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If, laftly, we put the fundry Ingredients 
of Malt Liquors togethers, we may obferve, 
that they afford us Meat, Drink, and Me- 
dicine. Meat, from the Corn whereof Ale 
is made $ Drink, from the Water wherein 
Malt was infufed ; Medicine, from the Hops 
boiled in the Wort. The want of the laft 
procured Malt Liquors the Difgrace of an- 
tient Times, as we fee from Diofcorides and 
Galen ; for then its Vifcidity, Thicknefs, 
and Lubricity, occafioned a Weight and 
Pain at the Stomach of fuch as drunk much 
of it ; Flatulencies, Belchings, Crudities, 
Fulnefs, Heavinefs, Sluggiffmefs, Swelling 
and Hardnefs of the Belly, Obftruftions in 
the fmall Veflels, Vifcidities in the Blood, 
Foulnefs of the Glands, Palenefs of Coun- 
tenance : And in contrary Temperaments, 
it caufed bilious Vomitings, obftinate Drunk- 
ennefs, and Pain of the Head, Loathings, 
and Inflammations. 
Of the Choice andlJfefuhiefs of Malt Liquors 
in general . 
The Account given of Malt Liquors under 
the laft Head, fuggefts the following Par- 
ticulars, which the Reader may call either 
Corollaries or Obfervations, as he thinks fit. 
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