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A63799	Miscellania: or, A collection of necessary, useful, and profitable tracts on variety of subjects which for their excellency, and benefit of mankind, are compiled in one volume. By Thomas Tryon physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing T3185; ESTC R220931	73,089	207

Body from pain and the Mind from perturbations sweetening all God's Blessings and giving the opportunity of time which being well employ'd affords many benefits both to the Body and Mind for what advantage is it if a Man possess the whole World if his Body be full of pain through Intemperance which for the most part no less affecteth and indisposeth the Mind 5. Brandy Rumm and all strong Spirituous Drinks are far more dangerous in hot Climates and Countries than they are in cold and do sooner there destroy the Health though they be bad in both except taken in a Physical way I know this is contrary to the Vulgar Notion but it is agreeable to Truth Experience and Reason for in hot Climates the Natural Heat is not so strong by reason of the forcible Influences of the Sun which do powerfully exhale the Radical Moistrue open the Pores and too violently evaporate the Spirits by continual Sweatings which dulls the edge of the Appetite weakening the Digestive Faculty of th●●tomach whereby the inclination to drink is increased for which reason many desire hot Spiritual Drinks because they find a present Refreshment for all such Drinks do powerfully awaken the Internal Spirit by simile and make Men quick lively and brisk during the time of their Operation which is but for a moment but after wards they find themselves heavy dull and indispesed and their Stomach seeble cold and raw which does in●●ce ●●dd that do acc●sto●● themselves to such Drinks To take a Hare of the same Dog as their Phrase is and so they drink more and are continually the more weakened for all such fiery strong Drinks do not only Prey on the Natural Spirits but also too violently do evaporate them The very same Operation have all strong Drinks as Wine and the like if Temperance be wanting but not so violently as the former Therefore in hot Climates there ought to be double the Care and Temperance in Meats Drinks and Exercises as in Cold of which the Natives of most hot Countries might be our Examples for they do for the most part live very temperately their Drink being generally Water or Wineallay'd with Water their Food mean or more simple than ours whereby they are better preserv'd in Health for the Constitutions of all People in hot Climates are weaker or at leastwise not so able to endure great Meals of Food and superfluous drinking of strong Drinks as they are in cold For cold Countries make Men hardy strong and able to endure Intemperance for which cause it is observed that most of the Northern Climates are very Intemperate in drinking and eating and in hot they are the contrary And therefore our English are much Distemper'd and many die when they Travel into the West and East Indies because they take wrong measures continuing the same disorder and intemperance as they did in their own Country or rather encreasing it which Nature cannot bear without manisest prejudice 6. It is to be noted that those that do accustom themselves to the frequent drinking of the forementioned fiery Spiritual Drinks in all the Plantations in the West Indies and also the common-eating of Salt-Fish and Flesh which are all great Extr●ams do thereby become very obnoxious to the dry Belly-ach or Griping of the Guts Dropsies and the Gout for all such Food and Drink does violently stir up and consume the Natural Heat and Moisture wherethe digestive Faculty of the Stomach is rendered unable to Concoct or make any perfect Separation either of the Food or Drink which oppresses the whole Body whence are generated Evil Iui●es that fall into the Joynts infeebling and torturing them and this is the Original of the Gout in other Complexions these Disorders consume the Airy Flesh of the Bones taking away their Natural Strength and Vigour so that they languish away by degrees and these you call Consumptions in others for want of Heat and Moisture the Excrement in the Bowels is contracted into so hard a Substance that it cannot pass and there is hardly a Medicine found that will cure it this is that which the Learned call the Illiacal Passion and the Vulgar The Plague in the Guts being one of the most tormenting Diseases in the World And in other Bodies the Central Heat being wasted by such unfit Meats and Drinks so that great part of the Food turns into a Flux of Humours both Windy and Watry which swell the lower parts of the Body and this is the Generation of your Dropsies but as God is always good and his Hand-Maid Nature an indulgent Mother so they have as it were chalk'd out the Means and prescribed a Diet whereby these Diseases may be prevented would Men but be so wise as to observe and follow it for all hot Climates do furnish the Natives with wonderful Variety and Plenty of Herbs and Fruits far exceeding cold Countries therein both in quantity and quality for in those hot Regions the Sun hath greater power to prepare all such things And if our English would but accustom themselves to such harmless natural