A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.

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Author:	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Title:	A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.
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Alternate titles:	Good house-wife made a doctor. Selections
Subject terms:	Diet -- Early works to 1800. Diet in disease.
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Notable Things.

Of Consumptions.

Milk.

To prepare Milk with Wheat-Flower, an Excel∣lent Way.

Another way.

Of Furmety, viz.

Of Boniclabber.

Of Water-Grewel.

An Excellent Food for all sorts of People, ut more-especially▪ for Children and sick People.

Flummery▪

Another way to make Flummery.

Of Bread.

Of Butter

Cheese

Of Puddings.

Of Eggs, and their best way of Dressing.

Of Pyes.

Of Raisins.

Of Oyl.

Of Sugars.

Of Sugar-Candy.

Of the Occasion of Colds and Coughs; and of their Cure.

Of Canary.

Of Sherry.

Of White-wine.

Of Rhenish-wine.

Of Claret.

Of Cyder.

Of Mum.

Of Coffee.

Tea

Of Sallads.

Another.

A Sallad for Winter.

Another.

In Spring.

The best way to make Herb-Pottage.

Another.

To make the best Herb Diet-drink.

To prevent the Scurvy.

An Excellent Poultice,

Another.

How a Man may Live for Two Pence or Three Pence a Day very well.

How the Poor may Subsist well these Hard Times for Two Pence a Day, and Less.

Another Cheap way for the Poor.

To take Ink out of Paper.

How to Bottle Cyder.

How to make Copper-look▪ as well as the Best Silver.