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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 theFlefhof wUdBeafis, J'J which with us, above all other Nations is fo common a ^ • j. meat. For asnever bred, nor foftered them, fo- ' ‘ '* in all Grece they hardly lived. ' Here (thanks be to God) they are plentiful, in fuch fort that Alberne Chafe affbrd- eth above a hundred thoufand couple a year, to the bene¬ fit of good houfe-keeping, and the poors maintenance. Rabbet fuckers are beftin March, agreeing as well with old meiancholick dry, and weak ftomacks, as difagreeing with ftrohg and moift complexions. A Midfomer Rab¬ bets flelli is Icfs moift and more nourilhing ^ but a Mi¬ chaelmas or Winter Rabbet is of firm, wholefome, tem- perate,and moft laudable flefli: beft roafted,becaufe their nourilhing juice is foon foked out with the leaft Teeth¬ ing, making good broth and bad meat. Chufe the Fe¬ male before the Male, the fat before the kan, and both from out a chalky ground and a fWeet laire. Hedgheggs. Wheniconfideredhow cleanly the Hedghoggfeed- eth,namely upon Cows milkCif he can come by it) or up¬ on fruit and maft •, I (aw no reafon to difcontinue this meat any longer upon fomefantafticaldiflike-, fith books, nature and experience hath commended it unto us. For as Martial made Hares flefli the daintieft difli of the Ro- * «f mans, (b in Hippeeratcs time the Hedghogg was not of leaft account among the Grecians •, which he commend- eth for an excellent nourifhment, were it not (brnething]as.Prar. too moift and diuretical. Nay (as fome affirm)it nourifli- eth plentifully, procureth appetite and fleep, ftrength- nethTravailerSjpreferveth Women with child from mif- jo. Nccker, carryingjdiflblvethknotsand kernelly tumours,helps the Syntax.?- Lepry,ConfumptiQn, Pally, Dropfie, Stone, andCon- vulfion; onely it is forbidden unto Meiancholick and Flegmatick perfons, and fuch as are vexed with Piles or Heinorhoids. Squirrels