Wisdom's dictates, or, Aphorisms & rules, physical, moral, and divine, for preserving the health of the body, and the peace of the mind ... to which is added a bill of fare of seventy five noble dishes of excellent food, for exceeding those made of fish or flesh ... / by Tho. Tryon.

The danger of Fat Foods, as Flesh, Fish, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, and the like.

1. IT is to be noted, that all sorts of Vegitati∣ons or Vegetative Foods are much easier se∣parated and digested by the tart pleasant sharp, and yet not sower Liquor, or great Menstruum of the Stomach and natural heat, than such as proceed from the Animal Kingdom, as fat Flesh, Fish, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Milk, or the like, the understanding thereof is only obtained by Expe∣rience, for nothing but Practice makes a Doctor.

2. Such fat succulent Foods do Oyl and f••r the Stomach and Passages, and are difficultly disgest∣ed or dissolved, lying longer in the Stomach, and heavier than such as are lean or not fat, or which arise from the Vegitative Kingdom, as every bodies experience may easily convince him; and besides, when mixed with Sugars, Spices, Fruits, or the like, they do not only obstruct the passages, and generate bad Blood, and impure Spirits, but also for the most part causes great heats to attend all the External parts, whilest the Center is cold and disordered, and then the dis∣gestive faculty requires a dram of some Cordial strong Liquor, the truth of this thousands of living Witnesses can attest, whence do arise a fur∣ther Debillitation of the Stomach, Venerial In∣clinations, great heats and uneasiness, Consum∣ptions, Gout, and a thousand other Evils both to the Soul and Body.

3. Such Foods are endued with great plenty of gross phlegmatick Juices very pernicious, as be∣ing too hard for the Natural heat to dissolve and dispatch away downwards into the Bowels, but remaining behind, do infect the Blood, obstruct∣ing

its Circulation, and renders the Spirits foul, thick, impure, and dull, which People feel in their Limbs and Joynts after great Meals of such Food, which do by degrees sow the Seeds, and lay Foundations for Diseases, especially Consum∣ptions and Fevers.

4. These Inconveniencies are much increased by great drinking of strong Spirituous Liquors, which the natural heat of the Stomach does quickly separate, for the spirituous parts of all firmented Liquors are on the wing, and when such Drinks comes into the Stomach, the more pure and volatile spirits thereof do as it were in an instant join and incorporate, and draw them forth, so that in a little time they spread them∣selves into all the External parts, and cause them to burn with heat, whereby the whole Body be∣comes uneasie and disordered.

5. But the colder gross phlegmatick parts of such strong spirituous Drinks remain in the Sto∣mach and Vessels, mixed with the grosser undi∣gested Particles of the Food, which do after coa∣gulate, or as it were knit together, and does still so much the more heat and oppress the Stomach, occasioning Surfets, Fevers, and other Diseases, seldom curab••e.

6. For Strong Drinks do contain all properties, but more especially two, v••z. a quick brisk lively spirit that is volatile and penetrating, which through fermentation presently puts into motion, and a dull dead heavy phlegmatick Liquor, which by degrees falls down into the Uriters, in such Constitutions as are hot and vigorous, but not without leaving some dregs on the Stomach; but in such as have but weak heats, and are of colder Compositions, the same incorporates with the Juices of the Food, and hinders Concoction by

fouling the Stomach and Vessels, which do quickly destroy the Natural tone of the Stomach, and so prove the original of various Diseases, for this cause there is greater danger in superfluous or excessive Drinking after full Meals of fat Flesh, Fish with Butter, &c. then on an empty clean Stomach, for though the latter will sooner in∣toxicate the Head, the former is more prejudicial to Nature in its Consequences, for most Surfets by over-drinking are gotten after full over-plen∣tiful Meals of the before-mentioned Foods.