simple Foods and moderate Drinks the forementioned Distempers would hardly be known 7. It is also to be noted and much to be pitied that of late years many English Women have betaken themselves to the drinking of Brandy and other Spirits and have invented the Black-Cherry-Brandy which is in great esteem so that she is no body that hath not a Bottle of it stand at her Elbow or if ever so little Qualm or Disorder be on the Stomach or perhaps meerly fancied then away to the Brandy-Bottle so that when such People come to be sick which most of them are very subject unto the Physiciaus do not know what to Adninister they having in their Health used themselves to such high fiery drinks that their Cordials seem like Water to them Besides there are many fatal inconveniencies attend the Female Sex more than than the Male in drinking such Drinks most of which are not so proper to be publickly mentioned in this place and therefore I shall forbear but some I cannot but instance in and though perhaps some Women too much addicted to the Delights of the Bottle may be offended with me for telling them the Truth and endeavouring to wean them from the Beloved Dram yet to do them good I shall venter the Hail-shot of their Tongues and hope they will in time grow so wise as not to indulge a foolish sottish humour when it tends apparently to destroy not only their own Healths and shortning of their Lives but likewise entails Diseases and Destruction on their poor Innocent Children for it is not only against the Feminine Nature to drink strong Drinks but also Destructive to the Generation of Mankind it makes them Masculine and Robustick filling them with Fury and Madness and many other Indecencies which are no less pernicious than shameful in a Woman lt also Distempers them by causing Fumes and Vapours to fly into the Head generating Wind

both personal and Real Security Neither do I believe there is any firmer or better way of Conveying or Intailing Estates on our Children and Posterity than by Works of Mercy and Almsgiving being assured according to the Word of God that they are the likeliest Expedients and Antidotes against the secret Canker and give our Children a sure and lasting Title to their Inheritance For Retaliation of Rewards and Punishments is the Indispensible Law of God which will have its Execution either in this World or that which is to come This our Saviour further exemplifies in the Parable between the Sheep and the Goats when he says to the Sheep on his Right Hand Come ye blessed into the Kingdom prepared for you for I was hungry and you fed me naked and ye cloathed me sick and in Prison and ye administred unto me But to the Goats he says Go ye cursed into everlasting Darkness prepared for the Devil and his Angles for you have neither fed cloathed nor administred to me And further when they expostulated with him saying Lord when did we see thee hungry naked sick or in Prison His Answer was Insomuch as ye did it not to one of these little ones ye did it not to me Hence it is Evident in so many plain words what Christ's Sheep were justified for and for what the Goats were condemned the first had Charity the latter not therefore to do good and communicate those Gifts the Lord hath intrusted us with is one of the most Binding and Fundamental Precepts in the Christian Religion Charity being therefore the first true step to all Vertue that we may obtain the Blessing of the Almighty upon the Publick Undertakings and all our Private Lawful Endeavours let us resolve to go on chearfully and lay up a Treasure in Heaven by being Liberal to the Poor and Needy upon Earth And for the better and more singular performance of these Duties our Holy Religion and Interests obliges every one in his Station avoiding Covetousness and Expensive Sensuality to betake our selves to Sobriety and Temperance which are the great Promoters and Encouragers of Charity with proper and due Fasting which is none of the least Vertues for they all proceed from the Fountain of God's Grace and an inward Ground or Divine Principle in the Soul This is what I have given my Mind to think of and do believe it my Duty to Recommend the same to my Fellow Citizens wherein I humbly Pray That my good Will at least may be accepted though it should happen that some of my Notions are not altogether approved of for I am conscious to my self of no other aim than the discharge of my Duty to persuade Men to be really what they profess themselves nominally viz. Disciples and Followers of Jesus Christ in whose Service I am Gentlemen Your Well wishing Friend Thomas Tryon The Vse and Vertues of several Sorts of Gruels and Pottages viz. Water-gruel and Milk-pottage have the first place not only for their Excellent Qualities and Friendly Agreement they have with the Stomach but also they are easy Come at able by the Poor and Meanest of People next in Rank do follow many other sorts of Brave Exhilerating Pottages viz. Pap made with Wheat-flower and Water or with Milk Water and Flower Barley-gruel Herb-pottage Pease-pottage Furmity Buttered Wheat Possets Bonny-clabber Flummery Caudles made of Beer Wine Cider or other Liquors with Oat-meal also with Eggs and Chocolate all which are the most agreeable friendly Foods to Nature being easie of Concoction