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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63791	Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3179; ESTC R203819	70,066	226

so that then Nature is not so well able to perform her Kitchin-work in the Stomach by a perfect Concoction or Separation of the Meats and Drinks and so all the Senses are dulled and the Intellect stupified and not a few seeds of diseases are thereby sown throughout the Body Besides the long Mornings Work or Exercise has by that time pretty much wearied dulled or evaporated the brisk lively Spirits which are alwayes the main supports of Concoction and Digestion and so Nature is still rendred the more uncapable of doing her work with ease But in the Morning after Nocturnal Repose has recovered the wasted Spirits and made them Brisk Airy and full of Life the digestive faculty is fortified and rendred able to digest the same quantity of Food with much more ease and safety The same is to be understood in the Afternoon or towards Night for then the heat of the day being over and the Body becomes Cool Airy and full of Life and being a sufficient time before sleep as at Four or Five a Clock such Suppers will not Incommode Nature nor hinder Rest as late eating is apt to do especially in hot Countries and still the more in maturer Age or such as begin to be striken in years to whom such Meals are most injurious 5. Such as have due regard to their Health and Strength ought for the reasons aforesaid to Rest from Eleaven a Clock till Two in the Afternoon which will wonderfully recover their Spirits and render them much better able to go through with their Labour with a lively Vigour and to do more preparation of each of them together with the Nature and Operation of various drinks as most sorts of Wine Ale Beer Syder each spoken to distinctly by themselves c. 8. They ought to avoid the frequent eating and drinking of all Foods or Liquors in which the Sweet Quality is too highly predominant for sweet Foods are of far more dangerous consequence as to Health than most People imagin for all Sweet things when fermented in the Stomach do turn to the highest Sowerness viz. into a keen sharpness which does not only spoil the digestive faculty but infects the Blood with a Mangie Scorbutick Humour causing stoppages in all the external parts whence proceed Indispositions and akeing Loyns and feeble Joynts For the same cause it is that such as eat much Sugar or sweet food are extreamly troubled with rotten decay'd Teeth and Gumes for those dullified foods cause such a sour acid Quality as generates putrifaction which centers on the Teeth and between the Gumes and so destroys them And it were far better and more healthy for People if they would accustom themseves to Foods and Drinks in which the Bitter and Sower Qualities were more predominant especially in hot Climates where most sorts of Fruits are sweetish for the Root of all Motion Opening and Cleansing consists in the Bitter Quality for which reason the Sophys or Wise-men both of the Southern and Eastern Countries have taught the People to moderate all or most of their foods with Herbs and Fruits that are of a Bitterish Quality which does wonderfully support Nature and preserve Health whereby they attain to very great Ages as we noted before of those in Guinea and the same may be observed elsewhere for those Patriarchs whose Longevity we find Recorded did all of them live in very hot Countries But their Temperance supported Nature and so it will in a proportionable degree all that practice it And therefore if these Rules of Health be seriously regarded and followed those causeless scandals on the Climate the Heat c. of these happy Western Southern and Eastern Regions not inferior for Health or Pleasantness if rightly understood to any in the World will cease and the English Traders or Inhabitants may there extend their lives in Comfort to as good an old Age as they would have promised themselves in their Native Country But without Discretion and Temperance in Diet Drinks Exercises and Affections of the mind Diseases will certainly attend us wherever we reside and an immature Death be apt to seize us There is no Region so happy no Elevation of the Pole so temperate no Air so salubrious as to keep People in Health whether they will or no and those that obstinately violate Nature and wilfully persue courses absolutely destructive may justly be rank't amongst the number of Self-Murtherers for it matters not much whether a man kill himself all at once or by repeated Acts and degrees only the latter seems less excuseable since it has not the pretext of a sudden Temptation or Passion but seems a more deliberate design of destroying both his Body and Soul against all Cautions and Arguments from time to time offered to him both by Reason and Experience to the contrary Those therefore that would avoid the Brand of being Felo's-de-se let them before it be too late abandon Riot and Excess and embrace Temperance and Sobriety so shall they have Health of Body and Strength of mind and length of dayes here and a blissful Eternity hereafter A Caution LEt no sober well minded men nor any that profess the honourable name of Christianity be so frequent in those places of Debauchery viz Taverns and Ale-houses the first whereof being the only places of all manner of wickedness where all the high lofty state of Superfluity is practised being the haunts of evil Spirits and where their chief work is done Women are defloured and Estates spent the Soul made uncapable of Salvation the Health destroyed in a word the whole Macrocosmical man ruined and is ●he very Radix of devilish Fewds and cruel Murders Therefore let no good Christians dare to be seen in any such places for tell me I pray what pleasure or delight can a sober well-minded man take in being amongst such a devilish Croud where there is all kinds of wicked lewd Behaviour as Swearing Lying baudy Songs drunken Healths and roaring Huzza's where a man can hardly hear himself spake like the fiery unequal operations of the Elements or Sea-Tempests and Storms Now if Christian men scruple the wearing of needless O naments and Garments with other things of Gallantry and State wherefore should they not shun and avoid the greater Evils And although it be lawful to drink Wine in a Tavern and Ale in an Ale-house in cases of necessity as Travelling or the like ye● they ought in Cities and Towns to avoid drinking or frequenting such places whereby you will discountenance the Evils thereof and preserve your selves Harmless and Innocent 2. All sober People ought to refrain drinking between Meals especially all Gentlemen Merchants Shop-keepers c. who are the men that drink the brave noble exhilerating Liquors in Superfluity which a little custom would make most pleasant and easie besides it would free the Passages and disburthen the Stomach from all superfluous matter by which the Blood would become fine and cause it to circulate freely whence will proceed pure

