GENUINE LONDON PORTER DRUGS. 333 



with a decoction of malt and hops, put in blood 

 warm, or cold. In case of a surplus, two and a half 

 gallon cags, or stone bottles, are the proper ves- 

 sels. 



LONDON PORTER. I have brewed beers, and 

 ales, under various other names, but never porter. 

 Now, as this beer is so universal a favourite, it may 

 as well be brewed in a private, as in a public brew- 

 house ; and as many cannot dispense with it, at their 

 meals, they may perhaps be induced to try whether 

 they cannot, as well as a much cheaper, brew an 

 equally genuine and good porter, at home. I have 

 already made the necessary distinction between the 

 absolutely noxious ingredients, used in brewing por- 

 ter, the use of which cannot be denied, since they 

 have, in a multitude of instances, been detected and 

 fined, and those which are necessary, at the same 

 time not actually noxious. They are indeed chiefly 

 diuretic, and some of them nourishing and pro- 

 motive of accretion, as the black malts (treacle), 

 and liquorice root. Nevertheless, porter can never 

 be equally nourishing and salubrious with beer, 

 which is the genuine and simple product of malt 

 and hops. 



But porter is more salubrious and less hurtful than 

 either the town or country ales of the brewers, since 

 the ingredients in the composition of porter are sel- 

 dom, if ever, so noxious as those used in ales, which 

 are scarcely ever brewed without the addition of 

 coculus Indicus, or grains of paradise, or both. The 

 former is a most deleterious drug a poison, of 



