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Wine, fo as it will not prick nor tickle the 
Glands of the Throat, to excite a trouble- 
fome Cough ; the Wine on the other hand 
will make the Honey more cordial, ftoma- 
chic, and of quicker Digeftion. 
Mead and all Preparations of Honey are 
moft difagreeable to choleric Conftitutions, 
becaufe it foon degenerates into theNature of 
Bile, caufes terrible Gripes, bilious Cholicks, 
and not feldom Death ; it is alfo hurtful in 
ardent Fevers, becaufe its Spirits will in- 
creafe the violent and impetuous Motion of 
the Humours, and exafperate the Difeafe. 
It is no lefs unfuitable for hot Summer 
Weather, becaufe then the Solids are lax, 
Digeftion flow, and it lying on the Stomach, 
meets with the Biles, and turns into an 
Acid, which prefently raifes a violent Cho- 
lick; fo that as Cyder is adapted for Sum- 
mer, fo is this for Winter. Mead drunk 
before it be fine, palls the Stomach, goes 
flowly off, caufes Belchings, Flatulency, 
Indigefton, Naufea and Vomiting, from the 
Vifcidity it had not yet depofited, wherein 
the contained Air rarifies, expands, and 
caufes an Explofion; and thefe Vifcidities 
meeting with the Bile, eafily turn into the 
K fame. 
