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Culina Famulatrix Medicinae:

Culina Famulatrix Medicinae: or, Receipts in Cookery, worthy the Notice of those Medical Practitioners, who ride in their Chariots with a Footman behind, and who receive Two-Guinea Fees from their Rich and Luxurious Patients,

Publication details: York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, and sold by J. Mawman,1804,

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The author was physician Alexander Hunter, born and educated in Edinburgh (with spells for anatomical training in Rouen and Paris), with the majority of his career spent in York - where he founded the York Lunatic Asylum in 1777, with his role in shaping policy, and subsequent defence of his actions, a cause of controversy. Hunter's responsibility for the text can be inferred from the second edition onwards, where he credits himself by name for the revisions undertaken to the text; there were four further editions in Hunter's lifetime (he died in 1809), and a couple posthumously - but the first edition of this work is scarce.As the work's long-title suggests, it is an opinionated disquisition on the 'Culinary Art', taking equal quantities from the author's stocks of epicurean tastes and medical knowledge - sometimes through pithy observation (e.g., a 'Dunelm of Crab' is seen to 'wear a gouty complexion'), in one instance in the form of a lengthy Dialogue, located in France, a diversion from Anchovy Toast, between Archaeus and Dr. Franklin.

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FIRST EDITION, the engraved frontispiece ('Transmigration', a fabulous hog), a little browned and offset to following two leaves, one or two spots to top corner at close, some handling marks, pp. 235, foolscap 8vo, contemporary half roan with marbled boards, heavily worn, the remnants of gilt-stamped crest at foot of backstrip still identifiable as that of Yorkshire M.P. Francis Ferrand Foljambe, recent cloth tape to front hinge, some tissue-repair to gutter between flyleaf and frontispiece (no half-title present), fair condition

Bibliography: (Cagle 769; Oxford p. 133; Vicaire 240 [citing only 4th edn])

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