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<HEAD><HI>CERTAINE PHILOSOPHICAL</HI> Preparations of Foode and Beuerage for Sea-men, in their long voyages: with &s;ome nece&s;&s;ary, approoued, and <HI>Her|meticall medicine; and Antidotes, fit to be had in readine&s;&s;e at</HI> &s;ea, for preuention or cure of diuers di&s;ea&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>_ANd fir&s;t for Foode. A cheape, fre&s;h and la&s;ting victuall, called by the name of <HI>Macaroni</HI> among&s;t the Ita|lians, and not vnlike (&s;aue onely in &s;onne) to the <HI>Cu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cus</HI> in <HI>Barbary,</HI> may be vpon rea&s;onable warning proui|ded in any &s;ufficient quantity, to &s;erue either for change and variety of meat, or in the want of fre&s;h victual. With this, the Author furni&s;hed Sir <HI>Francis Drake</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Hawkins,</HI> in their la&s;t voyage.</P>
<P N="2">2 Any broth or <HI>Cola&s;e,</HI> that will &s;tand cleare and liquid, and not gellie or grow thicke when it is cold, may al&s;o be pre&s;erued by this lire of Nature from all mouldine&s;&s;e, &s;owrene&s;&s;e, or corruption, to any rea&s;onable period of time that &s;halbe de&s;ired. A nece&s;&s;ary &s;e|cret for all &s;icke and weake per&s;ons at &s;ea, when no fre&s;h meate can be had, to &s;trengthen or comfort them.</P>
<P N="3">3 Now for Beuerage: All the water, which to that purpo&s;e &s;hall bee thought needefull to be caried to &s;ea, will bee warranted to la&s;t &s;weete, good, and without any intention to putrefaction, for 2, 3, or 4 yeeres together. This is performed by a Philo&s;ophicall fire, being of a &s;ympatheticall nature with all plants and Animals. In the &s;pace of one moneth, the Author wil prepare &s;o many Tunnes thereof, as &s;hall be rea&s;onably required at his hands.</P>
<P N="4">4 By this meanes al&s;o both Wine, Perrie, Sider, Reere, Ale, and Vineger, may be &s;afely kept at &s;ea, for any long voyage, without feare of growing dead, &s;owre or mu&s;tie.</P>
<P N="5">5 And, as for Medicine, if any Nobleman, Gentleman, or Mer|chant, &s;hall by his Phy&s;ition be adui&s;ed to cary any &s;peciall di&s;tilled waters, decoctions, or iuyces of any plant or any other liquid vege|table or animall body what&s;oeuer with him in any long voyage, this Author will &s;o prepare the &s;ame onely by fortifying it with his owne fire of kinde, that he may be a&s;&s;ured of the la&s;ting and dura|bilitie thereof, euen at his owne plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="6">6 Here I may not omit the preparation of the iuice of Limons with this fire: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ecau&s;e it hath of late been found by that worthy Knight Sir <HI>Iames Lanca&s;ter</HI> to be an a&s;&s;ured remedy in the Scurby. And though their iuice will, by naturall working and fermenting, in the end &s;o &s;piritualize it &s;elfe, as that it will keepe and la&s;t either &s;imply of it &s;elfe, or by the help of a &s;weete oliue oyle <HI>&s;upernatant:</HI> yet this Author is not ignorant, that it hath lo&s;t much of his fir&s;t manife&s;t nature, which it had while&s;t it was conteined within his owne pulp and fruit: (as is euident in the like example of wine, after it hath wrought long, which differeth exceedingly both in ta&s;te and nature from the grape out of which it was expre&s;&s;ed) whereas being &s;trengthened with this philo&s;ophicall fire, it retai|neth &s;till both the naturall ta&s;te, race, and verdure, that it had in the fir&s;t expre&s;&s;ion: and &s;o likewi&s;e of the Orange.</P>
<P N="7">7 There is al&s;o a &s;pecificall powder for Agues <HI>Quotidian,</HI> and <HI>Tertian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and &s;ometimes it helpeth <HI>Quartans.</HI> Halfe a dramme is &s;ufficient for a man: and a quarter of a dramme for a child. It is ta|ken in white Wine Beere, or Ale. It cureth &s;ometimes at the fir&s;t ta|king, often at the &s;econd, and &s;eldome or neuer falleth at the third time. It is not offen&s;iue to the ta&s;te. It expelleth the di&s;ea&s;e, with|out any euacuation or weakening of the Patient.</P>
<P N="8">8 A &s;weete Pa&s;te, for the head-ache: which commonly giueth ea&s;e, in one houres &s;pace, either vpon the fir&s;t or &s;econd taking, be|cau&s;e it is &s;pecificall. The do&s;e is the weight of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. d.</P>
