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A63797	Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all [cropped]sterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3182; ESTC R219417	19,602	25

but then such through the power●● their depraved Free-wills and wanton Imaginations have forc●● Nature out of her simple Innocent ways compelling her often 〈◊〉 do that which she perfectly loath● The wise Antients understanding this Nature and Constitution 〈◊〉 Women and considering that the whole welfare and health of Man kind depended chiefly on their Temperance and discreet Conduc● did therefore direct them to an higher degree of Temperance an● thought it requisite and so absolutely necessary that both the drin● alotted for Women in most Countries was and is to this day 〈◊〉 Water and their Food as Innocent and Natural they eat Fle●● sparingly living much on raw and boiled Herbs Fruits and Grai● which is a most sublime Diet. And by this means their Women an● Children are not afflicted with such a number of cruel Diseas● There is no Country in the World where there Children and You●● people are so generally subject to the small Pox Kings-Evil Join● Aches and many Leperous and languishing Diseases how many 〈◊〉 them yearly Die with Convulsions and Windy D●●stempers which ge● nerally they receive from their Mothers How many miseries an● aking hearts do Women endure with their Sickly Children an● what Woman is free from Vapours and Windy Diseases fainting Fits weak Joints and Backs their Blood corrupted breaking out 〈◊〉 small Spots in the Flesh of several colours their Stomach cold and their Natural heat not able to digest their Food without a Dram● c. For all which Evils there is no Remedy so long as our Wome● do continue the frequent Eating of fat gross Flesh without Herbs and other sweet high prepared Food and drinking strong Liquo●s as Brandy c. and taking Tobacco for these things do continually heat the whole Body thereby awakening the Central heat which is very injurious to Women for it presently sends sumes and vapours into the Head and the fierce Fires with venemous Particles do penetrate the whole Body drying up and consuming the pleasant moist cool Airy Vapours suffocating the pure Spirits which otherwise would replenish the whole Body and sharpen the Appetite it also dulls the Senses and possesses the Blood with a sharp fretting Humour and hinders its free Circulation causing the pure natural Spirits whose habitation is in the Blood to become impure whence ar●ses a general indisposition over the whole Body Therefore all that Love their own Health or the good of their Children ought to ●e●rain such hurtful Food and learn to know that Brandy Tobacco and all such things are to be taken sparingly and no otherwise than as people take Physick CHAP. II. Of Flesh and its operation in the Body and also on the Senses That the continual Eating thereof without due distinction of proper Times and Seasons does darken the Spirits and distempers Nature Likewise of the excellency of Herbs Fruits and their inward operation on the Body and Mind THe eating of Flesh was not allowed or practised in the first and purer Ages when Men gave themselves to the Study of Wisdom viz. To the knowledge of themselves and were partakers of Gods secrets in Divine and Humane things and injoy'd Health and long Life drawn out to the Age of many hundred years For thus the Holy Scripture tells us Gen. 1. The Lord said behold I have given to you every Herb bearing Seed which is upon the face of all the Earth and every Tree in which is the fruit of a Tree yielding Seed to you it shall be for Meat And in another place it is said Flesh with the Blood thereof you shall not eat It is not said That the Lord made all Creatures for Man to Eat as I have heard many affirm but he made them for his own Glory and eternal Honour and for the manifestation of his Wonders and that Men should have Dominion over all Creatures and created things which Man hath lost by suffering his desires and imaginations to enter into the Bestial nature which do by degrees captivate the Noble parts in Men. But the wise Antients for divers Ages of the World did know but little of the variety of Flesh and strong Drinks or of compounded Dishes of 20 sorts of things most of them of disagreeing Natures No their Food was simple and natural easie to be procured without oppression to themselves or to any of Gods Creatures as Herbs Fruits and Grains and pure water for drink which things are endued with a most simple nature and operation which neither du●leth the Head by fumes nor stup●●●s