The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight

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The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight
Author
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
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At London :: Printed by the Widdow Orwin, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes,
[1595]
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Health -- Early works to 1800.
Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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"The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21308.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Mutton.

Galen doth not commend it, notwithstanding expe∣rience proueth here in this Realme, that if it be young, it is a right temperate meate, and maketh good iuyce: and therefore it is vsed more then any other meate in all

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diseases. And yet it is not like good in all places, nor the shéepe which beareth finest wooll, is not the swéetest in eating, nor the most tender. But I haue found in some countries Mutton, which in whitenes, tendernes, and swéetnes of the flesh, might bee well nigh compared to Kid, and in digestion haue proued as holesome.

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