The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1824
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Credit: The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i Swift has jocosely observed, such is the extent of modern Epicurism, that “ the World* must he encompassed before a Washer- woman can sit down to breakfast,” i. e. by a voyage to the East for Tea, and to the West for Sugar. In the Northumberland Household Book for 1512, we are informed that “a Thousand Pounds was the sum annually ex- pended in Housekeeping, — this maintained 166 Persons. Wheat was then 5s. 8d. per quarter. “ The Family rose at six in the morning; my Lord and my Lady had set on their * Mr. Peck, Grocer, &c., No. 175, Strand, has printed a very ingenious chart of the “ Geographic de la Gourmundise.” — “A Map of the four quarters of the World, intended to shew the different parts from whence all the articles in his catalogue are imported.1' See also “Carte Gastronomique de la France,” prefixed to that entertaining work, “ Cours Gastrono- mique,” 8vo. 1809.