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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63791	Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3179; ESTC R203819	70,066	226

salt-Fish for by its mild friendly Nature it allayes the harsh stubborn fierceness of such Flesh and the heat of the Salt which if frequently eaten without store of either Herbs or Roots to qualifie them proves very prejudicial to Health especially in hot Countries The truth is this is an excellent Herb and ought to be encreased and planted for general use for it ought to be held in greater estimation than either Mutton or Beef or indeed any other sort of Flesh it being an allayer of all immoderate heat It is under the Dominion of Iupiter in Pisces There are also a great Number of brave Herbs in the West-Indies which are transplanted from the more Northern Climates and thrive very well there viz. Sage Rosemary Thyme Winter and Summer Savory Mint Penny-royal Parsely Charvil Onnions Lettice Sorrel Beetes both white and Red Spinnage Cabadges or Colworts Comfry and many other gallant wholsome Herbs and they are all or most of them by the Coelestial influences and continual enlivening Beams of that Fountain of heat the Sun rendred far more fragrant and salutiferous than in colder Regions and so do make most excellent Sallads which being mixt with Oyl or Butter the Juice of Oranges and Salt warm the whole Body and more naturally and pleasantly exhillerate the Spirits than any sort of Wine drank in Moderation Some brief Directions for the Preservation of Health and Life in hot Climates IT is a very common conceit amongst the Europeans that of late are come to Inhabit in Plantations of America that by the Nature of the Climate or by reason of the unusual Heats People there are not so long-liv'd as in the more cold Northren parts of the World and for this they appeal to Experience Do not we see say they how men are cut off by Diseases in the prime of their Years and very few attain to old Age Whence 't is a common Proverb amongst them Soon Ripe Soon Rotten as if this were the very Nature of the Climate but this is all Mistake they blame the Climate when themselves are only to blame 'T is their own Intemperance not that of the Heavens which shortens their days The wise and merciful God hath ordered so providentially all parts of this habitable World that his Creature Man may thereon live comfortably if he please 'T was the Error of the Antients when they divided the Earthly Globe into five Zones to imagine two of them uninhabitable one of which they called the Frigid Zone through excessive Cold and the other Torrid Zone through extreamity of Heat But Experience has confuted their guessing Philosophy and shews us that both these are commodious enough to dwell in if Discretion and Sobriety be used Is one Region cold God has given its Inhabitants strong Constitutions great Stomachs gross suitable Food and Furze wherewith to defend them Is another very hot Here are refreshing Briezes constantly imployed by Nature to fan and divert them rare delicate Fruits easie of Digestion to supply all the necessities of Nature and support them in Strength and Health But such is the Perversity of men that being depraved by custom they pursue and take quite contrary measures to those that Nature dictates and in the hottest Climates gorge themselves with the grossest Foods various Dishes of Flesh Fish and Fowls whereof they daily eat to Gluttony and the strongest Liquors as Madera Wines Brandy and Punch so that where they need the least finest and lightest Meats and Drinks they cloy and oppress Nature with the grossest and strongest And is it any wonder that they are then afflicted with Diseases or cut off by immature Deaths If a man will turn the top of his Candle downwards and extinguish it by excess of Tallow how unjustly does such an one blame the Winds for putting out its light The sweet Influences of the Coelestials and especially the heat of Heaven's bright Eye the Sun does in hot Countries prepare all sorts of Vegetations and Fruits so as that they become more wholsom and proper for the Body than in colder Regions thereby pointing out which is the most natural food in such Climates of which the Natives though by us esteemed Barbarous are so wise as to take notice for they in most hot Countries do more incline to eat Herbs and Fruits though not so much as they ought nor do they prepare many of them so well as they should yet thereby and by being strangers to Riot and Intemperance they retain an undisturbed Health to very great Ages So in the East-Indies where the food is chiefly Herbs Fruits and Grains and their Drink only Water to meet with Persons of One Hundred Years of Age is common nay it is credibly reported that some of those called Brachmans who do wholly abstain from eating either Flesh or Fish do lengthen out their days to One Hundred and Twenty and One Hundred and Fifty Years And in Guinea tho' it be a very hot Country and generally the Constitution of the Air accounted very unwholsom yet you shall see the Ethiopians frequently live One Hundred and Twenty Years in great strength and vigour By all which it is plain that the fault is neither in the Soil nor the Climate but it is Intemperance both in Quantity and Quality is the main cause of the grievous Distempers and short Lives of our English that travel into hot Countries and also of the Weakness and untimely Death of so many of their Children For Prodigious in the Excess they commit such as cannot rationally be imagined of any that had not a mind willfully to destroy themselves for to omit their Extravagances in ordinary Diet the vast Quantities of Flesh and Fish which they unnecessarily devour I have heard it credibly related and affirmed That there has been the Quantity of One Thousand or One Thousand Two Hundred Bottles of Wine Madera and Claret consumed at one Feast made by a common Plantes of Barbadoes and that the like Superfluity as if they would vye for Luxury with the old Romans in the declining Age of their Empire is not infrequent in that and other Western Plantations Now let all the World judge if men will thus seek Death in the Errors of their Lives how is the Country to be complained of He that takes his share of three or four such Treats will have little reason to accuse the heat of the Weather for casting him into a Feaver If our English and others that travel to and live in those Westenr Eastern or Southern Regions would be but so obedient to Nature and kind to themselves as to observe a proper Order and right Method of Living they would not only live long but healthy And for their furtherance and benefit therein I mean such as have not absolutely forsworn hearkening to any Remonstrances of Reason nor betrothed themselves to Madness and ruinating Debauchery I shall here add a few general Rules or Directions for the Preservation of Health very necessary to be regarded by all