and do afford greater Strength and generates better Blood and finer Spirits than most do imagine which are the Sinews of Health and they may be eaten freely without any danger of Surfeits either with Bread or without for these Liquid Regions do as it were contain the Sominary Vertues both of dry and moist Aliment contributing a more Sublime Nourishment than strong hard salt Foods being tempered with such equality of Parts whence do proceed such an Innocent Power and Ravishing Balsamick Vertue that the frequent Eating thereof do fortify strengthen and refresh Nature to the highest degree being endued with a certain innate Power and Vertue not only to help to digest harder Foods but they cleanse and open all the Passages and are a Powerful prevention of Obstructions and gross Phlegmy Humors and at the same time supplying Nature with a substantial brisk Nourishment and sweet friendly Moisture provided they are mixed and prepared with Judgment and all that Love their Health ought to Eat them at all times of the Year but more especially in Summer and hot Seasons they make no noise nor cause any insurrection in the Body so that after a Meal of such Foods there is felt no inequality or indisposition the Body doth not Burn with an unatural Flame nor the Crown is not pestered with Fumes and Vapours in a word they are endued with all the good united Vertues both of the Vegetable and Animals Kingdoms besides these Pottages have such a Sympathetical Agreement with the digesting Liquor of the Stomach called the Menstruum Whose Office is to fit qualifie and prepare the Food for separation and digestion being of a mild gentle Nature and Operation imitating the Dew of Heaven which doth bow apply and incorporate its sweet Dews and moist Vapours to all its Off-spring whence all things become impregnated with Life Power and Vertue For this cause all Pottages do not only strengthen the Appetite and the A●tractive Facultie● and Powers of Nature but they are easily melted into Chyle without any manifest trouble or molestation to the Stomach for the nearer affinity the Foods have to the Menstruum the easier they are digested and sharper is the Appetite because the sweet Vertues of such things are drawn forth into all the Members and Parts of the Body gently and mildly supplying them with a fit and proper Nourishment with far more ease and pleasure to Nature than from hard strong salt Foods neither doth our Friendly Homogenial Pottages heat consume or dry up the Menstruum or Radical Moisture as gross Flesh Fish and Cheese do from whence do proceed after the eating thereof Indisposition and an unatural Drought which renders the whole uneasie and unfit either for the Business of the Body or Mind therefore it is observable that in the Eastern and Southern Parts of the World where the Natives drink Water their Foods being most or all made into Pottages where they never or very seldom eat any Flesh Fish old Cheese salt Butter and but little Bread in gross as the Custom is in the Northern Parts of the World therefore the Gout Stone Scurvy and many other Cruel Diseases are not known which Distempers do for the most part proceed and are generated by the constant feeding on strong hard salt crude Foods and the drinking of strong harsh sharp Drinks being all of a disagreeing Nature to the Menstruum of the Stomach and therefore they do mightily obstruct Nature stop the Passages begetting sharp windy Humours thick Blood dull and heavy Spirits which are the Original Causes of the Gout Wind Stone Scurvy and many other Diseases For this Cause when any Languish under those forementioned Distempers the Learned advise them to live on some of the above-mentioned Gruels and Pottages for if such Foods recover lost Health pars ratione consequently it must maintain and promote it Thomas Tryon FINIS

tells us of a Winter so hard That the River Tyber was frozen over a matter very strange in such a Climate as Italy In the Year 1234. the Adriatick Sea was so frozen that the Venetians went over the Ice thereof with Carts Zon●rus assures us that in the Reign of that Emperor Constantine who for a nasty Reason in his Christning was called Copronimus about the Year 750. the Pontick Sea was so Congealed that People for many Miles travelled it on foot And Horses and Carts loaden passed over the Fretum or narrow part of it but withal he adds that the Summer following was so excessive hot and dry that great Rivers and most Fountains were wholly dry'd up and People and Cattel perished for want of Water In the Year 821. the greatest Rivers of Europe as the Rhine the Danubius the Elb and the Sein were so incrusted with Ice that for the space of above 30 days Carriages freely passed along on them as on the Land But to look nearer home In the Year of our Lord 1365. and 49th year of K. Edward the 3d A Frost lasted from the midst of September to the Month of April but though so tedious the Cold was nothing so intense or violent as now In the 15th Year of the Reign of K. Henry the Eighth after great Rains and Winds there followed so sore a Frost that many died for cold and some lost Fingers some Toes and many their Nails I follow the very words of Sir R. Baker fol. 297. The same Author tells us That in the Seventh Year of Q. Elizabeth on the 