Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / written by Ignotus and revised by A. Hunter.

  • Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / written by Ignotus and revised by A. Hunter. 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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    bam ; all of whom were strenuous promoters of the practice named Dietetics ; in other words, “ Cookery.” Diodorus Siculus informs us that the first Kings of /Egypt had their whole diet regulated by the physician, and it is whimsical to remark that, with us, the word curare applies to a red herring as well as to a man. In the reign of Edward the fourth, we find that the diet of the king was directed by the physi- cian, and in the Liber Niger Domus Regis Edw. iv. the duty of the physician is distinctly pointed out. The language, it is true, is obsolete, but the meaning is standard Engliih. f< Docteure of Physique, stondeth much in the “ King’s presence at his meles, councelling or <c answering to the King’s Grace which Diet is “ best according, and to tell the nature and ope- “ ration of all the metes. Aild much he should “ talks with the Steward, Chamberlayne, Assewer, “ and the Maister Cook, to devise by counsayle “ what metes or drinks is best according with “ the King.”