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A88616	Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals, containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.	Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing L3245_pt1; Wing L3246; Thomason E1810_1; Thomason E1811_1; ESTC R30507	261,633	368

thick or lasting aliment yet in some it is most sweet soft of good juyce easy concoction and good aliment but the part exerted is harder the tongues of calves kids lambs hogs and sheep are of easy digestion and breed laudable juyce neats tongue is thicker but more fit for nourishment and not dryed the eares are cartilagineous nourish little except eaten with the vieine parts the eyes of those that are young seperated from their skinne fat bals and humours are of a tender and musculous flesh which is very easy of digestion especially the calves the cheeks if of young sat and carnose beasts are of good juyce and those of calves most tender the brain is pituitous of thick juyce hardly distributed and concocted causing nauseousnesse and vomiting and helps against poyson by its viscidity those of calves lambs kids and pigs are to be eaten at the beginning of meales the pigs are to be dressed at the fire being the moistest the pallate which is commended in the cow hath a certaine membranous flesh and is often used in pies the snowt in hogs is worse than the feet but better than the head The heart is hard of concoction and that of the hog causeth sadnesse it nourisheth little but if well concocted the nourishment is not weak or bad The lungs are of a cold and moist temperament pituitous juyce of easy concoction and distribution by reason of their rarity and levity some say they cause inflation of the belly they are of a froathy substance they are good for young men sick of hot agues but bad for strong and labouring men so light a meat not sufficiently nourishing them but putrifying in the stomach those of foxes are not wholsome but rather medicine for sore lungs they are softer than the heart liver kidnies and spleenes but not inferiour to the liver as to nourishment The liver of all animals is of thick juyce hardly concocted slowly penetrating that of hogs is preferred that of lambs and kids doth more easily passe along and is of lesse thick juyce that of goats is said to cause epileptick convulsions no lesse than the hee goats but the hogs with the fat is commended usually they cause obstructions The spleen drawing thick lutulent and melancholick blood yeeldeth also a like nourishment those that are reddish as the hoggs being tinged with a lesse evill blood are not of so bad juyce others are hardly concocted and distributed of an unpleasant taste The reines are of ill juyce an ungratefull sapour hard concoction those of kids and calves being neither hard or virous are commended others are of thick juyce betwixt flesh and kernels allwaies having a smack of that which passeth through them and being two strong for most stomachs after sucking The testicles being virous especially after coiture are hard and not easily concocted but those of hogs are preferred and those of lambs are not discommended those of boares help decayed bodies and cause lust so those of bucks and staggs The womb is of cold and crude juyce therefore hardly concocted and of little juyce The ventricle what nourishment it yeeldeth may easily be conjectured from its constitution it is filmy and therefore cold hard dry and glutinous it is of hard digestion generates phlegme begets obstructions and is the cause of many diseases soft and sedentary men must abstaine from it it being fit only for porters ploughmen and mariners The guts are of the same nature but those of lambs and kids are of an easier substance and concoction the other are farre harder than flesh hardly concocted of little nourishment unwholsome causing itches and leprosies c. The mesentery if of a young calfe and fat is good with a little vineger The udders of milch beasts as kine ewes do●s and shee-goats are of laudable taste and better than tripes being of a more fleshy nature the lean must be sod tender in fat broth the fat may be sod alone but each of them needs first a little corning with salt being naturally of a phlegmatick and moist substance The feet and other extreme parts of fourefooted beasts consisting ef membrans ligaments nerves veines arteries and gristles are cold and dry clammy viscous of little nourishment and hard digestion except of young and sucking animals as of hogs pigs lambs and calves also a tender cow heele is counted restorative and pigs pettitoes boild in barley water for the aguish the sodden feet of geese also were counted restorative The kernels are sweet tender and short yeelding a thick nourishment and if the beast be sound very good and being well concocted in the stomach they nourish as much as musculous flesh not well digested they breed flegmatick and raw juyce sc those of the breast of the other those that are soft generate phlegmatick blood the hard that which is raw the sweet breads of beasts are best first rosted then boiled their superfluous moisture being so consumed The fat hinders appetite gluts the stomach hardly digesteth turneth wholy to excrements decayeth the retentive powers especially that of greater beasts it relaxeth the stomach causeth nauseousnesse turnes into choller in hot bodies and is rather sawce for our meat than nourishment The marrow is the sweet of fat as it were secretly convey'd into bones sweet unctuous and pleasant of taste nourishing such whose bodies are dry and stomachs able to digest it it may be sod usually with capons cockrels and henns in a nourishing white broth or pies may be made thereof but it soone causeth surfeits of all that of the deere is counted by some to be easiest of digestion next that of a young mutton and that of beefe the heauiest that of a goat is offensive and that of lambs or calves not good being crude bloody and imperfect for want of age the chine or pithmarrow is much harder and dryer than the brain it selfe especially towards the further end of the back which drynesse makes it lesse loathsome to the stomach than brains are and it strengthneth that body which is able to concoct it some make candles therewith and yolks of new laid eggs to restore nature and recover the weaknesse of the loines caused by venery The tripes are farre harder in substance than their flesh long in concocting nourishing little and excrementitious ingendring filthy diseases The skinne of beasts even of rosted pigge is so farre from nourishing that it can hardly be well digested of a strong stomach This is the Vse of the severall parts of Quadrupedes there are diverse other things taken and made from them As milk which is the abundant part of blood whited in the breasts of such creatures as are ordained by nature to give suck serving for the young sick or old which if crude it 's to be taken fresh that it may not provoke flatulency and it is not good presently after bringing forth it may be corrected with a little salt or sugar if boiled it's lesse flatulent but thicker the

