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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63799	Miscellania: or, A collection of necessary, useful, and profitable tracts on variety of subjects which for their excellency, and benefit of mankind, are compiled in one volume. By Thomas Tryon physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing T3185; ESTC R220931	73,089	207

Poyson in the Body it does so powerfully strengthen and awaken it that in a moment it over comes the pure Oyl of Life and the pure Spirits become suffocated and then the Natural Life is at an end for every Property in Nature both in the evil and also in the good does with highest diligence seck out its likeness and wheresoever it findeth its Simile there it joyns forces and mightily stirreth up its own Quality which when it happens in the Evil Nature as it does in Brandy Rumm Rack and other Distilled Liquors then it endangers the Health and Wellfare of the Body Nor is it otherwise in all sorts of Food and other Drinks if the pure Vertue thereof be separated or any way destroyed for then forth with the dar● Brimstony Spirit is set at l●berty which before the Separation the Balsamick Body and pure Spirits did qualifie and hold Captive that it could not manifest its self in its own Nature but being separated from the good Properties and Friendly Principle this dark fiery sulphurous Spirit becomes of a furious Nature and Operation endeavouring to bring all in Subjection to it self therefore such Liquors or Spirits frequently taken burn up the Radical Moisture and Natural Heat and are grreedy devourers of the sweet Oyl in the Body whence proceeds General Obstructions Crude Windy Humours Consumptions unnatural Heats and Flushings loss of Appetite Reachings to Vomit and many other Disorders and if those of the Female Sex take to drink such Spirits as of late years they do too frequently the Evils are doubled unto them 2. In all the before-mentioned Spirits that have passed through those cruel harsh Fires where the Air hath not its free Egress and Regress the pure Spirit and sweet Body is totally destroyed which is the Root of Motion and Fermentation therefore such Spirits will not Work or Ferment as all other Drinks and Liquors will even water it self but you may put what quantity of Sugar you will to Brandy Ramm or any other Distilled Spirits they will continue a strong Fire void of Mo●ion or Fermentation this doth further declare that all the good Principles and Vertues are destroyed by the Preparation and that there remains only a strong fixed Fire which has its Uses in Physick as is mentioned before but not otherwise 3. Such Spirits being frequently drunk do generate various Diseases according to each Mans Nature and Constitution and the Climate whether hot or cold for they do powerfully Prey upon the Natural Heat consuming the sweet Oyl and pure Spirits for the Balsamick Body and pure Spirits of all such Liquors being destroyed in the Preparation they become an Extream which Nature in her simplicity hates and for this Cause such Liquors cannot Administer any Proper or Agreeable Nourishment to the Body or to the pure Spirits it cannot give what it hath not it hath only Power to awaken the Central Heat or Fire which ought not to have been kindled and this it doth by a Sympathetical Operation for all Meats and Drinks have power in the Body to awaken and strengthen their likeness for this reason all Wise Men Skilled in the Mysteries of Nature have commended simple Meats and Drinks because most such things are as it were equal in their Parts having no manifest Quality that does predominate violently over the other but yet contains a sufficient Noarishment for the Body and also for the Spirit for Meats and Drinks ought to be equal in their parts the Spirit ought not to be separated from the Body nor the Body from the Spirit but both ought to be Administred together for the Body without the Spirit is of a gross heavy dull or dead Nature and the Spirit without the Body is too violent and fiery but the Health of Mans Body and Mind doth chiefly consist in the equality of both do not all Meats and Drinks wherein any Quality or Property of Nature is ●xtream whether it be in Vertue or Harmfulness if not sparingly taken certainly discompose the Harmony both of the Body and Mind For every Quality begets its likeness and so on the contrary Concord and Harmony are tain'd by their likenesses if there be not a Sympathetical agreement between the Stomach and the Meats and Drinks both in Quality and Quantity the Unity and Concord of the Properties of Nature are immediately broken whence proceeds various Diseases according to the degrees of the Disorder This every one ought to understand or else they may unadvisedly lay heavier Burdens than Nature can bear for most Diseases are generated through surplusage of Nourishment For unto weak Heats there ought to be Administred a proportionable Food but stronger Heats will admit of stronger Foods and greater quantity which all Persons might know if they would but observe the Operation of their own Natures for no Health nor Harmony can be continued where the parts do