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 14, 2025.

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CHAP. 54. Of Turneps.

TVrneps are of hot and moist temperature; if they bee first well boiled in water, and after in the fat broth of flesh, and eaten with Porke or Beefe, they nourish much, they augment the seed of man, and pro∣voke carnall lust;* 1.1 They bee windy, wherefore they should be eaten with Pepper: They breake flegme in

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the brest and cause one to spit easily, but being much and often eaten, they make raw juyce in the stomack, and corrupt the breath; the seed of it is put in Tria∣cle, as good against poyson.

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