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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

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

are more plentifully sent forth then in other as after an hot Summer in August September and October the Elements then being moist and full of Humidity occasioned by the Declination of the Sun the Days warm the Nights cold which do condense those warm Vapors that the Earth and Waters breathes and sends forth Now these Streams or Breathes which are nothing else but the natural Motions of innate Life and Operations of Nature are better or worse good or bad healthy or unhealthy according to the Nature and quality of the Waters and situation of the Ground which they proceed from Now these Steems or Vapors that arises and proceeds from clear Fountains and Springs or from running Rivers especially such as have Flux and Reflux as the River of Thames and many others have are fine moist thin and penetrating and are powerful openers of Obstructions and great Preservers of Nature and begets Appetite and are good against Astmatical Distempers of the Breast especially if the quality and quantity of Meats and Drinks be carefully observed but the contrary is to be understood of those Steems and Vapors that arises and proceeds from low boggy Grounds Pools standing Waters and the like which do agree but with few Constitutions except such as are born and bred in such places and tho' good Airs are great Preservers of Health yet Temperance and Order hath the first place and ought to be regarded above all other Circumstances and if that be wanting other things and observations signifies little It is also to be noted That all Waters do more plentifully breathe forth Steems and Vapors than the Earth as being more penetrable thin and transparent and therefore more capable of receiving the Light and sweet Influences of the Celestial than the Earth which is a close firm compacted dark Body in comparison of the Element of Water therefore the Vapors proceeding from the Earth are heavier duller and fewer in quantity but not so thin nor penetrating in quality as these from the Water for this Cause those Persons whose Imployments are in and about Waters have for the most part greater Appetites than others and are more lively brisk and strong Therefore it is very good for all People that are afflicted with shortness of Breath Stoppages at the Stomach or over-fatness to imploy themselves on Waters or use themselves to walk by Rivers sides as much as they can in all Seasons of the Year but more especially in Spring and Summer for those fine thin cool penetrating Vapors are as it were suckt in on all sides of the Body which do render those whose Imployments are abroad brisk lively and healthful more especially in moderate Seasons and when the Air and Elements are a little inclinable to Humidity which do mightily rarifie the Air and make it more penetrating and all Men and Beasts are not so subject to heat and drought and other Indispositions as in hot dry Seasons for heat and drought do not only as it were close up the Poors of the Earth but it thickens and stagnates the Air consuming the fine thin moist penetrating Vapors and Spirits making them thick hot and sulpherous and hinders the natural Motions and Circulations of the Elements and their Salniteral Virtues Now this Motion Circulation and continual Sympathatical Mixtion of the Elements is further manifested by the Sea which is the Center of the Element of Water the Moon being the Governess thereof she having a certain secret Influence according to her Increase Decrease and Configurations she hath with the Celestial Bodies for if there were not a continual Motion in this great Fountain Tides Flux and Reflux there could be no Creature generated or should there be a Cessation from Motion but a few hours the whole would immediately become a stinking Lake and all her Inhabitants would be destroyed for that which we call Tides is nothing else but the natural Motion and Circulation that proceeds from the Center or Heart and Animals can as well subsist and continue there being without Motion and Circulation of the Blood and breathing as the great Fountains of Waters or other Elements can live or give being to their Children without Motion and continual Circulation which arises and proceeds from an innate power of the Elements for these Elements are the great Body and wonderful Powers of God and by his centeral Word and innate Virtue all things both in the Animal Vegitable and Mineral Kingdoms have been and are made generated and preserved for the whole Globe of Earth Water Fire and Air are the living Powers of God in which his holy Word do continually create and bring to manifestation the hidden Mysteries and Wonders both of Time and Eternity to his eternal Praise and Glory and his Work goes alway on in exact Number Weight and Measure for in God nor in his Handmaid Nature there is no such thing as standing still or idleness for should the Primum Mobile cease from its natural Motion and Circulation but a few Minutes the