{"title":"Victorian Era Kitten Cuisine?","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humphrey Bogart's mother (Fig. 1)<sup>1</sup> undoubtedly had a strange sense of humor. How else can one explain Maud Humphrey's bizarre image, on a stock trade card, of a lovely little lass dressed up in her Sunday best lighting the flame under a chafing dish containing two adorable kittens (Figs. 2-5)? Were kitten fondue or kitty feline stew, dishes du jour in Victorian times? Pictured here are three Victorian trade cards, related to dentistry, featuring Maud Humphrey's adorable little kitten chef. Dr. Eli H. Neiman of York, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Charles S. Decker of Binghamton, New York, chose this stock image to advertise their respective dental practices (Figs. 3 & 4), Ramon's Relief pain medication, including toothache relief, and RAMON'S LIVER PILLS AND TONIC PELLETS were available from W.E. JUDAY in West Manchester, Ohio (Figure 4). Note on the reverse of the Dr. Decker card, that for 50 cents \"Vitalized Air for Painless Extracting\" was offered. \"Vitalized Air\" was nitrous oxide altered with small amounts of chloroform and alcohol.<sup>2-4</sup> Could it be that Maud had sniffed a bit of Vitalized Air before rendering her shocking kitty-cooking image?</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the history of dentistry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Humphrey Bogart's mother (Fig. 1)1 undoubtedly had a strange sense of humor. How else can one explain Maud Humphrey's bizarre image, on a stock trade card, of a lovely little lass dressed up in her Sunday best lighting the flame under a chafing dish containing two adorable kittens (Figs. 2-5)? Were kitten fondue or kitty feline stew, dishes du jour in Victorian times? Pictured here are three Victorian trade cards, related to dentistry, featuring Maud Humphrey's adorable little kitten chef. Dr. Eli H. Neiman of York, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Charles S. Decker of Binghamton, New York, chose this stock image to advertise their respective dental practices (Figs. 3 & 4), Ramon's Relief pain medication, including toothache relief, and RAMON'S LIVER PILLS AND TONIC PELLETS were available from W.E. JUDAY in West Manchester, Ohio (Figure 4). Note on the reverse of the Dr. Decker card, that for 50 cents "Vitalized Air for Painless Extracting" was offered. "Vitalized Air" was nitrous oxide altered with small amounts of chloroform and alcohol.2-4 Could it be that Maud had sniffed a bit of Vitalized Air before rendering her shocking kitty-cooking image?
亨弗莱·鲍嘉的母亲(图1)无疑有一种奇怪的幽默感。在一张股票交易卡上,一个可爱的小女孩穿着她最好的衣服,在一个装有两只可爱小猫的火锅下点燃火焰,否则我们怎么解释莫德·汉弗莱的奇怪形象(图2-5)?小猫火锅或猫咪炖肉是维多利亚时代的招牌菜吗?这是三张维多利亚时代的商业名片,与牙科有关,以莫德·汉弗莱可爱的小猫厨师为主角。宾夕法尼亚州约克的Eli H. Neiman医生和纽约州宾厄姆顿的Charles S. Decker医生选择了这张库存图片来宣传他们各自的牙科诊所(图3和图4),Ramon's止痛药,包括牙痛止痛药,以及Ramon's肝丸和补药颗粒可以在俄亥俄州西曼彻斯特的W.E. JUDAY买到(图4)。在Dr. Decker卡片的背面注明,50美分提供“无痛提取的活气”。“活化空气”是用少量氯仿和酒精改变一氧化二氮。莫德在描绘她令人震惊的小猫烹饪形象之前,会不会吸了一点活性空气?