"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.