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A69278	The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued	Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.	1539 (1539)	STC 7643; ESTC S109161	81,934	194

lowse moche the bealye To theym that are not wonte to it pourgation is noyfulle He that lyueth in a good order of diete needeth neyther pourgation nor vomyte After that the pourgation hathe wroughte thyrstnes and sounde slepe be sygnes that the bodye is sufficiently pourged By dayly takynge of medicynes nature is corrupted whan ye wyll purge any thynge make fyrste the matter flowynge soluble Medicyne to pourge oughe not to be myngled with meate but to be taken foure houres at the leste before meales or thre houres after meales excepte certayne easy pylles made to clense and comforte the stomake whiche wolde be taken at the begynnynge of supper or after supper a lyttell before that one goeth to bed makynge a lyghte supper or none After purgation taken the pacyent shulde reste not walke vntyll the medicyne hath wrought nor eate or dryncke in the meane space These thynges haue I remembred bycause I haue knowen ryght good phisitions to haue forgotten to instructe therof their paciētes Now wyll I sette forthe the table of suche thynges whiche of theyr propertie do digest or pourge superfluous humours particularly whiche I haue gathered out of the bookes of Dioscorides Galene Paulus Egineta Oribasius and Aetius and other late wryters not withstandynge I haue not writen all for as moche as there be diuers thynges whervnto we haue not yet founden any names in englyshe ¶ Digestiues of choler ¶ Endyue Lettyse Cykorye Scabiose Maydenheare Malowes Mercury The iuyce of pome● garnades Pourselane Popy Berberies Roses Violettes the lefe and flowre Sorell Lyuerworte Sorell de boyse Whay clarifyed The great foure colde sedes that is to say of gourdes cucumbers melones and citruls Psilium Vyneger Saunders Barley water Prunes Tamaryndes ¶ Purges of choler Wylde hoppes Wormewode Centorie Fumytorie Whay of butter Violettes Mercury Juycs of Roses Prunes Eupatorye Tamarindes halfe an ounce in a decoction Manna .vi. drammes at the leaste and so to xxv in the brothe of a henne or capon Rebarbarū by it selfe frome two drammes vnto foure infused or stiped in lycour frome iiii drāmes vnto .viii. ¶ Digestyues of fleume ¶ Fenell Persely the rootes Smallage Capers Lawrell Synuy Puly Maioram Penyroyall Wylde parsnyp sede Mynt Pympepnell Horemynt Gladen Agrymonye Calamynt Nep. Betayne Sauge Radyshe Mugworte Junyper Hysope Pyony Baulme Honye Gynger Squilla Aristolochia Cynamome Pepper Cumyne ¶ Pourges of fleume ¶ Centorie Nettyll Agrimonye Alder. Polypodiū of the oke Myrabolani kebuli infused frome halfe an ounce to an ounce and two drammes In substance frome twoo drammes to halfe an ounce Agaricus frō a drāme to two drammes infused from .ii. drāmes to fyue Yreos Maydenheare Sticados ¶ Pourges of melancoly ¶ The brothe of colewortes lyght boyled Baulme mynte Sticados Tyme Seene boyled in white wine or in the broth of a henne Lased sauery Exthimus Vnwrought sylke Organum Calamynt Borage Hartis tunge Quyckbeme Maydenheare Wythwynde Pulyall mountayne Hony Sugar ¶ Melancoly for the thynnesse and subtylnesse of the humour nedeth no digestiue ¶ They whiche wyll take sharper purgations or compounde with dyuers thynges lette theym take the counsayle of an honest and perfyte phisytion and not aduenture to myxte thynges togyther without knowynge the temperaunce of them in degrees and that he canne proporcion theym to the bodye that shall receyue theym in symples as they be wrytten And so he maye vse theym without peryll agaynste the humours whervnto they serue ☞ Lettynge of bloudde Cap. 6. THe parte of Euacuation by lettynge of bloudde is incisyon or cuttynge of the vayne wherby the bloud whiche is cause of syckenesse or griefe to the hole bodye or any partycular parte therof doth moste aptly passe The commodities wherof beyng in a moderate quantitie and in a due tyme taken be these that folowe it clarifieth the wyt and maketh good memorye it clenseth the bladder it dryeth the brayne it warmeth the marowe beynge in the bones it openeth the hearyng it stoppeth