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.
Author
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 17, 2024.
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Corvus.
The carrion Crow is generally condemned, and wor∣thily despised of all men: As also the Cadesse or Jac∣daw, which is not more unhappy in conditions, then bad of nourishment.
Now we are come to treat of small Birds of the land, which we will divide according to the order of the Al∣phabet: having first admonished you, that no small Birds must be overmuch sodden, or dry roasted: for then their nourishing moisture is soon taken out; neither are they to be given to strong stomacks, lest they be con∣verted into choler, whenelse they would wholly turn into good blood. Finally, young Birds must not hang long before they be dressed; for they are of an airy sub∣stance
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which will soon be evapourated. But let us consider every one particularly in his place.