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June 3, 2016
Depictions and analysis of various herbs, foods, physical activities, and meteorological environment.
Note how oranges unavailable except candied rinds, recommended with good wine. And note acorns were eaten. My surviving notes (3o years) seem to be primarily Ch XIV:
Furmentum (frumentum?) wheat: a lovely painting, by someone who knows hunger.
Menstruation, a constant referent, especially under "dangers":
Acorns (glandes) prevent menstruation, but are neutralized by "roasting with suger."
Hyemps (winter) good for warm and dry temperaments, for the young, in southern regions, and for those close to the sea. (Is this hemp, hence marijuana? Not clear, since it appears for three months in February.)
Fennel (feniculus): bad for menstruation, but good for eyesight and prolonged fevers (Latin, "crises" as in the lunar "sea," Mare Crisium, near the Sea of Tranquillity.
"Cucumers" and watermelon (cetuli): Cool hot fevers and purify urine but cause pains in loin and stomach.
Oranges (cetrona), their candied skin: good for stomach, neutralize dangers, when accompanied by the best wine.
Dill (aneti): causes nausea, but good for cold and damp temperaments, for old people , and in winter.
Rye (siligo). Ch LXXXVI, Casanatense:bad for colic.
Coitus: harmful for those with cold and dry breathing.
Note how oranges unavailable except candied rinds, recommended with good wine. And note acorns were eaten. My surviving notes (3o years) seem to be primarily Ch XIV:
Furmentum (frumentum?) wheat: a lovely painting, by someone who knows hunger.
Menstruation, a constant referent, especially under "dangers":
Acorns (glandes) prevent menstruation, but are neutralized by "roasting with suger."
Hyemps (winter) good for warm and dry temperaments, for the young, in southern regions, and for those close to the sea. (Is this hemp, hence marijuana? Not clear, since it appears for three months in February.)
Fennel (feniculus): bad for menstruation, but good for eyesight and prolonged fevers (Latin, "crises" as in the lunar "sea," Mare Crisium, near the Sea of Tranquillity.
"Cucumers" and watermelon (cetuli): Cool hot fevers and purify urine but cause pains in loin and stomach.
Oranges (cetrona), their candied skin: good for stomach, neutralize dangers, when accompanied by the best wine.
Dill (aneti): causes nausea, but good for cold and damp temperaments, for old people , and in winter.
Rye (siligo). Ch LXXXVI, Casanatense:bad for colic.
Coitus: harmful for those with cold and dry breathing.
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