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

that Pliny in Book 4, Natural History, chapter 13, commemorates the Oon islands, in which the inhabitants live on birds' eggs and oats, and that Caesar in Book 4, On the Gallic War, chapter 10, states similar islands exist at the mouth of the Rhine. His words concerning the most celebrated river are these: "Where it approaches the Ocean, it flows into several parts, with many huge islands created, a great part of which is inhabited by wild and barbarian nations; among whom there are those who are thought to live on fish and birds' eggs." Entirely unlike the aforementioned rustic and the islanders was that illustrious boy, whom Marcellus Donatus mentions in the aforementioned book with these words: "It is more to be wondered at that the boy of a certain illustrious Count, when he ate eggs, would have his lips swell and his face would be sprinkled with purple and black spots, and his mouth would be surrounded by foam, as if he had tasted poison." Furthermore, others were just as alien to game meat. These are the words of Maranta in Method of Cognizing Simples, Book 3, chapter 13: "My father was always most alien to the eating of hare and of any kind of fowl." Nor should the example be passed over in silence, although partially dissimilar, which Horstius relates in his Observations on Levinus Lemnius in these words: "I myself saw a noble Countess, sitting at the table of an illustrious Count, whose lips would be extremely and suddenly inflated and swollen upon tasting cow's milk." When she saw that I had noticed the same thing, she...