286 Comments on Corpulency, 



the stomach, Hke a stone or any other hard body. He can, 

 however, eat any quantity of toasted cheese. 



Mr. — cannot masticate rice, — this simplest of all food he 

 never eats, — and this is the reason he assigns for it. 



Some have great power in digesting salted meats — ham, ba 

 con, salted fish, are taken for breakfast in considerable quantity, 

 without any inconvenience ; these persons are never thirsty. 



Sir James Earle and Dr. Robert Hallifax attended a child 

 six years old, on whom scarlet strawberries constantly produced 

 irritation in the urinary organs. 



Opium and senna produce instantaneous effects upon the 

 skin ; oil of almonds does the same, and makes the face swell, 

 as in erysipelas. Mr. H, of D. cannot eat almonds without 

 having immediately a scarlet rash in his face. 



The small blackcurrant from Zante is rarely or ever digested 

 by children, though they are constantly in their puddings and pies. 



Mrs. B. cannot take milk without being instantly affected by 

 it. Disguised in any manner, it never fails to manifest its effects. 



New honey is obnoxious to many, and not unfrequently pro- 

 duces violent cholera. 



Donatus knew a young gentleman who could not eat an egg 

 without its causing his lips to swell, and bringing purple spots 

 out on his face. 



Idiosyncrasy, 



Some men there are, love not a gaping pig ; 

 Some, that are mad, if they behold a cat. — 



So says Shakspeare ; and it appears that the enemies of our 

 nature work upon us, whether we are aware of them or not. 

 In vain we demand a reason of ourselves for what we do or do 

 not love. 



That curious, sympathetic, wonder-working person. Sir 

 Kenelm Digby, is, perhaps, the greatest detailer of singular 

 fancies relating to antipathies and sympathies. He narrates 

 the dire effects of flowers upon certain people, even to fainting 

 and dying. So obnoxious was a rose to the Lady Heneage, that 

 she had her cheek blistered, says Sir Kenelm, by laying a rose 



