So that they esteeme more of a Page of the one or a pok-bearer of the other then of any Sholer whatsoever except my Lord Bishop or Mr. Parson this frowning of our Greats hath moved many poore soules flee first to Dowy and then to Rome and from thence post to hell having receaued the marke of the beast that is a bull of his holynesse to passe Scot-free at Purgatorie not being able to procure the favourable presence or gratious asistance of any noble for his furtherance in studyes and advancement in degrees in the countrie wherein hee was borne O what a shame it is to see a great Man without Letters Hee is like a faire house without plenishing a goodlie ship without furnishing to persue or defend a Herauldry without honour beeing lesse reall than his title His vertue is that hee was his fathers sonne and all the expectation of him is to get an other No man is kept in ignorarance more both of himselfe and men for hee heareth nothing but flatterie and vnderstandeth nothing but folly thus hee liveth till his Tombe bee made ready and then is a graue statue to posteritie Thus it is expedient to passe two or three houres after dinner for the well both of the bodie and minde that you may know this the better and so belieue it the rather Consider with mee alittle the passions of the minde such as joye sadnesse choler and feare Of the Passions of the minde Although wee bee often deceived in the decerning of good and evill following ofter the applause of the sense than the judgment of reason neverthelesse wee seeke alwayes that which wee thinke be good and fleeth that which we apprehend to bee evill Hence it is that wee are moved by diverse passions vnruled according to the apprehension of good or evill either present or absent the which passions according to the consideration of the object either enlargeth or draweth in the heart in the moving thereof they moue also the spirits and naturall heate so that the colour of the face is suddainly changed From the opinion of present good ariseth joye and of the good to come desire vnto the which choler doth adjoyne the selfe which is a desire of revenge from the apprehension of present evill commeth sadnesse and of the evill future feare Ioy comes of the heart inlarging the selfe sweetly for to imbrace the object that is agreable to it in the which dilatation it sendeth foorth aboundance of the naturall heate with the blood and the spirits a great portion whereof comes to the face when one laugheth by the which the face swels vp in such sort that the brow becomes tight and cleare the eyes bright the cheecks red An other part is sent through the members of the body Cupiditie or desire and choler doeth dilate or inlarge the heart also that through the desire of the thing it loueth this for to seâ—d quickly the spirits with the blood from the centre of the body within to the habite of the same without for the fortifying of the members that they may reveng the wrong wee haue received Sadnesse greife or melancholy in the contrare doth in such sort shoote vp or draw together the heart that it fadeth and faileth This hindreth the great generation of the spirits as also the distribution of these few that are ingendred whereby the vitall facultie is weakened and also the rest of the whole bodie shirps Feare causeth retire on a suddaintie the spirits to the heart from the rest of the bodie hence the face becommeth pale the extremities grow colde with a trembling through all the voyce is stopped the heart leapeth as it were that by reason of the great multitude of the blood and spirits whereby it is almost smothered so that it cannot move freelie Amongst all the passions of the mind â—oy is the most wholesome because it giveth such contentment to the spirit that the body is participant by a simpathy The reasonable passions are called affections but the sensuall are termed perturbations the passions ought to bee moderated for Plato writeth in his dialogue called Carmides that the most dangerous diseases proceede from the perturbation of the spirit because the mynde having an absolute authority over the body doth moue change and alter it in a moment as it pleaseth Wee should then affection the objects in so far as reason will permite for excessible joyes doe so disperse the blood with the spirits through the whole body from the centre to the extremities that the heart is wholly destitute of his naturall heate from whence commeth first a sounding and by and by death of excessible joy the Poete Phillippides the wise Chilon Diagoras of Rhode suddenly dyed And suddaine feare chassing the blood and spirites to the heart their fortresse frequently causeth death by the suffocation of the naturall heate Canon 8. About the sixt houre the stomack requiring returne to meate let your supper consist rather of rost