Culina famulatrix medicinæ, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter.

  • Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Culina famulatrix medicinæ, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    me, that I am endeavouring to accelerate this de- generacy ; but, in truth, I have no such intention : IMy design is, to be of use to Gentlemen of the Medical Line, by laying before them a list of the most approved Dishes served up at the tables of the great ; so that when a Physician happens to be called in to visit a sick Lord, an Earl, or a Duke, he imay be able to prescribe scientifically, having ob- tained from me the analysis of a great man’s mode of living. The celebrated Ramazini’s Treatise on the diseases to which artizans are subject from their manner of working in their respective trades, first suggested to me the idea, that a similar attention to the diet of certain classes of men would be of use to the medical practitioner. Unwilling, however, to appear as a professional Cook, I have occa- sionally treated the subject with a degree of levity : But at the same time, I wish to be understood as thinking it worthy of serious consideration. * I do not consider myself as hazarding any thing when I say, that no man can be a good physician who has not a competent knowledge of Cookery. And in this 1 am supported by every eminent physician, from Hippocrates dotfh to Syden-