s
History of Scotland, contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread: it
was objected to him then living at Paris in France, that his countrymen fed
on oats, and base grain, as a disgrace; but he doth ingenuously confess,
Scotland, Wales, and a third part of England, did most part use that kind
of bread, that it was as wholesome as any grain, and yielded as good
nourishment. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horsemeat, and fitter
for juments than men to feed on. But read Galen himself, _Lib. 1. De cibis
boni et mali succi_, more largely discoursing of corn and bread.

_Wine._] All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong thick drinks, as
Muscadine, Malmsey, Alicant, Rumney, Brownbastard, Metheglen, and the like,
of which they have thirty several kinds in Muscovy, all such made drinks
are hurtful in this case, to such as are hot, or of a sanguine choleric
complexion, young, or inclined to head-melancholy. For many times the
drinking of wine alone causeth it. Arculanus, _c. 16. in 9. Rhasis_, puts
in [1379]wine for a great cause, especially if it be immoderately used.
Guianerius, _tract. 15. c. 2_, tells a story of two Dutchmen, to whom he
gave entertainment in his house, "that [1380]in one month's space were both
melancholy by drinking of wine, one did nought but sing, the other sigh."
Galen, _l. de causis morb. c. 3._ Matthiolus on Dioscorides, and above all
other Andreas Bachius, _l. 3. 18, 19, 20_, have reckoned upon those
inconveniences that come by wine: yet notwithstanding all this, to such as
are cold, or sluggish melancholy, a cup of wine is good physic, and so doth
Mercurialis grant, _consil. 25_, in that case, if the temperature be cold,
as to most melancholy men it is, wine is much commended, if it be
moderately used.

_Cider, Perry._] Cider and perry are both cold and windy drinks, and for
that cause to be neglected, and so are all those hot spiced strong drinks.

Beer.] Beer, if it be over-new or over-stale, over-strong, or not sodden,
smell of the cask, sharp, or sour, is most unwholesome, frets, and galls,
&c. Henricus Ayrerus, in a [1381]consultation of his, for one that laboured
of hypochondriacal melancholy, discommends beer. So doth [1382] Crato in
that excellent counsel of his, _Lib. 2. consil. 21_, as too windy, because
of the hop. But he means belike that thick black Bohemian beer used in some
other parts of [1383]Germany.

------"nil spissius illa
Dum bibitur, nil clarius