making use of any nauseous or fulsome Mixture; but of Ingredients not altogether so cheap perhaps. Honoratus Faber (no mean Philosopher) shews us another Method by sowing the Seeds steep’d in Vinegar, casting on it a good quantity of Bean-Shell Ashes, irrigating them with Spirit of Wine, and keeping the Beds well cover’d under dry Matts.  Such another Process for the raising early Peas and Beans, &c. we have the like [74]Accounts of:  But were they practicable and certain, I confess I should not be fonder of them, than of such as the honest industrious Country-man’s Field, and Good Wife’s Garden seasonably produce; where they are legitimately born in just time, and without forcing Nature.

But to return again to Health and Long Life, and the Wholesomness of the Herby-Diet, [75]_John Beverovicius_, a Learn’d Physician (out of Peter Moxa, a Spaniard) treating of the extream Age, which those of America usually arrive to, asserts in behalf of Crude and Natural Herbs:  Diphilus of old, as [76]_Athenaeus_ tells us, was on the other side, against all the Tribe of Olera in general; and Cardan of late (as already noted) no great Friend to them; Affirming Flesh-Eaters to be much wiser and more sagacious.  But this his [77]Learned Antagonist utterly denies; Whole Nations, Flesh-Devourers (such as the farthest Northern) becoming Heavy, Dull, Unactive, and much more Stupid than the Southern; and such as feed much on Plants, are more Acute, Subtil, and of deeper Penetration:  Witness the Chaldaeans, Assyrians, AEgyptians, &c.  And further argues from the short Lives of most Carnivorous Animals, compared with Grass Feeders, and the Ruminating kind; as the Hart, Camel, and the longaevous Elephant, and other Feeders on Roots and Vegetables.

I know what is pretended of our Bodies being composed of Dissimilar Parts, and so requiring Variety of Food:  Nor do I reject the Opinion, keeping to the same Species; of which there is infinitely more Variety in the Herby Family, than in all Nature bessides:  But the Danger is in the Generical Difference of Flesh, Fish, Fruit, &c. with other made Dishes and exotic Sauces; which a wanton and expensive Luxury has introduc’d; debauching the Stomach, and sharpening it to devour things of such difficult Concoction, with those of more easie Digestion, and of contrary Substances, more than it can well dispose of:  Otherwise Food of the same kind would do us little hurt:  So true is that of [78]_Celsus_, Eduntur facilius; ad concoctionem autem materiae, genus, & modus pertineat.  They are (says he) easily eaten and taken in:  But regard should be had to their Digestion, Nature, Quantity and Quality of the Matter.  As to that of Dissimilar Parts, requiring this contended for Variety:  If we may judge by other Animals