the Senses by surplusage of nourishment but being well prepared and eaten moderately do nourish by way of Simile its like qualities in the Body being of lighter digestion and of a more A●ery operation than Flesh being also void of all Inclinations Senses or passions of Love or Ha●e whose original is more clean and nearer the unity in nature therefore the Philosophical Ancients in former ages incouraged the eating of Herbs Fruits and Grains but on the contrary made Laws against the common eating of Flesh without distinction The great and most illuminated Prophet Moses did not admit the Children of Israel to eat any Flesh during their forty years March through the Wilderness 'T is true when the people did Murm●● the Lord being provoked gave them Flesh in his Wrath and aft●rwards when they were admitted to eat Flesh it was with such distinctions and with so many circumstances as could not be performed but by abundance of labour and trouble and other inconveniencies by which Laws and observations many of Gods Creatures became of little or no use in the Creation as Swine and the like if indeed they had onely been made for Men to eat But the Lord never commanded his People in any Age to abstain from any thing but it was always for their preservation for Abstinence● Cleanness and Sobriety in Meats D●inks Exercises and Communications do work wonderful Effects and have a sympathetical operation both on the Body and Senses rendring the observers thereof Healthful with brisk powerful Spirits watchful prudent of good forecast able to give Council and for matters of Learning they do easily grow to an excellency in the knowledge of themselves and in all other things whereunto they do apply themselves● And as for Prayers Medi●ations and Contemplations they do perform them with great Facility Pleasure and Spiritual delight being always fresh in their minds and free from Diseases in their Bodies By this way of Sobriety Cleanness and Temperance many of the Antients became admirable both in Divine and humane Wisdome 't is well known how Scrupulously the Pythagoreans one of the most Learned and Mysterious of all the Sects of Gentile Philosophers abstained from Flesh. The Divine Writer and great Prophet Moses testifies that God made Man in his own Image● and that he should have Dominion over all things or Creatures not that he should eat all things or hurt himself by devouring them nor suffer his desires to enter into them nor theirs into him

its Sweat Water or Friendly Life in its Seperation which before did Qualifie its harsh Fierce Fire it also looseth its pure Colour or bright native Shine because the Essential Oyl is consumed in that Seperation so that there doth remain no true Life nor Light in it but being set on Fire its Flame ●s of a 〈…〉 that the dark wrathful Properties of Sat●●● and Mars and their Fierce Fires are predominant in all such 〈◊〉 or Spirits This is further 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 as was hinted before which is made of Wood but in the making thereof the pure Oyl or sweet Wat●r which is the Essential Life of the Wood is suffocated or destroyed for from that Friendly Quality the Wood had its bright Shine or Fl●●e which is of a Benevolent refreshing opperation● Now this pure Oyl or Balsamick body is the Essential Life and moderator of all harsh Fiery dark Fumes or Qualitys in the Wood which being suffocated or totally destroyed in the making it whereby the Original dark Sulphurous Fire becomes strong and raging giving greater and stronger Heat than the Fire of Wood but its Flame is not bright clear and refreshing as that of Wood but it is of a dimn B●●●●ony colour sending 〈◊〉 strong fulsome Fumes and Vapours very offesive to the pure Spirits and Health of those that are near it for having lo●t its pure Spirits and Oyl of Life in its making into Charcoal there does only remain in it the Fierce dark original Fire an untameable devou●ing Spirit in Nature for every Quality in Nature hath power only to kindle and awaken its likeness therefore all such things as have lost their pure Spirits and Balsamick body in the Seperation or preparation must needs Indanger the Health because they do awaken by Simile their own or like Poysonous Properties in the Body and if it were not so a little Poyson taken into the Body would not destroy the Life but Poysons taken in do by Simile joyn or Incorporate themselves with the Internal Poyson or destructive Principal in the Body which before laid hid or as a Man may say was moderated or Captivated by the sweet Body and pure Spirits even as the Fiery Spirits