Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, receipts in cookery, worthy the notice of those medical practitioners, who ride in their chariots with a footman behind and who receive two-guinea fees from their rich and luxurious patients / By Ignotus [i.e. A. Hunter].

  • Alexander Hunter
Date:
1804
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Credit: Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, receipts in cookery, worthy the notice of those medical practitioners, who ride in their chariots with a footman behind and who receive two-guinea fees from their rich and luxurious patients / By Ignotus [i.e. A. Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before them a list of the most approved Dishes served up at the tables of the great; so that when a Physician happens to be called in to visit a sick Lord, an Earl, or a Duke, he may be able to pre- scribe scientifical/j/, having obtained from me the analysis of a great man’s mode of living. The celebrated llamazini’s Treatise on the diseases to which artizans are subject, from their manner of working in their respective trades, first suggested to me the idea, that a similar attention to the diet of certain clafses of men would be of use to the medical practitioner. Unwilling, however, to appear as a profefsional Cook, I have occasionally treated the subject with a degree of levity. But at the same time, I wish to be understood us think- ing the subject worthy of serious consideration. 1 do not consider myself as hazarding any thing when I say, that no man can be a good physician who has not a competent knowledge of Cookerv. And in this I am supported by every eminent physician, from Hippocrates down to Syden- ham ; all of whom were strenuous promoters of the practice named Dietetics; in other words, “ Cookery.” Culina vu'dicina? I’amulatvix. Donatus.
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