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A63795	The good house-wife made a doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent and cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children by diet and kitchin-physick only : with some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry / by Thomas Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing T3181; ESTC R26333	105,260	298

God sends into the World for the real use and benefit of Mankind whilst they turn them into Wantonness and waste and pervert them before ever they come to Maturity to quite contrary ends than that for which the great and good C●e●tor design●d them for he intended them to supply humane Necessities they abuse them to Extravangance and Riot ●●d ●iquorishness He gave them Vertues to add Health and Strength to such as should in their due season eat them but they by seizing upon them with an unnatural and untimely Violence the same thing to Vegetabl●s as Mu●der or Killing is to Animals and using them absurdly and preposterously make them the occasions of Diseases and Destruction and yet how many Pounds do some Women tris●le away in a year upon these harmful Vanities and Superfluities yea and think themselves rare Housewives too for this Prodigality and are at Pains or Cost to bring up their Daughters to these Baneful Mysteries of Preserving Conserving c. All which besides a most impetinent Waste of their Husbands Money and spoil of Gods good Creatures tend likewise to the destruction of their own Health and that of their Children for no sooner have they by Gluttony or eating of too great Quantities of Flesh Fish or other Rich F●ods or over●strong Liquors brought ●●emselves out of order but away they run or send Iillian the Chamber-maid who has already spoil'd her Teeth with Sweet-meats and Kisses to the Closet for some Conserves Prese●ves or other Confectionary-Ware and if that will not do as alas how should such sower abortive things only Embalm'd with nauseous Sugar do any good then fetch the Bottle of Black-Cherry-Brandy the Glass of Aqua Mirabilis and after that take a Dose of Plague-Water and she is no Body that has not a Room furnish'd plentifully with these pernicious confused Slip stops and Extravagancies But tell me my good Dames what have you to say for these Curi●sities What Benesit what Advantage do you receive by them Are you more Sound Healthy or Strong than the Honest poor Country-Woman that has none of them Are you more free from suddain Qualms or settled Distempers Have you better Appetites than they Have you more Pleasure in eating your Larks and Pheasants your dainty Bi●s with Rich Poinant Sawces and delicious costly Wines than they have in a Mess of good Milk or a lusty piece of Br●ad and Ch●ese and a Cup of Nutbrown-Ale of their own Brewing Are your Sleeps more sound on your Down Beds double fortified with Curtains of Silk and Sarcenet than theirs on their wholsom S●raw-Couches open to the Air that whistles in between the wooden Windows Are you more free from Colds with your ●lannel Shifts and your Man-like Drawers and your Quilted Wastcoats and Petti●oats so many as makes you shew as big about the Haunches as a Dutch-Woman and would half set up a Long-Lane Bro●er Are you I say with all this Furniture free from catching Cold any more than the Rosie-Complexion'd Lass that courts the sweet kisses of the Air in her Smock Sleeves and trips over the Dewy-Plains in a Winters ●rosly M●r●ing with but a brace of Linsey-Woolsey Coats that are not long enough to conceal the shape of her Well-Proportioned L●gg Or are your Children born more Lusty or more free from Dis●ases as the Kings-Evil Lepr●sies Rickets Ioynt-Aches and other Distempers Or are they better Complex●on'd or strai●er-Limb'd or handsomer Shap'd or in any kind more active sprightly or vigorours than theirs Alas none of all this the Advantages lie all on the other side Whilst you are continually complaining and sighing they are merrily Singing Whilst you are weak and lose your natural Complexions and have no App●tite and can scarce relish the rarest Dain●ies and your Sleeps are restless and Distempers are continually either actually seizing on you or at least threatning you so that you are always forced to keep a Doctor or two in Pension for your Life-Guard They are strong and lusty and look as fresh as a May-Morning and have Stomachs as sharp as a Scyth and all their Meat seems N●ctar and their Drink Ambrosia and their Sleeps are sweet as Mariners after a Tempest their Breath as fragrant as Honey-Suckles they never so much heard of half the Diseases that you groan under and look upon