Nastureia aquatica.
Water-cresses and Town-cresses nourish raw and cold stomachs very well: but for hot or indifferent stomachs they are of a contrary nature. Xenophon saith, that the * 1.1Persians children going to School, carry nothing with
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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"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 15, 2024.
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them to eat and drink, but Cresses in the one hand and Bread in the other, and an earthen cruse at their girdle to take up water in: whereby we may perceive that they agree well with moist natures, and such as are ac∣customed to drink water: Otherwise no doubt they nourish nothing, but rather over heat and burn the blood.
As for Anise, Blites, Blood-wort, Broom-buds, Ga∣pars, Calamint, Clary, Dill, Fennel, Galangal, Hisope, Marigolds, Mustard-seed, Mints, Nettles, Orache, Patience, Primroses, Rosemary, Saffron, Sage, Sam∣phire, Savory, Tamarisk, Tansy, Tarragon, Time, Violets and Wormwood: howsoever they are used sometimes in broths, pottage, farrings, sawces, salads and tansies; yet no nourishment is gotten by them, or at the least so little, that they need not, nor ought not to be count∣ed amongst nourishments.
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1 Cyropaed.