Oysters, and All about Them

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. My object in preparing the present work has been to furnish the reader, and the public in general, with a clear and intelligent description of the titular subject, and to bring the medicinal properties and edible value of the common Oyster more in favour (despite the increasing demand for it) than...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. My object in preparing the present work has been to furnish the reader, and the public in general, with a clear and intelligent description of the titular subject, and to bring the medicinal properties and edible value of the common Oyster more in favour (despite the increasing demand for it) than what with many people it has hitherto obtained. There are thousands of individuals who have never eaten an oyster; who?from nausea aroused through a delicate nervous organism, or, through disgust inspired and influenced by a too sensitive imagination?cannot bring themselves so far as to screw (their) courage to the sticking point to venture the attempt: but, once made, the disgust -is conquered, and shuddering antipathy becomes natural craving. The taste and the memory thereof continually haunt the appetite of the gastronomical convert while he or she dreams of satisfactory indulgence in the near future. It is upon such of my readers, that I have sought to urge the desirability?nay, the necessity of habitually partaking of the esculent mollusc. To me the compiling of this book has been a labour of love, and, from a medical point of view, my chief aim in its publication has been prompted by a conscientious feeling of duty and good will towards my fellow man. What success my book may have I know not, I can only hope that its reception will be favourable; 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But (I'll endeavour to) deserve it. and, should the public deem that I have worthily fulfilled my promise, I shall be content with whatever praise or favour be awarded me. Thus, armed with a good intention, I feel that I have chosen one of those subjects wherein I take the public's health to be much concerned, and wherein, though I may not be able to inform men more tha...