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 17, 2024.
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For whom large, or sparing Suppers be most convenient.
Nevertheless I do not so generally set this down, as that it is best for all persons, but for them onely which be sound and in health: for if any be troubled with great headache, or rhumes, or nightly torments of any part, their Supper ought to be very little, slender and dry, and also to be taken very timely in the evening; that na∣ture being freed all night time of other offices, may on∣ly attend concoction of the diseases cause.
Last of all, I except also them which have long been
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accustomed to small Suppers and long Dinners; because the imitation of a long custome (though it be evill) breedeth no common or petty danger. Laurence Iou∣bertin his eigth Paradox written to Camusius the King of France his Secretary, wonderfully striveth to oppugne this opinion; but profitting no more with his head and hands, then the mouse in the tar-barrel doth with her feet; for when he hath done all that he can, he onely proveth that better digestion is in the day time, and not better concoction, as hereafter (upon some other occa∣sion) I will plainly demonstrate to the learned.