Note 93 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.
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“This gentleman had so cold a Stomach, (saith Suidas,) that he made a sheath for his Tongue, that he might swallow down his Pottage scalding hot; yea, I myself have known a Shropshire Gentleman of the like quality.”—Dr. Muffett on Food, 4to. 1655, p. 287.