A Salernitan Regimen of Health - Page Four
From sage, salt with wine, pepper, garlic, and parsley
Make a sauce, mixing it together in a sprightly manner.

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If you want to be healthy, wash your hands often.
Washing after a meal gives you two benefits:
It cleans your hands and makes your eyes keen.

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Bread should be neither warm nor stale.
It should be leavened, raised, well-baked,
Moderately salted, and chosen from the best grains.
Do not eat the crust, since it causes burning choler.
Bread that is salted, leavened, well-baked,
Pure, and healthy should be of great benefit to you.

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If you eat pork without wine, it is worse than mutton.
If you add wine to pork, then it is food and medicine.

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The intestines of pigs are good; those of other animals are bad.

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Must (new wine) interferes with urination and acts as a laxative;
It causes stoppage of the liver and spleen, and engenders kidney stone.

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Drinking and eating at the same time may be harmful, since water
Cools the stomach, and the food is liable to remain undigested.

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Veal is very nourishing.

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Chcken, duck, turtle-dove, starling, pigeon,
Quail, blackbird, pheasant, thrush,
Partridge, chaffinch, orex, wagtail, and water fowl are nourishing.

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Cummins, Patricia Willet. A Critical Edition of Le Regime Tresutile et Tresproufitable pour Conserver et Garder la Santé du Corps Humain. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1976.

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