribe, where the expertissimi (as I may say)
doe rem agere; but only to shew you what you have
not soe compendiously had from them (your doctors I
meane) wherein If you shall find any thing that
may advantage your observations for your health,
I have my purpose fully satisfyed; sure I am that
no man directs his paynes with a more earnest desire
of good success to you, then I doe these lines and
my dayly wishes. But now of dyett. some doe
question, whether or no slender or spare dyett be
convenient in the asthma or difficulty of breathing.
and the cause (I suppose) that mooves this doubt, is
because Galen sayes in his booke de victu attenuante
that he had with a slender dyett, without any phisick
cured hardness of breathing, and the gout, and
epilepsye or falling sickness, and many other lingring
diseases. but against this of Galen is Hypocrates
scited in his first aphorismi and 4th:, who there sayes
that a slender spare dyett is vnsafe in longe continuin^g
diseases. now some doe thus moderate the matter,
say they it is requisite there should be according to
Galen an attenuating ^or slender dyett, quatenus ad qualitatem
in the qualitye, that is such as is of easy digestion
and doth rarifye or make thinn the oppressing matter
in the parts offended; and this seemes to concurr
with Hypocrates, in his further expression of
himselfe in the place above mentioned. for he,
by his exception against scant dyett in this disease
doth only feare deiection of strength, and not any
12
folio 40 recto
40
other impediment; likely to ensue vnto the
patient thereby. Now as too slender a dyett
is not frequently tolerable, soe is it more
rather sometimes alloweable, then excess at any
time at all: which: is defined to be such a quantity
as cannot receave due concoction. Morever,
forasmuch as the asthma, most commonly hath
its beginning from a thick and cold cause, the
dyett should be of an attenuating and moderate
hott qualitye, and withall participating of
a moystening property: for otherwise If the
dyett and drink be of a heating, attenuating
and withall a drying disposition, it may very
easely happen, that the humor may thereby
acquire a greater thickness, and toughness, and
soe be more firmely fixed, to the places
affected, then before. In this case the broth
or decoction of an old Cock, is much famed
by antiquitye, for that it hath with soe
good success been vsed allmost by all [men]
phisitians; the manner of composing, and
ordering of which: (because it is to this day
by many Phisitians thought inferiour to no
other, in pectorall diseases) I will sett you
downe according to the vse, and description,
of Benedictus Victor: Faventi (which stands
exemplarye for immitation of dayly practise)
in this manner.
13
great an absurditye, or rellish [of soe great a] presumption
as to prescribe, where the expertissimi (as I may say)
doe rem agere; but only to shew you what you have
not soe compendiously had from them (your doctors I
meane) wherein If you shall find any thing that
may advantage your observations for your health,
I have my purpose fully satisfyed; sure I am that
no man directs his paynes with a more earnest desire
of good success to you, then I doe these lines and
my dayly wishes. But now of dyett. some doe
question, whether or no slender or spare dyett be
convenient in the asthma or difficulty of breathing.
and the cause (I suppose) that mooves this doubt, is
because Galen sayes in his booke de victu attenuante
that he had with a slender dyett, without any phisick
cured hardness of breathing, and the gout, and
epilepsye or falling sickness, and many other lingring
diseases. but against this of Galen is Hypocrates
scited in his first aphorismi and 4th:, who there sayes
that a slender spare dyett is vnsafe in longe continuin^g
diseases. now some doe thus moderate the matter,
say they it is requisite there should be according to
Galen an attenuating ^or slender dyett, quatenus ad qualitatem
in the qualitye, that is such as is of easy digestion
and doth rarifye or make thinn the oppressing matter
in the parts offended; and this seemes to concurr
with Hypocrates, in his further expression of
himselfe in the place above mentioned. for he,
by his exception against scant dyett in this disease
doth only feare deiection of strength, and not any
12
folio 40 recto
40
other impediment; likely to ensue vnto the
patient thereby. Now as too slender a dyett
is not frequently tolerable, soe is it more
rather sometimes alloweable, then excess at any
time at all: which: is defined to be such a quantity
as cannot receave due concoction. Morever,
forasmuch as the asthma, most commonly hath
its beginning from a thick and cold cause, the
dyett should be of an attenuating and moderate
hott qualitye, and withall participating of
a moystening property: for otherwise If the
dyett and drink be of a heating, attenuating
and withall a drying disposition, it may very
easely happen, that the humor may thereby
acquire a greater thickness, and toughness, and
soe be more firmely fixed, to the places
affected, then before. In this case the broth
or decoction of an old Cock, is much famed
by antiquitye, for that it hath with soe
good success been vsed allmost by all [men]
phisitians; the manner of composing, and
ordering of which: (because it is to this day
by many Phisitians thought inferiour to no
other, in pectorall diseases) I will sett you
downe according to the vse, and description,
of Benedictus Victor: Faventi (which stands
exemplarye for immitation of dayly practise)
in this manner.
13
transcribed_information
is not, (in this my small paynes) to commit soe
great an absurditye, or rellish [of soe great a] presumption
as to prescribe, where the expertissimi (as I may say)
doe rem agere; but only to shew you what you have
not soe compendiously had from them (your doctors I
meane) wherein If you shall find any thing that
may advantage your observations for your health,
I have my purpose fully satisfyed; sure I am that
no man directs his paynes with a more earnest desire
of good success to you, then I doe these lines and
my dayly wishes. But now of dyett. some doe
question, whether or no slender or spare dyett be
convenient in the asthma or difficulty of breathing.
and the cause (I suppose) that mooves this doubt, is
because Galen sayes in his booke de victu attenuante
that he had with a slender dyett, without any phisick
cured hardness of breathing, and the gout, and
epilepsye or falling sickness, and many other lingring
diseases. but against this of Galen is Hypocrates
scited in his first aphorismi and 4th:, who there sayes
that a slender spare dyett is vnsafe in longe continuin^g
diseases. now some doe thus moderate the matter,
say they it is requisite there should be according to
Galen an attenuating ^or slender dyett, quatenus ad qualitatem
in the qualitye, that is such as is of easy digestion
and doth rarifye or make thinn the oppressing matter
in the parts offended; and this seemes to concurr
with Hypocrates, in his further expression of
himselfe in the place above mentioned. for he,
by his exception against scant dyett in this disease
doth only feare deiection of strength, and not any
12
folio 40 recto
40
other impediment; likely to ensue vnto the
patient thereby. Now as too slender a dyett
is not frequently tolerable, soe is it more
rather sometimes alloweable, then excess at any
time at all: which: is defined to be such a quantity
as cannot receave due concoction. Morever,
forasmuch as the asthma, most commonly hath
its beginning from a thick and cold cause, the
dyett should be of an attenuating and moderate
hott qualitye, and withall participating of
a moystening property: for otherwise If the
dyett and drink be of a heating, attenuating
and withall a drying disposition, it may very
easely happen, that the humor may thereby
acquire a greater thickness, and toughness, and
soe be more firmely fixed, to the places
affected, then before. In this case the broth
or decoction of an old Cock, is much famed
by antiquitye, for that it hath with soe
good success been vsed allmost by all [men]
phisitians; the manner of composing, and
ordering of which: (because it is to this day
by many Phisitians thought inferiour to no
other, in pectorall diseases) I will sett you
downe according to the vse, and description,
of Benedictus Victor: Faventi (which stands
exemplarye for immitation of dayly practise)
in this manner.
13
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