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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most stomacks: Others upon bitter weeds and roots, which maketh them as bitter as gall, of which though we have none in our Seas or Rivers, yet in the Island of of Pene and Clazomene they are very common: Also (if Pliny may be credited) about Cephalenia, Anipelos, Paros and the Delian rocks, fish are not only of a sweet taste, but also of an aromatical smell: whether it is by eating of sweet roots, or devouring of amber and ambre-grice. Some also feed and fat themselves neer to the common∣sewers, sincks, chanels and draughts of great Cities; whose chiefest meat is either carrion or dung; whereas indeed the proper meat for fish, is either flies, frogs, grashop∣pers, young fry and spawne, and chiefly certain wholsom roots, herbs, and weeds, growing in the bottom or sides of Seas and Rivers. Caesar, Crasus, and Curius fed them with livers and flesh; so also did the Hieropolitans in Venus lake. In Champagny they fed them with bread; yea Vidius Pollio fed them with his condemned Slaves, to make them the more fat and pleasant in taste. But neither they that are fed with men, nor with garbage or carrion nor with citty-filth, nor with any thing we can devise, are so truely sweet, wholsome, and pleasant, as they which in good Seas and Rivers feed themselves, en∣joying both the benefit of fresh aire, agreeable water, and meat cor respondent to their own nature.
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Plin. l. 32. ca▪ ••.
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Plin. l. 32. c. 2.
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Plin. li. 32 c. 2.
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Suet in vita▪ Severi.