applied to any bare part of the body it preventeth the hurt by poyson The powder cast upon the bitings of venemous beasts cureth the same and benummeth the beasts being cast thereon also it helpeth all poyson and malignant feavers It helpeth melancholy quartan agues the syncope epilepsy vertigo stone and killeth wormes And is more effectual for women than for men The. D. is gr 12. Of which see more in my Pammineralogie The beast is about the bignesse and likeness of a Stagg Their hair is very fine like silk it helpeth when hot and prevents the inflammation of the reines therefore they fill beds therewith It is said also to help the gout sc Of that called Vicunas which may be here reduced Cat. Catus P. Almost every where In all Countries M. Of flesh fish mice birds lizards rabbits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Catul. and Schanar Feles Cat. Anon. T. The flesh of Conies is like that of the Cat both being sweet It was used formerly in banquets and is still used in other Countries after they are hung out in the aire that they may be more tender and sweeter V. Some count the Cat an uncleane and poysonsome beast Plin. The ashes drive away Mice Ponzet H. The braine of a Cat causeth madnesse being very dry in respect of mans And it so obstructeth the passages thereof that the animal spirits cannot passe to the ventricles of the hinder part so that memory being hindered those that are so affected seeme distracted The cure is by drinking twice a moneth drach 1. of the earth of Lemnos with the water of sweet Marjoram Also spices are to be mixed with the meats to recreate the spirits Wine also is good and sometimes drach sem of Diamoschu dulce there with yet a good order of diet may be sufficient Matth. The braine causeth the vertigo and stupidity which is cured with much difficulty It is to be cured by vomiting and the aforesaid remedies or drach sem of musk powdered drunk in wine Aet The biting of a Cat is cured by those against that of a mad dog But properly honey turpentine and oile of roses mixed and applied Or centaury applied with hony also the dung of a Cock applied with the fatt of the same Some use mans urine with Goats milk and origanum Matth. The Haires are poysonsome The breath also is offensive In so much that some affirme that diverse having kept them in their beds have got an hectick feaver or marasmus thereby And doe therefore often carry the plague about in pestilential times and offend many merely by their sight whom Matthiolus supposeth may be cured by such remedies as serve against the braine thereof Gal. The flesh of Cats salted and bruised draweth out things fixed in the flesh Their flesh is hot and dry helpeth the paine of the hemorrhoids heateth the reines and helpeth the paine of the back Which Iac. Olivar Affirmes Vrsin The loines helpe the like parts So Gesn Although the truth hereof may be questioned Rhas Albert. The flesh of the wild Cat applied helpeth the gout Anon. The bloud of a Cat applied helpeth the soares of the nailes and killeth the wormes thereof Rhas The fat of a wild Cat is of like nature with the flesh Sylv. The fat is betwixt that of a Bull and Sow Ms. The ashes of the head of a black Cat burned in a glazed vessel and put into the eye with a quil thrice in a day helpe the haw weft and web in the eye And if there be heat in the night two or three oake leaves applied wet in water help the same Gal. The liver burned and drunk helpeth the stone Plin. The same taken in the decrease of the moon and drunk in wine after long salting helpeth the fits of quartans Which Sextus attributeth to the dung hanged about the neck with an Owls claw The gall of a wild Cat is very good against the wry mouth The fume extracts the dead birth So applied with coloquintida water by a sponge or put in as a pessary so Rhas and Albert. Sext. Aesculap The dry dung applied with an equal q. of mustard seed and vineger helpeth the alopecia Plin. Some say that rubbed outwardly it causeth bones sticking in the throat to avoid upwards or downwards So Sext Plin. Also it helpeth the exulcerations of the womb Which is affirmed also of the fat of the Fox and marrow of a Calf in wine decoct in water with sewet Jonst The dung with rosin and oile of roses applied stoppeth womens flux A fat Goose being stuffed with the flesh thereof and salt so gently rosted yeeldeth a liquour good against the gout or joynt aches They usually generate in Jannuary and February making a noise by reason of the heat of the sperme scratching of their nailes They goe 56 days and usually bring forth 5 or 6 young ones They are enemies to Mice Toads Serpents the Vulpanser Eagle rue to their own gall sweet smells and moisture therefore some use rue to affright them from Pigeon-houses They love valerian catmint Their eys increase decrease according to the moon shine in the night Also they hide their excrements and love their old habitations which they will find out though carried away blindfolded Schrod The fat of a gelded Cat heateth mollifieth discusseth and mightily helpeth the diseases of the joynts Schwenckf Three drops of the bloud out of the caudale veine of a boor Cat drunk help the falling sicknesse The bloud of the eare helpeth the shingles The skin is woorn to warm the stomach and help contractions of the joynts Some use the secundine about the neck to prevent the distempers of the eyes Obscur The fume of the dung it being applied also expels the dead birth Aldrov The flesh draweth things out of the body and helpeth the hemorrhoids and paines of the back Querc The distilled water of the urine helpeth deafnes Chameleon Chamaeleon P. In Asia Africa and India or the Indies M. Flies locusts beetles the Antients said of the air N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Murilacertus Chameleon T. Jonst They are used for meat being cast into the fire and broiled The skin being taken off the flesh is very white which being boiled in a liquour like our butter is after eaten V. Trall It is also used in Physick sc against the epilepsy being boiled in a new earthen pot with oile He also maketh an unguent thereof against the gout Arnold Aldrov The tongue applied on his that is forgetful helpeth the memory Some apply it to avoid the danger of child-birth Marcel The gall helpeth suffusions of the eyes Plin. The heart in new sheered black wool helps the quartan ague With the root of the herb of the same name and hounds-tongue it causeth silence The liver dissolveth love And the intestines and excrements mixed with the urine of Apes cause hatred There are also diverse other things affirmed thereof which deserve not writing Gassend The teeth are in good order

body or loosening it neither strengthning nor weakening the stomach neither procuring nor hindering urin or sweat causing no alteration in the first qualities neither over-nourishing or extenuating the body but preserving it in such state as before and restoring little more than is daily decayed as the heifer calfe sheep lamb kid pig and coney As for the Temperature some are hot as the lamb hog pig in the first degree in the second the hare and roe-buck others are cold as the cow steere coney rabbet young hedg-hogs in the first degree some are moist us the wild boare c. in the first degree in the second the hedgbuck c. in the third young hogs and pigs others are dry as the oxe deere hare and coney in the second degree In respect of Taste some are sweet which agree well with nature being of a temperate heate and so fittest for nourishment they delight the stomach and liver fatten the body increase naturall heate fill the veines digest easily soften that which is two hard and thicken what is too liquid but if over sweet and gluttish they soone turne into choller stop the liver puffe up the lungs and spleen swell the stomach and often cause sharp feavers the bitter if exceeding doe not much nourish except first boiled or infused in many waters they otherwise engendring cholerick humours and burning bloud they kill worms open obstructions cleanse the body but nourish little or not at all and that which is is derived only to some speciall parts those made sharp dry the body exceedingly hurt the eyes and liver c. drawing down humours sending up vapours inflaming the blood fretting the guts and extinuating the whole body therefore they are to be tasted or fed upon their sharpnesse being allay'd with washing infusion oiling and intermixture of sweet things those made