Mala Persica.
Peaches shew manifestly how change of earth and climate may alter natures; For Columella and divers be∣fore
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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"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 16, 2024.
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Plinies time have recorded, that in Persia (from whence they were brought into Europe) peaches are a deadly poison; but with us the smell of a ripe, tender, and fragrant peach comforteth the heart, and their meat not onely causeth appetite, maketh a sweet breath and cooleth choler, but also easily digesteth and giveth good nourishment. I never saw greater store of good peaches then in Suitzerland; where the poor men fat themselves and their hoggs with them exceedingly when they are in season. All Peaches are to be quartered, and laid in strong wine before they are eaten. Ripe Peaches accor∣ding to Galens rule must be eaten in the beginning of meals, because they are a moist and slippery fruit; but hard and unripe Peaches are best at the end of meat (if ever they are good at all) yea though they be candied or preserved; yet Peaches must be sparingly eaten, for many are dangerous, and killed Theognostus that fine Scholer, so much lamented in the Greek Epigrams. Four good morsels, Peaches, Figs, Melons, and Champignois.
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