The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued

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The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes 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.],

1534 [i.e. Anno. M.D.XXXIX [1539]]

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Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.

Health -- Early works to 1800.

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"The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69278.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS LORDE CRVMVVELL LORDE PRIVIE SEALE Thomas Elyot knyghte wysheth longe lyfe in honour.
• ❧ THE TABLE ▴
• illustration
• THE FYRST BOKE.
  • Of the complexion of Man. Cap. 2.
    • Complexions compouned.
    • Of the harte.
    • Of the liuer.
    • Of the stomake.
    • Of the genitories or sto∣nes of generation.
    • ☞ Of humours.
    • Of fleume.
    • the members.
    • O powers
      • Annexed to thynges naturall.
    • ☞ Colour.
    • The seconde Table.
    • Meate and dryne.
• THE SECOND BOKE,
  • Of quantitie. Cap. 1.
  • ☞ Of qualitie of meates. Cap. 2.
  • ☞ Of Custome. Cap. 3.
  • ☞ Of the temperature of meates to be receyued. Cap 4.
  • ❧ What distemperance hapneth by the excesse of sondry qualities in meates and drynkes. Cap. 5.
  • ❧ What commoditie happeneth by the moderate vse of the sayd qualities of meates and drynkes. Cap. 6.
  • ☞ Of fruites. Cap. 7.
    • ☞ Of Gourdes.
    • ❧ Of Melones and Pepones.
    • ❧ Cucumbers.
    • ❧ Dates.
    • ❧ Of fygges.
    • ❧ Of grapes and raysons.
    • ❧ Of Cheries.
    • ❧ Of peaches.
    • ❧ Of appulles.
    • ❧ Of Quynces.
    • ❧ Of Pomegranates.
    • ❧ Of Peares.
    • ❧ Medlars.
    • ☞ Walnuttes
    • ☞ Fylberdes and hasylnuttes.
    • ❧ Of Almondes
    • ❧ Of Chestyns
    • ❧ Prunes
    • ❧ Olyues
    • ❧ Of Capers
    • ❧ Orenges
  • ☞ Herbes vsed in potage or to eate. Capitulo. 8.
    • ☞ Lettyse.
    • ❧ Colewortes and Cabages.
    • ❧ Of Cikorie or suckorie.
    • ☞ Endyue and Scariole
    • ☞ Malowes
    • ☞ Whyte betis
    • ☞ Pourselan.
    • ❧ Cheruyle.
    • ☞ Sorell.
    • ❧ Persely.
    • ❧ Fenell,
    • ❧ Anyse sede.
    • Beanes.
    • ☞ Peasyn.
  • ☞ Rape rotes and Nauews. Cap. 9.
    • ❧ Turnepes,
    • ❧ Parsneps and carettes.
    • ☞ Radysshe rotes.
    • ❧ Garlyke.
    • ❧ Onyons.
    • ❧ Leekes.
    • ❧ Sauge
    • ❧ Isope.
    • ☞ Bourage.
    • ❧ Sauery.
    • ☞ Rokat.
    • ❧ Tyme.
    • ❧ Penyryall.
    • ❧ Townecresses.
    • ❧ Rosemary.
  • ☞ Spices growyng out of this realme vsed in meate or drynke. Cap. 10,
    • ❧ Pepper.
    • ☞ Gynger.
    • ❧ Saffron.
    • ❧ Cloues.
    • ❧ Mases.
    • ☞ Nutmigges
  • ❧ Of breade. Cap. 11.
  • ☞ Of flesshe. Capi. 12.
    • Swynes flesshe.
    • Lambe.
    • ☞ Mutton.
    • Kydde and veale.
    • Hare, Conye.
    • ❧ Dere redde and falowe.
    • Of byrdes.
    • Capons, hennes, and chyckens.
    • Fesannt.
    • Partriche.
    • Quayles.
    • Larkes.
    • A plouer.
    • Blacke byrdes or ousyls.
    • Sparowes.
    • Woodcoces.
    • Pygeons.
    • Goose,
    • Ducke,
    • Crane and bustarde.
    • Hearon, Byttour, Shoular,
  • ❧ The partes and members of byr∣des and beastes, Cap. 13.
