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he affirmed that he did not abhor food, but that whenever he ate it, he became subject to this symptom. This anecdote is attributed to the physician Horstius. I also had a maidservant who could not be persuaded by any means to taste veal. I know a man, very learned and famous for his writings, who, although he is quite alien to Jewish superstitions, yet loathes pork just as much as he loathes snakes; nor does he suffer any foods seasoned with pork fat. But what Horstius reports in the same place is far more worthy of admiration: A certain learned man told me that he had observed a man in Antwerp who, as soon as he saw a porcellum Trojanum a "Trojan pig," a whole roast pig stuffed with other meats brought in and placed on the table, immediately collapsed, seized by a syncope fainting fit. I heard it reported as a certainty about another man that he shuddered at the sight of pigs' ears, yet after they were cut off from the Trojan pig, he would happily eat its meat. I pass now to garden fruits and vegetables, which, although they have been held in the highest esteem by mortals in every age, to such an extent that God himself granted them to our first parents for sustenance, yet many are most alien to them. One of my own children abominates cabbage. I, for my part, am overcome with horror at the mere sight of watercress, says Scaliger in Exercitationes, 153, lesson 10. Maranta, in the same work, says: I myself know an old woman who loathed melons—if indeed these are they—as the most unpleasant thing. To this