. Annals of medical history. todeath in a crowd,as that Duke wasat the entry ofPope Clementinto Lyons?. ..■Eschylus, being threatened with the fall of a house, was tomuch purpose so circumspect to avoid thatdanger, when he was knocked on the headby a tortoise-shell falling out of an eaglestalons in the fields. Another was choked witha grape-stone: an Emperor killed with thescratch of a comb in combing his head. /EmilliusLepidus, with a stumble at his own threshold,and Afidius with a jostle against the door, as heentered the council chamber. . Whilst CaiusJulius the physician was anointing the
. Annals of medical history. todeath in a crowd,as that Duke wasat the entry ofPope Clementinto Lyons?. ..■Eschylus, being threatened with the fall of a house, was tomuch purpose so circumspect to avoid thatdanger, when he was knocked on the headby a tortoise-shell falling out of an eaglestalons in the fields. Another was choked witha grape-stone: an Emperor killed with thescratch of a comb in combing his head. /EmilliusLepidus, with a stumble at his own threshold,and Afidius with a jostle against the door, as heentered the council chamber. . Whilst CaiusJulius the physician was anointing the eyes of apatient, death closed his own; and if I maybring in an example of my own blood; a brotherof mine, Captain St. ALirtin, a young man, ofthree and twenty years old, who had alreadygiven sufiicient testimony of his valour, playinga match at tennis, received a blow of a ball alittle above his right ear, which, though it waswithout any manner or sign of wound, or depres-sion of the skull, and though he took no great. Tomb of Montaigne, transferred from the Church of the Feuillants in1871 to its present site in the basement of the University. notice of it, nor so much as sat down to reposehimself, he nevertheless died within five or sixhours after, of an apoplexy occasioned by thatblow. Which so frequent and common examplespassing every day before our eyes, how is itpossible a man should disengage himself fromthe thought of death; or avoid fancying that ithas us every moment by the collar? Whatmatter is it, you will say, which way it comes topass, provided a man does not terrific himselfwith the expecta-tion?Formypart, I am of thismind, that if aman could byany means avoidit, though bycreeping under acalveskin, I amone that shouldnot be ashamedof the shift: all Iaim at is to passmy time pleas-antly, and with-out any greatreproach, and thereactions thatmost contributeto it, I take holdof, as to the rest, as little glorious and exemplaryas you would desire. (Study of Philosop
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