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Wednesday 08 February 2006

Rye bread and other cures for constipation: Thursday's food quotation

He tells me ... that I must drink now and then ale with my wine, and eat bread and butter and honey -- and rye bread if I can endure it, it being loosening.

1663 Samuel Pepys, Diary, 17 November

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 22:33
Categories: Prescriptions, Quotations