The art of dining, or, gastronomy and gastronomers.

  • Hayward, A. (Abraham), 1801-1884.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The art of dining, or, gastronomy and gastronomers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    else to remain; just as we see an animal in high health ”— [e. g. M. de Fitzjames]—“ roll in the mire and directly after appear as clean as if it had been washed. I enter into these particulars, not to justify myself, but to gain the confidence of my readers, not only on this particular sub- ject, but generally—more especially as I shall have frequent occasion to advance things out of the common way though in the way of truth. Well-grounded faith has great virtue in other things besides religion.” It is needless to repeat Lady Mary Wortley Mon- tagu’s remark on a French lady’s expressing some astonishment at the not quite spotless condition of her hands. Miss Berry, in her clever and agreeable book on the Social Life of England and France, quotes this reply in illustration of the coarseness of the times; but the inference is hardly just, for, as- suming Lady Mary to have been acting on Mr. Walker’s theory, her frank avowal was simply tan- tamount to saying that she was ill. At the same time, in case of confirmed ill health, it might he advisable to try the effect of an occasional ablution instead of trusting to “ active exhalation ” exclusively. Mr. Wadd, in .his Treatise on Leanness and Corpulency, records the case of an elderly female who had shunned all contact with water, both hot and cold, for more than twenty years, under a belief that it was bad for the rheumatism, to which she was a martyr; when, long after she had given up all hopes of cure, she had the good fortune to get half drowned in a pond, and the immersion, combined with the conse- quent stripping and rubbing, effected her perfect G 2