it,
and then calmly told her he never ate cherries ; and that the stone had
probably been casually left on the mantelpiece by his valet de chambre.
"
Cherries, and strawberries arc commended for fevers ; vinegar, put on
red-hot shovels, to keep rooms cool; and tobacco for drowning persons."
How this last-named remedy was to be applied is noteworthy : " A
tobacco-pipe was filled, and covered over the bowl with a piece of
perforated paper (' as we blow the juice out sometimes '). Then, one
pipe was put down the mouth, and another up the fundament. Next you '
blow with all your might; and in a moment the dying person revives.' "
This rude proceeding was manifestly a forecast, but ordained without
sufficient intelligence, of our modern " artificial respiration,"
according to the more scientific, and, therefore, more successful, "
Sylvester " method, practised by the Humane Society, etc.
The
stupor and fumes of heavy tobacco-smoking may be dispelled by eating
watercresses ; whilst to take them for supper, with bread-and-butter,
certainly promotes sleep.
According
to Zenophon, Cyrus, King of Persia, was brought up on a diet of bread,
and cresses, until he was fifteen years old ; then honey, and raisins
were added. In The Old Curiosity Shop, Daniel Quilp, the
spiteful, vindictive dwarf, a warped, in body and mind, domestic
tyrant, " suffered himself to be led by his meek little, patient wife,
and by Mrs. Jiniwin, his rebellious, but subdued, mother-in-law (' too
much afraid of him to utter a single word') with extraordinary
politeness to the breakfast-table. Here he ate hard eggs, shell and
all; devoured gigantic prawns, with the heads
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