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

¶ The generall sygnifications and tokens of syckenes. Cap. 7.

IF the bodye be hotter, colder, moyster, drier, leaner, fuller, the colour more pale, or swarte, the eyes more holowe, than is accustomed to be it sygnifieth that the body is disposed to syk∣nes, or alredy sycke.

The brayne sycke.

• Rauynge.
• Forgetfulnesse.
• Fantasye.
• Humours commyng from the roufe of the mouth, the eyes, the nose, or the eares.
• Watche.
• Sleape.

The harte sycke.

• Difficultie of breathe.
• Tremblynge of the harte.
• Beatynge of the pulse.
• Feuers. Colde.
• Diutrsite of colours.
• Griefe about the harte.

The lyuer sycke.

• Lacke or abūdaūce of humours.
• The fourme of the body alteted.
• Palenes.
• Concoction.
• Digestion.
• Alteration of excrementes accu∣stomed.
• Peyne in the place of the lyuer.
• Swellynge.
• Difficultie of breath.

The stomacke sycke.

• Concoction, slowe or quycke.
• Appetite of moyste or drye, dull or quycke.
• Separatiō of excremētes moist or harde with theyr colours.
• Yexynge.
• Belkynge.
• Vometynge with peyne and difficultie of brethe.
• Vryne moche or lyttel with the colour and substaunce to redde or to pale, to thicke or to thynne

The breaste.

• Difficultie of breathe.
• Cowgh.
• Spyttynge.
• Peyne in the breaste.

¶ This haue I writen, not to gyue iudgemen•• thereby, but onely for the pacyent to haue in a redynesse, to the intent, that what so euer he fe∣leth or perceyueth in euery of the sayde thynges thereof to instructe his phisition, whervnto he maye adapt his counsayle and remedyes.