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A63802	A new art of brewing beer, ale, and other sorts of liquors so as to render them more healthfull to the body and agreeable to nature, and to keep them longer from souring, with less trouble and charge then generally practised, which will be a means to prevent those torturing distempers of the stone, gravel, gout, and dropsie : together with easie experiments for making excellent drinks with apples, currans, goodberries, cherries, herbs, seeds, and hay &c., and the way to preserve eggs five or six months from being musty or rotten : wih an appendix how to make fruit trees constantly fruitful : also a way how every one may purge themselves with common salad herbs and roots, and a method how to prevent constiveness in the body / by the author of The way to long life, health, and happiness &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing T3187; ESTC R26334	40,831	148

four five six seven eight nine ten or twenty are jumbled together as I have elsewhere demonstrated Those that desire a more friendly Ale then is generally drunk may infuse what quantity they please in there warm Wort as you do Hops Also use the Herb Ale-hoof Fennel Seeds Caroways and Coriander all which are notable Purges by Urine but they purge by Urine more powerful when infused in either new Ale or Beer that is already firmented as is mentioned before so you may do it in small quantities as you have occasion But if you infuse those or any other Herbs in Water viz. in cold Water for ten or twelve hours and then drink a pint or what you please which have a far more powerful Operation against the forementioned Distempers then in any firmented Liquor It is further to be considered That strong stale Beer Syder Wine or any other firmented Liquors the frequent drinking thereof do not only generate the Stone and Gravel but they do as often occasion the Gout Consumptions Dropsies and many other Diseases all according to the Nature of each mans Constitution and what properly hath got the Ascendant in the Humors of the Body as is manifest in great Eaters and Drinkers one man drinks and eats himself into the Gout another into a Consumption another into a Dropsie or some other Distemper the evil Effects are as various as their Natures and Constitutions are contrary Be therefore reconciled to Water that generous Element which without doubt was and is the only Drink ordained for all Creatures by our Creator therefore he that first firmented the Juices of the Grape and made strong Drink thereof did drink and was drunk and therefore was cursed with the greatest of Curses which ought to be considered by all wise and good men but Water is so friendly and does contain many secret and admirable Virtues which the Creator hath indued this Element with as in all Ages hath been manifest for it being pure and clear in its own Nature and is it not the only and alone thing by which all External things are purified purged and cleansed And though it be a vulgar Proverb As weak as Water yet I must tell you Water is more strong and sublime then most imagine for it contains a most ravishing and excellent sweet Virtue whence proceeds the pure friendly refreshing quality whereby it hath power by its innate Virtue to delight and purifie all sorts of Food Also in Preparations it is so innocent and friendly that it dissipates the gross phlemy Body and preserves the more Essential Parts and Virtues and keeps them living What shall I say words cannot declare its excellency it is not only the most plentiful and truly pleasant of all Drinks but it supplies Nature with its friendly moisture and relieves Thirst beyond all other Liquors or Juices it is so simple and indued with such equality that it insinuates its mild opening Virtues into all parts of the Body in an insensible way it makes no noise nor causes any tumults in the Brain nor awakens any inequality in the Body but it imparts its meek Life as it were in silence and as Bread hath the first place of all Food and may justly be called Concord as being the foundation of all good Nourishment the like is to be understood of Water that being the Radix of all moist Nourishment and renders all things fit and profitable for Mankind of which there are great variety all according to the Natures and Salniteral Virtues of the Earth it proceeds from but for general Use Rain River and Spring-water are the best and that of these sorts that will wash brew and perform all Preparations in Houswifery is the best viz. that Water that will wash Lining to advantage is the best which generally River-water will do far better than most Springs as I have demonstrated in our Way to Health Cautions against certain Foods that Generate the Stone and Gravel First SUch as are naturally subject to these Diseases ought to refrain from all over-salt Fish and Flesh for such things are not only hard of Concoction furring the Passages but they do heat the whole Body and infect the Blood with a salt sharp scorbutick Humour occasioning Crudities and evil Juices obstructing the Passages of the whole Body and especially the Uriters Thirdly Let them refrain all Spicy Foods for they naturally heat the blood hurt the natural heat and produce the same Effects especially in youth Thirdly Let them refrain all or most sorts of Food made sweet with