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water_n	let_v	put_v	strain_v	4,592	5	10.4585	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64799	The art of pruning fruit-trees with an explanation of some words which gardiners make use of in speaking of trees, and a tract, Of the use of the fruits of trees for preserving us in health or for curing us when we are sick / translated from the French original set forth the last year by a physician of Rochelle.; Art de tailler les arbres fruitiers. English	Venette, Nicolas, 1633-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing V187; ESTC R12617	41,602	122

Arabians had none but Apples that were wild acerb and very unpleasant to the taste that the weakness of the Joints the Worms of the Bowels and the Vertigo's are caus'd but by the excesses which are committed with them or by the ill praecautions that are taken in their use On the contrary Apples which are sweet and Luscious Odoriferous and firm exhilerate the Heart and allay the excess of its heat they correct the Gall of the Liver they dilute the Blood which is too thick and gross in a word they cool and moisten the heated Viscera Moreover whatsoever is said they oppose the drying of the Body and the Ptisick and we see but very few of these sorts of evils where Cyder is common For this drink is friendly to the Stomach which it heats in a moderate way it revives the Heart and opens the Obstructions of the Entrals In a word it is of wonderfull use to Melancholick and atrabilarious Persons that which issues the first from Apples squees'd in a Press is not so excellent as the second and the third resembles the Demy-wine of our Peasants If we mix among Apples a little Powder Sugar they make us spit and cool our Breast But they must be us'd with precaution that is to say that they must be eaten after Meals because they are heavy and difficult to digest that they ought to be forbidden Old People unless they find themselves heated or that they are prepar'd as Pears with Powder Sugar Cinnamon and Water and that finally we ought to drink a little of good Pure Wine after having eaten them In the Distempers which are accompanyed with a considerable heat and drought they give a great relief if we eat a little of them Crud or Boyl'd or that we put of them in Water and I wonder that in France we give our selves so much trouble in seeking Oranges and Citrons for our Diseases when we have a short-start Apple or a Spanish Rennet Haply things which cost much and are often difficult to be had are much better than the common and that they much more satisfy the mind of the Diseased for it is this part which we ought often to Cure in those who find themselves ill Finally Apples do not profit us only by taking them at the Mouth they are a sovereign Remedy for Heart-burnings and for the heats of the Stomach if they are outwardly applied for if a Cataplasm be made of Boyl'd Apples and apply'd hot on the Region of the Heart or on the pit of the Stomach haply we may not find an Epithem more Sovereign in those Cases Also experience has shewn us that the pulp of a boyl'd Apple put hot on Blood-shed and inflam'd Eyes is almost the only Remedy for this evil ART III. Of Grafted Quinces IT s a pleasant Medicine to Purge ones self by eating after Meals Portugal Quinces The Fruit which I so call are the Quinces whose Grafts were brought from that Kingdom and which are almost as pleasant to eat and to behold as a Bon-Cretien Pear at least they have an odour more sweet and Luscious they are yellow as Gold and yield in nothing to those Pears in greatness Figure and Beauty Quinces are cold and dry they restringe also manifestly the parts of the Body where they are apply'd and 't is by this astringent quality that constringing the Stomach in the upper part and afterward the Intestines after that they are eaten they squeese and force out all they meet within their cavity be it Excrement Choler or Phlegm Its what happened to an Advocate of Pergamus of whom Galen speaks who was pleasantly Purg'd after having eaten Quinces after a Meal and having walkt a little upon it so that after all the experiments that we have had of them we ought no longer to doubt of their Vertues Mean while the stirring of the Belly which they cause does not happen but to Persons who have the Stomach weak and nice and who have need by reason of this to fortifie it for these Fruits do not work the same effects in a young robust Man and on the other side if they are eaten before Meals being very far from moving the Belly they make it tardy and it is so that those do who have it ordinarily too moist Quinces have also other excellent Vertues if they are eaten Crud Boyl'd or preserv'd with Sugar they give an appetite they stop a Loosness appease Vomiting withstand an old Dysentery and a Bloody-Flux and if wescrape off them Crud and put the pulp of them hot on the Region of the Heart in the form of an Epitheme when a Malignant Fever attacks us they contribute not a little toward the subduing it Their penertrating and sweet odour revives the Heart and the Brain and it has not been heard said hitherto that Quinces corrupt in the Stomach I very much approve the method which some have of making Wine and Water of Quinces These two Drinks have near the same Vertues unless it be that the Water is most proper for those who find themselves much heated and the Wine more meet for those who do not find any praedominant quality and who are old or Phlegmatick The Water of Quinces which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made after this manner We take in the Month of October fifty or sixty pints of Fountain-Water of Paris Measure which comes near to our Quart we put into it ten or twelve Pounds of Portugal Quinces pared cleans'd and cut in slices they steep there till the Water has a yellow colour like that of Spanish Wine after which we strain this Water and then let it seeth ore a gentle Fire till the fourth part be consum'd scumming it often and after having put it in a Vessel well fill'd and well stopt we preserve it for the Month of March following The Wine is made after this manner we take at Vintage time Ten or Twelve Pounds of Portugal Quinces prepar'd after the same manner as I have said we throw them into fifty or sixty pints of good Claret Must and after that they have wrought for thirty days we strain the Liquor we put it into another Vessel which we stop up close and we preserve it for use These two Drinks produce good effects in Persons who use of them they fortify the inward parts oppose a Loosness and a Dysentery cleanse the Reins of their filth hinder the Vapour of Wine from offending the Head and secure us from Pestilential Vapours Finally they cause so many good effects that I must pass the bounds of an abstract if I would name them all ART IV. Of Medlars and Services THese Fruits are seldom at our Tables and they are eaten most commonly but in a fancy they are not very agreeable and there is but little pleasure taken in eating them Mean while they are not without their use and contribute something to our Health They are both so near ally'd in qualities that a Person will not deceive