21. of December began a Frost so extream that on New-Years-Day Even People passed over the Thames on foot some plaid at Foot-Ball some shot at Pricks as if it had been firm ground yet this great Frost the third of Ianuary at Night began to Thaw and by the fifth day there was no Ice to be seen but great Inundations followed In the Year 1609. which 't is not impossible but some living might remember being but 74 Years ago a Frost began in December which continued till April following with such violence that the Thames was so frozen that Carts loaden were frequently driven over it most Fowls and Birds were destroyed In the Year 1637. was another Frost which rendred the Thames passable so in the Year 1664. immediately followed by the Great Sickness and the like towards the latter end of the Year 1676. Some of the Consequences of these Extream Frosts I have mentioned more I might all are not convenient those that consult Chronology may ea●ily satisfie themselves a Man may soon err in assigning Effects to such or such particular Causes or adapting Events to Signnificators Modesty is the first Lesson in Wisdoms School Therefore as we have been studious in matter of Fact past but sparing as to Sequels so we shall retain the same becoming tenderness as to Futures wherein we shall steer our Course rather by the Guidance of Nature in her usual Operations here below than by curious Researches into remoter Influential Causes above though not neglecting them neither for the Universe is Intire Harmonical and Sympath●tical and he that does not competently understand the right Tone of the whole and the true Key of every part will make but bad Musick wherever he lays his Clumsy Fingers First then I say This Extremity of Cold Presages many Calamities and Evils to attend Mankind and the rest of their Fellow-Creatures for as the Innocent Inhabitants of the Air or expanded Suburbs of Heaven viz. Birds and Fowls are endangered by the Elements denying their usual Benefits and Provisions wherein another fourth part of the Creation viz. Fishes are somewhat concern'd so degraded Man taking advantage of this Cruel Weather does for Profit or Pleasure or Vanity destroy many thousands of them Now this great Destruction of them is but a Forerunner of Mortality amongst Creatures of greater value and even of Men themselves Would you know the reason I told you but now Universal Nature is Sympathetical 2dly This Immoderate Cold locks up the Pores of Mens Bodies and drives the Natural Heat more Central which occasions great Appetite and Draught whence follows much and excessive Eating and Drinking of Gross Fat Succulent Foods and strong Drinks in all that have wherewithal to procure them which the voracious desires do at present seem able to bear and digest yet really Nature is not able to do it and so by degrees there are Seeds sown and Foundations laid for Diseases On the other hand amongst the Poor necessity of Feeding on unfit and unusual Viands for their support at present or defect of due Nourishment must to them do as much mischief For want is as great though I think not so common an Enemy to Nature as Superfluity the way to prevent these mischiefs is for the Rich to observe Sobriety and Temperance and for the Poor to use Discretion in their Diet for a pint of Milk with a quarter of a pint of Water thickened with one Spoonful of Flower and heated just to Boyling and then putting into it a few Crums of Bread all which will not cost above a Penny shall give any Person as Nourishing a Meal as the best Surloyn of Beef or Capon I mention not this to prevent Benevolences towards the Poor which all that are able are bound to afford but only to Advise them how to supply themselves when they meet not with other Accomodations but find Rich Mens Charity more frozen than the Thames 3dly This Excessive Frost condenses the Air and renders it Sulphurous and Unhealthy especially in such Cities as London where Sea-Coals are generally used for Firing and most People especially Women creep close to those fulsom Fires without using themselves to proper Exercises whereby their Blood stagnates and becomes thick and foul whence are Generated the Scurvey stoppages of the Breast Coughs and Shortness of Breath the ill effects whereof will more manifest themselves next Spring and Summer 4thly This Disharmony and Inequality of the Elements portends a dry hot Summer to ensue for all Extreams as before observed produce their Contraries which will not only encrease Distempers but I fear some Epidemical Disease and it is also a Forerunner of Dearth and Scarcity and the latter is the more to be apprehended because we have had several Plentiful and Fruit. ful Years and very few of us scarce any have improved them to that end for which they were given us by the Lord and his Hand-Maid Nature but most that abound in Plenty have gratified their Lusts and Passions and such as have not had wherewith to commit the same Intemperances in Act have done it in their Wills and Desires and shall not our God visit us for these and other crying Abominations daily exhaled from our polluted Streets and Dwellings I will not take upon me to aver a Plague or Scarcity shall be the next Year Iehov●h the All-Wise is the Limiter of Times and Seasons for extraordinary