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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    of meat. Some of these days the gentle Londoners will, I hope, make it worth while for clubs and taverns to estabhsh a table d’hote, where variety and conversation are both attainable at a reason- able charge. But not longer to digress., here are my few suggestions, or RULES FOR SPECIAL PRACTICE IN THE COURT OF HEALTH. I. Rise tolerably early and perform your ablutions all over with tepid water. Rub yourself well dry, get as red as a boiled lobster, and take a brisk walk for half an hoiir.l If the stomach craves for food, munch a dry biscuit on your way rejoicing. Note: If a person can bear a cold bath, and finds a quick re- action of warmth, there is not very much the matter with him. II. Take for breakfast one large cup of black tea, with plenty of milk, and very little sugar. Coffee is more heating, but extremely wholesome, made French 1 It is scarcely necessary to allude here to the important function of the skin. The internal machinery has much addi- tional work to get through, when the pores of the covering to the body are allowed to get partially closed up from the absence of the bath, and friction. I
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