soure though they naturally offend sinewey parts weaken concoction coole naturall heat make loane and hasten old age yet they are profitable in cutting phlegme opening obstructions clensing impurities bridling choller resisting putrifaction extinguishing superfluous heat staying loathsomenesse of stomach and procuring appetite but if made soure without sharpnesse they strengthen the stomach bind and corr●borate the liver stay fluxes heale ulcers and give indifferent nourishment to them that eat them if made salt as such they nourish little or nothing but rather accidentally in procuring appetite strengthening the stomach giving it a touch of much heate for if very salt they engender choller dry up naturall moisture inflame blood stop the veines gather together viscous and crude humours harden the stone cause sharpnesse of urin and leannesse sc the accidentall salt not the naturall and inbred the fat if excessive glut the stomach decay appetite cause belchings loathing vomitings and scowrings choake the pores digest hardly and nourish little so if two dry and leane on the contrary it 's worse and nourisheth lesse but the mean is best the insipid are of weak nourishment yet extraordinarily they nourish some nourishment being according to the relish usually and the unsavoury nourish lesse and not speedily also what hath here been said of substance and taste agreeth also to birds fishes and other edibles As for the age the flesh of those that are young especially if newly brought forth is slimy soft moist and excrementitious especially when they are most moist by nature yet it is sooner concocted and makes the belly soluble the flesh of those that are old is hard dry nervous hard of digestion and of little and bad nourishment wainelings are lesse hard and dry than the one and more firme temperate and nourishing than the other but generally they are best for most complexions when they are almost come to their full growth both in height length and bignesse their temper being then best and so most agreeable to our naturall moisture being in a mean the same may be said of birds as of beasts In respect of sex the flesh of the males is more strong dry and heavy of digestion the females sweeter moister and of more easy concoction but the males are to be preferred being hotter dryer more laborious and lesse excrementitious when gelt as appeares in oxen and weathers when gelt they are more tender sweet and of an easier digestion as appeares in barrow hoggs they then being of a middle nature As for their feeding those that feed in moist and moorish places have moist flesh and full of superfluities but those that feed on dry places and mountaines are without excrements more easy of digestion and fit to nourish those that feed in good pastures are sweeter and more nourishing so those that feed upon sweet herbs also the flesh of wild beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer than that of the tame so likewise of birds And as to the preparation beasts after they have been fatted with goood food as often as they desire it in a clean and spatious place and chased then killed in their season they either keep relinquish or alter their property by preparation here therefore it 's to be noted that flashy meate and naturally moist should be dressed with a dry heate as in baking broiling frying and rosting and meats naturally exceeding in arynesse and firmnesse should ever be boiled and the temperate may be used any way if crude it 's eaten only by the barbarians if rosted it yeeldeth a dry aliment and often retaineth the excrements if adust it 's worse if fryed with externall humidity it 's sweet by reason of its fat humidity but by reason it doth not conveniently emit its internall superfluity but rather imbibeth more of the redundant externall it 's hardly concocted nidorulent and torrifieth the bloud if seasoned with salt and spices it is yet dryer if boiled it's dryer within yet by reason of exteriour humidity it moist●neth and descendeth sooner but rosted meat hath more of it 's own proper and naturall moisture that of the boiled passing into the broth and therefore it nourisheth lesse except eaten with the broth yet boiled flesh is best for such as are yet growing and so of a hot temper as also for such as are sick of hot and dry diseases and that in hot and dry countries and seasons of the yeare but rosted meats are best for those who are of a cold and moist temper who are loose and subject to cold and moist diseases if stewed being equaly prepared it generateth good temperate and permeable juyce if seasoned it 's according to the cookery Note also that flesh engendreth better purer and more perfect bloud than fish for sound men is the best sustenance As for the Parts of beasts The musculous flesh is more hot by vivifick heate than in birds therefore they grow larger the head is edible sc of the cow calfe sow boar kid hare c. but of hard concoction thick and viscous juyce yet of much nourishment the tongue is loose fungous humid and glutinous therefore it yeeldeth not a solid

cold the sweet and fat is moderately hot and more nourishing and of better juyce and the lean is farre worse the laxe is better than the close and the friable bad As for medicine the carnose parts as also the creatures themselves used alive or divided and hot applied to any member have a fomentative vertue paregorick and discutient and so are of great use in the phrensey headach and watching and they may be applied to the head neck and soles of the feet applied to pestilent tumours and stinging of poysonsome animals after ventoses they draw out the poyson defend gallings by the shooes from inflammation and more particularly every part respects its like as the liver the liver and spleen the spleen c. The hornes are cold dry discusse incide for the most part cause sweat and are alexpharmick according to the various nature af animals The bones dry discusse bind or stop fluxions strengthen the bones and ligaments those of the heele burnt help the collick c. The gall heateth dryeth incideth clenseth stimulats the expulsive faculty kills wormes applied it helps dimnesse and spots of the eyes and purulent eares and they differ according to the nature of the aliment and animal amongst those of quadrupeds the bulls is the chiefest that of partridges and hens amongst birds and generally those of birds are stronger than of the terrestrials The blood heateth bindeth stops fluxes of bloud more or lesse according to the various nature of animals and nutriment that of birds being for the most part nitrous doth incide cleanse break the stone and help suffusions of the eyes as that of the pigeon kite and vulture also bloud is hard of digestion moist and excrementitious that of geese swans hoggs and sheepe is used in sawce and puddings but it 's a grosse and fulsome nourishment except meeting with a strong and good stomach The tallow is hot and moist moderately or 1° mollifyeth discusseth and somewhat bindeth The siege is according to the nature of the aliment and animal which by the chylifick vertue is altered the excrements of birds being of a most hot nature are altogether nitrous and therefore have a woonderfull strength to discusse incide attenuate dissolve open and cleanse the spots of the skin but diversly according to the diversity of birds and their aliments those of labouring beasts are anodyne refrigerant discutient and are used both inwardly and outwardly The urin is the colamen of chyle and blood consisting of salt and a viscous earth mixed with phlegmatick humidity it heats dryeth cleanseth resisteth putrifaction and expels urin c. The rennet even all is of a sharp and digestive faculty and drying 2. Of Birds those most familiar unto us are the tame as the cock hen capon chicken