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BENNET, Christopher (1617 – 1655)

BENNET, Christopher (1617 – 1655)

1617 – 1655

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1655 CE

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Health's improvement, or rules for preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffet, Doctor in physick: Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.

MOFFET, Thomas (Muffet, Mouffet, Moffett) (1553 – 1604)
BENNET, Christopher (1617 – 1655)
BENNET, Christopher (1617 – 1655)

Moffet's work in nutrition was collected in his book Health's Improvement, which was designed more for the layman than for physicians. It also contains the first list of British wildfowl, recognizing for the first tim…