This is the nutriment that is good in the weakness called syncope, if the cause be hot: sour milk, when the butter has been taken off it, cold fish, sugar,327 ripe (black)berries, good pears, and sweet-smelling apples. If the cause be cold give warm yolks of eggs, and a custard,328 and meat, and eggs whipped up with milk, and saffron prepared with broth of capon, and beef. Squeeze the soup out of them then, and pour wine over it, the which food is very good.