of Brandy are in Sack or Sugar but so soon as the ou●ward Poyson that is taken in Incorporates it self with the inward Poyson in the Body it does so pow●●fully Strengthen and awaken it that in a moment it overcomes the pure Oyl of L●fe and the pure Spirits become Suffocated and then the Natural Life is a● an end for every property in Nature both in the Evil and also in the good does with highest dilligence see●● out its likeness and wheresoever it findeth its Simile there it joy●s Forces and 〈…〉 wel●are of the Body Nor is it otherwise in all sorts of Food and other Drinks if the pure Vertue thereof be Seperated or any way destroyed for then forthwith the dark brimstony-Brimstony-Spirit is set at Liberty which before the Seperation the Ba●●amick body and pure Spir●ts did Qualify and hold Captive that it could not mannifest its-self in its own Nature but being Seperated from the good Properties and Friendly Principal this dark Fiery Sulphurous Spirit becomes of a Furious Nature and Operation endeavouring to bring all in Subjection to it self Therefore such Liquors or Spirits frequently taken b●●h up the Radical moisture and Natural Heat and are greedy devourers of the Sweet Oyl in the Body whence proceeds General Obstructions Crude Windy humours Consumptions unna●ural Heats and Flushings Loss of Appetite Retchings to Vo●●it and many other disorders And if those of the Female Sex take to Drink such Spirits as of late years they do too frequently the Evils are doubled ●nto them 2. In all the before mentioned Spirits that have passed through those cruel harsh Fires where the Air hath not its free Egress and Regress the pure Spirit and sweet Body is totally destroyed which is the●Root of Motion and Fermentation therefore such Spirits will not work or Ferment as all other Drinks and Liquors will even Water it self but you may put what quantity of Sugar you will to Brandy Rumm or any other Distilled Spirits they will continue a strong Fire void of Motion or Fermentation this doth further declare that all the good Principals and Ver●●es are destroyed by the preparation and that there remains only a strong fixed Fire which has its uses in Physick as is mentioned before but not otherwise 3. Such Spirits being frequently Drunk do generate various Diseases according to each Mans Nature and Constitution and the Climate whether hot or cold for they do powerfully Prey upon the Natural Heat consuming the sweet Oyl and pur● Spirits for the Balsamick body and pure Spirits of all such Liquors being destroyed in the preparation they become an Extre●● which Nature in its simplicity hates and for this cause such Liquors cannot Administer any Propper or Agreeable Nourishment to the Body or to the pure Spirits it cannot give that which it hath not it hath only power to awaken the Central Heat o● Fire which ought not to have been kindled and this it doth by a Simpathetical opperation for all Meats and Drinks have power in the Body to awaken and strengthen their likeness for this reason all Wisemen skilled in the Mysteries of Nature have commended Simple Meats and Drinks because most such things are as it were equal in their parts having no mannifest Quality that does predominate Violently over the other but yet contains a sufficient Nourishment for the Body and also for the Spirit● For Meats and Drinks ought to be equal in their parts the Spirit ought not to be Seperated from the Body nor the Body from the Spirit but both ought to be Administered together For the Body without the Spirit is of a gross heavy dull or dead Nature and the Spirit without the Body is too Violent and Fiery but the Health of Mans Body and Mind doth chiefly consist in the equal●ity of both do not all Meats and Drinks wherein any Quality or Property of Nature is extream whether it be in Vertue or harmfulness if not sparingly taken certainly discompose the Harmony both of the Body and mind for every Quality bege●s its likeness and so on the contrary Concord and Harmony are maintain●d by their Likenesses if there be not a Sympathetical agreement between the Stomach and the Meats and Drinks both in Quality and Quantity the unity and Concord of the Properties of Nature are immediately broken whence proceeds various Diseases according to the Degrees of the Disorder This every one ought to understand or else they may unadvisedly lay heavier Burdens than Nature can bear for most Diseases are generated through surplusage of Nourishment For unto weak heats there ought to be administred a proportionable Food but stronger heats will admit of stronger Foods and greater quantity which all persons might know if they would but observe the opperation of their own Natures for no Health nor Harmony can be

