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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

body and are quick of Concoction cleanse the Passages are good against the Obstructions of the breast gently loosen the belly and purge by urine especially if a whole Meal be made of them without flesh and only eaten as aforesaid They are under the dominion of the Moon and Cancer Of Potato's THis is a very brave noble and more excellent Root than any other the West-Indies bring forth of a friendly temperate Quality somewhat windy if eaten hot or whilest the fiery Atomes or Vapours be in it therefore they are far better and wholsomer cold as many other of the like nature are They afford a brave firm substantial Nourishment surpassing therein all other Roots but not comparative to that of Bread they are Restorative of a most pleasant Taste comfort and strengthen the body of a warming nature and operation so that they are a good food eaten alone or with Bread Butter Flesh or the like The common ways of preparing or dressing them are divers but the most common are Stewing and Roasting them in the Embers the last of which is most commendable but being more tedious than the other is not so frequently practised either way they make a good Dish being eaten when through cold with Oyl Vinegar Salt and Bread or Butter instead of Oyl to such as do not love it or cannot procure it As to Temperature they are of a middle Nature but rather warm than cold easie of Concoction and the drier they are prepar'd the warmer and firmer Nourishment they yield Likewise they make a good sort of Drink but it will not admit of much age being apt then to become acid sharp and keen it may be made either stronger or smaller according to the Quantity of Potato's allowed and Water put to them There are various sorts but the driest and yellowest are best They are under Sol in the sign Taurus The young and tender Leaves are a pretty good Sallet boyl'd they cleanse the stomach and loosen the belly being eaten with Butter Vinegar Salt and Bread a fine Mea● may be made of them Of Yams THis also is an excellent Root temperately hot and more dry than moist of a lovely white Colour and pleasant innocent Taste which demonstrates their good Vertues they afford an harmless clean and yet pretty substantial Nourishment neither much bind nor relax the belly but of the two rather loosen They are easie of Concoction and if they be well prepared according to Art make a brave friendly pleasant food drest with Butter Vinegar and Salt and eaten with Bread They are good for every Age and Constitution rarely disagreeing with any they are very useful to be eaten with Flesh a little Flesh and good store of Yams They are under the government of Venus and Luna and the sign Libra Of Cusado-Bread THis Bread is of an innocent nature and operation yet affords a strong substantial Nourishment far beyond what most People suppose for being put into any kind of Pottage Milk or the like it dissolves its self into gellious substance which is a token of its strength as its pure white Colour and innocent Taste demonstrates its innate Vertues and Equality of Parts The four grand Qualities at large described in my other Treatises whence the four perfect Tastes do proceed being so equally mixt that by its Taste it can hardly be distinguished which does carry the upper dominion under which simplicity lies hid the most soveraign Vertues of Nature it is most pleasant when new but not then the wholsomest 't is a good Ingredient to be eaten with Butter Cheese Herbs Milk or any kind of Pottages as also with Flesh and will alone sustain Nature for a man may live as long without being tyred and be as well supported as to health and strength with it as with the best Wheaten Bread and being once familiariz'd through a little custom and use it becomes pleasant to most Ages and Constitutions I remember a Master of a Ship that assured me That being by stress of Weather kept out at Sea much longer than they expected so that all their Provisions were spent but Water and Cusado Bread of which they had plenty he and his Ships Crew lived thereon for many days without any other Sustenance and though at first being used to variety of other Foods they thought it some-what hard yet after some days it became most pleasing and they were so far from complaining of their strength being diminished that they found themselves more than ordinary brisk and active As for the Temperature of this Bread it is rather hot than cold and is of easie concoction 't is under the government of Saturn and Venus in the sign Scorpio It s poysonous Liquor which is pressed out of the Root when it is made into Bread is Saturnine and the white flowery substance or matter is Venereal Nor is it strange to those that understand Nature's course that Poyson and most wholsom Food should proceed from one and the same Vegetable diversly prepared for such do know that in all things as well as in this there are lurging Poysons that are the Root of every Life and without which there could be neither Vitality nor Vegetation Of Ginger THis is an excellent Spice of an hot dry tart Nature endued with a stronger and more durable heat than Pepper and every way more efficacious so that where-ever this Spice is there is no need of Pepper it is chiefly good for cold and moist Stomachs and such as are troubled with cold windy Diseases for it discusseth and helpeth Digestion and in some degree consumeth crude phlegmatick Humors good especially for aged People in cold and moist Seasons of the year But neither this sort of Spice nor any other is good to be used in hot Seasons or Climates except in a Physical way as I have else-where demonstrated Particularly in Young People and Chollerick Complexions the frequent use of such things does heat dry and consume the purer Spirits and Radical Moisture and inflame the Blood and in some Constitutions makes it sharp and keen they are also injurious to the natural Heat of the Stomach and digestive Faculty whence the Scurvey Ioynt-Aches and many cruel Distempers proceed and assist not a little to the generation of the Stone where-ever they meet apt matter for that purpose The same is to be understood of all other things in which heat and driness do too violently predominate the frequent use of which is like the common drinking of Brandy when once the Stomach is accustomed to them it cannot digest its food without them and yet the Remedy is as bad as the Disease for as the natural heat is more debilitated so more Brandy is craved for till People utterly destroy themselves Of Oranges THere being various sorts of this Fruit differing in their Temperature and Nature they are to be considered according to the sweetness sowrness and tartness of them the sowrest sort are the coldest most sharp and penetrating and