disagree aniong themselves What Harmony can the most skilful Master of Musick make if the strings of his Instruments be some too sharp and others too flat even so it is in the Elements of the Body and also in the Mind 4. For Man is the most Beautiful and Perfectest of all God's Creation and ●is Image called by the Antients the lesser World for in him is contained the true Nature and Properties of all Elements Numbers Weights and Measures therefore Man is both capable of and and ●lable to receive all all Impressions and to be influenced by all things he communicates with or joyns himself unto as all sorts of Meats Drinks Imployments Communications and whatever else he suffers his Will or Desires to enter into the same things have power respectively to awaken their Similes therefore all extreams are perilous to the Health If Men and women were but sensible of the danger and terrible Diseases that are contracted by the frequent eating and drinking of those things that are unequal in themselves as Brandy Rumm and other Spirituous Drinks and high prepared Foods they would not so eagerly desire them Do not all or most that do accustome themselves to such things quickly spoil their their Healths Nature is Simple and Innocent and the Simplicity thereof cannot be continued but by Sobriety and Temperance in Meats and Drinks that are simple and harmless which will not only gratifie Nature but contribute both due and moist Nourishment for beyond all lushious fat compounded Dishes of the Richest Food and Spirituous Drinks as it appears by many hundreds of poor People who are constrained by pure necessity not by Wisdom to live for the most part on simple Food and mean Drinks their Labour hard Cloathing thin open Air cold Houses small Fires hard Beds standing on Earthen Floors by all which means they are not only preserv'd in better Health but also enabled to endure Labour with more ease and pleasure than the Intemperately Supet fl●ous can lie a Bed or sit by the Fire O then how excellent are the ways of Temperance and Sobriety They free the

Body from pain and the Mind from perturbations sweetening all God's Blessings and giving the opportunity of time which being well employ'd affords many benefits both to the Body and Mind for what advantage is it if a Man possess the whole World if his Body be full of pain through Intemperance which for the most part no less affecteth and indisposeth the Mind 5. Brandy Rumm and all strong Spirituous Drinks are far more dangerous in hot Climates and Countries than they are in cold and do sooner there destroy the Health though they be bad in both except taken in a Physical way I know this is contrary to the Vulgar Notion but it is agreeable to Truth Experience and Reason for in hot Climates the Natural Heat is not so strong by reason of the forcible Influences of the Sun which do powerfully exhale the Radical Moistrue open the Pores and too violently evaporate the Spirits by continual Sweatings which dulls the edge of the Appetite weakening the Digestive Faculty of th●●tomach whereby the inclination to drink is increased for which reason many desire hot Spiritual Drinks because they find a present Refreshment for all such Drinks do powerfully awaken the Internal Spirit by simile and make Men quick lively and brisk during the time of their Operation which is but for a moment but after wards they find themselves heavy dull and indispesed and their Stomach seeble cold and raw which does in●●ce ●●dd that do acc●sto●● themselves to such Drinks To take a Hare of the same Dog as their Phrase is and so they drink more and are continually the more weakened for all such fiery strong Drinks do not only Prey on the Natural Spirits but also too violently do evaporate them The very same Operation have all strong Drinks as Wine and the like if Temperance be wanting but not so violently as the former Therefore in hot Climates there ought to be double the Care and Temperance in Meats Drinks and Exercises as in Cold of which the Natives of most hot Countries might be our Examples for they do for the most part live very temperately their Drink being generally Water or Wineallay'd with Water their Food mean or more simple than ours whereby they are better preserv'd in Health for the Constitutions of all People in hot Climates are weaker or at leastwise not so able to endure great Meals of Food and superfluous drinking of strong Drinks as they are in cold For cold Countries make Men hardy strong and able to endure Intemperance for which cause it is observed that most of the Northern Climates are very Intemperate in drinking and eating and in hot they are the contrary And therefore our English are much Distemper'd and many die when they Travel into the West and East Indies because they take wrong measures continuing the same disorder and intemperance as they did in their own Country or rather encreasing it which Nature cannot bear without manisest prejudice 6. It is to be noted that those that do accustom themselves to the frequent drinking of the forementioned fiery Spiritual Drinks in all the Plantations in the West Indies and also the common-eating of Salt-Fish and Flesh which are