The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies
out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Life of Romulus
Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable It
once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against
the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part
in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense
of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....
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...a report citing a study by Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, of the Mount Sinai
Medical Center in New York, which compared two groups that were being used
to test the theory that ascorbic acid is a cold preventative....
