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Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.
Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 130 · printed citation: Sydney Smith · subject: Indigestion
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