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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Milk.

Which is an incomparable Food, and the best way for weak consumptive People to eat it, is Raw▪

Take what quantity of Milk you please, let it stand open to the Air one Hour or two, then skimm off the Top of it, and eat it with well bak'd Bread; neither toast your Bread, nor warm your Milk; except the weather be cold, and then you may make it blood warm, but then do not toast your Bread: You may if you please, eat Bisket with your Milk,

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but do not eat too great a quantity at once: some∣times you may mix a little Water with the Milk, and sweeten it with good white Sugar: you may eat this three times aday, if you make it your sole Food. Continue this six or eight Months at least▪ and you will find great Benefit by it: for Distem∣pers that have been many years generating, can∣not be cured in a moment,

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