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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

and rubbed and their very Floors washed as though they were to eat their Food on them But all this while they lie on Beds that have not been changed or hardly aired in several Years Let any indifferent Person judge which is most pleasurable and healthful to have a clean Floor to tread on which costs many hard days Labour to keep so and is dirtied in a Moments time or to have a clean sweet Bed to lye on There is no Comparison to be made the difference is so great the one being essential either to Health or Sickness the other an indifferent thing If there was but the tenth part of the Care taken to keep Beds clean and sweet as there is of Clothing and Furniture then there would be no Matter for the getting of Diseases nor for the Generation of Bugs I would have all Housewifes and others consider the Reasons of these things Are not Lice that troublesom Vermin bred from the Breathings of the Body for want of often Change both of Linnen and Woollen And will not Fleas breed from the very Dust of Chambers where People lie Also any Woollen that hath been used about Beds although the cold Winter hath destroyed them yet if these Clothes lie in any close place where the Air hath not its free egress and regress these very Garments will generate Fleas the Summer following but if these Clothes had never been used about Men and Women they would never have bred Fleas for there is no Matter of Element in Wooll or Cloth for the Generation of such Creatures but Wooll Cloth Furs and Hair are chiefly the Eliment of Moths and sometimes of small Worms that is if such things are kept in Places where the refreshing Influences of the Air have not their free egress for all such Places do contract great store of Moisture which when hot Weather comes causeth Putrifaction whence all such Vermin do proceed But if those things be in daily use and exposed to the open Element they never breed any Vermin So that the Generation of those things are generally caused by Accidents not but that there is Matter in the Radixes of such things for the Generation of such Vermin 3. From the pernicious Smells and putrified Vapours that do proceed from old Beds are generated the Vermin called Bugs of which neither the Ancients nor the Modern Writers of this Age have taken any notice according to the Degrees of Uncleanness Nature of the Excrements and the Closeness of the Places where Beds stand for some Peoples Excremenes are not so unclean as others Also in all close Places especially in Cities and Great Towns the Spirits and thin Vapours of the Air are suffocated which makes the same Air Sulphurous and Humid whence does proceed Putrifaction Therefore it is not to be thought a General Rule That all old Beds should breed Bugs as some who are ignorant of the Operations of Nature will be apt to say If one Bed do breed them why not all No it is according to the nature of the Uncleanness and other Accidents that do happen For where as is said before the thin pure Air with the refreshing Influences of the Sun and Elements have their free egress and regress all such Matter is destroyed whence such Vermin is produced The Original of these Creatures called Bugs is from Putrifaction occasioned by stinking Scents and Vapours which do proceed from the Bodies and Nature of Men and Women and the mixing or incorporating of these Vapours with moist and sulphurous Airs For where there is no Heat nor Humidity there can begin no Putrifaction Therefore all that have attributed the Generation of this Vermin to Wood as Bedsteads and the like are grosly mistaken in the Productions of Nature for there is no Matter in Wood that can generate such a Vermin it being productive only or chiefly of two Creatures in England viz. of Wood-Lice and a small Worm These Wood-Lice are never generated but in Places where the Sun and Air have not their free Influences so that there is store of Humidity contracted and when the Sun comes to such Degrees of the Zodiack this Creature is generated which is of as different a Nature from Bugs as sweet Wood is from a stinking Bed Also Wood does breed a certain small Worm but never till the Salts Nature and Power is decayed through length of time then the Air enters it which does presently cause it to contract a humid Quality from whence proceeds Putrifaction whereof when the Sun is powerful this Worm is bred But so long as Wood continues sound and is kept dry the Air having its free Influences on it I affirm That no sort of Wood ever breeds any kind of Vermin 4. There are many also that attribute the Generation of this Creature to Hogs Hair which being mixed with Lime and Houses Plaistered with it does occasion say they the Generation of Bugs Now it is most certain that there is no possibility in Nature for this Production For no kind of Hair ever breeds any Living Creature except it be put into Water or Mud when the Sun is powerful and then this Creature thus generated retains its first Species viz. a Hair with a live Head which was its Element whence it proceeded but if you take it out of the Water it presently dies So also it doth when the Sun declines in Heat as most sorts of Vermin that are bred through Heat and Moisture do But Hair being mixed with Lime all Matter of Generation is thereby totally destroyed For Lime does chiesly contain a harsh fiery keen sharp corroding Quality it is so sharp that it does destroy all Life and is as contrary to it as Light is to Darkness the predominant Quality in it is the Salts Nature from which no Living Creature can be produced Besides if there were never so much Matter in Hair for the Generation of such Vermin Lime would destroy it for in Lime there is only a Sal-nitral fiery Vertue 5. If the Reasons before-mentioned be not sufficient to convince the Ignorant of their erroneous Opinions in this particular then I hope the following one will which is more familiar to every one It hath never been known that this troublesom Vermin was ever seen in Warehouses Kitchens Parlours Dining-rooms or any Places where Beds have never been except they have by accident been brought into such Rooms or Warehouses by Furniture of Chambers that have been troubled with them though all such Places have the same Furniture as Chambers except Beds 6. From the same Substance or Matter whence Bugs are bred is also occasioned the Generation of many nasty Diseases in the Blood so that the destruction of the Matter that breeds them is of greater Consequence than most People are sensible of And if these following Rules be observed I dare affirm That the Generation of Bugs will cease and also many other Inconveniencies and Distempers that are got by this sort of Uncleanness will be avoided