Health lectures for the people : third series, delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1882-83.
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- 1883
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Credit: Health lectures for the people : third series, delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1882-83. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hearty. High authority can be given for this mixed diet. Hall, Bishop of Exeter, afterwards of Norwich, referring to his own em- ployment, says: One while mine eyes are busied, another while my hand, and sometimes my mind takes the burthen from them both; wherein I would imitate the skilfullest cooks, which make the best dishes with manifold mixtures. You will observe that the variety recommended lies in the material used, much more than in the processes adopted, as we have already noted that they are not very numerous, and may be included under Boiling, Stew- ing, Baking, Boasting, Frying. Let me now present two Interiors for your consideration— the one to be condemned, the other to be imitated. In the first (which is borrowed from Soyer), The husband, who is employed by a railway contractor, and is what the world calls middling well off, arrives home, and asks his wife what he can have for dinner, the hour of her dinner, and that of the children having long passed. What would you like to have? was her question. Anything you have. Let's see 1 why—we have nothing, but I can get you a mutton chop, or steak. Can I have nothing else ; I am tired of chops and steaks. Why, Jamie, what can be better than a chop or a steak? Well, let me have a steak. You had that yester- day ; now, let me get you a chop. I always make it my duty to study your comfort; and I have been reading not long since, that nothing is so wholesome as a change of food, since which time I have made a point of varying our bill of fare, as they call it. Very well, send for two chops. In a few minutes the messenger, whether wife or child, returns, saying she could get no chops, but has got a nice piece of steak. Very well. That will do as well, will it not 1 to her husband, who is reading a periodical. Yes ; but how long will you keep me here before it is done ] Not a minute, just enough to do it well on the gridiron. The fire, however, is not fit for broiling. Well, I shall fry it, she says. The husband, hearing this, exclaims, Drat the frying-pan, it is always so greasy. Then, how would you like to have it 1, Not at all, is his reply, throwing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21450729_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
