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 May 17, 2024.
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Fabae.
Beans were first a field fruit, howsoever (to make them more sappy) they have lately been set and kept in gardens. Pythagoras forbad his Scholers to eat of them (especially coming once to be great and black-taild) be∣cause they hinder sleep and procure watchfulness (for which cause they were given to Iudges as they sate down in judgement) or else in sleep cause fearful and troublesome dreams, as you may read in Tullius second book of Divination; wherefore howsoever Camathe∣rus (Immanuel Commenaeus his Secretary) ventured for them, or men now affect them in these dayes; assuredly they are a very hurtful meat, unless they be eaten very young, and sod in fat broth, and afterwards (being freed of their husk) be eaten in the beginning or midst of meal, buttered throughly and sufficiently sprinkled with gross pepper and salt; then will they nourish much, and too too much encrease seed to lusty wantons.