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 17, 2024.
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What Milk is best in sickness and consumptions.
Concerning them that be sick, There are few diseases to which milk is not offensive being inwardly taken, ex∣cept the Consumptions of the solid parts called Maras∣mus, the Consumption of flesh, called Atrophia, and the Consumption of the lungs and breathing parts call∣ed Phthisis. For recovery of the first, Cammels milk is preferred before all others, because it is most moist and thin. The second sort is best recovered by sucking milk from a womans brest, as most familiar to our livers and
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blood, needing no preparation (for it is onely blood dis∣coloured) but onely application unto the flesh.
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