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@chartier@toot.cafe The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time: THE FOOD OF DEATH Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England. Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities. - "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales #Books #Bookstodon #LordDunsany #Dunsany #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs