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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BE hard to digest, therefore being much eaten and not well digested, they annoy the head, and cause gnaw∣ing in the stomacke, and maketh grosse iuyce, and some∣time cause obstructions, or stoppings in the liuer and spléene. And where there is inflāmation or hardnes in the bodie they are vnwholsome, but being well digested and temperatly vsed, they nourish & make the flesh firme, and also bindeth the belly: old Dates bee hot and drie in the first degrée: new gathered are hot and moyst in the first degree.