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A70365	Two broad-sides against tobacco the first given by King James of famous memory, his Counterblast to tobacco : the second transcribed out of that learned physician Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his Treatise of the scurvy : to which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking, taken out of another work of the same author, his Preservation of health and prolongation of life : with a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's treatise of Bloud, against smoking tobacco : also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards, who have died suddenly, in a sermon preached by Mr. Samuel Ward : concluding with two poems against tobacco and coffee / corrected and published, as very proper for this age, by J.H.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699? Treatise of the scurvy.; Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered.	1672 (1672)	Wing J147; ESTC R19830	56,525	81

what kind of water he offereth he would ask and God would give it frankly without money he should drink liberally be satisfied and out of his Belly should sally Springs of the water of Life quenching and extinguishing all his inordinate longings ofter stoln water of Sin and Death All this while little hope have I to work upon many Drunkards especially by a Sermon read of less life and force in God's Ordinance and in its own nature then preached my first drift is to stir up the Spirits of Parents and Masters who in all Places complain of this evil robbing them of good Servants and dutiful Children by all care and industry to prevent it in their Domestical Education by carrying a watchful and restraining hand over them Parents if you love either Soul or Body thrift or piety look to keep them from this Infection Lay all the bars of your authority cautions threats and charges for the avoyding of this epidemical Pestilence If any of them be bitten of this Cockatrice sleep not rest not till you have cured them of it if you love their Health Husbandry Grace their present or future lives Dead are they while they live if they live in this Sin Mothers lay about you as Bathsheba with all entreaties What my Son my Son of my loves and delights Wine is not for you c. My next hope is to arouse and awaken the vigilancy of all faithful Pastors and Teachers I speak not to such Stars as this Dragon hath swept down from Heaven with its tayl for of such the Prophets the Fathers of the Primitive yea all Ages complain of I hate and abhor to mention this abomination to alter the Proverb As drunk as a Beggar to a Gentleman is odious but to a Man of God to an Angel how harsh and hellish a sound it is in a Christians ears I speak therefore to sober Watchmen Watch and be sober and labour to keep your Charges sober and watchful that they may be so found of him that comes like a Thief in the night Two means have you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent zealous Preaching and Praying against it It 's an old received Antidote that mans spittle especially fasting spittle is mortal to Serpents Saint Donatus is famous in story for spitting upon a Dragon that kept an High-way and devoured many Passengers This have I made good Observation of That where God hath raised up zealous Preachers in such Towns this Serpent hath no nestling no stabling or denning If this will not do Augustine enforceth another which I conceive God's and Man's Laws allow us upon the reason he gives If Paul saith he forbid to eat with such our common Bread in our own private Houses how much more the Lord's Body in Church-Assemblies If in our Times this were strictly observed the Serpent would soon languish and vanish In the time of an Epidemical Disease such as the Sweating or Neezing Sickness a wise Physician would leave the study of all other Diseases to find out the Cure of the present raging Evil. If Chrysostome were now alive the bent of all his Homilies or at least one part of them should be spent to cry drown Drunkenness as he did swearing in Antioch never desisting to reprove it till if not the fear of God yet his imporunity made them weary of the sin Such Anakims and Zanzummims as the spiritual Sword will not work upon I turn them over to the Secular Arm with a signification of the dangerous and contagious spreading of this poyson in the Veins and Bowels of the Common-wealth In the Church and Christ his name also intreating them to carry a more vigilant Eye over the Dens and Burrows of this Cockatrice superfluous blind and Clandestine Ale-houses I mean the very Pest-houses of the Nation which I could wish had all for their sign a picture of some hideous Serpent or a pair of them as the best Hieroglyphick of the genius of the place to warn Passengers to shun and avoid the danger of them Who sees and knows not that some one needless Ale-house in a Countrey-Town undoes all the rest of the Houses in it eating up the thrift and fruit of their Labours the ill manner of sundry places being there to meet in some one Night of the Week and spend what they they have gathered and spared all the days of the same before to the prejudice of their poor Wives and Children at home and upon the Lords day after Evening Prayers there to quench and drown all the good Lessons they have heard that day at Church If this go on what shall become of us in time If woe be to single Drunkards is not a National woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over-run with Drunkenness Had we no other Sin reigning but this which cannot reign alone will not God justly spue us out of his mouth for this alone We read of whole Countreys wasted dispeopled by Serpents Pliny tells us of the Amyclae Lycophron of Salamis Herodotus of the