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The Natural and Medical Dieteticon, or Practical Rules for Eating, Drinking, and Preserving Health (and so on for half a yard). By J. S. Forsyth, Surgeon, &c. Sherwood, Jones, and Co. 1824. One volume, duodecimo.

THERE is nothing so easy as canting; and no cant much more dull and much more worn, than that about temperance. Mr. Gay says that gluttony is "of the seven deadly sins the worst." We should be thankful to know the reason why. It is because the road, the monastic and ascetic road, to heaven is through an empty stomach. The soul, divested of its earthly incumbrances by fasting, says St. Francis Xavier, wings its way,-to the seventh heavensays the Mollah Abdulfazel; and, contemplating the divine essence unclogged by the weight of worldly flesh, says Tertullian, becomes wrapt, say the Sufis, in all the ineffable love-and thus, and thus. And Mr. Forsyth, "surgeon, &c." says that "so much does the health of the people in general depend on temperance and simplicity, as well as on the right ordering of their diet, that, were more attention paid to this subject, fewer of those disorders which are the scourge of the human race would be met with in society."

There is a more intimate connexion between the doctrine of Tertullian and Mr. Forsyth than the author of the New Domestic Manual, &c. &c. imagines. It is but the Saint or the Yogi dressed up in the outward fittings of the apothecary. It is the ascetic intrenched in gallipots and blisters; preaching "long, loud, and damnation" against beef and porter; terrifying his audience with pitchforks and brimstone in one age, and, in the other, with gout, measles, liver, stomach, hysterics, and "perplexity fits." Thus are the people frightened. Thus is anxiety taught to lie in wait for us, even ja the most natural of all our "non naturals;" to intrude itself into our dish; to throw its gloom over our social, as over our misanthropic and solitary hours; to prepare repentance for us in the midst of our enjoyments; to poison our meat and corrupt our drink; and to convert kind nature's gifts into physic.

We have no doubt that the St. Anthonies and the St. Simeons did occasionally visit the seventh heaven; since it is the property of "wind in the hypochondres pent," to blow up the brain too, VOL. VII. No. 38.-Museum.

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with visions "more than all hell can hold." But our business at present is not with them. We are merely bent on showing that the medical and pharmaceutical cant of the day is cant, and that it is but the dregs of the ascetic system, revived under a new form; by some, because it is always easy to cant; by others, because it brings business to their shop; and, by the world at large, because it is among the "dampnable" propensities of our nature to be discontented, to seek for causes of fear and anxiety when they do not choose to come uncalled, and to act and feel as if this bountiful world, brilliant in beauty and overflowing with blessings, was a collection of steel traps and spring guns, set to catch the body and shoot the soul.

When Gay discovered that gluttony was the ultra-mortal of all the mortal sins, he was "eating baked meats," at the Duke of Queensberry's table, it is to be presumed. "Pleno laudat jejunia ventre." Or, did he abuse the man who was dining on the venison and turtle which he could only scent along the afternoon air while holding his way to a cowheel in a St. Giles's cellar? Which ever was the poet's situation, Mr. Forsyth will perhaps explain in some future work, being a surgeon and an author, what are the diseases which are "the scourges of the human race," and which are produced by want of temperance and simplicity.

In the mean time, we may ask him whether the plague is one, or the typhus fever, or the yellow fever, or the scurvy, or the dysentery, or the endless diseases which thin the ranks of the poor in childhood, and by which their numbers are reduced to less than the half of what they might be, had they the means of "gluttony and intemperance." The population of England is increasing in a ratio which œconomists (political œconomists is the phrase) call fearful, because the people eat and drink more and better than they did, even fifty years ago. It has gradually increased with their increase of food, with improved food; it was kept down by want of food, by bad food. The disorders which we have glanced at, are the great" scourges of the human race;" and those to which our own country was once as subject as others, have diminished or disappeared-by increase of food; among some other matters. The people have eaten them out of date. The British navy and the British seamen have eaten out the scurvy. The starving Highlanders have eaten themselves into a double population within less than a century. The land of famine" has eaten itself out of that disorder which the British Solomon thought too great a luxury for a subject; or, at least, that which was in the skin has settled itself in the mind. The first medical school in the world has even covered the angles of its cheek bones, eaten itself into novel-writing, and spawned joint stock companies.

