The new glutton or epicure / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Horace Fletcher
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: The new glutton or epicure / by Horace Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spit out what the natural impulse of swallowing hesitates at, or fails to suck up with avidity, than it is to force a swallowing to get rid of it simply to satisfy a prudish “table manner” ob- jection. To avoid “ impolite ” condem- nation we really make “hogs of ourselves” “ on the sly,” and vulgar slang alone is appropriate to express the shameful confession. As a matter of fact, if one faithfully practise mouth thoroughness in con- nection with all his food for a term of a few weeks, he will find that the appetite ceases to invite the sort of things that have to be spit out. The appetite grad- ually but unfailingly inclines to foods that are profitable all the way through, and in which there is little or no waste. This revelation alone shows a delicate usefulness of Appetite that has escaped students of the human senses. In the matter of the insalivation of liquids, evidence continues to accumulate to show that in the present prevalence
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