Healths Grand Preservative OR THE Womens best Doctor A TREATISE Shewing the Nature and Operation of Brandy Rumm Rack and other distilled Spirits and the ill consequences of Mens but especially of Womens drinking such pernicious Liquors and smoaking Tobacco As likewise Of the immoderate Eating of Flesh without a due observation of Time or Nature of the Creature which hath proved very destructive to the Health of many Together With a Rational Discourse of the Excellency of Herbs highly approved of by our Ancestors 〈◊〉 former times And the Reasons why Men now so much desire Flesh more than other Food A Work highly fit to be perused and observed by all that Love their Health and particularly necessary to the Female Sex on whose good or ill Constitution the Health and Strength or Sickness and weakness of all Posterity does in a more especial manner depend By THO. TRYON London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Lang Curtis near Fleet-Bridge 1682. Healths Grand Preservative OR THE Womens best Doctor c. CHAP. I. Of the Nature and Operation of Brandy Rumm and Rack which of late years are become as common Drinks amongst many as Beer and Ale not only in England but also in all the West-Indies where the English inhabit and of the evil consequences that do attend the Drinkers thereof BRandy R●mm Rack and other distilled Spirits are all very per●icious and hurtful to the Health of the Body if not sparingly taken on extraordinary occasions in a Physi●●● way for the Intention of all such Chymical preparations when first Inr●●ted was for Medicinal uses and not to be used as Common drink as of late years indiscre●tly they are to the destruction of many Thousands the frequent use of them contracting such 〈◊〉 and stubbo●n D●seases as for the most part are incurable 1. All such Spirits as are drawn by common Distilla●●● through those cruel Sulphuro●s Fires where the Air hath not its free egress and regress their 〈…〉 har●h fiery Spirit or Brandy The same you shall have if you distil Sugar only it yields a stronger Spirit for the more Bal●amick the Body of any thing is the stronger and fiercer is its Spirit when that Balsamick body and the pure Volatile Spirits are destroyed or seperated from it Now here you will see that the Volatile Spirit and 〈◊〉 Cordial 〈◊〉 or Body both in the Sack and also in the Sugar are destroyed and there doth remain as is said before only a fierce harsh Brimstony Spirit void of all the wholesome qualities Sack and Sugar did contain for the Volatile Spirit or Tincture is the Essential Life of every thing and its the maintainer of its Colour Smell and T●st Now these pure Spirits will not endure any violent Heat or harsh Fire but through the fiery heat and want of the free Egress and Regress of the Air they presently become Suff●cated and then the sweet Balsamick body is turned sour for this sweet Balsamick body is the pleasant Habitation of the Volatile Spirit and this pure Spirit is the true Life of that Balsamick body they are inseperable Companions the one cannot subsist without the other destroy either and both Dye Therefore all such Spirits so drawn do loose their Balsamick body with all their Cordial Vertues and Tinctures put what Herbs or Li●u●rs you will into such Furnaces they are presently P●●ndeted of their Natural Colour and run off white whereby it appears that this Common way of Distillation destroys the pure Natural Vertues and Tincture for from the Tincture proceeds all the Variety of Colours both in Vegetables Minerals and Annimals so that such Spirits do only contain a harsh fier●e Fiery Nature and for that reason if they be frequently Drink do ●rey upon the Natural Heat and by degrees weaken it destroying the very Life of Nature by way of Simile for every Like works upon its likeness whence it comes to pass that in those who addict themselves to the Drinking of these high Fiery or Brimstony Spirits their Natural heat grows cold and Feeble and their Appetites are weakened they destroying the Power of the Digestive Faculty of the Stomach so that many such People after Eating are forced to Drink a Dram to help concoction all other Drinks proving too cold for them which constrains them to continue ●ooping of such Liquor a sad Remedy when we go about to help a mischief by encreasing the application of the same ill means which first occasioned it● for these wrathful Spirits have awakened the Central Heat which is the Root of Nature that ought not to have been