ON THE aUALITY OF FOOD. 
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1 ' For food are used, grain (or corn), flesh, 
f' butter, vegetables or greens, and dressed vic- 
ji tuals. There are two kinds of grain : 1 
growing in ears, and 2, in pods (as pulse). 
Flesh or animal food of eight kinds or sorts. 
' Several kinds of unctuous or oily substances ; 
i: as, butter, oil expressed from grains, kernels, 
fruits, berries, and trees or shurbs; grease, 
, fat, marrow, &c. To vegetable or green 
j things, belong potherbs, &c.To dressed victu- 
! als or meals, belong boiled riee, soup, &c. 
i'» Drinkable things are milk, water, wine, &c. 
: Chapter . — Enumeration of several kinds 
I of food that it were dangerous to take together ; 
as fish and milk. Sec. 
ISth Chapter.— On the proper measure of, 
food to be taken, or on temperance in meat and 
drink.” 
In the concluding part he gives a full des- 
cription of the cure of diseases. We shall 
give a specimen of the author’s manner of 
treating this part of his subject, by quot- 
ing the following, with which, M’^e think, 
our brethren in Europe will be much 
amused. 
“ 2. Thectirinig of diseases arising from 
wind (or windy humours). There are five 
distinctions: 1, causes; 2 , accessory cause 
and effect ; 3, division ; 4, symptoms ; 5, 
mannar of curing (diseases arising from wind.) 
, wind) . 
3. In the curing of diseases arising from 
(or caused by) bile, there are the following 
distinctions: 1, cause; 2, accessory cause 
and effect ; 3, division ; 4, symptoms ; 5, man- 
ner of curing ; 6, and stopping or hindering 
its progress. 
4. In the curing of diseases caused by 
phlegm (or phlegmatical humours), are con- 
sidered : cause, accessory cause and effect, 
division, symptoms and manner of curing. 
5. In the curing of diseases caused by the 
: gathering together of the three humours 
(wind, bile, phlegm,) and of blood, there are 
the following distinctions or considerations : 
cause, incident or accessory cause and effect, 
place, time, kind or genus, symptoms, man- 
ner or mode of curing, and the stopping of it 
for the future. 
6. In the curing of indigestion, the root (or 
primary cause) of inward diseases, there are 
the following distinctions or sections : cause, 
incident or accessory cause and effect, manner 
of its arising, division, symptoms, remedy or 
mode of curing. 
7. In the curing of a swelling (or a hard con- 
glomoration or excrescence), there is treated 
of : cause, incident, division, place, manner of 
arising, symptom, mode of euring it. 
8. The curing of white swellings, a kind 
of dropsy. Here are considered : cause, in- 
. cident, division, symptom, mode of curing. 
9. In the curing of another kind of dropsy 
there are the same distinctions as before. 
10. The curing of dropsy is taught, by ex- 
posing the cause and incident, division, man- 
ner of arising, symptom, mode of cux’ing, 
stopping or cessation. 
11. In the curing of phthisis or consump- 
tion of the lungs, there are the following dis- 
tinctions : cause, and accessory cause or 
effect, division symptom, mode of curing. 
And thus there are six chapters on curing 
inward diseases. 
12. In curing feverish diseases (where heat 
prevails) in general, there are the following 
distinctions : cause incident, nature, name,, 
symptom, mode of cui’ing. 
16. In an increased or burning fever, the 
same distinctions are as before, except a tri- 
fling division. 
17 to 20. On curing several kinds of fever, 
such as are : the sly, hidden, inveterate, and 
the mixed ones. 
21. The curing of inflammation of any hurt 
or wounded part of the body, with several 
distinctions ; and that of inward and out- 
ward hurt : the inwards are, the viscera and 
the vessels ; the outward parts are, the flesh, 
bone, mari’ow, tendon, and fibre. 
22. The curing of heat or fever, (arising 
from the contest between wind, bile, and 
phlegm), in which the mental faculties are 
troubled, with several distinctions to be con- 
sidered ; and so there are 1 1 chapters on cur- 
ing fever (heat of inflamation). 
23. On curing epidemic maladies or infec- 
tious diseases, with several distinctions and 
divisions ; as, a kind of pestilence of Ne- 
pal. 
24. On curing the small-pox : cause and 
effect, definition of small pox, distinction, 
symptom, mode of curing ; distinction into 
v.?hite and black variolas, each having three 
species. 
25. The curing of infectious diseases af- 
fecting the bowels (colic), with several dis- 
tinction ; purging the viscera and the lower 
vessels, affecting with greater or less vehe- 
mence ; and so there are eight kinds of dis- 
eases affecting the bowels. 
26. The curing of swellings in the throat 
(or of ulcers and inflammations) , and infective 
diseases, as the cholera, the first has 4, 
the second 11, subdivisions, or minor dis- 
tinctions.” 
‘‘62. The curing of miscellaneous diseases 
of the smaller kind : such as contraction or 
sinking of the sinews ; dysentery ; any hurt 
caused by fire ; hurt or wound made with a 
needle ; or when a needle or the iron-point 
of an arrow happen to be swallovred ; choak- 
ing or suffocation ; or the stopping of any 
thing in the throat, as, a beard of corn, bone, 
fish-prickle ; the entering or sw^ailowing in 
of a spider or scorpion ; intoxication ; stiff- 
ness of the neck ; ill smell of the body ; 
hurt of the hands and feet caused by cold 
and snow ; the creeping of any insect into 
the ear ; the swelling of the teat of a woman. 
The curing of all such diseases is called the 