turkey peacock goose guiny-hens duck and pigeous Amongst the wild feeding chiefely upon the land are the bistard crane heronshaws bittors stork pheasant heath-cock partridg plover lapwing cuckoe pye crow woodcock railes redshanks gluts woodsnites godwits smiring turtles stock-doves rock-doves ring-doves jays wood peckers stone-chatters thrushes mavis feldefares black-birds stares quailes and all sorts of little birds as sparrows reed-sparrows larks bulfinches goldfinches thistle-finches citron-finches bramblings linnets nightingals buntings waggetailes robin-redbreasts wrens witwalls siskens ox-eyes creepers titmise titlings swallows and martlets Others in or upon the waters as the swan bergander barnicle wild-geese wild-duck teale widgin fly-duck shovelars cormorant curlnes gulls black-gulls sea-mews coots water railes sea-pies pufins plovers sheldrakes moor-cocks and moore-hens dobchicks water-crows kingfishers and water-snites c. of which see more afterwards Amongst these some are of a thin and light Substance as chickens young pheasants partridg heath poulse godwitts all small birds when young wings and livers of hens chickens and partridges and their warme egges others are more grosse and strong as geese and swans others are of a midle substance as hens capons turkeyes and house-doves The Temperature of some is hot as of the gosling partridg quaile thrush in the first degree in the second the turkie peacock pigeon duck turtle others are colder than the former some are moist in the second degree as the turkie young pigeon ducks young quailes others dry as the peacock and heath-cock in the first degree in the second the partridg turtle thrush and blackbirds c. others are temperate as a young pullet crowing cockrel grown capon hens egges poched and all small birds when young As to the taste they are diverse The preparation after feeding with good meat as often as they desire it in a spacious place and rightly killed garbelled and pulled must be by boyling rosting or baking c. according to the aforesaid rules about beasts In respect of age the young are most moist tender and excrementitious and the old more tough heavy lean and dry and the full grown best As to the sexe the males are more strong dry and heavy of digestion and the females are sweeter moister and more easily concocted but the kerned are of a better nature According to their feeding those that feed themselves abroad fat with wholsome meat are of better nourishment than such as are cram'd in a coop and those that live in moist and moorish places have a more moist and excrementitious flesh and harder of digestion those that feed upon mountaines have dryer flesh more easily concocted and void of excrements the flesh of the tame nourisheth more than that of the wild and rosted or fryed they are dryer than boyled Also the purer their meat is the better they are themselves and those that feed upon flesh and garbage are not so wholsome as those that feed upon corne bents and seeds those that feed upon wormes and fishes at the sides of the water are worse and such as eate serpents and spiders c. the worst yet may be more medicinable and those taken by flight are preferred and those that have the whitest flesh are of easiest digestion the red fleshed are of strongest nourishment and that which is of black flesh is hardly digested and of slow nourishment and so much the worse by how much the flesh and skin is blacker As for the Parts of birds The combs of cocks some reckon amongst meats and they are counted aphrodisiastick The wings are of good juyce and easy concoction their crude superfluous humidity being consumed by exercise the Pinions are of like disposition with the feet of beasts yet those of geese hens capons and chickens are of good nourishment The rump which is most fleshy and fat in those that have short leggs doth often cause nauseousnes they are correspondent to the rumps of beasts having kernels and cloying the stomach The brain is more dry and hard than that of quadrupeds and that of mountain birds better than the other of such as live about fens and fields that of cocks partridges and phesants is most sweet and that of sparrows and pigeons is venerious but none are absolutely commendable

feed upon garbage carrion or cittie filth and the like are not so sweet wholsome and pleasant as they which feed themselves in seas and rivers they injoying the benefit of fresh aire agreable water and meat correspondent to their own nature In respect of place those that live in fennes being more muddy and lesse exercised are full of excrements most slimy unsavory last digested and soonest corrupted those of great lakes are better the pond-fish are soone fatted having much meat and little exercise but they are not so sweet as river fish except they have been kept in rivers to scoure themselves especially if kept in standing ponds not fed with continual springs nor refreshed with fresh waters those of rivers if troubled and defiled with the filth of great citties are bad for the stomach of grosse substance and of difficult excretion but those of clear waters are better than the lakish and they are best and most wholsome and light when they live in rocky sandy or gravelled rivers running northward or eastward and are best when swimming up highest but those that live in slow short and muddy rivers are excrementitious of corrupt juyce and of a bad smell and evil taste the marine living in seas agitated with the wind and boreal have very good flesh by reason of their exercise and purity of the wind and sea fish is not only the sweetest of all other but the least hurtful and though their substance be thicker and more fleshy yet it 's most light and easy of concoction and wholsome the salt water washing away the inward filth it 's lesse moist and clammy easier of concoction sooner turned into blood and every way fitter for mans body when the next continent is clean gravely sandy or rockey and northeast and not calme or muddy the pelagious living in the bottom of the sea are of a hard flesh hardly concocted but of much nourishment the littoral by exercise dissipating the excrements of their feeding are better than the former the saxatil are easily concocted of good juyce abstersive light and of little nourishment sc those that keep their place and feeding the wanderers by reason of their constant motion and beating of the waves have harder flesh the fossile have a hard and unpleasant flesh and sometimes have been so bad that all have dyed that have eate thereof the Amphibii living partly on the land partly in the water by reason of the variety of their meat and motion are hardly approved of also fishes of the same kind and species differ in their goodnesse according to the healthfulnesse of the place in which they live and some are better in the ocean than in the mediterranean and the contrary Note that be a fish well grown it sheweth it's heal thy if fat it 's young and new it 's sweet and keepeth but till the next day if fed in a muddy or filthy water it soon corrupting also sodden fish or broiled is presently to be eaten hot for kept cold in one day if without pickle or vineger it will corrupt and hurt the eater and if taken out of a pan it 's not to be covered with a platter least the congealed vapour drop thence and so cause vomiting scouring or corruption in the veines also before the eating of a fish dinner the body is not to be heated with exercise least the juyce too soone drawn by the liver corrupt the whole masse of blood neither is it to be sodden or eaten without salt pepper wine onions or hot spices all fish compared with flesh being cold and moist of little nourishment engendring watrish and thin blood though crabs skate cockles and oisters procure lust yet it 's not by great