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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ *9 ] Loofnefs, and hurts hyfteric and hypochon¬ driac Perfons. And I confefs it may poffibly do fo; but then ’tis only to fuch as have a natural Aver- fion, or fome accidental Disagreement to it, or abound with flimy Phlegm, or fharp Clio- ler, or to fuch as take too much of it. For Mel fatietatem gignet: And Solomon faith (fProv. 25*. 27.) it is not good to eat much Honey ; and had faid before (f. 16.) Haft thou found Honey ? Eat fo much as is fujficient for thee, left thou be filled there- with, and vomit it. And Gabelchoverus prefents us with an Observation (Cent. 3. Cur. 34.) concerning a Man who eat at one time half a Pound of crude Honey; upon which he fell into migh¬ ty Dilorders in his Stomach, Belly, and Head, and was Set to rights again by purging it off! The Fault was in the Man, not in the Honey. But if we Should grant that Honey would really be apt to offend the Stomach and Bow- els, taken in enormous Quantities; yet no Man in his wits will imagine, or lulpedt, that fo very little of it as enters a Dofe of cDiafi- cordium can poffibly do any Mifchief And if I appeal to Experience, I am allured none can bring one Single Inftance of Matter of Fact, where 'Diafcordium ever did any hurt upon the Account of Honey. And there- fore I would not have thole who write Bills throw](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30354134_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
