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. 52. Of Garlicke.

GArlick is hot and drie in the fourth degree;* 1.1 if it be eaten raw it hurteth the sight, and breedeth Headache, yet is it good for them that have flegma∣tick, grosse and clammy humours, being moderately taken and in the cold time of the yeare;* 1.2 but chollerick folkes should abstaine from it, especially in hot sea∣sons, for it doth inflame and drie much, and engen∣dreth red choller and adust humours; but in the body wherein there is grosse matter, or much cold enclo∣sed, it heateth all the body, and openeth the places which are stopped, it cutteth grosse humours and sli∣mie, and dissolveth grosse winds; wherefore it is good for the Cough, and maketh one to spit well; it may be sliced thinne as Onyons are, and put in water with a little salte, or as commonly they use, to punne it, and put to it a little water, or the broth of flesh; but if it be sodden, it hath somewhat lesse force, and yet loseth not his propertie: The like is said of Onyons and Leekes of Galen,* 1.3 where hee giveth a generall judge∣ment of eating of Garlicke, Leekes, Onyons, and such like sharpe things for whom they be whole∣some, and for whom not, as followeth. Abstinendum ab assiduo usu omnium acrium, & potissimum, cum is qui ipsis vescitur, natura fuerit biliosus. Solis enim qui vel succum pituitosum, vel crudum & crassum ac lentum acervarint, cibi ejusmodi sunt accommodati. Moreover, Garlick hath a speciall property against poyson, as appeareth in Schola Salerni, Allia, Ruta,* 1.4 &c. and is thought of some a good preservative against the Pestilence; But especi∣ally,

it is good for them that travaile over divers countries,* 1.5 and use divers drinkes, or if they happen to drinke naughty corrupt water, as it is alleaged in the same place out of ••acer.

Allia qui mane jejuno sumpserit ore, Hunc ignotarum non laedet potus aquarum, Nec diversorum mutatio facta locorum.

Also Garlicke is named of Galen, Theriaca rustico∣rum,* 1.6 where he saith, Est allium ex eorum ciborum genere qui & flatum discutiant, & minime sitim inferant. Ac si quis vel, Thrac••s vel Gallos, vel deni{que} qui frigidam regio∣nem incolunt, vesci alliis votuerit, non leviter iis hominibus noeuerit: and if Frenchmen may eate Garlicke, be∣cause of the coldnesse of the Countrey,* 1.7 then may En∣glish men much more eate it, because they dwell in a colder Region, as I have shewed in my description of Britaine. Also in the same place Galen saith, that to eate Garlicke and drinke Triacle (as I gesse) in Ale or wine,* 1.8 is good for the Collick, if it come without an Ague, Quia omnium eduliorum maxime flatum discutit: And one thing I reade in master Eliot very profitable for such as be troubled with a rhume falling down to the stomacke,* 1.9 whereby their stomacks be over-moist, as mine was many yeares together. The medicine is thus, to boile certaine Cloves of Garlick in Milke, and to straine it and drinke it fasting, for that dryeth up the moysture of the stomack.* 1.10 The same medicine is also very good to kill Wormes, as I have often proved.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Gal. lib. 8. Simp.
• * 1.2

  For whom Garlick is good, and for whom not.
• * 1.3

  Lib. 2. de ali. ••a. cap. ult. Who may best eate Garlick, Onyons, Leeks, and who not.
• * 1.4

  Cap. 13.
• * 1.5

  Sundry vertues of Garlick.
• * 1.6

  Lib. 12. Me. c. 8. Garlick is the countrey mans Triacle.
• * 1.7

  English men may eate Gar∣lick by Galens rule.
• * 1.8

  Garlick is good for the Collicke.
• * 1.9

  A medicine to drie up a Rheume, fal∣ling to the sto∣mack.
• * 1.10

  A good medi∣dicine for wormes.