that the Stomach will not be able after a little time to digest its food neither with it nor without it So this Spice being too much eaten wounds Nature to the very Heart for by degrees it debilitates the proper Heat infects the Blood with a salt sharp keen Quality partches up and consumes the sweet Oyl and Radical Moisture suffocates the pure Spirits by whole-sale causing the Blood their limpid Fountain and natural habitation to become wheyish and watery Especially if Chollerick or Sanguine Complexion'd People shall accustom themselves to the eating of such Sawces it will much sooner and more deplorably vitiate the Tone of their Stomachs than of such as are Plegmatick but they are not good nor natural for any whatsoever except now and then in a Physical way for very cold dull heavy Phlegmatick People and they must eat it sparingly too but the mischief is whoever shall accustom themselves to these Sawces cannot forbear from Excess therein without great trouble and constraint upon themselves The very same is to be understood of all other Extreams as Brandy Tobacco and the like Besides all such things are far more pernicious and bring greater danger to Health in hot Countries than in colder Climates as many have found by woful Experience because there the central Heat is nothing so strong and powerful as in colder Regions and consequently the pure Spirits and Radical Moisture weaker and more apt to be wounded suffocated or evaporated as all do know that have Eyes that can see into the Arcana of Nature But to return to our Guinea-Pepper it is such an Extream in Nature viz. so hot and poysonous that if the bigger sort be dryed and the Cods cut and the Seeds scattered amongst Clothes Hats or the like that are to be packt up it proves the best Preservative from the Moth and other Vermine that is known for its excessive keenness destroys all Generation even in the very bud Likewise if it be burnt in a Room the Doors and Windows being close shut it will destroy and kill all Buggs Fleas or the like and you too if you do not get out in time its fumes are so hot poysonous and penetrating when once the fire has open'd its body and manifested what before internally lay hid This bigger sort our English do commonly pickle and so preserve it for a common Sawce to eat with Flesh Now this pickling of it with Salt and Vinegar does still add to its heat and sharpness For Salt is of an hot harsh sharp Nature and if it be not moderately eaten dries heats and is of a partching operation very inimical to Health but a Ring-leader to the Scurvey and other Diseases and Vinegar is also of an hot keen fretting Nature especially when joyned or incorporated with such high fires and things of unequal Natures Therefore the frequent use of this sort of Swace is to be accounted very injurious to Health especially in such hot Climates where the continual influences of the Sun do more exhale and draw forth the Radical Moisture thereby weakning the central parts which ought therefore rather to be refresht and cherisht by proper Foods than annoyed and prejudiced by such hot violent things as do yet further depress and debilitate them Of Occora or Grommer THis is a brave Noble Fruit and being boyled they make a gallant substantial Food affording a good firm Nourishment being eaten with Butter Vinegar and Bread Some will boyl and eat them with Flesh but they do not eat so well as many other sorts of Herbs and Roots do in that case for they being in themselves of a jellyous Nature do not seem so proper to be eaten with Flesh But they make an excellent Pottage which if well prepared and proper Ingerdients added afford a brave strong firm Nourishment and yet easie of Concoction If the intrinsick Vertues of this Fruit were understood the Food made thereof would be had in far greater estimation than it is for both the Fruit it self and the Pottage made thereof are of singular Vertues and use for weakly People and such as are inclinable to Consumptions weak Heats and Obstructions of the Breast far more excellent than Mr. Doctors Ielly made of Harts-Horn and the like as being much more natural and agreeable to the Stomach Which way ever you dress them they are not only delightful to the Pallate when a little innur'd to them but also easie of Concoction gently loosing the Belly of a moderate or middle Nature as to heat and may by all Ages and Constitutions healthy or sickly be eaten with safety and to the advantage of Health and Strength and we do advise all the English to eat of it more frequently and then they shall assuredly find more Vertues therein than is here set down Of Aguma THis is an Herb of a bitter Nature but when boyled that Martial Taste is much allayed and it becomes a brave noble Salad or Food being boyled in plenty of good Water and eaten with Butter Venegar Salt and Bread or with Flesh for it powerfully opens the gates of Nature and the obstructions of the Breast and Stomach it moderately relaxes the Belly cools and refresheth all the internal parts affording brisk lively Spirits pure Blood and a good Habit of Body if Temperance be observed by the eaters thereof which does give the greatest Credit and Reputation to all sorts of Meats and Drinks for the best and most Natural cannot but prove burthensome and harmful when Sobriety is wanting The excellency of this Herb does chiefly reside in the distasteful or bitter Quality which at first eating is somewhat unpleasant but a little custome will make it friend and more delightsom than others that are less bitter for all Herbs are the most grateful to the Stomach and easiest of Digestion in which the Bitter Quality or Taste is a little predominant for this property is lively and the cause of Motions quick and penetrating for which cause the wise Antients have noted and not without sufficient ground all or most bitter Herbs to be good against most kinds of Stoppages and Obstructions And therefore on that account this Herb is to be preferred before those of a sweeter milder Nature because all sweet things are heavy and more flat on the Stomach and harder of Concoction and nothing so brisk and lively for which reason the Natives in Guinea have a certain Root or Fruit call'd Tantarobois which is full of bitter Seeds and them they mix with their Foods which proves very profitable to their Healths so that they live strong and lusty to very great Ages This herb Agumma is under the Government of Mercury and Mars in the sign Gemini Of Red-weed or Catterpillars THis is an Herb of a mild gentle friendly Nature and Operation easie of Concoction cleanseth the Stomach and gently loosens the Belly and is very profitable boyled in plenty of Water and eaten with Butter Salt and Bread as also with Flesh but especially with