meate than sodden because it nurisheth more in lesse bounds it is lighter and hath fewer excrements it should neither be too sore rosted for then it is saplesse nor yet halfe rosted for the superfluous humiditie is not driven out by the force of the fire Heere I can not passe by a great vncleannesse of Noble mens cooks who after that they haue sweeped the pot with the one end of their aprone and the plat with the other they draw off my Lords meate with the whole dirtie as it is and for to make place to a new speet placeth the same vnder the droppings of the vnrosted meate interlarding their owne grease amongst these droppings and yet the cooke dare not bee reproved for he in his kitchin is like the devill in hell curses is the very dialect of his calling hee is never good Christian vntill a hizzing pot of aile hath slaicked him like water cast on a fire-brand and for that time hee is silent his best facultie is at the dresser where hee seemeth to haue great skill in military discipline while hee placeth in the fore-front meates more strong and hardy and the more cold and cowardly in the reare as quaking tarts and quivering custards and such milk-sope dishes which escape many tymes the fury of encounter and when the second course is gone vp downe hee goeth vnto the celler where hee drinks and sleeps till foure of the clocke in the after-noone and then returneth againe to his regiment Canon 9. After supper it is expedient to walke a little softly for the procuring of the discent of the meate to the ground of the stomack this walke ought to be in pleasant fields free of all vnwholesome vapor which may procure vomite by the virulencie or the filthinesse of the smell and seeing this after supper doth permitte mee to visite the fields and take the air come foorth yee also who loue your health and consider the same with mee Of the Aire Such as the aire is such are our spirits our
liver Purpie cooleth much quencheth thirst holdeth downe Venus tempereth the teeth being out of stile by the vse of soure things Kaill ingendereth evill blood troubleth the stomack and the sight and moveth strange dreames Spinards â—ouseth the belly and moisteth the body but they are windie Bourrage and buglosse purifieth the blood and keepeth the belly open their â—â—owrs are good in a sallad for to refresh the spirits and rejoyce the heart Artichocks heateth the blood and provoketh Venus to battell they are good for the stomack and giveth appetite Cresson is of qualitie hote and dry provoketh vrine and is eaten ordinarly raw in sallads Menth fortifieth the stomack and helpeth the appetite Cerefole and Finkle is good for the sight augmenteth the seede and ingendereth milk to Nurses Parsley is agreeable to the stomack and profitable to the neares because it is diuretick Sauge helpeth appetite and digesteth crudities out of the stomack Hysope purgeth the lights from the flegme by the subtilitie of it thyme doth the same Rayfords taken after meate helpeth digestion but before meate they lift vp the meate in the stomack Neeps are windie of little nurishment and engendreth wormes in little bairnes little are better than the great they should bee eaten with pepper Carrets are worse than they Sybouse Onyons Leeks are agreable to pituitous and flegmatick persons but noysome to cholerians and to these who are subject to a sore head But I think wee haue eaten long enengh without a drink let vs now goe to it Of drinke in generall Drink as I think and so thinks the drunkard is no lesse worthie of consideration for the health than meate There bee sundrie sorts of drinke vsed among vs. as wine ale and beere for no man drinketh water with his will Drinke should bee answerable in proportion to our meate for if wee drinke more than serves to syne downe the meat and mixe it there downe the meat will swimme aboue and so shall not digest drink may bee taken more larglie with dry solide meat than with liquid humide They who haue a hote liver and a weake head subject to distillations should abstaine from strong drinke chiefly after their meat but these whose liver is temperate and head strong may take a lick of the best quale Deus creavit after their fruite quia post crudum merum It is not good to drink with a naked stomack for presently it runneth through the body to the nerues whom it debilitateth and maketh the body the more subject to cold diseases as the goute paralyse trembling and such like It is also troublesome to the digestion to drinke betweene mealles for it hindereth the same as water in a pot stayeth the boyling of it because while the concoction is making in the stomack the mouth of it is closed hence is it that men much subject to companionry and so to extraordinary drinking findeth their meate still rowing vp and downe some for their ease are forced to cast