Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ; Or, Receipts in Modern Cookery, with a Medical Commentary

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1806 edition. Extrait: ...kind to enter the lists against you: if then you don't leave me to my repose, it may be said you are ungrateful too. Archtxus, I scarcely acknowledge that as any objection. As to quacks, I despise them: they may ruin your health by their disguised rum and brandy, and can only affect me by bringing upon you jaundice and drops', diseases concomitant on dram drinking. And as to the regular physicians, they are convinced, that the gout, in such. a subject as you are, is no malady, but a remedy; and wherefore attempt to remove a remedy?--But to our business.--There--Dr. Franklin. Oh! Oh! for Heaven's sake quit; 'and I promise faithfully never more to play at chess, but exercise daily, and to live temperately. Archaus. I know you too well.--You promise fair: but after a few months of good health, you'll return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgot like the forms of the last year's clouds. Come, then; we'll finish the account. But I leave you with an assurance of giving you another fit at a proper time. Your good is my object; and I now hope that you are sensible of my being your real friend. Since perusing the above dialogue, Ignotus is informed by Archaeus, that any attempts ex terminate the gout are as absurd, as for a man to attempt to stop the current of a river in its hasty passage to the sea, by damming it up. The neighbouring country would soon feel the inconvenience. The remedies known are but palliatives, and these lie, as we are informed by Archasus, in the small compass of two significant words, Temperance and Exercise. A Green Pease Soup Without Meat. TAKEa quart of old green pease, and put them into two quarts of water, with a sprig or two of mint. Boil till the...