teares or droppynges of the eyen it taketh awaye lothsomnesse and confirmeth the stomake it nourisheth that whiche is proper to nature and the contrarye expelleth It is thought that therby lyfe is prolonged and the matter makyng sycknesse shortely consumed Wherfore lettynge of bloudde is not onely expedient for theym which are fulle of bloudde or haue aboundaunce of strengthe but also for theym in whome withoute plenitude callyd fulnesse inflammations begynne to be in theyr bodyes or by some outewarde strooke the bloudde beynge gathered within by collection therof doo feele griefe or disease Also where there is moche peyne felte or debylitie of some member wherof is supposed to be ingendred some greuous disease More ouer they whiche vse excesse of meates and drynkes may be cured by lettynge of bloudde But those whiche be temperate kepynge good diete be holpen without lettynge of blode as by fricasies vsynge of bathes exercise walkynge and rydynge moderately Alsoo vnctions with oyles and oyntementes called Diaphoretice whiche by euaporation do shortly euacuate the fulnesse All be it yf the fulnesse be of melancoly bloudde than alway nedes muste be lettynge of bloudde Abundaunce of melancoly bloudde is knowen by these sygnes There is felte in the entrayles or within the boulke of a man or woman a weyghtynes with tension or thrustynge outwarde and all that parte whiche is aboue the nauel is more heuy than it was wont to be Also moche vrine and fatty the residence or bo●ome thycke troublous and fatte sommetyme blacke poushes or boyles with inflamation and moche peyne These muste be shortly let bloude and the melancoly humour also purged by siege They whyche haue crude or rawe humoures muste be warely lette bloudde before that sycknesse ingender but hauyng the feuer in no wise Concernynge lettynge of blonde these thynges folowynge wolde be had in continuall remembrance and be afore thought on In abundance of the bloudde the qualitie and quantitie the greatnesse of the sycknes and yf it be presente or loked for also the diet precedyng the age and strength of the person the naturall fourme of his body the tyme of the yere the region or coūtrey the present state of the ayre the disvse of accustomed exercyse the ceassynge of euacuations vsed before In qualitie consyder of what humour the fulnes procedeth In quantitie the abundance of that whiche is to be pourged In syckenesse if it be dangerous or tollerable if the sycknesse be present it requyreth the more dilygence if it be loked for it may be the better proporcioned In diete the custome in earynge and drinkyng must be specially noted In yonge men and women lettynge of bloudde wolde be more lyberall In olde menne and yonge chylderne it wolde be scarser stronge men maye susteyne bledynge they whiche are feble may not endure it Large bodies haue greatter vesselles than they which be litle leane mē haue more blod corporat men haue more fleshe The time of the yere must be specially marked For in the begynnynge of

or feelyng● Annexed to thynges naturall 〈◊〉 be ●ii● Adolescencye to .xxv. yeres hotte and moyste in the whiche tyme the body groweth Juuentute vnto .xl. yeres hot and drye wherin the bodye is in perfyte growth Senectute vnto .lx. yeres colde drye wherin the body begynneth to decreace Age decrepite vntyll the laste tyme of lyfe accidently moyste but naturally colde and drye wherin the pdwers and strength of the body be more and more mynished ☞ Colour Of inwarde causes Of outwarde causes Colour of inward causes Of equalitie of humoures as he that is redde and whyte Of inequalitie of humoures wherof doo procede blacke salowe paale or whyte onely Redde Blacke do betoben dominiō of heate Salowe Whyte colde of fl 〈…〉 Pale colde of melancholy Redde abundaunce of bloude Salow chole● citrine Blarke melancholye or choler aduste Colour of outwarde causes Of cold or heate as englysshe menne be whyte Moriens 〈◊〉 blacke Of thynges accidentalle as of feare of anger of sorowe or other lyke mocion● Colour of heare Blacke eyther of aboundaunce of choler inflamed or of moche intendynge or abus●yon of bloudde Redde heare of moche heate not a●ust● Gray heares of abundaunce of melanch 〈…〉 〈…〉 te heares of