it It is not good to drink when bed-time draweth neere for readily it moveth the theume to fall downe except it were of water after too much wine eiat supper or before and that to hinder distillations It followeth to speake in particulare of drink and first of wine as best Of Wine Wine is verie profitable for the vse of man it stirreth vp the naturall heate and fortifyeth it and so procureth the appetite helpeth the digestion ingenders good blood purifies the troubled openeth the passages giues good colour cleanseth the braine sharpeneth the witte makes the spirits subtile and rejoyceth the heart of man as sayeth the Psalmist if so be it be taken moderatly Wine is of fiue fold difference the first is taken from the colour so it is either whyte or red yallow or tannie and black the second from the taste as it is either sweet sowre or of any austere taste the third of the smell being of a sweet heavie or no smell the fourth from the consistance being either subtile or grosse the fifth from the age as it is old or new Of all wine the red and thicke wine is meetest for the ingendring of blood next blackish grosse and sweet wine to them succeeds whyte and thick or grosse wine in substance and austere in taste last of all whyte thin small wine Wine as it is agreeable to phlegmaticks so it is hurtfull to bilious hote natures over old and too new wine should be eshewed the one because too hote the other because no heate at all The second drink is beere which as it nourisheth more so is of a grosser substance and harder digestion than the wine if it bee but new made or troubled it causeth obstructions and swellings it troubleth the head moveth the colick gravell and difficultie of pissing specially if it bee byting if it bee too old and very sharpe it hurts the stomack and nerves and ingenders evill blood wherefore it is best that is well sodden purified and cleare and of a middle age Of Water Although that water bee the most simple sorte of drink and the most common yet because of least worth it is put behinde Galen proues good water by three senses by the sight being cleare and cleane by the mouth that hath no strange taste and so not bitter nor sowre nor salt but almost without taste by the nose that it hath no smell adding thereto that it must be light in the bellie suddainly changed that is soone hote soone cold and that it doth not passe through sulphureous mynes or suchlyke There bee fiue sorts of water to wit of raine fountaine river well and stank Raine water although according to the weight it bee lightest yet it is not the best being made of the vapours which doeth proceed from the earth whereof some be of the rivers others of loches stanks gutters standing waters and of the sea as also of the exhalations of pestilent places and of dead bodies Fountaine water is best of all next river water last Well water the worst of all is stank water river water is the better it stand till it settle fountaine water the better it looke to the East and Well water that the Well bee not too often covered but that it get the aire sometimes Canon 6. After meate abstaine from all vehement motion or exercise all curious disputs or carefull meditations discoursing of some good purpose procuring laughter joy and mirth whereby the spirit may be revived and the digestion helped If the great men of the country knew what good these sort of discourses did for the health of the body and the recreating of the spirit they would with greater avidity drink in in their young and tender yeares letters for the better fashioning of their manners and forming of their minde And also cary a greater respect to Schollers then they doe and not studie only to be well versed in Arcadia for the intertaining of Ladies or in the rowting of the tolbuith for commoning with Lawers
humours our blood and our members for by that it furnisheth matter and nouriture to our spirits it passeth so quickly through the body that it printeth presently the qualities wherewith it is indued in the parts of the same and therefore there is nothing able to change more shortly the body than it so that from the constitution of the aire the good or evill disposition of the spirits humors and members almost doe depend we should therefore haue a speciall respect of the same For to vnderstand the goodnesse of the aire wee would not only consider the first qualities of it whereof two are actiue to wit heate and cold and two passiue humiditie and drynesse but also the second qualities taken from the substance as grosse or subtile pure or mistie cleare or dark wee may adde to these the qualities that flow from the state of it as constancie and mutabilitie equalitie and inequalitie A good air then hath no excesse in the qualities that is neither too hote nor cold moist nor dry if it exceede this