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A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

better than old as being somewhat moister and pleasanter in taste The best honie ought to be very sweet pleasant in smell of a cleare yellowish colour indifferent stiffe and firme yeelding but little scumme on the top when it is boiled Garden honie is the best and gathered of sweet flowers it is clarified by adding a little water unto it about the fourth part so scumme it while any froth ariseth or while the water be euaporated which is known by the bubles rising from the bottome and if thou wilt have it more pure put into every pound of honie the white of one egge and afterwards scumme it againe in the boiling Honie is good in divers pectorall infirmities the cough shortnesse of breath pleurisie c as also in the stone and of it with divers liquours are made divers drinkes for this same use and purpose whereof more hereafter in the drinkes for the diseased And although honie moderately used openeth obstructions being of an abstersive and cleansing facultie yet immoderatly used it ingendieth obstructions and so procureth many diseases arising from thence A late Writer allegeth that there was a certaine people in Africa which out of flowers made abundance of good honie nothing inferiour to that made by the Bees There is made of honie both a water a quintessence and divers other drinkes Amongst divers others there is one that hath ever beene in no small request amongst our antient Britons and now known by the name of Welsh which is that famous and wholesome Metheglin the which I will here set downe as I found it in a late published booke of Bees This then is nothing else but a generous kinde of hydromel bearing an egge the breadth of a groat or six pence and is usually made of finer honie with a lesser proportion of water namely foure measures of water for one receiving also into the composition as wel certain sweet wholesome herbs as also a larger quantity of spices namely to every halfe barrell or sixteen gallons of the skimmed must Eglantine Marjoram Rosemary Time Wintersavory of each halfe an ounce pepper granes of each two dragmes the one halfe of each being bagg'd the other boiled loose so that whereas the ordinary mede will scarce last halfe a yeere good Metheglin the longer it is kept the more delicate and wholesome it will be and withall the clearer and brighter There are yet divers other sorts of descriptions of this famous drinke and may be altered and accommodated to severall seasons and constitutions and ages There is to be seene in the same Author a long description of a Metheglin which Noble Queene Elizabeth of famous memory had in frequent use Sugar hath now succeeded honie and is become of farre higher esteem and is far more pleasing to the palat and therefore every where in frequent use as well in sicknesse as in health Whether the antients were acquainted with Sugar or no may justly be demanded Certaine it is they knew Sugar-canes and some Sugar they had which naturally was congealed on them like salt as likewise a certaine kinde of liquid Sugar they expressed out of Canes which they used in stead of honie but that they had the art of preparing it as now it is in use and the severall sorts of it with us in our age used doth no where appeare Sugar is neither so hot nor dry as honie The coursest being brownest is most cleansing and approacheth neerest unto the nature of hony Sugar is good for abstersion in diseases of the brest and lungs Th● which wee commonly call Sugarcandie being well refined by boiling is for this purpose in most frequent request And although Sugar in it selfe be opening and cleansing yet being much used produceth dangerous effects in the body as namely the immoderate use thereof as also of sweet confections and Sugar-plummes heateth the blood ingendreth the landisc obstructions cachexies consumptions rotteth the teeth maketh them looke blacke and withall causeth many times a loathsome stinking-breath And therefore let young people especially beware how they meddle too much with it And if ever this proverbe Sweet meats hath often sower sauce was verified it holdeth in this particular I remember living in Paris 1607. A young Clerke living with a Lawyer in the City procured a false-key for the closet where his Mistresses sweet-meat lay and for many daies together continued thus to feast with her sweet-meats and loafe-Sugar whereof there was there no small store untill at length hee became so pale in colour leane in bodie and withall so feeble that hee was scarce able to stand on his legs insomuch that the skilfullest Physitians of the Citie with the best meanes they could use had much adoe to restore him to his former health again And to what I pray you may we impute a great part of the cause of so many dying of consumptions in the weekly bills of the Citie of London Surely often admiring at so great a number dying of this one disease to the number for the most part of thirty at least and often upward I have ever esteemed this one of the principall causes Before I leave this discourse of Sugar I must give the world notice of one thing to wit that there is great store of our finest Sugar and which is most sought after refined and whitened by meanes of the lee of lime the which how prejudiciall it must needs prove to the health may appeare so that here it may well be said Sub melle dulce venenum The toothsomest is not alwaies the wholesomest Our forefathers in former times found honie very wholesome but now nothing but the hardest Sugar will downe with us in this our effeminate and gluttonous age I say no further but let those that will not be warned stand to the perill that will fall thereon I have discharged my duty in giving warning to the wise sober and temperate I know there are some intemperate apitian palates who preferre their bellies before health yea before heaven it selfe Verbum sat sapienti A word is enough for a wise man Vineger is a sauce in no small request for seasoning of meat It is as the word importeth nothing else but a sowre wine used both to season and to keepe meats howbeit farr inferiour to salt For although it preserve meat from putrefaction yet will it not keepe it so a long time unlesse it be often renewed That it is very dry even as farre as the second degree is true but as for the other qualities Galen saith it is composed of hot and cold It is of a piercing nature and apt to dissolve hard stones wherof Hannibal had a sufficient proofe while he made himselfe a passage into Italy thorow the Alps in dissolving the hard rocks by meanes of hot vineger with the losse of one of his eyes It is good to attenuate grosse tough and phlegmaticke humors it is not so good for leane