all great Extr●ams do thereby become very obnoxious to the dry Belly-ach or Griping of the Guts Dropsies and the Gout for all such Food and Drink does violently stir up and consume the Natural Heat and Moisture wherethe digestive Faculty of the Stomach is rendered unable to Concoct or make any perfect Separation either of the Food or Drink which oppresses the whole Body whence are generated Evil Iui●es that fall into the Joynts infeebling and torturing them and this is the Original of the Gout in other Complexions these Disorders consume the Airy Flesh of the Bones taking away their Natural Strength and Vigour so that they languish away by degrees and these you call Consumptions in others for want of Heat and Moisture the Excrement in the Bowels is contracted into so hard a Substance that it cannot pass and there is hardly a Medicine found that will cure it this is that which the Learned call the Illiacal Passion and the Vulgar The Plague in the Guts being one of the most tormenting Diseases in the World And in other Bodies the Central Heat being wasted by such unfit Meats and Drinks so that great part of the Food turns into a Flux of Humours both Windy and Watry which swell the lower parts of the Body and this is the Generation of your Dropsies but as God is always good and his Hand-Maid Nature an indulgent Mother so they have as it were chalk'd out the Means and prescribed a Diet whereby these Diseases may be prevented would Men but be so wise as to observe and follow it for all hot Climates do furnish the Natives with wonderful Variety and Plenty of Herbs and Fruits far exceeding cold Countries therein both in quantity and quality for in those hot Regions the Sun hath greater power to prepare all such things And if our English would but accustom themselves to such harmless natural simple Foods and moderate Drinks the forementioned Distempers would hardly be known 7. It is also to be noted and much to be pitied that of late years many English Women have betaken themselves to the drinking of Brandy and other Spirits and have invented the Black-Cherry-Brandy which is in great esteem so that she is no body that hath not a Bottle of it stand at her Elbow or if ever so little Qualm or Disorder be on the Stomach or perhaps meerly fancied then away to the Brandy-Bottle so that when such People come to be sick which most of them are very subject unto the Physiciaus do not know what to Adninister they having in their Health used themselves to such high fiery drinks that their Cordials seem like Water to them Besides there are many fatal inconveniencies attend the Female Sex more than than the Male in drinking such Drinks most of which are not so proper to be publickly mentioned in this place and therefore I shall forbear but some I cannot but instance in and though perhaps some Women too much addicted to the Delights of the Bottle may be offended with me for telling them the Truth and endeavouring to wean them from the Beloved Dram yet to do them good I shall venter the Hail-shot of their Tongues and hope they will in time grow so wise as not to indulge a foolish sottish humour when it tends apparently to destroy not only their own Healths and shortning of their Lives but likewise entails Diseases and Destruction on their poor Innocent Children for it is not only against the Feminine Nature to drink strong Drinks but also Destructive to the Generation of Mankind it makes them Masculine and Robustick filling them with Fury and Madness and many other Indecencies which are no less pernicious than shameful in a Woman lt also Distempers them by causing Fumes and Vapours to fly into the Head generating Wind

observe the necessary Rules of Temperance how careful then ought Mothers and Nurses to be in ordering their Children A great part of the Children that die especially in Towns and Cities is occasioned either by the Intemperance of their Mothers during the time they go with Child or afterwards by their unnatural and badly prepared Food and suffering them to eat to excess also by their keeping of them too warm and too close from the Air and lapping of them up in several Double Clothes and Swathes so tight that a Man may write on them and then puting them into warm Beds and covering them up close If a strong Man was so bound up he could not endure it without great injury unto his Health Besides the Window-Curtains are drawn and also the Curtains about the Bed by which means the Air becomes so hot and sulphurous that it causes great Disorders to attend both the Mothers and the Children This ill Kind of Management does also cause such a Tenderness both in the Mother and the Child that on every small occasion they are liable and apt to get Colds and divers other Distempers Also Women have the entire Management of all things that concern our Healths during the whole time of our Lives they prepare and dress our Food and order all things in our Houses both for Bed and Board There is not one Man of a hundred that understands or takes any notice whether his Food be well prepared or not and if his Bed stinks he is used to it and so counts it all well Mens Time and Study is chiefly taken up about