Physiologia, or, The doctrine of nature, comprehended in the origin and progression of human life ; the vital and animal functions; diseases of body and mind; and remedies prophylactic and therapeutic / by Thomas Frewen.

  • Frewen, Thomas, 1704-1791.
Date:
1780
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    at prefent in fome repute j but, before the ufe of other things here mentioned, the vinous liquor, made of honey and water, was in the higheft eftimation. The bees were natural purveyors, and their ftores were one of the firft delicacies, probably, of the human race. It was very natural to attempt the me- liorating fo raw a drink as water, by an addi- « tion of this fweet fubftance ; and fuch a mixture needed only time for fermentation to become vinous: accident foon lead to this difcovery. , Mead, therefore, may naturally be fuppofed to have been one of the firft ftrong liquors in ufe in the world • and among the old writers, among the Greeks, we find it named as a thing well known. Homer, Heffod, and Ariftophanes, all give plain proofs of their having been acquainted with it j and Orpheus reprefents Night counfelling 'Jupiter to make Saturn drunk with mead, and then to dethrone, and caftrate him. The people who have ftudied the human frame, all agree, that, among the ftrong drinks, wine is the moft pernicious; and that good watery milky and cyder, are greatly pre- ferable