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The haven of health,... chiefely gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6, labor, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sickness at Oxford / By Thomas Coghan.

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1636
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Credit: The haven of health,... chiefely gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6, labor, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sickness at Oxford / By Thomas Coghan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The H fipin of Health. . ped, unlefle they have a fbpe of colae rrmke after all, as they ufe to fpeake. And the Flemings ute to j eate Butter laft after other meaces. So that almoita man may (ay: as divers men dedie divers meates, fbule they divers orders in eating. Bat here mbn* gland where we feed on divers forts of meaces at one meale, the order commonly is thus : that hrlt ' ■ -wee eateootcage or b roches, then boy led nieatfia. ^^ether gne after that rofted or baked, and in the end chetfeaad fra its. But here rifeth a queftion, which I have heard JJV. ^ oftentimes moved at the table : that it were better tojeate fine meaces fir ft, and groffermeates after- | ward, if perchance any corner were left un6 Hed. for now wee fill our (elves before with groiie meates, 10 that when fine meats and the beft meats indeed come totheboord, we can eate little or rioching for want I of appetite, but not for want of will, aslthinke.. 'Wherefore it were better ( fay they )]to begmne our meale where we make an end.' And if wee leave any -for the Servitors, to leave of the worft meates,and' h** bf'theteft* ifiens opinions, and greatly gneveth thofe that bee * difciples of - Epicurus. But this queftionm mineopi- nionmay be very wellanfwered m this ^anner. Firft I fay that one manner of meat agreeablewithth p - • fbn that eateth it, were the moft fare dyet for eve¬ ry complexion.And next I fay,that forasmuch as our ftomacks in England moft commonly be hotan c - xhcEngUrh firft taken, would be baraed before rtieg fin. -weredigefted. Conttanwifeinacoldftomacbtbe W lEt„. t ie heat is fuifocate with grofle meate, and tin- mea Ft ° t
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