The good house-wife made a doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent and cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children by diet and kitchin-physick only : with some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry / by Thomas Tryon.

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Author:	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Title:	The good house-wife made a doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent and cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children by diet and kitchin-physick only : with some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry / by Thomas Tryon.
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.

The Contents.

EVERY Good House-wife MADE A Doctor, &c.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

How Milk ought to be eaten as it is entire.

An excellent way of preparing Milk with Wheat-Flower.

Another good way of ordering Milk.

Of Boniclapper, its Nature & Operation.

CHAP. III.

A very excellent healthy Food for all sorts of Ages, but more especially for Chil∣dren and sickly People.

CHAP. IV.

CHHP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

CHAP. XI.

CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XIII.

CHAP. XIV.

CHAP. XV.

CHAP. XVI.

CHAP. XVII.

CHAP. XVIII.

CHAP. XIX.

CHAP. XX.

CHAP. XXI.

CHAP. XXII.

CHAP. XXIII.

CHAP. XXIV.

Another, or new way to make Cyder.

CHAP. XXV.

CHAP. XXVI.

CHAP. XXVII.

CHAP. XXIII.

Another sort of good Sallade.

Another.

Anoher.

Another.

Another warming chearing Sallad.

Sallads for the Winter.

Or you may make it thus:

Of the most proper times for eating of Sallads

How to supply the want of Oyl in Sallets, where Persons do not love it, or cannot have it.

CHAP. XXIX.

Another sort of Herb-Pottage,

To make Garlick or Onion Pottage.

CHAP. XXX.

Another way of making Wormwood-Ale or Beer.

CHAP. XXXI.

CHAP. XXXII.

Rules and Directions for suh as are Wise and Well minded, and would prevent the Scurvey, and other Diseases.

Observing the tedious methods of some unskilful Chyrurgeons, to∣gether with their improper Compo∣sitions and unnatural Applycati∣ons, which do not only Ruin and Vndo many poor necessitous Peo∣ple, but to the losing of their Limbs, and sometimes their Lives too; therefore I think it no worth∣less Service to recommend unto the World, especially to the poor, the use of the following Remedies, which are not only cheap and easily Come-at-able, but certain in their Opperation, far beyond any things hitherto known or published, viz.

Another.

THE CONCLUSION.