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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Title: 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.
Publication: London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Diet -- Early works to 1800.; Food -- Early works to 1800.; Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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Potado-roots are now so common and known amongst us, that even the husbandman buyes them to please his wife. They nourish mightily, being either sodd, baked, or rosted. The newest and heaviest be of best worth, engendring much flesh, bloud, and seed, but withall en∣creasing wind and lust. Clusius thinks them to be In∣dian Skirrets, and verily in taste and operation they re∣semble them not a little.