[78] _De perspiratione_, Cap. xvii. § 8-12. and _Aph._ [79] _The works of the late CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM_, T. ii. p. 85, &c. [80] _Comment. in lib. de Diæta_, p. 228. [81] REGNIER, Sat. v. The sense of which is nearly as follows: _Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,_ _But humor, character, their worth decide;_ _Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,_ _So versatile, so weak’s the human mind._ [82] LUCRETIUS _De natura rerum._ [83] _De Aere, Locis, et Aquis._ FOES. p. 293. [84] Sect. 6. Aphor. 35. [85] _De natura pueri_, Text. 22. FOES. p. 242. [86] Translated from the French. There may also be seen an excellent passage on the force and dangers of voluptuous habits, in a new Treatise of M. PUJATTI, Professor at Padua, long of great reputation for his admirable work _De victu febricitantium_, p. 63. [87] See GAUBII _Institutiones pathologicæ_, §. 529. [88] P. 126. [89] _Excerptum totius Italicæ et Helveticæ Literaturæ, pro anno 1759._ T. i. p. 93. [90] _On EXPERIENCE._ In German, by M. ZIMMERMAN, vol. ii. p. 400. I take this fragment from those which his friendship has engaged him to translate in my favor. Almost all the other will serve to adorn a work of which I am preparing the publication, which will soon follow this. [91] The demonstration of this truth may be seen in the part I am quoting of M. SENAC’s treatise _On the Heart_, L. iii. §. 7., a work that seemed to have left nothing more to be wished for upon that subject, if its illustrious author had not, in his promise of a second edition, given us to understand, that he could yet render it more perfect. A great man may surpass himself, and see a point of perfection, which others do not so much as imagine. [92] _Lessons on his Institutes_, Sect. 776. [93] _De ratione victus in morbis acutis._ FOES. p. 405, 406. [94] _De morb. a nimia venere_, §. 24, & 26. [95] _Instit. de med._ T. vii. p. 215. [96] This symptom is very frequent among persons who have exhausted themselves by venery, and contributes to prolong or maintain that exhaustion. The smallest temptation produces a beginning of erection, which is followed by an efflux of the seed. [97] The one selected here is the seventh. This thesis, so worthy of perusal, is to be found, together with a great number of other small excellent works, which are to be come at no where else but in that fine collection of practical _theses_, which M. HALLER (who desires and promotes the advancement of medical knowledge, with as much zeal as discernment) has taken the pains to publish, under this title: _Disputationes ad morborum historiam & curationem facientes_. Lausanne, 1758. The name of the author is a sufficient attestation of the merit of the work, which bids fair to become one of the foundations of a library of practical study. The piece, which I am here quoting, is, STEPHANI WEZPREMI _Observationes Medicæ_, Trajecti, 1756. See T. vi. p. 804.