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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.
![/ H |[4°] thy long Life; he anfwered, Si externa O- leOj Interna Melle irriget; if he hippie his Externals with Oil, and Internals with Honey. I*liny recounts the very fame of old SPol- lio Romulus, who, when the Emperor^- gujius demanded by what Means he had at* rained to fuch an extreme old and vigorous Age, fatisfied him it was Intiis Mulfo, bo¬ ras OleOj by the Ule of honey'd Wine in¬ wardly, and Oil outwarly. Galen (de Sanit. Tuendd, /. 5 . c. 4.) re¬ ports of Antiochus, a remarkably ancient Man, that he preferved himfelf lo long by eating Honey every Day. And Telephus the Grammarian (oi about an hundred Years old) ufed to breakfaft al¬ ways upon Honey. Zeno the Philofopher (as we read in TDiog. Laert.J made ufe of Bread and Honey for his Meat, and a little Wine for his Drink, To mention but one more upon this Head; Arifioxenus was of Opinion, Eos fine Mor- bo vivere pojfej qui Mel femper in Epulis comedunt; that they may well live free from Maladies who take up a conftant Cuftom of eating Honey at Meals. Some of the Ules the Ancients put Honey to for the making up of Dillies may be feen in Apicius Coe Hus de Arte Coquin. as (l. 1. c. 1.) Condimentum Taradoxum (c, x.) Melizo- mum](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30354134_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
