The physiology of taste, or, Transcendental gastronomy : illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents / by Brillat Savarin ; translated from the last Paris edition, by Fayette Robinson.

  • Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The physiology of taste, or, Transcendental gastronomy : illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents / by Brillat Savarin ; translated from the last Paris edition, by Fayette Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DREAMS. Dreams are material impressions on the soûl, with- out the intervention of external objects. These phenomena, so common in ordinary times, are yet little known. The fault résides with the savants who did not allow us a sufficiently great number of instances. Time will however remedy this, and the double nature of man will be better known. In the présent State of science, it must be taken for granted that there exists a fluid, subtle as it is power- ful, which transmits to the brain the impressions received by the senses. This excitement is the cause of ideas. Absolute sleep is the déperdition or inertia of this fluid. We must believe that the labors of digestion and assimulation do not cease during sleep, but repair losses so that there is a time when the individual having already ail the necessities of action is not ex- cited by external objects.