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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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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Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
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[Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress.],
1534 [i.e. Anno. M.D.XXXIX [1539]]
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Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
Health -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69278.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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❧ Sugar. Cap. 23.
OF sugar, I do fynde none ancient author of grekes or latynes, to wryte by name, but onely Paulus Aegineta, who saythe in this wyse, after that he hath treated of hony, Moreouer sugar, whiche they calle hony, that is brought to vs from Arabia, callid felix, is not so swete as our hony, but is equalle in vertue, and doth not anoy the stomake, nor causeth thyrste. These be the wordes of Paulus. It is nowe in dayely experience, that sugar is a thynge verye temperate and nouryshynge, and where there
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is choler in the stomake, or that the stomake ab∣horreth hony, it may be vsed for hony in al thyn¦ges, wherin hony is requyred to be.
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