[197] Arnaud de Villeneuve was one of the luminaries of the 13th century, being distinguished for his profound knowledge of medicine, chemistry, astrology, and theology. He discovered the sulphuric, muriatic and nitric acids, and was the first to compose alcohol and the essence of terebinth or turpentine.
[198] Traité des dispenses du carême.
[199] "Any man," said Abernethy, the celebrated and eccentric surgeon, "that drinks coffee and soda water, and smokes cigars, may lie with my wife."
[200] De Aer: Aquā et Locis. Liber, caput x.
[201] Comment. in Boerh. Aphor. sec. 1063, Vol. III.
[202] De Machinis, C. IV.
[203] No. 206.
[204] Exercitatio de aciá, Cap. 4, et seq.
[205] Odyssey VIII. line 477.
[206] Introd. to Hesiod, cap. VI. p. 14. Edit. Plautin, 1603, in voce αοιδος.