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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Percae.
Perches are a most wholesome fish, firm, tender, white, and nourishing. Ausonius calleth them delicias mensae the delight of feasts, preferring them before Pikes, Roches, Mullets, and all other fish, Eobanus Hessus in his poeti∣cal Dietary, termeth them the River-partridges. Dioclesthe Physitian writ a just volumn in the praise of Perches, and Hippocrates and Galen most highly extoll them. They are ever in season, save in March and April, when they spawne. As the oldest and greatest Eele is ever best, so contrariwise the middle Perch and Pike is ever most wholesome. Seeth them in wine-vinegar, water,
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and salt; and then either▪ eat them hot, or cover them in wine-vinegar to be eaten cold: for so they both cool a distempered feverous stomach, and give also much nou∣rishment to a weak body.