Peri psychroposias, of drinking water against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge
by SHORT, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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1656 HEALTH 1ed Drinking Water in 1600s England BEER WINE Opium Medicine Short
Richard Short's "Of Drinking Water" is a rare, 17th-century treatise on health and well-being in 1600s England. Published in 1656, Short's popular work was written at a time when the majority of drinking water was not safe for most people and was distrusted as a regular drink (Pope). In fact, one of the chapters found in this treatise was called "That our English beer is better then [sic] water". This chapter was not on the taste and preference of the two beverages, but rather on the safety of consuming one over the other. Other topics considered by Short included:
· Elderly and children are to avoid drinking water
· The virtues of drinking English beer
o "experience that beer is healthful"
· Consuming opium and poppy along with water
· That wine is absolutely better than water
· Effects of water on heart palpitations, gout, and dropsy
Item number: #24969
Price: $2500
SHORT, Richard
Peri psychroposias, of drinking water against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge
London: Printed for John Crook ..., 1656. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [32], 173, [1]
· References: Wing S 3528; Norman 1943; ESTC R33813; Peter Pope, "Historical Archaeology and the Demand for Alcohol in 17th-century Newfoundland"
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15cm x 9.5cm)
· Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable with auction records at over $3500
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- 24969
- Title
- Peri psychroposias, of drinking water against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge
- Author
- SHORT, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- for John Crook
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1656
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1656 HEALTH 1ed Drinking Water in 1600s England BEER WINE Opium Medicine Short, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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