Food and drink rationally discussed / by Thomas Dutton.

  • Dutton, Thomas.
Date:
1898
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    describe the opposite beings, those who suffer from gluttony, gout, indigestion, and liver» Like the poor they are always with us, and can generally be found reigning supreme in those large London boarding-houses which have of late years risen up like mushrooms everywhere. We certainly need not deal with the subject of food in an ascetic spirit, nor need we debar ourselves from giving scope to a refined taste and letting it have a certain amount of innocent pleasure; nor again need we alto- gether abstain from those pleasures which Ave attribute to the functions of the palate and principally derived from a close attention to the table, and the viands thereon. The only thing A\re haAre to a\roid is the becoming a gourmand by the encouragement of our sense of pleasure to such an extent that we take far more than is sufficient for the sustenance of the body. We should therefore regard food from the following standpoints:—{a.) Its value as material to be used for building up and sustaining the human body. (b.) The most