Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	pint_n	put_v	sugar_n	3,511	5	10.3779	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

the Coction of our Stomach and correct the ill qualities of the Raisins It is thus we ought to eat after Meals the dry Raisins which are brought from Spain for by nourishing and lenifying our inward parts they solace them by their sweetness and fortifie them by the astriction of their Stones I shall not pass by here the excellent drink which is made with dry Raisins and is call'd de Cabat The Stones must be taken away from fifteen or twenty Pounds and then the Raisins must be bruis'd a little and in the Month of January or of February which is the time that they are brought to us from Spain they must be put in an excellent Barique a Vessel somewhat more than our Barrel of White-wine to drink at Easter This Wine will have the colour of a Spanish Wine it will be pleasing to the Palat and will have qualities not to be contemn'd for it lenifies the Breast appeases the Cough helps respiration and fortifies the Stomach and the Liver creates an Appetite opposes inclinations to Vomit stops a Loosness in a word it is an excellent Remedy against the Dropsy it agrees admirably with Old men with Valetudinarians with Phlegmatick or Melancholick Persons and finally with Women of a tender Constitution ART II. Of China and Portugal Oranges THe Grafted Orange-trees which were brought from China into Portugal and which have been multiplied in the later Kingdom produce Oranges which have a fine Rind a vinous Juice and which are very pleasant to eat they may be us'd before or after Meals for being more moist than cold they qualify also after Meals a Stomach too hot and too dry and so help Concoction Those which are brought us ordinarily from Portugal are sharp or aigres-douces they are colder than the former and they refresh more and more oppose the Corruption of our humours Sharp Oranges ought never to be us'd after Meals they hinder the digestion of the Stomach by their coldness but they are very proper for quenching the heat of our Liver and to give us an appetite if we take the Juice before Meals with Water and a little Powder Sugar but especially when the great heats of the Summer or of Autumn exhaust our strength I say no more here for that I will not repeat what I have said in the Article of Cherries where you may see what sharp Fruits are capable of doing within us and the precautions we must take to use of them I shall only say that the Rinds of sharp Oranges being squees'd a little into Wine renders it more agreeable to the taste of many Persons and makes it pass more readily by Urine Our sick Persons use both the one and the other and if you will believe them on their own experience they will tell you that there is not a better Remedy than these Fruits for quenching Thirst cooling the Stomach qualifying the Liver provoking Urine taking away the Heart burning opposing inward Poysons in a word for Curing the Diseases which are accompanied with an insupportable heat and drought and indeed if we cut a China or Portugal vinous Orange into four parts and throw it into a pot of Water with the Rin'd this drink will have all the Vertues ev'n now mention'd ART III. Of Spanish Pomegranates WE cultivate in our Gardens sweet Aigres-doux and sharp Pomegranate-trees which came to us from Spain for as for those of France which are wild we cannot eat the Fruits The Flowers and Rinds of Pomegranates are astringent and both serve to Cure our Diseases which are caus'd through a too great humidity They have the Vertue of constringing the parts of our Body together and of giving them the Situation which they had lost The inside of the Kernels of a Pomegranate is useless and undigested our Stomach cannot dissolve it and there is no Body who eats it There is but the pulp which is about the Kernels that yields an agreeable Juice wherewith we are often solac'd in our sicknesses Sharp Pomegranates ought to be us'd before Meals when the Stomach is empty and if the point of their sharpness does us hurt as it happens in those who have this part weak and tender we need but blunt it with Water and Sugar to make a delicious Drink Then this agreeable Liquor cools the Stomach quenches thirst qualifies the Liver weakens the sharpness of the Choler revives the Heart resists putrefaction provokes Urine in a word it s a Drink proper for the Sick and sound It is much better than the Boüillons of Veal and of cooling Herbs which are taken too often in the Summer and in Autumn to qualify the Entrals and to resist the heat and drought of the Season for the continual use which is made of Boüillons is wholly an enemy to the Stomach their substance relaxes too much the membranes and to perform well its Office it must have a certain temperament which is not too moist whereas the Drink of sharp Pomegranates by restringing it gently tempers this part and at the same time all the others Sweet and vinous Pomegranates do not cool so much as the sharp but they dulcify more and are more proper for Old and atribilarious Persons Those who find a heat in their Bowels are very much solac'd after having swallowed some Spoonfulls of the Juice of these Fruits It is so that the Carthaginians us'd of them from whose Country Pomegranates were brought and it were those also who taught us by their own experience the greatest part of the good effects which they cause in us when we use of them It cannot be said what goods the Juice of sweet and vinous Pomegranates press'd forth scumm'd and fermented may produce it strongly opposes all inward Fluxions it resists all Fevers which are accompanied with a Loosness and an exhausting of our strength and it has this proper to it that it fortifies all our languishing parts If we will make some Bottles of it we must squeeze forth in a Press a sufficient quantity of Pomegranates we must seeth the Juice over a gentle Charcoal Fire to the diminution of the third part after having well scumm'd it and afterward it must be kept for use If we put in White-wine the Kernels of sweet or vinous Pomegranates or after the same manner as we have prescrib'd for sharp Cherries we shall have a Wine which will yield in nothing to all the Remedies which Physick has invented hitherto for allaying the burning of the Reins for cleansing forth all the filth and for hindring Stones from being there form'd ART IV. Of Corands THe Red Corands and the White which we call Gadelles have very near the same qualities tho' the Gadelles are more sharp and the Red more pleasant to eat Both of them cool and restring the parts of the Body through which they pass they hinder Vomiting quench drought blunt the Choler remove Obstructions fortify the parts and they solace both the healthy and Sick that are heated if they are us'd before