The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke.

CHAP. 103. Of Peares.

PEares are much of the nature of Apples and of the same temperature, that is to say, cold and moist in the first degree. The difference of Peares must be dis∣cerned, by the taste even as of Apples. For some are sweet, some soure, some both, some drier, some more moist, &c. But they are heavier of digestion than ap∣ples. And all manner of fruit generally fill the bloud with water, which boyleth up in the body, as new wine doth in the vessell, and so prepareth and causeth the bloud to putrifie, and consequently bringeth in sicknesse.* 1.1 So Peares eaten raw make waterish and cor∣rupt bloud, and beside that they ingender winde, and so cause the Cholicke. And therefore if any be so gree∣die of them, that needes they will eat raw Peares, it shall bee good to drinke after them a draught of old wine of good savour, as sacke or Canary wine. And this is the reason (as I thinke) of that saying which is commonly used, that peares without wine are poison, that is to say, hurtfull to mans nature, as it is sayd, in Scho▪ Sal.* 1.2

Adde py••o potum sine vino sunt pyra virus.

* 1.3But if they be rosted baken, or stewed, they are not unwholesome. And eaten after meat being rype and well gathered, they doe restraine and knit up the sto∣macke

and fortifie digestion, which also is approved by Schola Sal.

Cum coquis, antidotum pyra sunt, sed ••ruda venenum.* 1.4 Cruda gravant stomachum, relevant pyra cocta gravatum.

But to avoid all inconvenience that may grow by eating of Pears, Apples, and other fruits, Cordus giveth a very good caveat in this manner.* 1.5

Vt pyra non noceant, extra mundentur & intra, Mox immerge sali projice deinde foras.

The great peares which Virgil nameth Gravia vo∣lema, in English peare-wardens,* 1.6 may be longest preser∣ved and have chiefely the foresaid vertues. As for o∣ther sorts of peares, though they be more pleasant in taste; yet they are but 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as Galen speaketh, that is to say Summer fruits.

Notes

• * 1.1

  How raw pears may be eaten with least hurt.
• * 1.2

  cap. 39.
• * 1.3

  Peare baken, rosted or stew∣ed.
• * 1.4

  eodem.
• * 1.5

  How Peares & other fruit may be eaten with∣out hurt.
• * 1.6

  Georg. li. 2.