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truth_n	age_n	young_a	youth_n	222	4	8.1811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in the Sweet Body therefore ought not to be frequently drank in times of Health its Vertues being too great for common use for that which is extraordinary good in season may prove of ill consequence when used unseasonably for the common use thereof dulls the edge of the Appetite weaknes the natural Heat of the Stomach and spoils the Concoction and for that reason a very little will satisfie those that drink much of this Cordial Liquor besides it replenishes the whole Body with superfluous Humours and evil Juices for all sorts of Wine are Extreams especially Sack and though it e●ceed in the best Property of Nature yet the frequent use of such high graduated Drinks may prove as prejudicial to the Health and Strength both of the Body and Spirits as things of meaner Vertu●s nay much more harmful for all Extreams or things in which any Property of Nature is too highly advanced ought to be taken very sparingly and as Physick rather than Food 'T is a dangerous Error to imagin as most People do That the sweeter and richer Drinks and Foods are whether simple or compound so much the better or stronger Nourishment they shall ●fford Whereas the clean contrary is true for nothing can maintain the Body and Spirits in good Health and Tranquility but such Meats and Drinks as are simple and nearest the Equality For Drinks wherein the Spirit is predominant if not taken very seldom and sparingly are apt to destroy the action of the Stomach and to incorporate with their similes viz. with the pure natural Spirits and balsamick Vertues in the Body causing them to burn too violently so that an evaporation or suffocation of them follows therefore although whilst such spirituous Drinks are in operation all the Spirits of him that hath drank are in an hot Rage or Tumult and he forgets all Sorrow Modesty and Temperance and by the awakening an unequal Motion of the Spirit skips like a Wild Asses Colt and Sings and Rants and becomes brisk and Jolley and in his own floating Imagination as Great as a KING yet when a little Sleep has quell'd this Tumult and dissolv'd these Fumes you shall find the poor Creature with much fewer Spirits and less Oyl in his vital Lamp than he had before the Merry Carrouze and he is weak and faint and feav●rish and goes trembling and looks as dejected as a conquer'd City which shews what Spoil and Waste what Hav●ck and Desolation the strong spirituous Liquor has made upon his natural Spirits and this is a sure Demonstration which all t●ue Topers cannot but subscribe to and confirm from their own wretched Experience Moreover all Rich sweet Wines and Cordial Liquors if frequently drank though not the degree of disturbing the Brain do yet heat the Blood and put it into a kind of disorderly ferment and set the Gate of Venus open and makes Men too Effemenate and Women too S●lacious being not at all agreeable to our Northen Constitutions therefore if healthy People will drink Wine they ought to allay it with Water and then it makes a Drink more equal and more wholesom viz. two thirds Water and one Wine And for such as are weak sick and fainty if they would have stronger Cordials than our own Country affords let them drink some Wine which is the choicest of Cordials and higher graduated in Nature than any other Liquor that can be made by Art but if Men and Women addict themselves in health to guzzle down the Richest Wines daily as many Thousands do now a days what must they have for Cordials in their Sickness for their Bodies being so habituated to Wine that will have no operation to help them Shall they take Brandy and Rectified Spirit of Wine Alas this too they have already made their common Drink and Wine is long since become too cold for their destroy'd Stomachs even when they are in the best Health they are capable of and B●andy Rum and Vsquebath are scarce able to furnish out so much warmth and activity to the natural Heat as to digest a small Dinner Now when such People come to be sick and to be sure long they cannot continue well what Cordial shall be prescribed for them I believe the learnedst Doctor in Europe cannot tell unless he should make them swallow two or three Ladles full of scalding Lead boyling Pitch or flaming Brimstone They are at the end of Nature and therefore cannot arrive any higher for those that drink strong Ale and Beer in Childhood their Nature shall require Wine in their Middle Years and Brandy in Old Age for Nature as it grows old becomes weaker and colder and so requires more hot spirituous Drinks and therefore Wine and such strong Liquors are drank with most advantage by the Aged And if Children and Young People be used commonly to drink Water which will be most for their Healths then Small or middle Beer or Ale will be as cordial to them and warm and comfort them as much in their middle Age as Wine will that drank strong Ale or Beer in Youth And to speak truth no sort of Drink does maintain the Spirits and natural Heat in such vigour and strength as mean Liquors viz. such as are of the middle Nature or nearest the Temperature viz. good Water or well-brew'd Ale or Beer of a middling strength or Wine allay'd with Water as aforesaid But now most are grown to that degree of Blindness Excess and Folly that nothing will give their ●oracious Desires and greedy ●aunches satisfaction but such Drinks as are strong hot and unequal in their Parts which indeed is like themselves for ever since man hath suffered his desiers to enter into Discord he cannot but desire such disagreeing meats and drinks for every Like desires its Likeness and is its highest Joy Inequality begets Discord and Concords Peace Therefore all plain simple Meats and Drinks are for certain of the greatest strength and vertue and the only maintainers and continuers of Heal●h and long Life And English People have need of no other or better Drinks and Cordials than may be made of our own Seeds Grains and Fruits as Ale Beer and Cyder which may be made to what degree of strength and goodness you please and being well prepared are far more agreeable to the Constitutious of English People than the Liquors that come from other Counties But all thick strong Ale and harsh bitter or stale strong Beer is very injurious to the Health as also Double Beer which is now a fashion but never invented by Philosophers The common drinking of such Drinks does strike at the very Sinews of Health being much worse than Wine especia●ly than Wine and Water which is 〈◊〉 commendable clean healthy Drink that beg●ts App●tite cleanseth the Stomach Purgeth●y Vrine and is endued with many excellent Faculties and if it were the Growth of our own Country I would commend the use of it to my Country-men but being a dear Drink and therefore not Come-at-able by