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.
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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.
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Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607.
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London :: Printed by Anne Griffin, for Roger Ball, and are to be sold at his, [sic] shop without Temple-barre, at the Golden Anchor next the Nags-head Taverne,
1636.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19070.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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CHAP. 104. Of Peaches.
PEaches be cold in the first degree, and moist in the second. Dios. saith,* 1.1 that ripe peaches be wholsome both for the stomacke and belly. But they should bee eaten before meales, as Galen sheweth, and not after meat (as our manner is in England) for beeing eaten after meat, they swim above,* 1.2 and both corrupt them∣selves, and also the other meats. But eaten before,* 1.3 they mollifie the belly, and provoke appetite, and qualifie the distemperature of choler in the stomacke. And after Peaches we should drink wine,* 1.4 to helpe the cold∣nesse of them, as it is in Scho. Sal.
Persica cum musto, vobis datur ordine iusto.
But for such as can rule themselves and refrain their appetite according to reason, it is best of all to forgoe
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both apples, peares and peaches, together with other things which ingender melancholy, and are unwhole∣some for sicke folkes, and are briefely contained in these verses following taken out of Scho. Sal.
Persica, poma, pyra, & lac, caseus & caro salsa,Et caro cervina, & leporina, bovina, caprina,Atra haec bile nocent, suntque infirmis inimica.