Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any business of any kind at dinner-time. The deputation went away lost in admiration at the piety of the com- mandant.—Quarterly Review. According to habit, a certain sum of stimulus is re- quisite to keep up the necessary excitement; and this sum cannot be immediately withdrawn in weak subjects without some risk; in health, perhaps, the experiment may be safely made at all times, and under any circumstances, although it might be wiser to operate the change by degrees ; and, it must, moreover, be recollected, that an habitual drunkard is in a morbid condition, and must be treated accordingly.— Dr. Millingen. In the present state of civilized society, with the provo- catives of the culinary art, and the incentives of highly seasoned food, brandy, and wines, the temptations to excess in the indulgence of the table are rather too strong to be resisted by poor human nature.—Dr. Beaumont. It is probable that a regular mode of living is the most likely to prolong our years, whatever may be that regularity in a comparative point of view. A sober man, who com- mits occasional excesses, is more likely to suffer than ano- ther man who gets drunk every night, provided that these excesses do not differ in regard to the quantity or quality of stimulus. In these melancholy instances, the excite- ment is constant, and the indirect debility which it may produce, has scarcely time to break down the system, ere it is again wound up to its usual pitch, to use the vulgar expression, “ by a hair of the same hound.” The principal attribute of life that renovates, for a while, its moral and its physical exhaustion, is excitability; and a constant excitement is, therefore, indispensable to serve as a fuel to the consuming fire.—Dr. Millingen. The public are apt to run after systems of diet, or ab- stain from dishes proscribed by any great medical writer. Thus, an instance is related of Christmas turkeys and sausages having been peremptorily forbidden to enter the house, after the appearance of Sir Anthony Carlisle’s imbecile book upon diet and old age; and the savoury
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