Breakfast will be the best time for batchelors, and especially for lawyers. They will find it excellent to prime with.
I do not recommend it at night. Rather, indeed, I caution the reader against indulging in it at that time. Its effect might be injurious, for it would counteract the genial tendency to repose which ought then to be encouraged. Therefore when the hour of sleep approaches, lay this book aside, and read four pages upon political economy,—it matters not in what author, though the Scotch are to be preferred.
Except at night, it may be perused at any time by those who have the mens sana in corpore sano; those who fear God, honor the King, love their country and their kind, do their duty to their neighbours, and live in the performance and enjoyment of the domestic charities.
It will be an excellent Saturday book for Rowland Hill; his sermon will be pleasanter for it next day.
The book is good for valetudinarians, and may even be recommended in aid of Abernethy's blue-pill. But I do not advise it with water-gruel nor sago; hardly with chicken-broth, calf's-foot-jelly or beef-tea. It accords well with a course of tonics. But a convalescent will find it best with his first beef-steak and glass of wine.
The case is different for those who have either a twist in the head or a morbid affection about the pericardium.
If Grey Bennet will read it,—(from which I dehort him) he should prepare by taking the following medicine to purge choler:
Rx. Extract: Colocynth: Comp: gr. x.
Calomel: gr. v.
Syr: q. s. f. Massa in pilulas iij. dividenda.
—Sumat pilulas iij horâ somni.
It will do Lord Holland no harm.
Lord John Russel is recommended to use sage tea with it. If this operate as an alterative, it may save him from taking oil of rue hereafter in powerful doses.