The household manager: being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the the kitchen / By Charles Pierce.

  • Pierce, Charles
Date:
1857
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Credit: The household manager: being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the the kitchen / By Charles Pierce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    joints, com Leef, plainly-boiled vegetables, rhubarb pies, plum pudding, suet dumplings, strong beer, ale, and port wine. The author of “ Count Cagliostro remarks on this subject,—“ The physician said to Cleveland, ‘ You need not alarm yourself if your frame does not glow with the brilliant health of a moun- taineer; if your skin has not the cleaimess, nor your muscles the tone which belongs only to him who is taking constant exercise in a pure atmosphere; yet you have as much health as is perhaps com- patible with a residence in a crowded metropolis, and an habitual participation in its enervating pleasures. What more do you expect or want I’ ” The inhabitants of great cities, as shown by Dr. Combe, were they to adopt the diet of the country, would not only find it objectionable and misplaced, but frequently fatal; and he who does adhere to it, is considered to be “neither merry nor wise.” Nor can every over-prolonged exertion of thought, and every varied succession of excitement, exhaust the nervous power by which digestion is effected. He who eats what he has not earned by the sweat of his brow, taking strong food and strong drink without being made strong himself, by means of exercise and pure air, renders himself liable to every malady, from feverishness to apoplexy, since the sto- mach of voluptuousness cannot cope with strong food. And it was not without deep cause that one of the
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