awakened or kindled for if the Central Heat be stired up by any unnatural Meats or Drinks or other violence done to Nature then presently follows the Consumption of the Radical Moisture and the pure Spirits and Lively Tinctures become Suffocated wherein consists the Essential Life of Nature And as in the before mentioned Example the pure Spirit and Balsamick body in Sack will not indure those cruel harsh Sulphurous Fires where the Air hath not its free Influence but presently becomes Suffocated or destroyed and the most pleasant Sweetness thereof turned into a Stink so neither will the Radical Spirits and pure Oyl in the Body endure those Sulphurous Flames and Fierce Spirits without sustaining the like prejudice for that pure Vertue or Essential Principal which the Lord in the Creation endued every thing with which is the true Life thereof will not endure any violent motion or harsh Fire to touch them especially if the circulation of the Air be wanting as it is in all such Distillations for these Spirits are so pure and subtle that when any Injury is offered to them they either evaporate or become suffocated for this Essential Powder or pure Life is the moderator or Friendly Quality in all Minerals Vegetables and Animals which doth mix and Qualify the harsh Fiery dark Principal and does allay and moderate the cruel harsh Nature of the Dark-Fire as does plainly appear in all the forementioned Liquors and also in Charcoal for before the Sack or any Balsamick Liquor was put into the Still and drawn off those very same Fiery harsh sulphurous Spirits were essentially in the Wine or whatever else it be for it is the Root of Nature and the Original to every Life but being mixed or incorporated with the Balsamick body and pure spirit the fiery fierce sulphurous spirit is thereby swallowed up and as it were hid and moderated for in what thing soever the pure Balsamick body is predominant there this dark furious spirit is hid or captivated an Example whereof we have in Sugar where when the sweet Balsamick body is potent there also this fiery sulphurous Spirit is strong but not manifest but as soon as this Essential Spirit and Balsamick body are seperated or destroyed this dark Fiery Brimstonie Spirit appears in its own form and becomes like a Mad furious Devil in Nature its cloathing being the Dark-Fire for this Spirit hath lost

affinity each to other such are Friendly one to another but those whose predominate Properties have Antipathy each to other such slight one another and if the Grace and Holy Light of God do not restrain them they are very apt to Speak Evil and Backbite one another The same is to be understood in the Divine Principal of Gods Love those that through the Blessing and Favour of the Lord have obtained the holy Gifts of the Spirit be it more or less all such People have affinity and bear good will each to other except the false Prophet Opinion gets in amongst them which is a Ravening Woolf every thing rejoyceth in its likeness and the contrary in its Death therefore it is highly convenient for every Man to consider the variety and the possibility of his own Nature and that in himself is contained the true Nature of every thing in the Visible and Invisible World and that he bears a Simile with all things and is both capable and liable to be drawn either to Vice or Vertue by every thing he joyns himself to whether Meats Drinks Communications or whatever else a Man suffers his will or desires to run out after or enter into the same thing hath power to awaken its likeness and for this cause all the Wisemen and Prophets have advised to cleanness and sobriety and to the reading of good Mens Books which do stirr up the good Faculties in the Soul for all Books do bear the Image and Spirits of him that Wrote them and so by simile do awaken the like Spirit and desire and so on the contrary if young or old give themselves to the reading of Plays or Books of Romances they will powerfully awaken by simile the vain wanton Nature which before lay as it were hid Therefore it was said in the Revelations Come out from amongst them and be ye seperated lest you partake of their Evils 3. The Reason why most people love and so much desire Flesh more than either Herbs Fruits or Grains is not because it doth afford either better Nourishment or is pleasanter to the Pallate or Stomach but it chiefly is because Man is departed in his Mind and desires from the Innocent ways of God and Nature and through his Free-will hath awakened the dark wrathful powers in himself which have more Affinity with the Bestial Nature than with Herbs or Fruits