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
- “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
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
- “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
- [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
Category
Medicine & Science
Authors
SHORT, Richard
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
English
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete