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             Certaine philosophical preparations of foode and beverage for sea-men, in their long voyages: with some necessary, approoued, and hermeticall medicines and antidotes, fit to be had in readinesse at sea, for preuention or cure of diuers diseases.
             Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?
          
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             CERTAINE
             PHILOSOPHICAL
          
           Preparations
           of
           Foode
           and
           Beuerage
           for
           Sea-men
           ,
           in
           their
           long
           voyages
           :
           with
           some
           necessary
           ,
           approoued
           ,
           and
           
             Hermeticall
             medicine
             ;
             and
             Antidotes
             ,
             fit
             to
             be
             had
             in
             readinesse
             at
          
           sea
           ,
           for
           preuention
           or
           cure
           of
           diuers
           diseases
           .
        
         
           ANd
           first
           for
           Foode
           .
           A
           cheape
           ,
           fresh
           and
           lasting
           victuall
           ,
           called
           by
           the
           name
           of
           Macaroni
           amongst
           the
           Italians
           ,
           and
           not
           vnlike
           (
           saue
           onely
           in
           sonne
           )
           to
           the
           Cus●cus
           in
           Barbary
           ,
           may
           be
           vpon
           reasonable
           warning
           prouided
           in
           any
           sufficient
           quantity
           ,
           to
           serue
           either
           for
           change
           and
           variety
           of
           meat
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           want
           of
           fresh
           victual
           .
           With
           this
           ,
           the
           Author
           furnished
           Sir
           
             Francis
             Drake
          
           and
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Hawkins
          
           ,
           in
           their
           last
           voyage
           .
        
         
           2
           Any
           broth
           or
           Colase
           ,
           that
           will
           stand
           cleare
           and
           liquid
           ,
           and
           not
           gellie
           or
           grow
           thicke
           when
           it
           is
           cold
           ,
           may
           also
           be
           preserued
           by
           this
           lire
           of
           Nature
           from
           all
           mouldinesse
           ,
           sowrenesse
           ,
           or
           corruption
           ,
           to
           any
           reasonable
           period
           of
           time
           that
           shal
           be
           desired
           .
           A
           necessary
           secret
           for
           all
           sicke
           and
           weake
           persons
           at
           sea
           ,
           when
           no
           fresh
           meate
           can
           be
           had
           ,
           to
           strengthen
           or
           comfort
           them
           .
        
         
           3
           Now
           for
           Beuerage
           :
           All
           the
           water
           ,
           which
           to
           that
           purpose
           shall
           bee
           thought
           needefull
           to
           be
           caried
           to
           sea
           ,
           will
           bee
           warranted
           to
           last
           sweete
           ,
           good
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           intention
           to
           putrefaction
           ,
           for
           2
           ,
           3
           ,
           or
           4
           yeeres
           together
           .
           This
           is
           performed
           by
           a
           Philosophicall
           fire
           ,
           being
           of
           a
           sympatheticall
           nature
           with
           all
           plants
           and
           Animals
           .
           In
           the
           space
           of
           one
           moneth
           ,
           the
           Author
           wil
           prepare
           so
           many
           Tunnes
           thereof
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           reasonably
           required
           at
           his
           hands
           .
        
         
           4
           By
           this
           meanes
           also
           both
           Wine
           ,
           Perrie
           ,
           Sider
           ,
           Reere
           ,
           Ale
           ,
           and
           Vineger
           ,
           may
           be
           safely
           kept
           at
           sea
           ,
           for
           any
           long
           voyage
           ,
           without
           feare
           of
           growing
           dead
           ,
           sowre
           or
           mustie
           .
        
         
           5
           And
           ,
           as
           for
           Medicine
           ,
           if
           any
           Nobleman
           ,
           Gentleman
           ,
           or
           Merchant
           ,
           shall
           by
           his
           Physition
           be
           aduised
           to
           cary
           any
           speciall
           distilled
           waters
           ,
           decoctions
           ,
           or
           iuyces
           of
           any
           plant
           or
           any
           other
           liquid
           vegetable
           or
           animall
           body
           whatsoeuer
           with
           him
           in
           any
           long
           voyage
           ,
           this
           Author
           will
           so
           prepare
           the
           same
           onely
           by
           fortifying
           it
           with
           his
           owne
           fire
           of
           kinde
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           be
           assured
           of
           the
           lasting
           and
           durabilitie
           thereof
           ,
           euen
           at
           his
           owne
           pleasure
           .
        
