tiA Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



pared from germinated, dried (and) ground barley-flour, being 

 fermented with mint, rue, dracunculus hoi'tensis, leaves of the 

 lemon-tree and pepper. It is warm, dr}-, exceedingly putrid 

 (and) harmful to the stomach. It produces flatulence and 

 rumbling and injures the brain-nerves, because it fills the brain 

 with thick, warm vapors, which pass off with painful diffi- 

 culty. And often, on account of its bitterness and its pudri- 

 dity, it causes diarrhoea; and often it causes diseases of the 

 bladder and heartburn to those who make a habitual use ol 

 it. As for (the beer) prepared with bread of the best grade 

 wheat flour, well prepared, of parsley, and of fine germinated 

 wheat, or germinated barley flour it is less dangerous than 

 the first kind. It is more suitable for choleric persons. But 

 those who are of a rather moderate temperament, and who 

 desire to prevent its icausing) flatulence, winds and rumbling, 

 and to render it moderately warm, and to strengthen the 

 stomach, put into it some aromatic plants, which benefit and 

 strengthen the stomach on account of their aromatic nature, 

 and their absorption of its moisture, as e. g., hyacinth, mastix, 

 cinnamon, long pepper, musk, some cardamom and nutmeg 

 and clove. Of the powder thus made from these spices let 

 one mithkal (two drachms in weight) serve for each twent}' 

 jars of beer (the jars being of the kind called .?)i. If it is 

 desired to render it agreeable of taste, there must be put 

 into each jar a heart of dracunculus hortensis, and two 

 leaves fof the heart] of a lemon-tree, with a little rue and 

 mint. They make also a more simple kind of beer, with 

 water, bread of best grade wheat flour, well prepared, 

 having been filtered, and an infusion of musk and mastix only, 

 with a heart of mint in each jar, or a heart of dracunculus 



hortensis only." ^ ^-^ o* ^>^ V5^-^ ^^ ^^-^.. ^'^ ^^^^\ ^\ 



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l) De Sacy reads: do jLiJl. We should evidently expect here the name 

 of a vessel with a specification of its size. 



