A new art of brewing beer, ale, and other sorts of liquors so as to render them more healthfull to the body and agreeable to nature, and to keep them longer from souring, with less trouble and charge then generally practised, which will be a means to prevent those torturing distempers of the stone, gravel, gout, and dropsie : together with easie experiments for making excellent drinks with apples, currans, goodberries, cherries, herbs, seeds, and hay &c., and the way to preserve eggs five or six months from being musty or rotten : wih an appendix how to make fruit trees constantly fruitful : also a way how every one may purge themselves with common salad herbs and roots, and a method how to prevent constiveness in the body / by the author of The way to long life, health, and happiness &c.

Cautions against certain Foods that Generate the Stone and Gravel.

First, SUch as are naturally sub∣ject to these Diseases ought to refrain from all over-salt Fish and Flesh, for such things are not only hard of Concoction, fur∣ring the Passages, but they do

heat the whole Body, and infect the Blood with a salt, sharp, scor∣butick Humour, occasioning Cru∣dities and evil Juices, obstructing the Passages of the whole Body, and especially the Uriters.

Thirdly, Let them refrain all Spicy Foods, for they naturally heat the blood, hurt the natural heat, and produce the same Effects, especially in youth.

Thirdly, Let them refrain all or most sorts of Food made sweet with Sugar, for the frequent use of such Meats and Drinks do prove very prejudicial to most Peoples health, but more especially to such as are subject to the forementioned Diseases; for over-sweetness in Foods and Drinks, does not only thicken the Blood, and hinder its free Circulation, but it indues it with a watery phlegmatick quali∣ty, and turns the Humours to the highest degree of souerness, more especially if fats and sweetness be

compounded together, as they are for the most part (as the sweetest Wines makes the sharpest Vine∣gar) which immediately tends to∣wards Putrifaction, whence pro∣ceeds various Diseases, according to each mans Constitution and Complexion, viz. Scabs, Boyls, Leprosies, Consumptions, Gout, and Stone, all Stoppages of the Breast, ill Digestion, Nautious∣ness, rotten Teeth, offensive Breath, all which Distempers have of late years been more brief and fre∣quent, since the common eating of sugered Foods and Drinks. And indeed most Mothers and Nurses, through an ignorant fondness, do lay the Foundations for these, and the like Diseases in Children, from their very Infancy, by the conti∣nued use of sweetned Milks, and other compounded Foods; for Su∣gar, tho' it be the King of all Ve∣gitations, and the sublimest Salt the Vegitative Kingdom affords,

as being more highly graduated in the almost paradisical quality the Sweet; nevertheless, that too frequent or over-much eating of it proves baneful to Health, espe∣cially to young People and Chil∣dren; for when it comes into the Stomach, and is there firmented, it presently tends to keneness, sharpness, and souerness, which in many People proves of evil Consequence, and does generate a hard gretty Stone, making Sub∣stance as it finds Matter capable, and disposed to receive and joyn Forces with it.

Fourthly, Also let those that are subject to the forementioned Diseases, forbear as much as in them lies, the frequent eating of fat succulant Foods; for you must note, that all fat Bodies are no∣thing so easily dissolvable, neither can the Natural Minstrum or Heat of the Stomach, so well digest or make separation thereof, as it

can on Vegitation; neither do such things generate so good Blood, or fine brisk lively Spirits; for this Cause fat Foods lye long in the Stomach, and seem to sa∣tisfie it, not that they afford more or better Nourishment, but the reason thereof is their oyliness, as is manifest in all External Ope∣rations, for what Menstrum will easily separate and dissolve fat oy∣ly things. The like is to be un∣derstood of the Stomach; for this Cause a man may eat double the quantity of lean Foods as he can of fat, and yet be more brisk, lightsom, and airy, and sooner an hungry again, especially when u∣sed thereunto. Besides, fat Foods do not only fur the Passages of the Uretors, and generate evil Juices there, but in all or most phleg∣metick Constitutions, obstructs the Stomach, causing Coughs, and great increase of Phlegmatick Mat∣ter, whence grosness and fatness in

such People does proceed; and the only and most principal Foods to prevent such inconveniences are simple Vegitations.

Fifthly, Improper Mixtures and Compositions are to be a∣voided, as also baked, fryed, and stewed Foods, and not to eat any thing hotter than your Blood, and in Summer let all your Foods be quite cold, only spoon Meats may be eaten as hot as Milk from the Cow; for whatsoever Food is ta∣ken hot, as the general Custom is, the same is contrary to Nature, and does generate bad Blood, viz. makes it hot, sharp, and saltish, which will manifest it self by breaking out in various Spots on the Flesh and Skin, commonly called Symptoms of the Scurvy; therefore consider the great and most wonderful work and myste∣ry of Nature in Generation, and making of all Creatures, which is performed by a due heat and

moisture, the heat not exceeding that of our well tempered Blood, which we have treated on more fully in our Way to Health. The truth of these things, I think, no wise man can deny, the same be∣ing sensibly demonstrated by the Natives of those Countreys, where they live for the most part on sim∣ple Foods, and innocent Drinks, viz. Water, which makes them strangers to the Stone, Gout, Con∣sumption, and to many other Di∣stempers that we are most gene∣rally afflicted with; therefore those that would enjoy Health and long Life (which, amongst all wise men, was, and is esteemed a great blessing from the Lord) and prevent and cure themselves of these Diseases, let them, I say, ap∣ply themselves to simple Meats, and such Drinks as are before pre∣scribed, viz. to eat freely of Bread, Herbs, Gruels, both of Oatmeal and Wheat-flower, and all Foods

made of Vegitations, which are of various sorts, and yet natural and innocent, and every one may by practise learn how to apply them.