<P N="9">9 A &s;afe, general &amp; gentle purging Powder, to be taken in white wine, working ea&s;ily without any convul&s;ion, or other offence to the &s;tomacke. It is plea&s;ant, and hath not any common or knowen purgatiue therein. It weakeneth not the Patient, neither doeth the body grow co&s;tiue after it: which is v&s;uall in mo&s;t of the common purgatiues. There haue been &s;o many trials made vpon all &s;orts of complexions with this powder, as that it may well de&s;erue the name of a generall purge: yet I can lea&s;t commend it in Cholericke bodies. The do&s;e is two drammes and an halfe at a time. This be|ing taken in warme weather for three dayes together, in the Spring and Fall, will preuent both the Gowte and Drop&s;ie, and mo&s;t of tho&s;e di&s;ea&s;es that &s;pring from rheumaticke cau&s;es: and if it cure them in eight or ten dayes, take it for aduantage. It cureth the Pockes newly taken in fiue or &s;ixe dayes: and in tenne or twelue dayes, at the mo&s;t, it cureth a deepe rooted Pocke.</P>
<P N="10">10 And if the plague, burning <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eauer, or &s;mall Pockes, or Mea|zels happen to infect any of the Souldiers or Mariners, or others in the &s;hip: then if, within &s;ixe or eight houres after infection, a do&s;e of my Antidotary powder (whereof eight graines are &s;ufficient) be ta|ken, it commonly preuenteth the rage and violence of the Plague, by ma&s;tering the poy&s;on, &s;eldome &s;uffering any &s;ore to ari&s;e: and it di&s;per&s;eth and conquereth the matter of the &s;mall Pockes and Mea|zels: whereby in a few houres it vani&s;heth, without making the Pa|tient heart-&s;icke. And, in the cure of any kind of poy&s;on, no Vni|co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es horne, no <HI>Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ar</HI> &s;tone, no <HI>Terra Lemnia</HI> or <HI>Sagilleta,</HI> no Mi|thridate &amp;c. is able to match the &s;ame, though taken in a double proportion. It is an excellent remedie again&s;t &s;wooning, or any &s;o|daine pa&s;&s;ion of the heart.</P>
<P N="11">11 There is al&s;o a medicine, which I will commend for the &s;ea (being a notable a&s;tringent powder) which &s;tayeth any flux of blood in a &s;hort time, and often cureth the Piles and Emerhoides.</P>
<P N="12">12 The E&s;&s;ences of &s;pices and floures (as of Cinnamom, Cloues, Mace, Nutmegs, Ro&s;emary, Sage, &amp;c) being in the forme of pow|ders, may with le&s;&s;e danger be caried at &s;ea, are more apt to be mi|xed and incorporated with Syrupes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">leps or Con&s;erues, are more plea&s;ing to nature, and are more familiarly taken, and with better &s;ucce&s;&s;e then the chymicall oyles them&s;elues, drawen by limbecke: their effects are an&s;werable to the nature of the oyles.</P>
<P>Thus much I am bold to offer and publi&s;h for the benefit of &s;ea|faring men, who for the mo&s;t part are de&s;titute both of learned Phy|&s;itions and skilfull Apothecaries: and therefore haue more neede then others to cary their owne defen&s;atiues and medicines about them. Which if it &s;hall receiue enterteinement according to the worth thereof and my iu&s;t expectation, I may happily be encoura|ged to prie a little further into Natures Cabinet, and &s;o to di&s;per&s;e &s;ome of her mo&s;t &s;ecret Iewels, which &s;he hath long time &s;o careful|ly kept, onely for the v&s;e of her deare&s;t children: otherwi&s;e, finding no &s;peedy or good acceptance of this my proffer (but rather cro&s;&s;ed by malice or incredulity) I doe here free and enlarge my &s;elfe from raine owne fetters: purpo&s;ing to content my &s;pirits, with &s;uch pri|uate and plea&s;ing practi&s;es, as may better &s;ort with my place and dignitie, and in likelyhood prooue al&s;o more profitable in the ende, then if I had thankele&s;ly deuoted my &s;elfe to <HI>Bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Public<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI> In which cour&s;e, happy men are &s;ometimes rewarded with good words: but few or none, in the&s;e dayes, with any reall recompen&s;e.</P>
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<Q><HI>&V;t Deus per Naturam, &s;ic Natura per ignem Philo&s;ophicum.</HI></Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. P. <HI>Miles.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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