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The countryman's companion containing meditations, prayers and hymns for every day of the week, for the morning and evening; Designed to guard him against the seven Capital Sins of Pride, Covetousness, Uncleanness, Envy, Gluttony, Anger and Sloth. Conceived in such a concise Manner, that it may be performed daily in a short Time. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing a short catechism for the Benefit of Youth, in order to train them in the true Knowledge of Practice and Principle. By William Longmoor, Author of the Christian Monitor.
Longmoor, William.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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The great sins of drunkeness and gluttony set forth in the proper colours : And by Scripture sentences and pious meditations briefly confirmed.
Date: 1656- Books
The United States of excess : gluttony and the dark side of American exceptionalism / Robert Paarlberg.
Paarlberg, Robert L.Date: [2015]- Books
Fat, gluttony and sloth : obesity in medicine, art and literature / David Haslam & Fiona Haslam.
Haslam, David W.Date: 2009- Books
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The way to make all people rich: or, Wisdoms call to temperanae [sic] and frugality : in a dialogue between Sophronio and Guloso, one a lover of sobriety, the other addicted to gluttony and excess. By Philotheos Physiologus, the author of the Way to health, The country-man's companion, The good house-wife made a doctor, &c.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1685- Books
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De l'épicurisme, considéré dans les sciences physiologiques et médicales : essai pour servir à l'histoire de la médecine du 18e siècle / par un médecin.
Date: 1817- Pictures
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Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 890i- Pictures
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Statuette of a naked boy standing on a corbel, commemorating the Great Fire of London, 1666. Etching on a mezzotint ground by J. T. Smith after himself, 1791.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 11 January 1791Reference: 24264i- Pictures
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The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
Leveau, Jean Jacques, 1729-1785.Date: [1762]Reference: 15975i- Pictures
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A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
Reference: 16815i- Pictures
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A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
Tal-Zar.Reference: 16923i- Books
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An inuectiue ageinst glotony and dronkennes.
Date: [Anno domini. M.D.XLV [1545]]- Pictures
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A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.
E.Y., active approximately 1830.Reference: 10511i- Books
Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture / Virginia Langum.
Langum, VirginiaDate: [2016]- Pictures
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Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Reference: 18035i- Pictures
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An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.
Reference: 16061i- Pictures
A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Reference: 20227i- Pictures
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Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Woodcut.
Reference: 23943i- Pictures
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Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
Lamsveld, Jan, 1674-1743.Date: 1931Reference: 23941i- Books
Taste or taboo : dietary choices in antiquity / Michael Beer.
Beer, Michael.Date: 2010- Pictures
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Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Engraving.
Reference: 23942i- Pictures
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The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
Reference: 25063i- Books
Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease / Robert H. Lustig, M.D.
Lustig, Robert H.Date: [2013]- Pictures
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The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Date: 1907Reference: 17268i- Books
The culture of obesity in early and late modernity : body image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton / Elena Levy-Navarro.
Levy-Navarro, Elena, 1965-Date: 2008