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.

A good Drink against the Stone and other Stoppages.

TAke good Chalk, infuse it in either River or Spring-water two, three, four, or six days in open Vessels in the Air, this is of excellent use, and very profitable against all stoppages and assid sharp Juices that are subject to gripe the Stomach and Bowels; also it purges by Urine, and brings away Gravel and slimy of∣fensive Matter; for Chalk does naturally indue or impregnate the Water with a fine, mild, soft, friendly, or milky quality, very good against Obstructions and sharp sour Juices; it's taste is plea∣sant and grateful.

The good Houswife may brew with this Chalky Water to great advantage, for it makes excellent, mild, soft Ale, friendly to Nature. This Water also will wash to great advantage, for it will save them both Labour and Soap. The truth is, Chalk is a brave, noble, Vir∣gins Earth, of a Venerial Bal∣samick Nature and Operation, of admirable use and profit in the Manuring of all cold, stiff, claiey Ground, it is to be preferred be∣fore Lime, for one Manuring with Chalk will continue its Virtues se∣veral years, but the Salniteral Vir∣tue of Lime will not hold so long, because in the burning of Lime the violent harsh fire of the Kill does totally destroy the mild, soft, friendly quality, and there does only remain the Original Salt, which is of an hot tart Nature and Operation, drying, and astringent; which qualities are very profitable and useful in several Trades and

Arts, especially in refining and making white Sugar, and indeed all sorts of Sugar, it gives it Bo∣dy and Life, causes a Coagulati∣on.

But Chalk, being intire and simple, retains a most sweet, al∣laying, mild, friendly Virtue, which also is one of the best things for Manuring Fruit-trees that stand in wet, cold Ground, to render them fruitful.

So Chalk being powdered, and put into Vinegar or Lime-Juice, it will presently set it into a fir∣mentation, and in a very little time it will allay or drink up the sharpness or assidity thereof, so that it will become almost mild; also being put into the fierce, cor∣roding, keen Spirit of Salt, it will in some measure allay its fiery sharpness. Likewise, if the pow∣der of Chalk be put into hard stale Beer, Syder, or Mum, and stir or brew it together, and

then let it stand two or three mi∣nutes, and it will presently settle; it will drink new, mild and plea∣sant, and also very wholsom and palatable, so wonderful is its qua∣lifying, friendly, mild nature, and without doubt it does contain ma∣ny great Secrets (the discovering of which is not suitable to this place) what is said being sufficient to insinuate the usefulness thereof, both in Husbandry and House∣wifery, and Physick, in which last Respect, for the preservation of Health, I recommend it to all People, especially to those that are subject by Nature or Accident to those terrible Distempers the Stone and Gout. Furthermore, 'tis a common Experiment when Peo∣ple are troubled with the Di∣stemper, vulgarly called the Heart-burnt, to beat or powder a little Chalk, and put it to Water, and drink it, which gives them ease; but the reason of the Cure

few considers. I conceive that that Distemper does not so pro∣perly afflict the Heart, as resides about the Orifice of the Stomach, arising from a sharp, keen, sour, burning Humor or Firment, occa∣sioned by Excess and ill Digestion, which seems to inflame those Parts; now the drinking of Wa∣ter, in which Chalk is infused, does by its mild Balsamick Vir∣tues, allay or mitigate that short severeness or violence, and there∣by gives the Party ease; for if it hath such a power, when only out∣wardly infused in stale Beer, Syder, Mum, Wine, of Vinegar and o∣ther eager Liquors, 'tis but rea∣sonable to believe it will have no less signal Operation, when taken in a proper quantity inwardly, where the friendly powers of Na∣ture are ready to assist, and help advance to the highest Mergie, for removing and subduing that which before afflicted and oppressed them.