[2924]Crato will admit of no herbs, but borage, bugloss, endive, fennel, aniseed, baum; Callenius and Arnoldus tolerate lettuce, spinach, beets, &c.  The same Crato will allow no roots at all to be eaten.  Some approve of potatoes, parsnips, but all corrected for wind.  No raw salads; but as Laurentius prescribes, in broths; and so Crato commends many of them:  or to use borage, hops, baum, steeped in their ordinary drink. [2925]Avenzoar magnifies the juice of a pomegranate, if it be sweet, and especially rose water, which he would have to be used in every dish, which they put in practice in those hot countries, about Damascus, where (if we may believe the relations of Vertomannus) many hogsheads of rose water are to be sold in the market at once, it is in so great request with them.

SUBSECT.  II.—­Diet rectified in quantity.

Man alone, saith [2926]Cardan, eats and drinks without appetite, and useth all his pleasure without necessity, animae vitio, and thence come many inconveniences unto him.  For there is no meat whatsoever, though otherwise wholesome and good, but if unseasonably taken, or immoderately used, more than the stomach can well bear, it will engender crudity, and do much harm.  Therefore [2927]Crato adviseth his patient to eat but twice a day, and that at his set meals, by no means to eat without an appetite, or upon a full stomach, and to put seven hours’ difference between dinner and supper.  Which rule if we did observe in our colleges, it would be much better for our healths:  but custom, that tyrant, so prevails, that contrary to all good order and rules of physic, we scarce admit of five.  If after seven hours’ tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.  This very counsel was given by Prosper Calenus to Cardinal Caesius, labouring of this disease; and [2928] Platerus prescribes it to a patient of his, to be most severely kept.  Guianerius admits of three meals a day, but Montanus, consil. 23. pro.  Ab.  Italo, ties him precisely to two.  And as he must not eat overmuch, so he may not absolutely fast; for as Celsus contends, lib. 1.  Jacchinus 15. in 9.  Rhasis, [2929]repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes.  Moreover, that which he doth eat, must be well [2930]chewed, and not hastily gobbled, for that causeth crudity and wind; and by all means to eat no more than he can well digest.  “Some think” (saith [2931] Trincavelius, lib. 11. cap. 29. de curand. part. hum.) “the more they eat the more they nourish themselves:”  eat and live, as the proverb is, “not knowing that only repairs man, which is well concocted, not that which is devoured.”  Melancholy men most part have good [2932]appetites, but ill digestion, and for that cause they must be sure to rise with an appetite; and that which Socrates and Disarius the physicians in [2933]Macrobius so much require, St. Hierom enjoins Rusticus to eat and