Footnotes
[15]
Monsieur Bernier, travelling from Lahore to Cashmere, wrote
thus: "My body is a sieve; scarcely have I swallowed a pint of water,
but I see it transude like dew out of all my limbs, even to my fingers'
ends. I drink ten pints a day, and it does me no manner of harm." --
Bernier, "Travels," tome ii, p. 261.
[16]
In the blood there are red globules, fibrous parts, white
globules, and water, in which the whole swims.
[17]
Plato, "Laws," Book ii; Aristotle, "Of the Care of Domestic Affairs";
Eusebius, "Evangelical Preparation," Book xii, chap. 17.
[18]
This is seen in the Hottentots, and the inhabitants of the most
southern part of Chili.
[19]
As Pittacus did, according to Aristotle, "Politics," lib. i, cap. iii. He
lived in a climate where drunkenness is not a national vice.