Ex gratiosi ordinis Med. Bas. decreto M. Jacobus Seidelius Olaviensis Silesius ... ad X. Calend. Octob. hora locoque solito de arthritide respondebit

40. But if the disease does not yield to these, cauteries should be applied, both actual and potential, which both evoke humors from the depths and heat and strengthen the parts.

PRESERVATION.

41. But so that the sick person, restored by the aforementioned remedies, does not fall back into the same disease, a correct manner of living must be instituted, which consists in the legitimate use of the six non-natural things a standard concept in Galenic medicine referring to air, food/drink, sleep/waking, exercise/rest, evacuation/repletion, and mental passions.

42. Therefore, the air should be of a pure substance, not thick or polluted by vicious exhalations, and opposite in its qualities to that temperature which we strive to maintain, and if it is not such by nature, it should be corrected by art.

43. They should take food of good juice and easy to digest, small in quantity, not varied, which in hot temperatures can be seasoned with chicory, sorrel, lettuce; in cold ones, with sage, hyssop, ginger, cloves, and other aromatics.

44. The bread should be neither too fresh nor old, well made from the best flour, not unleavened, or cakes prepared in any way.

45. Meats are approved from terrestrial animals: kid, veal, lamb, roe deer; from birds: hens, capons, partridges, pheasants, thrushes, blackbirds, turtledoves; from water animals: trout, salmon, gudgeon, perch, pike. Fat meats, those seasoned with salt or cured with smoke, are rejected, as well as interior viscera, such as the brain, liver, stomach, etc.

46. Porridges should be prepared from wheat, spelt, barley, oats, but not millet, peas, or other legumes.

47. They must avoid all raw, softening fruits that generate watery blood. They may sometimes eat cooked or artfully prepared ones without harm.

48. The drink should be thin and pure wine, which aids digestion and diverts superfluous materials through the urine. In hotter [temperaments] it can be diluted with water, in colder ones it can be prepared with wormwood, sage, or some other convenient simple. They should abstain from more potent [wine], whose heat dissipates liquefied humors through the joints. Those who are accustomed to drink beer should choose it pure and well-clarified.

49. They should use moderate exercises before food, by which the innate heat of each part is excited and rendered more prompt to perform its operation.