the lacke of naturall heare by occasyon of fleume pu 〈…〉 fyed ¶ All the resydue concernyng thinges naturall 〈◊〉 in the Introduction of Joan●icius and in the lyttell crafte of Galene I purposely 〈◊〉 ouer for this tyme forasmoche as it doth requy●● a r●der hauyng some knowledge in philo●ophye naturall or ●●s is 〈◊〉 to harde and t●dious to be vnd●●stande Moreouer this whiche I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this fyrste tables shall be sufficient to the conseruation of he●the I meane with that whiche nowe foloweth in the other Tables The seconde Table THynges not naturall be so called bycause they be no por●yon of a naturall body as they be w●iche be callyd naturall thynges but yet by the temperance of theym the body beynge in helthe so consysteth by the dis●emp●tance of them syckenesse is induced the body dessolued ¶ The fyrste of thynges not naturall is ayre whiche is proprely of it selfe or of some materiall cause or occasion good or yll ¶ That which is of it selfe good hath pure va ●ours and is o●oriferous ¶ Also it is of it selfe swyft in alteration from hotte to colde wherin the body is not moch prouoked to sweate for heate ne to chylle for vehemency of colde ¶ Ayre among al thynges not natural is chiefly to be obserued forasmoch as it doth both inclose vs also enter into our bodyes specially the most noble member which is the hart we can not be separate one howre frome it for the necessitie of breathyng and fetchyng of wynde ¶ The causes wherby the ayre is corrupted be specyally foure Influēces of sondry sterres Great standynge waters neuer r●freshed ●arayne lyenge longe aboue grounde Moche people in small ●ome lyuynge vnclenly and slutty shely wyndes brynging holsom ayre Northe whiche prolongeth lyfe by expoulsynge ylle vapours East is temperate and lusty wyndes brynging ylle ayre South corrupteth and maketh ylle vapours Weste is very mutable whiche nature doth hate Meate and dryn 〈…〉 e. 〈…〉 and drynke we must consyder syxt thynges Substaunce Quantitie Qualitie Custome Tyme Order 〈◊〉 Substaunce some is good whiche maketh good 〈◊〉 and good bloud some is ylle and ●●gendi●th ylle iuyce and ylle bloudde Meates and drynkes makyng good 〈…〉 ce ¶ Bread of pure floure of good whete somewhat leuened welle baked not to olde nor to stale Egges of fesauntes hennes or patryches newe layd poched meane betwene rere and harde Mylke newe mylked dronke fastynge Wherin is sugar or the leues of mintes Fesauntes Pairiches or chykens Capons or hennes Byrdes of the feldes Fyshe of stony ryuers Veale suckynge Porke yonge Biefe not passynge .iii. yeres Pygeons Venyson of redde dere Pease potage with myntes Fate of swyne or calues Fygges rype before meales Raysons Borage Languedebiefe Persely Myntes Ryce with almonde myshe Letyse Cykorye Grapes rype Wynes good moderatly takē wel fined Ale and biere syxe dayes olde cleane brewed and not stronge Myrthe and gladnesse The lyuer and braynes of hennes and chykens and yonge geese Meates and drynkes makynge ylle iuyce Olde biefe Olde mutton Geese olde Swanne olde Duekes of the kanell Inwarde of beastes Blacke puddynges The hart lyuer kydneys of all bestes The braynes mary of the backbone Wodde cul●ers Shell fyshe excepte creuyse deaudoulce Chese harde Apples and peares moche vsed Fygges and grapes not rype All rawe herbes excepte letyse borage and cykorie Onyons Garlyke immoderatelye vsed specyally in Cholericke stomackes Leekes Wyne in muste or sowre Feare sorowe and pensyfenesst Meates ingendrynge choler Garlyke Onyons Rokat Kersis Lekes Mustarde Pepper Houye Wyne moche Dronken Swete meates Meates ingendrynge fleume All slymy and deauynge meates Chese newe All fysh specially in a flematike stoma 〈…〉 Inwardes of beastes Lambes fleshe The synewe partes of fleshe Skynnes Braynes Lunges Rapes Cucumbers Replecion Lacke of exercis 〈…〉 Meates ingendrynge melancholy Biefe Gotes fleshe Hares fleshe Bores fleshe Salte fleshe Salte fysshe Cole wortes All pulse excepte white peason Browne breadde course Thycke wyne Blacke wyne Olde chese Olde fleshe Greate fyshes of the see Meates makynge thicke iuyce Rye breadde Muste Breade without leuen Cake breadde See fyshe greate Shelle fyshe Biefe The kydneys The