measure it is better to decline to drouth than to waknesse for drouth is still more wholesome than raine It is also of a mediocre substance betweene grosse and subtile being pure and neate cleare and light constant and equall such an aire reviues the spirits purifieth the blood procureth appetite helpeth the digestion banisheth the excrements foorth of the body in good tyme coloureth the face rejoyceth the heart quickneth the senses sharpneth the wit and fortifieth the members so that all the actions of the body animals vitals and naturals are made better by it A suddaine change in the aire is evill but especially if it changeth from great humiditie and waknesse to great heate or cold for the raine having filled the body with humores the following heate doth putrifie them or the cold hindring their exhalation doth procure their corruption A contaminate aire with filthy exhalations arysing from standing waters dead carcases middings gutters closets and the filth of the streets all which if any where are to bee found heere which argueth a great oversight of the magistrats bringeth a great hurt to the inhabitants and a great good to the Physitians Apothecaries and bel-man corrupteth the spirits and humors and engedereth often a deadly contagion or pest High places as hilles are fittest for the morning-walke because the sun beating on them first doth dry vp the vapours thereof but low wallyes in midowes and about fountaines are most proper for the evening If Gallants the health and well-fare of your body and the care of the felicitie eternall of your soule doth not worke in thee a detest irreconcilable of drinking this tyme which would be spent in wholesome walkes and holy conferences let shame deterre you For what I pray you is a drunken man hee is one that hath let goe himselfe from the hold and stay of reason and lyeth open to the mercie of all tentations no lust but finds him disarmed and fencelesse and with the least assault entereth every man seeth him as Cham saw his father the first of this sinne an vncovered man and though his garment bee on yet hee is vncovered the secreetest partes of his soule lying in the nakedest manner visible all his passions come out all his vanities and these shamefuller humours which discretion clotheth his body becommeth at last like a myrie way where the spirits are clogged and can not passe hee is a blind man with eyes and creeple with legges Tobacco serues to aire him after a washing and is his only breath in a word hee is a man to morrow-morning but is now what yee will make him And should our gallants bee drunke the chiefe burthen of whose braine is the carriage of their body and setting of their face in a good frame which they performe the better because they are not distracted with other meditations whose outside when yee haue seene you haue looked through them yet they are something more than the shape of a man for they haue length bredth and colour their pick-tooth beareth a great part of their discourse so doth their body the vpper parts whereof are as starcht as their linnen they are never serious but with the Tayler when they are in conspiracie for the next device they are furnished with jests as some wanderer with sermons some three for all congregations one especially against the Scholler whom these ignorant ruffians know by no other definition but sillie fellow in black they haue stayed in the world as cyphers to fill vp the number and when they are gone there lacketh none and there is an end Canon 10. When the stomack is lightned of the burden of meate about three or foure houres after supper goe to rest and sleepe and because a great part of our life is spended in sleeping and lying wee shall make a little digression for its cause Of Sleepe Sleepe giveth rest to the facultie animall and vigour to the naturall for when the spirits animales are dissipate by labour then sleepe seaseth on vs through the meanes of the naturall heate which in the digestion of the meate sends vp vapours to the head the which being condensed and turned in a grosser substance by the coldnesse of the braine doth stoppe incontinent the passages of the spirits whereby the body is moved Sleepe ought to be quyet profound and of moderate length for sleepe troubled with dreames or so light that little sturre doth awake or hinder it is not good long sleepe is worst of all for it hindereth the evacuation of the excrements gathereth abundance of superfluities maketh the head and the whole body heavie and drowsie the spirits dull senses stupide and the members lazie Sleepe should bee continued while the digestion bee absolved which in some is sooner in others latter neverthelesse it is commonly ended in six seven or eight houres when the digestion is perfite then the belly doth the duetie the water is