Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	white_a	wine_n	11,023	5	8.8154	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50443	Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæus. A treatise of the scurvy. Examining opinions and errors, concerning the nature and cure of this disease. Establishing a method for prevention and cure, founded upon other principles; concordant with reason, verified by practice. By Everard Maynwaringe Doctor in Physick.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1665 (1665)	Wing M1500; ESTC R214157	39,087	114

consider and know that all things which belong and are necessary for the preservation of the body and support of Nature that they also may be the antecedent procuring causes of sickness as also the fomenting and aggravating causes of diseases already generated as when contrary to the law or disposition of our peculiar Natures they are applied or used unseasonably immoderately incongruously or any waies unsutably to our Nature and Condition of Body And therefore both in the time of preservation and curation they are to be regarded And since there is not a moment of time in which we do not stand in need of air and that being constantly drawn into the body must needs make for or against the continuance of health according to the conditions and properties it is pregnant with Wherefore in preservation from the Scurvy it is of no small concernment the air and climate that you live in to dispose or defend you from it the nature of the air is such in some places that few there are not tainted with it and this as a principal cause And therefore in Holland Denmark Sweden and such places this disease is most common and chiefly in the Fenny and Marrish parts for that a moist foggy cold air is apt to ingender this disease or increase it because the spirits thereby are clogged and fixed dull and inactive from whence defects in fermentation humors incrassated and obstructions the pores occluded and transpiration prohibited But a warm drie serene air makes much in the preservation from the Scurvy the spirits thereby are kept more vigorous lively and brisk humors attenuated volatile and freely circulating the pores more open and perspirable giving emission to excrementitious vapours unprofitable and hurtfull to be restrained and all the parts more free in their communications and subserviency one to the other Those that retire themselves voluntarily to a studious sedentary life or are confined to a close chamber airy are thereby disposed to this disease or much aggravated and encreased if already they are scorbutick more specially if melancholy be their companion and where the air is impure not to be avoided as in great Cities correct it somthing by Art in your houses with wholsom fumes especially in moist cold weather They that live in Cities especially some parts thereof more close and noisom than others as in narrow streets lanes and Allies are much prejudiced in their health There is great difference in the place and parts of a City to live in the broader streets and places more open and airy the wholsomer and the outside caeteris paribus near the fresh fields is better than to be crouded in the middle provided no stinking ditches or dunghils be adjacent And here I cannot but take notice of Bloomsbury the Right Honourable Earl of Southampton's propriety and Seat for the best part about London both for health and pleasure exceeding other places It is the best air and finest prospect being the highest ground and overlooking other parts of the City The fields bordering upon this place are very pleasant and drie grounds for walking and improving of health a fit place for Nobility and Gentry to reside in that make their abode about London there being the Country air pleasure and City conveniencies joined together Now lately improved and built upon and still encreasing with fair and well contrived Buildings a good addition and Ornament to this place The next considerable in a regular preservation from the Scurvy is Diet which ought to be duly observed for as by convenient food sutable and agreeable in all the requisite circumstances quantity quality time and order so on the contrary by a disproportionate and unsutable diet the faculties are disordered and debilitated in their several functions inclining to this or that disease according to the nature and quality of the food and other circumstances that attend it And therefore some kind of meats and drinks do dispose and are the antecedent causes of this disease as also do cherish and help to maintain it where it is already generated although procured first by other causes The grosser meats and such as do not easily digest are to be avoided but light meats and such as the stomack does well agree with covet and digest best keep to such Milk and Milk-meats in a foul body do soon alter and degenerate and therefore injurious to Scorbutick Persons but in clean bodies 't is good food Broom buds Capers and Sampire are good sauce to your meate helps the Stomack in digestion and is profitable for the Spleen a part chiefly affected in the Scurvy Also Oranges and Lemmons Berberries and Sorrel helps fermentation and are good But old flesh drie and hard meats long kept Rie-bread and brown especially Crusts fried or broyled meats are to be avoided for these are more stubborn do not soon yield to fermentation nor beget good nutriment as also salt fish and meats smoak-dried as hang'd Bief Bacon dried Tongues and such like are injurious and promote this disease But for variety of meats and their qualities you may see a Catalogue in my Tutela Sanitatis therefore I shall not repeat them here For Drinks take these observations Drink not your Beer new because not yet fully purified by fermentation but rather stale well hop'd clear reasonable strong if your stomack be weak and declining And it is very considerable of what water your drink is made for that there is great variety and difference in the goodness of waters being impregnated with several qualities from the nature of earth through which it passeth and several accidents that happen to change water from its genuine properties and make it impure and unwholsom by carrion filth and such like admixtures that may corrupt it And from these causes many places are more disposed to breed the Scurvy than others from bad water with which their Beer or Ale is made and meats dressed And Plyny relates that Caesars Army by drinking of bad water but a few daies had the symptoms of the Scurvy Ale I do not approve of but white Wine and Rhenish is good for you to drink a glass or two somtimes to open obstructions cleanse and whet the appetite and promote fermentation Sider also is good drink if it be made of the best Apples as Pippins Pearmains and such like and that it be clear having had good time to ferment separate and purifie but withall have respect to your stomack that it be agreeable and desired by it but if you have a cold raw stomack a warmer liquor will be more acceptable as a glass of Canary somtimes to fortifie the stomack and help digestion is agreeable to the most The next considerable for praecaution of the Scurvy is exercise and motion which duly and moderately used is a good preservative from this disease a sedentary sloathful life makes the body to degenerate from its purity and vigour Corrumpunt otia corpus From hence Defects in fermentation humours incrassate and obstruct