Wholesome fare, or, The doctor and the cook : a manual of the laws of food and the practice of cookery, embodying the best receipts in British and continental cookery, with hints and receipts for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Edmund S. and Ellen J. Delamere.

  • Delamere, Edmund S., 1809-
Date:
1868
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Credit: Wholesome fare, or, The doctor and the cook : a manual of the laws of food and the practice of cookery, embodying the best receipts in British and continental cookery, with hints and receipts for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Edmund S. and Ellen J. Delamere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tional energy. With stimulants to the stomach there must coincide stimulants to the lungs and the skin— such as a warm and dry atmosphere, greater exposure to the solar rays, flannel clothing, frictions, baths, &c. It is rare that a much enfeebled digestion is not the o result of chronic gastritis. Mistakes on this point are so grave—nay, so dangerous—that the physician’s advice should be had recourse to. The following symptoms are important to note. Condiments assist digestion, if the habitual languor of the stomach is simply owing to its weakness. On the other hand, they increase the uneasiness felt after eating, if that uneasiness arises from gastric irritation. So that a few glasses of good wine, or a little spice, are the touchstone which decide whether a weak digestion is owing to the inactivity of the stomach, or to its irritation, supposing that other symptoms leave the question in obseuritv. %> Nevertheless, it must be admitted that certain per- sons, although evidently suffering from a damaged stomach, digest better when stimulating substances arc added to their food. And vet the continued use of those substances, by increasing the stomach’s irritation, tends to bring about its final destruction. The warm-system school recommends, on the con- trary, that dishes which constitute our daily diet should be well seasoned by the cook, on the ground that con- diments, like liqueurs or generous wines at dessert, are eminently vermifuge. Insipid, sweet, and mucilaginous