Part 80

The advocates of fasting have calculated that in one hundred and fifty-two hermits who had lived eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-nine years, the average age was seventy three years and three months.

On this very curious subject the reader may consult the various statistical works of Quetelet.

It is somewhat strange, but in the mountains of the South of Spain, there does still exist a dance called los Titanos, in which the performers raise their hands in threatening attitude against the heavens!

The matter of insensible perspiration is calculated at being daily equal weight to one half of the food.

Madder, when given to animals tinges the surface of their bones with a red hue.

The life of J. E. Jenner, M.D. &c., by John Bacon, M.D. &c.

History of Egyptian Mummies, &c. &c., 1834.

In a work on the "Anatomy of the Passions," which I am about publishing, I have entered most minutely into this important sympathy.