Monthly observations for the preserving of health with a long and comfortable life, in this our pilgrimage on earth; but more particularly for the spring and summer seasons. By Phylotheus Phystologus. With allowance.

Title

Monthly observations for the preserving of health with a long and comfortable life, in this our pilgrimage on earth; but more particularly for the spring and summer seasons. By Phylotheus Phystologus. With allowance.

Author

Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.

Publication

London :: printed, and sold, by Andrew Sowle, at the Three Keys in Nogs Head-Court in Grace-Church Street, over-against the Conduit,

1688.

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Subject terms

Health -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• Monthly Observations, For the preserving of HEALTH, &c.
  • Of plain Water-Gruel.
  • Another very commendable way of making Water Gruel.
  • Of the best and most Natural way of making Water-Gruel compound∣ed of Various Ingrediences.
  • Of purging Gruel.
  • How Herb-Gruels, for the Spring, ought to be made, and their Re∣spective Vertues, and first of Elder-buds in Gruel.
  • Of Gruel, with that gallant Herb, Balm.
  • The Vertues of Scurvy Grass Gruel.
  • Gruel made of Alehoof or Ground Ivy.
  • Smallage Gruel.
  • Sage Gruel.
  • An other way of making water Gruel, without being put on the Fire, which is a Summer Gruel.
  • Of moyst Airs.
  • Of the Seasons of the Year, in which all sorts of Flesh are most Unclean, and aptest to contract and breed Diseases, as also the danger of Eating much Green-Fruits.