Sugar for the frequent use of such Meats and Drinks do prove very prejudicial to most Peoples health but more especially to such as are subject to the forementioned Diseases for over-sweetness in Foods and Drinks does not only thicken the Blood and hinder its free Circulation but it indues it with a watery phlegmatick quality and turns the Humours to the highest degree of souerness more especially if fats and sweetness be compounded together as they are for the most part as the sweetest Wines makes the sharpest Vinegar which immediately tends towards Putrifaction whence proceeds various Diseases according to each mans Constitution and Complexion viz. Scabs Boyls Leprosies Consumptions Gout and Stone all Stoppages of the Breast ill Digestion Nautiousness rotten Teeth offensive Breath all which Distempers have of late years been more brief and frequent since the common eating of sugered Foods and Drinks And indeed most Mothers and Nurses through an ignorant fondness do lay the Foundations for these and the like Diseases in Children from their very Infancy by the continued use of sweetned Milks and other compounded Foods for Sugar tho' it be the King of all Vegitations and the sublimest Salt the Vegitative Kingdom affords as being more highly graduated in the almost paradisical quality the Sweet nevertheless that too frequent or over-much eating of it proves baneful to Health especially to young People and Children for when it comes into the Stomach and is there firmented it presently tends to keneness sharpness and souerness which in many People proves of evil Consequence and does generate a hard gretty Stone making Substance as it finds Matter capable and disposed to receive and joyn Forces with it Fourthly Also let those that are subject to the forementioned Diseases forbear as much as in them lies the frequent eating of fat succulant Foods for you must note that all fat Bodies are nothing so easily dissolvable neither can the Natural Minstrum or Heat of the Stomach so well digest or make separation thereof as it can on Vegitation neither do such things generate so good Blood or fine brisk lively Spirits for this Cause fat Foods lye long in the Stomach and seem to satisfie it not that they afford more or better Nourishment but the reason thereof is their oyliness as is manifest in all External Operations for what Menstrum will easily separate and dissolve fat oyly things The like is to be understood of the Stomach for

A NEW ART OF BREWING Beer Ale and other sorts of Liquors so as to render them more healthful to the Body and agreeable to Nature and to keep them longer from souring with less Trouble and Charge then generally practised which will be a means to prevent those torturing Distempers of the Stone Gravel Gout and Dropsie Together with easie Experiments for making excellent Drinks with Apples Currans Goosberries Cherries Herbs Seeds and Hay c. And the way to preserve Eggs five or six Months from being Musty or Rotten With an Appendix how to make Fruit-Trees constantly fruitful Also a way how every one may purge them-themselves with common Salad Herbs and Roots And a Method how to prevent Costiveness in the Body Recommended to all Brewers Gentlemen and others that brew their own Drink By the Author of the Way to long Life Health and Happiness c. Licensed and Entred according to Order London Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleetstreet 1690. The CONTENTS of this BOOK THe Design of the Author in publishing this Treatise Page 1 The Office of the Stomach and several digestions described 4 The evil Effects of Excess in Eating and Drinking as to Quantity and Quality 7 Concerning the generating the Stone and Gravel Gout Consumption c. 13 The Boiling of Hops Wort Bear c. very injurious 15 Firmented Drinks much better new than Stale 18 Rules for the well-brewing and making good wholsom Bear and Ale 21 An Experiment demonstrating the Prejudice that Water receives by Boiling 24 The Mischief of making Drink by a third Infusion of the Malt with hot Liquor 25 The Quantity of Hops proposed for Brewing 29 About Ordering your Brewing Vessels 30 Circumstances to be observed in Cooling and Firmenting your Beer or Ale 34 Of the Nature of Hops 38 An Objection against unboiled Bear and Ale answered 40 Many Herbs and Vegitations that will serve in B●ewing as well or better than Hops 48 The best Drinks to prevent the Generation of the Stone 55 Of cold Gruel 57 The way of infusing Herbs or Seeds c. to the best advantage 62 Cautions against certain Foods that generate the Stone and Gravel c. 67 A good Drink against the Stone and other Stoppages 74 A good profitable and wholsom way to make Wine of Cherries Goosberries c. 79 An Appendix shewing the Natural Causes why Fruit-Trees do so frequently fail Bearing and offering Expedients to make Orchards almost constantly fruitful 88 105 VVith a new Experiment of preserving Eggs sweet and good for several Months 131 The Natural way how every one may in the Spring and Fall purge themselves with Ease and Pleasure to considerable Advantage 135 A NEW ART OF Brewing c. THO' I have no other Design in respect of Brewers then only to save them a great deal of Pains and no small part of their daily Charge and towards the rest of Mankind but an honest and most charitable Intention of Advertizing them what may conduce