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ANd this scarsenes of mete can nat onely be borne, but also maye easely be borne, and that through the ver∣tue of Guaiacum: whiche after the bodye is ones brought downe, doth bothe preserue the life
and also causeth that the sycke shal not nede to eate any thynge at all. Therfore dydde I not without a cause gyue warnynge, that the syck shulde absteyne from meate as mo∣che as may be. And if he wax feble or faint, he may not be holpen with meate, but with the swete sa••ours, which I speke of, as mo¦che as is possible / put to his mouthe, and specially with hote breadde. But if any fele hym selfe to be wasted and redye to slyde away throughe weakenes. Whiche thynge howe it shulde chaunce in any manne, I can not telle: for in me there happened no suche thynge at all, that I neded any maner help: Than I wolde counsayle hym to vse these thynges, whiche Plinie thynketh easeth hun¦ger, and quencheth thyrste, whan they be very fy••tell tasted of, that is butter and ly∣keresse, reclisse lykoresse. Orels in this thing we muste folowe Celsus, which sayth thus: This one thynge muste alwayes be ob••er∣••ed, that the phisition be often tymes cau∣sed to sytte by the patient, to consyder what ••••rengthe he is of, and to cause hym as lōge as he hath any strēgth to wrastle and fight with hunger. And if he begynne to doubte of his weakenes, to helpe hym with meate. Excepte any had leuer folowe that, whiche
Gellius sayth, that Erastrate dydde write / that the Scythians / whan they for somme cause muste nedes suffer hunger, do thruste together their bely and binde it round about very straitly with brode ••wadlyng bondes, thynkyng that by suche pressynge to gether of theyr bealy, hunger may be putte away / or the easelyer borne. For seing, as he saith, hunger cometh of emptynes, and is caused of the voydnes and holownesse of the in∣trayles / and of the bealy, than whan the bealy is gyrde in harde, so that the empty∣nes is fylled / & the holownes ioyned, there can be no hunger where as these thynges be not, and vtterlye forbearynge of meate / may lightly be born. But why say I, vtterly forbearynge of meate / whiche can not be in this cure? I may wel calle it honger / what so euer it be, that any abydeth. For it maye be suffred well and easely / though a manne take nothynge in the worlde to helpe it. But vnto these deynteous sycke persones what thynge can be lyght? whiche can not onely suffer no hunger, but also not to haue a sto∣make vnto meate, they thynke it intollera∣ble. For the whiche if at any tyme they be sycke, we mought praye god, that they ne∣uer recouer / consyderynge they esteme hit a
greatte grefe to bye helthe with a lyttell sufferynge.
¶Of these maner persones if I speke some what largely, I do it after myn accustomed maner, specially whan I perceyue many of my countrey men the Almaynes, to erre in this behalfe.