ccf (03/14/83)
The languid stomach curses even the pure Delicious fat, and all the race of oil: For more the oily aliments relax Its feeble tone; and with the eager lymph (Fond to incorporate with all it meets) Coyly they mix, and shun the slippery wiles The woo'd embrace. The irresoluble oil, So gentle late and blandishing, in floods Of rancid bile o'erflows: what tumults hence, What horrors rise, were nauseous to relate. Choose leaner viands, ye whose insufficient make To slow the gummy nutriment imbibes. John Armstrong, M.D. (1709-1779)