lyuer of a swyne The stones of beastes Mylke moche soden Rapes All rounde rootes Cukumbers Swete wyne Deepe redde wyne Garlyke Mustarde Origanum Hysope Basylle Fenell Chese Egges fryed or harde Cheste● nuttes Nau●wes Fygges grene Appulles not rype Pepper Rokat moche vsed Leekes moche vsed Oynyons moche vsed Meates whiche do hurte the teeth ¶ Very hotte meates Nuttes Swete meates and dryntkes Rodysshe rootes Harde meates Mylke Bytter meates Moche vomyte Leekes Fyshe fatte Lymons Colewortes Meates Whiche do hurte the eyes ¶ 〈…〉 Lechery Muste All poulse Swete wynes and thycke wynes Hempe sede Very salte meates Garlyke Oynyons Colewortes Radyshe Readynge after supper immediately Makynge great oppilations ¶ Thycke mylke All swete thynges Rye breadde Sweete wynes Meates inflatynge or Wyndy ¶ Beanes Lupynes Cicer. Mille. Cucumbers All iuyce of h 〈…〉 Fygges drye Rapes Nauews rawe Mylke Honye not well clarified Swete wyne Muste Thynges good for the heed ¶ Cububes Galyngale Lignum alnes Maioram Baulme myntes Gladen Nutmygges M 〈…〉 e. Rosemarye Roses Pionye Hissope Spyke Camomyll Mellylote ●ewe 〈…〉 a●kyn 〈…〉 se Thynges good for the harte ¶ Cyramome Saffron Corall Cl●ues Lignum aloes Perles Macis Baulme myntes Myrabolanes Muske Nutmigges Rosemarye The bone of the harte of a redde dere Maioram Buglosse Borage Setuall Thynges good for the liuer ¶ worme wode With wynde Agrymonye Saffron Clones Endyue Lyuer worte Cyhorie Plantayne Dragons Raysons greate Saunders Fen●lle Violetres Rose water Letyse Thynges good for the lunges ¶ Elycampane Hysope Scabiose Lyko 〈…〉 Raysons Maydenheare Penidies Almondes Dates Pistacis Thynges good for the eies Eyebryght Fenyll Veruyn Roses Celandyne Agrymonye

alredy sycke The brayne sycke Rauynge Forgetfulnesse Fantasye Humours commyng from the roufe of the mouth the eyes the nose or the eares Watche Sleape The harte sycke Difficultie of breathe Tremblynge of the harte Beatynge of the pulse Feuers Colde Diutrsite of colours Griefe about the harte The lyuer sycke Lacke or abūdaūce of humours The fourme of the body alteted Palenes Concoction Digestion Alteration of excrementes accustomed Peyne in the place of the lyuer Swellynge Difficultie of breath The stomacke sycke Concoction slowe or quycke Appetite of moyste or drye dull or quycke Separatiō of excremētes moist or harde with theyr colours Yexynge Belkynge Vometynge with peyne and difficultie of brethe Vryne moche or lyttel with the colour and substaunce to redde or to pale to thicke or to thynne The breaste Difficultie of breathe Cowgh Spyttynge Peyne in the breaste ¶ This haue I writen not to gyue iudgemen● thereby but onely for the pacyent to haue in a redynesse to the intent that what so euer he feleth or perceyueth in euery of the sayde thynges thereof to instructe his phisition whervnto he maye adapt his counsayle and remedyes ¶ Of vrynes Cap. viii FOrasmoch as nowe a dayes the most commune iudgement in syckenesse is by vrines whiche being farre caried or moche meued or standyng longe after that it is made the fourme thereof is so altered that the phisytion shall not perfytely perceyue the naturall colour nor contentes although it be neuer so wel chaufed at the fyre as Actuarius and other greatte lerned men do affirme I wyll therfore somwhat speake of vrines not soo moche as a physition knoweth but as moche as is necessarieto euery man for to perceyue the place and cause of his griefe whereby he maye the better instructe the Physition ¶ Fyrste in vrine foure thynges are to be consydered that is to say the substance the colour the regions or partes of the vrine and the contentes or thynges therin conteined Also forasmoch as in the body of man be foure qualities heate colde moysture and dryth two of them heat and cold are causes of the colour dryth and moysture are causes of the substance Moreouer in vryne beinge in a vessell apt ther vnto be sene are thre regiōs The lowest region in the bottome of the vrynall conteynynge the space of two fyngers or lytell more The myddel region from whens the lowest ended vnto the cerkele The hyghest region is the cerkle The hyghnesse of the colour sygnifyeth heate the place blacke or grene sygnifyeth coulde Also the grossenes or