Tobias Smollett
I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern of the pump. In that case, what a delicate Beveridge is quaffed by the drinkers; medicated with the sweat and the dirt, and dandruff; and the abominable of various kinds, from twenty different diseased bodies, parboiling in the kettle below.
— Tobias Smollett
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the straining of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!
— Tobias Smollett
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
— Tobias Smollett
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