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ground_n	grow_v	small_a	stalk_n	2,932	5	11.6145	5	true

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A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

be best used of young and hot bodies but is an enemy to such as are molested with raw phlegmaticke humors or wind The seeds as of all the others are good to provoke urine and qualifie the sharpnesse and acrimony thereof and therefore of them as of the seeds of cucumers and muske-melon with an appropriate liquor wee may make not onely emulsions to provoke urine and cleanse those passages but even in burning diseases of the brest lungs and other parts Of this as also of Cucumers may bee distilled a water very good against burning Fevers and other hot acute diseases The Cocumer as they commonly cal it challengeth unto it self the second place which came chiefly in credit and estimation by the means of Tiberius Caesar who scarcely ever either dined or supped without them The best way of use is as is the cōmon custome sliced and with vineger shaken betwixt two dishes and then with vineger oyle pepper eaten as a sallet They are very cold and moist in themselves exceeding the gourd They minister no good nourishment at all to the body of man and are best for the hot and dry constitutions and deadly enemies to the cold phlegmaticke body and such as are subject to wind Before they be big they use to pickle them up with vineger and salt and use them in Winter as a sallet and so I hold them best as having then lost a great deale of their crude and unconcocted moisture But a late writer rejecteth the use of them how curiously soever prepared and imputeth the raigning of many contumacious Fevers and other diseases in France amongst other causes to the too frequent use of this unwholesome fruit There is yet another fruit called a melon and with us commonly a muske-melon the French call them Melons and the Poitevins in France Poupon from the Latine Pepo which is thought was only a great ripe cucumer This is the best of the bunch as is the Proverbe howbeit in this our cold moist climat I hold them nothing worth This fruit moistneth very much and is by many esteemed to be cold in quality but for my part the sweetnes of their taste and therefore by the French called sugar melons make me rather of opinion that they partake of som heat or at the least that they are temperate Galen esteemeth them far better than any of the former as being of a more solid substance nothing so miost They stir up the appetit provoke urine and moisten the body They are pleasant to the taste but are easily converted into choler so produce both putrid Fevers and the bloudy fluxe as I have observed in France where they abound and therfore let our yong Gentlemen travellers take heed lest sweet meate at length prove to have sowre sauce They are to be eaten before meales as many Sommer-fruits and some counsel a cup of wine after them But whither that wil not too speedily carry those crudities into the small veines may be questioned The best grow in France Italy and Spaine and such hot countries and in France from Tours southward In and about Paris they are nothing so good the ground being so forced by art they growing as it were on dung-hills They may be discerned to be good by these properties following First if they be heavy of a pleasant smell if they have thicke stalks and the outward skinne greene and withall they must have the inward pulpe firme without moisture and the seeds sticking fast to it I have somewhat the longer insisted upon this point to acquaint travellers with the nature use and danger of such things as are not so common with us here at home CHAP. XVI Of Fruits of trees especially of shrubs ordinarily used for food and often for Physicke and first of Straw-berries Raspes Mulberries Goose-berries Currants commonly so called red and black and Whortles and Bil-berries of Barberies of Cherries Plummes Abricoks and Peaches IT is more than time wee come now to the fruites of trees which ministred unto mankind both in the state of innocency and after also his food for a long time But after varietie of other food was found out they were commonly served in for after-courses or as the French call it for desert But after a while when men beganne to neglect this point of good husbandry fruits became so dear that gold could scarce buy them In the time when Varro lived they were equalled with the weight of gold In Plinies time a Peach was ordinarily sold for three hundreth pence We will divide all fruits according to the usuall manner into those of a shorter or of a longer continuance Those of shorter continuance are by reason of their short continuance so termed called therfore fugaces or flying away as also Horarii as it were during but for a short season and such are Mulberries Cherries Peaches Abricocks c. The others againe are called of a longer continuance such as are divers sorts of Apples and som sorts of Peares All sorts of fruits minister but small nourishment to the body and most fruits yeeld but bad especially those of shorter continuance The cruditie is corrected by preparation whether by boiling rosting or preserving And some for this purpose use a draught of wine after them of the which something hereafter But here is a question moved by a learned late writer whether it be good to eate bread with those short continuing fruits or no He answereth that if they bee used as Physicke they are then to bee used without bread or any other food but if used for food then bread is to be eaten with them Amongst all these fruits we will first beginne with the Strawberry although no fruit of any tree yet because of the affinity resemblance of it to the fruit of some trees and shrubs I follow other mens method The antient Greekes it seemeth were ignorant of this plant although Plinie mentioneth it howbeit deceived in the description thereof while hee ascribeth unto it five leaves which is the right Pentaphyllum or our ordinary Cingfoile The Strawberrie cooleth moistneth and qualifieth hot distempers and therefore good in Fevers all maner of inward inflammations hot and cholerick constitutions They are of themselves no enemy to the stomacke unlesse it be very moist and phlegmaticke Their stilled water is very usefull for all internall heates and to cleanse the kidnies and urinary passages In hot stomacks and like constitutions of body they may safely be used with rosewater or the like Some use them with creame whereof I advise weake cold and phlegmaticke persons beware And yet this is a dish wherein our Gentle-women doe much delight howsoever not so agreeable to their constitution of body Some use them againe with a little claret wine and sugar which in such constitutions is to be preferred before the former The Strawberry is also accounted cordiall for the which cause it may well be used in

