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A89219 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, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London. Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.; Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655. 1655 (1655) Wing M2382; Thomason E835_16; ESTC R202888 187,851 309

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