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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1917, 24 February 1875, Page 3

FEELING THROUGH THE „,. : STOMACH. : ! iThe secretary of Francjs I. used to stop up his nostrils with, bread if he saw a dish of apples, to prevent an otherwise inevitable .bleeding- at the npse. A Polish kmg had an antipathy to both the smell, arid sight of this wholesome fruit, and a family of Aquitaine had an hereditary hatred of it. A Flemish damsel was troubled by an unconquerable aversion to the smell of bread. Cheese, muttou, musk, ambergris have been so repugnant to some nasal organs as to send their owners into convulsions^ Gretry, the composer, could not endure the scent of the rose; neither could Anne of Austria, The mere gightbf the queen of flowers was too much for Lady Heneage,, bed-chamber-woman to Queen. Bess; indeed, ■ Kenelm Digby records that her cheek blistered when some one laid a white rose upon it as she slept. Her ladyship's antipathy was almost as strong as that of the dame who fainted when hei\ loverapproached her wearing an artificial rose in his button-hole. A violet was a thing of horror to the eyes of the Princess de Lambelle; tansy.was abominable ,to an Earl of" Barry more; Scaliger grew pale before the water-cress; and a soldier" who would have scorned to turn his back T on a- foe fled. without shame, ..from,. a sprig of rue. * ',] '"A poor. Neapolitan; was always seized with a fit upon attempting to swallow a morgel of flesh-, meat of any kind, and Nature thus condemned him to. vegetarianism; a sorer infliction than that suffered by Guianeaius; whose lieart palpitated- violently if he. indulged in a pork dinner ; or by the.lady who could n#t, taste udder of beef without her lips swelling to uncomfortable dimensions. Dr Prout had a patient who declared honest mutton was as bad as poison to him. Thinking this was alb fancy/ the doctor: administered the obnoxious meat under various disguises, but ©very experiment ended in a severe vomitingfit. -Another unlucky individual always had a fit of the gout a few hours after eating fish; and .a Count dArmstadt never failed "to" go off in 1 a faint if he knowingly or unknowingly partook of any. dish containing the slightest modicum of olive oil. A still worse penalty attached to lobster salad in the case of a lady ; for if she ventured to taste it at a, dancing party, her neck, before, she returned to. the ball-room, would be covered with ugly blotches, and her peace of mind destroyed for that evening.—Chambers' Journal., . , : . ' " •