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they {Lengthen the Stomach, create an 
Appetite, and are aftringent; of them a 
Liquor is made call'd Perry, which I fhall 
here conflder : It is much of the fame Na- 
ture of Cyder ; it differs alfo in refpeCt of 
its Tafte, Age, and Making; it differs in 
Tafte, according to the Fruit of which it 
was made, whether that was fweet, four, 
harfh, infipid, or of mixed Taftes. 2. Ac- 
cording to the Degree, Perfection, or Im- 
perfection of its Fermentation ; by thefe you 
may find out its Properties in the fame man- 
ner as thofe of Cyder, which I difcuffed at 
large. Perry mult not be drank before it be 
fine, becaufe its vifeid Parts have not fubfi- 
ded, therefore it weakens the Stomach, 
palls the Appetite, caufes Flatulency, Gripes, 
and cholical Pains ; the Spirits alfo, which 
fhould promote Digeftion, invigorate the 
Vefiels, and aftuate the Liquor, are entang- 
led and wrapt up in a grofs Phlegm or Vif- 
coiity ; but when the Liquor has flood a 
due Time upon its Faces , the grofs, earthy 
Particles attraCi one another, and form larger 
Corpufcles than the Body of the Liquor in 
a State of Reft can fupport, or carry up any 
longer, but they fall to the Bottom and 
Side* of the Calk, where partly by the 
ftronger 
