The English mountebank: . or, a physical dispensatory, wherein is prescribed, many strange and excellent receits of Mr Marriot, the great eater of Grays-Inn: with the manner how he makes his cordial broaths, pills, purgatious [sic], julips, and vomits, to keep his body in temper, and free from surfeits. With sundry directions, 1 How to make his cordial broath. 2 His pills to appease hunger. 3 His strange purgation; never before practised by any doctor in England. 4 The manner and reason, why he swallows bullets & stones. 5 How he orders his bak'd meat, or rare dish on Sundays. 6 How to make his new fashion fish-broath. 7 How to make his sallet, for cooling of the bloud. 8 How to make his new dish, called a frigazee: the operation whereof, expells all sadness and melancholy.
John Marriott (d.1653)
Category
Books
Date
1871
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3077769
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 p. . ill.. . 4to.. The general title pages are loose and have been inserted into parts 1 and 16 respectively. manuscript inscription on verso of paper cover: No. 58. - Only 100 copies printed. E.W. Ashbee.. Binding: Printed paper covers; loosely stitched (3 holes); deckled edges.
Makers and roles
John Marriott (d.1653) Edmund William Ashbee