Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

De Sapore salso. cap. 46.

SAlt sauour commeth of heat & drines in meane substance, for passing heat & drines openeth many pores & holes: for drines with heat laxeth 〈…〉〈…〉 & vnsend∣eth & constraineth & bendeth w^t colde, & therfore much substaunce therof entreth vnto y^e pores, & for y^e parts be greatly de∣parted, & much substance entreth & com∣meth therin: therfore y^e soule hath not li∣king in y^e presence of it, hath disly∣king therof. In Salt sauor •••• 4. elemēts in certaine proportion, & not euen like much of all, for fire & earth haue y^e ma∣st••e but moderately, & of moderate fire commeth moderate heate, & of moderate driues & moderate heat, commeth mode∣rate boyling & seething of moysture and so y^e watry places and 〈…〉〈…〉 be dissolued, & turned into meane firie parts and by moderate 〈…〉〈…〉 y^e substance moderately drieth, & so therfore liueth hot substaunce by heate. Salt things cleanseth and tem∣pereth and departeth moysture, if they be taken into the body, and biteth y^e sto∣macke: and the gate being so bitten, be moued to put out moysture y^t is dissol∣ued. And salt things, cleanseth and softe∣neth hardnes of flesh: for by heat & dri∣nes thereof, they depart the fast super∣fluitie of moysture, and so they mo••••fie. Also 〈…〉〈…〉 things harden substaunce For with heate and drynesse thereof,

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