         
           6
           Here
           I
           may
           not
           omit
           the
           preparation
           of
           the
           iuice
           of
           Limons
           with
           this
           fire
           :
           ●ecause
           it
           hath
           of
           late
           been
           found
           by
           that
           worthy
           Knight
           Sir
           
             Iames
             Lancaster
          
           to
           be
           an
           assured
           remedy
           in
           the
           Scurby
           .
           And
           though
           their
           iuice
           will
           ,
           by
           naturall
           working
           and
           fermenting
           ,
           in
           the
           end
           so
           spiritualize
           it selfe
           ,
           as
           that
           it
           will
           keepe
           and
           last
           either
           simply
           of
           it selfe
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           help
           of
           a
           sweete
           oliue
           oyle
           supernatant
           :
           yet
           this
           Author
           is
           not
           ignorant
           ,
           that
           it
           hath
           lost
           much
           of
           his
           first
           manifest
           nature
           ,
           which
           it
           had
           whilest
           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
           taste
           and
           nature
           from
           the
           grape
           out
           of
           which
           it
           was
           expressed
           )
           whereas
           being
           strengthened
           with
           this
           philosophicall
           fire
           ,
           it
           retaineth
           still
           both
           the
           naturall
           taste
           ,
           race
           ,
           and
           verdure
           ,
           that
           it
           had
           in
           the
           first
           expression
           :
           and
           so
           likewise
           of
           the
           Orange
           .
        
         
           7
           There
           is
           also
           a
           specificall
           powder
           for
           Agues
           Quotidian
           ,
           and
           Tertian●
           and
           sometimes
           it
           helpeth
           Quartans
           .
           Halfe
           a
           dramme
           is
           sufficient
           for
           a
           man
           :
           and
           a
           quarter
           of
           a
           dramme
           for
           a
           child
           .
           It
           is
           taken
           in
           white
           Wine
           Beere
           ,
           or
           Ale.
           It
           cureth
           sometimes
           at
           the
           first
           taking
           ,
           often
           at
           the
           second
           ,
           and
           seldome
           or
           neuer
           falleth
           at
           the
           third
           time
           .
           It
           is
           not
           offensiue
           to
           the
           taste
           .
           It
           expelleth
           the
           disease
           ,
           without
           any
           euacuation
           or
           weakening
           of
           the
           Patient
           .
        
         
           8
           A
           sweete
           Paste
           ,
           for
           the
           head-ache
           :
           which
           commonly
           giueth
           ease
           ,
           in
           one
           houres
           space
           ,
           either
           vpon
           the
           first
           or
           second
           taking
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           specificall
           .
           The
           dose
           is
           the
           weight
           of
           ●
           .
           d.
           
        
         
           9
           A
           safe
           ,
           general
           &
           gentle
           purging
           Powder
           ,
           to
           be
           taken
           in
           white
           wine
           ,
           working
           easily
           without
           any
           convulsion
           ,
           or
           other
           offence
           to
           the
           stomacke
           .
           It
           is
           pleasant
           ,
           and
           hath
           not
           any
           common
           or
           knowen
           purgatiue
           therein
           .
           It
           weakeneth
           not
           the
           Patient
           ,
           neither
           doeth
           the
           body
           grow
           costiue
           after
           it
           :
           which
           is
           vsuall
           in
           most
           of
           the
           common
           purgatiues
           .
           There
           haue
           been
           so
           many
           trials
           made
           vpon
           all
           sorts
           of
           complexions
           with
           this
           powder
           ,
           as
           that
           it
           may
           well
           deserue
           the
           name
           of
           a
           generall
           purge
           :
           yet
           I
           can
           least
           commend
           it
           in
           Cholericke
           bodies
           .
           The
           dose
           is
           two
           drammes
           and
           an
           halfe
           at
           a
           time
           .
           This
           being
           taken
           in
           warme
           weather
           for
           three
           dayes
           together
           ,
           in
           the
           Spring
           and
           Fall
           ,
           will
           preuent
           both
           the
           Gowte
           and
           Dropsie
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           those
           diseases
           that
           spring
           from
           rheumaticke
           causes
           :
           and
           if
           it
           cure
           them
           in
           eight
           or
           ten
           dayes
           ,
           take
           it
           for
           aduantage
           .
           It
           cureth
           the
           Pockes
           newly
           taken
           in
           fiue
           or
           sixe
           dayes
           :
           and
           in
           tenne
           or
           twelue
           dayes
           ,
           at
           the
           most
           ,
           it
           cureth
           a
           deepe
           rooted
           Pocke
           .
        
