Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere.

  • Delamere, Edmund S.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    At forty, every man is either a fool or a physician; at forty, therefore, every man is either a fool or else a little hit of a cook. By others’ faults, wise men correct their own; by listening to the complaints of others’ indi- gestions, wise men will ward off attacks of indigestion in their own proper persons. Besides which, we have all of us stomachs, on which we have been experimenting, more or less, during the lapse of forty long years. But all that is required to avoid gastronomic errors, and their consequent pains and penalties, is a knowledge of the principles of animal nutrition and culinary chemistry. Food is taken in, in some shajie, by all living crea- tures, for the purpose both of effecting growth and of repairing loss or wear and tear of the bodily frame. ISTo growth can take place without a proper supply of material. It is clear, therefore, that if a creature do not eat, it cannot grow. The same is true of wear and tear. We cannot even live without thereby consuming a portion of our stock of strength. Every vital act is an expenditure of capital, which must be replaced by an adequate supply of food. If that food is not forthcoming, the constitution rapidly lapses into bankruptcy. If there existed some one article of food, a restora- tive for every form of exhaustion, a panacea for every degree of fatigue, the duties of the Doctor and the Cook would be wonderfully simplified.* It is the * Hippocrates and his followers believed that there was a unique nutritive principle common to all articles of food—a single primitive alimentary element, identical throughout all nature—and tried hard to discover it.