The best section, and that giving the best idea of Geyler’s manner, is that which treats of the sick fool. Beginning with the quotation ‘Stultorum infinitus est numerus,’ the picture shows the disobedient patient in bed, in the act of kicking over a table, whilst the nurse is looking on in astonishment, and the doctor seems to be reflecting as to what should be done under the circumstances. These fools, says Geyler, are foolish in the first place because they despise medicine: ‘sunt qui medicinam prorsus contemnunt et abjiciunt’; ‘clearly fools,’ says Geyler, ‘stulti plane’! ‘Nescientes quia scriptum est, eccles. xxxviii., Altissimus creavit de terra medicinam, et vir prudens non horrebit eam. Notate verba--signate mysteria. Vir prudens non horrebit eam! Non horruit eam beatus Augustinus de quo legitur: quod egrotante eo neminem admiserat, nisi medicos.’ It will be too long to quote the whole sermon, but Geyler has a word to say about those fools, ‘sunt quædam fatuelle,’ who, out of curiosity, tried to catch their doctors at fault, ‘quas sola curiositas impellit et titillat ad explorandum peritiam medici.’ But they catch nothing but their own purses, and it is the doctor who is most tickled, for he pockets the fee. ‘Tales se decipiunt et bursam: quod medicus accipit pecuniam.’ He tells here the tale, so often related since, of the patient who in answer to the doctor’s question as to what was the matter with him--where he was in pain--how long he had been ill, ‘respondit nescio,’ and again and again, ‘respondit nescio.’ ‘Bene,’ replied the doctor; ‘under these circumstances, this is my prescription: “Recipe nescio quid: repone nescio ubi: et sanaberis nescio quando.”’ ‘Magna stultitia,’ remarks Geyler, ‘nolle obedire medico quem queris: aut non quesivisses, et sic pecunie pepercisses.’ The fifth and sixth follies are to seek help from empirics, magicians, and Jews, which is expressly forbidden (if any one else is available) by the Decretals. The large series, two specimens of which are given, invariably deals with Biblical subjects. The letters are generally attributed to Hans Schäufelein. Besides the initials already enumerated, Grüninger has a few historiated letters on a black ground, of intermediate size and different complete foliated or floral alphabets, all of them uniformly uninteresting.