Of the Snow 
che walker that mut bee dꝛunke, oz with them the water be 
made colde, without doubt it is good: fo2 the waters whiche 
come fooꝛth sf them, be not diuers from other waters. 
This ath Auicen ſap, giuing to vnderſtand 5 thele waters 
which doe proces of (now r of froſt being clean, do not differ 
krõ h goodnes of other waters vnly p differẽte is that the twas 
ters ofp ſnow ¢ of p fro are groler the other waters, vy re⸗ 
{OP the vapoꝛ is congeled in the middle of p aire, as we haut 
declared. Raſis among p Arabians the beſt learned, in the 3. 
bak or thoſe which he wꝛote to the King Almalor faith thus. 
The water of the (now coleth the liuer that is hot, being ta⸗ 
Rẽ after meat, it ſtrengthneth ß ſtomatk it giueth appetite ¢ 
luſt ta meate, but that which is dꝛunk may not be much. And 
imme diatlꝑ after he ſaith, the water which hath not fo much 
coldnes, that it giueth not contentment to him 5 dꝛinketh it, 
ülleth the bellx, e taketh not away the dꝛith, it deſtroyeth the 
appetite, it taketh awa the luſt ot the meate, it confameth ß 
body, contludeth in ſaying that it is not a thing conuenitt to 
bet Dunks. J dos vnderſtande it foꝛ the pꝛeſeruation of the 
health of mã, ot the which Raſis treating of that bon himſelle 
in the J. of Almaſor, ſpeaking ofthe pꝛeteruation from the 
pla gur, he tcommandeth todꝛink water of now: t in the fame 
chapter he doth reter it an other time to the 26. chapter of the 
{aid baoke, in the time of whot weather bee commaundeth to 
be dꝛunke in the moꝛning ſnow with ſugar. 
The Arabians tured many diſeaſes with the ble of the ſnow, 
t with water made cold therwith. Auicen in whot griels of ỹ 
ſtomack Doth command to make cold the dꝛink with Snow: 
t like wiſe in hot qriefs of the liner, put dpon the grief which 
is verx ſharpe oz ſoze, in cauſes whicht are very hat, it bath 
been ſcen many times to take away the pain. Be tõmandeth 
inthe grief er the tothach ta make cold p water with nom e 
Bthey cherw very ofte. And like wife Aui- 
cen in the 1 1-ofthe 3. treting ar p trẽbling of the heart ſaieth, 
ifthe cauſe be rd ther w be any inflamatiõ let bim haus 
Sint him cold water to dꝛink a new water mingled = 
