Such Beer may be stronger, but not so wholsom as the other, as Iobertus truly justifieth out of Galen, Paradox dec. 1. Paradox 5. that the seething of such impure waters doth not purge or purifie them, Pliny, lib. 31. c. 3. is of the same Tenent, and P. Crescentius agricult. lib. 1. & lib. 4. c. 11. & c. 45. Pamphilius Herilachus, l. 4. de nat. aquarum, such waters are naught, not to be used,

and by the testimony of Galen, breed Agues, Dropsies, Pleurisies, Splenetick, and melancholy Passions, hurt the Eyes, cause a bad temperature, and ill disposition of the whole body, with bad colour. This Iobertus stiffly maintains, Paradox, lib. 1. part. 5. that it causeth bleer eyes, bad colour, and many loathsome diseases to such as use it:

This which they say, stands with good reason; for as Geographers relate, the water of Astracan breeds worms in such as drink it. Axius, or as now called Verduri, the fairest River in Macedonia, makes all Cattle black that taste of it. Aleacman now Peleca, another stream in Thessaly, turns Cattle most part white, si potui ducas.

I. Aubanus Bohemus refers that Struma, or Poke of the Bavarians and Styrians to the nature of their waters, as Munster doth that of the Valesians in the Alps, and Bodine supposeth the stuttering of some families in Aquitania about Labden, to proceed from the same cause, and that the filth is derived from the water to their bodies.

So that they that use filthy, standing, ill-coloured, thick, muddy water, must needs have muddy, ill coloured, impure, and infirm bodies. And because the body works upon the minde, they shall have grosser understandings, dull, foggy, melancholy spirits, and be really subject to all maner of infirmities.

To these noxious simples, we may reduce an infinite number of compound, artificial, made dishes, of which our Cooks afford us a great variety, as Taylors do fashions in our apparel. Such are Puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed, Baked meats, sowced, indurate meats, fryed, and broyled, buttered meats, condite, powdred, and over-dryed,

all Cakes, Simnels, Buns, Cracknels made with Butter, Spice, &c. Fritters, Pancakes, Pies, Sausages, and those several sawces, sharp, or over sweet, of which Scientia popinæ, as Seneca calls it, hath served those Apician tricks, and perfumed dishes, which Adrian the sixt Pope, so much admired in the accounts of his predecessor Leo decimus; and which prodigious riot, and prodigality, have invented in this age.

These do generally ingender gross humors, fill the stomack with crudities, and all those inward parts with obstructions. Montanus, consil. 22. gives instance in a melancholy Jew, that by eating such tart sawces, made dishes, and salt meats, with which he was overmuch delighted, became melancholy, and was evil affected. Such examples are familiar and common.