{TCD 1299 page and line 32b35} Let it be asked here should cold moist diet be given in fevers; it seems not, for Avicenna says the food given to fever patients should be easily digested, and, penetrating, and laxative, and cold moist diet is not so, so it should not be given in fevers. Then Galenus says in De ingenio sanitatis that the diet should be given with regard to the complexion and not with regard to the fever, so, if a man of reddish bile surfers from tertian fever, a diet to increase reddish bile should then be given, if so, cold moist diet should not be given in fevers. Then Galenus says there are three things to be examined in giving diet in fevers, i.e. age and complexion and habit, so cold moist diet should not be given in fevers. Then Galenus says in the commentary to the Aphorisms that humidity is the mother of corruption, and Isaac says the same thing in the book on fevers: ‘Omne quod ...’ i.e. everything that takes to corruption is moist, so cold moist diet should not be given in fevers. Then Isaac says in the book on fevers these words: ‘Frigidum auget ...’ i.e. coldness increases the constrictions, and the constrictions are the matter of corruption, so cold moist diets are not suitable to give in fevers. This is opposed according to Hippocrates who says fever patients should have cold moist diet.