FOOTNOTES:
[45] One who dedicated a new house (somewhat as we name a ship). The glass fire-bucket which quenched the inner conflagration was probably the wine-glass or beer-tumbler.—Tr.
[46] Collegians.—Tr.
[47] Provincial Physician.—Tr.
[48] According to Camper, hectic patients have very white and fair teeth.
[49] Derham (in his Physico-Theology, 1750) observes that the deaf hear best under a noise; e. g. one hard of hearing, under the sound of bells; a deaf housewife, under the drumming of the house-servant. Hence when princes and ministers, who for the most part hear badly, are passing through the country, kettle-drums are beat and cannon fired, so that they can hear the people more easily.
[50] In whose wall the lady with the souvenir sits.
[51] A kind of gray fur.—Tr.
[52] Baireuth.—Tr.
[53] This precocious completion of growth I have observed in many distinguished women, just as if these Psyches should resemble butterflies, which do not grow after coming out of the chrysalis state.
[54] Cloth is roughened with thistles, i.e. scratched up, in order to the better shearing of it afterwards.
[55] A distinguished actor of tragedy.
[56] He means here their divorce, which was only deferred by the mutual wish to keep Liana.
[57] Poor dinners, just as cat-silver is an inferior metal.—Tr.
[58] A weak-nerved lady (I know not whether it is the same) who had much religion, fancy, and suffering, became, as she tells me, blind in the same way, and was cured in the same way.
[59] The eternal pricking of the sensitive finger-nerves by knitting, tambour, and other needles, perhaps as much as the touching of the harmonica-bells, makes one, by stimulating, weak in the nerves.
[60] Tartarus is the melancholy part of Lilar.
[61] Kursus—corso.—Tr.
[62] Pride of the meadows quickens the circulation of the blood even to frenzy. This whole observation on the pharmaceutic value of pride of the meadows is taken from Tissot's "Traité sur les Nerfs."
