72. It is hard to tell what Pythagoras himself taught, but it is certain that he taught the kinship of animals and men, and upon this kinship his rule for the abstinence from flesh was probably based. Among the writings of the later Pythagoreans we find strange rules for diet which are plainly genuine taboos. For example they are commanded "to abstain from beans, not to break bread, not to eat from a whole loaf, not to eat the heart, etc." [144] 73. Plato forbade the use of wine in his ideal republic. [145] 74. "Nature's first care, when the chyle enters the blood, is to excite in it a kind of fever." Thus, warmth is the first necessity for the body. Compare with this, Descartes's statement: "There is a continual warmth in our heart, ... this fire is the bodily principle of all the movements of our members." [146] This is one of the many instances in which La Mettrie's account of the mechanism of the body is similar to that of Descartes. 75. "Stahl (George Ernst), born at Ansbach, Bavaria, October 21, 1660; died at Berlin, May 14, 1734. A noted German chemist, physician of the King of Prussia from 1716. His works include: 'Theoria medica vera' (1707), 'Experimenta et observationes chemicae' (1731), etc." [147] 76. Philip Hecquet (1661-1737) was a celebrated French physician. He studied at Rheims, and in 1688 became the physician of the nuns of Port Royal des Champs. He returned to Paris in 1693 and took his doctor's degree in 1697. He was twice dean of the faculty of Paris. In 1727 he became the physician of the religious Carmelites of the suburb of Saint Jacques, and remained their physician for thirty-two years. [148] 77. The quotation: "All men may not go to Corinth," is translated from Horace, Ep. 1, 19, 36. "Non cuivis homini contigit adire Corinthum."