Disputatio physica expendens rationes & caussas, cur plurimi ab esu casei abhorreant

because she is persuaded that they are generated solely from corpses and are closely related to snakes. Another person known to me does not taste fried eggs because he thinks the natural disposition of the stomach is disturbed by them. But although we concede all these things [which could be deduced more broadly] as true, they cannot by any means be admitted here. For 1. even boys, or even infants, who have no apprehension of foods as being wholesome, are averse to cheese. 2. Cheese, although it is proclaimed by many as wicked and unwholesome, is such more by accident than in itself, and mostly by reason of the indisposition which is to be noted in him who eats it. It certainly has various things that recommend it, about which Langius should be consulted, book 2 of Medical Epistles, Epistle 29, where he also honors cheese with this poem:

Cheese, abhorred by physicians, who do not know the gifts of milk,
Nor the sacred nourishment of offspring:
From the mass of milk are breakfasts thrifty for me,
After supper, cheese is a sober meal for me.
From the mass of milk a thousand dishes are prepared for me,
Although the hearth does not shine with a red fire.
For soldiers who follow the impious camps of Mars,
No food could be more ready.
For sailors who plow the seas of the swift-sailing ocean,
More swiftly than asparagus, cheese would be a meal.
And it is a welcome sweetmeat among our table delicacies.