golden coloured the stomack is not bended with wind nor troubled with evill smelling rifts the body is nimble and quicke Choleriks should sleepe more than phlegmaticks that their body by sleepe may be made moist bairnes and old men theu young men or of middle age the one to hinder thee to fast dissipation of their fluxile and humide body through the open pores the other for the helping of his digestion after great varietie and much meate sleepe should be longer than at other tymes as also after heavie labour and long travell In your lying the head shoulders and the vpper part of the body should bee higher than the rest that the meate regorge not to the mouth of the stomack It is not good to ly on the back for by that posture the neires are made too apte to the making of gravell or stones the veine caue and the great arterie which doe leane on the loines made warme sends vp many vapors to the head and the excrements of the head that should bee evacuate by the
restraine pantodidactos extravagant spirit more ignorant than the Oxe or Asse while hee knoweth not his owne cribbe within the borders of his profession showing whatsoever his vocation bee Mr. Perkins superscription of his bookes Minister verbies hoc vnum age that medicine flourishing in this Kingdome not only my old Lord Doctor but also young Master Doctor may liue by the labour of his hands destitute of other lands In IO AN. MAKLVIREVM siue lyradem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AOnidum pater est idem est Asclepii Apollo Illius inventum est ars metrica medica Verum Asclepiadis citharamque Paeonis artem Musarum vt famulis tradidit Aoniam â—ieridum nato simul atque Epidaurii alumno Phoebus avus Lyradae donat vtramque lyram Macte lyrâ vtrâvis canones dignate modosque Tradere Paeonios ludere Aonios Ludebat G. Sibbaldus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Authoris nomen Mak. hoc est filius Lure id est esca PErge salutiferam sic impertirier escam Iure salutiferae diceris filius escae In Libri inscriptionem MIlitia est quicquid mortales degimus aevi Quà m fit opus clypci nemo negabit ope Mysticus est Mystae Medicae hîc Maklurius artis Porrigit ingenii nobile deig na sui Qnisquis amas sanam quoque sano in corpore mentem Sanus si es sanum qui tueatur habes In Zoilum TEntas Maklurii incassum discerpere nomen Livide praeclarum iam super astra volat Pat. Sandaeus Author ad Censorem CVM tua non edas carpismea dogmata Censor Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Candidus imperti meliora vel vtere nostris Aut alios nostro mitte labore frui The Contents of this Booke THE naturall causes of death Pag. 1 The vse of meate drink sleepe c. 3 Of phlebotomie or drawing of blood 6 A remedie for drunken cummers 8 Of Lochleaches Blood-suckers and wicked men Blood-drinkers 9 Of purges for the body 10 Of purges for the purse 18 Of vomiting 19 The inconvenients of long sleeping 23 Meanes for expelling the whole excrements of the body 24 The tyme terme and other circumstances of exercising 26 TOBACCO 30 Dinner tyme and meates in generall 38 A remedie for growne greasie bellyes 39 Of bread 41. Of flesh 42. Fowles 45 Of Egges and milk 46 Herbes for eating 51 Drink in generall 53. Wyne 54 Beere 55. Water 46 What should be done after dinner 57 Passions of the mynde 59 Supper tyme. 62 The Cookes good parts 63 After supper what and the Aire 64 The praises of night drunkards and vaine Rorers Pag. 6â— Bed tyme and sleepe 6â— Procreation with the circumstances 7â— Complexions 7â— Sanguineans and their dyet 7â— Cholericks dyet 7â— Melancholicks dyet 7â— Flegmaticks dyet 8â— Age in generall 8â— Bairnes meate 8â— Youths meate 8â— Middle-age dyet 8â— Old mens meate 8â— The carelesse care of a young lasse for old man 8â— The seasons 9â— The dyet of the spring 9â— Of the summer 9â— Of the harvest 9â— Of the winter 10â— A regiment for women with childe 10â— For women brought to bed 10â— For the child 11â— For the Nurse 11â— Of waining the babe 12â— Greedie misers godlesse heires 12â— Bairnes diseases 12â— The markes of both true and false conception 12â— FINIS THE BVCKLER OF HEALTH GOD the Creator made man with a soule immortall and a body subject to death being composed of foure elements of contrary quali 〈…〉 s which doth combate still amongst 〈…〉 emselues the stronger stryving to sub 〈…〉 e the weaker hence commeth many 〈…〉 eases and in end destruction Moreo 〈…〉 r our lyfe is sustained by two pillars 〈◊〉 wit by the naturall heate which is 〈◊〉 chiefe instrument of the soule and the 〈…〉 bred moist or sappe of the body which 〈◊〉 the nurishment or foode of this heate 〈◊〉 is the oyle in the lampe of the light 〈…〉 ich humour failing the heate must needs 〈…〉 rish but so it is this humour can not still last because the naturall heate doth dayly destroy it and although