elacus,
and the rest.

Amongst fishes, those are most allowed of, that live in gravelly or sandy
waters, pikes, perch, trout, gudgeon, smelts, flounders, &c. Hippolitus
Salvianus takes exception at carp; but I dare boldly say with [2917]
Dubravius, it is an excellent meat, if it come not from [2918]muddy pools,
that it retain not an unsavoury taste. Erinacius Marinus is much commended
by Oribatius, Aetius, and most of our late writers.

[2919]Crato, _consil. 21. lib. 2._ censures all manner of fruits, as
subject to putrefaction, yet tolerable at sometimes, after meals, at second
course, they keep down vapours, and have their use. Sweet fruits are best,
as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which
Laurentius extols, as having a peculiar property against this disease, and
Plater magnifies, _omnibus modis appropriata conveniunt_, but they must be
corrected for their windiness: ripe grapes are good, and raisins of the
sun, musk-melons well corrected, and sparingly used. Figs are allowed, and
almonds blanched. Trallianus discommends figs, [2920]Salvianus olives and
capers, which [2921]others especially like of, and so of pistick nuts.
Montanus and Mercurialis out of Avenzoar, admit peaches, [2922]pears, and
apples baked after meals, only corrected with sugar, and aniseed, or
fennel-seed, and so they may be profitably taken, because they strengthen
the stomach, and keep down vapours. The like may be said of preserved
cherries, plums, marmalade of plums, quinces, &c., but not to drink after
them. [2923]Pomegranates, lemons, oranges are tolerated, if they be not too
sharp.

[2924]Crato will admit of no herbs, but borage, bugloss, endive, fennel,
aniseed, baum; Callenius and Arnoldus tolerate lettuce, spinach, beets, &c.
The same Crato will allow no roots at all to be eaten. Some approve of
potatoes, parsnips, but all corrected for wind. No raw salads; but as
Laurentius prescribes, in broths; and so Crato commends many of them: or to
use borage, hops, baum, steeped in their ordinary drink. [2925]Avenzoar
magnifies the juice of a pomegranate, if it be sweet, and especially rose
water, which he would have to be used in every dish, which they put in
practice in those hot countries, about Damascus, where (if we may believe
the relations of Vertomannus) many hogsheads of rose water are to be sold
in the market at once, it is in so great request with them.

SUBSECT. II.--_Diet rectified in quantity_.

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