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The Hiftory of Life and Death. 
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The moiftning of the juices of the body by a moift preparation of the aliment, is a 
childith thing ; it may be fomewhat, available againft the fervours of difeafes, but it is 
altogether -averfe'to rofcid alimentation, “Therefore boiling of meats, a5 concerning 
our Intention, is far infcriour to roafting, and baking, and the like. 
Roafting ought to be witha quick fire, andfoon difpatched ; not with a dullfire, and 
| in long time. ' Mail as mt 
| All folid flefhes ought to be ferved in, not altogether frefh, but fomewhat pow- 
| dered or corned; the lefs Salt may be fpent at the table with them, or none at all: 
| for Salt incorporated with the meat before is better diftributed in the body, then eaten 
| witht atthe table. hai 
| There would be brought into ufe feveral and good Aacerations, and Infufons of 
| Meats in convenient Liquors, before the roafting oF them: thelike wheréof are fome- 
| time inufebefore they bake them, and in the Pickles of fome Fifhes. 
| But beatings, and as it were fcourgings, of fleth-meats before they be boiled, would 
| work no {mall mattcr. We fee it is confefled that Partridges and Pheafants killed with 
| an Hawk, alfo Bucks and Stags killed in Hunting, (if they ftand not out too long, eat 
| better even to the tafte ; and fome Fz/hes {courged and beaten, become more tender 
| and wholfome ; alfo hard and four Pears, andfome other Fruits, grow {weet with row- 
ling them. It were good to practife fome fuch beating and bruifing of the harder kinds 
_ of Flethes before they be broughtto the fire ; and this would be one of the beft prepa- 
‘ rations of all. : ; 
Bread a little leyened, and very little falted, is beft, and which is baked in an’ Oyen 
_ throughly heated,and not with a faint heat, ; 
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The preparation uf Drinks in order to long life fhallnot exceed one Precept. And 
as touching water-drinkers we have nothing to fay ; fucha diet (as we faidbcfore) may 
rolong lite to an indifferent term,but to no eminent length : but in other Drinks, that 
are full of fpirit, (fuch as are » zne, Ale, Mead, andthelike) this one thing isto be ob- 
ferved and purfucd, as thc {um of all, That the parts of the Z2quor may-be exceeding | 
| thin and fubtil, and the Speret exceeding mild. ‘This is hard to be done by 4ge alone, | 
i for that makes the parts alittle morefubtl, but the {pirits much more {harp and eager: 
| therefore of the /afufions in the Veflcls of fome fat fubftance, which may reftrain the 
| acrimony of the fpirits, counfel hath been given before. There is alfo another way 
without Jnfufion or ~Mixture: this is, that the Liquormight be continually agitated, 
_ either by carriage. upon the Water, or by carriage by Land, or by hanging the vef- 
{cls upon lines, and daily ftirring them, .or fome fuch other way: for itis certain that 
_ this lecal weticn doth both fubulize the parts, and doth fo incorporate and compact the 
_ fpirits with the parts, that they have no Ieifure to turn to fowrnefs, which is a kind of 
» patrefathon, er Bry 
, But in extream old age fuch a preparation of meats is to be made as may be almoftin 
' the middle way to chylus. Andtouching the Déffallations of Meats,they are merc toys ; 
: for the Nutritive part, at leaft the beft of it, doth not afcend in Vapours. 
| The incorporating of meat and drink before they meet in the ftomach is a degree 
| to chylus : therefore lect Chickens, or Partridges, or Pheafants, or the like, be taken 
| and boiled in water with a little fale, then let them be cleanfed and dried, after- 
i ward let them be infufed in A4z/f or Ale before it hath done working, with a little 
Sugar. * sigh in , ' 
Alfo Grazies of meat, and the mincinags of them finall well {eafon’d, are good for 
chewing, which is a principal kind of preparation. : 
_” And as for the helps of that defect; ( namely, of the ftrength of Teeth to grind the 
meat ) there are three things which may conduce thereunto, « Firft, that new Teeth may 
put forth ; that whichfeems altogether difficult, and cannot be accomplifhed without 
an inward and powerful reftauration of the body. Sccondly, that the Zaws be fo con- 
firmed by due 4/frsngents,that they may infome fort fupply the office ofthe Teeth; which 
may poffibly be effected. Thirdly, thatthe meat be fo prepared, that there fhall be no 
need of chewing : which remedy is ready athand.  - wid 
_ We have fome thought alfo touching the Quantity of the meat and drink, that the 
fame taken in a larger quantity at fome times is good for the srrigation of the body : 
therefore both great Feaftings and free Drinkings are not altogether to be inhibited, 
And touching the @peratioa upon the Aliments and the Preparation of them, thus much. 
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