622 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
through being struck in the face by a wave whilst swimming 
in the open sea. He was treated with Sandwiches containing 
a thin layer of cotton-wool in each, between the slices of bread 
and butter; and after a week, when a mild laxative was given, 
the dental structure, being now enrolled in cotton-wool, was 
passed without difficulty amongst the excrement. In Alice 
through the Looking Glass “‘ the White Knight had a little box, 
‘of his own invention,’ to keep clothes, and Sandwiches in. 
‘You see,’ he told Alice, ‘I carry it upside down so that the 
rain can’t get in.’ ‘ But the things can get out,’ Alice gently 
remarked ; ‘do you know the lid’s open ?’” 
SAUCES. 
Penn’s advice to children was this, as regards appetizing condi- 
ments, and spices: ‘‘ Let your chiefest Sauce be a good stomach, 
which temperance will help to get you.” The question of Sauces 
in general certainly concerns epicures, and gourmets, rather than 
persons seeking to recover their health in times of sickness, and 
convalescence, when plain, unsophisticated nourishment is 
needed without artificial adjuncts. Nevertheless, certain simple 
Sauces are frequently of excellent supplementary use; as, for 
example, when white fish is eaten, which is chiefly nitrogenous 
food, and is rendered more complete as sustenance by com- 
bination with a bland Sauce of carbonaceous, warmth-giving 
materials. 
** Our fathers most admired their sauces sweet, 
And often ask’d for sugar with their meat : 
They butter’d currants on crude veal bestow’d, 
And Rumps of Beef with Virgin Honey strewd.” 
Art of Cookery. 
It is said that the noted Worcester Sauce was first skilfully 
compounded by a clever physician to disguise the flavour of 
asafcetida given for the benefit of a dyspeptic nobleman whose 
health was being treated thereby. Cassareep, from Demarara, 
the thickened root-juice of the Cassava utilissima, boiled down 
until of the consistence of molasses, is believed to be the basis 
of Worcester Sauce; this is of great digestive assistance, and 
has an extraordinary power of making tough meat tender, also 
of rendering fat pork edible without subsequent discomfort, 
by a curious change which it effects thereupon. Dr. Thudicum 