nourishment but by wind making sharp nature and tickling and such sperme is unfruitful furthermore those fish which are scaly and have a substance that crumbles easily are more wholsome than those that are without them being of a dryer substance but the other are more slimy moist and glutinous As for the Parts of fishes The head in some is edible as that of the mullet salmon umber and carp The tongue is tender and fat in the dolphin sweet in the carp and causeth venery ●he eyes in the salmon are tender and fat The barbs are counted delicate The neck and throat salted are pleasant and hardly vitiated The livers of the aselli are counted better than those of other fishes and that of the sheath-fish is so sweet that it causeth nauseousnesse that of the pike rosted and seasoned with the juyce of an orange is not inferiour to that of geese The sides of sturgians and lampreys are commended The bowells are commended in the scarus and are pleasant in the dolphin by their taste and smell The belly of the huso tasteth like hoggs flesh that of tunies is to be seasoned with salt vineger and fennel The lactes are commended in the huso and lamprey The abdomen in the tuny is fat and savorie The intestines are commended in the pike salmon asellus conger The ilia of the flounder are commended also The Ioines are counted good in the sphyraena The taile in the pike and tunie is desireable The skin of the tench is by some women preferred before the flesh The egges or spawn of perches broil'd of carps sod and fried of the pike salmon and huso seasoned are desireable but those of barbels cause pain in the belly As for medicine the crustaceous or testaceous are all of a saline and tartareous nature and yeeld excellent remedies to resolve the stone or tartar to help the strangury dysury ischury and difficulties and suppression of urin the collick passion and tartareous diseases of the lungs c. And outwardly they are used in dentifrices especially if burnt also they consolidate and dry chaps in the skin And all kinds of stones found in the heads of fishes powdred and drunk in wine help the collick and stone in the reines 4. Of Serpents there are few that are eaten or that eate them And as for medicine the body having the head and taile cut off and intrals cast away being flead well washed boiled with wine with aromatized broth is commended against the leprosy The fume provoketh the menses Boiled in oile with the flowers of cowslips it helps the gout The ashes helpe fistula's And as for the parts The eye applied is said to help epiphora's The heart bitten or applied helps the toothach The liver eaten is said to be prophylactick The gall helps bitings of mad dogs tasted caseth delivery and applied helps the hemorrhoids The blood makes red the lips applied cleanseth the skin and helps stinking of the gumms The fat with other things helps the french disease the palsey and gout boiled with may butter and strained and with bulls gall in pessaries it helps sterility The flesh cleanseth the skin and a dramme of the powder taken with syrup of honey helps the leprosy also it helps wounds and cut sinews The

henbane misseltoe chameleon hemlock sea hare juyce of carpathum dorychnium or pharicum or curdling being used fresh Crabfishes being poudered and drunk in water or the ashes help against all poyson especially against the wounds of Scorpions being taken in Asses milk Goats or any other with wine As also ruptures and convulsions It whiteneth the skin in women therefore it was used by Poppea the wife of Domitius Nero for that purpose who kept many Asses for that use it extending the skinn making it tender and removing wrinkles The urine of an Asse helps gallings by the shooe the itch and scabbed nailes As also the leprosie and scales or scurse about the rising of the Dog starre so Plin. Diosc Being drunk it helps those that are nephritick Plin. The same with S. Katharines flower helpeth all violences and suppurations as also swellings and impostumes It helpeth earing and moist ulcers The urine of a young Asse applied with spicknard helpeth blasting The same thickneth the haire Marcel It helpeth cornes and brawny flesh Plin. The fresh dung of an Asse being dropped into the ears with the oile of roses luke warme helpeth the dulnesse of hearing Marcel The juyce thereof with squills pounded and as much cows fat being applied as a cerot helps ulcers of the head that quickly do arise Diosc Both the dung of Asses and Horses whether crude or burned with vineger helpeth eruptions of bloud Plin. So if applied dry to the nostrils or any other part if fresh Rhas So the juyce with wine applied with cotton A plaister thereof applyed to the forehead helpeth fluxions Diosc Their dry dung when at grasse dissolved in wine and drunk helpeth against the bitings of the Scorpion Plin. The ashes of the dung drunk in wine helpe the coeliack and those troubled with the dysentery And if of one newly brought forth being given with mulled vineger it helps the vices of the spleen also The decoction mightily helpeth the colon The quantity of a bean being taken in wine helpeth the jaundise in three daies so also that of a young colt The ashes of an Asses dung applied with butter helpeth the eruptions of phlegme The membrane of the yong especially if a male being smelled to helpeth the falling sicknesse Plin. The wild Asse T. is of worse nourishment than the common Gal. The flesh is like that of the hart bull or sheep causing an evil juyce and being hardly concocted Plin. V. The milk and bones are more effectual against poysons The stone which ariseth out of the urine when killed helpeth impostumes The same being worne by women helps suppurations The gall doth asswage the signes of abscesses being applied Also it is mixed with plaisters against S. Anthonies fire which it is affirmed to cure especially it cureth the elephantiasis and varices The fat with oile of costus helpeth the paine of the reines and back which are caused by thick humours And the spots of the skinne so Avic The flesh helpeth against the paine of the back bone and hipps so Rhas Avic The flesh applied with oile sc that of the back helpeth aking parts so Avic Gal. Avic The urine breaketh the stone in the bladder Vincent Bell. The ashes of the hoofes burned help the falling sicknes therefore mixed with oile it dissolveth botches and the alopecia in cataplasmes Rhas The marrow annointed cureth the gout and easeth the paine The dung mixed with the yolk of an egge and applied to the forehead stoppeth the fluxe of bloud and with a Bulls gall curleth the hair Being drunk when dry with wine it is very effectual against the hurt of Scorpions Gal. Aldrovand The flesh of Asses being eaten doth infatuate making the eater like both in body and minde all meats altering the temperature and nature and the manners naturally following the temperature of the body As for medicine there is scarce any other creature yeeldeth more remedies The milk sucked out of the teats helps the tabes Aelian The flesh helpeth the tabes Marcel The hoofes serve to catch fish with Apollon The urine of an Asse helpeth the luxation of the uvula and the quinsey being given very hot Tarentin The dung of an Asse with the juyce of Coriander and fine flower made into a past is very good to catch Ruffes and Perches with Aldrovand Aelian The flesh of the wild Asse is bitter Scalig. The flesh when boiled continueth long hot and stinketh and being cold neither stinketh or tasteth well Pol. They are taken by hunting on horseback till tired Jonst Hart. in Prax. The bloud used behind the ears is very good against the mania a clean linnen cloath being dipped into the same and dried is used a part thereof being steeped in spring water The same Aelian affirmeth of the flesh The lichen burned