De Medicina |
Translator: Walter George Spencer
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At aluum mouent panis fermentatus , magisque si cibarius uel hordiacius est , brassica , si subcruda est , lactuca , anetum , nasturcium , ocimum , urtica , portulaca , radicula , capparis , alium , cepa , malua , lapatium , beta , asparagus , cucurbita , cerasia , mora , uua ex olla , omnia mitia , ficus etiam arida , sed magis uiridis , uuae recentes ; pingues minutae aues , cocleae , garum , salsamentum , ostrea , pelorides , echini , musculi , et omnes fere conchulae , maximeque ius earum , saxatiles et omnes teneri pisces , sepiarum atramentum ; si qua caro adsumitur , pinguis , eadem uel iurulenta uel elixa , aues quae natant , mel crudum , lac , lact entia omnia , mulsum , uinum dulce uel salsum , aqua tenera ; omnia dulcia , tepida , pinguia , elixa , iurulenta , salsa uel diluta .
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29 Again, the bowels are moved by: leavened bread, and especially if it is the grey wheaten or barley bread, cabbage if lightly cooked, lettuce, dill, cress, basil, nettle-tops, purslane, radish, caper, garlic, onion, mallow, sorrel, beet, asparagus, gourds, cherries, mulberries, raisins preserved in jars, all ripe fruit, a fig even dried, but especially a green one, fresh grapes; fat small birds, snails, fish sauce, pickled fish, oysters, giant mussels, sea-urchins, sea-mussels, almost all shellfish, especially the soup made from them, rock fish and all soft fish, cuttlefish ink; any meat eaten when fat, either stewed or boiled, waterfowl, uncooked honey, milk, all things made with milk, mead, wine sweet or salted, soft water; all food sweetened, tepid, fatty, boiled, stewed, salted or watery. |
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Contra astringunt panis ex siligine uel ex simila , magis si sine fermento est , magis etiam si ustus est , intenditurque uis eius etiam , si bis coquitur , pulticula uel ex halica uel ex panicio uel ex milio , itemque ex isdem sorbitio , et magis si haec ante fricta sunt ; lenticula , cui uel beta uel intubus uel ambubeia uel plantago adiecta est , magisque etiam si illa ante fricta est , per se etiam intubus uel ex plantagine uel ambubeia f ricta , minuta holera , brassica bis decocta ; dura oua , magisque si assa sunt ; minutae aues , merula , palumbus , magisque in posca si decoctus est , grues , omnes aues , quae magis currunt quam uolant ; lepus , caprea , iecur ex eis , quae sebum habent , maximeque bubulum , ac sebum ipsum ; caseus , qui uehementior uetustate fit uel ea mutatione , quam in eo transmarino uidemus , aut si recens est , ex melle mulsoue decoctus ; item mel coctum , pira inmatura , sorua , magisque ea , quae torminalia nominantur , mala Cotonea et Punica , oleae uel albae uel permaturae , murta , palmulae , purpurae , murices , uinum resinatum uel asperum , item meracum , acetum , mulsum quod inferuuit , item defrutum , passum , aqua uel tepida uel praefrigida , dura , id est ea , quae tarde put rescit , ideoque pluuia potissimum ; omnia dura , macra , austera , aspera , tosta , et in eadem carne assa potius quam elixa .
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30 On the contrary the bowels are confined: by bread made from siligo or simila flour, especially when unleavened, and particularly so when toasted, and this property is even increased by baking twice, porridge either from spelt or panic or millet, as well as gruel from the same, and especially if these have been parched beforehand; lentil porridge to which beet or endive or chicory or plantain has been added, and especially when these have been previously toasted, or endive by itself, or roasted with plantain, or chicory, the smaller pot-herbs, cabbage twice boiled; eggs rendered hard, especially by poaching; small birds, the blackbird and wood-pigeons especially when cooked in diluted vinegar, cranes, all birds which run rather than fly; the hare, wild she-goat, the liver of animals which yield suet, particularly the ox, and suet itself; cheese which has become rather strong in taste, either from age or because of that change which we note in cheese from across the sea, or, if it is new, after it has been cooked in honey or mead; also cooked honey, unripe pears, service fruit, especially those called torminalia, quinces and pomegranates, olives either white or over-ripe, myrtleberries, dates, the purpura and murex, wine resinated or harsh, and that undiluted, vinegar, mead which has been heated, also must boiled down, raisin wine, water tepid or very cold, hard water (that is, which decomposes late), hence principally rain water; everything hard, harsh, rough, grilled, and in the case of the same meat the flesh roasted rather than boiled. |
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Vrinam autem mouent quaecumque in horto nascentia boni odoris sunt , ut apium , ruta , anetum , ocimum , menta , hysopum , anesum , coriandrum , nasturcium , eruca , feniculum ; praeter haec asparagus , capparis , nepeta , thymum , satureia , lapsanum , pastinaca , magisque agrestis , radicula , siser , cepa ; ex uenatione maxime lepus ; uinum tenue , piper et rotundum et longum , sinapi , absinthium , nuclei pinei .
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31 The following increase the urine: garden herbs of good odour, as parsley, rue, dill, basil, mint, hyssop, anise, coriander, cress, rocket, fennel; and besides these asparagus, capers, catmint, thyme, savory, charlock, parsnip, especially growing wild, radish, skirret, onion; of game especially the hare; thin wine, pepper both round and long, mustard, wormwood, pine kernels. |
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Somno uero aptum est papauer , lactuca , maximeque aestiua , cuius coliculus iam lacte repletus est , morum , porrus . Sensus excitat nepeta , thymum , satureia , hysopum , praecipueque puleium , ruta et cepe .
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32 For producing sleep the following are good: poppy, lettuce, and mostly the summer kinds in which the stalk is very milky, the mulberry, the leek. For exciting the senses: catmint, thyme, savory, hyssop, and especially pennyroyal, rue and onion. |