But if he begin with any other kind of food, all on a sudden his stomach grows dull and languid.

And therefore salt doth not only make meat but drink palatable.
For Homer's onion, which, he tells us, they were used to eat before they drank, was fitter for seamen and boatmen than kings.

Things moderately salt, by being pleasing to the mouth, make all sorts of wine mild and palateable, and water itself of a pleasing taste.

Besides, salt creates none of those troubles which an onion does, but digests all other kinds of meat, making them tender and fitter for concoction; so that at the same time it is sauce to the palate and physic to the body.

But all other seafood, besides this pleasantness, is also very innocent for though it be fleshly, yet it does not load the stomach as all other flesh does, but is easily concocted and digested.