The haven of health, ... chiefly made for the comfort of students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five works of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. labour, meat, drinke, sleepe, Venus ... Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence: with a short censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford / By Thomas Cogan.

  • Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607.
Date:
1612
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Credit: The haven of health, ... chiefly made for the comfort of students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five works of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. labour, meat, drinke, sleepe, Venus ... Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence: with a short censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford / By Thomas Cogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jDedxatoritLJ' 4 cure wil not comefofaft forward as otherwife it would.. What meancth this, but that meats & drinkes do alter our bodies, & either temper them , ordiftemperthem greatly? And no maruell,feeing that fuch as the food is,, fuchisthe bloud:&:fuch as thebloud is,flich is thefiefb, Wherfore I fay to the Gentleman that hath the gowt; (for poore me feldomhaue it,becaufe for the moftparr it groweth through exceffe & eafe)I fay that although the forbearing of wine & women, Mother things noi- fomc in that difeafe,do not vtterly take away the gowt, yet it wil abate,qualifie and abridge the paine,& make it much more toletable.And fo I thinke of all other dif- eafeswhatfoeuer. Andtoprooue,that good diet may preferue a man fro ficknes, l need to vfeno other exam¬ ple than of Galen himfehe, who by the mcanes of his tcperate diet,(as he witnefleth) after he paffed the age of 28.yers vntil the time of his death,he was neuer grie- ued with any ficknes, except the grudge of a fetter of one day that hapned only by too much labor,8diued as Sipontinus writeth, i4o.yeares, & died only through feeblcnes of nature. His diet ftood chiefly in 3 .points,, which 1 wiilhere declare, that fuch as would Hue long in health may indeuorto follow it. The firft poiat was, neuer to eate and drinke his fill. The fecond fieucr to eats any raw thing. The third Jo haue alwaiesfomefweet fauor about him.Thefe 3 .points,w hofoeuer wil carefully keep, ifhe be of a found conftitution,may Hue long inperfedt health. I fay, ifhe be of a (bund conftitution, for fome arc fo corrupt from their natiuitie, that if Efculapm (as Galen fpeaketh) werecucr at their elbow to aduifethe in their diet,yet could they not Hue out half their daies. and fbme that be of a found conftitution by nature, do yet through intempcrancie fo corrupt their comple- liij xion> Surfet and eafe great caufes oftn gowt* Sanit.tmn. I The good | fed of diet Galen* -,i Galensdiet ftood chiei in three points, 1 * > 1