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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08178	The olde mans dietarie A worke no lesse learned then necessary for the preseruation of olde persons in perfect health and soundnesse. Englished out of Latine, and now first published by Thomas Newton.	Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1586 (1586)	STC 18513; ESTC S110157	16,675	50

his tyme turnes and seasons and also for the qualitie and quantitie of such things as hee must vse that by conferring our aduise and direction and the meanes of our vsuall and familiar Dyet with that tried rule and perfect squire and leuell of Dyet vsed by famous Auncients of old tyme we may be able certainly to knowe and vndoubtedly discerne what is needfull to be added and what is necessary and behoouefull to bee withdrawne and taken awaye from such Oldmen for whō we purposely write this present Regiment exactly trying duely considering withall the habite constitution plight dispositiō qualitie strength of their bodies together also with the nature of the Region or country where they haue bene bred and dwell and also the custome or fashion wherunto they haue bene most acquainted and enured For Aetius wordes which he borowed out of Galens discourse of Antiochus the Phisition beeing nowe foure score yeeres old are these Their meate must be as it were a litle pittance at once but they must haue it thrise in a day Let them haue therfore about nine of the clocke some newe bread well moulded and made and moderately baked with some excellent good clarified skummed and despumed Honny About one of the clocke after friction and such exercises as are fit for olde men and after washing let them haue their diner and let them first beginne with such things as be good to clense and keepe the belly soluble as Beetes or Mallowes and such Fishes as swimme in a cleane Sea skouring themselues among the harde Rockes and naturally tossed and beaten with the winde and Sourges After they haue dyned let them rest themselues taking a quiet nappe a while vpon their Bedde and let them walke a little When they suppe at night let them eate no Fish but choose meates of the best nourishment and such as will not easily corrupt and putrifie as namely a Chicken or a Bird boyled in a single broth This sentence opinion and prescription of Aetius is confirmed also by Auicen and after his blunt and barbarous maner auouched and set downe in these wordee The nourishment of Oldmen must be giuen vnto them by litle and litle and they must euery day bee twise or thryse nourished by litle and litle according as they be of digestion strength and debilitie and let them eate at eight of the clock some bread well made with Honny and about one of the clock also after they haue bene conueniently bayned and washed Afterward let them soften mollifie lowse and make solluble their belly with such things as wee shal set downe and toward night let them eate some good nourishing meat if they bee strong of nature and haue good digesting stomakes they may suppe the more largely And in all their meates let them especially take heed they meddle not with any such foode as engendreth Melancholy or Phlegme Let them also beware of al such nourishment as is hoate sharp and drying vnlesse it bee purposely vsed for some speciall respect of medicine Thus somewhat confusedly disorderly vnaptly and vnrespectively doth Auicen iumble and shuffle vp in a heape as a generall rule for euery Olde man that which particularly and example sake both Galen and Aetius set doune only for Antiochus Whereas the same Galene writeth not onely this but that other Old men also liued long with Milke and Hony alone with bread and other strong and solide meates By this Ordinarie thus prescribed and taught vs by Greekes and Arabians this may we plainly gather contrary to the opinion of some later Phisicions that supper ought to be larger and taken in greater quantitie then dinner Which thing Celsus treating of that diet which is best to be obserued in Winter seemeth to allowe and in fewe words to approue For his counsell is to eate meate in the day but onely once and if that once be a dinner he affirmeth it to be so much the better If he haue eaten and drunke but litle in the day or haue fed vpon such foode as giueth but small weake nourishment he may the boldlier eate flesh and other strōg nourishing meates in the euening to supper for that the nights are at that time of the yere of a great length and sleepe also very long Whereby their nourishment must by good reason be then the greater and the more in quantitie For by Sleepe in the night is digestion and concoction best performed which in the day time vppon any light occasion through affection of the mind and vnseasonable exercises are many tymes hindred and vnorderly done as by Galene in his seauenth Method of curing the drie distemperance of the Ventricle is notably declared But in prescribing of any Diet whatsoever aswel for the whole as for the sick wee must euer haue a regard as Hippocrates counselleth to Custome marke well how a man hath of long continuance enured himselfe For we see some that at dinner will eate more largely then at supper and cōtrariwise some others that wil eate and drinke lesse at dinner then at supper Which custome Galen in many places willeth at no hande to bee altered or chaunged in an Oldman And thus much for the maner and order of meates and drinkes aswell at dinner as supper most agreeable for Oldmen It remaineth now that we likewise cōpendiously and briefely set downe what Meates be vnholsome or be of ill iuyce and giue naughtie nourishment This therefore must first and principally be noted that all Meates and drinkes in generall yeelding grosse clammy and tough nourishment are vnto old men very hurtfull dangerous as Frumentie Cheese rosted Egges Cockles Onions Scallions Mushromes Lintels Oysters c. Old men therefore must vse to eate such meates as be easie in concoction quickly nourishing soone alterable into the substance of the body of good iuyce and commendable nourishment without any store of excrements Let their bread be well baked throughly moulded sufficiently leauened and moderately salted reasonably boulted and fined from the Branne And let them take heede they eate not bread when it is newe or when it is ill baked or vnleauened that which is made of the finest Wheate Flowre and purest Meale The bread y t is made of that kind of Wheate which is called Zea or Spelt is better holsomer and fitter for them and so is Barley bread although it nourish nothing so much as the other They must also forbeare and eschewe all Pastlarie and Cakebread that is made of fine Paste Butter Milke Cheese Hony and Sugar The flesh of such forefooted beastes as for hugenesse of body Oldage leanenesse and hardnesse of flesh be any way notable are likewise for thē noysome and hurtfull The best for thē is the flesh of a Chicken of a yong Pullet or wilde birds breeding vpon Hilles and Mountaines as againe they bee the worst that liue and feede in Fennes Ditches Pondes Pooles and standing Waters All bigge bodied and great fishes rammish in taste and strong in sent oyly fattie slymie tough and clammy in iuyce are specially to be auoyded Those that liue about cleare rockes and stonie places and be much beaten tossed with the continuall Surges and waues of the Sea by