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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Subject terms
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.
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Fat Meats.
Fattiness is sensibly found not only in flesh and fish, of every sort, but also in olives, coco's, almonds, nuts, pisticks, and infinite fruits and herbs that give nourish∣ment: Yea in serpents, snails, frogs, and timber-worms it is to be found; as though nature had implanted it in e∣very thing which is or may be eaten of mankind. And verily as too much fattiness of meats glutteth the sto∣mack, decayeth appetite, causeth belchings, loathings, vomitings, and scourings, choaketh the pores, digesteth hardly, and nourisheth sparingly; so if it be too lean and dry on the contrary side (for a mean is best of all) it is far worse, and nourisheth the body no more then a piece of unbuttered stockfish.
Notes
Gal. 5 de alim. fac▪ Isaac de uni••. & partic. diaet.