“Salt, Pepper, and Mustard, ay, Vinegar too,
Are quite as unwholesome as Curry I vow,
All lovers of Goose, Duck, or Pig, he’ll engage,
That eat it with Onion, Salt, Pepper or Sage,
Will find ill effects from t’,” and therefore no doubt
Their prudence should tell them,—best eat it without!
But, alas! these are subjects on which there’s no reas’ning,
For you’ll still eat your Goose, Duck, or Pig, with its seas’ning;
And what is far worse—notwithstanding his huffing,
You’ll make for your Hare and your Veal a good stuffing:
And I fear, if a Leg of good Mutton you boil
With Sauce of vile Capers, that Mutton you’ll spoil;
And tho’, as you think, to procure good Digestion,
A mouthful of Cheese is the best thing in question:
“In Gath do not tell, nor in Askalon blab it,
You’re strictly forbidden to eat a Welsh Rabbit.”
And Bread, “the main staff of our life,” some will call
No more nor no less,—than “the worst thing of all.”—
See The Lady’s Address to Willy Cadogan in his Kitchen, 4to. 1771.
Some Minute Philosopher has published an 8vo. pamphlet of 56 pages! on the omnipotent “virtues of a Crust of Bread eaten early in the morning fasting!!” We have no doubt it is an admirable Specific for that grievous disorder of the Stomach called Hunger.
[75] Are very crude indigestible materials for a weak Stomach, unless warmed by (No. 372);—with the assistance of which, and plenty of Pepper, you may eat even Cucumber with impunity.
[76] Dr. Radcliffe, who succeeded better by speaking plainly to his Patients, than some of his successors have by the most subtle Politeness,—when asked what was the best Remedy for Wind in the Stomach, replied, “That which will expel it quickest”—inquiring of the Ventose subject whether the Wind passed per Ascensum, vel per Descensum, observing,—that the former is the most aggravated state of Ventriloquism, the latter a sign that the Bowels are recovering their Healthful Tone.
[77] “My Stomach digests food so slowly, that I cannot study for five or six hours after a very sparing dinner.”—Spallanzani on Digestion, &c., vol. i. p. 280.
“If the quantity of Food be given, its Quality will cause a difference in the time of digesting; for instance, slimy and viscid meats are longer in digesting in the Stomach than meats of a contrary nature; the flesh of some young animals is not so soon digested as the flesh of the same animals arrived at their full growth; thus Veal and Lamb are not so soon digested as Beef and Mutton.
“A man who took a vomit every second night for some months, observed, that when he had taken Chicken for Dinner, he always threw it up undigested, but never threw up any of his Food undigested when he made his Dinner of Beef or Mutton.”—Bryan Robinson on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies, 1748, p. 95.
Beef and Mutton seem to give less trouble to the Editor’s Stomach than any kind of Poultry.