A manual of diet in health and disease, Nummer 268

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Smith, 1876 - 359 pagina's
 

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Pagina 124 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned...
Pagina 38 - Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby ! Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.
Pagina 166 - Three pages of history after breakfast (equivalent to five in small quarto printing) ; then to transcribe and copy for the press, or to make my selections and biographies, or what else suits my...
Pagina 166 - ... to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations, rather than to see the ruin of our protestation, and the enforcement of a slavish life.
Pagina 166 - Well, after tea, I go to poetry, and correct and re-write and copy till I am tired, and then turn to anything else till supper ; and this is my life,— which, if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish.
Pagina 194 - Another article of cuisine that offends the bowels of unused Britons is garlic. Not uncommonly in southern climes an egg with the shell on is the only procurable animal food without garlic in it. Flatulence and looseness are the frequent results.
Pagina 260 - ... pint of tea she wants, and carefully remove all fat, sinew, veins, and bone. Let it be cut up into pieces under an inch square, and set to soak for twelve hours in onethird of the water required to be made into tea. Then let it be taken out and simmered for three hours in the remaining two-thirds of the water, the quantity lost by evaporation being replaced from time to time.
Pagina 179 - is improved by choosing as part of the training an exercise such as running, which can be sustained only when the respiratory and circulating organs do their duty fairly. As an example, the Oxford system of training for the summer boat-races may be cited. It may be considered a typical regimen for fully developing a young man's corporeal powers to...
Pagina 255 - If there is very complete prostration and delirium of a low muttering character, it is required. A tremulous state of the muscles, marked especially by a quivering of the hands and fingers, is a good test of the necessity for it ; and so is a sharp, weak, unequal beat of the heart.
Pagina 261 - Skin and chop up small a small chicken or half a large fowl, and boil it, bones and all, with a blade of mace, a sprig of parsley, and a crust of bread, in a quart of water for an hour, skimming it from time to time. Strain through a coarse colander.

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