I thinke it shall not bee impertinent ere wee proceed to say something concerning this simple Of this mention is made in Genesis where it is said that Reuben went forth in the time of wheat Harvest and having brought home with him Mandrake Rachel begging them of her sister Leah she refused c. From whence it is collected and by some supposed that Leah used this simple as an amorous bait to make her fruitfull and to attract and so much the more procure her husbands love into the truth whereof we are now to inquire In the first place then it would seeme this simple was by the antients used to this same end and purpose and was for this same cause by them called Circaea or Circetris from that famous witch Circe Dioscoride maketh it of two sorts male and female the female he maketh lesser in leaves the leaves smaller and smelling better to the male againe he ascribeth greater leaves and the fruit bigger participating of a sweet heavy loathsome smell Of any pleasantnesse of smell Pliny speaketh not one word but whereas all agree that the leaves and root are of a loathsome and strong smell Pliny averreth that this apple or fruit doth yet exceed them herein but neither of them doe ascribe unto it any amorous quality S. Augustine affirmeth he found in his owne experience this pleasant smell in these apples and withall that they were of an insipid and unsavoury taste for the which cause he wondreth why Rachel should so much desire the same and acknowledgeth himselfe to be ignorant hereof unlesse she were in love with the smell and beauty of this fruit and the rarity thereof A late Germane divine who also quoteth this same place of S. Augustine is of this opinion also that this was not for any venereous use that Rachel so much desired these apples or flowers or whatsoever it was Galen giveth it no such amorous quality but ascribeth unto it a cooling vertue in the third degree together with some portion of heat especially to the root but the apples he acknowledgeth to be moister but in all he holdeth this narcoticke quality to be predominant Now by any thing which hath hitherto beene said there hath beene proved no amorous quality in this simple which notwithstanding hath beene hitherto by many very stedfastly beleeved and hath been the cause that many have bought such supposed roots at a very high rate Matthiole a late learned Physitian upon that place of Dioscoride above mentioned maketh mention of the cheating and cosening of impostors with this counterfeit root They take saith hee a briony or some other root in the which they cut out the proportion of a man and in the head place of the beard and other parts where haire useth to grow they make many small holes into the which they put some cornes of barly millet or some other graine and burying it in the ground let it lie untill such time as these graines were growne out and then with a pen-knife or otherwise cut out those blades of the graines in the forme and fashion of small haires and so sell them to credulous and simple people women especially who are perswaded that this is a speciall remedy against sterility And this the same Author affirmeth that hee learned of a notorious quacke-salving Mountebancke whom at Rome hee cured of the French pox who among many other cheating trickes confessed this also and affirmed that for one of those counterfeit Mandrakes he had had sometimes 25. sometimes 30. crownes Now the better and more easily to delude the simpler sort and more cunningly to picke their purses they tell them a strange tale of the manner of pulling up this root that it is very dangerous for them that doe it and therefore that they bare it about the root tye one end of a string about it and the other end about a dogs necke and the master departing the dog essaying to follow him pulleth up this plant by the root and dieth immediately and then there is no more danger either to the master or any body else And this fable it seemeth had its first foundation in Josephus who writeth such a thing of a root which he calleth Baaras digged up after the aforementioned manner Now this Mandrake root barren women sought much after supposing it did further fecundity unto the which they have beene induced by the mistaking of the true meaning of that place of Genesis And there is a learned late writer that laboureth much to prove this howbeit in my opinion to small purpose His first argument is taken from the Chalde Paraphrasts who both in both places Genesis I meane and the Canticles translate this word Dudaim Jabruchin in the plurall number the singular being Jabroach and the Arabians even at this day call Mandrake Jabora and Jabroach Againe saith he both the septuagint and the old Latine translation hath translated this word Dudaim Mandragora in both places Againe saith he Dod and in the plurall Dodim signifieth love or charity and therefore the breast and paps are also called by this name being as he saith the seat of love and in forme like this apple But the truth is that whatsoever faire flourishes these reasons may make yet in them is no certaine nor assured truth For as concerning the signification of the word he himselfe confesseth that the word Dod from whence Dudaim is derived besides this signification signifieth also a caldron and laboureth also to apply this to the forme of the Mandrake and againe Dod signifieth an uncle and Dodah an aunt from the effect of love and would have this Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the brest or dug derived from this Hebrew Dod or Dodim how well let the learned judge And he confesseth also that Rabbi Schelomoth in both places interpreteth this word Dudaim sweet and well-smelling figs others interprete it violets others that plant we cal Satyrium and some againe that we cal Winter-cherry and finally some translate it pleasant and well-smelling apples To come then to our purpose it seemeth this word is not proper to this plant onely or rather is a generall word signifying well-smelling fruits or flowers as doth appeare by the late translation of the learned Tremellius himselfe a Jew and his friend Junius who both in both these places where this word is onely found translate it well-smelling fruits or flowers in English indeed in both places it is translate Mandrakes Now if wee but consider a right this place of the Canticles it seemeth to stand to best reason that it should be translated sweet smelling flowers or at least of very pleasant and delectable fruit there being mentioned before it the vine and pomegranat and after all manner of pleasant fruits Now this apple of Mandrake take it at the best is not I am sure to be parallelled with the best and pleasantest fruits S. Augustine indeed saith it