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fitable, therfore verie fitte for olde perſons, as Galen affirmeth. And to perſons being twentie yeares of age, and of an vntemperate boteneſſe, or others hote of qualitie, the honny to them is hurtefull, bycauſe it is ſoone conuerted into choller in them. Democritus was on a time aſked, by what meanes men might both continue in perfite health, and liue vnto very old yeares, to which he thus anſwered: if ſo be men annoint their bodies outwarde with Oyle, and apply their bodies inwarde with honny. Further honny profiteth weake perſons, being applyed as the Mulſe water, of which ſhal after be taught in the next chapter. To perſons cold of nature, the honie may aptly be miniſtred in hote broth, but to hote perſons miniſtred in warme brothe, the honie is not rightly giuen. The hnny mixed with Camphora, & lying to ſettle three dayes before, with the which annointing the face, doth ſpeedily clenſe the ſpots in the face: the ſelf ſame doth the honie, mixed with the gall of an Oxe. The pure white honie clenſeth the breaſt, ſoftneth Impoſtumes, being as well without, as within the bodie. The hony alſo mundifyeth, openeth the ſtoppings of the Liuer and Mylte, helpeth dropſie bodies, and ſtrengthneth weake members. The Aromaticke honny much auayleth in ſundrie diſeaſes, being thus prepared, as the pure redde Roſe leaues finely clipped, and after boyled in pure white honie, being often and diligentlye ſkymmed. For ſuch a Honnye doeth comforte and mundifye, diſſolueth in the clenſing the clammy ſwellings, digeſteth the fleumaticke and groſſe humors, and drunke alſo with colde water, it bindeth the bellie, but miniſtred with warm water it looſeth the bellie.

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