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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Health -- Early works to 1800.
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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 24, 2025.
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CHAP. 20. Of Towne Cressis.
TOwne Cressis, or Garden Cressis, is hot and dry in the third degree. It may not be eaten alone, but with cooling Herbs, as Lettuce, Sorrell, or Purslane. For so is the heat qualified, and that is the best way to make Sallets, to mingle hot herbs and cold together, except a man doe it of purpose to coole or heat. The often eating of this Herb in Sallets, doth give a sharp∣nesse and readinesse of wit. And one medicine I will write, which I have read in an old written Booke of this Herbe, that if any have an extreame Laske,* 1.1 if he drinke but a dramme of the seeds thereof in powder, in a draught of red Wine, or cold water, six or se∣ven mornings together, not receiving any thing in two houres after, he shall be holpen, if it be curable.