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difipation.’ ‘In patticular; 1. ¥ egttables: as 1. Flowers may be kept fo long as 
they retain their’ colour, finell, and tafte, which for the moft part is half'a year; 
therefore they are to be changed every year. Note alfo, they are belt when fretheft: 
2. Herbs may be kept longer, yet it is better to change them yearly. 3. Seeds, by 
how much they are more hot, fharp, and aromatical, by fo much alfo are they more 
durable, therefore may be kept two or three years; but thofe that are lefftr and 
colder muft be changed every year, and miuft be kept carefully, lealt they grow 
mouldy. 4. Fruits mutt be changed every year; but the exotic, that have a harder 
bark or fhell, &c. may be kept two or three years. 5. Gums and rofins are more 
durable. 6. Barks laft a year ormore. 7. Roots, if they are little, flender, and thin, 
they are changed every year; as thofe of affarabecca, fpetage, &c. but the greater, 
and having a grofs fub{tance, laft two or three years} as thof of birthwort, briony, 
gensian, rhubarb, and hellebore, &c. 
eee for. we bes confidered the faabies of medicinals ; ‘now follow thofe of 
aliments, which are fuch vegetables, &c. that nourifh : and inéreale @ the bodily fub- 
- ftance, by reftoring that which is deperdite, the body being i in a perpetual decay, ahd 
therefore wanting refeétion by meat and drink : and this, if it do not greatly affect 
the body by any other quality, is properly and fimply called aliment, and is in 
fome meafure like unto the fubftance of the body, into which it is to be converted ; 
but.if it change the body by any exuperant quality, it is not fimply aliment, ‘burt; 
medicamentous: fuch are thofe things which with fweetnefs. have adjoined ; an acid, 
acerb, bitter, or fharp quality; and from hence arifeth the difference of aliments : 
which, 1. in refpect: of fubftance are hard and foft; heavy, vifcid, or light; firm o 
infirm; eafily or hardly concoéted or corrupted. 2. In refpeét of quality, they are 
hot, cold, moift, or dry ; fweet or bitter ; four, falt, fharp, acid, acerb, or aufterey 
of good or bad juice; fimple or medicamentous ; wholefome or unwholefome ; beft 
or wortt ; of which fome are, 1. Euchymic, or of good juice, fweet in tafte, plea. 
fant to the pallate, and. not of any unpleafant fmell: as. alfo fat things, and fome 
which are infipid, as bread of the beft wheat, &e. 2 Cacochymic, or of evil juice, 
which befides {weetnefs, _ have fome other ity | mixed therewith, as_fharpnefs, 
ditternefs, faltnefs, acerbity, and two. much aci ity : -alfo all fetid things, of an un- 
lea ane fe inet and soemaesd as the oleraceous, (efpecially the wild) except let- 
eand | » cucumber corn, things growing in reaps § 
