"The modern hours of eating are got to an excess that is perfectly ridiculous. Now, what do people get by this? If they make Dinner their principal Meal, and do not wish to pall their appetite by eating before it--they injure their health. Then in Winter they have two hours of candlelight before Dinner, and in Summer they are at table during the pleasantest part of the Day; and all this, to get a LONG MORNING,--_for Idle People, to whom one would suppose the shortest morning would seem too Long_."--PYE'S _Sketches_, 12mo. 1797, p. 174.
[81] Mr. Peck, Grocer, &c., No. 175, Strand, has printed a very ingenious chart of the "_Geographie de la Gourmandise_."--"A Map of the four quarters of the World, intended to show the different parts from whence all the articles in his catalogue are imported."--See also "CARTE GASTRONOMIQUE DE LA FRANCE," prefixed to that entertaining work, "COURS GASTRONOMIQUE," 8vo. 1809.
[82] "A Wag, on being told it was the fashion to dine later and later every day, said, He supposed it would end at last in not dining till _to-morrow_!!"
[83] "It is at the _commencement of Decline_, _i. e._ about our 40th year, that the Stomach begins to require peculiar care and precaution. People who have been subject to Indigestions before, have them then more frequent and more violent; and those who have never been so afflicted, begin to suffer them from slight causes: a want of attention to which too frequently leads to the destruction of the best constitutions, especially of the studious, who neglect to take due exercise. The remedy proposed is Ipecacuanha, in a dose that will not occasion any nausea; but enough to excite such an increased action of the vermicular movement of the stomach, that the phlegm may be separated and expelled from that organ.
"The effects of it surpassed his most sanguine hopes: by the use of it, notwithstanding he had naturally a delicate constitution, he weathered the storms of the Revolution," &c., and lived to be 84.
The above is an extract from Dr. BUCHAN'S translation of Mr. DAUBENTON'S _Observations on Indigestion_. This treatise brought Ipecacuanha Lozenges into fashion, as the most easy and agreeable manner of taking it: they contain about one-sixth of a grain, and are prepared and sold by SAVORY and MOORE, Chemists, in Bond Street.