Edited by Walter Burniat, Tim J. Cole, Inge Lissau, and Elizabeth M.E. Poskitt. 416 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2002. $90. ISBN 0-521-65237-5.
On April 28, 1783, the following conversation took place betweenDr. Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell: "Speakingof a man who was grown very fat, so as to be incommoded withcorpulency, he [Johnson] said `He eats too much, Sir.' BOSWELL,`I don't know, Sir; you will see one man fat, who eats moderately,and another lean, who eats a great deal.' JOHNSON, `Nay, Sir,whatever may be the quantity that a man eats, it is plain thatif he is too fat, he has eaten more than he should have done.One man may have a digestion . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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