Neuri utterly depopulate and made unhabitable by them Verily if these Cockatrices multiply and get head amongst us a while longer as they have of late begun where shall the people have sober Servants to till their Lands or Children to hold and enjoy them They speak of drayning Fens but if this Evil be not stopped we shall all shortly be drowned with it I wish the Magistracy Gentry and Yeomanry would take it to serious consideration how to deal with this Serpent before he grow too strong and fierce for them It is past the egge already and much at that pass of which Augustine complains of in his time that he scarce knew what remedy to advise but thought it required the meeting of a general Council The best course I think of is if the great Persons would first begin through Reformation in their own Families banish the spirits of their Butteries abandon that foolish and vitious Custom as Ambrose and Basil calls it of drinking Healths and making that a Sacrifice to God for the health of others which is rather a Sacrifice to the Devil and a bane of their own I remember well Sigismund the Emperor's grave Answer wherein there concurred excellent Wisdom and Wit seldom meeting in one saying which he gave before the Council of Constance to such as proposed a Reformation of the Church to begin with the Franciscans and Minorites You will never do any good saith he unless you begin with the Majorites first Sure till it be out of fashion and grace in Gentlemens Tables Butteries and Cellars hardly shall you perswade the Countrey-man to lay it down who as in Fashions so in Vices will ever be the Ape of the Gentry If this help not I shall then conclude it to be such an Evil as is only by Soveraign Power and the King's Hand curable And verily next under the word of God which is Omnipotent how potent and wonder-working is the Word of a King when

base and contemptible a condition as they are too low for the Law to look on and too mean for a King to interpose his Authority or bend his Eye upon yet are they Corruptions as well as the greatest of them So is an Ant an Animal as well as an Elephant so is a Wren Avis as well as a Swan and so is a small dint of the Tooth-ach a Disease as well as the fearful Plague is But for these base sorts of Corruption in Common-wealths not only the King or any inferiour Magistrate but Quilibet ê populo may serve to be a Physician by discovering and impugning the error and by perswading reformation thereof And surely in my Opinion there cannot be a more base and yet hurtful Corruption in a Country then is the vile use or rather abuse of taking Tobacco in this Kingdome which hath moved me shortly to discover the abuses in this following little Pamphlet If any think it a light Argument so it is but a Toy that is bestowed upon it And since the Subject is but of Smoke I think the fume of an idle Brain may serve for a sufficient battery against so fumous a feblean Enemy If my grounds be found true it is all I look for but if they carry the force of perswasion with them it is all I can wish and more then I can expect My only care is my dear Country-men may rightly conceive even by this smallest trifle of the sincerity of my meaning in greater matters never to spare any pains that may tend to the procuring of your Weale and Prosperity A COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO THat the manifold abuses of this vile custome of Tobacco-taking may the better be espied It is fit That first you enter into Consideration both of the first Original thereof and likewise of the Reasons of the first entry thereof into this Countrey for certainly as such Customs that have their first Institution either from a godly necessary or honourable ground and are first brought in by the means of some worthy vertuous and great Personage are ever and most justly holden in great and reverent estimation and account by all wife vertuous and temperate Spirits So should it by the contrary justly bring a great Disgrace into that sort of Customs which having their Original from base Corruption and Barbarity do in like sort make their first entry into a Country by an inconsiderate and childish affectation of Novelty as is the true case of the first Invention of Tobacco-taking and of the first entry thereof amongst us For Tobacco being a common Herb which though under divers Names grows almost every where was first found out by some of the Barbarous Indians to be a Preservative or Antidote against the Pox a filthy Disease whereunto these Barbarous People are as all men know very much subject what through the uncleanly and adust constitution of their Bodies and what through the intemperate heat of their Climate So that as from them was first brought into Christendome that most detestable Disease So from them likewise was brought this use of Tobacco as a stinking and unsavory Antidote for so corrupted and execrable a Malady the stinking suffumigation whereof they yet use against that Disease making so one Canker or Vermine to eat out another And now good Country-men let us I pray you consider what Honour or Policy can move us to imitate the barbarous and beastly Manners of the wild godless and slavish Indians especially in so vile and stinking a Custome Shall we that disdain to imitate the Manners of our Neighbour France having the stile of the great Christian Kingdome and that cannot endure the Spirit of the Spaniards their King being now comparable in largeness of Dominions to the greatest Emperour of Turky Shall we I say that have been so long civil and wealthy in Peace famous and invincible in War fortunate in both We that have been ever able to Aid any of our Neighbours but never deafed any of their Ears with any of our Supplications for assistance Shall we I say without