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 13, 2025.
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CHAP. 93. Of Poppie.
POppie, whereof be three kinds, white, red, and blacke. The red is wilde, and groweth among corne, the white & blacke are commonly in Gardens, it is cold & dry in the first degree. The seeds of white Poppie and blacke, are used to be eaten, as appeareth by Diosc. and Matth. yea, the Countrey folks about Trident,* 1.1 (as saith Matth.) take the leaves of wilde Poppie, at their first budding forth, and boile them as they doe other Herbs, and eat them with butter and Cheese. And one goodly experiment I learne out of Matth. in the same place, that the red leaves of Poppy which grow among corne,* 1.2 being dried and made in powder, and given in drinke, should marvellously
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helpe a Pleurisie, and the women of Salerne give their children the powder of white Poppie seeds with milk to cause them to sleep; it may also be given otherwise for the same purpose, as in Posset-drinke,* 1.3 in an Ale-berry, or best of all in a Cawdale made of Almonds and Hemp-seed.