Hippocrates and Hierophilus place it in the ventricle of the brain; Democritus and Aristotle throughout the whole body;— Ut bona spe valetudo cum dicitur esse Corporis, et non est tamen hc pars ulla ralentis; “As when the body’s health they do it call, When of a sound man, that’s no part at all.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
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