powdered and applied with old oile is so strong in the producing of haire that it will cause it even on the chinns of women Savon The urine helpeth the stench of the nostrils The Asse also is used to carry burdens to plow c. The shanks serve to make pipes of And the chalked skinne for a palimpsestus serving in stead of a table book of the haire the Arabians make a certain cloth As for their differences and kinds some are great some little some swift and some slow c. They are all libidinous and bear hatred to the bird called aegithus usually pecking the gald places of their backs as also to the si●ken and to hemlock amongst plants They have a sympathy with the Scorpion and vine and live usually 30. years Their noise is unpleasant called braying Their diseases are catarrhes and the boulimie they fear the water yet are very thirsty Their generation is like that of the horse There are diverse other things concerning their moral divine use c. which may be seen in Gesner and Aldrovandus c. But neither concerning meat or medicine they are here omitted and left to the further search of those that love frivolous and impertinent curiosities Schrod The Asse is a melancholick beast and bringeth forth the young in twelve moneths The hoof is used in stead of that of the elk and is given for a moneth together in the quantity of drach sem Outwardly it helps kibes with oile it consolidats clefts discusseth apostumes and helps wefts of the eyes with womens milk the epilepsy also and hysterick passion is helped by the savour thereof when burned The bloud causeth sweat helpeth the unrulinesse of melancholy and diseases from inchauntments c. As for the description it is needlesse the beast being well knowne Badger Taxus P. In the Mountaines of Italy Helvetia and England M. Of hornets wormes apples grapes conies and birds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Tesson Faxus Daxus Melo Badger Platin. T. in Italy and Germany they are used in meat and are by some much commended some boile them with peares they as also dormise are not in quality much unlike the porcupine Savon Assimulateth them to the wild Hog Gesn

helps the purulencie thereof Vnc. 5. of the urine cure the Dropsy N ° 9. of their lice taken help the running paines of the joynts As for the former its affirmed by Jonston and Aldrovandus c. As for the description it 's needlesse they love the Goat and hate the Woolf Beare Tiger Elephant Crow Eagle Serpents Bees and Rocket They are hurt by aconite hereon prick-wood savin knotgrasse money-wort sheere-grasse pimpernel bitter vetch acorns and scortching fennel They will live about 10. yeares their noise is called bleating they are very simple even to a proverb yet the Rams are very fierce but they may be made to leave off their butting by hanging a board with little pricks in it over their fore heads They love cold springs and bite up the very roots of the grasse they have milk half a year They know their Lambs by smelling on their hinder parts Shrew Mus Araneus P. In England Italy Germany and other places M. Of the roots of herbs thistles and flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Hanaka Hisp Musganho Shrew Gesn T. they are venimous insomuch that Cats will not eate them V. Marcel The ashes with Goose grease cure the swellings of the fundament some use them against fellons and swellings behinde the eares Plin. The ashes of the taile help those that are bitten by a mad Dog Applied it cureth its own bitings The signe of their bitings are inflammation pricking paine rednesse a black pustule and livid colour of the next parts and after it turneth to an eating ulcer It is cured by oxycrat cupping glasses and scarification if not ulcerated use mallows mustard and pellitory else use the decoction of the bark of a sweet pomegranat and apply the same Also use worm-wood vineger garlick hot water colewort album graecum cuminseed barley meale leeks and vervain drinking the decoction of southern wood also lambs curd myrrhe and storax Sivet Cat. Catus zibethi P. In Africa Aethiopia and India M. Of Sugar and other things N. Zibethi feles Catus Zibethicus Civetta Sivet or Civet Cat. Jonst T. V. gr 1. Applied to the navill helps the collick applying hot bread threon It 's commended by Crollius in an ointment against the vertigo and apoplexie being used to the extremities of the nostrils temples and crown of the head In the suffocation of the womb it 's used downwards It may be adulterated with the gall of a Bull liquid storax and honey It s used also in powders sopes waters oiles essences and suffumigations as may be seen in Ambrosinus Schrod Civet is hot moist and anodyne It 's applied to the navils of Children in the paine of the belly Jonst Cardanus Counts it dry Renod. and Amat Lus It 's neere to Musk sc hot and dry 20. and helps the phlegmons of the Dugges Buboes and hard impostumes Applied to the glans it causeth great delectation in Women And it prevents sterility so the fume Put into the eare it cures the pain The smel cures the epilepsy cold soda it inebriats in wine helps the heart warms the matrice and causeth the courses They yeeld it as the Musk Cat. Sow Sus. P. Almost every where but hated in Scotland M. Of Grasse Fruits Roots c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ital. Porco Scrofa Sow or Hogge Gesn T. the flesh is the best of all fleshes and is best when not too fat Pork is worse but the other is of easie concoction and generats good bloud sc that of a midle age but the old and young is very bad it being the moistest flesh and phlegmatick the other yeeldeth great nourishment and neere to the temper of man and is better than that of Goats or Calves yet it 's glutinous and causeth obstructions When young it 's mucous and too humid yet the parts of motion are best The rest is soon putrified especially in stomacks filled with bad humours causing viscous phlegme and thence the Gout Iliack passion stone of the reines and palsey c. the old is cold and hard causing melancholy and long feavers Muff. The flesh of a sucking Pigge is moist 3° and causeth crudities agues apoplexies weakenesse of memory and corrupt humours and is hardly digested by weake stomaks not the coat by the strong it is best dressed being stuffed with salt and sage Pork however prepared is thought by some to have quid flatuosum cacochymicum febrile when powdered it's best to be eaten with green sauce to coole the salt and qualifie the malignity of the flesh The bacon is of harder digestion therefore both as also brawn are not to be eaten without wine or strong bear spiced with ginger and exercise after them The har●net is stopping and of bad nourishment yet the liver of Pigges is counted nourishing but their Lungs are very phlegmatick and waterish V. Aet Young Pigges applied warme help venimous bitings drawing forth the poyson and easing the paine Pelagon The bloud given warme helpeth pneumonick Horses see Boare Aet The decocted old salt flesh stamped with old sharp cheese helpeth the hardnesse of the joynts Scrab The wounds of Elephants are helped by butter drawing out Iron fomenting the ulcers with Swines flesh The ashes of the salted flesh is drying The bloud of Swine is moist and lesse hot very like to mans temper Eumel The bloud being given hot to Horses with wine helps the coolenesse thereof Some use the distilled liquour thereof with juniper berries agrimony rue phu scabious fluellin burnet succory pennyroyal and treacle against the plague apostumes of the sides or ribes diseases of the liver or spleen inflation of the spleen corruption of the bloud feaver swellings trembling of the heart dropsy heat besides nature ill humours and chiefely poysons and pestilent feavers drinking 4. or 5. drops thereof The warm bloud kills warts Plin. With the braine it helps the carbuncles of the privities That of a Sow applied to the teats helpeth the growing of the same Gal. or that of a Hogge The fat is lesse hot than that of the Goat and lesse moist as also than that of other beasts being lesse hot and dry and nere to the nature of man that of Bulls is much more hot and dry Plin. Axunge is used to mollifie heat discusse and purge and is more strong when salted Diosc And helpeth the pleuresie being washed in Wine With ashes or lime it cureth inflammations fistula's and tumours Aeg. It 's of the nature of that of Foxes yet that is more hot and lesse moist Plin. With the ashes of Vines it helps against tumours the bites of Scorpions and Dogs with oile or with castoreum and hore-hound Diosc So with the froth of Nitre With quicksilver it helpeth the french pocks Seren. It helps the stiffenesse of the neck the hammes being anointed therewith Myreps With quicksilver it cureth the scab and itch With quicksilver oile of bayes and the juyce of fumitory used to the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet thrice in a day it expels the

