Edward E. Cornwall

The enthusiasm of some over the “discovery” that serological methods and results are “homoeopathic in principle” is so naive as to suggest that they are really moved, perhaps subconsciously, not so much by a desire to strengthen homoeopathy, as to exculpate themselves for abandoning its established technic and adopting the newer, more impressive and more popular hypodermic method.

This formula for a perfect meal is offered without prejudice to other perfect meals. It is fitting and proper that the diet should be as varied as circumstances permit; the pleasures of the table are legitimate within bounds; a combination of meat, potatoes, bread and butter and salad may also be a perfect meal. The meal here described has a place in the dietary of both health and disease.

Unwilling to die, Cornaro translated this general prescription into a special one by selecting certain articles which agreed with his stomach and reducing the total quantity of his food to the smallest amount that would enable him to live. He demonstrated the fallacy of the popular notion that what agreed with the palate must also agree with the stomach.