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A15052	The tree of humane life, or, The bloud of the grape Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreme old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine. By Tobias Whitaker Doctor in Physick of London.	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	1638 (1638)	STC 25356; ESTC S119853	23,147	94

either White Claret or Rhenish in their order observing the seasons with the inclination of celestiall orbes and the measure Iuventus being more hot and dry must also apply himselfe to these forenamed Wines somewhat more dilute which is easily effected by water Virile age holds out a cup of more rich Claret from 35 to 49. and goeth out with a draught of the smallest Sacke Which Senectus makes stronger by addition of Aligants and the richest Sacks and Muscadine and continueth them unto the last period of life Thus have I now applied it generally to every age and briefly cleered my proposition As for the Sex male or female betweene these I shall make no difference of temper Nor doe I give eare to some that make foule stirre de Lana Caprina or to prove divers temperaments of Sexes and that the procreation of women is more in the left then in the right side Ergo they must bee more cold and more weake But whatsoever they fancy this is only to bee observed without any further dispute That temperaments are not conflate out of heate more obtuse or vehement but depend on the perfusion and consent of the foure Elements Therefore having distinctly discoursed of temperaments I have also included Sexes As for the manner of using this subject Thus it is as followeth Hitherto I have taught the nature and use of Wine both Philosophically and medically and how familiar a nutriment it is to man and still say it must bee so both in respect of its substance and forme else I understand not Aristotle his alimentum simile and dissimile For although all aliment of what substance soever must receive forme of heate before it bee converted into bloud by which it doth nourish both fluent and fixt heate in us Yet such nor so apt is any substance for forme to sanguifie or nourish as Wine and if it be possible it will augment innate heate and moisture For 't is oyle not water that augments the flame a proportion observed else it puts it out so that it is the true Nectar by the use whereof Principles of life are augmented naturall humours multiplied spirits refreshed strength restored care expelled and bodies in youthfulnesse conserved To conclude 't is all in all to a naturall body For although in generall aliment is said to bee liquid airie and solid yet 't is humidity that nourisheth For medicament also I have proved it proper The Arabian Phisicians are of opinion that to take this liquor once every moneth in such a quantitie as shall be approved by the learned Phisicians is wholsome Phisicke it doth much recreate the Animal faculties reconcile sleep provoke urine and sweat dissolve superfluities and they affirme it to cure the Quartane with other diseases circumstances conducing to the profitable use of it after this manner which circumstances I obscure because I am desirous to entertaine time with substance only Custome is to be mentioned as somewhat substantiall for it over-ruleth the rest and the time generally most fit to receive Wine is with meate and then such Wine as best fitteth the temper of the Individuall But those that meane to use this subject rightly must not be without their Phisitian or out of their view for let their temper or distemper bee what it will so it be not some fatall stroke or wound by the wisdome of the Phisitian and his skill they may sinsibly perceive the prolongation of their life and by this meanes which is so pleasant to universall Nature The Chymist his best Rhetorick is exercised about the pleasantnesse of his extract smalnesse of quantitie But here I present a taste for pleasure beyond all mineralls forsafetie 't is incomparable either with them or Vegetals Excesse in this may be more easily repaired nor is the offence in nature of so great moment Now because there will be some difficultie in getting true naturall Wine without sophistication therefore I should thinke it fit were it so pleasing to Authority whereunto I humbly submit that as it hath beene heretofore with us and is still in other Countryes Apothecaries might have libertie to sell it and so by the direction of the Phisitian to make many medicate Wines fitted and in readinesse upon all occasions But that I may draw to a conclusion I will briefly lay downe or rather take up two maine objections one moved by Galen the other from the sacred Scripture apprehended erroniously both indeed at the first view or blast will seeme to shake both my foundation and edifice also Galen after all his ratiocination is raised out of his Urne and presents to me in his Commentary upon the Aphorismes these words Wine debilitateth as Venus and Frambesarius makes bold with his doctrine and delivereth it for a truth and in these words Vinum Venusque nocent eodem modo The objection I confesse is instar omnium and very materiall whether hee be taken to speake of the use or excesse of Wine In the first sence it doth oppose all that I have formerly taught and proved in the last a fit opposition to Avicenna Rhasis and Averrohes they advising wine once a moneth usque ad obrietatem Now if Galen bee not understood to speake of excesse then as I have said before neither Wine nor Venery can hurt debilitate and weaken the body for both rightly used are profitable the one to preserve the individual the other to propagate the species and venus as well as vinum both exhilarate the minde cheare the spirits refrigerate the body and cause sleepe So that at the first view Galen doth seeme to speake of excesse only or principally But that I may reconcile him with the Arabian Phisitians my part is now to explicate and render him in his owne proper sence and meaning This exception is not so much or principally against the quantity as the qualitie and misapplication both in respect of time and temper As when the quality of wine exceedeth in strength the temper of the body to which it is given and at a time unseasonable as upon a fasting stomacke and then to exercise the act of Venery intemperatly upon it and in this sence is Galen to bee conceived chiefly But I apprehend Plato and Ambrosius in another sence meerely distasting the nimium ebriety and intoxication in a voluptuous way and to speake truth after such manner abused 't is poyson both to mind and body inflameth the bloud debilitateth the nerves vexeth the head and to bee short is worse then any poyson For this cause Moses not only calleth it Venenum but the poyson of Dragons which admitteth of no cure Therefore Wine in this manner taken and according to this sence is more detestable for the strongest poyson of Animalls or minerals can but vulnerate the flesh but wine is powerfull to wound the soule Yet such is my candid censure of those Arabian Princes in Medicine that they never used it after this manner themselves or advised it in a voluptuous way to others

