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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66391	Warm beere, or, A treatise wherein is declared by many reasons that beere so qualified is farre more wholsome then that which is drunke cold with a confutation of such objections that are made against it, published for the preservation of health.	F. W.	1641 (1641)	Wing W27; ESTC R5363	33,729	168

WARME BEERE OR A TREATISE WHEREIN is declared by many reasons that Beere so qualified is farre more wholsome then that which is drunke cold With a confutation of such objections that are made against it published for the preservation of health CAMBRIDGE Printed by R. D. for Henry Overton And are to be sold at his shop entring into Popes-head Alley out of Lumbard-street in London 1641. To the Reader GAlen hath a saying in his second book De facultat naturali in the end of his 9. chapter and that is this Studium eorum laudandum est qui vel explanant rectè dicta à sapientibus vel supplent si quid omissum sit ab eis The which I hope gentle Reader will be a protection for this my book against such as think nothing well done which they do not themselves for that I endeavour to do both these things which Galen commendeth that is explain some points heretofore writ by our learned Masters and not regarded and also to adde some things before not thought upon by them And although I have no great hope by this my writing to work a generall good because errours long used make us both blind and deaf be the truth never so apparent not unlike the owl as Aristotle saith whose sight the sun-beams dull yet I doubt not but some will take it thankfully and making use will take benefit thereby assuring themselves I write nothing here which I hold not for the truth and have made long experience of both by self and divers of my friends I have therefore published it in our native tongue respecting a generall good referring the commendations of the thing to the proof and us all to the Almighty Amen The preface of the Publisher to the Reader CHristian and beloved Reader hearing of this ensuing Treatise of warm beer lying in the hand of a worthy Gentleman and friend of mine I made bold to send to him for it who hearing of my practice according did very kindly send it to me The which after I had read the same and considered the arguments brought for the proof thereof and weighed them together with mine own experience in the use of it I was thereby exceedingly strengthened in my judgement and abundantly confirmed in my custome Then speaking of this treatise and the subject matter thereof to some of mine acquaintance and friends and what benefit I found by the use thereof they desired to see the same and when they had read it they intreated me that it might be printed and that I would declare mine own experience which I had found by constant use of the said warm drink that it might be published for the generall good to whose request I could not but consent And therefore I shall not speak any thing by way of commendations of this book but will leave it rather to the judicious Reader and true practicer thereof and will onely relate unto you what I have found true by long experience First heretofore when I did alwayes drink cold beer and now and then a cup of wine I was very often troubled with exceeding pain in the head which did much distemper me also with stomach-ach tooth-ach cough cold and many other Rheumatick diseases But since my drinking my beer small or strong actually hot as bloud I have never been troubled with any of the former diseases but have alwayes continued in very good health constantly blessed be God yet I use not to drink wine because I find that hot beer without wine keepeth the stomach in a continuall moderate concoction But wine and hot beer doth over-heat the stomach and inflameth the liver especially in cold stomachs which have hot livers and men oftentimes drinking wine to heat their cold stomachs they thereby also inflame their livers and so the helping of the cold stomach is the means of the destruction of the liver But hot beer doth prevent this evil for it heateth the stomach and causeth good digestion and nourisheth and strengtheneth the liver And that hot beer actually made hot doth cause good concoction you may conceive it by this comparison The stomach is compared to a pot boyling over the fire with meat now if you put cold water therein it ceaseth the boyling till the fire can overcome the coldnesse of the water and the more water you put in the longer it will be before it boyl again and so long time you hinder the meat from being boyled So it is with the stomach If you drink cold beer you hinder the digestion of the meat in the stomach and the more cold you drink the more you hinder it Also cold water doth not onely hinder the boyling of the meat in the pot but also causeth the meat to be hard so that if it should boyl six houres longer then ordinary yet still the meat will be hard and never tender and soft Right so it is with the stomach Cold beer doth not onely hinder concoction but also harden the meat in the stomach as you may see by them which drink over much cold beer at or after dinner or supper six houres after they will vomit up the same meat again as raw and undigested as if it were but even then eaten which they could not have done if they had not cooled their stomachs so much with cold beer because nature would have digested the meat before that time But on the contrary hot water put in a boyling pot with meat hindereth not the boyling thereof neither doth make the meat hard but continueth the boyling thereof nourishing the meat with sufficiency of liquour and maketh it soft and tender fit to be eaten So in like manner doth hot beer to the stomach It hindereth not concoction nor hardeneth the meat in the stomach but contrariwise it continueth its concoction and maketh it fit for the nourishment of the whole body Again in the second place as this hot beer is excellent good for the keeping of the stomach in good order for concoction and consequently good health so it is most excellent for the quenching of thirst For I have not known thirst since I have used hot beer let the weather be never so hot and my work great yet have I not felt thirst as formerly Nay although I have eaten fish or flesh never so salt which ordinarily do cause thirst and drinesse yet I have been freed from it by the use of hot beer and have been no more thirstie after the eating of salt meat then I have after fresh And the reasons make it manifest being confirmed by experience if we consider when a man is thirstie there are two master-qualities which do predominate in the stomach namely heat and drinesse over their contraries cold and moisture When a man drinketh cold beer to quench his thirst he setteth all foure qualities together by the ears in the stomach which do with all violence oppose one another and cause a great combustion in the stomach breeding many distempers therein For