blushing abase our selves so far as to imitate these beastly Indians Slaves to the Spaniards Réfuse to the World and as yet Aliens from the holy Covenant of God Why do we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they do in preferring Glasses Feathers and such toys to Gold and precious Stones as they do Yea why do we not deny God and adore the Devil as they do Now to the corrupted baseness of the first use of this Tobacco doth very well agree the foolish and groundless first Entry thereof into this Kingdom It is not so long since the first entry of this abuse amongst us here as this present Age cannot yet very well remember both the first Author and the form of the first Introduction of it against us It was neither brought in by King great Conqueror nor learned Doctor of Physick With the Report of a great Discovery for a Conquest some two or three Savage men were brought in together with this Savage Custome But the pity is the poor wild barbarous men died but that vile barbarous Custome is yet alive yea in fresh vigour so as it seems a miracle to me how a Custome springing from so vile a Ground and brought in by a Father so generally hated should be welcomed upon so slender a warrant For if they that first put it in practice here had remembred for what respect it was used by them from whence it came I am sure they would have been loath to have taken so far the Imputation of that Disease upon them as they did by using the Cure thereof for Sanis non est opus medico and Counter-Poysons are never used but where Poyson is thought to proceed But since it is true that divers Customs slightly grounded and with no better warrant entred in a Common-wealth may yet in the use of them thereafter prove both necessary and profitable it is therefore next to be examined if there be not a ful sympathy and true proportion between the base ground and foolish entry and the loathsome and hurtful use of this stinking Antidote I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider first upon what false and erroneous grounds you have first built the general good liking thereof and next what Sins towards God and foolish Vanities before the World you commit in the detestable use of it As for those deceitful grounds that have specially moved you to take a good and great conceit thereof I shall content my self to examine here onely four of the Principals of them two founded upon the Theorick of a deceivable appearance of Reason and two of them upon the mistaken practick of general Experience First It is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physick That the brains of all men being naturally cold and wet all dry and hot things should be good for them of which nature this stinking suffumigation is and therefore of good use to

Universities but constantly affirm any clear day that they see some strange Apparition in the Skies They will I warrant you be seconded by the greatest part of the Students in that Profession So loath will they be to be thought inferiour to their Fellows either in depth of Knowledge or sharpness of Sight and therefore the general good liking and embracing of this foolish Custome doth but onely proceed from that affectation of Novelty and popular Error whereof I have already spoken And the other Argument drawn from a mistaken experience is but the more particular probation of this general because it is alledged to be found true by proof That by the taking of Tobacco divers and very many do find themselves cured of divers Diseases as on the other part no man ever received harm thereby In this Argument there is first a great mistaking and next a monstrous absurdity for is not a very great mistaking to take non causam pro causa as they say in the Logicks because peradventure when a sick man hath had his Disease at the heighth he hath at that instant taken Tobacco and afterward his Disease taking the natural course of Declining and consequently the Patient of recovering his health O then the Tobacco forsooth was the worker of that Miracle beside that it is a thing well known to all Physicians That the apprehension and conceit of the Patient hath by wakening and uniting the vital Spirits and so strengthening Nature a great power and vertue to cure divers Diseases For an evident Proof of mistaking in the like case I pray what foolish Boy what silly Wench what old doting Wife or ignorant Country Clown is not Physician for the Tooth ach for the Cholick and divers such common Diseases yea will not every man you meet withall teach you a sundry Cure for the same and swear by that mean either himself or some of his nearest Kindsmen and Friends was cured and yet I hope no man is so foolish as to believe them And all these toys do onely proceed from the mistaking non causam pro causa as I have already said and so if a man chance to recover one of any Disease after he hath taken Tobacco that must have the thanks of all But by the contrary if a man smoke himself to death with it as many have done O then some other Disease must bear the blame for that fault So do old Harlots thank their Harlotry for their many years that Custom being healthful say they ad purgandos renes but never have mind how many die of the Pox in the flower of their Youth And so do old Drunkards think they prolong their days by their Swine-like Diet but never remember how many die drowned in Drink before they be half old And what greater absurdity can there be then to say that one Cure shall serve for divers nay contrarious sorts of Diseases It is an undoubted ground among all Physicians That there is almost no sort either of Nourishment or Medicine that hath not some thing in it disagreeable to some part of mans body because as I have already said the nature of the temperature of