On one occasion he took lunch with a friend in
chambers, partaking only of simple bread and cheese and bottled
beer. On being seized with the usual symptoms of rice-poisoning
he informed his friend of his peculiarity of constitution, and
the symptoms were explained by the fact that a few grains of rice
had been put into each bottle of beer for the purpose of exciting
a secondary fermentation. The same author speaks of a gentleman
under treatment for stricture who could not eat figs without
experiencing the most unpleasant formication of the palate and
fauces. The fine dust from split peas caused the same sensation,
accompanied with running at the nose; it was found that the
father of the patient suffered from hay-fever in certain seasons.
He also says a certain young lady after eating eggs suffered from
swelling of the tongue and throat, accompanied by "alarming
illness," and there is recorded in the same paragraph a history
of another young girl in whom the ingestion of honey, and
especially honey-comb, produced swelling of the tongue, frothing
of the mouth, and blueness of the fingers. The authors know of a
gentleman in whom sneezing is provoked on the ingestion of
chocolate in any form.
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