Soft pottage softens the coat of our stomachs. All wines, as a general rule, are heating. In the heat of the weather, then let cold draughts be given moderately. Increases flesh, cures wounds of the . . . The water of a spring that tends towards the east is good, And to the south.
Water tending in any other direction is always unwholesome.
The fasts of summer time dry the body. Summer afterwards dries such. Let it be known that in that Time red choler especially prevails. The change of season renders not a few sick. Let joyous songs very often gladden your spirit, Cultivate pleasant words, abandon litigious ones.