every part is so different from another that according to the old Proverb That which is good for the Head is evil for the Neck and the Shoulders For even as a strong Enemy that invades a Town or Fortress although in his Siege thereof he do belay and compass it round about yet he makes his Breach and Entry at some one or few special parts thereof which he hath tryed and found to be weakest and least able to resist So sickness doth make her particular assault upon such part or parts of our Body as are weakest and easiest to be overcome by that sort of Disease which then doth assail us although all the rest of the Body by sympathy feel it self to be as it were belaid and besieged by the affliction of that special part the grief and smart thereof being by the sence of feeling dispersed through all the rest of the members and therefore the skilful Physician presses by such Cures to purge and strengthen that part which is afflicted as are onely fit for that sort of Disease and do best agree with the nature of that infirm part which being abused to a Disease of another nature would prove as hurtful to the one as helpful for the other yea not onely will a skillful and wary Physician be careful to use no Cure but that which is fit for that sort of Disease but he will also consider all other circumstances and make the Remedies sutable thereunto as the temperature of the Clime where the Patient is the Constitution of the Planets the time of the Moon the season of the Year the Age and Complexion of the Patient the present state of his Body in strength or weakness For one Cure must not ever be used for the self same Disease but according to the varying of any of the aforesaid Circumstances that sort of Remedy must be used which is fittest for the same where by the contrary in this case such is the miraculous Omnipotency of our strong-tasted Tobacco as it cures all sorts of Diseases which never any Drug could do before in all Persons and at all times It cures all manner of Distillations either in Head or Stomach if you believe their Axioms although in very deed it do both corrupt the Brain and by causing over quick digestion fill the Stomach full of Crudities It cures the Gout in the Feet and which is miraculous in that very instant when the smoke thereof as light flyes up into the Head the vertue thereof as heavy runs down to the little Toe It helps all sorts of Agues it makes a man sober that was Drunk it refreshes a weary man and yet makes a man hungry being taken when they go to Bed it makes one sleep soundly and yet being taken when a man is sleepy and drowsie it will as they say awaken his Brain and quicken his Understanding As for curing of the Pox it serves for that use but among the Pocky Indian Slaves Here in England it is refined and will not deign to cure here any other then cleanly and gentlemanly Diseases O omnipotent power of Tobacco And if it could by the smoke thereof chase out Devils as the smoke of Tobias Fish did which I am sure could smell no stronger it would serve for a precious Relict both for the superstitious Priests and the insolent Puritans to cast out Devils withall Admitting then and not confessing that the use thereof were healthful for some sorts of Diseases should it be used for all Sicknesses should it be used by all men should it be used at all times yea should it be used by able young strong healthful men Medicine hath that vertue that it never leaves a man in that state wherein it finds him it makes a sick man whole but a whole man sick And as Medicine helps

with and infect the chile of the Stomach and is conveyed with it into all parts of the Body and having so great a medicinal power must needs alter and change the Body according to the properties it is endowed with by the constant use and daily reception of it Now Tobacco being of an acrimonious hot dry c. nature does pervert and change the Balsamick juyces of the Body into a more sharpe and fiery temper and alienate them whereby they are not so amicable and fit for nutrition as many scorbutick Tobacconists do evidence upon examination and their constitution changed by the evil use of this Plant and it is very reasonable to expect it and impute such alterations to the use thereof since they are the proper effects of such a Cause The more remarkable discovery and frequency of the Scurvy may well and justly be imputed to Tobacco since of latter years that Tobacco hath been in use and in those Countries where Tobacco is much taken it doth abound most Although I discommend the use of Tobacco by smoking it as an injurious Custome yet I highly applaud it as very medicinal being rightly used I remember about fifteen years since a Patient of mine in Derby-shire fell into a great Paroxysm of an Asthma almost to suffocation I exhibited a Dose of the Syrup of Tobacco which gave him present help and within a few hours was relieved that he could draw his Breath with much ease and freedome And about a year after at Maxfield in Cheshire I cured a Gentlewoman of an Ulcer in Ano of seven years standing chiefly with the Ointment of Tobacco and although other things were used yet I ascribe most of the Cure to that Unguent And in many other cases Tobacco is of good use which I have experienced but smoking of it I find to be hurtful if it be customary I shall not be so strict and severe against the use of it as to forbid all persons the smoking it upon any score whatever for that which may be used at certain times as medicinal upon just occasions requiring in some persons may prove very bad and pernicious upon the constant and general use And this is the case of Tobacco Tobacconists whom custome hath ensnared and brought them to delight in it are willing to be perswaded and deluded that it is good and