De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

otherwise those endowed with a power of cleansing, others with a power of gluing and solidifying: and these should be administered sparingly and at intervals.

XLVI.
Healthful, succulent, and providing abundant nourishment are fine bread, soft-boiled fresh eggs, chicken meat, especially the livers, wings, and testicles: the meat of sandgrouse, pheasants, partridges, pigeons, blackbirds, thrushes, larks, kid, veal, mutton, lamb, rabbit, roe deer, and young hare: all should be roasted rather than boiled, with the juice of oranges, pomegranates, or sour grapes.

XLVII.
From the genus of fish, rock-dwelling and scaly river fish are permitted, such as pike, perch, and gudgeon. Also river crayfish boiled with barley water or a decoction of chickpeas. They also praise the meat of garden snails, tortoises, and frogs, especially their legs.

XLVIII.
Among herbs, orache, lettuce, spinach, and gourd stalks are permitted.

XLIX.
Among fruits: fresh hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios, pine nuts, sweet dates, fresh figs, raisins, sweet pomegranates, the pulp of jujubes, fresh sebestens, melons, unless the stomach is languid: pears cooked and sprinkled with sugar.

L.
For cleansing, these are beneficial: flour, ptisana barley groats, barley cream: beans, stalks, bran bread, chickpeas or beans boiled in chicken broth, or cabbage broth, or barley water, or almond milk.

LI.
For gluing, wheat flour and barley groats, rice, and wheat boiled in chicken broth are beneficial.

LII.
For drying, millet, panicum, and lentils boiled twice in goat's milk, in which heated white ferns have boiled, are effective.

LIII.
All these virtues exist in milk according to its diverse parts. Abundant