offer them medicinally to publike view The qualities generally received amongst Phisitians are to nourish Et super omnia alimentā if you will accept the testimony of Galen It doth also evacuate corroborate correct putrefaction open obstructions exhilarate the spirits and what more is wanting or needfull for the preservation or restauration of life and health then these except we should preferre circumstance before substance nor can there be any thing more securely practised then that which is so familiar to nature and universall principles of mixt bodies or humane tempers or so undoubtedly knowne to us in our Region in any of these respects incomparable either with vegetall or minerall For though we be very curious in our scrutation wee shall find either a difference irreconciliable in their figure or quality and for the last if it bee argued home in most drugges it will put us or rather force us to our hidden quality and if wee speake of remote drugges which are transported from other Regions then I dare bee bold to say wee know them not at all or not in such a degree of perfection as wee ought considering the frequent use of them However the use of them cannot but be doubtfull for if we know them either wee cannot have them or else such is their alteration and change in transportation as must force us to fault the Ancients for their high commendation of them we finding either no such vertues as they affirme of them or none so effectuall as they avouch To this purpose Christophorus Barri a Iesuite in his relation to the Pope of Cochin-china professeth that the rhubarb which hee brought with him from thence was so changed in transportation from what it was as that he did not know it to bee the same thing either by the vertue or colour of it And Symphorianus a learned Phisitian hath adventured to challenge most of our pharmacall compositions upon this very ground and doth affirme the chiefe ingredients to be altogether unknowne or found in the shops of European Apothecaries For better satisfaction take this expression in his owne words Sed quòd res quasdam vel non afferri vel non sine macula vel in totum ignorari puto ea sunt balsamus Cardamomum Myrrha Nardus indica Cassia Scordium Cinnamomum radix Pentaphylli Calamus odoratus Xylobalsamum Now if no man hitherto hath answered his challenge which for my owne part I suppose unanswerable Then let us view our Pharmacopea and judge what use can be made of our greatest compositions How uncertaine how unsafe the practice of them which in a plaine expression is but pugnare contra hostem clausis oculis I could start other doubts about many other things much in use amongst us as Unicornes horne and Bezoard-stone or such like but my intention is not to enter into controversie yet desire either to be better informed or else to informe others for which cause I now fall upon this subject so well knowne to all Nations that there is such a thing as Wine and that this or that is without question such a kind of wine and familiarly used in this or that place And if I prove not the aforesaid qualities to be in it I neither looke to satisfie my selfe nor the reader Therefore that which was last in my intention shall now bee first in execution And though I make not an Index of Authors yet now my arguments shall be altogether a Testimonie not doubting in our subsequent discourse to cleere the point more artificially The first then is That wine nourisheth above all other aliment they that have read Galen know these are his words translated Indeed some nourish more some lesse according to their specificall quality as Vina aquea perexiguum alimentum corpori praebent quae verò crassa sunt colore rubea plus alimenti habent quàm reliqua vina Gal. Secondly that it doth corroborate Vinum confortat spiritum ad spiritum convertitur fortificat virtutem Avicenna Thirdly that it doth evacuate Vivacrassa dulciaque quod alvum deijciant nemini ferè ignotum est sicut mustum quod tametsi aegrè concoquatur crassumque succum inflationes faciat alvum tamen movet Gal. Fourthly that it doth open obstructions Vinum dulce vehementer aperit oppilationes pulmonis Avicenna Fiftly that it doth exhilarate the spirits take sacred Scripture so that hitherto I have cleered and plainly discovered these qualities in wine medically and confirmed all by ancient classick authority Yet if further satisfaction be expected then looke upon the qualities of Wine in grosse as they are obviously laid downe by most or all the chiefest Ancients White wine may bee adhibited in all acute and hot distempers ut voluit Hippo. Sweet wine in cold diseases because it heateth the body more yet cum calefactione temperata Gal. No White wine is sweet and that which is pure and subtile moveth Urine very much leaveth no impression in the head because it doth not manifestly heate it doth sensibly refrigerate and is commanded to bee administred in febre continua Gal. Wine in generall taken moderately doth purge choler by Vrine exhilarate the mind and refresh the senses Wine also that is dilute may safely be given in Fevers and White wine doth manifestly refrigerate and cleanse the lungs sweet Wines also may be taken in acute passions as Plurisies and inflāmations of lungs to provoke expectoration when the matter is digested according to Oribasius Haliabbas Constantius Monachus Wine also that is white subtile and thinne is not turbulent to the stomack but of easie digestion soone penetrateth the veines provoketh urine and is profitable in Fevers because it doth not make hot the body or disturbe the mind nor offend either braine or nerves But if it bee mixt then it quencheth thirst better if you will credit Isaac the sonne of Salomon an Arabian King Lastly White wine is said to be insipid dilute coagulate with cold because in such are more parts of water then of wine yet under favour in respect of its universall parts there can be no such coagulation as is affirmed by Iohannes Portugalensis once a Pope of Rome These are the generall opinions of the Ancients But reason still urgeth to prove further the possibility of these seeming contraries in one and the same nature as to open and shut or shut and open to corroborate and weaken or to weaken and strengthen and that these contrary acts should appeare together at the same time in the same subject to whom it is applyed As that wine as you have heard should generally evacuate excrements of the body or particularly purge bilious matter by urine and yet the same specificall wine shall corroborate the whole and every part it worketh upon at the same time But when I consider or contemplate the super-excellency of this plant in a naturall perfection and mixture transcending all other vegetals as doth plainly appeare by the purity of its nature in it selfe and