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.
Pages
Of Gourds.
GOurds rawe be vnpleasant in eating, ill for the sto∣macke, and almost neuer digested, therefore he that must needes eate them, must boyle them, rost them, or frie them, euery way they bee without sauour or taste, and of their proper nature they giue to the bodie colde and moyst nourishment, and that very little: but by rea∣son of the slipperines of their substance, and because al meates which be moyst of their nature, bee not binding, they lightly passe foorth by the belly. And being well or∣dered, they will be méetly concoct, if corruption in ye sto∣macke doe not preuent them: they be cold and moyst in the second degrée.