         
           10
           And
           if
           the
           plague
           ,
           burning
           ●eauer
           ,
           or
           small
           Pockes
           ,
           or
           Meazels
           happen
           to
           infect
           any
           of
           the
           Souldiers
           or
           Mariners
           ,
           or
           others
           in
           the
           ship
           :
           then
           if
           ,
           within
           sixe
           or
           eight
           houres
           after
           infection
           ,
           a
           dose
           of
           my
           Antidotary
           powder
           (
           whereof
           eight
           graines
           are
           sufficient
           )
           be
           taken
           ,
           it
           commonly
           preuenteth
           the
           rage
           and
           violence
           of
           the
           Plague
           ,
           by
           mastering
           the
           poyson
           ,
           seldome
           suffering
           any
           sore
           to
           arise
           :
           and
           it
           disperseth
           and
           conquereth
           the
           matter
           of
           the
           small
           Pockes
           and
           Meazels
           :
           whereby
           in
           a
           few
           houres
           it
           vanisheth
           ,
           without
           making
           the
           Patient
           heart-sicke
           .
           And
           ,
           in
           the
           cure
           of
           any
           kind
           of
           poyson
           ,
           no
           Vnico●es
           horne
           ,
           no
           Be●●ar
           stone
           ,
           no
           
             Terra
             Lemnia
          
           or
           Sagilleta
           ,
           no
           Mithridate
           &c.
           is
           able
           to
           match
           the
           same
           ,
           though
           taken
           in
           a
           double
           proportion
           .
           It
           is
           an
           excellent
           remedie
           against
           swooning
           ,
           or
           any
           sodaine
           passion
           of
           the
           heart
           .
        
         
           11
           There
           is
           also
           a
           medicine
           ,
           which
           I
           will
           commend
           for
           the
           sea
           (
           being
           a
           notable
           astringent
           powder
           )
           which
           stayeth
           any
           flux
           of
           blood
           in
           a
           short
           time
           ,
           and
           often
           cureth
           the
           Piles
           and
           Emerhoides
           .
        
         
           12
           The
           Essences
           of
           spices
           and
           floures
           (
           as
           of
           Cinnamom
           ,
           Cloues
           ,
           Mace
           ,
           Nutmegs
           ,
           Rosemary
           ,
           Sage
           ,
           &c
           )
           being
           in
           the
           forme
           of
           powders
           ,
           may
           with
           lesse
           danger
           be
           caried
           at
           sea
           ,
           are
           more
           apt
           to
           be
           mixed
           and
           incorporated
           with
           Syrupes
           ,
           ●●leps
           or
           Conserues
           ,
           are
           more
           pleasing
           to
           nature
           ,
           and
           are
           more
           familiarly
           taken
           ,
           and
           with
           better
           successe
           then
           the
           chymicall
           oyles
           themselues
           ,
           drawen
           by
           limbecke
           :
           their
           effects
           are
           answerable
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           oyles
           .
        
         
           Thus
           much
           I
           am
           bold
           to
           offer
           and
           publish
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           sea-faring
           men
           ,
           who
           for
           the
           most
           part
           are
           destitute
           both
           of
           learned
           Physitions
           and
           skilfull
           Apothecaries
           :
           and
           therefore
           haue
           more
           neede
           then
           others
           to
           cary
           their
           owne
           defensatiues
           and
           medicines
           about
           them
           .
           Which
           if
           it
           shall
           receiue
           enterteinement
           according
           to
           the
           worth
           thereof
           and
           my
           iust
           expectation
           ,
           I
           may
           happily
           be
           encouraged
           to
           prie
           a
           little
           further
           into
           Natures
           Cabinet
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           disperse
           some
           of
           her
           most
           secret
           Iewels
           ,
           which
           she
           hath
           long
           time
           so
           carefully
           kept
           ,
           onely
           for
           the
           vse
           of
           her
           dearest
           children
           :
           otherwise
           ,
           finding
           no
           speedy
           or
           good
           acceptance
           of
           this
           my
           proffer
           (
           but
           rather
           crossed
           by
           malice
           or
           incredulity
           )
           I
           doe
           here
           free
           and
           enlarge
           my selfe
           from
           raine
           owne
           fetters
           :
           purposing
           to
           content
           my
           spirits
           ,
           with
           such
           priuate
           and
           pleasing
           practises
           ,
           as
           may
           better
           sort
           with
           my
           place
           and
           dignitie
           ,
           and
           in
           likelyhood
           prooue
           also
           more
           profitable
           in
           the
           ende
           ,
           then
           if
           I
           had
           thankelesly
           deuoted
           my selfe
           to
           
             Bo●
             Public●●
          
           .
           In
           which
           course
           ,
           happy
           men
           are
           sometimes
           rewarded
           with
           good
           words
           :
           but
           few
           or
           none
           ,
           in
           these
           dayes
           ,
           with
           any
           reall
           recompense
           .
        
         
           
             
               Vt
               Deus
               per
               Naturam
               ,
               sic
               Natura
               per
               ignem
               Philosophicum
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             H.
             P.
             Miles
             .
          
        
      
    
     
  

