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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Title: 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.
Author: Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Publication: London :: Printed for George Conyers ...,; 1694.
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Subject terms: Diet -- Early works to 1800.; Diet in disease.
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Of Water-Grewel.

This is good for Consumptive People, and is made as followeth. Take a quart of Spring or River Wa∣ter, put to it two Spoonfuls of Oatmeal, then stir it well together, set it on the fire, and when it is ready to boil, take it off, and brew it out of one thing into another; then let it stand, and the great∣est Oatmeal will sink to the Bottom: then pour it off, and add Bread and Salt to it, and Butter if you please, then eat it when it has stood till it is blood warm. This is an Excellent sort of Food.

Observe that Milk boiled, is nothing so good as either Raw or Scalded.