Disputatio physica expendens rationes & caussas, cur plurimi ab esu casei abhorreant

would not have forbidden the Athenians, with Xenocrates as witness in Porphyry's Book 4, On Abstinence from Meat, to zoa me sinesthai not to harm animals. The rustic Dutchman must next be considered, of whom Forestus writes thus in his Scholia to Observations 5, Book 4, On Fevers: "We heard of a rustic in Waterland, in the village of Schermer, situated not far from the city of Alkmaar, who used no other food or drink than cow's milk alone, and he enjoyed excellent health." To this man, not unlike the Scythians, Nomads, and Getae (who have long been accustomed to be heard of as galaktopotai milk-drinkers and galaktopophagoi milk-eaters), must be opposed the greatest of men, Joseph Scaliger, whom we have learned from those who knew him at home to have abhorred milk throughout his entire life. Petrus Aponensis, most celebrated by the name of Conciliator, did the same. For I read this in Marcellus Donatus’s Book on Mechoacan: "As reported by Joan. Matthaeus Gradensis, the Conciliator Aponensis abhorred milk so much that he could not even look at people eating it without nausea." To the galaktopophagos milk-eating rustic, I shall add another, the oophagos egg-eater, of whom Bruyerinus writes thus in Book 1, On Cibarian Matters, chapter 24: "I know a certain rustic from Normandy, who had never tasted bread, nor meat, nor fish, nor cheese, but ate only eggs, whence the nickname Mustela Weasel was imposed on him by the common people, because that animal is most greedy for eggs." Thus, no one should wonder