Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization, considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization, considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    (no napkins) for his lordship's table, and two towels for washing his face and hands. Pewter vessels were prohibited to be hired, except on Christmas, Easter, St. George's day, and Whitsunday. Hollinshed mentions his conversing with old men who remarked many alterations in England within their remembrance ; that their fathers, and they themselves, formerly, had nothing to sleep on but a straw pallet, with a log of timber for a pillow; a pillow, said they, being thought meet only for a woman in child-bed ; and that if a man in seven years after marriage could pur- chase a flock bed, and a sack of chaff to rest his head up- on, he thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town ; who, peradventure, lay seldom on a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked was, change of household vessels from timber plates into pewter, and from wooden spoons into tin or silver.—Lord Kames, Book 1, Sketch viii.—Progress and Effects of Luxury. Vi. Tyler, Printer, Uolt court, Fleet-street.