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Humility before the body

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Humility and limits

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  1. Reviewed source pageA B S I N T H I U M.Latin · 17th century · English available

    Let dried absinthium lose its terrible juices, Taught by these to rage against my stomach and head. Unless, however, they do harm from this, they are pleasing to me with a sweet...

    Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus
  2. Reviewed source pageA S P A R A G U S.Latin · 17th century · English available

    That you, Liber, have asparagus scarcely warm from the fire, Which Ravenna, girt by Adriatic shoals, has brought forth: That even of the uncultivated ones, plucked from the hard...

    Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus
  3. Reviewed source pageBOS. VITULUS. TAURUS.Latin · 17th century · English available

    OX. CALF. BULL. LEt your meals hold the Calf for constant use: whose moist meat is joined with a savory flavor.

    Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus
  4. Reviewed source pageC O I T U S.Latin · 17th century · English available

    COITUS. Now let the greatest joys of Erycina come: offspring Has long been awaited, come hither, Hymenaeus. Without you, all the hope of men is vain: let the heir rejoice, When...

    Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus
  5. Reviewed source pageC U T I S.Latin · 17th century · English available

    10. A dispute has long been debated: which part is foremost among the rest in the skin? Or would one principal part be sensitive? And two parts were selected by skillful investi...

    Mikrokosmographia Metrica, sive Humani Corporis Historia
  6. Reviewed source pageCINNAMOMUM.Latin · 17th century · Source text

    CINNAMON. Now the Cook demands the fragrant Cinnamon: everything is unappealing unless you hurry, nor does the food taste good, O Book. These sharpen the eyes and the stomach, a...

    Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus
  7. Reviewed source pageCINQUIÈME PRINCIPE.French · 19th century · English available

    That the greatest expanse of the child's head, Always clears a free exit for the shoulders.

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  8. Reviewed source pageDENTES, ALIÆq́; PARTES IN ORELatin · 17th century · English available

    80. These lymphatic vessels are given to the nostrils, by which The redundant lymph is secreted, and the moisture of the place. In brutes the matter lies clear: in which the lym...

    Mikrokosmographia Metrica, sive Humani Corporis Historia
  9. Reviewed source pageDEUXIÈME PRINCIPE.French · 19th century · English available

    That, like the screw which turns as it advances, The child turns within the pelvis as it passes through.

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  10. Reviewed source pageDIAPRASIUM.Latin · 19th century · English available

    It subdues coryza, hoarseness, cough, and catarrh, 350 the arterial affliction born from a rheum of the brain: dripping uvulas, throats swimming with humor: taken with warm wine...

    Aegidii Corboliensis carmina medica
  11. Reviewed source pageDIAZINZIBEREOS.Latin · 19th century · English available

    395 The windpipes badly curved, and sounding hoarsely, To which a viscous and excessively tenacious humor adheres, *Diazinziber* smooths, files down, and resolves; It cleanses a...

    Aegidii Corboliensis carmina medica
  12. Reviewed source pageDe Cepis.Latin · 15th century · English available

    Physicians do not seem to agree about onions. For Dioscorides said that they inflate, and make the head heavy, And that onions kindle thirst when chewed. Galen said that they ar...

    De viribus herbarum