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.

The Natural Way how eve∣ry one may in the Spring and Fall purge themselves with Ease and Pleasure to considerable Advan∣tage, with the Common Sallad Herbs that are generally eaten in these Seasons, and also with Roots. One Example will serve for all.

TAke as much Spinage as will go into a two Gal∣lon Vessel, unto which add one Pint of Water, then stew it with the said Vessel uncovered,

when it is almost prepared, add only Salt to it, then dish it up, and drink the Broth, and eat the Herbs freely with Bread, with∣out either Butter or other Fats; make your Dinner of these Herbs two or three days together, as you shall find them more or less Operate or Purge. The very same Method you may use with other Herbs, either Sim∣ple or Compound, and also with Roots, viz. Take Turneps, cut them small, then stew or boyl them as you do the Herbs, drink the Broth, and eat the Roots with Bread and Salt, with∣out any other Addition, and they will have the same Opera∣tion; but you must observe to eat Watergruel Morning and Night, into which you must not add any Ingredient, only Bread and Salt, and made ac∣cording as we have taught in

our Monthly Observations for Health; and those that do not like stewed Herbs or Roots, may boyl them, observing the same method of eating them, and drinking the Broth, and so they will in all Respects answer your Desires, and Purge you both by Urine and Stool, to your great Satisfaction, far bet∣ter than most of the Potions and Purges prescribed by the Learned, which for the most part are not only Forreign, but Compounded of things of a dis∣agreeing Nature; but our own Herbs and Roots, thus prepa∣red and eaten, are excellent, as well in preserving of Health, as preventing Diseases, viz. by assisting Nature to throw them off, when they have invaded the Body; in particular, they are profitable against the Stone or Gravel, and griping Pains of

the Bowels, by disburthening Nature of such superfluous Mat∣ter, and keen sharp Juices that cramp the Body, they also cleanseth the Stomach and Ves∣sels thereof, which are gene∣rally stopt and furr'd by the frequent eating of Fat, succu∣lant Foods, and strong Drinks, but the use of these Herbs does cool and remove the Obstructi∣ons that lies in the Passages, preventing Fumes and Vapors from flying into the Head, cleans∣eth the Blood, causing it to cir∣culate freely, and chears the Spi∣rits, making the Body brisk and lively, being also profitable a∣gainst shortness of Breath, Phlegm, and all Watery or Dropsical Humours, more espe∣cially if Order and Temperance be observed; for the best Means or Medicines cannot but prove ineffectual when Disorders, and

the same Intemperances are con∣tinued, which were the first O∣riginals of the Disease, most Distempers being contracted tho∣rough Excess and Innordinate Living, nor doth any thing pre∣serve the Body, and also the Mind in health, so much as So∣briety and Temperance in Meats, Drinks, and Exercises, and not to heap together Superfluity of various sorts of rich Compound∣ed Foods and strong Drinks of disagreeing Natures, beyond the Necessity, or truly the Dige∣stive Power of Nature. The ancient Wisemen that lived to great Ages in perfect Health, were contented with simple Food and mean Drink, and it would be our Happiness to Imitate them. I wish I might be an Instrument to perswade my Country-men to such Mo∣deration; and in order thereun∣to

I do recommend the use of the fore-mentioned Herbs and Roots, and also to these follow∣ing Observations.