The castel of helthe gathered, and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knight, out of the chief authors of phisyke ; whereby euery man may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruation of helthe, and how to instruct well his phisition in sicknes, that he be not deceyued.

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The castel of helthe gathered, and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knight, out of the chief authors of phisyke ; whereby euery man may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruation of helthe, and how to instruct well his phisition in sicknes, that he be not deceyued.

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Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.

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Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress.,

M. D. XXXIX [1539]

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Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.

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"The castel of helthe gathered, and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knight, out of the chief authors of phisyke ; whereby euery man may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruation of helthe, and how to instruct well his phisition in sicknes, that he be not deceyued." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21293.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• ❧ TO THE RYGHT HO∣NORABLE THOMAS LORDE CRVM∣well Lorde priuye seale, Thomas Elyot knyght wyssheth longe lyfe in honour.
• ❧ THE TABLE
• book - 1
  • section
    • chapter
    • ¶ Of the complexion of Man. Cap. 2.
      • Complexions compouned.
      • Of the Harte.
      • ¶ Of the Lyuer.
      • Of the stomacke.
    • ¶ Of humors.
      • ¶ Of fleume.
      • ¶ Choler
    • ¶ Of the members.
    • ¶ Of powers.
  • ¶ Annexed to thynges naturall.
    • chapter
    • ¶ Colour.
  • ¶ The seconde Table.
    • chapter
    • Meate and drynke.
• ❧ THE SECONDE BOKE.
  • ¶ Of Quantitie. Cap. 1.
  • ¶ Of qualitie of meates. Cap. 2.
  • Of Custome. Capit. 3.
  • ¶ Of the temperature of meates to be receyued. Capit. 4.
  • ¶ what distemperaunce hapneth by the excesse of sondrye qualyties in meates and drynkes. Capitu. 5.
  • ¶ what commoditie happeneth by the moderate vse of the sayde qualities of meates and drynkes. Cap. 6.
  • ¶ Of Fruites. Cap. 7.
    • ¶ Of Gourdes.
    • ¶ Of Melones and Pepones.
    • ¶ Cucumbers.
    • Dates,
    • ¶ Of Fygges.
    • ¶ Of grapes and raisons.
    • ¶ Of Cheries.
    • ¶ Of Peaches.
    • ¶ Of Appulles.
    • ¶ Of Quynces.
    • ¶ Of Pomegranates.
    • ¶ Of Peares.
    • ¶ Medlars.
    • ¶ Wallnuttes.
    • Fylberdes and hasyll nuttes.
    • Of Almondes.
    • Chestyns.
    • Prunes.
    • Olyues.
    • Of Capers.
    • Orenges.
  • Herbes vsed in potage, or to eate. Cap. 8.
    • ¶ Lettyse.
    • ¶ Colewortes and Cabages.
    • ¶ Of Cykorie or suckorie.
    • ¶ Endyue and Scariole.
    • Malowes.
    • Whyte betes.
    • Pourslane.
    • ¶ Cheruyle.
    • Sorell.
    • Persely.
    • Fenell.
    • ¶ Anyse sede.
    • ¶ Beanes.
    • ¶ Peasyn.
  • Rape rotes and Nauews. Ca. ix.
    • ¶ Turnepes,
    • Parsnepes and carettes,
    • ¶ Radyshe rootes,
    • Garlyke,
    • Onyons,
    • Leekes,
    • Sauge,
    • Isope,
    • Bourage.
    • Sauerye.
    • Rokat,
    • me.
    • ¶ Penyryall,
    • ¶ Townecresses.
    • ¶ Rosemarye.
  • ¶ Spyces growynge out of this realme vsed in meate or drynke. Cap. 10.
    • ¶ Pepper.
    • ¶ Gynger.
    • Saffron,
    • Cloues,
    • Maces.
    • Nutmigges,
  • Of breade. Cap. xi.
  • ¶ Of Fleshe. Cap. xii.
    • Swynes fleshe.
    • Lambe,
    • Mutton,
    • Kydde and veale,
    • Hate, Conye,
    • Dere redde and falowe.
    • ¶ Of Byrdes.
      • Capons, Hennes, and Chyckens.
      • Fesaunt,
      • Partryche,
