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. 107. Of Quinces.

QVinces be cold in the first degree, and dry in the beginning of the second. They are not used to be eaten raw, for so they are both unpleasant and un∣wholesome. And in my judgement no better for a stu∣dents stomacke than raw beefe, but beeing rosted, stewed, or baked, and eaten after meales, they close and draw the stomacke together and helpe digestion, and mollifie the belly, if they be abundantly taken: for this is Galen his rule: Qui stomachum habent imbecillum, ventrem iis dejici,* 1.1 cum postrem is epulis astringentium quip∣piam sumpserint. Wherefore students having com∣monly weake stomackes, may (if they be costive) ease themselves, by eating after meat something which doth binde and restraine the stomacke, as Galen telleth of one Protas a Rhetoritian, on whom the like practise was proved. But Quinces may be otherwise used very wholesomly, as being made in conserva, or preserved in syrrup condite, or made in Marmalade. And be∣cause the making of Marmalade is a pretty conceit, and may perhaps delight some painefull student, that will bee his owne Apothecarie, partly to spare cost, and partly to be sure that it be rightly made, I will here set it downe as plainly as I can.* 1.2 Your Quinces beeing full ripe, and very yellow, as in Lent season, or therea∣bout, first pare them, and take out the cores, then seeth them untill they be tender and soft. That done, beat them small in a woodden mortar, or marble, with a pe∣still of wood, then with some of the liquour wherein they were sodden, draw them through a strainer, as

you would doe a tart, then set it over the fire to seeth softly, and in seething, strew in by little & little white Sugar made in powder, the weight of the Quinces or more, as your taste shall tell you, stirre it continually and put therto some pure Rose-water or Damask-wa∣ter, let it seeth on height, untill it bee wall standing. Which thing ye may know by taking some of it upon a knife, and letting it coole. For if it be stiffe, then take it off and box it, while it is warm, and set it in a warm and drie ayre. And if you will not have your Marma∣lade so binding, you may put some ripe Apples of good verdure among your Quinces, when you boile them with Sugar. The Apples must first be sodden or rosted, and then drawne through a course boulter, as a tart. After the same manner you may make Marma∣lade of Wardens, Peares, Apples, Medlars, Cheries, Strawberries, yea, of Prunes or Damasins, or other plummes. First to boyle them upon a soft fixe with a little faire water,* 1.3 till they be soft, then to draw them, as yee doe a tart, after to boyle them againe with suf∣ficient sugar, to dash them with sweet water and box them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lib. 2. de Ali•• sa•• cap. 22••.
• * 1.2

  How to make marmalade of Quinces.
• * 1.3

  To make any kinde of mar∣malade.