The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.

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The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.
Author
Moore, Philip, fl. 1564-1573.
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Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston,
Maii. Anno salutis. M.D.lxiiii. [1564]
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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"The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07669.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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30. Cucumbers. Cucumiris.

CVcumbers be cold and moiste in the seconde degree, they be best in a fat ground and in sonny places, but they must be often watered. They waxe rype in Iulie,* 1.1 they are good for the stomake, for they coole, and doe not easely corrupt. Their séedes ar wor∣thely to be saued, for they are good for many hote diseases. If they be taken with milke, they be good for exulcera∣tions of the reines and bladder, also thei

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prouoke vrine. But if Cucumbers bee not well digested, they breede euill hu∣mours in the body. Melons and Pepōs be of the same nature.

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