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 June 5, 2024.

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Radish rootes.

Haue the vertue to extenuate or make thinne and al∣so to warme. Also they cause to breake wind, & to pisse. Being eaten afore meales, they let the meate that it may not descend: but being eaten last, they make good dige∣stion and looseth the belly, though Galenus write contra∣rie. For I among diuers other, by experience haue pro∣ued it. Notwithstanding, they be vn wholsome for them that haue continually the gowt or paine in the ioynts.

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