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DoYt i and the Bock they have fometimes mod excellent in its’kind. For 
in cannot be fuppofed, that after fo long a War on the W%nt, they can 
have that abundance of tho^c Wines in reality, as whe the Great tun of 
H&ydkbmgh, and other ?Yjtigazines were in being, and the Vineyards not de- 
ftroyed by the Fate cf War. They have alfo common enough, a fort of 
Sack, cr Span f/h'lZ ins ; but it is as different from our asPofTet" 
drink is from good Table-beer. Claret is no where to be found in their 
Publick Houfes, unlefs perhaps at Flptterdam, or in fome French Ordinar),. 
And they are not yet fallen in love with Claret, or elfe in pure Civility 
to England do leave to us the free poflefllon of a whole Ocean of Claret, 
fetcht from divers Countries and People, who are contented to drink Water 
themfelves, and very little Wine, that we may have enough to drown our 
felves in, for pleafure and diverfion. They have alfo every where their 
Wortrivtood-wme, which is commonly called by the Name of t^lfom Wine, ‘ 
and by the EngUfi for found fake Wholefowe Wine, and the which they 
do not drink only for a Whet before Dinner, or on Phjifi cal zccounts, but 
indifferently at any time of the Day » or Evening. It is made of the. 
ErenchldOine before* mentioned, and by its Bitternefs does take off that 
lufcioufnefs, or naufeous talk to Strangers. 
This Country being Cold and Moifl, their Food commonly Ft/F, their 
A/o/?veiy cool that they fo much drink of, and their ufiialVVine Flhenijh 
or Hock, their Temper ealily chills and grows tender. Infomuch that they 
do as naturally fall into tydguss, or elfe into Putrid Fevers, as we do 
into Inflammatory Diftempers, or into the mofl Violent and Malignant Fe- 
vers , theeffcdlsof our Luxurious Living, and over-high Feeding. And 
although they have many Learned and Good Phyficians among them, yet I 
know not how it happens, ihzt their ^gues are not very eafily, or very 
foon Cured. Many Months areufually fpent in fuch Cures, and the 
guts very often firft or laft do turn into Continued Fevers, or from a Safe 
into a Dangerous State. For it happens that the ufe of thcjefmts Bark is too 
much Uifpeded among them, anddeferves not to be tried, until all other 
ways have been long tried in vain. And this I obferve at a time, when 
there was never more general occaficn of the uling the Bark, and when the« 
ufe of it was never more proper or effcdlual ^ I mean, in the tvoo f>rjt 
Campaigns that I had the Honour to wait upon His Majefly, being the 
Years i 6 ^^, and 1694. L^gues were at that time very Epidemical-, and 
the Continued Fevers had fnch remarkable Kemijjions, that they W'erc Cur- 
ed with as much Certainty, if not Speed too, by the ’Bar\, as the K^gues 
themfelves, provided that Evacuations preceed its exhibitation. 
And I have reafon to fay with Speed, for I was then feldom obliged te 
above three of four Vifits, even in thofe Eevers, And by reafon of the 
Barks fo well agreeing v/ith the Fevers at that time, as well as the u/f- 
gues, I made ufe of as many Pounds of the Bark in cither of thofe two 
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