whole Mundam Sistime would be ready to sink into Confusion for standing still or idleness have no sympathy either with God or Nature for the Heavens Stars and Elements with the wonderful and amazing Varieties of Beasts Fishes Vegitation and Minerals wherewith the lower Worlds are indued and furnished are the living Powers and Works of the Lord and are still continued by his Alwise Providence and Divine Word which is never idle for Idleness as is said before is allowed no being either in the Internal or External Worlds all in the Beginning was brought into a Being through Labour and Motion as the Learned Moses saith The Lord moved himself on the face of the Waters and they are still sustained to this day by the same active and working Power of the Creator Consider the daily Motions and Circulations of the Celestials viz. Sun Moon and wonderful Company of Stars their Rising Setting continual Motion Courses and various Configurations and all in exact Order Behold the Fountains Springs and Rivers labouring continually in a long progress to pay their tributary Streams to the Ocean and the Ocean by industrious Tides Flux and Refluxes striving as it were to supply the Land from its innate or central Power Do not the great Eye of the World by a sympathatical Power and universal Motion of all Elements exhale Moysture from the Fountains of Waters and bottle it up in the Clouds or Powers of God till an appointed time and then Return it with plenteous Usury to water and make fat the Earth with the Dew of Heaven And are not the like Circular Motions and variety of Powers understood in Man And is not he a little World out of the great In him is contained the true Nature and Operation of all Elements and yet what great Matters can he do or perform without Motion and Action Are not all these necessary things that serves for the support and accommodation of Human Life are not nor cannot be procured without

inlarge your quantity which is not proper which in its due place I shall demonstrate then put up what quantity you think convenient of cold Water and let it stand not more then half an hour and then run it off to some fresh Hops and then put this third Wort and also Hops into the Copper as you did the second and let the Hops infuse till they are near boyling then strain it off into your Coolers and you have done but you must remember that your Liquor or Water do not boyl for boyling of Water does irritate and evaporate the subtle fine penetrating Spirits whence the more friendly mild opening qualities do exist which do make such Water or Liquor more harsh hard and fixed which do render it not so capable to draw forth or extract the sweet virtues of the Mault for boyling of Water does open its Body and sets the Spirit on the wing for this cause all Water that hath been boyled becomes of a colder harsher and harder nature then that which hath never been fired and therefore it will not prepare any Foods and Drinks so natural not to that advantage as that which hath not been boyled And that you may be convinced of this Truth boyl a quantity of good River water and put it into a good clear Vessel and let it stand a while and then take a like quantity and put into another Vessel and let that stand the same time as the other and you will find the boyled Water to stink and never be sweet again but your Water which remains intire not touched with the Fire will also stink or rather firment but then it will be sweet and good as for any use as before the Reason thereof is this for the Fire doth force forth and evaporate the essential Spirits and good preserving Virtues which do render of a dead dull phlegmatick gross Nature and Operation as we have more largely Discoursed in our Way to Health Secondly It is a general Custom to put up hot Liquor a third time on your Mault or rather Grains and to let it stand an hour or more which makes a very ill sort of Drink for the first and second Liquors have extracted or drawn forth all the brisk lively sweet qualities of the Mault so that this third hot Liquor hath nothing to work on or draw forth but only a gross Substance stinking harsh bitter or keen quality void of all the seminal or sweet Virtues Now if there be any goodness left in the Mault or Grains it is weak and fainty and the gross fulsom Martial Saturnine Properties are strong and have obtained the Ascendant and therefore they do in a moment swallow up the fading Virtue and transmute it into its own Property for these fiery qualities do with open Jaws devour the friendly Virtues and turn them into their own Nature viz. into a fiery keen quality a meer Caput mortuum Phlegm for all things when they have attained their highest degree limit or perfection do by degrees as it were go backwards and sink towards their Original or Root whence they proceeded Thirdly By what hath been said it appears and ought to be considered That the same Beer that is made of the third putting up of the Liquor on the Mault or Grains is generally pernicious to Health for as is mentioned before the first and second Liquors have before drawn forth