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They were wont in a vessel of Amethyst, to make another remedy for drunkenness,that they might drink Wine without danger. Athemtu. If you would otherwisehinder the vapours of the Wine, drink it well tempered with water ; for they aresoonest drunk, that drink strongest Wines. Asrkanusit ith, If thou have drunk toomuch, eat before meat three or four bitter Almonds: t hey are drying, and will drinkup the moystnre, and drive away drunkenness. Plutarch relates, That there was aPhysician with Drusus , who when he had first eaten five or six bitter Almonds, he al-ways conquered at the duel of drunkenness. The powder of Pumex-stone will do asmuch , if the drinker take that first. Thtephraftm faith it is dangerous, unless hedrink abundantly. So Eudemus drank two and twenty Cups j at last he went into aBath, and did not vomit; and supped, so as if he had drank nothing: for by its dry-ing quality, it consumes all the moysture; and being cast into a vessel of new Winethat works, the heat of the Wine is strait allayed. There are other things prepa-red by the Antients, to extinguish drunkenness, as to cat Letticeat the end of Cop-per, for they are very cold: we eat it now first, to procure appetite: whence Martialwrites,

Why do we fir ft eur Lett ice eat IOur Fathers made it their loft meat.

Diofcondes seems to call it Acrcpula, because it hinders drunkenness. Leeks disco sedrunkenness: and he that rakes Saffron before, shall feel no drunkenness. There arealso Herbs and Flowers, that if you make Earlands of them, they will hinder drun-kenness; as Violets, Boses, and Ivy-berries. The ashes of the Bill of a Swallow, pow-dred with Myrrhe, and strewed into the Wine you drink, will keep you secure frotfibeing drunk. Horns the King os Assyria found out this invention. 7 '‘liny. I havesaid how drunkenness may be disposed: now I (hall (hew how men (hall abstain,

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There are many who when they have drank much Wine, that is the worst thing in theworld for them, fall sick* and die ©f it. Now if you would refrain, and abhor Wineand strong drink, because the Fountain Clitorius is too far off ; ler three or four liveeels,put into the Wine, stay there till they die. Let one drink of this Wine, Whois given to drunkenness, and he will loath Wine , aud always hate it, and will ne-ver drink it again: or if he do, he will drink but little, and with much sobriety.Another way: wash aTortois with Wine a good while, and give one of that wineto drink privately, half a cupfnll every morning for three days, and you (hall fee awonderful vertue, Myrepsus, When one complained before the King of the In-dians, that he had Sons born to him, but when once they began to drink a littlewine, they all died; Jarchus answered him thus: It is better for them that they di-ed; for had they lived, they would have all run mad, because they were begodof seedthat was too cold. Therefore your children must abstain from wine,so that they maynot so much as desire it. Wherefore if you have any more Sons born, observe thisrule: fee where an Owl lays her eggs ; and boil her eggs rete, and give them yourchilde to eat; for if the childe eat them before he drinks wine, he will always hate ityand live sober, because bis natural heat is made more temperate, fhtlofiratusy in thelife of Apollonius. ‘Democritus faith, the desire of wine is abolished, with the watryjuice that runs from Vines pruned, if you give it a drunkard to drink, who knowsnot of it,

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