But we need not select good Mr. Forsyth as the champion of this ascetico-medical faction. There is a Doctor Pedro Snatchaway at every corner where a blue bottle blazes to the evening street, as well as in Warwick Lane-that was. If we are to throw down

the guantlet, we must therefore challenge the three colleges of physic, surgery, and pharmacy, as well as the hermaphrodite, heteroclite, race which brings us into this gluttonous world, to produce one disease which is caused by the neglect of "temperance and simplicity in diet." We will not give them even the gout or the apoplexy; unless they will show that all gluttons have gout or apoplexy, or both; and that gout and apoplexy never attack the temperate or the poor. The facts are all against them. There are more palsies among the poor than the rich, fifty fold. There are more diseases of all kinds; and we will appeal to their hospitals and their experience. The "scourging" epidemic and contagious diseases scourge the poor to spare the rich; and the average of life is far in favour of those who live best-who eat most, if the College pleases. We may ask the College what connexion there is between intemperance and the most wide spread, the most devastatory, the most accursed of human plagues, the blackest of Pandora's store, marsh miasma. Whence comes the cholera of India? Roast beef can be measured and weighed, but the yellow fever, the remittent, the intermittent, the dysentery, are the produce of that which is invisible, imponderable, inapprehensible, which strikes in a moment, wafted along the perfume of the tropical grove as through the fogs of a Hollander's canal. And the Hollander knows too, that if he does not eat and drink well he will die. So does the West Indian.

We must ask Mr. Forsyth, whether inflammation, inflammation of the lungs, pleurisy as the College calls it, arises from eating. If it does, why is it most common among soldiers, whose diet is most rigidly temperate; or why is it most prevalent among the poor generally. And when it does attack and is to be cured, physicians know very well that it is most difficult of cure among the temperate and the water drinkers, and that these are the very patients who require most bleeding. We may say the same of all the inflammations. The noted ophthalmia is not a disease of intemperance. The class of contagious diseases is among the most deadly and wide acting, and no one needs be told that the whole of these are counteracted by good living, and not attracted by excess of good living.

We may ask also what connexion there is between consumption, that heavy scourge of the youth of Britain, and intemperance. On the contrary, it is notorious that the tubercular consumption is often brought on by poverty and deficiency of food, as it is by the fashionable practice of bleeding. It is equally notorious that scrofula in all its horrible forms, is also thus excited, where its seeds might have otherwise remained dormant; that it is thus produced among the poor, in constitutions which would not have betrayed it among the rich; and that, in this disease, an improved diet is often the only cure. If the scrofula ever appears in the dark complexion, among the upper classes, it is where the mother keeps an apothecary or a medicine chest, and the child is dieted on calomel.

and salts; to diet itself when it becomes a miss or a master, in the same manner, and to end in being a nervous, hysterical, palegreen, hypochondriacal repository of drugs, blue devils, and bad temper. Rheumatism is not the produce of gluttony; nor sciatica, nor cancer, nor epilepsy, nor hysteries, nor insanity; and these take an ample share in the operation of "scourging the human race." If stone and gravel are thus produced, we must ask Mr. Forsyth and his friends to explain why they appear in children, even in infants; why every fiftieth inhabitant of Norwich, or of the banks of the German Rhine, is the subject, and among the especial ones, of these fearful disorders.

But there is no end to this, unless we were to go through the whole nosology, which seems to have been contrived to show us how many crooked roads there are to lead us out of the world. And if we did go through it, we should show, with equal ease, that no one disease could be fairly and safely traced to ordinary intemperance in eating, not even in the cases of acknowledged gluttons. A man may occasionally have called down an impending fit of apoplexy by extreme or coarse excess; he may even have habitually nursed such a tendency; a fact which we do not mean to dispute. Yet this very disease does occur equally in the temperate and the water-drinker; and it is familiar that, in women, who, compared to men of equal ranks, are notedly temperate both in eating and drinking, there are ten cases of palsy for one in a man.

That gluttony, in the real and vulgar sense, is not a common vice, we surely need not say; yet, however disgusting, its immediate evils are seldom more than the temporary and well known derangements, which, for the sake of our general readers, we do not choose to state in technical language. If the glutton suffers further, he deserves it; but he is a monster whom no one will pity, and for whose sake it is not necessary to alarm and starve the whole world, and to fulminate diseases and terrors against the human appetite.

But there are two species of anathema wielded by the Snatchaways. The one is against quantity, and the other against quality. He who is not suffocated by beef and pudding, is to be poisoned by pepper and pickles; by a drachm of Hervey's sauce, or a spoonful of anchovy garum. And the Hunters and the Kitcheners write nonsense, because it makes their books sell. These "death in the pot" gentlemen, and their medical abettors, are even less honest than Mr. Frederic Accum, who threatens only with lead and copperas, while their minatory denunciations are levelled against vol au vents, sautés, and salmies.

Now, our neighbours, the French, are of a very different opinion, and so are we. It is the very essence of the French cuisine, that, by means of cookery and variety, it is a medicinal cuisine. No man ever dined at Beauvillier's or at the Café of the Chaussée D'Antin, without being sensible how much more he could eat than of English beef and mutton, how much lighter was his digestion,