Title

'Diatetics'

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'Diatetics'. John Lawson Johnston (d1900), Scottish born businessman, 1897. In about 1863 Johnston developed a beef extract, at first known as 'liquid beef' but later named 'Bovril', a named derived of Bos, the Latin for Ox, and Vrilya, the life force in "The Coming Race" a novel by Bulwer Lytton. He victualled armies and helped provision three Polar expeditions. Cartoon by 'Spy', pseudonym of Leslie Ward (1851-1922) [500015150], British painter and caricaturist, from "Vanity Fair". (London, 18 February 1897). Chromolithograph.

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