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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Title: 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.
Publication: London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Diet -- Early works to 1800.; Food -- Early works to 1800.; Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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Livers.

Livers of all beasts give but gross nourishment, and are hardly concocted, and of slow passage; unless it be of sucklings, or of young swine fed with pure meat. The Livers of tame fowl, as Hens, Capons, chickens, duck∣lings and geese, fatted with wholsom and white meat, please the taste, clear the eye-sight, agree with the sto∣mack, and encrease bloud. Cranes Livers sod in the broth of cicers asswage the pain of the back and kidneys, but they are of a small and bad nourishment. The Li∣vers of Larks and Snites are very sweet and restorative, as also of a Woodcock, which hath of all other birds (for proportion of his body) the greatest Liver.