mans flesh and menstruous bloud c. They hate salt and stinks the Cat Mole and Spider They walk in the night The antidote is mithridate and triacle c. Tortise Testudo P. In the deserts of Africa Lybia and Mauritania M. Of a roscid liquour herbs worms snailes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Homet Chersina Tortise T. Jonst Scapp Ambrosin The flesh is often eaten in the Indies with saffron aromatick powders V. Plin. The flesh is used in suffumigations in physick and against poyson In Africa the head and feet being cut off they are used as an antidote and being boiled and eaten discusse botches and help the spleen and epilepsy The bloud cleareth the eyes and helps against the poyson of Spiders and Froggs c. the pills thereof being taken in wine The gall with attick honey helps the glaucoma and wounds of Scorpions The ashes of the shell with wine and oile help the clefts of the feet and ulcers The scales drunk restraine lust The urine helps the bitings of Asps The eggs help botches and ulcers and the paine of the stomach being drunk Gal. The liver is used in a pessary against the strangling of the womb V. Unicorne Vnicornu P. In the East Indies and West Indies and other places M. Their meat is not observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Reem Arab. Alchercheden UNicorne Gesn T. The flesh is bitter and unfit to be eaten like that of the Indian Asse V. The horne being powdered and drunk in water expelleth poyson with amber ivory leafe gold and coral c. It 's much commended against pestilent feavers Mundel and the bitings of mad Doggs and other poysonsome beasts as also against wormes and many great sicknesses and the epilepsy Schrod The horne is sudorifick alexipharmick and cardiack and is therefore good against contagious diseases c. the D. is from gr 4. to scrup sem and more Bac. It 's woorne also as an amulet As for their description in body they are not much unlike a horse but cloven hoofed and have a long horne in their foreheads Tops They are of a dusty colour with a maned neck hairy forehead and a white and smooth horne serving to expel and dissolve all poyson if put into the water after the drinking of any poysonsome beast It sweateth if venim be nigh It weigheth thirteen pound They fight with their mouth and feet They hate the female except at the time of lust but love stranger beasts and maids and are taken by them dressed with sweet herbs W. Weasel Mustela P. Almost every where In England and other places M. Of Mice Moles Serpents Hares eggs N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Choled Chald. Chulda Arab. Caldah WEasel T. V. Vrsin The flesh cureth feavers Aetius maketh an acopon thereof against the gout and paine of the joynts so the ashes and with wine help the epilepsy and headach Albert. It 's good against the stingings of Scorpions Marcel The bloud helps exulcerated botches Gal. It 's of the nature of the Hedghog Avic And drunk in wine helps against poysons drach 2. being taken in wine so Diosc And Gal. Albert. Some adde rue also Gal. It helps the epilepsy Plin. Sext. Aesculap The bloud and ashes help the elephantiasis Marcel some adde the bloud of an Elephant Plin. The ashes helpe botches with those of swallowes Plin. They help suffusions in the eyes and catarrhes with honey so Marcel Plin. Marcel with wax it helps the paines of the shoulders Diosc The ashes with vineger help the gout Plin. Marcel So with the oile of roses amylum or gum dragant Plin. The old brain drunk helps the epilepsy Rhas So with vineger Rhas The bloud applied helps impostumes behind the eares so Archig Sext. And evils of the throat so Isid It mollifieth contracted nerves and helps the paine of the joynts Gal. The liver helps the epilepsy drunk in water Sext. With the gall of a Hare castorcum myrrhe vineger and honey it helps the vertigo The gall is good against aspes Rhas Taken inwardly it kills Plin. The testicles and womb help against the epilepsy and the lethargy smelled to The ashes of the dung may be used in stead of spodium Stumpf. Their biting is venimous but it may be cured by onions and garlick being applied and eaten Figs also are good with the meale of bitter vetches and triacle applied also figg leaves Camerar Their bitings in cattle may be cured by oile in which it hath been steeped giving treacle inwardly Jonst The decoction sprinkled on seed corne keepeth Mice from it The lungs help diseases of the lungs Matth. The gall with the juyce of sennel cleareth the eyes and skinn The genital helps the strangury As for the description it 's needlesse They hate the Crow Hen and Cat. When they fight with Serpents they use rue Weather Vervex P. Almost every where in England and other countries M. Of grasse hay and shrubs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aries castratus Sectarius Weather Avic T. Of mutton that of the weather is the best especially when about a yeare old Cresc And is worse after See Ram. Platin. It is better than Lamb being hot and moist and tending to temperatenesse See Sheep V. Leonel Fav A bath made of the head with the feet intestines and barly boiled in water helpeth spasmes all fatt and moistning things being good for the same purpose Tops They are loved by the Lambs and being unapt to generation therefore they keepe company with them but the Ewes forsake them for that reason and the Rams cannot endure them The time for castration is in the wane or decrease of the Moon at five months old so that they may not be troubled with heat or cold they may be libbed also at two or three yeares of age and then their hornes grow not but their flesh and lard or sewet is more acceptable than of any other Sheep except very old being neither so moist as Lambs nor so rank as a Rams or Ewes And is hot and moist Woolfe Lupus P. In the north countries Scotland and Muscovia M. Of flesh chiefely mutton and mans flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Zeeb Arab. Dib Chald. Deeba Woolfe Gesn T. The flesh as also that of all wild beasts that feed on flesh and are rapacious is nor used in meat except by Pagans It is cold foetid dry and grosse So Rhas and Albert. Colder than that of a Dog Avic Bell. Some commend the flesh as good for a cold moist and weake stomach and the hemorrhoids The flesh of all rapacious creatures causeth black choller the worst is that of Woolfes and Doggs corrupting both the humours and mind so Rhas Albert. Rhas With a little pepper and despumated honey it helps the collick V. Plin. The decoction helps the gout Hal. The skinne worne by him that is bitten by a mad Dog prevents hydrophoby Rhas Albert. The skinne worne about the belly of one troubled with the collick helpeth it Gal.