Doctors as only Bawbles for Gentlefolks and find an Oatmeat Cawdle or a Cardus Posset better Physick than any the Apoth●caries Shop affords their Children are in all respects lustier founder healthier more active and strong of better Complexions and compleater Proportions for the generality than yours And why then will you still so indulge a Sottish Fond Humour and wanton Pa●ate seeing it is so destructive to your Well-being and that of your Dear Posterity But waving this not unseasonable Digression and to return to Spice It must be acknowledged that God made nothing in vain Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cinamon Pepper Ginger and Pomento or Iamaica Pepper are brave noble Fruits and smell as it were of Paradise and the great and good Creator is as much to be admired in them as any other Vegetations for though they are not so useful for common Food yet they have their excellent uses Their chief Vertues reside in their most pleasant Scent which is very refreshing and chearing to the Spirits also they are endued with a warming Quality very profitable in Physical Operations especially for some sort of Melancholy and Phlegmatick Complexions The same is to be understood in Brandy and other distilled Spirits which often prove profitable being taken when there is just occasion in a Physical way but of fatal consequence to such as accustom themselves to the drinking of it at every turn for then it quickly wounds the Healt● by destroying the natural Heat the like is to be understood of all Extreams in Drinks and Food which are disharmonious in their parts Therefore it is no ways safe to mix unequal Fruits with those that are equal for then the Harmony of the whole will be violated As to use our familiar Example Take the Flower of Wheat Milk and Water mix them and heat them to a Pap these three things are equal and agreeable in their peculiar parts each with other and make a brave wholsom Food either for young or old on which alone you may live healthy and contentedly for divers years but if you mix with them Sugar and Spice or either of them then the company of this Stranger puts them out of Tune and breaks the Consort so that if any one should be confined to this last sort but for one Month or two their Palates and Stomachs will grow weary and loath it And so it is with Cakes in which eight or ten Ingredients are mixed how long could those that love them best eat them and not be weary Not sixteen days together But take Flower and Water and make Cakes thereof and on them you may live several years and never be tired In like manner Flesh Bread

for its natural Vertues are burnt up and totally destroyed in the preparation It s love●y White and Yellow C●lour which proceed from Venus and Sol are turned into a Saturnine Bla●k and its sweet Spirituous Taste into a naus●ous fu●so●e Bitter with a sm●ll unpleasant And therefore the Drinkers thereof are forced to drink it very hot to hide the ungrateful Taste whereas Heat destroys the pleasant Taste of proper and Natural Drinks And for this reason Coffee is dull on the Palate and Stomach very apt to obst●uct the ●assages and ●inder Digesti●n and ought not to be drunk but in the way of Medicine for there is as much and more reason for any Person to burn Wood Herbs or ●rains to Ashes and then take those Ashes and infuse them in hot Water and when 't is settled or clear to drink it ●or such sorts of ●rinks are ●edici●es proper for several Diseases but by no means to be drank as common Drinks In a word Coffee is the Drunkards Settle-brain the ●ool● P●ss-Time who admire● it for being the Production of Asia and is ravisht with delight when he hears the Berries grow in the Desarts of Arabia but would not give a farthing for an Hogshead of it if it were to be had on Hampstead-Heath or Banstead-Downs 't is the Sawce for News the Busie-mans Recreation and the Idle mans Business The Lazy Prattlers colourable pretence to spend his Money and more pretious Minutes vainly and whilst he is censuring his Superiors and New-vamp●ing the Government his Wife wants Shoes and his Children cry for Bread But since the Indiscretion of the Age has rendred Sipping and Tippling almost necessary to Bargains and Business and that men especially in Cities and great Towns many times cannot so conveniently transact their Negotiations nor discourse their private Affairs as in such places where there is Liquor sold a Dish of Coffee now and then to be drank by an healthy Person will not hurt him nor make any variation the quantity is so small but drinking of it frequently and smoking Tobacco therewith is injurious to Health yet strong sound