wholesome at least harmless The pretences which they urge in defence of it are such as these Some plead for it and use it after Meat as a help to Digestion and therefore take it as a good remedy against a bad Stomach and weak Digestion To this I answer They are much mistaken herein not distinguishing between digestion and precipitation of meat out of the Stomach digestion is not performed but in due time by retexture alteration fermentation and volatization of Meát and till then is not fit to pass out of the Digestive-Office which requires some hours more or less according to the nature of the Food received of facil or difficil digestion now that which provokes the Stomach to a distribution of semi-digested Chyle and unloading it self before digestion be finished and perfected offers great injury to the Body and this is the case of Tobacco by its laxative stimulating properties which error committed in the first Digestive-Office is not corrected nor the damage recompenced by the acuteness and strong elaborations of the subsequent digestions and for this reason in part the Scurvy is procured hereby Some take Tobacco for refreshment after labour and divertisement of serious thoughts being tired with business study and musing True it is Tobacco puts a suspension upon serious thoughts and gives a relaxation for a time in some persons others contemplate and run over their business with more delight by the help and during the taking of a Pipe But both these persons though seemingly delighted and refreshed for a short time yet afterwards the Spirits are lassated and tired and are more flat dull and somnolent when the Pipe is out this was but a cheat the Spirits were not truly refreshed invigorated and reinforced as Wine does enliven and make brisk the Spirits by affording and communicating an additional supply but by the fume of Tobacco the Spirits are a little inebriated and agitated by an other motion then their own which is a seeming refreshment and short not real substantial and lasting Others plead for Tobacco and take it as a Remedy against Rheume because a great dryer and exhauster of superfluous Moistures To evince the Error of this Opinion consider what is the cause whereby Rheumes and crude moisture in the Body do abound and then you will plainly see whether smoking Tobacco be a proper or likely Remedy to prevent or oppose it Phlegm and superfluous moisture does arise and abound in the Body from a deficiency and debility of the Digestions as also impediment or impotency of the expulsive faculty that the remainders after digestion be not transmitted by the common ductures Now this fume of Tobacco gives no Roboration adds no strength to the digestive faculties having no symbolical qualities to comply with and assist them is very plain Also that separation and expulsion of super fluous moisture by this fume is not promoted and transmitted through the more commodious ductures and passages appointed by nature for emission onely a salivation by the mouth is procured which brings no advantage but detriment for this Flux of moisture doth not arise as critical from the impulsion of Nature separating and protruding but from a promiscuous attraction of fluid moisture by vertue of its acrimonious heat as well the laudable util succus as the degenerated and superfluous so that constantly draining the Body of this dulcid serosity must cause many inconveniencies through the want of it in as much as it is very serviceable to the Body in the integrity of its nature but being alienated is then reduced or vented by better means nature concurring with the medicine But admit this did attract only excrementitious moisture which it does not yet considering it Vitiates the Stomach and Impregnates the Chyle with its evil properties 't is much better to forbear then to use it that benefit would not recompence this injury And further that which is a preventing or curative remedy of superfluous Moisture Rheume or Phlegmatique matter applies à Priori to the Digestions the Springs from whence such Effects do arise not à Posteriori to the producted matter which this fume seems to pump out but does not stop the Leak is therefore no radical Medicine and they that smoke Tobacco upon this accompt as a great dryer and exhauster of superfluous moisture are much deceived in the expected benefit it onely brings a current of moisture which ought to be expended otherwise but it abates nothing in the Fountain or Springs rather augments and makes an overflow for the Reasons aforesaid as Tobacconists do evidence by their much spitting Some may say I never took Tobacco

received then if the morbifick matter were more ponderous and fixed the gravamen from thence would be much worse and longer in removing as an over-charge of Meat Bread Fruit or such like substances not spirituous but dull and heavy comparative is of more difficult digestion and layes a greater and more dangerous load upon the faculties having not such volatile brisk spirits to assist Nature nor of so liquid a fine substance of quicker and easier digestion So that the symptoms from thence are much more dangerous then those peraeute distempers arising from Liquors So likewise those bad symptoms in other Diseases are more to be feared and accounted mortal then the like arising from drunkenness because those perhaps depend upon malignant causes or such as by time are radicated in the body or from the defection of some principal part but the storm and discomposure arising from drunkenness as it is suddenly raised so commonly it soon falls depending upon benign causes and a spirituous matter that layes not so great an oppession but inebriates the spirits that they act very disorderly and unwontedly or by the soporiferous vertue stupefies