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 June 11, 2024.

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The best way to make Herb-Pottage.

Smallage, Clivers, Watercresses, Elder-buds and Nettle-tops; put water to them proportionable to your Herbs; then add Oatmeal as much as you think fit to leave it in thickness: when the Water is ready to boil, put your Herbs in, cut, or uncut; then when it is again ready to boil, take a Spoon or Ladle and lade it, so that you keep it from boiling; do this

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eight or nine minutes, then take it off and eat it blood-warm, with the Herbs in it, or strained; adding a little Butter, Salt and Bread, This is an admira∣ble cleansing Sallad.

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