The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight

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Title
The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight
Author
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Publication
At London :: Printed by the Widdow Orwin, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes,
[1595]
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Subject terms
Health -- Early works to 1800.
Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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"The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21308.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Of custome.

CUstome in féeding is not to bee contemned, or little regarded: for those meates, to the which a man hath béen of long time accustomed, though they be not of sub∣stance commendable, yet doe they sometime lesse harme then better meates, whereunto a man is not vsed. Also the meates and drinkes, which do much delight him that eateth, are to bee preferred before that which is better, but more vnsauorie. But if ye custome be so pernicious, that it néedes must be left, then would it be withdrawne

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by little and little in time of health, and not of sicknesse. For if it should bée withdrawne in time of sicknesse, na∣ture should sustaine treble detriment, first by the griefe induced by sicknesse: secondly, by receiuing of medi∣cines: thirdly, by forbearing the thing wherein she de∣lighteth.

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