A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.

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A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.
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Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
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London :: Printed for George Conyers ...,
1694.
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Diet -- Early works to 1800.
Diet in disease.
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"A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63808.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 31, 2024.

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Of Raisins.

Raisins is a good sort of Food, if rightly used; but I think we might well be without them, though they have their uses: For being eaten with Bread, they'll make a wholesome Breakfast or Supper. As for Currants, they are of little worth to any person

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besides the Seller; nor any other sort or Outlandish-Spices, unless they be used physically. The same may be said of Brandy and other Spirits, which often proves profitable, taken in a physical way: But is of fatal consequence, when drunk at every turn.

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