Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself.

  • Sydney Whiting
Date:
[between 1850 and 1859]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their particular case. To such, I say, go on and prosper; but there are breakers ahead, and take care that you do not get wrecked on alcohol. From your very vigour you will be enticed to in- dulge, first in small drams, and then larger ones, till it will come to pass, that idtimately your diges- tion is no longer inside you, and a part of you, but in bottles and flasks. At the risk of seeming to treat of matters beneath the attention of the general reader, I shall take my leave by submitting to his attention a little dietary tarifi*, well adapted for my brethren of aU denomina- tions, but especially so for those to whom I now more especially address myself—the fastidious and dainty ones. In my sketch of a httle dinner it may be said, half the world could not afford the delica- cies I name, and all I have to say is, make such selections out of my “rules” as suit your pmse and inclination. I speak, too, of a “ slice out of the joint,” having breathed dire anathemas against joints of all kinds, but I referred to their graceless conduct when served alone, thus compelling the general meal to be made entirely of huge lumps
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