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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

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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$Jo.Mar.aGrad. c.de appecitu. Arhcp.Vi-c.x Guagninus in Tare. b.20. cap,2, A,L. liib. defan.tu. ]^in kii/C 41: Of MILK. of us. Firft therefore if any naturally loath it (as trm Afenenfis did from the day of his birth) it cannot poflibly give him any good nouriihment, but perhaps very much hurt in offending nature. If contrariwife any with love nothing elfe, or with the poor^^’^^- mans can get no otheTmeat^or with the Tartarims and Arabians feed moft often and willingly on milk:, lee them all remember thefe three lelTons. Horn 0\tilk is to be eaten and ujed^ in tim^of health. Firft that they , drink or eat the milk of no horned beaft unfodden^for fo will it not eafily curdle nor engen* derwind; but Womens milk, i^ffesmilk, and Mares milk, need no other fire to prepate it, for it wjll never curdle into any hard fubftance.. Secondly to be fui*e that milk fliall not curdle, feafon it with fait, fuger., or hony ^ - and neither drink any wine or foure thing upon it, nor mingle it with other meats, but eat it upon an empty ; ftomack, and faft aahour after it. Thirdly exercife not , | prefently upon it,neitherfleep upon any milk taken from 1 bcafts chewing the cud , and when you have eaten it 7 Wwifh your recthclean, for there is no greater enemy unto them then milk it felf, which therefore nature ; hath chiefly ordained for them, who never had or have i loft their teeth. Andtruely(as Uarctlim Flcinffsm- teth) Milk is not to be ufed of young men, who have V; found teeth given them for ftronger meat,but of/fuch as either have none at all, or very few and weak one s •, or. though they have ftrong teeth.want ability and ftrength to fet them a grinding as itfalleth out in them that are - fallen into Fever Hefticks. Wherefore when wife to Dendtim Neroemkd 500 fhe AlFes (ihod with gold) continually about with her, to bath her body in their milk once a week, and to drink of it every day, to-make her skin clear and finooth without wrinckles: ; ’ ' ^ . fhe$