fts.
Cherrydarry. Luckhouris. Seerbands.
Chilloes. Lemmones. Succatums.
Chints. Lungees. Starrets.
Cutthees. Mamoodies. Terindams.
Cossas. Mahmudihiaties. Tapseils.
Chenarize. Mugga-Mamoochis. Tanjeebs.
Chittabullus. Mickbannies. Tepoys.
Coopees. Masaicks. Tainsooks.
Callowaypoose. Moorees. Taffatties.
Cuttanees. Mowsannas. Tapis.
Carradaries. Mulmouls. Tarnatams.
Cheaconies. Mulye-Gungee. Taundah-Khassah.
Chucklaes. Nicanees. Tandarees.
Cadies. Nillaes.

XIV

DOCTORS AND PATIENTS

There lies before me a leather-bound, time-stained, dingy little quarto
of four hundred and fifty pages that was printed in the year 1656. Its
contents comprise three parts or books. First, "The Queens Closet
Opened, or The Pearl of Practise: Accurate, Physical, and Chirurgical
Receipts." Second, "A Queens Delight, or The Art of Preserving,
Conserving, and Candying, as also a Right Knowledge of Making Perfumes
and Distilling the most Excellent Waters." Third, "The Compleat Cook,
Expertly Prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish, or
French, For Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering of Sauces, or Making of
PASTRY"--pastry in capitals, as is due so distinguished an article and
art.

This conjunction of leechcraft and cooking was in early days far from
being considered demeaning to the healing art. A great number of the
cook-books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were written by
physicians. Dr. Lister, physician to Queen Anne, wrote plainly, "I do
not consider myself as hazarding anything when I say no man can be a
good physician who has not a competent knowledge of cookery."

The book contains a long, pompous preface, in which it is asserted that
these receipts were collected originally for her "distress'd Soveraigne
Majesty the Queen"--Henrietta Maria; that they had been "laid at her
feet by Persons of Honour and Quality;" and that since false and poor
copies had been circulated during her banishment, and the compiler, who
fell with the court, was not able to render his beloved queen any
further service, he felt that he could at least "prevent all
disservices" by giving in print to her fri