Disputatio medica, de cibo et potu

XLVI.
Thus, drier foods that are consumed provide the opposite effect: for they produce a drier chyme or chyle.

XLVII.
Foods that are consumed also change, alter, and affect our body, not only by their primary qualities but also by their secondary ones, with which they are sometimes endowed and which are dominant; these the physician must also carefully consider.

XLVIII.
For it must be known that for a perfectly balanced body, food that is neither too thick, nor thin, nor too solid, nor liquid is suitable.

XLIX.
Therefore, one must strive with the greatest zeal to use only those foods that nourish us in such a way that, as far as possible, they do not harm us.

L.
Such foods, which harm us the least, can be those which are called by Galen original: "Gal." referring to Galen of Pergamon, the ancient medical authority foods of "good juice," from which, indeed, the best blood is generated.

LI.
Conversely, foods of "bad juice," from which a vicious and malignant blood is created, must be avoided.

LII.
We also assert that in the consumption of food and drink, and indeed in the entire regimen of life, habit must also be diligently observed.

Recte From the Latin "Recte," meaning rightly or correctly.