both to the Health of their Bodies Tranquility of their Minds and Advantage of their Estates yet I am not so Ignorant of the Worlds common usage as not to expect that offering to Disswade from certain inveteral but mischievous Customs I am like to meet with no less than Hate or Reproach or at least Scorn and Contempt from the greatest part of those whose welfare I would gladly promote However as the Conscience of my own Innocence and certain Experience and Knowledge of the Truth of what I Recommend will be a sufficient Buckler against all the Darts of Envy Ingratitude Noise and Folly So I do not Despair but this small Treatise may have the happiness to meet with some few so little wedded to Tradition and their own Humours as to be willing to hearken to the Dictates of Wisdom Reason and Nature wherever they meet them or though communicated in an homely manner by a very weak and imperfect Instrument Methinks there should scarce be any man that hath ever entertained his Thoughts for one half hour in a serious Consideration of his own Structure and how and by what Natural means he doth subsist in this World but must have taken notice that as the Substance of our Bodies suffers a daily Expence Decay or Wasting as well by the action of our own innate or inbread heat prespiration of Spirits and the more pure parts of the Humours thorow the pores of the Skin impressions of the Ambient Air as by the common and more gross Evacuations so there is required a daily supply of Nourishment to repair and make good whatsoever is thus spent of the Store which is provided to support and preserve the Microcosm To this End as outwardly the All-wise and most Bountiful Creator has prepared variety of excellent Foods and Liquors so inwardly he has both given us Reason Wisdom and Knowledge if we will hearken to and exert it to distinguish which of them are at all times best and most requisite for us as also fixed the Members and Organs of our Bodies in their several places and offices to be assisting and subservient to each other in order to the effecting of this admirable Work Of these the Stomach is the first and principal Agent which as it were a Kitchin serves to dress and prepare all Meats that are brought into it and by its Concocting Faculty reduses them into a white milky Substance which is called Chyle which passing thence throughout the lower Orifice of the Stomach into the Intrails having there but a slow passage by reason of many turnings and windings by which the Guts are mutually inclosed and united to the Mesentery it is further digested and seperated and the purer part by the Mesoraick Veins called the Hands of the Liver is thorough the Veins from the Office called Vena Porta carried into the hollow parts of the Liver whereby a higher and more elaborate Concoction is turned into that admirable Balsamick Liquor called Blood This Blood passes from thence into the Vena Cava or great hollow Vein whose Trunk divides it self into two large Branches the one tending downwards to carry blood to the lower parts the other upwards and mounteth even to the Throat dividing again by the way into other Branches one of which fasteneth it self to the right Ventricle of the Heart by which the blood is brought thither from the Liver where being yet higher elaborated and inriched 't is transmuted or carried over to the left Ventricle where the Arteries takes their original which contains the Vital Blood and Spirits whose Office it is to enliven and exercise the Faculties of the Body By other Branches it ariseth into the Brain where the Animal Spirits are made being the Seat of Phansie Reason Judgment and Memory which noble Faculties by those Spirits are exercised as also of all Sense and Motion for from the Brain are all the Nerves or Sinews divided into all the parts which cause a

voluntary Motion in the Body by which it walks stands lyes down labours rises or useth any other Exercise according to the Dictates of the Will which cannot be done without the ministry of the Nerves Thus you see the whole oeconomy of Nature how what is received at the Mouth is turned into Chyle by the Stomach that Chyle into Blood by the Liver Of the purer parts of the Blood are made Vital Spirits by the Heart and Animal Spirits by the Brain all which being thorow the Veins and Arteries like so many Channels or Conduict Pipes conveyed to the principal Member and from thence by abundance of smaller Vessels into every part of the Body Growth and Vigour at least a continual and suitable Supply ought to be thereby communicated to the whole But if what is taken into the Body that is our Meats and Drinks be either improper in quality or too great in quantity it does in either case disturb this curious oeconomy and frustrate Natures Intentions and Operations for as unwholsom Meats and Drinks must needs give an unwholsom Nourishment the Effects always precipitating quality consentaneous to its Causes and every thing delighteth to produce its Simile's so if the Errors be only in quantity which tho' too frequent yet rarely happens without the other the Consequence is still worse Excess in Eating and Drinking laying the Foundations of almost all Diseases for scarce could the Starry Influences Injuries of Insalubrious Air various Seasons of the Year and the like External Accidents have power to beget Diseases