The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued

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Title: The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued
Author: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Publication: [Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress.],; 1534 [i.e. Anno. M.D.XXXIX [1539]]
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Subject terms: Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.; Health -- Early works to 1800.
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The feete.

Beynge well boyled and tender, in a holle sto∣make, dygesteth well, and maketh good iuyce, and passeth forthe easily. Galene commendeth the fete of swyne. But I haue proued, that the feete of a yonge bullocke tenderly sodden, and layde in souse two dayes or thre, and eaten colde in the euenynge, haue broughte a cholerike sto∣make into a good digestion and slepe, and ther∣with hath also expulsed salte fleume and choler, and this haue I founde in my self by often expe¦rience: alway foresene, that it be eaten before a∣ny other meate, without drynkynge immediatly after it.