Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
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London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,
1655.
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Diet -- Early works to 1800.
Food -- Early works to 1800.
Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89219.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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Tame Ducks feed filthly, upon froggs, toades, mud, waterspiders, and all manner of venemous and foul things: Wherefore it is not untruly said of Gesner, that the best part of a Duck are his feathers; for his flesh is hotter then of any tame fowl, and withall toomoist, hard, gross, of slow digestion, and very excremental; yea further∣more, so aguish, that once or twice it brought Galen him∣self into a fever, while he desired to try the operation of it.
Nevertheless young Ducklings fed with grinded malt and cheese curds, drinking nothing but milk (or chalk∣water) wax both white, fat, and soft in flesh, giving much good nourishment, clearing the colour of ones face, a∣mending hoarsness of throats, encreasing seed, and dis∣pelling wind: wherein we may see, that art and diet can make that wholsome, which nature of it self hath made hurtful.