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 20, 2024.
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Sorbi.
[ C] Cervises (like to Medlers) are then truely ripe, when they are rotten; if you would chuse the best, chuse the biggest, most poulpy, and voidest of stones. They are cold in the first degre, and dry in the third, giving lit∣tle nourishment; but staying fluxes, preventing drunk∣enness, strengthening the stomach, and making a sweet breath; their great astringency sheweth that they are to be eaten last, for otherwise they wil bind the body, burden the stomach, and engender very gross humours. Pliny maketh four kind of Cervisses, one as round as an Ap∣ple, another bottled like a Peare, the third ovale made like an egg. The Apple-cervise is most sweet, fragrant, and nourishing, the other of a most winy tast; the fourth kind of Cervisse is a very little one, called the Torment-Cerviss allowed for nothing but that it ceaseth the tor∣ments of bloody fluxes.
Cherries were neither brought into Italy nor Eng∣land
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till Lucius Lucullus returned from his victory against Mithridates; whereof there are chiefly four sorts amongst us.