Apician morsels, or, Tales of the table, kitchen, and larder: with reflections on the dietic productions of early writers; on the customs of the Romans in eating and drinking; on table ceremonies, and rules of conviviality and good breeding; with select epicurean precepts, gourmond maxims and medicines, &c., &c.

  • Humelbergius, Dick, secundus.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Apician morsels, or, Tales of the table, kitchen, and larder: with reflections on the dietic productions of early writers; on the customs of the Romans in eating and drinking; on table ceremonies, and rules of conviviality and good breeding; with select epicurean precepts, gourmond maxims and medicines, &c., &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they would run not a small hazard of their health ; and should they permit their patients to live after their own examples, they would altogether lose their profits.”* Of these diet-mongers, St. Ambrose writes: “ The precepts of physic are contrary to divine living ; for they call men from fasting, suffer um not to watch, seduce um from opportuni- ties of meditation. They who give themselves up to physicians, deny themselves to themselves.” And St. Bernard, upon the Canticles, thus asserts: “ Hypocrates and Socrates teach how to save souls in health in this world ; Christ and his disciples how to lose um : which of the two will you have to be your master ? He makes himself noted, that in his disputations teaches how such a thing hurts the eyes, this the head, that the stomach; pulse windy, cheese offends the stomach, milk hurts the head, drinking water is hurtful to the lungs: whence it happens, that in all the rivers, fields, gardens, and markets, there is scarcely to be found anything fitting for a man to eat.” But let us admit these words of St. Ambrose and St. Bernard to be only addressed to the monks, for whom, perhaps, it was not so * Henry Cornelius Aggrippa, Knight, counsellor to Charles V., Emp. Germ. 1684.