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Well; but surely in a very serious manner! Seckendorf's dinners she considers to be the cause; all spiritual, sorrows only an adjunct not worth mentioning. It is certain enough. "His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.
But here is a streak of new light upon him: "Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary.... When he is in pretty good health, that he may venture upon more savoury hotter things, &c." The most rigorous Protestants will relax to hear how "To make a Pan Cotto as the Cardinals use in Rome."
Seward. I was first entertained by his lady and daughter, he himself being in bed with a cold, according to his valetudinary custom. But he desired to see me; and I found him drest in his black gown, with a white flannel night-gown above it; so that he looked like a Dominican friar. He was good-humoured and polite; and under his roof too my reception was very pleasing.
I confess to you, Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the Constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.
All which conceits come now into my head, by the remembrance of a story was told me by a domestic apothecary of my father's, a blunt Swiss, a nation not much addicted to vanity and lying, of a merchant he had long known at Toulouse, who being a valetudinary, and much afflicted with the stone, had often occasion to take clysters, of which he caused several sorts to be prescribed him by the physicians, acccording to the accidents of his disease; which, being brought him, and none of the usual forms, as feeling if it were not too hot, and the like, being omitted, he lay down, the syringe advanced, and all ceremonies performed, injection alone excepted; after which, the apothecary being gone, and the patient accommodated as if he had really received a clyster, he found the same operation and effect that those do who have taken one indeed; and if at any time the physician did not find the operation sufficient, he would usually give him two or three more doses, after the same manner.
This lack of temper probably arose from indifferent health, for he was very valetudinary, and realised two verses, wherein he says fortune assigned him " One eye not over good, Two sides that to their cost have stood A ten years' hectic cough, Aches, stitches, all the various ills That swell the dev'lish doctor's bills, And sweep poor mortals off."
Could a person in this condition execute violence against another? I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage no ability to accomplish no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact; without interest, without power, without motives, without means! "My Lord, Clarke disappeared: true; but is that a proof of his death?
Mounsieur De S. Euremont makes thus his potage de santé and boiled meat for dinner, being very Valetudinary. Then put in the Hen again, and a handful of white Endive uncut at length, which requireth more boiling then tenderer herbs.
Could a person in this condition execute violence against another? I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage no ability to accomplish no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact; without interest, without power, without motives, without means! "My Lord, Clarke disappeared: true; but is that a proof of his death?
The other, that I was now sitting in a damp room, a circumstance, though it had hitherto escaped my notice from the color of the bricks, which was by no means to be neglected in a valetudinary state.
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