The only remedy Carlyle would ever take, according to the late Sir Richard Quain who was his medical adviser, was Grey powder. 'Grey powder was his favourite remedy when he had that wretched dyspepsia from which he suffered, and which was fully accounted for by the fact that he was particularly fond of very nasty gingerbread. Many times I have seen him, sitting in the chimney corner, smoking a clay pipe and eating this gingerbread.'
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Which I believe he kept secreted in a Persian Slipper.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch,
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