Bodies may drink or eat improper things for continual custom will thereby render them less hurtful especially if they be but small quantities at a time However the best and surest way for every one is to let such Forreign Curiosities alone and to take such Meats and Drinks only as are proper in Quality and therewith not to over-charge Nature in Quantity CHAP. XXVII Of Tea its Nature and Operation TEA is another Forregn Drink the use whereof hath not been long known in Engla●d the best that can be said of it is That 't is a pretty innocent harmless Liquor it hath an opening Quality and purgeth by Vri●e but not so much as many of our own Coun●ry-Herb● and its great esteem is not from the more than ordinary Vertues that it is endued withal but chiefly for Novelty-sake and because 't is O●tland●sh and dear and far-fetcht and therefore admired by the Multitude of ignorant People who always have the greatest esteem for those things they know not The truth is our Herb called Dandelion that is in English Lyons Tooth because of the similitude of its Leaf being gathered according to our Directions in The Way to Health c. and infused in boyling hot Water about half an hour and then the Liquor poured from the Herbs and sweetned with fine White Sugar is a far better Drink than Tea though the latter costs sixteen or twenty Shillings a Pound whereas the former may plentifully be had by most people for gathering and is of far more use and vertue for it cleanseth the Stomach and powerfully purg th by Vrine its natural Taste is a moderate Bitter which being allay'd by Sugar becomes as grateful if not more than the best Tea There are several other of our common Herbs that will perform the like which I shall not trouble the Reader with in this place only this I must tell you that Sage Pen●y-Royal Mint Mother of Thime and Garden Th●me being gathered and dryed in their proper Seasons and preserv'd in Baggs will make more suitable Drinks for our Constitutions and answer the end of Nature's wants to a greater advantage than Tea CHAP. XXIII Of Herbs and Sillads both boyled and Raw. THere are various s●rts of Herbs and fragrant 〈◊〉 that are endued with most excellent Vertues many of which are so ravishing and sublime that with the favour of a Metaphor they may be called The good Food of Angels and therefore they were the only Food for Man in the beginning when he remained in his Angelical state for till he defaced the Image of God wherein he was created every green Herb and Seed was his Meat and should have been to this day if he had continued in that heavenly Condition he was created in and to but so soon as he suffered his Desires to wander after Vanity then immediately the original Wrath got mastery and the divine Moderator became weak and impotent whence arose that desire after Blood and Fl●sh in which that outward Life stands and has birth from that strong might of Wrath for the original of all Life stands in Poyson therefore when Man ent●ed into the Wrathful Nature and un●qual ●peration of the original Forms which does cause such greedy Inclinations not only to eat Fl●sh a●d 〈◊〉 but also to Fighting Killing and Opp●●ss●o●s both of those of his own kind and all the inferior Graduates for according to what Principle and Quality doth carry the upper dominion in man's heart whether Love or Ang●r such Food Drinks Exercises and all other things he desiers Nature being always best gratified with that which has the nearest affinity to its self whence it appears that mens coveting Flesh and Blood is a true sign and testimony of their miserable Fall and that they live under the power of the dark fierce Wrath. But I have discoursed more of this in my general Treatise entituled The Way to Health long Life and Happiness As also I have there shewed at large the excellency of Herbs Grains and Seeds for Food whereunto I refer the Reader and shall here only tell you in particular how to make the best and wholsomest Salads which if practised may much conduce towards the Praservation of your Bodies in Health 1. Take Spinnage Pars●ey Sorrel Lettice and a few Onions then add Oyl Vi●gar and Salt a good quantity of each to make it of an high Taste and Relish but let the Salt a little predominate or exceed both the other Ingredients and eat nothing with it but Bread which is sufficient and will be much more grateful to the alate than if you eat Bread and Bu●ter or Brea● and Cheese or Bread and Meat though all those things may be admitted when you season your Sallad only with Salt and Vinegar but it is not proper to eat Butter Cheese or Flesh with such things or Sallads wherein Oyl is mixed there being