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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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    Of Frefb-WAter divide them in name though they agree in nature. Old writers hardly vouchfafc to mention them, becaufe they were onely efteemed as beggers meat •, the very feeling andfmell.ofthem, (hew, that a Tench is but a muddy and (limy fi(h. AlbemsXmng 1252 years after Chrift, was the fir ft that ever wrote of the nature of the Tench. Hisflefb is (lopping, flimy, vifcous, and very unwhole- fome 5 and (as Alexander-'BtnediStus writeth) of a moft unclean and damnable nourifhraent. Antoniut GiC^hs faith, that a fried Tench is a fecret poifon: and I remem¬ ber that Dr. C(i]us (whofe learning I reverence) was wont to call Tenches good plaifters,but bad nourilhers. Tor indeed being outwardly laid to the foies of ones feet, they oftentimes draw away the ague;, but inward¬ ly taken they engender palfies, flop the lungs, putrifie in the ftomach, and bring a man that much eats them to infinite difeafes ^ they are very hard of digeftion, bur- denfome to the ftomach, encreafing flimy nourilhment, and breeding palfies, and appoplexies in the head: from May to November they are very dangerous-, after¬ wards, hot cholerkk and labouring men may be refrefh- ed by them, but none elfe: they are word being fried, beft being kept in gelly,made ftrong of wine andfpices. . Urnbr^. Umbers have a dry and whitifh fle(h, like the flefh of gray-trouts, being of the like fubftance , quality and : gdodnefs, and needing no other preparation. The belly of it is preferred before the other parts, and is whole- fomeft in the Dog.daies. Pifanellus faith that it is called; UmbrA in Latin, becaufe it fwimmeth in the river like flvaddow-, and he commcndeth it exceedingly for young pgiui® • andhotftomacks, asthat alfo it jsibon concodifed and encreafethfeed. CHAP. I .4-- I I.':