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

❧ Of appulles.

AL appulles eaten soone after that they be gathered, are colde, hard to digest, and do make yll and corrupted bloudde, but beynge well kepte vntyll the next wynter, or the yere folowynge, eaten after meales, they are ryght holsom, and do confyrme the stomake, and make good digestion, specially yf they be rosted or baken, moste properly in a cholerike stomake, they are best p̄serued in hony, so that one touche not an other. The rough tasted apples are hol∣some, where the stomake is weake by dystempe∣raunce of heate or moche moysture. The bytter

apples, where that grief is increaced. The soure appuls, where the matter in congeled or made thycke with heate. In distemperature of heate and dryeth by drynkyng moche wyne, they haue ben founde commodiouse: being eaten at nyght, goinge to bedde, withoute drinkynge to theym, they be colde and moyste in the fyrste degre.