For the Beasts are endued with the very same Passions in all respects as Men if it had not been so the Commandment had not been so strict against eating of Flesh for the Radix of Beasts and Men have a greater Affinity and the more ignorant and sottish people are the more they desire to eat Flesh and the more Flesh they eat the more Sottish Ignorant and Bruitish they become Also the more the dark poysonous wrath of God and Nature is stirred up and the more it does predominate in Man the more doth Man desire Food that hath a proportionable Nature From this very ground it is that some sorts of Creatures esteem'd Unclean whose predominent quality stands in the wrath of Nature do so much desire unclean Food because it hath unity with their Natures the very same is to be understood of those Creatures which we call clean they do as much on the contrary desire clean Food viz. Fruits and Herbs because such things have the nearest Affinity with their Natures and if Men had not departed from the Innocent ways of God and Nature and suffer their Wills to enter into the Wrath and Beastial Nature they would not so much desire Flesh for Flesh cannot be eaten without violence done to Nature for the Lives of all Beasts are as sweet to them and they as much desire to continue them as Men do and as unwillingly part with them And the Groanings of these Creatures that suffer Oppression and Pain do awaken the Wrath in them that do it which is a certain Retaliation or Reward for all kind of Cruelty does stir up and awaken the Wrath of God in Nature And so on the contrary all Love and Concord does powerfully beget its likeness Doth not every evil word which does proceed and is formed from the Principal of Wrath and Passion carry the Power of its principal with it and awaken its Simile in those to whom such words are directed on the contrary do not soft and pleasant words pacifie wrath by awakening their Simile every principal and property in Nature must have its own Food or else it looseth its power and Strength Mens coveting to eat so much Flesh is too plain a Sign that they are departed from that Innocent and Simple Life for which they were made and en●red into the contrary for if the wrath of God in Nature were not awakened beyond its proper degree and did not predominate over the Simple Innocent Life then People would no more desire Flesh then our holy Ancestors in the first Ages of the World It is a token we are in Egypt when we hanker so much after the Flesh-pots As long as men were partakers of and followers of the true knowledge of Gods works and lived in the Simple path of Nature which led to Health and long Life Herbs and Fruits were in as great esteem as Flesh is now It was a shame in former Ages for a Man to be seen to buy Flesh or to have carried it openly in the Streets of Cities but now the best Citizens count it the contrary and make nothing to go openly to the Elesh-Markets in their Plush Coats and load a Porter two or three times a Week with the Spoils of their Slaughtered Fellow-Creatures and if a Man comes to their Honses after Dinner there he may behold a very unpleasant sight viz. Greasy-Platters Bloody-Bones and pieces of Fat Flesh lye up and down the Kitchin thereby rendered next door to a slaughter House And this Trade is drove every day in the Week but more especially on the day they call their Sabbath tho in truth they do not make it so but rather a day of Feasting a day wherein they Bury the dead Bodies of Slaughtered Beasts and a day on which our English Belly-Slaves and Gluttons make their Servants do more work then any other day of the Week as to dressing of Food A day likewise whereon most People Cloath themselves in all their bravery and the Women go to Church to take notice who has the Finest Cloaths and the newest Fashions c. but why do I blame the Women the Men have been the occasion of all this and much more If those of each Sex did hearken to the Voice of God and Nature they would forsake such sinful Vanities and not thus seek Death in the Error of their Lives I have drawn the Curtain and given them a brief view of Natures School wherein the Sons of● Wisdom learn to obey her Dictates and by their prudent Conduct and Temperance avoid those many torturing diseases of Body and distracting pertu●bations of Mind to which the rest of the world necessarily enslave themselves by their perverse ●olly What I have delivered is the very Doctrine of Nature approved by Religion justified by Reason and confirmed by Experience Those that wilfully slight so many Monitors will scarce deserve Pity in their Misery FINIS