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Panala Medica.
CHAP. I.
Of the Quality and Nature of Ale, the most accustomed and most accommodate Body for the Base of this Composition.
I Know it is almost a com∣mon receiued opinion, that Ale is a foggy ful∣some stuffe, clogging the stomacke, stuffing the Lungs and puffing vp the body with loose fat, and flashie vnsound flesh; Nor am I ig∣norant of the Record of the ancient Poet (Henrieus Abrincensis) who, in displeasure to a Pot of Ale that perhaps pleased not his pa∣late, to cast a foule aspersion vpon this out more ancient drinke, falls into this furious rapture.