therefore are not so good and profitable as those called Sevil which is a mean between the sowr and the sweet and therefore is best for sawce and far more acceptable to the Pallate but especially to the Stomach than either the sweet or the sowr which being full ripe fresh gathered do not only make the best Sawces to most sorts of Food as Herbs both raw and boyled Flesh c. far exceeding all Vinegars made with Wine or other Liquors but they also prove profitable in many Diseases especially to allay Drought in Feavers and prevent the putrifaction of the Humors for they cool and refresh the Stomach and are good moderately used in times of Health for Chollerick People but eat them not too frequently for they astringe or bind the belly and are not proper for Phlegmatick or Melancholly Complexions and as the moderate use of them for Sawce in food does excite and sharpen the Appitite so on the contrary the frequent custom of eating them is apt to hurt the digestive Faculty by their cold dry astringent Qualities they being Extreams in Nature and therefore cautiously to be used The Sweet Oranges are not good for Sawce for they naturally dull or subvert the Appetite nevertheless they being of a middle Nature or temperate Quality are good and very grateful to well-prepared Stomachs to be eaten alone or with some Bread or other dry food after them in time of Health especially for Young People and the Phlegmatick and Melancholly but still they ought to remember their sure friend Temperance else they will prove injurious and hinder Concoction Of Lemmons AS these are sharper and more sour then Oranges so they are colder more keen or piercing but they make a Sawce that does wonderfully cool and for the present stir up the Appetite comfort the Stomach and are good against Vomiting very grateful to such as have weak dull or flat Stomachs they cut and attenuate gross Humors allay Thirst and are refreshing to such as have hot Livers but on the other side if not very moderately used their astringent sharp or keen Quality will by simile awaken the Saturnal and Martial Fires in the Body and instead of allaying heat they inflame the Blood and irritate the natural Spirits which proves fatal as to Health for as all such Fruits are unequal in their parts so they by simpathy cause an unequal operation in the Humors which is the Radix of all Distemperatures Of Limes LImes are an Immature Fruit in which two extream Properties do predominate viz. the Saturnal and Martial Poysons because the Sun and Coelestial Influences have not had Power to raise or awaken the balsamick or friendly Vertues of Nature or bring the Properties into an equal operation as is done in other Fruits for these two fierce Qualities are so powerful as indeed being the very Radix of the Fruit that the friendly Property or good Vertue is wholly hid or captivated by them so that it cannot be tasted or felt hence the Juice of this fruit does contain as I have elsewhere declared a Saturnine churlish fire which is of an hard coagulating astringent or binding nature and operation like the raw cold saturnine Air of Winter which does congeal the Water and harden all things 2 dly A sharp keen Martial Property of a sour harsh fretting nature and operation Now these two Extreams meeting together do render it very hurtful to the genuine nature of the Stomach and generate bad Blood stir up the original Poysons by simile and the Saturnine Property does draw together and congeal the Excrements in the Bowels and the Martial Fires are forth-driving and cannot endure to be bounded from whence proceed various Diseases as Gripes Collicks Illiacal Passions or cruel Belly-Akes For this cause our English and others that use these Juices in their Voyages to the East-Indies and other parts are sorely vexed with many Diseases which they contract though they little think it from their Punch-Bowls rather than the disagreeableness of the Climate Moreover the sharp cold Juices of Oranges and Lemmons which in hot Countries they are greedy of and do eat too freely do prove very pernicious as to their Health for the truth is it is not the Climate whether hot or cold that causes so many Diseases but Peoples Intemperances and taking wrong Measures for the Natives both of the East South and West are as healthy and long liv'd as those of the North and these our frequent Distempers when we travel into those parts do but declare our Intemperances and that the Meats and Drinks we so much desire are not proper for our Bodies in such Climates where not our own irregular Fancies but the usages of the Natives of each Country ought to be our Guides and Examples both as to Meats Drinks and Exercises and then each Country would soon become as natural and wholsom to us as our own our Bodies being assimulated thereunto Of Pinpillow-Pears THis is a Fruit that is not much in use being some-what troublesom to procure by reason of their Martial Weapons or Prickles they are of a sharp brisk Taste their Juices quick and penetrating they cut Phlegm beget Appetite and help Conoction being of a cooling Nature they may be eaten with a little Sugar with safety but they are chiefly good for Chollerick and Sanguine People and are under Mars in Aries Of Pepper commonly called Guinea-Pepper OF this there are two sorts one great the other small but both are much of the same nature and operation only the smallest is rather the hottest They both contain three extream Qualities viz. 1. An astringent Sulpher or stupifying Poyson from Saturn 2. A fierce bitter keen sharpness from Mars And 3. An hot penetrating Poyson from Mercury In this Vegetation all friendliness and pure Vertues are captivated and the original forms of Nature do predominate there being in it no kind of Equality or Harmony but all is out of Tune and the four grand Qualities whence all Tastes proceed have here their operations in Discord and confusedly combate one another therefore whatever any may pretend the frequent eating of it must needs prove pernicious to Health for those forementioned fierce poysonous Qualities do by degrees as it were insensibly prey upon and violate the natural Heat and hinders the way of the Spirits as if men designed to mortifie their natural Legs on purpose to use Wooden ones or Crutches so they destroy the genuine innate heat of their Stomachs and vainly endeavour to procure a false and adventitious one that may better forsooth supply Nature The truth is this hot fiery Sawce does powerfully stir up or beget Appetite and warms the Stomach which does intice many to eat it with their common food but they never consider the mischiefs it brings unto Health being like Brandy a dram of which after a full Meal of heavy Victuals will help Concoction and ease the burthened Stomach but the frequent use of it will so destroy the natural Heat