I tell you honestly what I think is the cause of the complicated maladies of the human race: it is their gormandizing and stuffing, and stimulating their digestive organs to an excess, thereby producing nervous disorders and irritation. – John Abernethy (1764–1831)

The time indeed is at hand when systematic lectures on food will be part of medical education, when the value of feeding in disease is admitted to be as important as the administration of medicines. – John Milner Fothergill

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But mans appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table. – Honore de Balzac