“ A letter appeared in one of your late impressions, on The complaint of one of three letters which some time sinceĪppeared in The Standard, under the heading of “ OysterĬultivation,” and which I quote without abridgment.
Me has proved the same to others, at least, I infer so from Justified in saying that what has been a long felt want to Only in a disappointingly abbreviated form. Inquirers,” or where they do touch upon the matter it is Has long been looked for by a large majority of “Anxious Question, ignoring that more general information which While, on the other hand, although exhaustive, the booksĪre so only in the scientific branch of the subject in Tainly unsatisfactory, on account of their incompleteness. True, there are able relative articles in our Magazines,Īnd also Books replete with scientific information, writtenīy some of the foremost Professors of the day but theįormer are merely a conglomeration of curtailed extractsįrom standard works - instructive, certainly, but as cer.
General reader, which, with all due deference to the reader’s Student of Zoology, and a Book of Reference for the The long felt want of a combined Text-book for the Than they know, yet perhaps I may give them occasion toĪnother reason for my undertaking this work has been Wherein, though I may not be able to inform men more I take the public’s health to be much concerned, and Tion, I feel that I have chosen one of those subjects wherein My promise, I shall be content with whatever praise orįavour be awarded me. “ ’Tis not in mortals to command success,Īnd, should the public deem that I have worthily fulfilled Only hope that its reception will be favourable What success my book may have I know not, I can
In its publication has been prompted by a conscientiousįeeling of duty and good will towards my fellow man. Of love, and, from a medical point of view, my chief aim To me the compiling of this book has been a labour Habitually partaking of the esculent mollusc. Have sought to urge the desirability - nay, the necessity of Thereof continually haunt the appetite of the gastronomicalĬonvert while he or she dreams of satisfactory indulgence The disgust is conquered, and shuddering antipathyīecomes natural craving. Sticking point ” to venture the attempt : but, once made, Never eaten an oyster who - from nausea aroused throughĪ delicate nervous organism, or, through disgust inspiredĪnd influenced by a too sensitive imagination - cannotīring themselves so far as to “screw (their) courage to the There are thousands of individuals who have My object in preparing the present work has been toįurnish the reader, and the public in general, with a clearĪnd intelligent description of the titular subject, and toīring the medicinal properties and edible value of theĬommon Oyster more in favour (despite the increasingĭemand for it) than what with many people it has hitherto If that be not indeed the highest love ! ” To thought and to the climbing intellect. Sincere, and humble spirit, teaches love :įor knowledge is delight and such delightīreeds love : yet, suited as it rather is
Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man. Through all the mighty commonwealth of things To every class its station and its office. Which they inherit - cannot step beyond. Kind and degree, among all visible beings The union, the partition where, that makes The law that governs each and where begins Iie:ice ster, “ ProVii)cial Medical Joiiriyal” Odice.Ī coix^plete l^istor^ of tl^e titdlau subject,Į^ll^abstiVe op all poipts of pecessary andĪll natures, - to the end that he may find
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Full text of " Oysters, and all about them : being a complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary and curious information from the earliest writers to those of the present time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes"
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