    • The gysar or stomake.
    • The lyuar.
    • The inwarde of beastes, as trypes and chitterlynges.
    • The lunges or lyghtes.
    • The splene or ylte.
    • The harte.
    • The brayne.
    • Marowe.
    • The stones and vdders,
    • The heed.
    • The tongue.
    • The feete.
  • ❧ Of fysshe generally. Cap. 14.
  • ❧ Of butter. Cap. 15.
  • ❧ Of Chese. Cap. 16.
  • ☞ Of Egges. Cap. 17
  • ❧ Of drinkes, and fyrste of Wa∣ter Capit. 18.
  • ❧ Of Wyne. Cap. 19.
  • ❧ Of Mylke. Cap. 20.
  • ❧ Of ale, biere, cyder, and whay.
  • ❧ Of Hony. Cap. 22.
  • ❧ Sugar. Cap. 23.
  • ❧ Of tyme. Cap. 24.
    • ☞ Diete concerning sondry tymes of the yere wrytten by the olde phisition Docles to kyng Antigonus.
  • ❧ Of ages. Cap. 25.
  • Moderation in diet, hauyng respecte to the strength or weakenes of the person. Cap. 26.
  • ❧ Tymes in day concernynge meales. Cap. 27.
  • ❧ Of dyuersitie of meates eaten wherby helthe is appaired. Cap. 28.
  • Of order in receiuynge of meate and drynke. Cap. 29.
  • ☞ Of sleape and watche. Cap 30.
  • The commoditie of exercise, and the tyme whan it shulde be vsed. Cap. 31.
  • ❧ Of fricasies or rubbynges pre∣cedynge exercise. Cap. 32.
  • ¶ The diuersities of exercises. Cap. 33.
  • ☞ Of Gestation, that is to say, where one is caried, and is of an other thynge meued, and not of hym selfe. Cap. 34.
  • ❧ Of vociferation. Cap. 35.
• THE THIRDE BOKE.
  • ❧ Of replecion. Cap. 1.
  • ☞ Of euacuacion. Cap. 2.
  • ☞ Of abstinence. Cap. 3.
  • ❧ Of Vomite. Cap. 4.
  • ☞ The particular commodities of euery purgacion. Cap. 6.
  • ☞ Lettynge of bloudde. Cap. 6.
  • ❧ Of scarifienge called boxinge or cup¦pynge. Cap. 7.
  • ☞ Of bloude suckers or leaches. Cap. 8.
  • ❧ Of dolour or heuinesse of mynde. Capitulo. 12.
    • ❧ Of Ioye.
  • ❧ The dominion of sondry com∣plexions. Cap. 13.
  • ☞ The tymes appropried to euery natu∣rall humour. Cap. 14.
    • ☞ Peculyar remedyes agaynst the distem perance of euery humour.
  • ☞ Diete of them, whiche are of san∣guine complexion. Cap. 15.
  • ¶ Dyete of choleryke persons. Ca. 16.
  • ❧ Diete of fleumatike persons Capitulo. 17.
  • ¶ The dyuysion of melancoly, and the diete of persons melancolyke. Cap. 18.
• book - 4
  • ☞ Of lassitude. Cap. 2.
  • Lassitude extensiue. Ca. 3.
  • ¶ Lassytude with the feelynge of infa∣mation. Cap. 4.
  • ¶ Dyete of them that are redy to fall into syckenesse. Cap. 5.
  • ¶ Syckenes moste commune to particular tymes of the yere and ages. Ca. 6.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of sprynge tyme.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of sommer.
    • ¶ Syckenesses of Autumne.
    • ¶ Syckenesse of wynter.
    • ¶ Sycknesses happenyng to chyldern.
    • ¶ Syckenesse happenyng to yonge men from .xiiii. yeres of age.
    • ¶ Syckenesse of age.
  • ¶ The generall sygnifications and tokens of syckenes. Cap. 7.
  • ¶ Of vrynes. Cap. viii.
    • ¶ The colours of vrynes.
  • The substance of the vrine. Cap. ix.
  • ¶ The preceptis of the auncient physition Dyocles vnto kynge Antigonus. Cap. 10.
  • ¶ Of them in wose stomakes meat is corrupted. Cap. 11.
  • ¶ Of the vertue of meates. Cap. 12.
  • ¶ A diete preseruatiue in the tyme of pestilenee. Capitulo. xiii.
• colophon