Page 393, line 18. "To dream and enjoy."—Instead of geniessen, some editions have genesen, to get well.
Page 405, line 12.—The Schneider's skin is the Schneiderian membrane, so called from its discoverer, Conrad Victor Schneider, who was born in 1610, was Professor of Medicine and Physician to the Elector, and in 1660 wrote a treatise, "De Catarrhis," in six books, devoted chiefly to an anatomical description of the cavities of the nose.
Page 429, line 14.—The literal meaning of this bold figure is, "It struck epileptically, till they bled, the limbs of the inner man."
Page 436, line 22.—The time-keeper means the metronome.
Page 465, line 18.—The "seven pleasure-stations" allude to the stations in the Catholic Church, which are a series of pictured scenes in the life of Christ, before which the devotee successively pauses. They correspond here to the "Point of View, No. 1," "Point of View, No. 2," and so on, which one meets in the neighborhood of certain great wonders of Nature, such as Niagara Falls.
Page 469, line 7. "The wain."—Query, Charles's Wain.
Page 475, line 24. "The golden splendor of the strings of joy."—One edition has Der goldene Seiten- [instead of Saiten-] glanz der Freude,—"The golden side-glance of joy."
Page 479, line 16. "The fiery rain," &c.—One edition has Wagen instead of Regen,—the fiery chariot.
NOTES TO VOL. II.
Page 74, line 25. "The laughter-plant."—"The Illyrium Crow-foot," says Thomas Johnson, in his "History of Plants," p. 953, "in Greek, may be that kind of crow-foot called Apium risus, and [Greek: γελωτοφυη, gelotophuê] [laughter-producing]; and this is thought to be that Gelotophyllis of which Pliny maketh mention in his 24th Booke, 17th chapter, which being drunke, saith he, with wine and myrrhe, causeth a man to see divers strange sights, and not to cease laughing till he hath drunk Pineapple kernels with pepper in wine of the Date-tree (I think he would have said untill he be dead), because the nature of laughing Crow-foot is to kill laughing, but without doubt the thing is clean contrary; for it causeth such convulsions, cramps, and wringings of the mouth and jaws, that it hath seemed to some that the parties died laughing, whereas in truth they have died in great torment."