sanguinens bene concoctus The spirits be proportioned to the bloud for they are nothing else but the vapour of the bloud well digested whatsoever then maketh ill bloud maketh ill spirits and whatsoever doth so shorteneth our life but cold drink worketh that therefore it shortneth our life My major is averred by Montanus in the place before cited My minor I prove in this manner God bloud is made by good concoction but the actuall cold in the stomach breedeth crudity and not concoction and that crudity consequently ill bloud therefore cold breeds ill bloud My minor I prove in this sort out of Aristotle lib. 4. De partibus Animalium where he saith Calor vim habet concoquendi Heat hath the force to concot and in his second book De generatione Animalium where he also saith Frigus est privatio caloris Cold is the privation of heat what hindereth then but the conclusion is good That actuall cold drink breeding ill bloud causeth a defect of the spirits and so consequently abreviateth our life For Galen in his first book De humoribus saith Virium robur adesse nequit ubi crudorum humorum copia coacervata est that is Strength can not be where store of raw humours be and in his book De sub Facult. Natur. he saith all actions come from concoction But to make it somewhat plainer I will use some more authorities Our life as Galen observeth doth consist in naturall heat and radicall moisture which is nothing else as Avicen writeth then an oyly unctious vapour arising from the bloud to which Aristotle consenteth This naturall heat as Avicen in lib. de complexionibus writeth is diminished two wayes Aut per resolutionem naturalis humiditatis aut per augmentum extrancae that is Either by decay of naturall moysture or by the increase of forrein Now naturall moysture doth decay either by the aire in which we live that drieth it up or by labours of the body or mind ill proportioned as he testifieth in his first book Fenic act 4. cap. 7. and forrein moisture doth increase either by the use of meats which by their own nature ingender and breed it of which sort are Mellons Cucumbers and such like fruit being either immoderately or unseasonably eaten or else of ill concoction by means whereof such an unnaturall humour doth grow in our bodies that the outward and remote parts deprived of their nourishment languish wither and dy because they are not nourished Which Isaac de Febribus doth well note using these words Talis humor per depravatam concoctionem à natura alienus propagatur ut externae remotae corporis partes privatae suis alimentis languescunt exarescunt emoriuntur quia non nutriuntur Hereby may the Reader discern in what sort actuall cold doth offend our life upon great consideration therefore did Avicen in his fourth book Canone 4. Capitulo De rebus quae caniciem retardant use these words Digestio est radix generationis naturalis non-naturalis humoris that is Digestion is the root of the generation of naturall and unnaturall moysture But some ignorant person will say although the stomach be offended yet the liver may make good bloud if so be it be not distempered To the which I answer No more then a Cutler a good blade of naughty iron and bad steel which is not possible be he never so good a workman For as the iron and the steel being the materiall cause of the blade cannot contrary to their nature be made perfect in the workmans hand no more can the chylus first made in the stomach being the materiall cause of bloud being bad be made perfect by the help of the liver By this now you see how contrary to our health it is to use actuall cold drink But let us examine what hurt it doth to other particular parts Hippocrates hath these words in his Aphorismes Sedi pudendis utero vesicae calidum amicum frigidum inimicum that is Heat is a friend but cold an enemy to the seat the privities the belly and bladder And Cornelius Celsus saith Frigidum inimicum intestinis vesicae utero c. that is Cold is an enemy to the intrals bladder and stomach So as it appeareth it hurteth the bladder the bowels and the kidneys the mother and what not But because we will not conclude it is so because Hippocrates and Celsus say it is so we will examine first the reason and then experience the best master in trying any thing The reason why it hurteth the bladder is in respect principally of the neck thereof which being stopped with a musculeous substance cold offendeth and divers times procureth a strangury But this will be thought very untrue and unlikely that drink drunk cold can passe so to the bladder and there offend but let us examine experience and see whether it ever have been known so Forrestus an excellent Physician alledgeth in himself the cause of a strangury happening unto him to the great indangering of his life to be drinking of cold beer after his return out of Italy And I know my self a gentleman of great worship who because he is living shall not be named who coming from hunting hot and drinking cold drink suffered such pain as I being with him did fear some erosion in the neck of the bladder Besides it divers times cometh to passe that with cold this part suffering a resolution the party can in no wise hold his water but it cometh from him without his knowledge To the mother also it is hurtfull as Hippocrates Cornelius Celsus and divers learned Authours write whereof although they give not the reason yet I will shew it may be so in divers respects as first in respect of its composition being made ex tunicis nervis venis arteriis ligamentis to all which cold is an enemy as hath been proved before Secondly in respect of its temper which naturally ought to be hot because Injectum semen calore multo eget ut suscitetur concipiatur formetur et foveatur Thirdly in respect of its vicinity with other parts as the bowels and the bladder between which est maxima conjunctio per villos complures to which cold is a great enemy Whereupon seldome is the mother diseased either by inflammation or otherwise but either an inordinate desire to go to the stool or of urine doth insue so great is the affinitie between the matrix bowels and bladders And last of all cold is hurtfull to the matrix in respect of its community with the stomach for that the stomach being hurt with cold transfers tanquam ad sentinam cloacam corporis such abundance of superfluities to the matrix as doth evert its naturall temper and strength and is the authour of many irreparable diseases But some will say that this is strange although it be true that cold will work these effects in the mother that beer drunk actually cold can passe to these places being so