unless the Body were predisposed to receive their Effects by ill Humours is the Result of Indigestions and originally caused from the Faculties of the Stomach being abased and perverted for when the Stomach is nautiated with disagreable Food or Drink or over-charged with Excess it cannot conceal and turn such Matters into good Chyle but not being able to contain it long thorow ill Crude as it is into the Intrails which being also oppressed cannot so speedily conveigh thorow them the indigested load but it receiveth there an imperfect alteration and so is by the Veins of the Mesentery drawn away to the Liver which being likewise indisposed at the receipt of such unprepared Matter is as unable to convert the unequal Mass into good Blood but thrusts it out into the larger Veins mixed and infected with evil Humours and from thence to the Heart the Seat of Life which like a Lamp almost drown'd with Oyl is even stifled and overcome thence also it is carried to the Brain the Fountain of Sense and Motion which being clouded with Vapors and superfluous Humours its Faculties are interrupted the brisk and active Phansie clogged and dulled Reason mudled and Judgment vitiated and all the admirable Store-house of Memory oppressed and confounded from these nobler Parts and larger Vessels it is throghout the small ones spread all over the Body every part taking its unhappy share and by reason of the want of its due Concoction in the principal Members cannot give due Nourishment to those parts remote but by these Errors often repeated the Harmony of Nature is every where disturbed and the whole Body made a Magazin of corrupt Humours which like home-bred Traitors in a City are continually ready to let in fierce and cruel Diseases upon the least External Attack or if that be wanting will from their own Malignity as Domestick Rebellions and Insurrections are caused in ill govern'd States creates Disturbances within endangering the Peace both of Body and Mind and even threatning Subversion to the Throne of Life By what has been said it appears of what vast Importance due Consideration and Caution in our Meats and Drinks is not only for the Securing Health of Body Prevention of Diseases but also in order to the obtaining Serenity of Mind and Calm Affections and the improving all our Intellectual Faculties 't is an old Rule The Passions of the Mind follow the Temperatement of the Body for such Diet as you use such will be your Blood and as your Blood is pure or impure such will be your Spirits Natural Vital and Animal and consequently all Functions and Operations of Body and Mind shall suitably be altered Take a man never so modest just and peaceble let him over-charge himself with strong Liquor what a strange Metamorphize altogether incredible did not the lamentable frequency convince us shall it make as if some Body had stoln away the Man and left a Beast or rather a Devil in his shape so do we not daily fee that those who addict themselves to Gluttony tho' not so soon yet in time as certainly as the other lose their Parts and of sharp witty judicious Persons become Fools and stupid Sots But of the Inconveniences of improper Foods and Excess even in the most Innocent I have even at large Treated in other of my Writings not omitting as occasionally to say something thereof here but the main Scope of this present Treatise shall relate to Drink and some particular Foods that may be proper for such as are afflicted with the Stone and Gravel and also the Sorts they ought to forbear not so much to shew the odiousness of that Swinish sin Drunkenness nor in admonishing those who think themselves and are by others numbred amongst the most sober that even they are guilty of great Excess in the quantity of Liquor as well as in the quality which through ill Customs they swallow down beyond the necessity of Nature but especially to take notice of the ill quality of those Liquors that are used by most People arising from their undue Preparations and to shew both the Reasons how and why the same do breed Diseases in Human Bodies as also to offer Remedies whereby the same may be prevented and Drink truly refreshing exhilerated and friendly to Nature made and accommodated to General Use. The first step towards the Generation of the Stone and Gravel as also the Gout Consumption and various other Diseases of the like Nature is the frequent drinking of strong hot sharp intoxicating stale Liquors and fiery prepared Drinks as Beer high boyled with Hops Brandy Rum old Wines especially Claret and Whitewine which for the most part tend towards a Spirit viz. Heat and Sharpness becoming its predominating quality all such Drinks do in such Constitutions by Simile contract and generate in the Passages and Ureters a hard gretty Substance and of a mixt Saturnine Martial Nature which is the first principle and beginning of the Disease called the Stone and all its Symptoms and Attendances Nor is that the only Evil thereby occasioned in the Human Nature for such Liquors do too violently stir up and evaporate the pure essential Spirits and as it were burn up the sweet Oyl or Humour Radicallis the Balsom of Life whereby the Blood becomes Infected with a sharp hot quality and its free Circulation is obstructed which Causes unnatural or burdensom heat in all the External Parts and lays the Seeds of various