there be dayly reparation made by the heate and the blood that proceeds from the heart by the arters to all the members of the body yet the sappie or humide substance that is dissolved is much purer than that which by reparation doth succeede to it for our naturall heate being dayly weakned is not able to make vp her losses by as good as it hath loste as wyne the more water bee mixed is the weaker so our naturall heate and inbred sappie substance is dayly weakned by the apposition of new aliment or foode having still some thing vnlike the former Adde to these that the dissolution of the body is continuall the reparation but by litle and litle after many alterations heere yee see that the naturall heate devouring this our naturall in-bred sappe doth destroy the selfe in end And although that these things doe impose a necessitie of death to man neverthelesse hee may not only prolong his life considering heere the second causes only but also preveene sicknesse and keepâ— himselfe in health and that by the righâ— and moderate vse of these outward circumstances in themselues indifferent and â—o good if rightly and circumspectly vsed â—ut evill if not These are the aire meate â—rink sleeping waking motion and rest â—he excretion of the excrements of the â—ody and the passions of the minde all which are so necessarie to the lyfe of man â—hat it can not last long without the vse of â—he same for the continual dissolution of the â—ody requireth a reparation by meate Then â—eepe is needfull for the disgestion and â—estitution of the spirits waking for the â—xercises and functions of the spirits and â—he stirring vp of the naturall heate and â—est is necessare for the refreshing of both â—ody and spirites wearied and seing naâ—ure can not turne all her meate in good â—ubstance the excretion of the superfluiâ—es was needfull The passions of the â—ynde by reason of the objects that are â—ffered good or evill can not also bee â—shewed for the moderation then of these â—ircumstances remarke these few Canons â—ollowing Canon 1. It is expedient for the preserving of â—ealth and preveening of diseases that eâ—ery one whose age and force doth permite should everie yeare draw blood and purge and that in the spring because the body replenished with humors doth readily at that tyme fall in diverse diseases while as the naturall heate revived by the approching of the sunne towards 〈◊〉 doth attempt the expulsion of these humors out of the body from the which enterprise of nature ariseth a conflict if nature haue the victory man escapeth but if shee succumbe man dyeth that nature doth thus attempt the expulsion of these humors it is knowne by these intercutanean diseases as are itch pustuls byles vlcers and such like which wee see commonly in the Spring to fall out The body in the winter by two meanes is replenished with humors the one is
whose belly is become like the Britones who because of his wives insolencie that would needs mount her tyme about and of his owne big belly did apprehend he was with child I would have such greasie barrells for their healths sake to take a quarter of an houres course betweene the Castle-hill and Arthurs seate twise in the morning comming thereafter if they bee hungrie to their dinner made vp of an halfe pennie loaâ—e two egges and a cuppe of small Beere and after meate for digestions cause returning to their walke going to bedde without supper if this pyning of the panch doeth not make them light I will haue no money for my medicinall receipt Let these whose God is their bellie and guide is their taste for they inquire still to Iohn Good-Ales house and who are no lesse nose-wise than a browsters Sowe in smelling a dish of goode meate a farre off Diminish both of the quantitie and qualitie of their dishes and imparte of the superplus to their needy brother who is come of Adam according to the flesh aswell as they and may bee of ABRAHAM according to grace Christians by profession and who knoweth but Sanctes by election Did the Master preferre thee over his house and goods for the satisfying of thine inordinarie appetite and thy childrens only or to giue the bread of the children to dogges or horse as our great men doe rather than to the poore and shall not thou expect yea when the Master commeth get the reward of the vnjust steward amend or looke for it The supper must bee longer than the dinner if the body bee not subject to distillations because the tyme is longer betweene supper and dinner than betweene dinner and supper meate should bee well chawed or if it bee lett over for evill chawed meate troubleth the stomack hence it is that they who hath many teeth liue long because they chaw well their meate light liquide and meate easie of digestion should be taken before grosse meate and hard of digestion neverthelesse