getting a Livelihood and providing things necessary for themselves and Families so that there is not one among a thousand that understands any thing what belongs to the Preservation of his Health Whatever the Women do and say touching the Preparation of Food and other ordering of Families for Health most Men believe not making the least scruple or question of the truth thereof And well they may For the chiefest Doctors of our Times do bow before them and are altogether as subject to the Rules and Directions of Women as other Men. Where are your Doctors that teach Men Sobriety in their Lives or the proper and natural way of preparing Meats fit for the Stomach Which of them adviseth against the evil Custom of keeping their Chambers so over hot when People are sick and in the time of Womens lying in Child-bed Why do they not advise them not to have their Curtains so close drawn both before their Windows an● Beds insomuch that they are often times in a manner suffocated for want of the fresh Air For I affirm That all sorts of People that do keep their Beds let the occasion be what it will have ten-fold more need of the refreshing Influences of the Air than others that are up For the Bed being much hotter than a Man's Garments are when he is up the thin refreshing moist Vap●urs that do penetrate the whole Body more powerfully when a Man is up are thereby hindered This is one chief Reason why a Man cannot digest a Supper so well in Bed as if he sits up All Men know that the Bed destroys App●tice If a Man go to Bed a● Eight a Clock and lies till Eight in the Morning he shall not be hungry but it he goes to Bed at the same time and rises at Four in the Morning though he s●s still without Action yet by Eight he shall have a good Stomach to eat and drink so great is the power of the Air For when a Man is up his Body is cool and the pure Spir●s and thin moist Vapours of the Air have power to penetrate the Body which Element the Body sucks in like a Spunge thorow the Pores and this doe not only cool and refresh ●he Spirits and the whole Body but also powerfully strengthens the Action of the Stomach But I pity the young Children most who are so tender and of so delicate a Nature both in their Body and Spirits that every Disorder does wound them to the very Heart Nothing is more grateful and refreshing to them than the pleasant Air It comforts their Spirits and cau●eth a free Circulation of the Blood and Radical Moisture begets Appetite and makes them grow in Strength But on the contrary hot sulphurous Airs with great Fires and warm Clothing do not only hinder the Circulation of the Blood but suffocate the Spirits and destroy the Appetite causing an unnatural Heat to possess the whole Body whence does proceed various Disorders and Diseases making them to cry and be very froward Also close Bindings and over-warm Clothings and thick hot Airs do oft in weak-spirited Children cause Convulsions Vapours and Fumes to fly into the Head sometimes occasioning Vomitting which People call Windy Diseases Again the Food of most Children of late years is so enriched with West and East-India Ingredients that is with Sugar and Spices that thereby their Food becomes so hot in Operation that it does not only breed too much Nourishment which generates Obstructions and Stoppages but it heats the Body drying up and consuming the Radical Moisture and infecting the Blood with a sharp fretting Humour which in some Complexions and Constitutions causeth languishing Diseases contracting the Breast and Vessels of the Stomach and hindering the Passages of the Spirits so that the Joynts and Nerves become weak and feeble In others with the help of bad Diet and other Uncleanliness does cause Botches Boils and various sorts of Leprous Diseases Also many that have wherewithal will frequently give their Children Sack strong Drinks and fat Meats as long as they will eat which is abominable and absolutely contrary to the Nature of Children There are a hundred other Disorders and Intemperances that many Mothers and ignorant Nurses affect their Children with which I have no room in this place to discourse of Therefore I commend unto the Women Milk that is raw only made so hot as the Mothers or Nurses Milk is when the Child socks it and sometimes Milk and Flower boyled together giving it the Ch●ld about t●e warmness of Breast-milk and indeed neither Children nor others others ought to eat any Food hotter Also no Children ought to drink any kind of strong Drink I could commend Water as the most wholesom but it being contrary to our Custom ordinary Beer may do well or rather small Ale If Women did understand but the hundredth part of the Evils and Diseases those indulging and intemperate Ways do bring both to themselves and Children they would quickly be of my mind which I never expect They are too wise CHAP. III. A short Discourse of th● Pain in the TEETH Shewing from what Cause it does chiefly proceed and also how to pr●v●nt it THE terrible Pains and Diseases of the Teeth do chiefly proceed from two Causes The first is from certain filthy Phlegmy Matter which the Stomach and Vessels do continually breathe and send forth which does lodge