A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet.

  • André du Laurens
Date:
1599
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Credit: A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water, and after that the groffeft excrements, that are inthe gut as that thofe meates which are eafily corrupted be firfteaten,be- caufe that if they betaken in the end,they deftroy and corrupt the others: fuch as are concoéted withleffe paines,and fooner difge- fled,ought fr to enterinto the ftomack: but groffe meats, hard and heauie meates fhall be the laft quite contrary to the fafhion of our artificial kitchins, Such meatesas are apt toloofe the bel- rule is, that wee muft accuftome ourfelues toeate more at fupper then at dinner,] meane ifthe bodie be found and not fubicét yn- to rheume, The reafons theteofare very plaine: for there is more {pace from fupper to dinner; then there is from dinner to fupper, {o that there is more time to concoct and difiribure the: nourifh ment: It is moft certaine that when we flecpe heat is fironger, for that it withdraweth it felfe wholly vnto the center of thebodie. I will adde thereto how that to make good difoettié wehaueneed of reft: but in the nighe al the animal funStions ceafe,thereisno- better. Thus alfo haue all che famous and great Phifitions, Hippo- crates,Galenand Anicen, determined the cafe, Thus haue all the elder times practifed, ‘Wreftlers (as Galer obferueth in the fife booke of the conferuation of health) did neuer eate flefh but at their fupper. The Pythagoreans {as Ariftoxenva wriceth )tooke nothing to dine withall but alittle bread with honey : and du- ring the frege of Trey, the Grecian fouldiers (if wee giue creditta that which Philemon reporteth) made foure meales a day, but they tooke nothing but bread and wine at the three firft,and at the laft which was their fupper, they did feede vpon porke, Be. hold here the general rules which are to beeobferued in eating, whereto I will adde for an end,that the firteft houre to eate at, is that houre of the day whichis moft temperate, as in winter that which is moft hor, in fammer that whichis:mott frefh,and that alfo with fome moderate exercife hauing gone before, CHAP.