The opperation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise worketh in euery Complexion.
MVch eating & drinking in cholerick persons (if not excéeding∣ly out of measure) doth no harme, but rather conserueth ye good estate of the bodie, for of much fasting & abstinēce commeth great de∣triment to those persons, for it debilateth nature, cōsumeth ye body, engendreth chollericke matter, and sendeth vp sower and vnsauory vapours into the mouth, and bréedeth adustion of humors (especial∣ly little eating of meates apt and easie to digest) for if a Chollericke man will preserue his body in health, let him eat a meane quantitie of meats hard to defie, and a good deale of meates that are soone di∣gested. Also moderate drinking of small drinke doth much profite, for it cooleth violent heat which inflameth & burneth, & engendereth natural moisture which will humect the ayred and dryed parts by the rage of choller.
But much drinking of strong drinke, and hot wines are vtter∣ly to be eschewed, for they inflame the liuer, and ingender burning