      • Quayles,
      • Larkes,
      • Aplouer,
      • Blacke byrdes or ousyls,
      • Sparowes.
      • Woodcockes,
      • Pygeons,
      • Goose,
      • Ducke,
      • Crane and bustarde.
      • Hearon, Byttour, Shouelar.
  • ¶ The partes and members of byrdes and beastes. Cap. 13.
    • The gysar or stomake.
    • The lyuer
    • ¶ The inwarde of beastes, as trypes and chytterlynges.
    • The lunges or lyghtes,
    • The splene or mylte,
    • The harte,
    • The brayne,
    • Marowe.
    • The stones and vdders.
    • The heed.
    • The tounge,
    • The Feete,
  • ¶ Of Fysshe generally. Cap. xiiii.
  • ¶ Of Butter. Cap. xv.
  • ¶ Of Chese. Cap. xvi.
  • ¶ Of Egges. Cap. xvii.
  • ¶ Of drynkes, and fyrste of water. Capi 18.
  • ¶ Of wyne. Cap. xix.
  • ¶ Of Mylke. Cap. xx.
  • ¶ Of ale, biere, cyder, and whay.
  • ¶ Of hony. Cap. xxii.
  • ¶Sugar. Cap. xxiii.
  • ¶Of tyme. Cap. xxiiii.
    • ¶Diete concernynge sondrye tymes of the yere, wrytten by the olde phisition Diocles to kynge Antigonus.
  • Of ages. Cap. xxv.
  • ¶Moderation in iete, hauyng respect to the strength or weakenes of the persone. Cp. xxvi.
  • Tymes in the day concernyng meales. Cap. xxvii.
  • ¶Of diuersitie of meates, whereby healthe is appayred. Cap. xxviii.
  • ¶ Of Order in receyuynge of meate and drynke. Capit. xxix.
  • ¶ Of sleape and watche. Cap. xxx.
  • ¶ The commoditie of exercise, and the tyme whan it shuld be vsed. Cap. xxxi.
  • ¶ Of fricasies or rubbynges precedyng exercise. Cap. xxxii.
  • ¶ The diuersities of exercises. Cap. xxxiii.
  • ¶ Of Gestation, that is to say, where one is ca∣ryed, and is of an other thynge meued, and not of hymselfe. Cap. xxxiiii.
  • ¶ Of vociferation. Cap. xxxv.
• ❧ THE THYRDE BOKE
  • ¶ Of Replecion. Cap. i.
  • ¶ Of Euacuation. Cap. ii.
  • ¶ Of Abstinence. Cap. iii.
  • ¶ Of Vomite. Cap. iiii.
  • ¶ Of Purgations by siege. Cap. v.
  • ¶ The particular commodities of euery pourgation. Cap. vi.
  • Lettynge of bloudde. Cap. vi.
  • Of scarifyeng callyd boxyng or cuppyng. Cap. vii.
  • Of bloud suckers or leaches. Cap viii.
  • ¶ Of hemoroides or pyles. Cap. ix.
  • Of affectes of the mynde. Cap. x.
  • ¶ Of Ire. Cap. xi.
  • ¶ Of dolour or heuynesse of mynde. Capitulo. xii.
    • ¶ Of Ioye.
  • ¶ The domynion of sondry complexions. Capitulo. xiii.
  • ¶ The tymes appropryed to euerye naturall humour. Capitu. xiiii.
    • ¶ Peculyar remedyes agaynst the distempe∣rance of euerye humour.
  • ¶ Dicte of them, whiche are of sanguyne complexion. Cap. xv.
  • ¶ Dyete of cholerike persons. Cap. xvi.
  • ¶ Dyete of fleumatike persones. Cap. xvii.
  • ¶ The diuision of melancoly, and the diete of per∣sons melancolike. Cap. xviii.
• ❧ THE FOVRTHE BOKE
  • ¶ What cruditie is, and remedies ther∣fore. Capitulo primo.
  • ¶ Of Lassuude. Capitulo. ii.
  • ¶ Lassitude extensiue. Capit. iii.
  • ¶ Lassitude with the feelynge of inflam∣mation. Capitulo. iiii.
  • ¶ Diete of them that are redy to falle into syckenesse. Capitulo v.
  • ¶ Sickenes moste commune to particular tymes of the yere and ages. Cap. vi.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of Sprynge tyme.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of Sommer.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of Autumne.
    • ¶ Sycknesses of wynter.
    • Spekenesses happenynge to children.
    • Syckenesse happening to yong men frome .xiiii. yeres of age.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of age.
  • The generall significations and tokens of syckenes. Cap. vii.
  • ¶ Of urynes. Cap. viii.
  • ¶ The substance of the vrine. Cap. ix.
  • The preceptes of the auncient phisition Diocles vnto kynge Antigonus. Cap. x.
  • Of them in whose stomakes meat is cor∣rupted. Cap. xi.
  • Of the vertue of meates. Cap. xii.
  • ¶ A diete preseruatiue in the tyme of pe∣stilence. Capitulo. xiii.
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