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Warren, forty ounces of blood were taken from him in a few 

 hours. He lived on bread and water for six weeks, at the end 

 of which time, he was allowed mif^ polled smelt. 



From this time he lived with the most rigid temperance, 

 and never drank wine or malt liquor. He took a dram of 

 powdered bark every morning in a glass of water, which, with a 

 moderate breakfast, was all he was in the habit of taking, till a 

 late dinner in the evening. In the early part of his life, he 

 was confined to his room, three months at a time, with the 

 gout. In the latter part of his life, though occasionally affected 

 by it, it was never violent. His father was gouty, his mother 

 not ; his grandmother died of gout a little above forty years of 

 a^e, 1803. 



The monks of Monte Santo (Mount Athos) never taste 

 animal food ; they live on vegetables, olives, and cheese. In 

 1806, one of their fraternity was in good health at the great 

 age of one hundred and twenty years. 



Hknry Welby died 1636. 

 Flesh he abhorred, and wine ; he drank small beer- 

 Cow's milk, and water-gruel were his cheer. 



Offlky. 

 Offley, three dishes, had of daily roast, 

 An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast. 



Hasselquist, in his travels in the Levant, relates the following 

 singular fact : ^' Above a thousand Abyssinians, who were desti- 

 tute of provisions on a journey to Cairo, lived for two months 

 on gum arabic ; and arrived at Cairo, without any unusual 

 sickness or mortahty." 



In Queen Elizabeth's time, the breakfast for " my lorde 

 and my lady" consisted of "half a chyiie of mutton, or ells a 

 chyne of beef boiled ;" and the children had ** a chikynge, or 

 ells three mutton bonys boiled, with certain quarts of beer 

 and wine." 



Mems. relative to Digestion. 



Francis Bathalia, the stone-eater, it is said, converted his 

 flinty food into sand in seven days. 



Mr. — cannot digest an apple, it immediately causes pain in 



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