lency Signior Innoceniio Conti , now Lieutenant General 
of the Army of the Chiirchj whofe high Ex tradion , rare 
Valour, and fublime Wit and Knowledge, have been al- , 
wayes admired by me* He was pleased to accept of one 
of thefe Vials from my handsjin which every year hither- 
tOs in the feafon of the Bloflbming of Oranges, fuch Flowers 
are feenj which at the time of the ripenefs of the Fruit are 
alfo transformed into Fruity 
R 
Joh. Hear. Meibomii de CEREVIS IIS, 
potibufque & ebrianiinibus extra Vinum aliis 
Gomnfienfarius, annexo libello Turnebi de Vino. 
Helmeftadii 1668, in 4^, 
>^|^^He Publilherof this Commentary, lately come 
J to our knowledge) who is the Son of its Author, 
renders in the Preface a reafon , why afrcr fo many Books^ 
formerly publifti' don the fame fubjeft, GAt»ius^ Grata^ 
rdm^ Haggecius, Schoo^ius, &cc. he would yet publifh this 
alfo; In the doing of which he alledgeth, that thefe Au- 
thors having only a Medical aim, did meerly examine the 
nature and quality of thofe forts of Bier, which arc 
in ufe A but that this Writer fearcheth and relateth from 
remoteft Antiquity all kinds of drinks 5 ufed by all forts 
of NationSa and compareth them with the Modern drinks 3 
difcourfing of their Ufe only by the by. 
Thi3done he difcourfeth out of Authors, how and by 
whom, after the firft ufe of fFater and Mil^ , were intro- 
duced the drinks made out oiVegetables 3 as the VinejBar- 
ley, Wheat, Maiz, Millet, Oats, Rice, Apples, Pears, 
Pomegranates 5 and the various Juyces tapped out of 
Trees , as the Palm, Birch, ^Sycamore, Maple, and many 
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