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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	place_n	10,107	5	4.1120	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63810	A treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks of the preparation of food, the excellency of good airs and the benefits of clean sweet beds also of the generation of bugs and their cure : to which is added, a short discourse of the pain in the teeth shewing from what cause it does chiefly proceed, and also how to prevent it / by Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3196; ESTC R3110	16,807	24

A TREATISE Of CLEANNESS in Meats and Drinks OF THE PREPARATION of FOOD THE Excellency of Good Airs AND THE BENEFITS of Clean Sweet BEDS Also of the Generation of Bugs AND THEIR CURE To which is added A SHORT DISCOURSE OF THE PAIN in the TEETH Shewing from what Cause it does chiefly proceed and also how to prevent it By THO. TRYON LONDON Printed for the Author and sold by L. Curtis near Fleet-Bridge 1682. Of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks Of the Excellency of Good Airs and of the contrary Of the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds and of the Inconveniences of Feather-Beds What Matter it is that does occasion the Generation of that pernicious Vermin called Bugs that so many Hundreds in this City and other great Towns are infested with more especially in Holland Italy New-England Barbadoes Jamaica and in many other Places That they are never bred but where Beds are And that their being generated from Wooden Bedsteads or from Hogs Hair in the Plaisterings of the Walls is a meer Story promoted inconfiderately by Persons mistaken in the Productions of Nature Also How all such Persons as are troubled with them may be cured without using Medicines and Directions how to avoid ever having them again 1. Of Cleanness in Food WHat is more profitable for all Lovers of Health and Wisdom than Food that is Radically Clean And as Bread hath deservedly the first Place together with Herbs and various sorts of excellent Fruits so the next is Milk which of it self is a brave mild and most friendly Food to Nature very fit and profitable for all Ages and Complexions and if it do not agree with some People it is because their Stomachs are made sharp and sowred by superfluity of dainty Food and the continual use of strong Drink Also Milk being altered it makes many sorts of wholesom healthy Food Next to these are various sorts of Flesh which being killed in their proper Times and Seasons and when they are free from their Uncleannesses Surfeits and other Inconveniences which most Beasts are subject to and if care be taken also that they be well and moderately seasoned with Salt and boyled in plenty of River or Spring-water which is the best of all Waters except Rain-water they become wholesom Nourishment For River-water hath the advantage of running through various sorts of Earth by which it sucks into it self a fat oylie and saline Quality which the Surface of the Earth does plentifully afford which also is the cause of all Vegitation and the lovely Green Colour which all Vegitables are cloth'd with does arise from this Saline Quality For these Reasons River-water will Brew Boil and Wash and it is more profitable in all Uses in Houswifery than Spring or Pump-water and far wholesomer for Men and Beasts to drink Also your Vessel in which your Food is boyled ought to be uncovered all the time it boyls for if the Air have not its free egress and regress the pure Spirits in the Food become as it were suffocated and then the Food so prepared becomes dull and heavy for the Air is the Essential Life of the Spirit and all Food that hath not plenty of Water and the free Influences of the Air in its Preparation does certainly lose its natural Colour with the pure Smell and Taste for if those three Qualities be not preserved in all Preparations of Food then the genuine Vertue and lively Tinctures are in part lost The same is to be observed in all Physical Operations And if the above-mentioned Order be not observed then the Food is not so pleasant to the Pallate nor so easie of Concoction it lies heavy in the Stomach dulling and stupifying the Senses it generates a gross Nourishment and bad Blood whence does proceed many Diseases Whereas if the above-mentioned Rules be observed and your Fire quick that your Food do not stand still or cease from boyling till it be sufficiently done the Effects are contrary It is also much better the Food should be a little under-prepared than too much For when the gross plegmatick Body of any Food is by Preparation digested then presently the lively spirituous Quality is set at liberty whence does proceed a most pleasant Smell and Taste which pleasant Quality before the Preparation lay hid or captivated in the Body of Phlegm but so soon as this phlegmatick Body is in part destroyed the Spirit becomes Volatile and then if the Preparation be continued those pure Spirits do either become suffocated or evaporate and then the sweet Balsamick Body turns as it were sowr For these Reasons all sorts of Food either over prepared or twice prepared are of a strong fulsom taste and smell as all Meats heat again and also Pottages and all such things do obstruct Nature and generate many Diseases But if the forementioned Rules be observed the Food so prepared is not only more pleasant to the Pallate but far lighter of Digestion and breeds better Blood For that Universal Distemper the Scurvy which reigns so much in England is chiefly caused by Food ill prepared and the eating of too much Flesh and Fat things especially in the improper Seasons of the Year viz. from Iuly to the last of November In this Season the Sun which is the true Life and Power of all things declines and all sorts of Herbage which is the Food of all Beasts that are generally eaten doth the same The Grass all this Season is fraught with a gross phlegmatick Matter besides it is a fainty hot time the Air which is the Cherishing Life of all things is more gross and full of Humidity than all other times of the Year the Spirits of all sorts of Creatures are also weak and on any Accidents are quickly wounded or evaporated more especially those Beasts that come from remote Parts to great Cities Besides it is then the principal time of their Generating which renders them unclean Are not the People ten-fold as sickly in this Season and double the number die than they do at other times Also you may observe That the Rots amongst Sheep and Murrains that attend other Beasts are all or most of them in this Season Therefore all sorts of People ought to be more careful of their Health both in Exercises Meats and Drink that they do not exceed either in quantity nor eat things that are improper in quality This is the time that all Shepherds and also those that are Drivers of Horses and indeed all that have the Government of Cattel ought to have and use double the prudence in the management of them than at other Seasons of the Year as I have more largely discoursed in a small Treatise which I intend to put forth if I am permitted of the Preservation of Sheep from the Rot and Horses from Surfeits There are three Marks by which every one may know whether the Flesh be good The first is by its pure White and brisk Red Colour when Raw. The second is by its continuing its