CENTURY VIII. 373 



because they are forbidden wine by their law. But 

 I do much marvel, that no Englishman, or Dutch 

 man, or German, doth set up brewing in Constanti 

 nople ; considering they have such quantity of bar 

 ley. For as for the general sort of men, frugality 

 may be the cause of drinking water ; for that it is 

 no small saving to pay nothing for one s drink : but 

 the better sort might well be at the cost. And yet 

 I wonder the less at it, because I see France, Italy, 

 or Spain, have not taken into use beer or ale ; 

 which, perhaps, if they did, would better both their 

 healths and their complexions. It is likely it would 

 be matter of great gain to any that should begin it 

 in Turkey. 



Experiments in consort touching sweat. 



706. In bathing in hot water, sweat, neverthe 

 less, cometh not in the parts under the water. The 

 cause is ; first, for that sweat is a kind of colli- 

 quation, and that kind of colliquation is not 

 made either by an over-dry heat, or an over- 

 moist heat : for over-moisture doth somewhat 

 extinguish the heat, as we see that even hot 

 water quencheth fire ; and over-dry heat shutteth 

 the pores : and therefore men will sooner sweat 

 covered before the sun or fire, than if they stood 

 naked : and earthen bottles, filled with hot water, do 

 provoke in bed a sweat more daintily than brick-bats 

 hot. Secondly, hot water doth cause evaporation 

 from the skin ; so as it spendeth the matter in those 

 parts under the water, before it issue th in sweat, 



