[393]. We should say, not to utter, etc.
[394]. These well-known “humours of Hippocrates,” which reappear in the form of temperaments of European phrenology, are still the base of Eastern therapeutics.
[395]. The doctrine of the three souls will be intelligible to Spiritualists.
[396]. Arab. “Al-lámi” = the l-shaped, curved, forked.
[397]. Arab. “Usus,” our os sacrum because, being incorruptible, the body will be built up thereon for Resurrection-time. Hence Hudibras sings (iii. 2).
The learned Rabbis of the Jews
Write there’s a bone which they call leuz,
I’ the rump of man, etc.
It is the Heb. “Uz,” whence older scholars derived os. Sale (sect. iv.) called it “El Ajb, os coccygis or rump-bone.”
[398]. Arab physiologists had difficulties in procuring “subjects”; and usually practised dissection on the simiads. Their illustrated books are droll; the figures have been copied and recopied till they have lost all resemblance to the originals.