A Salernitan Regimen of Health - Page Six
Cheese, is cold, constipating, crude, and hard,
Cheese and bread are good food for a man who is healthy;
If a man is not healthy, then cheese without bread is good.

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"Ignorant doctors say that I (cheese) am harmful,
Nevertheless they do not know why I should do harm."
Cheese brings help to a weak stomach.
Taken after your other food, it properly ends the meal.
Those who are not ignorant of medicine will attest to these things.

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During the meal take small drinks often;
So that you do not become ill, do not wait to drink in between courses.

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After each egg drink another cup of wine;
After fish have nuts, after meat serve cheese.
One kind of nut is good, a second is harmful, a third kind brings death.

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Add a drink of wine to your pear, and the nut is medicine against poison.
A pear tree produces our pears. Without wine its pears are poison;
If pears are poison, then damned be the peartree!
If you cook them, pears are an antidote, but uncooked they are a poison.
Raw they aggravate the stomach; cooked, pears relieve the aggravation.
After the pear, drink wine; after the apple empty your bowels.

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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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