Of VVine, Its Nature.
All Wine hath a heating and drying qua∣lity,
Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer.
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- Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer.
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- Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.
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- London :: Printed by Peter Lillicrap for the author,
- [1671]
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"Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25754.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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but some is hotter and more generous, others less, that it is hot is manifest by the spirit, which is drawn out of it, yet because it nourisheth much, and encreaseth moi∣sture and blood, fit to nourish the body, 'tis said to be moist, therefore Wine is a Medicinal Aliment, hot and dry, some in the first, some in the second, and some in the third degree, for this Reason the use of it is forbidden, boyes by reason of its drying faculty, many do mix water with their Wine, yet there is not a little diffe∣rence in heating and drying, not only ac∣cording to the Nature of the Wine, its sel••, some Wine is called windy wine, be∣cause it may indure much water to be mix∣ed with it, and be still good.