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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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How meats differ in temperature and distemperature.

3. As there is a certain temperature and distempera∣ture of our bodies, so likewise is there in meats; that tem∣perate bodies should feed of their likes, and distempered of their contraries. Wherefore God hath appointed some meats hot onely in the first degree, &c.