¶Of herbes to be vsed in brothes. &c.
HErbes fitte for suche bodies, are those whiche be hoate and drie. viz. Hysope, Calamint, Watermint, Fenill, Sage, Betonie. &c. And when herbes that doe attenuate and make softe, bee with these
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HErbes fitte for suche bodies, are those whiche be hoate and drie. viz. Hysope, Calamint, Watermint, Fenill, Sage, Betonie. &c. And when herbes that doe attenuate and make softe, bee with these
compounded, then doe they easely clense and expuise al grosse and slymie humors, and therfore must needes be graunted cō∣modious for suche persones, & the herbes of contrarie temperature. viz. colde and moist, are as muche hurtful, such as Let∣tuse, Endiue, Mallowes, Spinache, and suche like, whiche by their colde nature, doe compact and heape together naughty humors in thinner partes of the bodye, hindring their passage or expulsion, for whiche cause the depth of the bodie is not purged, but the disease more augmented and a great deale the more when the pa∣tient through fonde and gredie desire, shal haue eaten herbes colde and drie, with a∣stringent facultie, whiche to the pacients are moste obnoxious, of whiche sorte bee these. viz. Plantain, Sorrel, Nightshade and of like sorte.