Classic Cook Books: Seventeenth Century

Originally published in London in 1652. " By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called "The New Disease"; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry
other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. Written Originally in Spanish, by Antonio Colmenero of Ledsma, Doctor in Physicke, and faithfully rendred in the English, By Capt. JAMES WADSWORTH."