thyckenesse of the vryne sygnifieth moysture the clerenes or thynnes sygnifieth drithe ¶ The colours of vrynes ¶ Colour of bryght goulde Colour of gylte Perfyte dygestyon Red as a red apple or chery Base redde lyke to bole ar●enake or saffron dry Redde glowynge lyke fyre Excesse of dygestion Colour of a beastes lyuer Colour of darke red wyne Grene lyke to colewortes Adustion of humours Leaddy colour Blacke as ynke Blacke as horne Feblenes or mortifycation of nature excepte it be in purginge of melancoly Whyte clere as water Gray as a horne Whyte as whay Colour of a camels heare Lacke of dygestyon Pale lyke to brothe of fleshe sodden The beginnynge of digestyon Citrine Colour or yelowe Subcitrine or paler The myddell of dygestyon Whyte and thinne betokeneth melancolye to haue domynyon Whyte and thycke sygnifieth fleume Redde and thycke betokeneth sangnuine Redde and thinne betokenethe choler to haue the souerayntie The substance of the vrine Cap. ix AT the first pissyng all vrines well nigh do appere thyn as longe as they abide warme for naturall heate duryng the tyme that it preuaileth suffreth not that the lycour which is the substance of the vrine to con●●le or be thycke for any occasion but after that heate is gone some vrines shortly some a lōger time after waxe thyck lyke wise somtime some a 〈…〉 pissed thicker after waxe clere some remain stylle as they were made some be metely thycke as they were troubled some very thick grosse Thoi that waxe clere sone do gather that which is thick into the bottome of the vrinal some remayn troubled the grossenes not withstandynge gathered in the bottome Sēblably the diuersitie of thyn or subtyl vrines must be perceiued that is to saye that some are very subtyll as water some lasse subtyll some in a meane betwene thycke and thynne ¶ Of thynges conteyned in the vrine some doo discende downe to the bottome be callyd in a greke worde Hypostasis in englysshe some calle it the groūdes some the resydēce which yf it be whyte lyght risynge vp frō the bottome of the vrinall lyke a peare it signifieth helth if it be of any other fygure or colour it betokeneth some a noyance If lyke thynges be sene in the myddell of the vrynall they be called sublations if they approche vnto the hyghest region of the vrine they be named cloudes in latin Nebule The groūdes or residēces not perfite some is lyke lit ●e●le redde vetches is callyd in latyn Orobea some is like to brāne of wheat gron̄de seuered from the meale and is callyd branny residēce in latin Furfurea some be like vnto plates hauing bredth and length wythout thycknes may be named platy residēce in latine Laminea some is lyke to meale wheate or barley and may be named mealy residence in latyn Sunilacea ¶ There is also seene in the vrine like to white heares some lengar some shorter sōtune lyke to ragges somwhat red there is also sene in the vp permoste parte of the vrine sometime a fome or froth somtyme belles or bobles sometyme there swymmeth in the vrine a thing like a copwebbe otherwhile ther is about the cerkle as it were the rētyng of clothe sōtyme there is in the vrine lyke motes of the sonne sōtyme lyke the matter of a sore otherwhyle lyke the sede of a man also grauelle or sande And in these thynges maye be dyuers colours some whyte some red some betwene bothe some yelow some graye and some blacke All this muste be diligently marked and therof separatly to aduertise the Phisitiō vnto whome I referre the iudgement of the syckenes for the cause afore rehersed and for as moche as the iudgement of them is very subtyll Sēblably of ordure whyther it be very thyn or very thicke what other matter yssueth out with it what colour it is of the sauour very great litell or none yf it were easyly expulsed or peynefully how oft or how seldom Moreouer of sweat what colour it is of of what sauour yf in tasting it be salt sowre bitter or vnsauery Also the vomite yf it be of one colour or many yf it do smell horrybly of what humour it had most habundaunce yf it were fastynge or after meales yf it were peynefull or easy Likewise spettil whether it be thicke or thin or mixt with bloude or matter corrupt accordingly of the humour issuinge out at the nose yf that be bloude