re are certain harmful foods that should be avoided.
Large salt fish, old cheese, old pickled meat, young new wine,
evil-smelling and bitter foods are often poisonous. There are
also some which are less harmful, but are not to be
recommended as ordinary nutritive materials. Large fish,
cheese, milk more than twenty-four hours after milking, the
flesh of old oxen, beans, peas, unleavened bread, sauerkraut,
onions, radishes and the like. These are to be taken only in
small quantities and only in the winter time and they should
be avoided in the summer. Beans and lentils are to be
recommended neither in winter nor summer.

10. As a rule one should avoid the eating of tree fruits, or
not eat much of them, especially when they are dry and even
less when they are green. If they are unripe they may cause
serious damage. Johannesbrod is very harmful at all times, as
are also all the sour fruits, and only small amounts of them
should be eaten in summer or in warm countries.

11. The fruits that are to be recommended dry as well as
fresh, are figs, grapes, and almonds. These may be eaten as
one has the appetite for them, but one should not accustom
himself to eat them much, though they are healthier than all
other fruits.

12. Honey and wine are not good for children, though they are
beneficial for older people, especially in winter. In summer
one-third less of them should be eaten than in winter.

13. Special care should be taken to have regular movements of
the bowels that carry off the impurities of the body. It is an
axiom in medicine, that so long as evacuations are absent, or
difficult, or require strong efforts, the individual is liable
to serious disease. Every medical means should be taken to
overcome constipation in order to escape its dangers. For
this purpose young people should be given salty food,
materials that have been soaked in olive oil, salt itself, or
certain vegetable soups with olive oil and salt. Older people
should take honey mixed with warm water early in the morning
and four hours later should take their breakfast. This
proceeding should be followed up from one to four days until
the constipation is overcome.

14. Another axiom of medicine is that so long as a man is able
to be active and vigorous, does n