serum being boyled away and so is apt to obstruct the veines if caseous it nourisheth much but is lesse wholsome if butyrous it 's somewhat more viscous more difficultly distributed and causeth inflations if serous it nourisheth least but presently passeth through the belly if of lean beasts it nourisheth little if of fat it causeth danger of a convulsion if of black it 's better than that of white beasts if milked after delivery that which is most liquid and thin is after more thickned the best is that which is tepid of equall substance not quickly running off the naile if put thereon light not viscous but sweet without smell white somewhat shining and taken from a sound beast of good feeding that hath good dugs The most usuall are the womans which is the best the cowes is thicker fatter more nutritive obstructive and hardly concocted the sheeps is worse and obstructeth more the goats is a little hotter than the former of a thinner substance more nourishment and sooner passeth away the mares is very thin hot and detersive the asses is colder than the rest thinner and more serous lesse nutritive and obstructing and cleanseth without acrimony and mord●eity of all which see more in their proper places here note that the milk of any beast chewing the cud is bad for rheumes coughs feavers headach obstructions inflammations sore eyes shaking sinewes young men cramps convulsions the stone teeth the camels is the best of those that chew not the cudde being sweetest and thinnest also all is thinnest in the spring and thickest in the summer and that of horned beasts is not to be eaten uns●dden it so not curdling or easily engendring wind but that of women asses or mares will never curdle into any hard substance raw the other is to be seasoned with salt sugar or hony abstaining from wine or foure things after it eating it upon an empty stomach and fasting an houre after it abstaining from exercise and sleep after that of beasts chewing the cud and cleansing the teeth after it it 's best for children and old men in the marasinus atrophie and phthisick and the camels for the first the womans for the second and asses for the third being of a middle age kept cleane fed with grinded malt and a little fennel seed then drink the milk morning and evening with sugar of roses also shee is to be kept in fine leaze or with good hay in winter and red cowes milk may be the substitute so fed also milk is in active qualities temperate inclining to cold in the passive moist by the fat and watry substance thickning by the cheesy abstersive by the serous and asswaging by the butyrous quality and the best is soon turned into blood and fattens the healthfull and clean but is soon soured in cold stomacks adust in the chollerick and swels the stomach and guts The whey as to its aqueous substance and phlegmatick doth refrigerate and moisten and cleanseth as to that which is sharp salt and bilious The butter helpeth the breast and lungs bringeth forth spittle helpeth hot and dry coughs if taken much it looseneth the belly and hath a faculty of digesting discussing concocting and gently evacuating but if old it groweth acrimonious also butter is hot and moist 1° and almost of the same nature as oile of ripe olivers but it 's more moist than hot the stale is hotter and thinner and the new almost temperate in the active qualities it nourisheth and fattens if too much used it loosens hurts retention of the stomach takes away the appetite and begets a naufeousnesse and it 's therefore to be avoided by those who are subject to loosenesse as also by men of hot complexions who turn it into choller it is to be eaten first it quickly descending into the belly and making way for other meats but if it be eaten last it loosens the stomach and hinders the orifice from embracing the meat and closing up hastning meat into the belly before it be concocted it 's rheumatick and easily converted into oily fumes hurtfull to the throat and head and fluxes of blood humours or sperme and it 's rather to be used as sawce and physick than as meat to feed upon it 's best at breakfast tollerable at the beginning of dinner but no way good at supper it hindring sleep and sending up unpleasant vapours to annoy the brain it is also best for children whilest they are growing and for old men decaying but unwholsome betwixt those two ages hot stomachs turning it into choller and the weak not concocting it it floating in the stomach the fattest is made of sheeps milk the strongest of goats milk and the best and most of cowes milk of which see more afterwards The creame which is either the flower of raw milke taken from it without fire after it hath stood in a cold place or the other from it when sod or clouted creame the first of which though pleasant yet weakeneth concoction hindereth retention and is of harder digestion than any milk the last used in tarts fooles and custards is lesse offensive and of better nourishment but it 's to be eaten first it being light and unctuous some count the former to be like butter and to agree with it in vertues and qualitie the other is of thick juyce helps hot defluxions and watching The curds which are fresh without salt or runnet or the other with the one or both are both utterly unwholsome when of skimmed milke clamming the stomach stopping the veines and passages speedily breeding the stone and many mischiefes but if they be equally mixed with the butterish part the cheese made thereof is wholsome except age or ill ordering hath done hurt The cheese if new sweet and fresh nourisheth much the middle aged nourisheth strongly but the old and dry hurteth dangerously it stopping siege obstructing the liver causing the stone choller and melancholy lying long in the stomach undigested procuring thirst making a stinking breath and a scurvy skin so that no more thereof is to be eaten than to close up the mouth of the stomach after meat though the fresh may be eaten more liberally of as to the Differences the good is neither too soft or hard close or spongy clammy or crumbling salt or unsavory dry or weeping pleasantly or strongly smelling easily melting in the mouth and never burning when tosted at the fire Also that of ewes milke is soonest digested that of cowes more nourishing and the goats most when new and soft for it soon becomes dry earthy and crumbling the best is counted that of Banbury Cheshire the Holland cheese with salt Also the old is hot and acrimonious when new cold moist more windie lesse provoking thirst and binding making fat helping the stomach easily distributed yet hard of digestion causing the stone c. the stinking is worst the sharp and salt is hot and dry and causeth thirst and evil juyce the sower is of evil juyce and