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MIlke is compact of thrée substances, creame, whay, and cruddes. The most excellent milke is of a wo∣man, the milke of a cow is thickest, the milke of a camell is most subtil, the milke of a goate is betwéene cow milk & camel milke. Ewes milke is betwéen cow milk & asses
milke. Also the milke of beasts féeding in large pastures, and out of Fennes and Marishes, is better then of them which bee fed in little closes or in watrie grounds. In spring time milke is most subtile, and milke of young beasts is bolsomer then of olde. To children, olde men, and to them which be oppressed with melācholy, or haue the flesh cōsumed with a feuer, thick milke is conueniēt. And generally to al them which do not féele the milk rise in their stomackes after that they haue eaten it, and in those persons it doth easily purge that, which is in ye belly superfluous. And afterward it entreth into the veines & bringeth good nourishment: whosoeuer hath an appetite to eate or drink milke, to the intent that it shall not arise or obrayd in the stomacke, let him put into a vessell, out of the which he will receiue it, a fewe leaues of mint, su∣gar, or pure honey, and into the vessell cause the beast to be milked, and so drinke it warme from the vdder, or els let him doe as Paulus Aegineta teacheth, that is to say, boyle first the milke with an easte fire, and seeth it after in hotter fire, and skim it cleane, and with a spunge dip∣ped in cold water, take the cleane away, which would be burned to the vessell, then put into the milke salt and su∣gar, * 1.1 and stirre it often. Moreouer, milke taken to purge melonchaly, would be drunke in the morning abundant∣ly, new milked, as is before written. And he that drin∣keth, should abstaine from meate and exercise vntill the milke be digested, and haue some what purged the bellie. For which labour it becommeth sowre: and therefore it requireth rest and watch, or to walk very softly. Final∣ly, where men and women be vsed from their childhood, for the more part, to milke, and to eate none or little o∣ther meate but milke and butter, they appeare to bee of good complexion and fashion of body, and not so much vexed with sicknesse as they which drinke wine or ale: not withstanding, much vse of milke in men sanguine or cholerike, doth ingender the stone.
Orbasitus, de conuictione cibornm lib. 3.