all or most of the good sweet friendly Virtues and there remains nothing but a dull heavy gross Phlegm of a tart sour Nature which incorporates with the Liquor and is of a very unpleasing taste and small and then the common Custom is to take this third Wort indeed not fit for Hoggs-wash and boyl it stoutly with the Dregs of the Hops which hath been boyled several hours before in the first and second Wort which still doth more increase the Mischief for the boyling of Hops totally suffocates evaporates and destroys all the volatile Spirits and soft friendly Virtues and there does nothing remain in them after such boyling but an harsh bitter astringent sour Property which such small Wort in the boyling draws forth For this cause most small Beer especially that which is made after Ale or strong Beer is injurious to Health and the common drinking thereof does generate various Diseases but more especially the Scurvy in the Blood therefore all that do regard their Health ought to forbear drinking such ill prepared Liquors The best Small or Table Beer is to be made by adding a large proportion of Liquor to your Mault according as you would have it and then mix the first and second Wort equally together for the Reasons before mentioned for all Preparations were intended to open the crude Body by firmentation or some other way which do not only awaken and set the fine Spirits and friendly Virtues on the wing but also in some degree excite the harsh ●itter sour astringent Properties but still the balsamick Virtues are most volatile and readiest to give forth themselves when communicated to a proper Minstrim as appears not only in the Art of Brewing but also in common Chymistry the Spirits and good Properties gives forth themselves and runs off first and afterwards the bitter astringent four harsh ones follows Fourthly The quantity of Hops for Beer if you propose to keep it half a year or a year ought to be six or seven pound to eight Bushels of Mault and so proportionable but for Beer or Ale that is to be spent presently two three or four to eight Bushels will suffice Also note That all sorts of Beer or Ale are best new and much more agreeable to Nature as I have mentioned before for the longer any firmented Drinks are kept the more they tend towards harshness keneness and sharpness and the Saturnine Martial Properties are thereby advanced and the mild friendly qualities debilitated for which reason all stale Beer does heat the Body and much more disorder it then new Fifthly Another thing is in a most special manner to be noted viz That your Vessels in which you cool your Wort ought to be well cleansed and also your Mash-tub viz. washed well with cold water which is better than hot for boyling water does as it were fright or drive back into the wood a certain four fulsom quality that the former Wort left behind and which the wood of the Coolers had suckt in for the humidity or sweet quality that the wood receives from the Wort do presently turn very sharp four and keen especially in hot Seasons of the Year so that when the fresh new sweet Wort comes into such Coolers it does most eagerly and powerfully attract and draw forth that lurking keen sharp sour quality that the wood had received and retained which will occasion the whole to become of a sharp quality which is called Pricks but hardly perceivable to the Palate but when it is firmented this evil quality gets the Ascendent over the whole which is the principal

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

three hours but if it be for present drinking then Balm or any other good Herb After this add to every Gallon two or three pound of Treakle or two or three pound of Sugar or Hony but if you would have it very strong then add more sweetning then take some Yest or Barm and put it a working as you do Beer or Ale The same method you may observe in all other Fruits as Goosberries Currans and the like This sort of Drink or Wine is to be preferred before that which is made of the whole Juice especially if your Sugar be good it drinks finer and is lighter on the Stomach and more warm not so apt to send fumes into the Head and will digest any sort of Food much better than that which is commonly made There is another way of making this sort of Drink viz. Take good Water and make it scalding hot put it into your Mash-tub to your bruised Fruits and let them infuse one hour then draw it off infuse your Herbs or Seeds in it if they be bitter half an hour if not then an hour then put it a cooling as you do Wort and then put your Sugar Treakle or Hony what quantity you think fit or as you would have it in strength then add some Yest stir it well together and it will firment or work and so barrel it but cold Water from the Fountain is to be preferred before hot and is much a brisker Wine These are easie cheap familiar ways and makes most excellent Drink If your Fruits be of your own Growth it will then stand you but in a small matter very little more than ordinary Beer and be much stronger This sort of Drink every poor man may have and indeed it is a