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

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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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Fenell.

Being eaten the séede or roote maketh abundance of milke, likewise drunke with P••••sane or ale. The séede some what restrayneth fluxe, prouoketh to pisse, and mi∣tigateth frettings of the stomacke and guttes, specially the decoction of the roote, if the matter, causing fretting, bée colde, but if it bée of a hotte cause, the vse thereof is dangerous for inflāmation or exulceration of the raines or bladder. It is hotte in the third degrée, and dry in the first.

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