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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Sage.

It heateth, and some what bindeth, and therwith pro∣uoketh vrine, the decoction of the leaues and braunches being dronke. Also it stoppeth bléeding of wounds, be∣ing layd vnto them. Moreouer, it hath béen proued that women, which haue béen long time without children, and haue dronke ten ounces of the iuyce of Sage, with a grain of salt, a quarter of an houre before that they haue companied with their husbands, haue conceiued at that time. It is hot and dry in the third degrée, the vsing ther∣of is good against palsies.