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.
Who was the first Authour or Inventer of making Bread, I will not take upon me to determine. Pliny as∣cribeth it to Ceres; who seeing what hurt came to men by eating of Acorns, devised a means how to pound Corn into Meal, and then to work, form and bake it into loaves and cakes. Pausanias ascribeth it to Arcas, Iupiter, and Calistoes son. But without all question Adam knew it first, whosoever was the first that made it; yea sith it is the strengthner of life, no doubt as he and his son knew how to sow Corn, so they were not ignorant or unpractised in the chiefe use thereof.