The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight
- 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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- Cite this Item
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Contents
- title page
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THE PROHEME OF SIR THOMAS ELIOT KNIGHT, INTO
his booke called the Castell of Health. - A Table of the speciall things, which are contayned in this Booke.
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The first Booke of the
Castell of Health. -
The second Booke of the
Castell of Health. - Of quantitie. CAP. 1.
- Of qualitie of meates. CAP. 2.
- Of the temperature of meates to be receiued. CAP. 4.
- What distemperance happeneth by the excesse of sundrie qualities in meates and drinks. CAP. 5.
- What commoditie happeneth by the moderate vse of the sayd qualitie of meates and drinkes. CAP. 6.
- Of fruites. CAP. 7.
- Herbes vsed in potage, or to eate. CAP. 8.
- Rape rootes, and Nauewes. CAP. 9.
- Spices growing out of this realme vsed in meate and drinke. CAP. 10.
- Of Bread. CAP. 11.
- Of Flesh. CAP. 12.
- The partes and members of birdes and beastes. CAP. 13.
- Of fish generally. CAP. 14.
- Of Butter. CAP. 15.
- Of Cheese. CAP. 16.
- Of Egges. CAP. 17.
- Of Wine. CAP. 19.
- Of Milke. CAP. 20.
- Of Ale, Beere, Cider, and Whay. CAP. 21.
- Of Hony. CAP. 22.
- Sugar. CAP. 23.
- Of time. CAP. 24.
- Of Ages. CAP. 25.
- Moderation in dier, hauing respect to the strength or weakenes of the person CAP. 26.
- Times in the day concerning meales. CAP. 27.
- Of diuersities of meates eaten, whereby health is appayred. CAP. 28.
- Of order of receiuing of meates, and drinke. CAP. 29.
- Of sleepe and watch. CAP. 30.
- The commoditie of exercise, and the time when it should be vsed. CAP. 31.
- Of Fricasies or rubbings preceding exercise. CAP. 32.
- The diuersities of exercises. CAP. 33.
- Of gestation, that is to say, where one is carried, and is of an other thing moued, and not of himselfe. CAP. 34.
- Of Vociferation. CAP. 15.
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The third Booke of the
Castell of Health. - Of Repletion. CAP. 1.
- Of Euacuation. CAP. 2.
- Of abstinence. CAP. 3.
- Of Vomite. CAP. 4.
- Of purgation by siege. CAP. 5.
- The particular commodities of euery purgation. CAP. 5.
- Letting of bloud. CAP. 6.
- Of scarifying called boxing or cupping. CAP. 7.
- Of bloud suckers or leaches. CAP. 8.
- Of Hemeroydes or piles. CAP. 9.
- Of effectes of the mind. CAP. 10.
- Of Ire. CAP. 11.
- Of Dolour, or heauines of the mind. CAP. 12.
- The dominion of sundrie com∣plexions. CAP. 13.
- The times appropried to euery naturall humour. CAP. 14.
- Diet of them which are of sanguine complexion. CAP. 15.
- Diet of cholerike persons. CAP. 16.
- Diet of Fleumaticke persons. CAP. 17.
- The diuision of melancholy, and the diet of persons melancholicke. CAP. 18.
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The fourth Booke of the
Castell of Health. - What cruditie is, and remedies therefore. CAP. 1.
- Of distillations called commonly rheumes, and of some re∣medies against them right necessary. CAP. 2.
- Of Lassitude. CAP. 3.
- Lassitude extensiue. CAP. 4.
- Lassitude, with the feeling of inflamation. CAP. 5.
- Diet of them that are ready to fall into sicknes. CAP. 6.
- Sickenes most common to peculiar times of the yeare and ages. CAP. 7.
- The generall significations and tokens of sicknes. CAP. 8.
- Of vrines. CAP. 9.
- The substance of the vrine. CAP. 10.
- The precepts of the ancient phisition Diocles to King Antigonus. CAP. 11.
- Of them in whose stomacke meate is corrupted. CAP. 12.
- Of the vertue of meates. CAP. 13.
- A Diet preseruatiue in the time of pe∣stilence. CAP. 14.