when the stomack is louse and verïe hungrie you may doe the contrarie It is expedient that every one should keepe a certaine houre for taking of meate and this houre should bee when the stomack requires refreshment the former ingestion being digested and the stomack emptie this rule is evill keeped by our morning drinke which sometime makes drunke and so not fitte for dinner our foure houres pennie that often buyeth a pynt of wyne-seck I had it never so cheape our collation after supper made in a three pynt tubbe I can not call it a dish of wyne milk suggar and some spyces I would content mee with it all the day long This much in generall followeth in particulare to speake of meate and first of bread Of Bread Bread keepeth the first ranke amongst all other meate as the ground of others for all other meate though never so good are without it vnpleasant yea vnwholsome The best bread is that which is made of wheate good wheate is grosse full thick weightie firme of collour yallow cleane and that hath great quantitie of flower Bread made of pure flower well boulted nourisheth much in litle quantitie but it is of slow digestion Bread made of the bran or clattes nourisheth little and filleth the body with excrements and because the bran hath an detersile facultie it goeth quickly throgh Bread made of both nourisheth well and keepeth an open belly Ry bread is black heavie engendring melancholious blood more proper for rusticks than burgesses Barley bread is very dry of little nourishment and louseth the belly beare meale is better mixed with ry meale that the viscuositie of the one may be corrected by the brtitlenesse of the other As for oate bread it is more vsed amongst vs than the goodnesse of it doth require Bread vnleavened nourisheth much but it engendereth grosse blood it is of an evill digestion breedeth obstructions and louseth the belly Evill wrought bread is viscuous of evil digestion as also that which is made of grumly or troubled watter when it hath not gotten eneugh of the fire it is heavy and of hard digestion that which is hardned in the oven is better than that which is hardned on the ashes Hote bread by reason of the viscositie is hard to digest procureth an inflation in the stomack obstruction in liver and other parts within the body Old bread of three or foure dayes losseth all the taste becommeth dry and withered evill to digest of slow passage bindeth the belly and engendreth a melancholious blood The crust of bread breeds bile fit only for these whose stomack is moist and humid Tairtes flammes pyes and all other sort of baken meate are more to the satisfying of the tast than for health of the body for they are heavie in the stomack and burdeneth it and stoppeth easily the passages of the veines in the liver Of Flesh. Beasts according to the varietie of their kynd age manner of living constitution of body and of the place where they feade are different in the temperature and vertue of their flesh The flesh of fatte beasts is better than that of leane and of libbed than vnlibbed because they are fatter and not so hote except it bee for these who hath beene in the battell where the vppermost gote the worst where stricking at their nighbour with over great force and too good will hath hurt themselues with their owne speare for such some say that a kynd of vnlibbed beastes are good yea the stones themselues The flesh of young beasts because tender moist soft and easie to digest and of great nourishment is better than that of old beastes which is dry hard of litie meate and hard to digest The wild beastes that keepe the hilles are dry and haue fewer excrements and leanner then others Galen preferreth the flesh of porks of a midde age to other beasts because it draweth neere to mans flesh than others doe and also because it nourisheth well and breedeth good blood but because it is viscuous it is hard to digest to these that hath the stomack moist and humide Moreover as experience hath taught the great vse of this flesh causeth leprosie hence it was forbidden to the Iewes because they were subject to this maladie Beefe nouisheth much but it engendereth a grosse melancholick blood young beefe is better than old Harts flesh is of a difficile digestion and as the beefe ingendereth grosse blood The goates flesh is better than the bucks and the kiddes than the goates Lambs flesh is better than Yewes and Wedders than Lambs because as nourishing and not so humide and slubbrye the Rammes is the worst of all Old haires flesh causeth melancholious blood young haires is better and more pleasant the Coney is better than either of them Of Fowles Amongst the Fowles that are about the house the Hen and Capons keepeth the first rank they engender a blood of a mediocre substance because they are neither too hote nor too cold