STIMULANTS FOR THE GREAT
Many of our great public characters, probably owing to the exacting nature of their calling, have been in the habit of taking stimulants. W- E. Gladstone, for instance, liked an egg beaten up in sherry as a preparation for one of his long speeches. Disraeli favoured champagne jelly, and Lord Erskine used to take opium in larg6 doses. Edmund Kean, the actor, relied on Beef tea and cold brandy, while the actress, Mrs Jordan; partook of calves’ foot jelly dissolved in warm sherry. Byron used to tako gin and water, but Alexander Pope was a believer in strong coffee. Schiller, the great German poet, stimulated bis brain into activity by tho use of coffee and champagne. When writing, ho liked to sit over a table impregnated with the ■smell of apples.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 7
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