better and more wholsomer Drink or Wine then the common sort made by pressing for Water is the Homogenial Menstrum in the World and most familiar to Human Nature and by this way of Operation it mildly and sweetly draws forth all the good Virtues of the Fruit without force and violence and leaves the harsh bitter astringency of the Stones and Skins behind whereas pressing doth by its violence force forth the bitter harshness both of the Stones and Skins and is very hurtful as is clearly seen in Syder and Wine for the Stones and Skins are of a harsh bitter astringent Nature and Operation for hard bruising and violent pressing of tender Fruits do not only extract and force forth the harshness of the Stones and Skins but it does as it were suffocate or dismay the fine lively spirituous qualities which your Sense of Tasting will tell you Taste the Fruit before it be bruised or pressed and then the Juice that proceedeth from them the Juice drawn out by our mouth is fine brisk and penetrating but the Juices pressed out are dull heavy and gross to the Palate and Stomach The same is manifest in the Juices pressed out of green Herbs for Example Take what sort or sorts of Sallad Herbs bruise them to mash then take them and dish them into a Sallad and they will be so gross dull heavy and fulsom to both Palate and Stomach but those same Herbs that are dished up into a Sallad which are not bruised will be moist pleasant and grateful Now here you see that this hard bruising and pressing hath as it were wholly destroyed the brisk lively Virtues and indeed all that is desirable or delightful both to the Senses as well as to the Stomach Note that the forementioned Drinks that are made of Water Herbs Fruit Sugar Treakle or Hony are best with cold Water as I have told you before especially in hot Countries for fiered Drinks are no Friends to Nature except wisely handled therefore the Natives of those Climates where they drink Water are not known to have the Stone and where their Foods are simple which all wise men ought to consider Lastly Note that all sorts of Syder would keep much better and be far wholsomer especially for ancient People and such are more or less subject to the Stone or Gravel if when it is new made you infused in part of it some bitter Herbs gathered and prepared as we have taught in our Way to Health viz. Wormwood Hops Cardis Centuary Sage Betiny Dandelion or the like for the bitter quality does naturally hold the sweet Body and Volatile Spirits as it were captive for Mars loves Venus also bitterness does mightily withstand and moderate the keen astringent hard harsh properties that they cannot advance nor devour the sweet mild qualities for this cause all bitter Herbs do preserve all sorts of Drinks and keep them from sharp hardness and astringency longer then otherwise they would Besides they are wholsom pleasant and healthful when People are used to them Also good store of such Herbs whose predominant quality stands in bitterness ought to be infused in all Drinks made of Sugar Mallas Treakle or Hony because such Liquors or Drinks tends to a sharp keneness sooner then Drinks made of Mault which our English and others ought to consider that inhabits the West-Indies and other hot Climates where they frequently make various sorts of Drinks with Sugar Mallas and Fruits and where also they are terribly afflicted with the Stone Gout and Gravel viz. which all or most Drinks made of Sugar or Mallas are apt to generate for the highest Sweets when firmented either in Liquors or in the Stomach quickly tends to the highest sharpness and keen harshness especially in some Constitutions if the sweet quality be not some degrees alaid or captivated by the bitter which do also moderate or withstand the astringent band Having had Experience and certain Knowledge of the Virtues of these Preparations I thought it my Duty to Communicate to the World for the benefit of such as shall please to make use of them and for such as scorn and deride them they shall though they slight my poor Advice injoy my Cordial Pity AN APPENDIX SHEWING The Natural Causes why Fruit-Trees do so frequently fail Bearing and Offering Expediments to make Orchards almost constantly fruitful With a new Experiment of preserving of Eggs sweet and good for several Months HAving in our other Writings occasionally discoursed of Syder and how advantagiously the same might be made especially to Farmers and poor Country People I shall here take leave to add a few Considerations touching Fruit-Trees 'T is certain that planting of Orchards as it is a thing of great Delight and but of little Labour and that most Natural and Agreeable unto the first Commandment of our Creator so it might be as Profitable an Imployment of Ground as any whatsoever The only thing I conceive that discourages many People is That Fruit-Trees especially old planted seldom brings any considerable Crop for if they bear full one year its odds but the next they miss nay often till the third and fourth year after they yield not any considerable quantity of Fruit the Reason of which is