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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 ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet.

  • Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Date:
1655
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Credit: 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 ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or bird whatfoeverjCalled fitly of Homer by the name of Mortals^ as upon whom more rots, murrens, aches, di-Hud. fcafes and plagues do light, then ufually happen unto men. Nay go to your Raven and Stag, thofe longeft- livers of all the unreafonable breathers feeds not the Raven upon all flefli, eats not the Stag of all herbs, boughs and maft that comes in his way 1 ye feedeth he not fome times upon Snakes and Adders ? Thirdly, the Phyfitians giving of Ample meats to aguifh pcrfons, proveth no more that variety is not good formoftmen, then that becaufe Therptes can hardly carry bis Angle fpeare, therefore Agmewnon fliall not put on his compleat armour. Fourthly, the fedition and tumults foolifhly feared, and raflily prefupppofed to be in meats of divers kinds^, afflifting the ftomach either at the time of concoftion or digeftion, that reafon of all other is moft unreafona¬ ble. For who would or can imagine^ that Man the Epi¬ tome or Abftraft of the whole world, in whom fome- thingof every thing (to fpeak Platonically and yet tru¬ ly) is placed and inferred, could live ever, or long in health without variety of meats f Hippocrates feeing fuch variety of fimples rooted, fprouted and quickned upon the earth, gathereth thereupon very truly and learnedly, that therelye hidden in the earth all kinds of taftes, fmells, liquors, and heats, and that it is not (as fome imagine) a dry and cold duft, void of all taft, heat and moifture. Much more then may I juftly avouch, that many meats may and do beft agree with moft mens ftomachs, in whofe bodies not onely firm flefti,but alfo thin blood, fweet phlegm, bitter gall, and fburifti melancholy is neceflary to be preferved : ^wherefore let hot meats, cold meats, moift meats, dry meats, bitter, meats, fait M m meats