"Stewpan" Quotes from Famous Books
... it out to be a chemical operation, and thus constitute the stomach a sort of laboratory. But to all these ridiculous hypotheses Sir John Hunter has applied the following playful language: "Some will have it that the stomach is a mill; others that it is a fermenting vat; and others that it is a stewpan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat, nor a stewpan, but a ... — A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter |