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Poulps are hard of digestion, naught howsoever they be drest, as Platina thinketh. But sith Hyppocrates com∣mendeth * 1.1them to women in childbed▪ I dare not abso∣lutely diswade the eating of them; especially sith Di∣philus, Paulus, Aegineta, and Aetius commend them likewise, saying that they nourish much, and exces∣sively provoke lust. Indeed if any would eat a
* 1.2 live pulp, to anger others and to kill himself, as Diogenes did (though some say that he died of a raw cow-heel, others that he stiffeld himself in his cloke) no doubt he shall find it a dangerous morsel; but being well sod∣den in salt water and wine, and sweet herbs, it is as dainty and far more wholesomer then a Mackrel.
Lib. 1. de morb▪ mul.
Lae. in vit. Dio.