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 June 2, 2024.
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Barbellio.
[ B] Barbels are counted nothing but bearded-mullets; It is most likely that this is the fish dedicated to Diana the Goddess of chastity; for it is a very cold, moist and gel∣lied fish, hurting the sinews, quenching lust, and great∣ly * 1.1troubling both head and belly, if it be usually and much * 1.2eaten of; some eat it hot after it is sodden in wine vine∣gar, time, and savory (which is a good way to correct it) others eat it cold laid in gelly, which onely agreeth with hot and aguish stomachs in Summer time; assuredly the eggs or spawne of Barbels is very sharp, griping and corrosive, driving many into bloody fluxes that have eaten them fasting.