First, Shake-Speare:
Macbeth (As the banquet is about to begin):
"Now, good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both!"
Macbeth 3.4.37-8
And health on both!"
Macbeth 3.4.37-8
Bacon: "For the preservation of health the stomach should be in good appetite; because the appetite promotes digestion".
History of Life and Death
History of Life and Death
Comment: That good digestion depends on appetite seems a questionable notion - surely appetite is as likely to depend on good digestion. but once again we find Shake-Speare dragging in a Bacon theory on some matter of natural science.
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