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termes. Inthefekind of wines thus mixedand fophifticated, the claret or deepe red are more: ¢ 
aftringent and hotethanall others . Leffe harme yer cometh: of thofe wines which bee pre-! 
pared with pitch alone, and nothingelfe, Nevertheleffe, wee muft not forget, that pitchis io~ 
thing elie butthe liquor thatrunneth from burnt Parrozin, Andin truth ,thefe winesthac ftand, 
upon pitch, doe heat the ftomacke, helpe concodtion, and purge offenfive humours : they bee 
good for breaft and bellie : likewife, comfortable to the matrice, for they doe allay the paines 
thereof, if the woman have no feaverous difpofition ; and doe cure Rheumes and Catarrhes, 
which have continued their courfe a long time : they heale inward ulcers, ruptures, fpafines, 
and. convulfions ; impoftumes bred within the interiour parts, feebleneffe of the finewes, ven- 
tofities, coughs, purfivenefle,wheezing, and fhortmedffe of breath ;and finally, helpe diflocati- 
ons, beeing applied with unwafhed and greafie wooll, as it grew inthe fleece, Butnote,that for’ 
all thefe infirmities abovenamed,the wine is more effeQuall which naturally hath ataft of pitch, 
and thereupon is called Picatum, than any other, that by artificiall meanes is drefled and pre-: 
kee with pitch, And yetthe wines made of the Helvenake grapes, if a man drinke over-li- 
erally of them, arewell knowne totrouble the head, notwithftanding they taft of pitch natu- 
rally. To come nowunto the difeafe, which we call the Feaver or Ague, thisis certaine, That 
wine ought not to bee given in that fickneffe, unlefle the patient bee well {tept in.yeates and. 
aged,the difeafe chronicke and of long continuance, or that the fickneffe begin to decline and: 
weare away : for in hote, quicke, and fharpe feavers, which commonly be very daungerous, the 
ficke perfons, beethey young or old,ought to be reftrained altogether from wine ;except a man 
may evidently perceive fome remiffion or alleviation of the difeafe: andthe fame rather inthe . 
night, than by day time’; for certainely, the daunger is leffe by the one halfe, if theydrinke J] 
wine toward night, and in hope to procure fleepe. Moreover, women newly delivered and 
brought to bed: (whether they went their full time, orfliptan abortive fruit untimely) are not 
allowed in any cafe to drinke wine: neither thofe perfons who have weakened their bodies with 
the immoderat ufe of women, and thereupon fallen ficke:ne yet fuch as be fubje& to the head- 
ach : no more than thofe, who during the fits of agues, feele their legges and otherextreame 
parts to bee cold: or have a cough joined with their feaver. Moreover, wine isanenemie to 
all thofe who have a fhaking and trembling of their joints, or be pained either in their finewes 
‘Circa ia.  orthroat, Furthermore, in cafe the force of the difeafe be knowne to lie much about the * {mall - 
guts and hypechondriall parts, the patient muft altogether forbeare to drinke wine, They are 
to abftaine likewife when there is any hardneffe felt in the midriffe and precordiall parts:and K 
when the pulfes beat mightily, and goe fafter than ordinarie. Semblably, in cafe the crampe 
doe draw the necke fasre backe with a cricke, foasthe head cannot ftirre forward : or take the 
whole bodie fo, as itisnot able for to turne any way, butfeeme as ftiffe as if iwere all of one 
peece; no wine muft bee given unto fuch a patient. In like fort, thofe are forbidden to drinke 
* Efpecially if wine, who are given to * yexing: and much morethey, who in an ague labour for breath, and 
i proceed f° draw their wind hardly, But moftof all mutt the ficke be kept from wine when their eyesbee fet 
fharpe humor, in their head, and their eye-lids ftand ftiffe and ftarke, with their eyes broad optn: or beefhut, 
by reafon that they are weake and heavie. Alfo, they muft avoid wine (if they bee wife) whoin  _ 
their ficknefle, as they winke or twinckle with their eyes, doe imagine that they fparkleand glit- 
ter againe: like as thofe who cannot lay their eyes together and clofe their lids, but fleepe open 
eyed, Andeven fothey ought to flie from drinking of wine whofe eyesbe red and bloud-fhot- 
ten, or otherwife given to bee full of vi{cous and gummie matter. Neither are they permitted 
to drinke any wine, who eftfoones fturand cannot pronounce their words perfectly, whether it 
bee, that their tongue bee over-lightand fpongeous, or otherwife dull and heavie : no more 
than thofe, who hardly and with much difficultie, make water :who are affright fuddainly ateve- 
ry little thing thatchey heare orfee:whoare given tocrampesand crickes : fuch alfoas’other- 
whiles lic benummed, as if they were dead afleepe.And laft of all,as many as fhed theirfperme 
mvoluntarily in their fleepe, True it is, and no man maketh any doubt, That the onely hope 
and right way tocurethem, who in the Cardiake difeafe, for very faintneffe are troubled with 
the trembling and fhaking of the heart and given unto diaphoreticall fweats, confifteth in 
the drinking of wine. And yet in the manner thereof, Phyficians are not agteed ; For fome 
ae of advife; not to give it but in the verie fit and extremitie of thedifeafe : others againe pre- 
fcribe ic at no'time elfe, but when the violence of the firis paft, and the patient at fome cafe. 
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