The art of dining, or, gastronomy and gastronomers.

  • Hayward, A. (Abraham), 1801-1884.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of dining, or, gastronomy and gastronomers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Walker both in his personal peculiarities and manner of telling them. The famous Lord Herbert of Cher- bury says in his Life,— “ It is well known to those that wait in my chamber that the shirts, waistcoats, and other garments I wear next my body, are sweet beyond what either easily can be believed or hath been observed in any one else—which sweetness also was found to be in my breath above others before I used to take tobacco, which towards my latter time I was forced to take against certain rheums and catarrhs that trouble me, which yet did not taint my breath for any long time. I scarce ever felt cold in my life, though yet so subject to catarrhs that I think no man ever was more obnoxious to it; all which I do in a familiar way mention to my posterity, though otherwise they might be thought scarce worth the writing.’ It was said of M. de Fitzjames that he might be rolled in a gutter all his life without contracting a spot of dirt. Still we are not surprised to find Mr. Walker endeavouring, in a subsequent number, to corroborate his statement by a high medical authority :— “ My most staggering assertion I take to be this”—[‘ The Original ’ here repeats it]—“ Dr. Gregory says of a per- son in high health, the exhalation from the skin is free and constant, but without amounting to perspiration—exhalatio per cutem libera et constans, citra vero sudorem—which answers with remarkable precision to £ my active exhala- tion,’ and the repulsion of impurity is a necessary con- sequence. In fact, it is perspiration so active as to fly from the skin instead of remaining upon it, or suffering anything