them for a time untill they recover their agility again But all this while I do not see that to be drunk once a moneth should prove good Physick all I think that can be said in this behalf is that by overcharging the Stomach vomiting is procured and so carries off something that was lodged there which might breed Diseases This is a bad excuse for good Fellows and a poor plea for drunkenness for the gaining of one supposed benefit which might be obtained otherwise you introduce twenty inconveniences by it I do not like the preventing of one Disease that may be by procuring of one at the present certainly and many hereafter most probably and if the Disease feared or may be could be prevented no otherwise but by this drunken means then that might tollerate and allow it but there are other wayes better and safer to cleanse the body either upwards or downwards then by overcharging with strong drink and making the man to unman himself the evil consequents of which are many the benefit hoped for but pretended or if any but very small and inconsiderable And although as I said before the drunken fit is not mortal and the danger perhaps not great for the present yet those drunken bouts being repeated the relicts do accumulate debilitate Nature and lay the foundation of many chronick Diseases Nor can it be expected otherwise but you may justly conclude from the manifest irregular actions which appear to us externally that the functions within also and their motions are strangely disordered for the outward madness and unwonted actions proceed from the internal impulses and disordered motions of the faculties which general disturbance and discomposure being frequent must needs subvert the oeconomy and government of humance Nature and consequently ruine the Fabrick of mans body The ill effects and more eminent products of ebriety are first A changing of the natural tone of the Stomach and alienating the digestive faculty That instead of a good transmutation of food a degenerate Chyle is produced Common experience tells that after a drunken debauch the stomach loseth its appetite and acuteness of digestion as belching thirst disrelish nauseating do certainly testifie yet to support nature and continue the custom of eating some food is received but we cannot expect from such a Stomach that a good digestion should follow and it is some dayes before the Stomach recover its e●crasy and perform its office well and if these miscarriages happen but seldom the injury is the less and sooner recompenced but by the frequent repetition of these ruinous practices the Stomach is overthrown and alienated from its integrity Secondly An unwholsome corpulency and cachectick plenitude of body does follow or a degenerate macilency and a decayed consumptive constitution Great Drinkers that continue it long few of them escape but fall into one of these conditions and habit of body for if the Stomach discharge not its office aright the subsequent digestions will also be defective So great a consent and dependance is there upon the Stomach that other parts cannot perform their duty if this leading principal Part be perverted and debauched nor can it be expected otherwise for from this Laboratory and prime office of digestion all the parts must receive their supply which being not suteable but depraved are drawn into debauchery also and a degenerate state and the whole Body fed with a vitious alimentary succus Now that different products or habits of body should arise from the same kind of debauchery happens upon this score As there are different properties and conditions of bodies so the result from the same procuring causes shall be much different and various one puffs up fills and grows hydropical another pines away and falls Consumptive from excess in drinking and this proceeds from the different disposition of parts for in some persons although the stomach be vitiated yet the strength of the subsequent digestions is so great from the integrity and vigor of those parts destinated to such offices that they act strenuously though their object matter be transmitted to them imperfect and degenerate and therefore do keep the body plump and full although the juyces be foul and of a depraved nature Others è contra whose parts are not so firm and vigorous that will not act upon any score but with their proper object does not endeavour a transmutation of such aliene matter but receiving it with a nice reluctance transmits it to be evacuated and sent forth by the next convenient ducture or emunctory and from hence the body is frustrated of nutrition and falls away So that the pouring in of much liquor although it be good in sua natura does not beget much aliment but washeth through the body and is not assimilated But here some may object and think That washing of the body through with good Liquor should cleanse the body and make it fit for nourishment and be like good Physick for a foul body But the effect proves the contrary and it is but reason it should be so for suppose the Liquor whether Wine or other be pure and good yet when the spirit is drawn off from it the remainder is but dead flat thick and a muddy flegm As we find in the destillation of Wine or other Liquors so it is in mans body the spirit is drawn off first and all the parts of mans body are ready Receivers and do imbibe that limpid congenerous enlivener freely and readily but the remainder of greatest proportion that heavy dull phlegmy part and of a narcotick quality lies long fluctuating upon the digestions and passeth but slowly turns sowr and vitiates the Crases of the parts So that this great inundation and supposed washing of the body does but drown the Faculties stupefie or choak the Spirits and defile all the Parts not purifie and